---
title: "Send payment to an account. Note that even though this is a user-only endpoint, node operators have access to server secrets, meaning that they could issue payments from any account if they wished to."
method: POST
path: "/accounts/{username}/payments"
tags: ["users"]
---

# Send payment to an account. Note that even though this is a user-only endpoint, node operators have access to server secrets, meaning that they could issue payments from any account if they wished to.

`POST /accounts/{username}/payments`

## Headers

- `authorization` string, required

## Request body

- PaymentRequest
  - `receiver` string, required
  - `source_amount` integer, required
  - `slippage` union — Maximum acceptable slippage percentage below calculated minimum exchange rate
    - number
    - string

## Response `200`

The receipt of delivery to the receiver

- PaymentResponse
  - `source_asset_scale` integer
  - `source_asset_code` string
  - `sent_amount` integer — Amount fulfilled or currently in-flight, in source units
  - `source_amount` integer — Total amount *intended* to be sent, in source units
  - `in_flight_amount` integer — Amount in-flight (yet to be fulfilled or rejected), in source units
  - `delivered_amount` number — Amount fulfilled and received by the recipient, in destination units
  - `destination_asset_scale` integer
  - `destination_asset_code` string
  - `from` string
  - `to` string

---

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