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Accepting ACH/E-Check Payments/Transfers

A brief explanation of the payment timeline for ACH/E-Check payments, and what to expect when a payment is 'Pending'.

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Written by Andrew Garcia
Updated over a month ago

ACH transactions take 3-4 business days to be notified of success or failure. Once successful, it'll take another 1-2 business days to be paid out to your bank.

If the payment currently says pending, the transaction has not yet been approved. Once it changes to "Charged," it will take 1-2 business days to appear in your account.

  • When created, ACH charges will have the initial status of pending that is reflected in the Billing section of a project

  • Over the 3-4 day period, the payment will either transition to succeeded or failed, depending on your clients' bank.

  • Successful/Confirmed ACH payments will then be scheduled for automatic Outbound Transfer.

  • Your client will see the payment reflected on their bank statement 1-2 days after creating the charge. (Your customer will know the payment succeeded before the bank notifies Stripe.)

  • The payment will hit your account 1-2 days after succeeding.

Failures can happen for a number of reasons - insufficient funds, a bad account number, or the customer disabled debits from their bank account. You will be notified if a client's payment does fail.

ACH payments made before 7:00pm ET are eligible to be processed the same day.

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