Create a recipient
Creates a recipient profile to which payments can be sent. A recipient is the individual or business receiving payments. Before paying out to a recipient, you must first create a recipient profile, either as a separate process or at the same time as the payout request.
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For the payout provider Interchecks, if you pass a value for one of the recipientIdNumbers parameters when creating a new recipient, you cannot update any recipient information with Update recipient endpoint.
<div style="display:none;">⚠️ Try It
To use the Try It feature for this endpoint, you must use the credentials for your Sandbox API user.<br/><br/>Include at least a recipientRef, recipient email, recipient firstName and lastName, and the country for the recipient.
Request parameters
- recipientRef
- firstName
- lastName
- country
- providerId
- userType
- gender
- birthDate
- countryOfBirth
- countryOfNationality
- currency
- addressType
- addressLine1
- addressLine2
- city
- region
- postalCode
- phoneNumber
- phoneNumberCountry
- mobileNumber
- mobileNumberCountry
- governmentIdType
- recipientIdNumbers
- recipientIdNumbers.governmentId
- recipientIdNumbers.passportId
- recipientIdNumbers.employerId
- recipientIdNumbers.driversLicenseId
Response parameters
- recipientRef
- recipientId
- payoutAccountId
- providerId
- providerType
- providerRecipientRef
- userType
- firstName
- lastName
- gender
- birthDate
- countryOfBirth
- countryOfNationality
- addressLine1
- addressLine2
- city
- region
- postalCode
- country
- phoneNumber
- mobileNumber
- governmentIdType
- recipientIdNumbers
- recipientIdNumbers.governmentId
- recipientIdNumbers.passportId
- recipientIdNumbers.employerId
- recipientIdNumbers.driversLicenseId
- createdAt
- updatedAt
Request body
Response
Success
Changes
No recorded changes to this endpoint across all 1 revision of this API.