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What a Method Account Represents

An Account in Method is a connected financial account that belongs to one of your users (Entities). Accounts are the objects your product primarily interacts with. you pull data from accounts, monitor accounts for changes, make payments to accounts, and build your user-facing displays around account information. Every account in Method falls into one of two categories, and understanding this distinction is essential for designing your product’s payment and data flows:
Represent debts and financial obligations. These are the credit cards, auto loans, other obligations that your users owe money on. Liability accounts are typically discovered automatically through Connect and serve as the destination for payments, this is where money goes when your user pays down debt.
In payment flows, the model is simple: money flows from your platform’s funding account (source) to a liability account (destination). Your corporate bank account funds the payment; the end user’s creditor receives it.