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Overview

Online Card Transactions

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Within Reporting - Online Card Transactions, you will be able to view the entire history of all the transactions you have taken on Blink or via an integration. This page has various filtering options, and the ability to refund or create new transactions from previous payments. The page is updated every half hour.

View

You can view all your online card transactions by selecting Online Card Transactions under the Reporting Section on the left-hand navigation bar.

This page displays all online transactions that have been processed. Each transaction will show the following:

Date and Time

Customer Name

Card Details

Amount

Order Reference - This contains both your custom reference and the transaction description. (Transactions without Blink in their description are integrated payments)

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Status

Pending

Received -

The gateway has received the transaction and is awaiting a response to reach its final state.

Deferred -

This transaction could not be settled due to a temporary problem but will be retried at the next available instance.

Successful

Captured

The transaction was successful. (This will update to Accepted, usually in the early hours of the following morning)

Accepted

This transaction has been accepted and settled as soon as possible.

Pre-A

uth - This confirms that the card is authentic and that the amount is available in the cardholder’s account. The card details are now encrypted, allowing you to capture the specified amount from this card within the next 30 days.

Verified

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The authenticity of this card has been verified. The card details are now encrypted, allowing you to run a further transaction from this card.

Capture in "x" days

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Displays the remaining days until the amount requested via a delay capture is taken. It can be captured immediately via the action button next to it.

Fully/Partially refunded

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This transaction has had part (or all) of it refunded

Unsuccessful

Declined -

The acquiring bank has declined the transaction.

Referred -

This transaction has been referred for manual approval by the Acquiring bank. (The merchant will have to call Support and verify some information to receive the authorisation code that will unlock and process this transaction)

Cancelled -

The merchant has cancelled this transaction (this can only occur on a captured transaction).

Info

Some transactions also have brackets at the end.

  1. (DC) - This is a transaction that was initially a Delay capture and has now been captured.

  2. (PA) - This is a Pre-Auth that has been captured.

  3. (RF) - This is a refund.

  4. (RR) - This is a transaction that has been rerun from a previous transaction.

  5. (V) - This is a transaction that has been run from a Verified card.


Filter

You can filter using the following 5 primary filters (simultaneously), choose the desired parameters, and select Apply Filter:

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Date Range

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Merchant - This filters between different merchant accounts.

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Transaction Method - This is where the transaction was created from.

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Status

Accepted -

Displays all accepted transactions.

Cancelled

Displays all cancelled transactions.

Captured

Displays all captured transactions.

Verified -

Only displays the original Verified transactions, not the transactions run from them.

Pre-Auth -

Only displays the original Pre-Authorisations, not the processed ones.

Delayed Capture -

The display shows both the delayed capture transactions that are still waiting to be captured and the ones that have already been processed.

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Card Number - This search is for the last 4 digits of the card.

Actions

Additional Transaction Information

Select a transaction to expand it. This displays additional information on the transaction and reveals the buttons to perform its actions.

  1. The various card verification responses are shown here, in addition to the acquiring bank, the card type, the authorisation code for the transaction, and the unique Blink reference.

    1. If a transaction has been run from a previous transaction (e.g. A Pre-Auth has been captured), the Blink unique reference field will also contain a link to the original transaction.

    2. The Gateway Merchant ID that processed the transaction.

    3. The customer’s address and post code that was entered with the transaction.

    4. For successful payment, a receipt button will be shown. This allows you to view the receipt again and print or email it.

Select the button named Advanced Filters to reveal extra filtering options. This allows you to select a particular field to search (e.g. Customer name or email, the reference etc.), the type of search you would like to perform and the text/value to search for. This can be combined with the 5 primary filters.

Cancelling and Refunding a payment

Processing a new transaction from a previous payment

The cancel button will only appear for transactions with a captured state. Once a transaction has been accepted, the cancel button will be replaced by a refund button.

Transactions can be refunded fully or partially. The amount field will update to reflect the amount that was refunded. A refund cannot be cancelled.

Customer and card details are taken from the original transaction. You only need to specify the new amount and reference (and the frequency and length for a Repeat Payment Schedule).

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Rerun - This allows you to run a new transaction on a previous customer.

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Repeat - This gives you the ability to set up a fixed payment schedule. You can choose the length of the Repeat Payment and the frequency (can choose from day/week/month/year but not 'x' amount of weeks, etc.)

  1. There is no ability to enter a start date, so it takes the first payment immediately. So if 5 payments are required in total, the cycle should be set to 4, not 5, so that it will repeat another 4 times after this initial payment)