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Merchant-Initiated Resubmission Transaction

A resubmission transaction is used when a merchant resubmits an authorization to recover an outstanding debt from the customer. A common scenario is when a card was initially declined due to insufficient funds, but the goods or services were already delivered to the customer.

Specific Fields for this Use Case

Include these fields with a standard authorization request:
  • processingInformation.authorizationOptions.initiator.type
  • Set the field to
    merchant
    to indicate this transaction is a merchant-initiated follow-on transaction.
  • processingInformation.authorizationOptions.initiator.merchantInitiatedTransaction.reason
    –Set the reason field to
    1
    .