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About This Guide

Introduction to Payments
- Payment Services
- Payment Processing

Basic Processing
- Basic Authorizations
- Authorization Reversals
- Authorization with Line Itemization
- Zero Amount Authorizations
- Captures
- Sales
- Refunds
- Stand Alone Credits
- Capture or Credit Voids

Card-Present Authorizations

Payer Authentication Processing
- Visa Secure

Debit and Prepaid Card Processing
- Processing Debit and Prepaid Authorizations
- Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
- Disabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations

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Zero Amount Authorizations

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About This Guide

Introduction to Payments
- Payment Services
  - Financial Institutions and Payment Networks
    - Merchant Financial Institutions (Acquirers)
    - Issuing (Customer) Financial Institutions
    - Payment Networks
    - Payment Processors
  - Payment Types
    - Co-Badged Cards
    - Co-Branded Cards
    - Credit Cards
    - Debit Cards
    - Prepaid Cards
    - Private Label Cards
    - Quasi-Cash
  - Types of Transactions
    - Card-Present Transactions
    - Card-Not-Present Transactions
    - International Transactions
      - dcc-intro
      - Merchant Remittance Funding
- Payment Processing
  - Authorizations
    - Online Authorizations
    - Offline Authorizations
    - Incremental Authorizations
      - Example
    - Authorization Workflow
  - Capture
    - Capture Workflow
  - Sales
    - Dual Message Processing
      - Partial Authorizations
    - Single Message Processing
  - Authorization Reversals
  - Credits
    - Credit Workflow
  - Capture or Credit Voids

Basic Processing
- Basic Authorizations
  - Required Fields for Processing Basic Authorizations Using the REST API
  - Declined Authorizations
  - REST Interactive Example: Processing an Authorization
  - REST Example: Processing a Basic Authorization
- Authorization Reversals
  - Required Fields for Processing Authorization Reversals Using REST APIs
  - Capturing an Authorization Using REST APIs
  - Example: Processing an Authorization Reversal Using the REST API
- Authorization with Line Itemization
  - Required Fields
  - REST Example: Processing a Basic Authorization with Line Items
- Zero Amount Authorizations
- Captures
  - Required Fields for Processing Basic Captures Using the REST API
  - REST Interactive Example: Capturing a Payment
  - REST Example: Capturing an Authorization
- Sales
  - Required Fields for Processing Basic Sales Using REST APIs
  - REST Example: Requesting a Sale
- Refunds
  - Required Fields for Processing Refunds Using the REST API
  - REST Interactive Example: Processing a Refund
  - Example: Processing a Refund Using the REST API
- Stand Alone Credits
  - Required Fields for Processing RefundsFollow-On Credits Using REST APIs
  - REST Interactive Example: Processing a Credit
  - REST Example: Processing a Stand-Alone Credit
- Capture or Credit Voids
  - Required Fields for Processing Voids Using REST APIs
  - REST Example: Processing a Void

Card-Present Authorizations

Payer Authentication Processing
- Visa Secure
  - Required Fields for an Authorization with Visa Secure Using REST APIs
  - Example: Authorization with Visa Secure Using the REST API

Debit and Prepaid Card Processing
- Processing Debit and Prepaid Authorizations
  - Required Fields for Debit and Prepaid Authorizations Using REST APIs
    - payments-debit-prepaid-auth-required-country
  - Optional Field for Debit and Prepaid Authorizations Using REST APIs
  - REST Example: Debit and Prepaid Authorizations
- Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
  - Required Field for Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations Using REST APIs
  - Optional Field for Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations Using REST APIs
  - Enabling Partial Authorizations
  - Example: Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations Using the REST API
- Disabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
  - Required Field for Disabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations Using REST APIs
  - Optional Field for Disabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations Using REST APIs
  - Disabling Partial Authorizations
  - Example: Disabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations Using the REST API

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Required Fields for Processing Zero Amount Authorizations Using the REST API

Authorizing a Payment Using REST APIs

REST Example: Processing a Zero Amount Authorization

Zero amount authorizations enable you to validate a card without charging the account.

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POST https://api.cybersource.com/pts/v2/payments

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