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get_payment_status

Read-onlyIdempotent

Check Venmo and PayPal payout status (free)

Reports the state of the Venmo and PayPal payouts this account has sent with GET /send-payment. Free: only the payout itself is a paid action.

Three ways to call it: with payment_id to fetch one payout, with recipient_id (from GET /payment-recipients) to list every payout to that saved recipient, or with neither to list every payout this account has sent, newest first.

state is queued (waiting on account balance), awaiting-funding (debited and accepted, but delayed on our side before it reaches the platform, usually until the next business day), in-process (dispatched to the platform), complete, failed, or cancelled. queued, awaiting-funding and in-process are the states still in flight; poll every few minutes, or register a webhook with POST /register-webhook to be told when a payout completes instead. A payout that has been in-process for more than an hour is worth raising with the account owner. state is absent on payouts sent before state tracking existed.

Bank payouts are not listed here: follow those with listBankingTransactions. Push-to-card transfers are completed by the recipient in the browser and have no server-side state.

Input Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
payment_idNoFetch one payout by its `id`. Takes precedence over `recipient_id`.
recipient_idNoList every payout to one saved recipient. This is the `recipient_id` returned by `GET /payment-recipients`, not the phone number or email.

Output Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault

No arguments

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

  1. Changed1 schema field changed
    • changedOutput schema / anyOf
      Previous value: -[
      -  {
      -    "properties": {
      -      "payment": {
      -        "description": "One Venmo or PayPal payout sent from this account.",
      -        "properties": {
      -          "amount_pre_fees": {
      -            "description": "Dollars the recipient receives.",
      -            "type": [
      -              "number",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "amount_with_fees": {
      -            "description": "Dollars debited from the account balance, fee included.",
      -            "type": [
      -              "number",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "fees_paid": {
      -            "type": [
      -              "number",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "id": {
      -            "description": "Pass as `payment_id` to fetch this payout on its own.",
      -            "type": [
      -              "string",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "platform": {
      -            "description": "One of: venmo, paypal.",
      -            "type": [
      -              "string",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "recipient_first_name": {
      -            "type": [
      -              "string",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "recipient_id": {
      -            "description": "The saved recipient this went to, as returned by `GET /payment-recipients`.",
      -            "type": [
      -              "string",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "recipient_last_name": {
      -            "type": [
      -              "string",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "state": {
      -            "description": "`queued` and `in-process` are still in flight. Absent on payouts sent before state tracking existed. One of: queued, in-process, complete, failed, cancelled.",
      -            "type": [
      -              "string",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "state_updated_at": {
      -            "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when `state` last changed.",
      -            "type": [
      -              "number",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "timestamp": {
      -            "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when the payout was sent.",
      -            "type": [
      -              "number",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          },
      -          "timestamp_readable": {
      -            "type": [
      -              "string",
      -              "null"
      -            ]
      -          }
      -        },
      -        "type": [
      -          "object",
      -          "null"
      -        ]
      -      }
      -    },
      -    "type": "object"
      -  },
      -  {
      -    "properties": {
      -      "payments": {
      -        "items": {
      -          "description": "One Venmo or PayPal payout sent from this account.",
      -          "properties": {
      -            "amount_pre_fees": {
      -              "description": "Dollars the recipient receives.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "number",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "amount_with_fees": {
      -              "description": "Dollars debited from the account balance, fee included.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "number",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "fees_paid": {
      -              "type": [
      -                "number",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "id": {
      -              "description": "Pass as `payment_id` to fetch this payout on its own.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "platform": {
      -              "description": "One of: venmo, paypal.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "recipient_first_name": {
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "recipient_id": {
      -              "description": "The saved recipient this went to, as returned by `GET /payment-recipients`.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "recipient_last_name": {
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "state": {
      -              "description": "`queued` and `in-process` are still in flight. Absent on payouts sent before state tracking existed. One of: queued, in-process, complete, failed, cancelled.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "state_updated_at": {
      -              "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when `state` last changed.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "number",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "timestamp": {
      -              "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when the payout was sent.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "number",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "timestamp_readable": {
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            }
      -          },
      -          "type": [
      -            "object",
      -            "null"
      -          ]
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      -        "type": [
      -          "array",
      -          "null"
      -        ]
      -      }
      -    },
      -    "type": "object"
      -  }
      -]New value: +[
      +  {
      +    "properties": {
      +      "payment": {
      +        "description": "One Venmo or PayPal payout sent from this account.",
      +        "properties": {
      +          "amount_pre_fees": {
      +            "description": "Dollars the recipient receives.",
      +            "type": [
      +              "number",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "amount_with_fees": {
      +            "description": "Dollars debited from the account balance, fee included.",
      +            "type": [
      +              "number",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "fees_paid": {
      +            "type": [
      +              "number",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "id": {
      +            "description": "Pass as `payment_id` to fetch this payout on its own.",
      +            "type": [
      +              "string",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "platform": {
      +            "description": "One of: venmo, paypal.",
      +            "type": [
      +              "string",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "recipient_first_name": {
      +            "type": [
      +              "string",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "recipient_id": {
      +            "description": "The saved recipient this went to, as returned by `GET /payment-recipients`.",
      +            "type": [
      +              "string",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "recipient_last_name": {
      +            "type": [
      +              "string",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "state": {
      +            "description": "`queued`, `awaiting-funding` and `in-process` are still in flight. `awaiting-funding` means the payout was debited and accepted but is delayed on our side before it reaches Venmo or PayPal, usually until the next business day. Absent on payouts sent before state tracking existed. One of: queued, awaiting-funding, in-process, complete, failed, cancelled.",
      +            "type": [
      +              "string",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "state_updated_at": {
      +            "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when `state` last changed.",
      +            "type": [
      +              "number",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "timestamp": {
      +            "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when the payout was sent.",
      +            "type": [
      +              "number",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          },
      +          "timestamp_readable": {
      +            "type": [
      +              "string",
      +              "null"
      +            ]
      +          }
      +        },
      +        "type": [
      +          "object",
      +          "null"
      +        ]
      +      }
      +    },
      +    "type": "object"
      +  },
      +  {
      +    "properties": {
      +      "payments": {
      +        "items": {
      +          "description": "One Venmo or PayPal payout sent from this account.",
      +          "properties": {
      +            "amount_pre_fees": {
      +              "description": "Dollars the recipient receives.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "number",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "amount_with_fees": {
      +              "description": "Dollars debited from the account balance, fee included.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "number",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "fees_paid": {
      +              "type": [
      +                "number",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "id": {
      +              "description": "Pass as `payment_id` to fetch this payout on its own.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "platform": {
      +              "description": "One of: venmo, paypal.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "recipient_first_name": {
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "recipient_id": {
      +              "description": "The saved recipient this went to, as returned by `GET /payment-recipients`.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "recipient_last_name": {
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "state": {
      +              "description": "`queued`, `awaiting-funding` and `in-process` are still in flight. `awaiting-funding` means the payout was debited and accepted but is delayed on our side before it reaches Venmo or PayPal, usually until the next business day. Absent on payouts sent before state tracking existed. One of: queued, awaiting-funding, in-process, complete, failed, cancelled.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "state_updated_at": {
      +              "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when `state` last changed.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "number",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "timestamp": {
      +              "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when the payout was sent.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "number",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "timestamp_readable": {
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            }
      +          },
      +          "type": [
      +            "object",
      +            "null"
      +          ]
      +        },
      +        "type": [
      +          "array",
      +          "null"
      +        ]
      +      }
      +    },
      +    "type": "object"
      +  }
      +]
  2. Changed2 schema fields changed
    • removedInput schema / properties / auth_token
      Removed value: -{
      -  "description": "Laso credential. Only if the MCP connection has no Authorization header.",
      -  "type": "string"
      -}
    • changedOutput schema / (root)
      Previous value: -nullNew value: +{
      +  "anyOf": [
      +    {
      +      "properties": {
      +        "payment": {
      +          "description": "One Venmo or PayPal payout sent from this account.",
      +          "properties": {
      +            "amount_pre_fees": {
      +              "description": "Dollars the recipient receives.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "number",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "amount_with_fees": {
      +              "description": "Dollars debited from the account balance, fee included.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "number",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "fees_paid": {
      +              "type": [
      +                "number",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "id": {
      +              "description": "Pass as `payment_id` to fetch this payout on its own.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "platform": {
      +              "description": "One of: venmo, paypal.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "recipient_first_name": {
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "recipient_id": {
      +              "description": "The saved recipient this went to, as returned by `GET /payment-recipients`.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "recipient_last_name": {
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "state": {
      +              "description": "`queued` and `in-process` are still in flight. Absent on payouts sent before state tracking existed. One of: queued, in-process, complete, failed, cancelled.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "state_updated_at": {
      +              "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when `state` last changed.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "number",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "timestamp": {
      +              "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when the payout was sent.",
      +              "type": [
      +                "number",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            },
      +            "timestamp_readable": {
      +              "type": [
      +                "string",
      +                "null"
      +              ]
      +            }
      +          },
      +          "type": [
      +            "object",
      +            "null"
      +          ]
      +        }
      +      },
      +      "type": "object"
      +    },
      +    {
      +      "properties": {
      +        "payments": {
      +          "items": {
      +            "description": "One Venmo or PayPal payout sent from this account.",
      +            "properties": {
      +              "amount_pre_fees": {
      +                "description": "Dollars the recipient receives.",
      +                "type": [
      +                  "number",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "amount_with_fees": {
      +                "description": "Dollars debited from the account balance, fee included.",
      +                "type": [
      +                  "number",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "fees_paid": {
      +                "type": [
      +                  "number",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "id": {
      +                "description": "Pass as `payment_id` to fetch this payout on its own.",
      +                "type": [
      +                  "string",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "platform": {
      +                "description": "One of: venmo, paypal.",
      +                "type": [
      +                  "string",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "recipient_first_name": {
      +                "type": [
      +                  "string",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "recipient_id": {
      +                "description": "The saved recipient this went to, as returned by `GET /payment-recipients`.",
      +                "type": [
      +                  "string",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "recipient_last_name": {
      +                "type": [
      +                  "string",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "state": {
      +                "description": "`queued` and `in-process` are still in flight. Absent on payouts sent before state tracking existed. One of: queued, in-process, complete, failed, cancelled.",
      +                "type": [
      +                  "string",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "state_updated_at": {
      +                "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when `state` last changed.",
      +                "type": [
      +                  "number",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "timestamp": {
      +                "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when the payout was sent.",
      +                "type": [
      +                  "number",
      +                  "null"
      +                ]
      +              },
      +              "timestamp_readable": {
      +                "type": [
      +                  "string",
      +                  "null"
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      +            "type": [
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      +          ]
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      +      "type": "object"
      +    }
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      +  "type": "object"
      +}
  3. Changed1 schema field changed
    • changedOutput schema / (root)
      Previous value: -{
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      -          "description": "One Venmo or PayPal payout sent from this account.",
      -          "properties": {
      -            "amount_pre_fees": {
      -              "description": "Dollars the recipient receives.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "number",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "amount_with_fees": {
      -              "description": "Dollars debited from the account balance, fee included.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "number",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "fees_paid": {
      -              "type": [
      -                "number",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "id": {
      -              "description": "Pass as `payment_id` to fetch this payout on its own.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "platform": {
      -              "description": "One of: venmo, paypal.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "recipient_first_name": {
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "recipient_id": {
      -              "description": "The saved recipient this went to, as returned by `GET /payment-recipients`.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "recipient_last_name": {
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
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      -              "description": "`queued` and `in-process` are still in flight. Absent on payouts sent before state tracking existed. One of: queued, in-process, complete, failed, cancelled.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "string",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
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      -              "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when `state` last changed.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "number",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
      -            },
      -            "timestamp": {
      -              "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when the payout was sent.",
      -              "type": [
      -                "number",
      -                "null"
      -              ]
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      -          "items": {
      -            "description": "One Venmo or PayPal payout sent from this account.",
      -            "properties": {
      -              "amount_pre_fees": {
      -                "description": "Dollars the recipient receives.",
      -                "type": [
      -                  "number",
      -                  "null"
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "amount_with_fees": {
      -                "description": "Dollars debited from the account balance, fee included.",
      -                "type": [
      -                  "number",
      -                  "null"
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "fees_paid": {
      -                "type": [
      -                  "number",
      -                  "null"
      -                ]
      -              },
      -              "id": {
      -                "description": "Pass as `payment_id` to fetch this payout on its own.",
      -                "type": [
      -                  "string",
      -                  "null"
      -                ]
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      -                  "string",
      -                  "null"
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      -                "description": "Milliseconds since the epoch when the payout was sent.",
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      -  "type": "object"
      -}New value: +null
  4. First observed

TDQS

A4.9/5.0
Behavior5/5

Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?

Annotations already establish the safe read-only, idempotent, closed-world profile, and the description adds substantially more: the cost model, the full state machine with plain-English meanings, polling cadence, the one-hour stale-in-process heuristic, and the caveat that state is absent on pre-state-tracking payouts. That is real behavioral context beyond the annotations.

Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.

Conciseness5/5

Is the description appropriately sized, front-loaded, and free of redundancy?

Front-loads purpose and cost, then the call modes, then the state reference. It is dense but every sentence carries operational information (states, polling, webhook escape hatch, exclusions) with no filler or redundancy.

Shorter descriptions cost fewer tokens and are easier for agents to parse. Every sentence should earn its place.

Completeness5/5

Given the tool's complexity, does the description cover enough for an agent to succeed on first attempt?

With an output schema present, the description rightly avoids restating return shapes and instead covers everything else an agent needs: invocation modes, state vocabulary, freshness handling, cost, and explicit sibling boundaries. Nothing material is missing.

Complex tools with many parameters or behaviors need more documentation. Simple tools need less. This dimension scales expectations accordingly.

Parameters4/5

Does the description clarify parameter syntax, constraints, interactions, or defaults beyond what the schema provides?

Schema coverage is 100% and both params are documented, setting the baseline at 3, but the description adds the interplay the schema can only partially express: the 'call with neither' mode that lists all sent payouts, plus the newest-first ordering and the recipient_id provenance. Marginal but genuine added meaning.

Input schemas describe structure but not intent. Descriptions should explain non-obvious parameter relationships and valid value ranges.

Purpose5/5

Does the description clearly state what the tool does and how it differs from similar tools?

States a specific verb+resource (check payout status) scoped to Venmo and PayPal payouts sent via GET /send-payment. It explicitly disambiguates from siblings by excluding bank payouts (use listBankingTransactions) and push-to-card transfers, so an agent can distinguish it from get_withdrawal_status and the banking tools.

Agents choose between tools based on descriptions. A clear purpose with a specific verb and resource helps agents select the right tool.

Usage Guidelines5/5

Does the description explain when to use this tool, when not to, or what alternatives exist?

Enumerates the three invocation modes (payment_id, recipient_id, or neither) with the exact outcome of each, names the alternative (register a webhook via POST /register-webhook to avoid polling), and states what is out of scope. This is about as explicit as when/when-not/alternatives gets.

Agents often have multiple tools that could apply. Explicit usage guidance like "use X instead of Y when Z" prevents misuse.

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