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Authorization Adjustment Validity Periods

The following list include information on authorization validity periods for major card schemes that allow authorization adjustment.

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Written by Melissa Good
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Visa

Scheme

Debit/credit

Environment

MCC

Days

Visa electron

All

All

All

All

5 days

Visa

All

POS

All

All

5 days

Visa

All

Merchant initiated transactions (MIT)

Applies to:

  1. ContAuth + Subscription / UnscheduledCardOnFile

All

All

5 days

Visa

All

CNP Cardholder-initiated transactions (CIT)

Applies to:

  1. Ecommerce / ContAuth + CardOnFile

  2. Ecommerce + Subscription / UnscheduledCardOnFile

All

All

10 days

Visa

All

CNP Cardholder-initiated transactions (CIT)

Applies to:

  1. Ecommerce / ContAuth + CardOnFile

  2. Ecommerce + Subscription / UnscheduledCardOnFile

Extended-Auth 1

All

30 days

Visa

All

All

Pre-Auth

Cruise, Lodging, Vehicle Rental

30 days

Visa

All

All

Pre-Auth

7999, 4457, 7296, 7841, 7394, 7519, 7033

10 days

Visa

All

All

Pre-Auth

5542

2 hours

Capturing Visa payments after the authorization validity period may result in capture failures and processing integrity fees. Capturing Visa cardholder-initiated card-not-present transactions (CIT CnP) after the 10-day validity period may also incur an additional Extended Authorisation scheme fee, depending on regional requirements.

Mastercard

Scheme

Debit/credit

Environment

MCC

Days

Mastercard

All

All

Final auth

All

7 days

Mastercard

All

All

Pre-auth

All

30 days

Capturing Mastercard payments can be successful even when the authorization has expired after seven or 30 days. For domestic transactions in the US and Canada, there is a late capture fee.

Discover

Scheme

Debit/credit

Environment

MCC

Days

Discover

All

All

All

All

10 days

Discover

All

All

All

Car Rental, Hotel/Lodging

30 days

Diners

Scheme

Debit/credit

Environment

MCC

Days

Diners

All

MOTO

All

All

7 days

Diners

Debit

All

All

All

7 days

Diners

Credit

All

All

All

30 days

Diners

All

All

All

Car Rental, Hotel/Lodging

30 days

JCB

Scheme

Debit/credit

Environment

MCC

Days

JCB

All

All

All

All

1 year

JCB

All

All

Pre-auth

Hotel and Car rental

Time of stay/rental

Cartes Bancaires

Scheme

Debit/credit

Environment

MCC

Days

Carte Bancaires

All

All

All

All

13 days

Mexico Domestic

Scheme

Debit/credit

Environment

MCC

Days

Network MX

Debit

All

Final auth

All

7 days

Network MX

Credit

All

Final auth

All

30 days

Network MX

Debit

All

Pre-auth

All

30 days

Network MX

Credit

All

Pre-auth

All

120 days

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