API Differences
Payouts and Payins currently use different protocols and authentication mechanisms. In most cases, you will need to integrate with both APIs, so this section discusses their high-level differences.
API Differences
Compare the main feature and technology differences between Payouts and Payins APIs.
| API: | Payouts | Payins |
|---|---|---|
| Protocol | SOAP | REST |
| Usually used by | Mobile Network Operators Money Transfer Organizations | Merchants E-commerce use-cases Bi-directional use-cases |
| Includes portal access | Access reports in Portal | - Access reports in Portal - Initiate transactions in Portal |
| Supports funds disbursements | Sync or Async | Async Only |
| Supports funds collections | No | Yes |
| Supports forex rates retrieval | Yes | No |
| Supports Webhooks (IPNS) | Yes | Yes |
| Supports retrieval of other objects | Account Balance Only | Account Balances, Contacts, Transactions, Currencies, Networks, Banks, Events and others |
| Includes client libraries | No | Yes |
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