Integration Guide

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Website Payments Standard Integration Guide September 2008 329
Using Authorization & Capture
Basic Authorization & Capture Scenarios
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FIGURE 8.5 Transaction DetailsCapture up to 115%
Authorization Expires
1. Your buyer orders a desktop computer 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 to cancel the order.
6. You do not capture funds for the transaction.
7. The authorization expires.
Your Transaction Details shows the authorization with an Expired status.