Card Validation – No Authorization or Capture

  • Resolved cbwkelvin

    (@cbwkelvin)


    9 months, 2 weeks ago

    Can you add a charge type to validate a card without an authorization or capture?

    We’re trying to switch back to Stripe and this plugin seems like a great one. However, we need a charge type to simply validate a card without create an authorization or capture. We know that Stripe allows this because we have worked with Stripe for a long time. We moved to Versapay based on a strong recommendation from some developers we should not have trusted. This is the last roadblock to moving back to Stripe, which we very much need.

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  • Plugin Author Payment Plugins

    (@mrclayton)

    Hi @cbwkelvin

    Are you referring to validating a card on the checkout page, but not actually processing a payment during the checkout process?

    Can you go into some detail on how this currently works on your site? That information will help me better understand your requirement and provide an accurate answer.

    Kind Regards

    Thread Starter cbwkelvin

    (@cbwkelvin)

    Thanks @mrclayton.

    We want it to work the way it used to on our old custom website (non-wordpress). We were integrated directly with Stripe using their API. All our checkout would do is validate the card to make sure it was a good card number. It would not create an authorization or capture funds. It would just create a Stripe ID that we would use later to bill the customer upon shipment. We do not bill until shipment.

    All we need is a Stripe ID with a valid card.

    This has the additional benefit of being able to edit orders and bill the right amount. When you authorize a card for a specific amount, that is what you must charge. But if you just get their payment information, then you can bill what the customer needs you to bill. We get customer calling us fairly often (10 times a month maybe) asking to edit an order right before we ship it. We like to be able to facilitate this kind of customer service without forcing them to cancel and start a new order.

    Finally, and the reason we need this feature, our ERP connection to Stripe does not have a method to bill against an authorization. They will just bill against the Stripe ID.

    • This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by cbwkelvin.
    Plugin Author Payment Plugins

    (@mrclayton)

    Hi @cbwkelvin

    What I would actually recommend doing is adding a simple code snippet to your WordPress site that forces the customer’s information to be saved. You can configure the plugin to just authorize the payment and since the customer’s payment information will be saved, you can go back and charge them at a latest date for whatever amount is needed.

    There are quite a few merchants using this plugin with a similar scenario. Let me know if want to go that route and I can provide you with the code snippet.

    Kind Regards

    Thread Starter cbwkelvin

    (@cbwkelvin)

    Thanks @mrclayton. Sorry for leaving you hanging. Priorities have been switching a lot lately. Small business life. Please provide us with that snippet. That should work for our needs.

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