Sales {#payments-processing-basic-sale-intro}
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This section provides the information you need in order to process a sale transactions.  
A sale combines an authorization and a capture into a single transaction.

> IMPORTANT A sale combines an authorization and a capture into the same request. Therefore, the maximum amount for a sale is limited to 7 digits (no more than 9,999,999) because the capture amount is limited to 7 digits.

Endpoint {#payments-processing-basic-sale-intro_d9e239}
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**Production:** `POST ``https://api.cybersource.com``/pts/v2/payments`{#payments-processing-basic-sale-intro_d9e247}  
**Test:** `POST ``https://apitest.cybersource.com``/pts/v2/payments`{#payments-processing-basic-sale-intro_d9e257}