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About payment creation

When you create a payment, you create a payment order for the transfer of funds to the recipient. It can be either funded directly from a budget, or you can create an unfunded payment order, and send funds in after the order has been created.

Payment creation steps

There are three steps involved in creating a payment:

1. Create a recipient to send money to.
2. Create a currency quote — whether you're making an internal currency exchange or an outbound payment.
3. Create an order for a single-currency or multi-currency payment to send funds using your newly-created quote.