I want to add a payment to an unpaid order, but unfortunately the documentation does not match the behavior of the API. When I want to create a payment for the order, it asks me for a parent_id, which is not mandatory according to the documentation, and I don’t know where to get it from. I basically just want to create a payment for the order and mark the order as paid, but it doesn’t work.
Can someone please help me or explain my error?
Here is the code (PHP Curl)
$transactionData = [
‘transaction’ => [
“currency”=>“USD”,
“amount”=>“10.00”,
“kind”=>“capture”,
“test”=>true
]
];
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url . "/orders/$payItem[OrderId]/transactions.json");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($transactionData));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
"X-Shopify-Access-Token: $access_token",
"Content-Type: application/json"
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$httpStatus = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
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Hi! Looking at the docs the problem seems to be the way you are using “capture”. I believe capture relates to already having the payment pre-authorized, and as such requires the parent_id. However, setting “kind” => “sale” should do the whole process in a single step. see below:
$transactionData = [
‘transaction’ => [
“currency”=>“USD”,
“amount”=>“10.00”,
“kind”=>“sale”,
“test”=>true
]
];
Here’s the full documentation about the kind key according to shopify
- authorization: Money that the customer has agreed to pay. The authorization period can be between 7 and 30 days (depending on your payment service) while a store waits for a payment to be captured.
- capture: A transfer of money that was reserved during the authorization of a shop.
- sale: The authorization and capture of a payment performed in one single step.
- void: The cancellation of a pending authorization or capture.
- refund: The partial or full return of captured money to the customer.
To follow up on Garrett’s reply, make sure to also set the source if there is no parent
"source":"external"
Thanks you two it worked!
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