[Paymill] Video 3. Authorize a card payment, and void it from the Magento side

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To preauthorize a payment and then manually capture or void it is much cheaper for you than to refund or, even more, to chargeback.

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You can choose a frontend payment action: «Authorize» or «Capture» separately for your new and returning customers.

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Let’s place an order.

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The extension allows the customer to reuse his previously used bank cards without re-entering its data again.

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The payment is preauthorized.

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Let’s review the order in the customer’s account.

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The order has the «Processing» status.
We will void the payment later, and the order will be closed automatically.

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The customer can see a masked information about the used bank card.

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Let’s review the order in the Magento 2 backend.

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The order has the «Processing» status.
We will void the payment later, and the order will be closed automatically.

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The «Transactions» tab contains a record about the preauthorization API request.

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Let’s review the payment in the Paymill merchant account.

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The transaction (payment) has the «Authorized» status.

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There are 2 ways to void (reverse) a preauthorized transaction (payment): from the Magento side and from the Paymill side.

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In this video I will show you the first way.
The second way will be shown later in the next videos.

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To void a preauthorized payment from the Magento side, just press the «Void» button on the backend order screen.

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The payment is voided. You do not to have to pay any transaction fee for a voiding (in contrast to refunds and especially chargebacks).

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The order now has the «Closed» status.

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Let’s review the order in the customer’s account again.

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The customer can see that the order is closed.

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Let’s review the payment in the Paymill merchant account again.

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The payment has the «Failed» status.
The term is ugly: really the payment is not failed, we could capture it, but decided to void it.

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In the «Status code» row we see a better phrase: «Authorization has been voided».

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The voiding API request and response are recorded on the «Transactions» tab in the Magento 2 backend.

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