Bulk Funding (Cashless)

Cashless brokerage Accounts are a way for partners to seamlessly move cash between customer brokerage Accounts and their originating banking sources without requiring customers the step of depositing and withdrawing money.

Partners are eligible to use this functionality if they or their third party provider (e.g. banking-as-a-service platform) have the ability to custody and control customer cash. Partners should also be able to put temporary holds and apply journals to such cash.

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The cashless Account functionality must be enabled by DriveWealth for your partner environment, which will allow for the workflows seen on this page.

Cashless workflow

The customer experience for a new customer investing in an asset starts with Order creation. There is no first step to fund the account by following a Deposit workflow.

Instead, a customer can place any size Order, regardless of their Account having no Buying Power at DriveWealth. Whether that Order is accepted is controlled by you, and dependent on the amount of cash you already custody for that customer.

This also means the customer never sees a "brokerage balance" or "investing balance"—hence the label of Cashless. Purchase orders use funds directly from a customer's linked banking system, and sale orders (or other cash events like dividends) return funds directly to that same banking balance.

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Order validation

It is extremely important to create additional validation on all sized orders. Partners who utilize Cashless Accounts understand that all orders—no matter the size—will be executed without buying power checks on the individual customer’s brokerage Account.

If DriveWealth receives an Order for a buy a million dollars worth of stock, that Order will be accepted, because it is assumed that the partner validated the customer had the funds to pay for the securities first.

As purchase orders are placed, partners should be able to move funds into an omnibus settlement account on their banking system to settle with DriveWealth on settlement day T+1. It's common for this account to be titled "For Benefit Of" your customers or "Exclusive Benefit Of" your customers.

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About temporary holds

Holds are critical to prevent customers from double-spending funds earmarked for security purchases.

While not required, it's strongly recommended to verify that a customer has slightly more than the intended purchase amount—especially for market orders—when assessing available cash.

Example:
Marcus has $100.00 in his Acme Bank account and places a market order to buy 1 share of ABCD, currently trading at $100.00. Since market prices can fluctuate, the actual purchase price could exceed $100.00. Therefore, this order should be denied before submission to DriveWealth, as Marcus may not have sufficient funds to cover the difference.

Instead, Marcus resubmits the order as a cash amount order for $95.00. This guarantees he will not spend more than $95.00.

Before submitting the order to DriveWealth, Acme Bank places a hold on Marcus’s account for $95.00. Once the order executes and is confirmed at $95.00, Acme Bank moves those funds from Marcus’s account to an omnibus settlement account to settle with DriveWealth on T+1 (Trade Date + 1).

Partners—and by extension, customers—will automatically receive funds from the sale of securities on the respective settlement date.

Each day, DriveWealth and its partners reconcile settlements, and corresponding deposit or withdrawal journal entries are automatically posted to accounts.
For example, if a customer purchases an equity on Wednesday, a purchase transaction will be journaled immediately. Then, on Thursday (the settlement date), a deposit journal will appear once the funds are received from the partner.

Reconciliation Report Analysis

This section outlines the parameters derived from the reconciliation report, along with the corresponding transaction types categorized under each.

{
  "id": "80f9b672-120d-4b73-9cc9-42fb3262c4b9_20240417",
  "date": "2024-04-17",
  "status": "APPROVED",
  "statusComment": "Finished processing breakdown",
  "amounts": {
    "total": -1263.56,
    "purchases": -1680.07,
    "sales": 416.51,
    "dividends": 0,
    "fees": 0,
    "other": 0
  },
  "transferAmounts": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "payablesToDW": 1263.56,
    "receivablesFromDW": 0
  },
  "reconciliationBreakdown": "https://du2c4wzqz90h1.cloudfront.net/reconcilationReport....",
  "partnerID": "80f9b672-120d-4b73-9cc9-42fb3262c4b9",
  "created": "2024-04-15T22:28:21.810Z",
  "updated": "2024-04-17T22:28:21.810Z",
  "updatedBy": "SYSTEM"
}

Reconciliations

Under the cashless brokerage model, DriveWealth aggregates various transactions—such as asset purchases/sales, corporate actions, fees, and commissions—on a per-customer basis.

Retrieving Reconciliation Reports

You can retrieve a list of all settlements over a given period by using the Retrieve Cashless Reconciliations API

[
  {
    "id": "80f9b672-120d-4b73-9cc9-42fb3262c4b9_20240417",
    "date": "2024-04-17",
    "status": "APPROVED",
    "statusComment": "Finished processing breakdown",
    "totalAmount": 12001.01,
    "created": "2024-04-15T22:28:21.810Z",
    "updated": "2024-04-17T22:28:21.810Z",
    "updatedBy": "SYSTEM"
  },
{
    "id": "80f9b672-120d-4b73-9cc9-42fb3262c4b9_20240418",
    "date": "2024-04-18",
    "status": "PENDING",
    "statusComment": "Finished processing breakdown",
    "totalAmount": 12001.01,
    "created": "2024-04-16T22:28:21.810Z",
    "updated": "2024-04-17T22:28:21.810Z",
    "updatedBy": "SYSTEM"
  }
]

Further, you can drill down into a particular settlement by using theRetrieve Cashless Reconcilation by ID API and passing in the reconciliation idfrom the previous API response.

{
  "id": "80f9b672-120d-4b73-9cc9-42fb3262c4b9_20240417",
  "date": "2024-04-17",
  "status": "APPROVED",
  "statusComment": "Finished processing breakdown",
  "amounts": {
    "total": -1263.56,
    "purchases": -1680.07,
    "sales": 416.51,
    "dividends": 0,
    "fees": 0,
    "other": 0
  },
  "transferAmounts": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "payablesToDW": 1263.56,
    "receivablesFromDW": 0
  },
  "reconciliationBreakdown": "https://du2c4wzqz90h1.cloudfront.net/reconcilationReport....",
  "partnerID": "80f9b672-120d-4b73-9cc9-42fb3262c4b9",
  "created": "2024-04-15T22:28:21.810Z",
  "updated": "2024-04-17T22:28:21.810Z",
  "updatedBy": "SYSTEM"
}

The reconciliationBreakdown will provide ALL the underlying transactions(credits/debits) in the client accounts which are used to compute the settlement numbers.

[
  {
    "accountID": "aab5eaa9-4843-42c7-8954-9637ae6c6bd1.1706204727286",
    "accountNo": "C1NT000015",
    "userID": "aab5eaa9-4843-42c7-8954-9637ae6c6bd1",
    "amount": -10,
    "partnerID": "30f8af51-6a63-4922-a536-3e625b4e0b14",
    "transactions": [
      {
        "amount": -10,
        "finTranCode": "SPUR",
        "finTranID": "ME.7fa61f9d-2aa6-40be-a8d9-b581b9e72be3",
        "created": "2025-05-02T15:15:31.164Z",
        "orderID": "ME.8ff417d1-d9ea-453a-afa2-63a8fed874f7",
        "orderNo": "MEWX000062"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "accountID": "e5707dda-076d-421f-80c7-1c60d77633f1.1725980997577",
    "accountNo": "C1CG000031",
    "userID": "e5707dda-076d-421f-80c7-1c60d77633f1",
    "amount": -10,
    "partnerID": "30f8af51-6a63-4922-a536-3e625b4e0b14",
    "transactions": [
      {
        "amount": -10,
        "finTranCode": "SPUR",
        "finTranID": "ME.a2de941a-78e6-4286-9f85-55ca857a43b6",
        "created": "2025-05-02T15:09:23.665Z",
        "orderID": "ME.7975e0e0-3775-4490-8f8f-d0dc50a9ff82",
        "orderNo": "MESR000054"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "accountID": "3e3a6949-3c94-4f2e-a08d-781d2102c4b3.1718735016454",
    "accountNo": "C1EC000023",
    "userID": "3e3a6949-3c94-4f2e-a08d-781d2102c4b3",
    "amount": -10,
    "partnerID": "30f8af51-6a63-4922-a536-3e625b4e0b14",
    "transactions": [
      {
        "amount": -10,
        "finTranCode": "SPUR",
        "finTranID": "ME.592dc8ae-7c44-408d-a2d4-a91d5a7db130",
        "created": "2025-05-02T13:30:05.083Z",
        "orderID": "ME.cc9f34a7-9e73-4a24-b81d-423ca0cc6e71",
        "orderNo": "MEFZ000039"
      }
    ]
  },...
]

Reconciliation Statuses, Timelines & Events

1. DriveWealth system starts aggregating all credits and debit transactions under a partner environment starting at 8PM ET. As soon as we start the computing process, a reconciliation object is created with the status PENDING.
   This generates a reconciliations.created event as documented here: Reconciliations Created Event with status PENDING.
2. All transactions are aggregated over a 24 hr period (from 8 PM ET to 8 PM ET), following which we compute and publish the reconciliationBreakdownwhich can retrieved from the reconciliation object. The status of the report moves to an APPROVEDstatus, also generating a reconciliations.updatedevent with an APPROVEDstatus as documented here: Reconciliations Updated Event. The settlement amounts are finalized at this point and are due for settlement.
   Account-Level Netting: Each customer's transactions are netted individually, and then aggregated, resulting in payablesToDW and receivablesFromDW amounts.
   Settlement Direction:
   If payablesToDW > receivablesFromDW, the organization owes DriveWealth the net amount.
   If payablesToDW < receivablesFromDW, DriveWealth owes the organization the net amount.
3. Once settlement wires are received(latest by 1:30 PM ET) or remitted by DriveWealth(latest by 12 noon ET) , the settlement is deemed completed and the status of the reconciliation object is moved to SUCCESSFUL, which also further generates a reconcilations.completed event with the SUCCESSFULstatus as documented here: Reconciliations Completed Event.

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Deposit/Redemptions Transaction Handling

Under the Cashless Reconciliations model, post the settlement, DriveWealth creates Deposit(CSR) and Redemption(CSD) transactions for accounting reasons in order to flatten the account balances of any credits or debits, these transactions should be ignored while computing reconciliation numbers on the partner's end.

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Market/Bank holiday schedule

Settlements are only processed when U.S. banks are open

On market holidays and weekends, settlements are deferred to the next business day.
For example, if markets are closed for Memorial Day (the last Monday of May), all transactions from Thursday 8 PM ET through Monday 8 PM ET are combined. The reconciliation report is generated end-of-day Monday for settlement on Tuesday morning.

Double settlement day - When U.S. banks are closed but markets remain open, you'll receive daily reconciliation reports as usual, but the actual settlements are deferred.
For instance, if Veterans Day falls on a Tuesday, you'll get reports for both Monday and Tuesday. However, since Tuesday is a bank holiday, settlements for both days will occur on Wednesday.