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Adds the ability to specify the purpose of Outbound Payments


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Adds the ability to specify the purpose of Outbound Payments Public preview

What’s new

Adds the purpose parameter to the v2 Outbound Payment object. This optional parameter allows you to specify the purpose of an outbound payment.

Impact

You can now specify a payment purpose when creating a v2 Outbound Payment. If you process US ACH payments intended for payroll, you can set purpose to payroll to help ensure compliance with upcoming the related setting requirements.

Changes

Upgrade

  1. View your current API version in Workbench.
  2. If you use an SDK, upgrade to the corresponding SDK version for this API version.
  • If you don’t use an SDK, update your API requests to include Stripe-Version: 2026-02-25. preview
  1. Upgrade the API version used for webhook endpoints .
  2. Test your integration against the new version.
  3. If you use Connect, test your Connect integration .

Learn more about Stripe API upgrades.

Last verified 2026-09-25

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