# Use Cases
source: https://developer.mastercard.com/mastercard-send-account-info/documentation/use-cases/index.md

The Account Information API can help check card account eligibility in different scenarios, such as:

* [Person-to-person (P2P) transfer](https://developer.mastercard.com/mastercard-send-account-info/documentation/use-cases/p2p-transfer/index.md)

  * Check a card account when it is added to a funds transfer app.
  * Check the sending and receiving card accounts when a funds transfer is initiated.
* [Disbursement](https://developer.mastercard.com/mastercard-send-account-info/documentation/use-cases/disbursement/index.md)

  * Check a receiving card account when it is added to an app.
  * Check the account again when a disbursement is initiated to send funds to it.
* [Funding](https://developer.mastercard.com/mastercard-send-account-info/documentation/use-cases/funding/index.md)

  * Check a sending (funding) card account when it is added to an app.
  * Check the account again when a funding transfer is initiated to secure funds from it.

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See the detailed example flows (links above). Note that these examples do not prescribe the design and interactions of your service; those aspects are for you to define.

### Further details {#further-details}

* [API Reference](https://developer.mastercard.com/mastercard-send-account-info/documentation/api-reference/index.md) provides the API specification that describes the API request and response fields.
* [Eligibility](https://developer.mastercard.com/mastercard-send-account-info/documentation/code-and-formats/index.md) describes how to interpret the eligibility results.
* [Error Codes](https://developer.mastercard.com/mastercard-send-account-info/documentation/code-and-formats/index.md#error-codes) describes the API error responses.