The present disclosure provides a method and a device for transaction clearing. The method includes receiving first clearing requests transmitted by a quantity N of terminals, where N>1; according to the first clearing requests, acquiring transaction data of the quantity N of terminals from a database; initializing a cache queue, and loading the transaction data into the cache queue; reading the transaction data in the cache queue, and performing a clearing process on the transaction data; and writing a clearing result into the database and feeding back the terminals with an execution result of the first clearing requests.