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why do payouts get manually checked and no automated?

A topic by reiko-samaa created 33 days ago Views: 220 Replies: 3
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Hey uhm, while i'm also waiting longer then usual for my payout this isn't directly about that, not completely at least.

My question is why do the payments even have to be checked manually? Why not make it automated? Sorry if that's explained somewhere but i didn't find anything about that.

I have this question too. With AI and so many technologies and forms of cross-checking, I believe this process should be automatic.

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Because people try commit fraud and do shady stuff. We make it very easy for someone to collect money on one service, and get paid on another. A setup like that is ideal for fraudsters to exploit. Without some sort of opaque system around processing payments we would make it easy for bad actors to attempt to reverse engineer the system.

If you are concerned about payout processing times then we recommend using the “Direct payments” mode, which will enable you to get paid immediately at the time of the transaction.

Hmm i see, understandable, that said, wouldn't there be an option to enable that for trusted shops/people? (Or a something like a failsafe, where payout happens automatically after 30 days or so if it wasn't checked by that time?)
But i guess you wanna stay extra safe there.
And thanks for the recommendation, i already forgot that Direct payment was an option^^°