Integration Guide

PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide June 2012 395
Using Authorization & Capture
Basic Authorization & Capture Scenarios
10
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.
Your Transaction Details shows the following:
Transaction Details – Partial 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.