2006

Basic Authorization & Capture Scenarios
One Authorization, Multiple Captures, and a Refund
40 June 2006 Authorization & Capture Integration Guide
2. Your buyer enters payment information and authorizes payment.
3. PayPal initiates the authorization.
4. The DVD player is discontinued. You order a different DVD player from your vendor and
notify your buyer of the change.
5. On day 14, the DVD player arrives from your vendor. Because the honor period has passed,
you complete a reauthorization for payment.You ship the DVD player and complete the
final capture.
Your Transaction Details shows that the transaction has been completed.
FIGURE 4.10Transaction Details: Reauthorization, Final Capture
One Authorization, Multiple Captures, and a Refund
1. Your buyer orders two textbooks and a keyboard from your website.
2. Your buyer enters payment information and authorizes payment.
3. Send your buyer to PayPal using a hosted flow, specifying the variable
paymentaction=authorization.
4. PayPal initiates the authorization.
5. One textbook and the keyboard are out of stock. You order additional inventory from your
vendors. You ship the in-stock textbook and capture the first partial capture on day 6.
6. You receive the second textbook from the vendor. You ship the textbook and capture the
second partial capture on day 11.
7. You receive the keyboard from the vendor. You reauthorize for payment on day 19.
8. Your buyer files a complaint that the textbook from the first shipment is damaged. You
issue a partial refund for the first capture.