Operation types

There are many possible payment operation types in our system and even more to come.

The first group is the basic financial operations for payments:

Type	Description
Authorize	An authorization request, also known as reserve or hold. Can be one-step payment authorization process containing final authorization and capture or a two-step payment authorization process containing two separate requests.
Capture	Capture request of a two-step payment authorization process.
Refund	Refund request of a Captured payment. Can be full or partial.
Cancel	Void or Refund request depending on the status of the payment (Authorized or Captured).
Credit	Move funds outside our system, e.g. payouts, external transfers.
StartSession	Starts a payment session in a provider. Usually to handle the payment flow with many steps in the frontend.

The next group is related to notification to and from providers.

Type	Description
SendNotification	Send a notification to a provider related to a payment.
HandleNotification	Process generic notification from a provider. This value should only be set if the event type doesn't correspond to the more specific ones (authorize, capture, etc.).
AuthorizeNotification	Process notification about an authorize operation in the provider.
CaptureNotification	Process notification about a capture operation in the provider.
RefundNotification	Process notification about a refund operation in the provider.
CancelNotification	Process notification about a cancel operation in the provider.

The next group, equally important, is for querying external services about payments. These operations are usually key for reconciliation processes.

Type	Description
Get	Check the status of a payment by ID in a provider.
Search	Search for payments in a provider with specified criteria, e.g. date range, merchant, card.

Next, we have operations related to tokenization of payment instruments.

Type	Description
GetToken	Get information related to a token, e.g. card public data.
Tokenize	Create a token from the attached parameters.
DisableToken	Disable (or delete) a token in the provider's system.
Register	Register an account in an external system or wallet.

Finally, we have operations related to 3DS, redirection, and Payer Authentication processes.

Type	Description
Generate3DS	The initial call to start a standalone 3DS 1.0 process, usually generating or obtaining the necessary HTML form to display.
Validate3DS	The second call to validate a previously generated 3DS process.
Confirm	Call to confirm a payment in multiple steps. Usually, this adds more information for a payment after a redirection.