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POST/payout_settings/update_percentage

Important! Split-payout functionality is only available to mainland China sellers, who can split payouts between their Payoneer account and bank account. Card payouts are not currently available for sellers in mainland China.


This method allows sellers in mainland China to configure the split-payout percentage for two payout instruments available for seller payouts. For example, a seller can split payouts to have 70% of the payout go to a bank account and 30% go to a Payoneer account.

Note: The split-payout percentage must always add up to 100%. If the values do not equal 100, the call will fail. Instruments cannot be added/removed using Finance and Account APIs.
Users can specify the payout instruments being updated by using the instrumentId associated with each payment instrument in the request payload. This value is returned by using the getPayoutSettings method. Users can specify the percentage of the payout allocated to each instrument using the payoutPercentage request field. This value must be a whole number and cannot exceed 100.

For more details on configuring split-payout percentages, see Mainland China Split Payout Playbook.

Input

Resource URI

POST https://api.ebay.com/sell/account/v2/payout_settings/update_percentage

This method is supported in Sandbox environment. To access the endpoint, just replace the api.ebay.com root URI with api.sandbox.ebay.com

URI parameters

This method has no URI parameters.

HTTP request headers

All requests made to eBay REST operations require you to provide the Authorization HTTP header for authentication authorization.

The table below shows additional HTTP request headers that are either required, conditionally required, or strongly recommended for this method. Other standard HTTP request headers- opens rest request components page (not in this table) can also be used, but they are optional.

HeaderTypeDescription
Content-TypestringThis header indicates the format of the request body provided by the client. Its value should be set to application/json.

For more information, refer to HTTP request headers.

Occurrence: Required

OAuth scope

This request requires an access token created with the client credentials grant flow, using one or more scopes from the following list (please check your Application Keys page for a list of OAuth scopes available to your application):

https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.finances

See OAuth access tokens for more information.

Request payload

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Request fields

Input container/fieldTypeDescription
payoutInstrumentsarray of UpdatePayoutPercentage

This array allows the seller to set the payout split percentages for two accounts enabled to receive payouts.

Occurrence: Required

payoutInstruments.instrumentIdstring

The unique reference identifier for a payout instrument. This value is returned in the getPayoutSettings response and is needed to change split-payout percentages through an updatePayoutPercentage request.

Occurrence: Required

payoutInstruments.payoutPercentagestring

The user-defined payout percentage allocated to this instrument. For example, 50 indicates that 50% of the payout goes to this instrument.

The split-payout percentage must be a positive integer value from 0-100. The values of two instruments must always add up to 100%. If the values do not equal 100, the call will fail.

Occurrence: Required

Output

HTTP response headers

This call has no response headers.

Response payload

This call has no payload.

Response fields

This call has no field definitions.

HTTP status codes

This call can return one of the following HTTP status codes. For an overview of the status codes, see HTTP status codes in Using eBay RESTful APIs.

StatusMeaning
204No Content
400Bad Request
500Internal Server Error

Error codes

For more on errors, plus the codes of other common errors, see Handling errors.

CodeDomainCategoryMeaning
394100API_ACCOUNTREQUESTThe seller is not eligible to set split-payout percentage.
394101API_ACCOUNTREQUESTMissing instrumentId in request.
394102API_ACCOUNTREQUESTMissing payoutPercentage in request.
394103API_ACCOUNTREQUESTThe 'payoutPercentage' {payoutPercentage} is not valid. The payout percentage should be an integer value. Minimum value: {0}, Maximum value: {100}.
394104API_ACCOUNTREQUESTDuplicate instrumentId in request.
394105API_ACCOUNTREQUESTSum up of 'payoutPercentage' in request must be equal to 100, current value {payoutPercentage}.
394106API_ACCOUNTREQUESTInstrument 'instrumentId' {instrumentId} not found.
394107API_ACCOUNTREQUESTInstrument 'instrumentId' {instrumentId} missing in request.
395000API_ACCOUNTAPPLICATIONThere was a problem with an eBay internal system or process. Contact eBay developer support for assistance.
395100API_ACCOUNTAPPLICATIONThere was an internal error, please try again after sometime.

Warnings

This call has no warnings.

Samples

New to making API calls? Please see Making a Call.

Note: Identifiers, such as order IDs or user IDs, and personal data in these samples might be anonymized or may no longer be active on eBay. If necessary, substitute current, relevant eBay data in your requests.

Sample 1: Update Split-Payout Percentage

This call allows a seller to update the split-payout percentage on two payout instruments.

Input

The input requires the instrumentID and payoutPercentage fields for each payout instrument. In this example, the payout-split is set to 60/40 between the two instruments, where 60% of the payment goes to one instrument and 40% goes to the other.

POSThttps://api.ebay.com/sell/account/v2/payout_settings/update_percentage

Output

A successful call returns an HTTP status code of 204 No Content and has no response payload.

Sample 2: Set Payout to One Instrument Only

This call allows a seller to update the split-payout percentage on two payout instruments. In this example, the seller sets the payoutPercentage so that the entire payout goes to a single instrument.

Input

The input requires the instrumentID and payoutPercentage fields for each payout instrument. In this example, the payout-split is set to 100/0 between the two instruments, where 100% of the payment goes to one instrument and 0% goes to the other.

POSThttps://api.ebay.com/sell/account/v2/payout_settings/update_percentage

Output

A successful call returns an HTTP status code of 204 No Content and has no response payload.

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