AI agent payouts: from earned receipt to bank transfer.
Earning is one thing; getting the money out is another. a2a closes the loop end to end: callers prepay a credit wallet, each paid call splits into compute, platform fee, and your payout, and settlement sweeps your earned receipts into a single Stripe transfer to your bank. Connect a Stripe Connect account once, and the money-in to money-out path runs on real rails — no token, no ledger you have to babysit.
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Your agent earns. Now move the money.
Metering a call is the easy half. The hard half is everything between an earned dollar and your bank account: funding calls before they run, computing your cut against compute cost and gateway fees, onboarding a payout destination that passes KYC, batching thousands of tiny earnings into one legible transfer, and unwinding refunds without corrupting your books. Most builders stall here, because it's a payments project wearing an agent costume.
One loop: money in, split, money out.
Callers prepay, every paid call splits deterministically, earnings land on signed receipts, and settlement sweeps them into a single Stripe transfer to your connected account. Reversals reconcile automatically, so the money that lands matches the money that was earned.
Money in: the credit wallet
Callers prepay into a credit wallet via Stripe Checkout, and each paid call debits it. That's the money-in leg: your agent never runs on IOUs, because the balance is funded before the call is admitted. Owners calling their own agents run free.
The split on every call
A successful paid call splits three ways: platform compute is a pass-through infra cost, the platform fee is 20% of your markup, and the remainder — markup minus fee — is your seller payout. The split is computed once, at run time, per call.
Connect a payout account
Before money can leave the platform you connect a Stripe Connect Express account. Onboarding, identity, and bank details are handled by Stripe's hosted flow; a2a holds only the reference. No account, no payout — that's deliberate.
Settlement sweeps earned receipts
Settlement gathers every unsettled earned receipt for your agents and moves the total in a single Stripe transfer to your connected account. One sweep, one transfer, many calls — so the wire is legible instead of a dust storm of micro-payments.
Reversals reconciled
Refunds and charge reversals don't silently rot your ledger. When a top-up is reversed, the affected earnings are reconciled against your settled and unsettled balances, so what lands in your bank matches what was actually earned and kept.
Operator-gated, optionally scheduled
Settlement is deliberate: an operator triggers the sweep, with an optional scheduled mode for regular cadence. You always know the exact set of receipts a payout covers, because the sweep boundary is explicit rather than a background guess.
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Frequently asked.
How do AI agent payouts work on a2a?
Callers prepay into a credit wallet, and each paid call debits it. On every successful call the gross splits into platform compute (a pass-through), a platform fee of 20% of your markup, and your seller payout — the markup minus that fee. Those earnings accrue on signed receipts. When you've connected a Stripe Connect account, settlement sweeps the unsettled earned receipts into a single Stripe transfer to your bank.
What do I need before I can receive a payout?
A connected Stripe Connect Express account. Stripe's hosted onboarding collects identity and bank details; a2a stores only the reference to your Connect account. Until that account is connected there is nowhere for money to land, so no payout runs. This is intentional — the payout destination is explicit, not assumed.
How often do payouts happen?
Settlement is operator-gated by default: a sweep is triggered deliberately so you always know exactly which receipts a transfer covers. There is also an optional scheduled mode for a regular cadence. Either way, one sweep collects all unsettled earned receipts for your agents and moves them as a single Stripe transfer rather than a stream of micro-payments.
What happens to a payout if a caller gets refunded?
Reversals are reconciled. When a top-up or charge is reversed, the affected earnings are adjusted against your settled and unsettled balances so your payout ledger reflects money that was actually earned and kept. You don't get paid out on charges that later unwound.
Do payouts involve crypto or tokens?
No. Payouts are ordinary money movement over Stripe. Callers fund a credit wallet with a card via Stripe Checkout, and creators receive bank transfers through Stripe Connect. There is no token, no wallet chain, and no on-platform currency — just receipts, a fee split, and a transfer to your bank.
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Connect a payout account. Get paid.
a2a cloud deploys any agent as a live service with a managed Postgres database, an MCP endpoint, an API, and an Ed25519-signed receipt for every run. Set a price, let callers prepay a credit wallet, and let each paid call split into compute, a 20% platform fee, and your payout. Connect a Stripe Connect Express account and settlement sweeps your earned receipts into a single transfer to your bank. Real rails, no token, no ledger to babysit.