After you have added the credit card contributions to your batch, you are ready to authorize payment. The process of authorizing sends the credit card data to your payment gateway & in the process ensure the information entered is accurate, ensure the availability of the funds, & places a hold on funds available for the credit card.

First the payment gateway will send a request to the card issuer. All card issuers perform an address verification search. Each card issuer treats the results of the verification differently. An error will be returned if you do not enter the correct card number of card type. Then the authorization takes place to ensure the funds are available on the account. If you are authorizing a credit card transaction split among funds, all splits must clear to complete authorization. Then at 48 hour hold will be placed on the requested amount. This hold will be in place until you settle the batch or the 48 hours expires.

To learn how to authorize a batch, see the following:

1. Click Giving > Contributions > Batches
2. Click Credit Card Batches
3. Click Resume progress
4. Click Authorize

Updated March 05, 2025 21:00