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The capture service is a follow-on service that uses the request ID returned from the previous authorization. The request ID links the capture to the authorization. This service transfers funds from the customer’s account to your bank and usually takes two to four days to complete.

The following table provides details about captures for specific processors:

Payment Processor	Capture Information
`American Express Direct`	For USD, `American Express Direct` limits authorization and capture amounts to 9,999,999.00. For other currencies, the maximum amount depends on the currency. Contact American Express for the maximum amounts for the currencies that you are using. Regardless of exponent or currency, the maximum number of digits for the amount value is 12 digits.
`Asia, Middle East, and Africa Gateway`	The `Asia, Middle East, and Africa Gateway` limits authorization and capture amounts to four bytes, which is 2147483647. Automatic capture requirement: certain acquirers that are connected to the `Asia, Middle East, and Africa Gateway` require automatic captures. Contact your customer support representative to learn whether your acquirer uses standard or automatic captures.
`Atos`	`Atos` limits authorization, capture, and credit amounts to 12 digits; therefore, the maximum amount is 999999999999. IMPORTANT Authorizations time out after 5 days, 20 hours, and 30 minutes. For Maestro (UK Domestic), when you submit a capture request after 5 days, 20 hours, and 30 minutes, you must reauthorize first. For all other card types, when you submit a capture request after 5 days, 20 hours, and 30 minutes, `Cybersource` tries to obtain a fresh authorization.
`Barclays`	Special request fields for multiple partial captures are required.
`Cielo`	`Cielo` supports standard captures and automatic captures: By default, your account is configured to support standard capture processing. For an Aura Card transaction, you must set the authorization type to AUTOCAPTURE .
`Comercio Latino`	`Comercio Latino` supports standard captures and automatic captures.
`Cybersource Latin American Processing`	Automatic capture requirements: payment card company rules generally specify that you must not capture a payment until you have shipped the products to the customer. However, with `Cybersource Latin American Processing`, for some countries you are required to submit an automatic capture. For other countries, you can submit standard authorization and capture requests. Contact customer support for each country’s requirements. For transactions in Brazil: You must request the follow-on capture within five days of the authorization request. The capture amount can be less than the authorization amount. You can request only one capture per authorization. With `Cybersource Latin American Processing`, it takes 31 days for the funds to be deposited in your merchant bank account. `Cybersource Latin American Processing` is the name of a specific processing connection. `Cybersource Latin American Processing` does not refer to the general topic of processing in Latin America. The information in this field description, or in this section of the field description, is for the specific processing connection called `Cybersource Latin American Processing`. It is not for any other Latin American processors.
`FDC Nashville Global`	Merchant descriptor information is always provided to the processor for all capture and credit transactions.
`GPN`	`GPN` limits the authorization, capture, and credit amounts to 10 digits.
`Ingenico ePayments`	For Cartes Bancaires, the authorization and capture amount must be 0.99 EUR or more. Captures for cards using `Ingenico ePayments` are not batched. These captures are submitted immediately to `Ingenico ePayments` when they are received.
`Moneris`	`Moneris` limits authorization and capture amounts to nine digits; therefore, the maximum amount is 9999999.99.
`OmniPay Direct`	Special request fields for multiple partial captures are recommended.
`TSYS Acquiring Solutions`	Special request fields for multiple partial captures are required.
`Visa Platform Connect`	`Visa Platform Connect` limits authorization and capture amounts to 999999999999 (twelve 9s).
`Worldpay VAP`	`Worldpay VAP` limits authorization and capture amounts to eight digits; therefore, the maximum amount is 99999999.