When the customer purchases a product that is not yet available, you can request an authorization and a sale. You will first request an authorization to ensure that funds are available. After the product becomes available, you ship the product and request a sale.
Cybersource
 then links the follow-on authorization to the first authorization, and then links to the capture request if the link-to-request value is valid.
Step 1: Requesting an authorization
You will request an authorization to ensure that funds are available before the product is available for immediate shipment. The authorization request requires no additional fields or requirements than a basic authorization.
Step 2: Processing a sale
When the product becomes available, you can ship the product and request a sale. The follow-on authorization requires you to submit a sale request that includes the link-to-request field in addition to the basic fields required for every sale request. The link-to-request field in an authorization request triggers the split-shipment functionality.
Set the link-to-request field to the request ID from the value returned in the endpoint.
Field Specific to authorizing a sale for a product not yet available:
First Authorization Response: The value is returned in the endpoint.
Follow-on Authorization Request:
processingInformation.linkId=
Step 3:
Cybersource
 attempts to link the follow-on authorization request to the first authorization
  • If the link-to-request value is valid, the follow-on authorization is linked to the original authorization in the Business Center and in reports.
  • If the link-to-request value is not valid, the follow-on authorization is not linked to the original authorization in the Business Center and in reports.
Step 4:
Cybersource
 links the capture request
  • If the link-to-request value for the follow-on authorization was valid, all three transactions (first authorization, follow-on authorization, capture) are linked together in the Business Center and in reports.
  • If the link-to-request value for the follow-on authorization was not valid, the second authorization and capture are linked to each other in the Business Center and in reports, but they are not linked to the first authorization.