topic Re: Transaction Costs in Integration and Testing

Transaction Costs

Nojerome — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:37:36 GMT

Hi I'm using the CIM API, and am curious what kind of transaction I will be billed for. From my understanding, if I call and AUTH_ONLY and later a PRIOR_AUTH_CAPTURE I will be hit with two transaction charges from Authorize.net (Please correct me if I'm wrong). Will I also be charged for creating user profiles, adding payment profiles, getting transaction details, ect... ? Or will Authorize.net only bill me when authorizing a payment, and or capturing one. Thanks!

- Jeremy

Re: Transaction Costs

RichardH — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:01:07 GMT

Jeremy,

You are correct. In addition to the monthly $20.00 fee for using CIM, you are also charged if you perform a transaction that requires authorization or capture. In your specific example, there are two: one for Authorization Only and a second for Prior Authorization and Capture.

There are no fees for managing profiles using CIM, or obtaining data using the transaction details API.

Richard

Re: Transaction Costs

Nojerome — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:14:12 GMT

Alright, thanks!

Re: Transaction Costs

RaynorC1emen7 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:23:44 GMT

You will also get charge if you do livemode on validationMode when you create or update a CIM payment profile. As it will generate a auth_only transaction to test the CC info before adding it to the user profile.