Simulating Payouts in a Shopify Development store

Context
I have setup a dev store, and created several orders. I have enabled shopify payments in test mode and for payouts to occur every business day. I have confirmed these orders have taken place. And via the order transactions that these have been paid successfully:

"kind": "sale",
"gateway": "shopify_payments",
"status": "success",
"message": "Transaction approved",

I can also see via the admin/api/2024-01/shopify_payments/balance/transactions.json endpoint these orders have a payout status of pending:

"type": "charge",
"test": true,
"payout_id": null,
"payout_status": "pending",
"amount": "30.94",

Question
I expect that the shopify_payments/balance should return a value. Instead I get:

"balance": []

I also expect that shopify_payments/payouts endpoint would return a payout. I get:

"payouts": []

Is it possible to simulate payouts with a development store?

If so, what am I missing? The shopify development store documentation doesn’t cover testing these endpoints.

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