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# Manage liable balance accounts

Understand and manage the different liable accounts in your marketplace.

[View source](/marketplaces/manage-liable-accounts.md)

Liable balance accounts are balance accounts that belongs to your marketplace and hold your marketplace's funds. There are 3 types of liable accounts:

* Your marketplace's [main liable balance account](#main-liable-balance-account)
* The [reserved incorrect splits account](#reserved-incorrect-splits-account)
* The [reserved compensation account](#reserved-compensation-account)

## Main liable balance account

This is the main balance account tied to your marketplace, and holds most of your marketplace's funds. All your commissions from transactions made on your marketplace are booked to this account. You can also use this account to pay your users' transaction fees or transfer funds to your users for other reasons, such as to correct balances.

## Reserved incorrect splits account

When [splitting a payment](/platforms/process-payments/#split-transactions), you may make mistakes in your API request and accidentally book funds to balance accounts that don't exist or that are unable to receive funds. A balance account is not able to receive funds when:

* The account has `status` **closed** or **suspended**.
* The account holder has `status` **closed** or **suspended**.
* The account holder does not have the required [capabilities](/platforms/verification-overview/capabilities/) to receive funds.

In such cases, we book these funds to your reserved incorrect splits account. To correct balances later, you can [transfer funds internally](/platforms/internal-fund-transfers/on-demand-fund-transfers/) from this account to any other balance account on your platform.

## Reserved compensation account

A reserved compensation account is a type of liable balance account that is used to compensate for negative balances in your marketplace.

Balance accounts in your marketplace can have a negative balance as a result of refunds or chargebacks. Adyen allows negative balances for up to 30 days. If a balance account has a negative balance for more than 30 days, Adyen compensates this by debiting your reserved compensation account on the first day of the following month.

As a result of this balance transfer, the reserved compensation account can end up with a negative balance. You must then offset this negative balance by [topping up this account](/platforms/top-up-balance-account/), or [transferring funds internally](/platforms/internal-fund-transfers) from another balance account.
