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Incremental Authorizations

This section shows you how to process an incremental authorization.
Incremental authorizations allow merchants to add additional products and services to an existing authorization. This section will show you how to append an original authorization to include additional transactions.
The supported card types for incremental authorizations are Mastercard and Visa.
The incremental authorization service has these limitations:
  • Maximum of 100 incremental authorizations per transaction, in addition to the initial authorization.
  • Interchange optimization is not supported.
  • Split shipments are not supported.

Supported Card Types

These card types support incremental authorizations:
  • Mastercard
  • Visa

Endpoint

Production:
PATCH
https://api.cybersource.com
/pts/v2/payments/
{id}
Test:
PATCH
https://apitest.cybersource.com
/pts/v2/payments/
{id}
The
{id}
 is the transaction ID returned in the original authorization response.