Marketplaces & Two-Sided Platforms// topic
Split payments, payouts and the money ledger
In short
Money movement in a multi-party transaction — split charges and commission, delayed release, refunds and partial refunds, wallets and credits, and the double-entry ledger that has to reconcile with the processor every single day.
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