Transaction Costs

[Nojerome]

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

[RichardH]

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

[Nojerome]

Alright, thanks!

[RaynorC1emen7]

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.