PayPal

What is PayPal

PayPal is an online payment platform that facilitates payments between individuals and businesses.

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 325 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person.

What does this integration include?

This integration enhances the current MAO out of box integration with PayPal as follows:

  • To process full authorization reversals for the following scenarios:
    • Cancelling an order
    • Performing an order edit which results in the full or remaining authorization amount being voided. This can include cancelling an order line, applying an appeasement, reducing an order line quantity, etc.
  • To process re-authorization of funds once the honor period expires but within the authorization validity period.

This integration implements additional functionality for Manhattan Active Omni (MAO) Point of Sale (POS) & ECOM / Call Center card payment flows with PayPal’s payment platform. The features include:

  • POS Omni Cart Sale
  • Follow On Refund
  • POS Refund by Card Entry
  • POS Mid Transaction Void
  • POS Post Void
  • POS End of Day Reconciliation
  • Contact Center Hosted Checkout
  • Authorization
  • Re-authorization
  • BOPIS Card on File

What is PayPal DoVoid?

PayPal is used as a payment method for placing an order on the retailer’s website. During the order creation, an authorization is performed by the merchant that applies a hold on the buyer’s funds which is typically valid for 29 days. PayPal allows settlement i.e., capturing less than the original authorization, full authorization amount, or even more than the authorization amount (up to 115% of the original authorization or $75 USD more, whichever is less).

However, during the order lifecycle if an order edit results in the full or partial authorized amount being voided then the funds can be released via a DoVoid call to PayPal.

MAO provides an out of box integration with PayPal using REST Service APIs for Signature and Certificate mode to process the payment transactions for Settlement and Refund. However, during scenarios when order edits result in the authorized amount being reversed to the buyers account, base MAO generates an authorization reversal transaction but does not send it to PayPal, or any Payment Gateway out of the box as a result of which the customer amount is held and unavailable for use till the authorization expires.

This feature adds the ability for MAO to send a PayPal DoVoid call to reverse (releases) complete or partial authorization amount on the buyer’s account when an authorization reversal is generated.

What is PayPal DoAuthorization?

For PayPal, an authorization places a hold on the funds and is valid for 29/90 days. After a successful authorization, PayPal recommends that you capture the funds within the honor period. Success of the capture is subject to risk and availability of funds on the authorized funding instrument.

Within the 29/90-day authorization period, a client can issue multiple re-authorizations after the honor period expires. A re-authorization generates a new authorization ID and restarts the honor period, and any subsequent capture should be performed on the new authorization ID. This feature adds logic for MAO to send the reauthorization API to PayPal.

POS OMNI-Cart Sale

This feature allows the POS application to process card present payment capture (settlement) for Pay & Carry lines and card not present payment authorization for Save the Sale lines with a single swipe of a credit card.

Follow-On Refund

Refunds are executed in MAO to process returns or negative exchanges. The Follow-on Refund, or Referenced Refund, refunds the original card that was used to execute the sale without the card being present. This applies to both POS and Call Center flows.

POS Refund by Card Entry

Refund by Card Entry, or Unreferenced Refund, refunds the card that is entered in the payment terminal via insert, tap or swipe, at the time of the transaction being executed. This flow applies only to POS not Call Center.

  • Note standalone refunds by card token is not required for this App since PayPal’s transaction tokens do not expire and therefore all card not present refunds can be processed as follow-on refunds using transaction token regardless of the age of the return.

POS Mid-Transaction Void

This feature allows the store user to void or cancel a partial card payment applied to a POS transaction.

POS Post Void

This feature allows the POS application to reverse payments captured for a Pay & Carry Sale transaction that was completed and later post voided. Post Void is permitted only on the same business day as the original Sale.

POS End of Day Reconcilation

This feature allows POS to determine and record the result of an abandoned payment in order for the Cancel Order process to reverse it. Cancel Order process reverses any payments that were captured for orders that are eventually voided.

Contact Center Hosted Checkout

This feature allows the Contact Center application to capture a credit card payment method for an order which upon confirmation of the order is used to Authorize payment for that order. Card information is entered on an iframe that is hosted on the PayPal gateway and is tokenized by PayPal before returning to MAO.

Authorization

This feature allows MAO to Authorize funds for an order using a tokenized payment method. The funds authorized are to be captured upon fulfilment.

Re-Authorization

This feature allows MAO to obtain a new authorization in scenarios where a previous authorization expires before funds are captured for the same.

BOPIS Card on File

This feature allows the POS application to leverage an existing credit card payment method to complete a card not present charge for Pay & Carry orderlines added in-store to a BOPIS order upon fulfilment.