Glossary
¶ Glossary
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| Consumer | Customers who request a ride through Uber, or order with Eats | ||||||||
| Earner | Drivers and delivery people who earn money through the Uber platform | ||||||||
| Funding method | The origin of the funds. This can be a payment method, such as a card or digital wallet, or a form of stored value like airline miles or loyalty points. | ||||||||
| Idempotency |
You can use the same access token for future requests once you successfully perform an initial request with these credentials. If your request fails, either due to client or server error, you can retry with the same idempotency key and same request parameter values. This retried call is processed as if you’ve made a new request.
All the scenarios below assume that you have already created a Deposit object. The response indicates the behavior of subsequent requests with the same idempotency key.
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| Source account | A merchant account created by Uber.
For each money flow, Uber creates different merchant accounts within the Uber system. Creating different merchant accounts allows for easier reconciliation and accounting processes later on. Uber expects merchants to create a one-to-one mapping within their system of those merchant’s accounts. Uber provides the source account details to the merchant for each money flow. |
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| Uber Cash | A reloadable balance that consumers can spend on rides, Eats orders, and more. | ||||||||
| Uber Wallet | The section in our apps dedicated to payments, where users track their earning and spending history and manage and move their money. |