---
title: "External transfers"
---
Use external transfers to send funds to [external accounts](/platform/accounts/overview#external-accounts). Unlike [international transfers](/platform/transfers/international-transfers), recipients receive the money in the same currency as the one sent. For example, if you transfer USD to a bank account in another country, the recipient gets USD.

[Add an external account for external transfers](/platform/external-accounts/add-an-external-account#add-an-external-account-for-international-transfers) before you initiate the transfer request. Then include the sender’s account id, customer id, and the recipient’s external account id in your [transfer](/api-reference/transfer/post-v1-transfer) request.

The `source` object contains the sender’s details, and the `destination` object contains the recipient’s details. Also, your transfer can be ACH or Wire transfer:

```bash title="external transfers request"
curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.gravv.xyz/v1/transfer \
     --header 'Api-Key: <API_KEY>' \
     --header 'Idempotency-Key: 979879887678789_attempt_1' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "source": {
    "source_type": "internal_account",
    "id": "b9c2cb0d-e09a-496f-8655-d8c4b7aaf2f8"
  },
  "destination": {
    "destination_type": "external_account",
    "id": "74943275-6874-41b4-bd71-13d6cf5ed802",
    "rail": "wire"
  },
  "amount": 1.5,
  "client_reference": "099283849s",
  "description": "Transfer Testing",
  "customer_id": "bb6c6022-f1d8-492f-80f0-7547134bb42f"
}
'
```