---
title: "initiatePayout"
method: POST
path: "/finances/transfers/2024-06-01/payouts"
tags: ["Transfers v2024-06-01"]
---

# initiatePayout

`POST /finances/transfers/2024-06-01/payouts`

Initiates an on-demand payout to the seller's default deposit method in Seller Central for the given `marketplaceId` and `accountType`, if eligible. You can only initiate one on-demand payout for each marketplace and account type within a 24-hour period. 

**Usage Plan:**

| Rate (requests per second) | Burst |
| ---- | ---- |
| 0.017 | 2 |

The `x-amzn-RateLimit-Limit` response header contains the usage plan rate limits for the operation, when available. The preceding table contains the default rate and burst values for this operation. Selling partners whose business demands require higher throughput might have higher rate and burst values than those shown here. For more information, refer to [Usage Plans and Rate Limits](https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/usage-plans-and-rate-limits-in-the-sp-api).

## Request body

- InitiatePayoutRequest — The request schema for the `initiatePayout` operation.
  - `marketplaceId` string, required — The identifier of the Amazon marketplace. For the list of all marketplace IDs, refer to [Marketplace IDs](https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/marketplace-ids).
  - `accountType` string, required — The account type in the selected marketplace for which a payout must be initiated. For supported EU marketplaces, the only account type is `Standard Orders`.

## Response `200`

Success.

- InitiatePayoutResponse — The response schema for the `initiatePayout` operation.
  - `payoutReferenceId` string, required — The financial event group ID for a successfully initiated payout. You can use this ID to track payout information.

## Other responses

- `400` — Request has missing or invalid parameters and cannot be parsed.
- `403` — Indicates that access to the resource is forbidden. Possible reasons include Access Denied, Unauthorized, Expired Token, or Invalid Signature.
- `404` — The resource specified does not exist.
- `413` — The request size exceeded the maximum accepted size.
- `415` — The request payload is in an unsupported format.
- `429` — The frequency of requests was greater than allowed.
- `500` — An unexpected condition occurred that prevented the server from fulfilling the request.
- `503` — Temporary overloading or maintenance of the server.

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