Credit card Authorization using Paypal?

Question

I have a website and a paypal merchant account.I need to authorize my customers credit card before doing a transaction.I hear about paypal's $1 card authorization.But i don't know customers ready to pay $1 for just verification.Is paypal refund them this amount? or any other better way for card authorization?

Thanks

Answer 1

You seem to be confusing the authorize/capture procedure with Paypal verification.

PP verification is a process whereby PP charges a small amount (under $1) to your CC with a special txid, which appears on your CC statement and requests that you confirm that txid (ie to prove you own it).

Authorize/Capture, by contrast, is a two-step payment process whereby you authorize (ie lock the funds) on the account in a first step (typically, to verify that the payment will succeed before proceeding in your workflow's follow-up steps), and capture (ie collect the funds) in a second step.