Autocapture

Mainly transactions are created in two steps

1. First an authorize where the customer accepts that the merchant (the online shop) can withdraw a specified amount from the card holders bank account.
2. Then a capture where the money is withdrawn from customers bank account and transfered to the merchants account.

You are only allowed to make a capture when the goods are shipped. This means there is often a difference in time from an authorize to capture. This difference can be hours, days or weeks.

Are you selling a product or service, that is delivered as the transaktions is authorized - eg. selling downloads, prints, subscriptions etc. - you are allowed to capture instantly. This is also called autocapture. With autocapture Quickpay can perform an automatic capture just after the authorize and you do not have to capture the transaktion manually later on.

Autocapture is defined per transaction, when the payment window is called, see the code snip below. The value must be set to either 0 (autocapture is disabled) or 1 (autocapture is enabled).