Authorize.net won't ever allow you to refund a transaction that was submitted the same day. Writing a test that creates a transaction and then refunds it, therefore, is tough.
I couldn't find a way to do it through the API so:
Can I ask Authorize.net to "settle" a test transaction?
Or .. What's the right way to do this?
Settlement is a batch operation that occurs once a day starting after the transaction cut-off time specified in the merchant interface. You must wait until settlement is complete. In the sandbox, there is no way for a developer to force settlement.
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We have been trying to integrate authorize.net payment gateway in one of our clients project based on Asp.net web API. We have few queries that we came across while implementing Recurring Planning scenarios.
Query 1
We checked the API’s for Creating Subscription, Getting Subscription, Updating Subscription. However once we have created subscription, is there any way we can update the amount in the subscription.
Let’s say for example.
We have a created a subscription for our user for 50$ amount on 01st Jan 2021 with 30 days interval.
And on 15th Jan 2021, our user wishes to purchase 1 more license which will cost him 10$ more.
Hence can we increase his billing cycle of subscription by updating the subscription?
We checked in Update Subscription API, & it is only allowing to update credit card info hence is there any way to update amount.
Query 2
Is there any way to implement Autorenewal, hence when a user wishes he/she can set auto renewal on/off for recurring billing.
Query 3
If there is any way to switch off auto renewal of recurring billing, then is there any link that we can generate & send them through which they can pay there next due.
Query 1: You cannot update a subscription amount. If the amount needs to change you either need to cancel the current subscription and create a new one for the new amount (being sure to prorate credit from the previous subscription payment) or use CIM to manage your subscription service which allows you to charge against their card at your discretion but requires you to also manage the subscription yourself.
Query 2: Not through Authorize.Net. If you want a subscription to start or end you need to explicitly do so through their API.
Query 3: Not through Authorize.Net. That application logic and, once again, you would be responsible for managing.
I'm assuming you are using or are aware of the API provided for Authorize.net here: https://github.com/AuthorizeNet/sdk-dotnet/tree/master/Authorize.NET/Api/Controllers
Query 1: As of now, there is a way to update the amount for a given subscription. You can use ARBSubscriptionType class. There is an amount property there you can set. Then you can create the request ARBUpdateSubscriptionRequest, passing in the ARBSubscriptionType class and the subscription Id.
Note: You might have to handle pro-rating.
Query 2: There isn't a built in renewal feature in Authorize.Net as far as I know. It seems like you could potentially update the totalOccurrences by some amount to act as a "renewal", when technically its an extension of the subscription. The method in which you check when to update, either a Modulo operation or a date check is up to you. You can use paymentScheduleType class to update totalOccurrences, passing it along to a ARBUpdateSubscriptionRequest.
Query 3: Authorize.Net does not have any in house link generation.
In Authorize.Net is there a way to identify or trigger even when a settlement is a success? I need to update my order in the database so if any webhook for this would be great, does anyone know where I can found more details about it?
There is no webhook for when a settlement occurs. But, since they occur at exactly the same time each night and rarely, if ever, fail, you could just set up an automated job to update your database at the settlement time each night.
You can also parse the credit card settlement report email if want a trigger that is specific to a settlement occurring.
If you want to confirm the payment is settled you can always make an API call to get the transaction status. getTransactionDetailsRequest has a value called transactionStatus which will say "settledSuccessfully" is it was settled.
Or call getUnsettledTransactionListRequest and see if there are any unsettled transactions. If not, then you know they all settled successfully.
I have successfully charge the customer payment profile. These transactions can be viewed in the unsettled transaction. I want to ask why these not settled automatically.
Because when a user pay the value through his credit card. I want to show that the amount has been deducted and the client has received the payment. Or i have to suppose that unsettled transaction is also a successful case?
Unsettled transactions are successful transactions. Unsettled just means the transactions have not been sent to the bank for settlement which is what starts the process of capturing those funds. This is to allow you the opportunity to void those transactions if necessary.
Settlement happens nightly so those transactions will show as settled within 24 hours of being processed.
We are using authorize.net for payments in our checkout but in some cases we are not getting any response from authorize.net so we are unable to store transaction details in our database and also customers are being charged more than once. So to resolve this we are planning to get the transaction details before sending the payment but we don't have transaction id in our side, so we need a API to get the transaction details using invoice number.
I have searched lot in the API documentation but couldn't able to find it, so any reference might be helpful.
You cannot retrieve transaction information through their API with an invoice number. If you know the dates, and other helpful information about these missing transactions, you can use their Transaction Reporting API to get those day's transaction and retrieve the necessary information that way.
One way to avoid this in the future is to use either Silent Post1 or their new Webhooks API to get notified whenever a payment is made (and any other event you specify).
1 I am the author of that article.
I'm building a site on Rails using ActiveMerchant to clear payments through Authorize.net. We'd like to support paying for a subscription to the site using recurring credit card payments. The Authorize.net Gateway allows me to setup a schedule of recurring payments on a given interval from a specified date. I see (http://developer.authorize.net/tools/arberrorcodes/) that they will give me an error if the credit card's expiration date is before the start of the recurring payment period, or if the test transaction is not approved at the time that the recurring payment is setup.
What I'm unclear on is how best to handle transaction failures which may occur after the recurring payment has been setup. For example, what if the credit card used to setup the recurring payment is cancelled, or if the account has insufficient funds, before the end of the recurring period.
Should I be proactively checking the status of the subscriptions I have previously created in a cron job? Should I check the subscription status with Authorize.net each time my users login? Is there some other way in which I should expect to be notified if my previously valid subscriptions cease to be so?
Thanks.
Looks like the 'right' solution here is to support Authorize.net's 'Silent Post' callback. This will send transaction status on all cleared and failed transactions every night after they're run.
However, the status will only be sent once, so if it's not received for any reason, you'll still need to query subscription status through ARB proactively.