Overview
Recent Blink transactions show any transaction you have taken on Blink that day (via Request A Payment, Take A Payment or Blink page). This page has limited options for further actions to perform.
Recent Blink Transactions
Navigation
To access Today’s Blink transactions page, navigate to Recent Blink Transactions under Reporting on the left-hand navigation bar.
This page displays all your transactions that have been processed today on Blink. For each transaction, you can see the following:
Date and Time
Customer Name and Email
Card details - This shows the basic card info. (card scheme, last four digits and expiry date)
Order Reference - This contains both the custom reference and Blink description of the transaction.
Amount
Status
Pending
Received - The gateway has received the transaction and is awaiting a response to reach its final state.
Successful
Captured - The transaction was successful and will be settled as soon as possible. (In most cases, this will occur overnight)
Pre-Auth - 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 - 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 - Displays the remaining days until the amount requested via a delay capture is taken.
Unsuccessful
Declined - The transaction has been declined.
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).
Some transactions also have brackets at the end.
(DC) - This is a transaction that was initially a Delay capture and has now been captured.
(PA) - This is a Pre-Auth that has been captured.
(RF) - This is a refund.
(RR) - This is a transaction that has been rerun from a previous transaction.
(V) - This is a transaction that has been run from a Verified card.
You can select a transaction to display further information and the available actions.
The card verification responses (3DS, AVS, CV2) are shown here, in addition to the Acquiring bank, the Card Type, the Authorisation Code and the Blink Unique Reference.
Further Actions
Different types of transactions will have other actions available
Cancel - This will cancel the transaction, and no funds will be taken.
Capture - This will capture the transaction immediately. Capture is available for Pre-Auth and Delay Capture.
Run Transaction - This will ask for an amount to be entered and then process a new transaction; only Verified cards will have this option.
Receipt - You can view, print or email the receipt.