Payouts

You receive funds when Stripe (or your platform) makes payouts to your bank account. Payout availability varies depending on your industry and country of operation. When you start processing live payments, Stripe typically schedules your initial payout for 7-14 days after you successfully receive your first payment. Your first payout might take longer, depending on your industry risk level and country of operation. Subsequent payouts follow your account’s payout schedule.

You can see a comprehensive list of your payouts and the expected dates of deposit into your bank account in the Dashboard. If you’re a Connect platform, see Connect payouts.

Add or update your bank account

You can update your account details or add a new bank account using the Payout settings in the Dashboard. Based on your bank’s location, Stripe might require different kinds of account details to activate your bank account. You must match the currency of the bank account to the currency in your Payout settings. Click Edit next to the applicable bank account to modify the banking information.

Supported bank account types

You have the flexibility to link various types of bank accounts for your Stripe payouts. Supported options include traditional accounts offered by established financial institutions, including checking and savings accounts. Additionally, Stripe lets you use virtual bank accounts such as N26, Revolut, Wise, and others. If you’re eligible, you can also use a debit card for instant payouts.

Supported accounts and settlement currencies

In most cases, bank accounts must be located in the country where the settlement currency is the official currency. For example, SEK bank accounts must be based in Sweden. Stripe also allows you to settle and pay out to banks in select additional currencies, or pay out to non-domestic bank accounts in the local currency, for a fee. Learn more about presenting and settling in multiple currencies.

At times, Stripe supports non-primary currencies that don’t incur a fee. See the following table for the list of supported free currencies per country:

Multiple bank accounts for different settlement currencies

In some countries, Stripe users can add extra bank accounts to enable settlements and payouts in additional currencies. You can add one bank account per supported settlement currency. If you use multiple bank accounts, you must select a default settlement currency, which you can change at any time.

Charges that are presented in any enabled settlement currency settle without currency conversion. However, payments presented in a currency that you haven’t configured an additional bank account for automatically convert to your default currency.

For example, consider a Stripe user in the United Kingdom who has added both GBP and USD bank accounts, with GBP selected as the default settlement currency. USD payments (where USD is the presentment currency) are automatically paid out to the USD bank account without conversion, whereas payments in all other currencies are converted into GBP.

You can manage your bank accounts and default settlement currency by visiting Bank accounts and scheduling in the Dashboard.

Payout schedule

Your payout schedule refers to how often Stripe sends money to your bank account.

In supported countries, your default payout schedule is daily automatic. You can change this in the Dashboard to weekly automatic, monthly automatic, or manual payouts. When selecting a weekly or monthly schedule, you can specify the day of the week or month that you want payouts to arrive in your bank account.

When you select a payout schedule, it doesn’t change how long it takes your pending balance to become available. However, it allows you to control when your payouts occur. For example, if your account operates on a daily payout schedule with a 3 business day payout speed, Stripe pays out funds daily from transactions captured 3 business days earlier.

Certain countries have restrictions on payout schedules:

If you’re using Cross-border payouts, these payout schedule restrictions don’t apply.

Manual payouts

If you turn off automatic payouts in the Dashboard, you must manually send funds to your bank account. You can do this either in the Dashboard or by creating payouts using the API. Manual payouts are available in all regions except Brazil and India, where payouts are always automatic and daily. In most regions, manual payouts typically take 1-4 business days to arrive in your bank account after initiating the manual payout.

If your Stripe account that operates in the United Kingdom has a standard T+3 payout speed and you initiate a manual payout during business hours, the funds typically arrive in your bank account on the same business day. This same-day payout is limited to 10 same-day manual payouts per day, with a maximum transaction amount of £1 million each. All other manual payouts typically arrive within 2 business days in your bank account.

Payout speed

While payout schedule refers to the cadence your funds are paid out on (for example, day of the week), payout speed refers to the amount of time it takes for your funds to become available. The payout speed varies per country and is typically expressed as T+X days. Some payment processors might start “T” from their internal settlement time, meaning when the funds land in their bank accounts.

In Stripe, “T” refers to the transaction time, which indicates the time of the original payment confirmation or capture, and the counting starts earlier. If your Stripe account is in a country with a T+3 standard payout speed and you use a manual payout schedule, your Stripe balance is available for payout within three business days of capturing a payment. However, if you use a daily automatic payout schedule with a T+3 speed, Stripe pays out funds daily from transactions captured 3 business days earlier.

Most banks deposit payouts into your bank account as soon as they receive them, though some might take a few extra days to make them available. The type of business and the country you’re in can also affect payout timing.

Accelerated payout speeds

Stripe offers accelerated payout speeds for users and connected accounts where Stripe manages credit and fraud risk in Europe, the UK, Mexico, and Canada. With accelerated payout speeds, funds are available within 3 business days.

Users become eligible for accelerated payout speeds after meeting certain criteria based on risk and history with Stripe. When you’re eligible, you can choose to opt in or out of accelerated payout speeds in the Dashboard by updating your Payout settings. You remain at the starting 7 calendar day payout speed until you meet the eligibility criteria. You can configure accounts where you manage fraud and dispute liability separately. Some high risk industries might not be eligible.

Delay behavior per account country

As the platform, you can set delay_days on your connected accounts. The delay applies as a business day or calendar day delay based on the country of the connected account. The following table shows which countries apply the delay by business or calendar day.

Negative payouts

Each payout reflects your available account balance at the time it was created. In some cases, you might have a negative account balance. For example, if you receive 100 USD in payments but refund 200 USD of prior payments, your account balance would be -100 USD. If you don’t receive further payments to balance out the negative amount, Stripe creates a payout that debits your bank account.

Your bank account must support both credit and debit transactions so that Stripe can perform any required payouts.

Payout failures

If your bank account can’t receive a payout for any reason, your bank sends the funds back to us. This returns an error with the reason for the failure. It can take up to 5 additional business days for your bank to return the payout and inform us that it failed. If this happens, you’re notified by email and in the Dashboard. To make sure that your bank account details are correct, you need to re-enter them if a payout fails. After you re-enter your bank account details, Stripe attempts to perform the payout again at the next scheduled payout interval.

Make sure that the bank account information you provide is correct because Stripe sends the funds using the account information you enter. Therefore, if you provide incorrect information (for example, a mistyped account number or an incorrect routing number), Stripe might send payouts to the wrong bank account and might not be able to recover the funds.

Any fees or losses that you incur due to incorrect information fall under your responsibility. If your banking details are correct and the payout failure is for other reasons, contact your bank. After you resolve any issues with your bank, you can reactivate the payouts by clicking Resume Payouts. If you don’t receive a payout from Stripe after clicking Resume Payouts, and haven’t received a failure notification within a reasonable time frame, please contact us.

Instant Payouts

With Instant Payouts, you can instantly send funds to a supported debit card or bank account. You can request Instant Payouts any time, including weekends and holidays, and funds usually appear in the associated bank account within 30 minutes. New Stripe users aren’t immediately eligible for Instant Payouts. You can check your eligibility in the Dashboard.

Payout fees

Stripe doesn’t charge you a fee to initiate normal payouts. However, most non-primary currency payouts, where you pay out money in a currency other than your Stripe account’s local currency, do incur Stripe fees.