Payout Schedule

Payout schedule is the setting that controls how often Stripe automatically sends your available balance to your bank account, and how long funds wait before they're eligible. It determines the rhythm of your payouts — daily, weekly, monthly, or manual.

The four schedule types

Stripe supports four interval settings on an account's payout schedule:

• Daily — pays out automatically delay_days after a charge is created.
• Weekly — pays out at least once a week, on the weekday you choose.
• Monthly — pays out at least once a month, on a day between the 1st and 31st.
• Manual — no automatic payouts; you trigger each one yourself via the API or Dashboard. Manual is available in most regions, but not everywhere (for example, some countries require automatic daily payouts).

Delay days

Funds don't pay out the instant a charge succeeds. After a payment settles into your available balance, Stripe holds it for a rolling window — the delay_days value — before it becomes eligible for payout. This delay covers refund and dispute risk and varies by country and business type. Stripe counts the delay in business days or calendar days depending on the account's country.

Why it matters

Your payout schedule shapes cash flow. A daily schedule keeps money moving into your bank quickly; a weekly or monthly one batches funds into fewer, larger deposits that are easier to reconcile. On a Stripe Connect platform, each connected account can carry its own schedule, so a marketplace can pay sellers on a cadence that differs from the platform's own.

ChargeBell posts a Slack alert when a payout lands in your bank, so the deposit shows up where your team already works — no need to open the Dashboard to confirm it arrived.