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Payout API Design: Safe Retries, States and Reconciliation
A payout endpoint needs to answer a business question: what happened to the instruction to pay this recipient this amount? A successful HTTP response answers a narrower question about request handling. Design the API so callers can retrieve the original instruction after a retry, and operators can distinguish acceptance, execution and subsequent return.
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