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Unified Payout & Ledger

curl "https://api.payload.com/transactions" \
    -u secret_key_3bW9JMZtPVDOfFNzwRdfE: \
    -d "fields[]=*" \
    -d "fields[]=ledger"

Transaction Ledger

The transaction ledger contains the associations between all transaction activity, for example the reference between an original payment and a resulting refund. Each transaction has a nested list of ledger entries with all related ledger entries for a transaction.

Reading the Ledger Records

By default, the ledger array is not returned in a Transaction object. The nested ledger list can be included in the response by requesting the ledger attribute be part of the response.

{
  "id": "txn_3bW9JN4OPJXdUyrK5VZQG",
  "object": "transaction",
  "amount": 29.99,
  "created_at": "2020-01-01 21:41:04",
  "payment_method_id": "pm_3bW9JMoT2CKw8DQ1yFyG8",
  "status": "processed",
  "type": "payment",
  "ledger": [{
    "amount": -29.99,
    "assoc_transaction_id": "txn_3bW9JN8cF50sSYDtI5X0a",
    "timestamp": "2020-01-04 18:30:09",
    "entry_type": "deposit"
  },{
    "amount": -29.99,
    "assoc_transaction_id": "txn_3bW9JN8cutWRm2iYnhjaS",
    "timestamp": "2020-01-10 09:52:29",
    "entry_type": "refund"
  },{
    "amount": 29.99,
    "assoc_transaction_id": "txn_3bW9JN8dAmVVEkM5guwca",
    "timestamp": "2020-01-10 18:30:23",
    "entry_type": "reversal"
  }]
}

Ledger entries can be either positive or negative depending on whether the associated transaction is a debit or a credit relative to the parent transaction.

The ledger entry_type refers to the associated transaction type.

In the example you'll see a payment that was deposited but was later refunded. Since the payment had already been deposited, a reversal transaction was initiated to rebalance the ledger.

List of Deposited Payments

curl "https://api.payload.com/transactions" \
    -u secret_key_3bW9JMZtPVDOfFNzwRdfE: \
    -d "fields=*,ledger" \
    -d "type=deposit" \
    -d "processing_id=$processing_id"

To retrieve a list of deposited payments, query for transactions with a type of deposit