Secondary Transactions

Once the merchant delivers the goods or services purchased, to realize the funds into the merchant's bank, the approved authorizations have to be captured using a capture transaction. Or when the customer cancels the order or returns the goods, the merchant can cancel the approved primary transaction in its entirety or refund only partial funds using void or reversal or refund.

All such transactions are made on a primary transaction, they are termed as secondary transactions or we can call it as follow-up transactions. For secondary transactions, the card need not be presented at the point of sale or to the merchant. We are running additional transactions based on an approved primary transaction. PayOrch platform provides simple APIs to perform secondary transactions.

PayOrch platform returns a transaction identifier in response of the primary transaction. That transaction identifier is the important data used to run secondary or follow-up transactions. In a case where the transaction identifier of the primary transaction is lost, there are other parameters that can be used to run the secondary transactions.