Payments
Checks
Availability policies
2 min
availability policies define how quickly funds can be made available to the payee availability of funds from a deposited check is based on rules specifically mandated by the federal reserve under regulation cc (reg cc) reg cc defines how long a bank can hold funds based on various request and response codes of deposits it's important to understand check processing and how regulation cc (12 cfr 229) laws effect availability of funds deposit a check when you deposit a check with the api, the response shows the assigned availability policy in the policy field and the payment schedule in the schedule field for example, in the response below, the check is assigned the newaccount availability policy along with the schedule the schedule shows the amount of funds from the check deposit that will be available in the customer's cos account each day starting with the first day (day 1), which is defined as the value in the processedat field in this example, all the funds ( 100 or 1 00 usd) are available on the third day cos defines the availability policy of any given deposit when the deposit is successfully received cos assigns the policy of the deposit based on that business day's deposits to that specific account get /v1/payments/{id} { "id" "9a44fdbf 89e2 4300 8f05 ad9501439bb1", "accountnumber" "2193590144", "referenceid" "c2436f698k0d", "paymenttype" "forward", "checktype" "standard", "direction" "outbound", "status" "completed", "source" "api", "posting" "posted", "postingcode" "ok", "coretransactionid" "21ba5fb0 e609 4560 a36f ad9501439bb1", "memopostid" "dc20e619 c5f7 4890 b3c8 ad9501439bb1", "originalpaymentid" "9a44fdbf 89e2 4300 8f05 ad9501439bb1", "customerid" "700f0d35 9940 4132 8608 ad89013927a9", "payerroutingnumber" "021200339", "payeraccountnumber" "123456789", "payeename" "", "checknumber" "1237", "bofdroutingnumber" "021214891", "sequencenumber" "1353885824", "amount" 100, "currency" "usd", "micr" "d021200339dc12345678c1237", "recognizedamount" 100, "iqapassed" true, "hasfrontimage" true, "hasbackimage" true, "isredeposit" false, "policy" "newaccount", "schedule" \[ 0, 0, 100 ], "createdat" "2021 08 31t15 38 13 28 04 00", "rejectedat" "2021 08 31t15 38 17 527 04 00", "wasreturned" false, "purpose" "entered by #60c367e26dd36a0068580230#", "depositbusinessdate" "210831", "productid" "d5dc52bb df80 4a5d a5a8 ad89013844bd", "partnerid" "ede1a60d 3d51 47e8 9a9b ad8901381f9e", "lastmodifiedat" "2021 08 31t15 38 17 5280148 04 00" } if you look at the deposit in cos explorer, the same schedule would appear as using the deposit scenario above, this means that $1 00 will be available in the account ending in 0144 on thursday, september 2nd below is a more detailed breakdown of the schedule depicted in the payment details above day # date amount available 1 tuesday, august 31, 2021 $0 00 2 wednesday, september 1, 2021 $0 00 3 thursday, september 2, 2021 $1 00