# Cash earnings and payouts

> Review a CashUSD capacity agreement, complete onboarding and follow withdrawal status.

Source: https://www.nodus-compute.ai/docs/guides/pools/cash-payouts/
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**Beta:** this feature may change.

Cash payouts require an explicitly offered **CashUSD** capacity agreement. Review the compensation mode, your share, hardware rate and linked agreement before accepting. Existing **Credits** agreements continue to earn Nodus credits. Reading new terms does not change an accepted agreement.

After accepting CashUSD terms, the machine still needs whole-host runtime and cleanup qualification before lending. Your work keeps priority. Earnings depend on eligible paid usage, final billing and successful cleanup; idle time earns nothing. Promotional credits and previously earned Nodus credits cannot fund cash earnings. Historical accounts whose cash provenance cannot be verified remain unqualified.

Open the machine or Pool’s **Idle capacity** section. **Cash earnings and payouts** shows cash payable separately from Nodus credits. An organization owner or admin can:

1. Enter the business’s two-letter country code and select **Set up payouts**.
2. Complete Stripe’s hosted verification and bank-account onboarding.
3. Enter a whole-cent USD amount and select **Request withdrawal**.
4. Follow the request’s status and processor references in the same panel.

A requested withdrawal reserves that amount, so another request cannot spend it. Amounts below one cent remain payable. Refund adjustments reduce earnings; a negative payable balance must be recovered by later earnings before another withdrawal.

A transfer moves funds to the connected Stripe balance. The bank payout is a separate step. **Paid** is Stripe’s reported payout status; it is not independent confirmation from the receiving bank. A failed bank payout leaves the funds in Stripe and does not create another transfer. Update bank details through **Set up payouts**, then select **Retry bank payout** on the failed request. Earlier bank payout receipts stay in the request history. **Review** means the system cannot safely continue without reconciliation or completed verification. Repeated requests use the original request identity and do not create another payment for the same withdrawal.

Turning lending off stops new loans and reclaims borrowed work. It does not rewrite past agreements, erase earnings or change the status of an existing withdrawal.