Overview

When you are ready to fulfill a customer’s order and transfer funds from the customer’s bank to your bank, capture the authorization for that order.

When fulfilling only part of a customer’s order, do not capture the full amount of the authorization. Capture only the cost of the items that you ship. When you ship the remaining items, request a new authorization, and then capture the new authorization.

A capture is a follow-on transaction that uses the request ID returned from an authorization. The main purpose of a follow-on transaction is to link two transactions. The request ID links the follow-on transaction to the original transaction. The authorization request ID is used to look up the customer’s billing and account information in the

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database, so you are not required to include those fields in the capture request. The original transaction and follow-on transaction are linked in the database and in the Business Center.