Bank payment company GoCardless has partnered with Cashflows, the platform helping businesses accept payments, to power Cashflows Payouts, a new solution enabling businesses to send real-time payments using account-to-account payment technology.
Cashflows Payouts aims to enhance how businesses handle disbursements by enabling instant, branded, and secure payouts through an intuitive self-service portal. Whether issuing refunds, insurance claims, winnings from competition games, or other payouts, Cashflows merchants can now offer their customers immediate access to funds 24/7 – including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.
“Cashflows Payouts is designed to eliminate the delays and complexity businesses often face when sending payments,” said Hannah Fitzsimons, CEO of Cashflows. “By harnessing the power of account-to-account payments – and working closely with trusted partners like GoCardless – we’re giving businesses a fast, secure, and reliable way to manage disbursements, while improving customer trust and experience.
“This is further evidence of how we’re significantly enhancing our product offering, giving our customers even greater flexibility and control over how they move money.”
This solution is delivered through a custom interface built by GoCardless’s partner Cocoon, recently acquired by Bumper. This interface streamlines payouts for merchants, enabling them to easily create payment requests, securely collect recipient bank details using Confirmation of Payee (CoP) for accuracy, and quickly authorise payouts.
Making moving money simpler
For added security, the platform also provides an optional feature to request ID verification from recipients, ensuring payouts go to the right individuals and reducing fraud risk.
This is particularly impactful for merchants in sectors like competitions and games of skill, where the current processes to verify and collect bank details are often manual and labour-intensive. This offering will improve operational efficiency and customer satisfaction, with end users receiving payouts more quickly and securely. In addition, businesses will gain real-time visibility into all payouts to better manage their cash flow.
Annemarie Graham, director of commercial and partnerships at Nuapay, a GoCardless company, said: “Partnering with Cashflows allows us to bring the efficiency of account-to-account payments to a whole new area – disbursements. This is about helping businesses remove friction and deliver funds quickly and securely, whatever the payout. It’s a clear example of how direct bank payments can make moving money simpler and more reliable for everyone. We’re proud to work with best-in-class partners to deliver streamlined payouts for hundreds of merchants.”
