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Merchant-Initiated No-Show Transactions

A no-show authorization occurs when a merchant charges a customer after the customer makes a reservation, and does not show up to claim the reservation. In this situation, the customer is charged an agreed upon fee for not showing up as expected.

Fields Specific to this Use Case

Include these fields with a standard authorization request:
processingInformation.authorizationOptions.initiator.type
Set the field to
merchant
to indicate this transaction is a merchant-initiated follow on transaction.
processingInformation.authorizationOptions.initiator.merchantInitiatedTransaction.reason
Set the reason field to
4
.
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