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You can find the Delayed Capture delayed capture option on both the Take a Payment payment and Request a payment page. The Take a Payment payment section is a feature on our Blink platform which that allows you to manually process transactions by filling in your customer’s card details or charge charging customers via an existing Direct Debit mandate.
How do I?
Take a payment
First, navigate to the Take a Payment payment page. Select which MID you want to take the payment for and select Sale from the type of transactions available from the drop-down menu.
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Select the One Off one-off payment type and the Card Payment card payment method.
NextThen, enter provide the customer's full name, email address, and a transaction reference , (if applicable - which will be noted ). The transaction reference will appear on the email receipt and transaction history.
If you have your account supports multiple currencies enabled on your account, you can select the desired currency you wish to process the transaction using the from the drop-down list by clicking on the currency corresponding symbol.
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When you set setting up a your merchant account with us, you are 'll be asked which currencies you want to use to process for transactions. You can request additional currencies to Additional currencies can be added upon request. |
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Choose with how many days you want to delay the automatic capture , with a maximum of 30 days.(max 30). Fill in the card and address details and click Charge.
Request a payment
You can also send a payment link with a delayed capture option.
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Lead users can enable or disable delayed capture on the Payment preferences page under Payment operations. |
After enabling the feature, go to the Request a payment page. From the drop-down menu, select the MID you want to use to take the payment and then choose Sale as the transaction type.
Next, provide the customer's full name, email address, and transaction reference (if applicable). The transaction reference will appear on the email receipt and transaction history. If your account supports multiple currencies, you can select the desired currency by clicking on the corresponding symbol from the list.
Choose the number of days to delay automatic capture (maximum 30) and send the payment link to your customer.
Once the customer fills in their card details, a hold will be placed on the funds in their account, but the actual capture will be deferred until the specified date.
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The days are counted from when the customer pays this payment link, not from when you have created it. |
Toggle on delay capture
Choose how many days to delay automatic capture (max 30).
Manual capture of payment
The After setting up the delayed capture, the payment will be automatically captured automaticalat the scheduled time. However, you can also capture it manually and early, by navigating to the Online Card Transaction earlier than the scheduled time. To do so, go to the Blink card transaction page under the Reporting section and locating , locate the specific transaction, and clicking click on the Capture button.
Partial amount
With an When capturing early capture, you have the flexibility to charge your customer with can charge customers a partial amount.
Capture Amount amount
Reporting
Once captured, you can find the details of your Delayed Capture delayed capture transactions on the Online Blink Card Transaction, All Card Transactions card transactions and Bank Reconciliation reconciliation pages.