# Pay suppliers

URL: /workflows/processes/supplier-payouts/pay-suppliers · Id: `workflow:pay-suppliers`

> Pay suppliers totals each Supplier’s confirmed work every week, holds amounts under open Disputes, pays the rest and sends a statement.

Pay suppliers totals each [Supplier](/business/nouns/supplier)’s confirmed work every week, holds amounts under open [Disputes](/business/nouns/dispute), pays the rest and sends a statement.

## Trigger
Runs every week on Friday at 10:00. Part of [Supplier payouts](/workflows/processes/supplier-payouts), run by the [Finance Team](/agents/finance).

## Steps
1. Total each Supplier’s Orders confirmed and past their clearance period.
2. Hold the amount of every Order under an open Dispute.
3. Pay each Supplier the rest. It waits 1 business hour first.
4. Send each Supplier a payout statement.

## Outputs
- [Transaction](/business/nouns/transaction)
- [Statement](/business/nouns/statement)

## Example
At the end of the week, 38 tutors are paid for last week’s confirmed sessions. One $90 session under dispute is held, and every tutor gets a statement.