> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.jupico.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Authorize a card > An authorization confirms the cardholder's ability to pay and reserves the amount without charging it. Use it when the final amount is unknown or fulfillment is deferred — for example, tips at a restaurant or a card on file at a hotel. Complete the charge later with **Capture**. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.json post /v1/transactions/creditcard/authorization openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: Jupico - OpenAPI 3.0 description: >- The Jupico API lets Service Providers onboard merchants, process card and eCheck (ACH) payments, run hosted payment pages, manage recurring billing, send payouts, and query every resource. All endpoints use HTTPS with Basic authentication and accept and return JSON. Endpoints are grouped by workflow: onboard merchants first, then accept payments, then move funds and report. termsOfService: https://help.jupico.com/references-and-resources/legal contact: email: support@jupico.com license: name: Jupico License url: https://jupico.com version: 1.0.5 servers: - url: https://sandbox-platform.jupico.com security: - basicAuth: [] tags: - name: Status description: Health check for the Jupico API. - name: Onboarding Invites description: >- Create and send invites that onboard merchants through the Jupico-hosted flow, with optional pre-filled identity, fees, and payout bank account data. - name: Provisioning description: >- Onboard merchants from your own UI. Collect onboarding data and submit it through the provisioning chain: applicant → application → submerchant. - name: Session description: >- Create browser authorization sessions for the Jupico web components, so card and bank account data is tokenized client-side and never touches your servers. - name: Tokenization description: >- Convert one-time tokens from the web components into permanent Jupico tokens, or tokenize raw card data if your systems are PCI DSS compliant. - name: Customer description: >- Create and manage customer records that payments, subscriptions, installments, and invoices link to. - name: Card Transactions description: >- Process credit and debit card transactions using tokenized card data: sale, authorization, capture, void, refund, and rollback. - name: eCheck Transactions description: >- Debit customer bank accounts via eCheck (ACH): sale, void, refund, rollback, and bank account tokenization. - name: Checkouts description: >- Hosted checkout sessions where customers complete payment on a Jupico-hosted page. - name: Payment Links description: >- Shareable links that open a Jupico-hosted payment page — no integration code needed at the point of sharing. - name: Invoices description: Create and email invoices that customers pay online. - name: Subscriptions description: >- Recurring billing. Plans define billing schedules and pricing models; subscriptions enroll customers against a stored payment token. - name: Installments description: Split a fixed total into scheduled payments with an optional deposit. - name: Payouts description: >- Send funds from a submerchant's available balance to a tokenized bank account with on-demand payout instructions. - name: Query description: >- Search and report across every resource: transactions, merchants, settlements, balances, disputes, fees, and more. All query endpoints accept the same filter, sort, and pagination envelope — see the Query Capabilities guide. paths: /v1/transactions/creditcard/authorization: post: tags: - Card Transactions summary: Authorize a card description: >- An authorization confirms the cardholder's ability to pay and reserves the amount without charging it. Use it when the final amount is unknown or fulfillment is deferred — for example, tips at a restaurant or a card on file at a hotel. Complete the charge later with **Capture**. operationId: ccAuth requestBody: $ref: '#/components/requestBodies/ccAuth' responses: '200': $ref: '#/components/responses/ccAuth' security: - basicAuth: [] components: requestBodies: ccAuth: description: >- API support various types of use. Required fields are defined by the most basic call. For other uses be sure to send the required information defined in the schema and examples. required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ccAuth' examples: AuthorizationMostBasicCall: $ref: '#/components/examples/ccAuthMostBasicCall' AuthorizationFullExample: $ref: '#/components/examples/ccAuthFullExample' responses: ccAuth: description: Successful authorization content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: data: type: object properties: status: type: string description: Current status. transactionId: type: string description: Unique identifier of the original transaction. operation: type: string description: >- Transaction operation type (for example, sale, authorization, refund). subMerchantId: type: string description: Unique identifier of the submerchant. amount: type: number description: The amount of the transaction. balanceAmount: type: number description: >- Remaining balance on the transaction after captures, refunds, and voids. parentId: type: string description: >- Identifier of the parent transaction (for example, the authorization behind a capture). referenceNumber: type: string description: Processor reference number for the transaction. referenceId: type: string description: >- Your own reference for this transaction. Returned in responses and query results for reconciliation. taxAmount: type: number description: Sales tax portion of the amount. txDate: type: string description: Date and time of the transaction (ISO 8601). description: type: string description: Free-text description. dynamicFee: type: object properties: fixed: type: number description: Fixed portion of the dynamic fee. discountRatePerc: type: number description: >- Percentage portion of the dynamic fee, applied to the transaction amount. description: >- Fee added to the transaction at processing time and itemized separately. paymentMethod: type: object properties: cc: type: object properties: card: type: object properties: last4Digits: type: string description: Last 4 digits of the card number. expirationYear: type: string description: Two-digit expiration year. expirationMonth: type: string description: Two-digit expiration month (01-12). logo: type: string description: Card brand logo identifier. description: Card details. cardHolderInitiated: type: boolean description: >- True when the cardholder actively initiates the payment; false for merchant-initiated transactions such as recurring charges. networkTransactionID: type: string description: >- Card network transaction identifier, used for merchant-initiated follow-on transactions. token: type: string description: The token value. description: Card payment method details. eCheck: type: object description: eCheck (ACH) acceptance settings. type: type: string description: The type. description: Details of the payment method used. billing: type: object properties: address: type: string description: Street address, including number. city: type: string description: City name. zipCode: type: string description: ZIP or postal code. state: type: string description: Two-letter US state code. email: type: string description: Email address of the payer. name: type: string description: Full name of the payer. phone: type: string description: Phone number of the payer. description: Billing contact and address details for the payer. approvalNumber: type: string description: Approval code returned by the issuing bank. shipping: type: object properties: address: type: string description: Street address, including number. city: type: string description: City name. zipCode: type: string description: ZIP or postal code. state: type: string description: Two-letter US state code. email: type: string description: Email address of the recipient. name: type: string description: Name of the recipient. phone: type: string description: Phone number of the recipient. description: Shipping contact and address details for the order. validations: type: object properties: avs: type: object properties: addressNumber: type: string description: AVS result for the street number. addressPostalCode: type: string description: AVS result for the postal code. description: Address Verification Service (AVS) results. cvv: type: object properties: cvcCheck: type: string description: Result of the card verification code check. description: CVV check result. description: Verification results returned by the issuer. paymentToken: type: object properties: type: type: string description: Type of token supplied. token: type: object properties: provider: type: string description: >- Payment provider that issued the token (for example, `jupico`). token: type: string description: The token value. cardHolderName: type: string description: Name of the cardholder. expirationMonth: type: string description: Two-digit expiration month (01-12). expirationYear: type: string description: Two-digit expiration year. logo: type: string description: Card brand logo identifier. cardLogo: type: string description: Card brand logo identifier. last4Digits: type: string description: Last 4 digits of the card number. truncatedCardNumber: type: string description: Masked card number. description: Token payload returned by tokenization. description: >- The payment credential to charge: a one-time token from the web component or a stored Jupico token. description: The response payload. success: type: boolean description: >- Whether the request was processed successfully. Declines return HTTP 200 with `success: false`. message: type: string description: Human-readable result message. code: type: string description: Machine-readable result code. See the Error Codes reference. schemas: ccAuth: type: object properties: subMerchantId: type: string description: Unique identifier of the submerchant. amount: type: number description: The amount to authorize. paymentToken: type: object properties: type: type: string description: Type of token supplied. token: type: object description: Token payload returned by tokenization. description: >- The payment credential to charge: a one-time token from the web component or a stored Jupico token. cardHolderInitiated: type: boolean description: >- True when the cardholder actively initiates the payment; false for merchant-initiated transactions such as recurring charges. description: type: string description: Free-text description of the transaction. taxAmount: type: number description: | The total amount of sales tax must be between: Visa percentage: 0.1% - 18% MasterCard percentage: 0.1% - 23% Default percentage: 0.1% - 50% cvv: type: string description: Card verification code (CVV/CVC). referenceId: type: string description: >- Your own reference for this transaction. Returned in responses and query results for reconciliation. billing: type: object properties: address: type: string description: Street address, including number. city: type: string description: City name. zipCode: type: string description: ZIP or postal code. state: type: string description: Two-letter US state code. email: type: string description: Email address of the payer. name: type: string description: Full name of the payer. phone: type: string description: Phone number of the payer. description: Billing contact and address details for the payer. shipping: type: object properties: address: type: string description: Street address, including number. city: type: string description: City name. zipCode: type: string description: ZIP or postal code. state: type: string description: Two-letter US state code. email: type: string description: Email address of the recipient. name: type: string description: Name of the recipient. phone: type: string description: Phone number of the recipient. description: Shipping contact and address details for the order. metadata: $ref: '#/components/schemas/metadata' billingDescriptor: type: object properties: name: type: string maxLength: 25 example: test description: >- The text that appears on the cardholder's statement, overriding the default business name. description: Overrides the descriptor that appears on the cardholder's statement. required: - subMerchantId - amount - paymentToken - cardHolderInitiated metadata: type: object description: >- metadata is an object that can host as much as 50 key-value pairs, where the keys can be at most 40 char length and can’t include the characters “[“ or “]”, and the values must be strings and cannot exceed 500 chars [Learn more about metadata](https://docs.jupico.com/docs/metadata#/) additionalProperties: type: string maxLength: 500 x-key-max-length: 40 examples: ccAuthMostBasicCall: summary: Basic call value: subMerchantId: jpt-sim-md-1 amount: 100 paymentToken: type: creditcard token: provider: jupico token: 5dd19881-b437-42b0-9c9b-7773ebb598eb description: CC Authorization cardHolderInitiated: true metadata: test: test ccAuthFullExample: summary: Full example value: subMerchantId: jpt-sim-md-1 amount: 45 paymentToken: type: creditcard token: provider: jupico token: 5dd19881-b437-42b0-9c9b-7773ebb598eb description: CC Authorization cardHolderInitiated: true taxAmount: 1.99 referenceId: 2b174787-bb93-40a4-8343-c7c9785c11a2 cvv: '123' billing: address: 123 Silent Hill city: Danbury zipCode: '12345' state: CT email: mail@mail.com name: John Doe phone: '123123123' shipping: address: 123 Silent Hill city: Danbury zipCode: '12345' state: CT email: mail@mail.com name: John Doe phone: '123123123' metadata: test: test securitySchemes: basicAuth: type: http scheme: basic ````