Integration Guide

Using Authorization & Capture
Basic Authorization & Capture Scenarios
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398 June 2012 PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide
4. PayPal initiates the authorization.
5. Before you process the transaction, your buyer contacts you to cancel the order.
6. You void the transaction.
Your History shows the transaction with a Voided status.
History – Voided Transaction
Reattempted Capture
1. Your buyer orders two sweatshirts 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. On day 3, you attempt to capture funds, but the capture fails. You receive an error message
similar to the following:
We are sorry, we cannot process the settlement at this time.
There was a restriction on the buyer’s account.
6. You contact the buyer to resolve the problem.
7. Your buyer resolves the account problem.
8. You reattempt and successfully capture funds. You ship the order to your buyer.
NOTE: The reauthorization scenario is similar to the Reattempted Capture scenario, as
detailed above.