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Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations

Partial authorizations and balance responses are special features that are available for debit cards and prepaid cards. This section shows you how to enable partial authorizations for a specific transaction.
To globally process domestic debit transactions on 
Visa Platform Connect
 with Mastercard in Canada, you must contact customer support to have your account configured for this feature.

Field Specific to this Use Case

Include this field in addition to the fields required for a standard authorization request:
  • Indicate that this request is a partial authorization.
    Set the
    processingInformation.authorizationOptions.partialAuthIndicator
     to
    true
    .

Endpoint

Production:
POST
https://api.cybersource.com
/pts/v2/payments
Test:
POST
https://apitest.cybersource.com
/pts/v2/payments

Required Fields for Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations

Use these required fields for enabling debit and prepaid partial authorizations.
IMPORTANT
When relaxed requirements for address data and the expiration date are being used, not all fields in this list are required. It is your responsibility to determine whether your account is enabled to use this feature and which fields are required. For details about relaxed requirements, see Relaxed Requirements for Address Data and Expiration Date in Payment Transactions.

Optional Field for Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations

You can use these optional fields to include additional information when enabling debit and prepaid partial authorizations.
Set this field to the request ID that was returned in the response message from the original authorization request.

REST Example: Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations

Request
{
  "clientReferenceInformation" : {
    "code" : "TC50171_3"
  },
  "orderInformation" : {
    "billTo" : {
      "country" : "US",
      "lastName" : "Deo",
      "address2" : "Address 2",
      "address1" : "201 S. Division St.",
      "postalCode" : "48104-2201",
      "locality" : "Ann Arbor",
      "administrativeArea" : "MI",
      "firstName" : "John",
      "phoneNumber" : "999999999",
      "district" : "MI",
      "buildingNumber" : "123",
      "company" : "Visa",
      "email" : "
test@cybs.com
"
    },
    "amountDetails" : {
      "totalAmount" : "1000.00",
      "currency" : "USD"
    }
  },
  "paymentInformation" : {
    "card" : {
      "expirationYear" : "2031",
      "number" : "5555555555xxxxxx",
      "securityCode" : "123",
      "expirationMonth" : "12",
      "type" : "002"
    }
  },
"processingInformation" : {
  "authorizationOptions" : {
      "partialAuthIndicator" : "true"
   }
  }
}
Response to a Successful Request
{
  "_links" : {
    "self" : {
      "method" : "GET",
      "href" : "/pts/v2/payments/6595549144566655003494"
    }
  },
  "clientReferenceInformation" : {
    "code" : "TC50171_3"
  },
  "id" : "6595549144566655003494",
  "orderInformation" : {
    "amountDetails" : {
      "totalAmount" : "1000.00",
      "authorizedAmount" : "499.01",
      "currency" : "USD"
    }
  },
  "paymentInformation" : {
    "accountFeatures" : {
      "currency" : "usd",
      "balanceAmount" : "0.00"
    }
  },
  "pointOfSaleInformation" : {
    "terminalId" : "261996"
  },
  "processorInformation" : {
    "merchantNumber" : "000000092345678",
    "approvalCode" : "888888",
    "cardVerification" : {
      "resultCode" : ""
    },
    "networkTransactionId" : "123456789619999",
    "transactionId" : "123456789619999",
    "responseCode" : "100",
    "avs" : {
      "code" : "X",
      "codeRaw" : "I1"
    }
  },
  "reconciliationId" : "56059417N6C86KTJ",
  "status" : "PARTIAL_AUTHORIZED",
  "submitTimeUtc" : "2022-08-03T19:28:34Z"
}