Authorisations require two steps to process a payment; an authorisation and a separate capture request to settle the funds. This is useful if you want to perform internal checks on your customer or the order itself prior to requesting the funds.
Use the “Defer” indicator with the Payment request to indicate that you only want to perform an authorisation. Funds can be settled using the Capture request or the authorisation can be voided using Cancel.
If you are using Cashier API, you will need to pass your customer to PayPal so they can logon. When you do that we suspend the transaction at Pay360. Once your customer has finished making their Payment at PayPal you will need to resume the transaction with us so we can complete our processing.
If you are using our Hosted Cashier, we will handle the customer redirect to PayPal for you. In order to achieve the best customer experience you may need to send us additional information depending on whether you redirect or iFrame the Hosted Cashier.
Both products allow the customer to return to the checkout (ours if you are using Hosted Cashier, yours if you are using the Cashier API) if they decide to Cancel the payment at PayPal.
Authorisations expire by default after 3 days. After this time, you won’t be able to Capture or Cancel the request. |
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