Pre-Authorization

A pre-authorization is the reservation of an amount in the form of a money guarantee, where a certain amount is blocked and held for a predefined period. The maximum amount that can be reserved depends on the respective card issuer.

Creating a Pre-Authorization

You can learn how to create pre-authorizations in the following article:

Viewing Pre-Authorizations

To view all reserved amounts, navigate to Payments > Pre-Authorizations in the main menu of your merchant administration:

Payment status

• The status "Uncharged" indicates that a certain amount has been reserved on the card and is ready for charge in the coming days.

• The status "Confirmed" indicates that the card has already been charged.

For more information on the different payment statuses in Payrexx, please refer to the following article:

Pre-authorizations created in test mode can be identified by the label . For more information on testing payments, please refer to the following article:

Charging a Pre-Authorization

To charge a reserved amount on the customer's card, click on the corresponding row to open the detailed view of the pre-authorization:

1. Amount/Charged: the reserved amount (EUR 80.00) and the information on how much has already been charged (EUR 0.00)

2. Date: the date the amount was reserved on the card

3. Create Charge: the button to charge the amount

To deduct the amount from the customer's card, click the "Create Charge" button, which will open the following window:

1. Number: Specify how many times the amount (in this example, EUR 80.00) should be charged.

2. Charge custom amount: Define a custom amount to be charged. This amount can be smaller than the displayed amount, but not greater.

To deduct the amount from the customer's card, click the green "Charge" button.

Deleting a Pre-Authorization

If you do not wish to charge a reserved amount, you can delete the corresponding pre-authorization.

To do this, click on the corresponding row to open the detailed view of the pre-authorization. Then use the red button at the bottom of the page to delete the pre-authorization:

Additional Functions

Trigger Webhook

If you have set up a webhook in your Payrexx account, you can send pre-authorizations to the webhook URL recorded under API and Plugins.

To do this, open the detailed view of the desired pre-authorization and click on "Trigger webhook":

Exporting pre-authorizations

To export the list of created pre-authorizations to a CSV file, click the "Export" button at the top of the page:

For more information on Payrexx's export function, please refer to the following article: