PayPal Checkout allows you to reauthorize payments only once, following the original honor period. PayPal guarantees that funds are available in the buyer's account during the 3-day honor period and within the honor period of the reauthorization (if applicable); outside of that period, funds are not guaranteed to be in the buyer's account at the time of capture, though the authorization is still valid. Authorizations are valid for 29 days.
Merchants typically reauthorize a payment if they wish to verify that funds are available as recommended by PayPal. If you wish to confirm that funds are available, and it is past the 3-day honor period, you can perform a reauthorization.
Reauthorize a payment
- Sign in to your My Services page.
- Click the Store link.
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- Go to Orders.
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- View the order in the all-new Order Manager or classic Order Manager for which you wish to reauthorize funds. The individual order review page will display a PayPal Transaction Control Panel for orders where PayPal was the payment method).
- Click the Reauthorize button.
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The transaction will be processed and the status displayed for you on a confirmation screen. If successful, the transaction will be marked OK, and after clicking OK to return to the Order Review page, you will see Reauthorized in the Payment section of the page.
Important: You are only allowed to reauthorize an order once and only within 29 days of the original authorization.
