Introduction
Each of the gateways provided by PayPal for WooCommerce give you the option to process payment for orders immediately or to authorize and capture the order for greater flexibility and control over how payments are processed. This doc provides details about how to manage WooCommerce PayPal authorize and capture procedures directly from within the WooCommerce order screen.
Get PayPal for WooCommerce
This guide is for those using our PayPal for WooCommerce plugin, which upgrades the PayPal experience on your WooCommerce website for free. This includes full support for the Authorization and Capture feature outlined in this article.
Set Payment Action to Authorization
- From your WordPress admin panel, navigate to Settings -> PayPal for WooCommerce.
- Choose the payment gateway you wish to set for Authorize and Capture.
- Find the Payment Action setting, and set it to Authorization.
- Save your settings, and now all future orders will be processed as an Authorization.
WooCommerce PayPal Authorize and Capture Settings
- NOTE: The order status in WooCommerce will be set to On Hold when an authorization order is processed.
Capture Funds for Authorized Orders
- Find the authorized order that you would like to capture from within WooCommerce -> Orders.
- You will now see PayPal Transaction history at the top of the order screen where you can manage your authorizations and captures.
- Select Capture Authorization from the drop down.
- Set the amount you would like to capture.
- The default capture amount will be the total of the original authorization.
- You may set this to a lower amount if you wish to process a partial capture.
- Click the Submit button to capture the amount set.
Capture a partial or full payment from the authorized order.
WooCommerce PayPal Authorize and Capture Log
- The WooCommerce order screen will keep a log of the original authorization and any captures that have been placed against it.
- If you process a partial capture you may repeat the steps above for future partial captures up to the full authorization amount.
WooCommerce PayPal Authorize and Capture Log
Void an Authorization
- Navigate to the WooCommerce order with an authorization you would like to void.
- Choose Void Authorization from the drop down.
- Select the Authorization Transaction ID that you would like to void from the next drop down.
- Click Submit to officially void the authorization and release the funds back to the buyer’s payment source.
Void and PayPal authorization from the WooCommerce order screen.
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i cannot see any of the above images in my woocommerce, i have setup my paypal and set my payment action to just authorize but i dont know where to capture from.
Are you using our PayPal for WooCommerce plugin specifically? This is different from the basic PayPal that comes with WooCommerce by default.
Hello Andrew,
I’ve installed your plugin but can’t seem to get these options to appear either.
I’m currently using the sandbox account without SSL. While this could be an issue to process the order, the plugin should still be showing me these options (capture screen) in the order, right?
Thanks in advance.
Yes, if the Payment Action is set to Authorization in the general settings, then when an order comes through as an Authorization you should see the options to capture as shown in this document. What are you seeing in the order screen for an order that was placed as an Authorization?
Hi, i try but is not working… all the order still on hold after payment… 🙁 any idea how to fix it?
I’m not sure I understand. Can you please elaborate on the problem? You have our plugin installed and setup for Authorization orders? Is this part working? Then later when you try to capture the payment, is it processing but not updating the Woo order status, or is it not processing at all? Or what exactly is going on here?