Wire Payouts Testing

You can use the Circle API sandbox environment to exercise various types of payout behaviors, such as transaction failure or transaction returned.

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No Real Payouts

The sandbox environment will allow any payout amount (except magic amounts specified below) to any bank account. Successful requests will never send money to a bank account.

Payout Action

To trigger a specific payout action, use the corresponding amounts below when creating a wire payout. Any amount not specified will result in a Successful payout.

AmountStatus CodeError CodeReason
6.21completeNAPayout transaction is successful. Following this, the transaction is processed again as a return. Note that a fee could be incurred if this happens. For actual amount being returned to the payout wallet, please refer to Payout API documentation for more detailed information.
6.37failedtransaction_returnedPayout transaction is returned from the bank. This might be due to incorrect bank information provided. Note that a fee could be incurred if this happens. For actual amount being returned to the payout wallet, please refer to Payout API documentation for more detailed information.
6.53failedtransaction_failedPayout transaction failed due to unspecified error.