Delayed capture
- Sara Jacobs
Overview
Our delayed capture function allows you to delay the capture for up to 30 days. Funds are being held until the planned date; you can, however, capture your delayed capture, early by navigating to the Blink card transactions page under the Reporting section and locating the specific transaction. With an early capture, you have the flexibility to charge your customer with a partial amount.
You can utilise delayed capture via the take and request a payment page.
Delayed capture
Navigation
You can find the delayed capture option on both the Take a payment and Request a payment page. The Take a payment section is a feature on our Blink platform that allows you to manually process transactions by filling in your customer’s card details or charging customers via an existing Direct Debit mandate.
How do I?
Take a payment
First, navigate to the Take a 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 payment type and the card payment method.
Then, 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 from the drop-down list by clicking on the corresponding symbol.
When setting up your merchant account, you'll be asked which currencies you want to use for transactions. Additional currencies can be added upon request.
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Choose how many days to delay automatic capture (max 30). Fill in card and address details and click Charge.
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Request a payment
You can also send a payment link with a delayed capture option.
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.
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).
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Manual capture of payment
After setting up the delayed capture, the payment will be automatically captured at the scheduled time. However, you can also capture it manually and earlier than the scheduled time. To do so, go to the Blink card transaction page under the Reporting section, locate the specific transaction, and click on the Capture button.
Partial amount
When capturing early, you can charge customers a partial amount.
Capture amount
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Reporting
Once captured, you can find the details of your delayed capture transactions on the Blink Card Transaction, All card transactions and Bank reconciliation pages.