Are FA Stores need to be made for receivers

[10234567Z]

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Hey guys, I am new to the aptos devspace, just wanted a clarity over the thing that suppose I transfer some tokens from my primary store of FA to other person's address, it is necessary that the receiver should have the store for that particular FA too right?
even in docs its stated that "An owner can deposit FA from their primary store to that of another account by calling transfer" so I guess store's existence for the particular FA is necessary on both end?

What error, if any, are you getting?

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What have you tried or looked at? Or how can we reproduce the error?

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Which operating system are you using?

Windows

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Move SDK Smart Contracts

[iskysun96]

yes the primary store needs to exist in the receiver's account. But if the FA you are transferring has been created using the primary_fungible_store::create_primary_store_enabled_fungible_asset() function, the primary store will be automatically created if the receiver doesn't have a primary store for that FA.

[10234567Z]

ohh thanks for clearing it out, appreciate it. One more doubt comes up following this up, when creating FA, do we have to mint and deposit it to first owner or in aptos the maximum supply just get minted-deposited automatically to the FA creator's address?

[iskysun96]

so minting doesn't happen automatically. When creating the FA, you need to create the mint_ref to mint the FA. Now you have two choices:

1. mint the whole supply at creation (perhaps to the creator account)
2. Store the mint ref, and mint later

You can create a struct that holds the mint_ref and later you can use it to mint more of the FA.

[10234567Z]

oh alright, thanks that clarifies alot!