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E-commerce vocabulary · Payments and Fraud Prevention

Partial capture

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In e-commerce, partial capture means: Collecting less than the full amount previously authorized for a payment.

In Turkish: kısmi tahsilat

How it is used

Use before the full authorized amount is collected; provider rules determine what happens to the remaining authorization.

Example sentences

  1. A partial capture collected only the price of the items we could supply.

    The collected amount is reduced before the entire authorization becomes a charge.

  2. Check the captured total before issuing a refund after a partial capture.

    Refund calculations should use money actually collected, not the original hold.

Common collocations

  • make a partial capture
  • partial capture amount
  • partial capture support
  • payment gatewayA service that securely sends a customer's card or other payment details from the online store to the banks and returns whether the payment is approved.
  • refundMoney paid back to a customer, usually to the original payment method, after a return, a cancelled order or a problem with an item.

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