# Liquidation

When you liquidate payments - that is when the payment arrives in a source account - to a destination account, you need to configure a transfer path between two RippleNet accounts. RippleNet's Liquidation APIs support two liquidation use cases based on payment size.

## One-to-one liquidation

One-to-one liquidation is suitable for payments that are small enough to be liquidated at once, for example $5000 USD.

The following API operations are available:

- `Create liquidation configuration`
- `Delete liquidation configuration`
- `Get all liquidation configurations`
- `Get liquidation configuration by ID`
- `Update liquidation configuration`


For more information, see the "Liquidation Configuration" API in the API reference.

## Smart Liquidation

Smart Liquidation is suitable for large payments that need to be split into multiple small payments, for example $1M USD.

The following API operations are available:

- `Create Liquidation`
- `Get Liquidations`
- `Get Liquidation by ID`


For more information, see [Smart Liquidation](/products/payments-odl/api-docs/ripplenet/system-components/liquidation/smart-liquidation) and the "Smart Liquidation" API in the API reference.

Note
Payment size determines whether a liquidation gets routed through Smart Liquidation or through one-to-one liquidation. Ripple sets that payment size or an exchange and trading pair threshold.