Introducing Apple Pay Card Payouts: Enhancing your customer’s money transfer experience
Payouts
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Send fast payouts through a single integration designed to keep customers happy, improve performance, and unlock global coverage.
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Transform customer experiences with faster payout methods
Turn money movement into a competitive advantage with simple, convenient options that help funds get to customers faster.
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Card Payouts
Send money to any Visa and Mastercard cards in minutes*, not days, anywhere in the world. Available when funds are sent from the US, UK, Singapore, UAE, and EEA.
- Access 14B+ endpoints with Visa Direct and Mastercard Send
- Disburse funds in 170+ currencies
- Deliver instantly or under 30 minutes, 24/7/365*
- Get real-time verification for higher success rates
*Issuer banks need to be technologically enabled.

Bank Payouts
Send funds domestically to bank accounts in strategic markets like the US, UK, and EEA countries with local clearing methods.
- Access money same day for domestic transactions
- Send cross-border between UK & EEA under 48 hours in GBP and EUR
- Get real-time bank account validation
- Ideal for periodic, high-value transactions
Delight your customers with faster, simpler payouts
One API. Countless opportunities.
Checkout.com empowers merchants to build optimized payment experiences for their customers across the entire payment journey – all from a single API.
Go global with one integration
Make money move globally. No additional integration needed. Drive growth and unlock new markets with our local expertise.
- Worldwide coverage in 195+ countries and 170+ currencies
- Transparent FX with Interchange++ model and FX rates honoured from capture to settlement
- Single API integration that speeds up expansion to new markets

Optimize performance
Find cost efficiencies with data-enabled tools to reduce exceptions and increase acceptance. Stay informed with real-time transaction data at every step.
- Optimize data with upfront formatting and validation
- Custom and real-time notification through webhooks
- Automate reconciliation of fees and FX
- Deploy smart retry and "fail fast" logic to minimize failure rate

Compliance made easy
Stay ahead of the evolving regulatory landscape – globally. We offer built-in compliance management, reporting, and dedicated customer care.
- Payouts compliance: Screen payouts against global sanctions and anti-money laundering rules to block financial crime.
- PCI compliance: Use data capture frames and tokenization to reduce the PCI burden and manage risk.

Frequently asked questions
Payouts with Checkout.com offers a flexible way to send money to billions of cards or bank accounts over global, real-time payment networks. These new payment flows can be applied to many new use cases including P2P (e.g. remittance), B2C (e.g. gig economy), or B2B (e.g. B2B marketplaces).
With Checkout.com, you can reduce the complexity and cost of domestic and cross-border payouts by using a single API to access multiple global payment networks to reach your customers. So you can add, test, and switch payout methods and new markets as you scale globally – without the need for new integrations. Payouts is also built into our single, scalable Unified Payments API, which means that you can use the same integration for both your payments and payouts needs.
You can deliver better payment experiences for both senders and receivers, embedding payouts methods in your website or app as part of an integrated digital experience, and using real-time payment networks like Visa Direct or Mastercard Send to pay customers quickly and simply.
Payouts are available 24/7/365, so money transfers won’t be delayed or affected by evening hours, weekends, and national holidays. This real-time capability means you can meet consumer demands for rapid access to funds.
Our data-enabled tools help you cut costs while increasing acceptance rates and improving customer experience. And with built-in compliance management, like localized sanction screening and AML monitoring on every payout, it’s easy to meet your regulatory obligations and manage risk with confidence.
Checkout.com offers two types of payout methods including Bank Payouts and Card Payouts.
- Bank Payouts: Allows you to send money directly to your recipient’s bank account using real-time payment networks like Faster Payments, SEPA Instant, FedWire. Each payout is optimized with real-time data formatting, bank account validation, and data enrichment capabilities – so you can reliably deliver payouts to recipients. Today, Bank Payouts are available domestically in the US, UK, and Europe.
- Card account payouts: Allows you to send money directly to your recipient’s card using real-time card payment networks like Visa Direct and Mastercard Send. Card Payouts are available from the US, UK, Europe, and Singapore, enabling domestic and cross-border coverage to 170+ destination countries and 100 local currencies around the world.
Businesses can use Payouts to turn funds disbursements into a competitive advantage.
For example, if you need to move money on demand or over weekends as part of your business model, you can benefit from the real-time capability offered by Payouts. Or by making funds available to your recipients in minutes – rather than days – you can deliver significant improvements in customer experience.
Whether you need to send funds to individuals or multiple recipients at scale, B2B enterprises and those in the B2C sector can all find a payout solution that works for them.
For example, you can conduct payroll through bank account payouts. Or if you’re an insurance provider, you can use the service to deposit the funds from a successful claim. Likewise, marketplace businesses can use payouts to settle seller transactions taken through their platform.



