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Concept 01

Accounts

An account is a governed balance you open by API. It holds value, receives money through one or more endpoints, and cannot move until its posture is verified.

Available in the sandbox

An account is a balance you can address.

Read by
GET /v1/balances/current
Balance
settled · available · reserved
Receives via
programmable endpoints
Gate
KYC / KYB
ep_7Q4ep_2Kpendpoints

Held against transfers still in flight. Money in flight is never double-counted.

An account: one balance in three states, fed by endpoints.

A balance, in three parts

A balance has three parts. Settled is value that has cleared; available is what you can move now; reserved is held against transfers still in flight. The three always reconcile; money in flight is never double-counted.

Endpoints receive; the account holds

An account receives money through endpoints, programmable receiving points you provision on it. One account can carry several, each opened, suspended, or closed as compliance and operation require.

Addressed inside your structure

An account belongs to an application within your organisation and lives in a single environment, so a sandbox balance is never confused with a live one. You reach it by API — opening endpoints on it and reading its balance — under a key scoped to exactly that environment.

Governed before it moves

Posture — KYB on the business, KYC on the people — is verified before an account can transact. Readiness comes first.