Managing Funds for a Token
Retrieving the balance for a token
The available balance for a token and be retrieved by adding the balance field when querying a token.
Result:
Managing how payouts and refunds are handled
When configuring a token there are two settings for managing how an entity is paid.
The first is payout
which manages how a seller, agent or beneficiary is paid out.
This field can only be modified if the token contains the following information:
- An ID Number ID or an Organisation Registration Number (ID number if a Sole Prop)
- Banking details
The following options are available (Weekly, Bi-monthly and Monthly pay-outs occur on a Friday):
WALLET
- Pay out funds to the escrow account for use in another transaction to be manually withdrawn at a later stage.IMMEDIATE
- Pay out funds as soon as possibleDAILY
- Pay out funds the next work dayWEEKLY
- Pay out funds once a weekBIMONTHLY
- Pay out funds twice a per monthMONTHLY
- Pay out funds once a month
The second field is refund
which manages how a buyer is refunded.
The following options are available:
WALLET
- Pay out funds to the escrow account for use in another transaction to be manually withdrawn at a later stage.IMMEDIATE
- Pay out funds as soon as possible
Updating the payout and refund options are done in a similar way:
Requesting a withdrawal
If funds have either been paid out or refunded to the escrow account. A withdrawal request can be initiated and will result in the requested value to be paid out in the next payment run.
{info} After a withdrawal has been successfully requested the balance reported will be the amount less the requested value. i.e. if the token has a balance of R1000 and a withdrawal of R700 is made the balance will show the remaining funds which would be R300.
A withdrawal can be requested as follows and will return true if request was successful: