Create a Plaid Transfer after a successful authorization to originate ACH funds movement

domain: plaid.com · 6 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. After obtaining an approved or permitted authorization, POST to /transfer/create with client_id, secret, access_token, account_id, authorization_id, description (narrated on the bank statement), and amount
  2. Supply an idempotency_key to safely retry the request in case of network failure without creating duplicate transfers
  3. The response returns a transfer object with an id, status ('pending'), and network details
  4. Monitor transfer status by handling webhooks of type TRANSFER and codes TRANSFER_EVENTS_UPDATE; call /transfer/event/sync to retrieve transfer event objects
  5. Transfer events include status transitions: pending → posted → settled, or pending → returned (with return code) for failures
  6. To cancel a transfer before it has posted, call /transfer/cancel with the transfer_id (only possible within a short window after creation)

Known gotchas

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