Integration Guide

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Website Payments Standard Integration Guide September 2008 327
Using Authorization & Capture
Basic Authorization & Capture Scenarios
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8. Your buyer files a complaint that the textbook from the first shipment is damaged. You
issue a partial refund for the first capture.
Your Transaction Details shows the following:
FIGURE 8.3 Transaction DetailsPartial Capture, Reauthorization, Refund
Lower Capture Amount
1. Your buyer orders a laser printer and a USB cable 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. Before you process the transaction, your buyer contacts you and requests to cancel the USB
cable from the order.
6. On day 6, you ship the laser printer and complete a partial capture for an amount less than
the original authorization amount.
7. You complete a void on the funds remaining on the authorization.