topic Re: Authorization Only in Integration and Testing

Authorization Only

debs2830 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:03:33 GMT

If I authorize the credit card only upon transaction, will I be able to go into my authorize.net account and charge their credit card later?

Re: Authorization Only

stymiee — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:16:32 GMT

Yes. There will be a place where you can enter the authorization number you were given when charging the card.

Re: Authorization Only

RaynorC1emen7 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:41:24 GMT

Stymiee, can't it also be done in the Unsettled Transactions?

Re: Authorization Only

stymiee — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:35:05 GMT

I'm not sure. I never tried.

Re: Authorization Only

Michelle — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:15:49 GMT

You can indeed capture an authorization only transaction from the Unsettled Transactions section of the Merchant Interface.

And here are the detailed steps to how:

Log into the Merchant Interface
Click Search from the main toolbar
Click Unsettled Transactions from the main menu
In the Filter by field, select Group Capture
You can then pick which transactions you'd like to capture

Thanks for the reminder RaynorC1emen7!

Michelle

Developer Community Manager

Re: Authorization Only

nitesh786 — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:42:47 GMT

Hi,

Please let me know that I'm following the right approach or not.

Approach: First I am authorizing an order amount using customer profile id and payment profile id and after few days I need to void it and authorize it again.

Details : Our bank can hold the authorized amount for 7 days only. If I am shipping the order within 7 days then I can capture the authorized amount successfully. But if shipment is pending and 7 days have been crossed then bank will release the amount. This is a problem for me because shipment I would be able to capture the amount. To avoid this I'm simply checking that on 7th day if capture has not done yet against Order, I'll do void Authorized transaction and then Authorize order total amount using customer profile id and customer payment profile id.

Is it a good approach?

Will this solution work in production? In TEST environment I checked it and it worked fine but need confirmation before we commit to production environment.