---
title: "Execute a payout instruction set"
method: POST
path: "/payments/payout/{payoutId}/actions/execute"
tags: ["Payments - Payout"]
---

# Execute a payout instruction set

`POST /payments/payout/{payoutId}/actions/execute`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.fireblocks.io/v1`
- URL: `https://api.fireblocks.io/v1/payments/payout/{payoutId}/actions/execute`
- Auth: none declared
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/fireblocks/apis/fireblocks-api/docs/payments/payout/:payoutId/actions/execute/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

**Note:** The reference content in this section documents the Payments
Engine endpoint. The Payments Engine endpoints include APIs available only
for customers with Payments Engine enabled on their accounts.

These endpoints are currently in beta and might be subject to
changes.

If you want to learn more about Fireblocks Payments Engine, please
contact your Fireblocks Customer Success Manager or email
CSM@fireblocks.com.

**Execute a payout instruction set.**

The instruction set will be verified and executed.

**Source locking**

If you are executing a payout instruction set from a payment account with an
already active payout the active payout will complete before the new payout
instruction set can be executed.

You cannot execute the same payout instruction set more than once.

## Path parameters

- `payoutId` string, required

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Response `200`

Executed the payout instruction set

- DispatchPayoutResponse
  - `payoutId` string, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Unauthorized. Missing / invalid JWT token in Authorization header.
- `5XX`: Internal error.

---

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