2006
Table Of Contents
- Authorization & Capture Integration Guide
- Preface
- Overview
- Basic Authorization & Capture on the PayPal Website
- Authorization & Capture API
- Order Authorizations Scenarios
- Best Practices
- Testing PayPal Authorization & Capture
- PayPal Authorization & Capture Statuses
- PayPal Authorization & Capture API Error Codes, Short Messages, and Long Messages
- IPN and PayPal Authorization & Capture
- Glossary
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Basic Authorization & Capture Scenarios
Lower Capture Amount
Your Transaction Details shows the following:
FIGURE 4.11Transaction Details: Partial Capture, Reauthorization, Refund
Lower Capture Amount
1. Your buyer orders a laser printer and a USB cable from your website.
Your buyer enters payment information and authorizes payment.
2. Send your buyer to PayPal using a hosted flow, specifying the variable
paymentaction=authorization.
3. PayPal initiates the authorization.
4. Before you process the transaction, your buyer contacts you and requests to cancel the USB
cable from the order.
5. On day 6, you ship the laser printer and complete a partial capture for an amount less than
the original authorization amount.
6. You complete a void on the funds remaining on the authorization.
Your Transaction Details shows the following: