# Wave Payout API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/wave-mobile-money/wave-payout-api/  
**Provider:** Wave Mobile Money — https://apis.io/providers/wave-mobile-money/  
**Base URL:** https://api.wave.com  
**Documentation:** https://docs.wave.com/payout

Wave Payout API is one of 5 APIs that [Wave Mobile Money](https://apis.io/providers/wave-mobile-money/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Payouts, Disbursements, and Bulk Payments. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Programmatic disbursement API for sending money from a business wallet to individual Wave wallets, identified by E.164 mobile number. Supports single payouts, payout batches (submit many at once and poll batch status), payout reversal, payout lookup by id or client reference, and a verify_recipient pre-flight check. All POST requests require an Idempotency-Key header for safe retries. Used for bulk payroll, gig economy payouts, marketplace seller settlement, humanitarian cash transfer programs, and refunds out-of-band of the original payment.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.wave.com/payout
- **Documentation** — https://docs.wave.com/business

## Other Wave Mobile Money APIs (4)

- [Wave Checkout API](https://apis.io/apis/wave-mobile-money/wave-checkout-api/)
- [Wave Balance & Reconciliation API](https://apis.io/apis/wave-mobile-money/wave-balance-reconciliation-api/)
- [Wave Aggregated Merchants API](https://apis.io/apis/wave-mobile-money/wave-aggregated-merchants-api/)
- [Wave Webhooks](https://apis.io/apis/wave-mobile-money/wave-webhooks/)

## Tags

Payouts, Disbursements, Bulk Payments

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