How to Set Up Pre-Authorization
Implement a pre-authorization flow by creating an order in your ecommerce platform before starting the authorization process. This prevents capturing funds on orders that have failed for various reasons.
How to Create & Authorize an Order
The order.create Merchant API is called after a shopper has selected Pay and directly before Bolt process with payment authorization.
- Implement order_create Merchant API on your server.
- Respond to Bolt’s
order.create POST request from your Merchant API.
- Verify the authenticity of the request by confirming that it originated from Bolt.
Test the Endpoint
Pre-Auth Flow
- Create an order in a pending state. The transaction must still undergo Bolt’s fraud review.
- Listen for a Bolt webhook informing whether this order has been accepted or denied.
Without Pre-Auth Flow
Bolt recommends setting up a Pre-Authorization flow.
- Create an order upon receiving a pending webhook or from the frontend success callback.
- Verify one of the following based on your setup:
- If you respond to Bolt with an
order_received_url (confirmation page), then Bolt will attempt to redirect the user to that URL, when the order is complete.
- If you choose not to respond with an
order_received_url, you may instead accomplish the redirect through frontend callbacks.
- If the card authorization fails after a successful pre-auth request, Bolt will send a webhook to inform that this order has failed card authorization.
