Recurring Payments
Paystation does not offer a scheduled recurring payment service for payments at regular intervals. We do have some other options that will allow you to achieve similar results.
Future Pay (Tokenised) - the customer gives you the authority to take money from their credit card whenever you want. The customer enters the card number into your site. Your site sends us the card number and we return a token. You discard the card number (you might store the first 6 and last 4 digits and the expiry so you can let people see what card you are about to debit each time). You can then use that token to debit the card number whenever you need to - you give us back the token and we put the payment through against the card. You are able to take more than one payment from the same card in this situation, and could set up your own scheduled payments if that is what you require. When the card expires the token is no longer any use and you will need to go back to the cardholder to get a new card number and expiry. Read more
Authorisation / Capture (pre-auth) - the customer gives you authority to take up to a set amount from their credit card. You then capture some or all of the authorised amount. When giving authority your site would tell us the amount to authorise and the customer enters their card details into the bank branded screens and the card details go directly to the bank (so neither the merchant - you - nor the transaction processor - us - sees the card details). When you are ready you are able to capture up to that amount in one or more captures. The downside to this system is that the credit card may have expired between the time when the authorisation is given and the amount is captured. Read more
Batch - you have a list of cards in your systems which you would like to take money from. Your system generates a batch file, formatted in the way our batch processing system requires, and you upload that file for processing. Once processed you can either check the results within Paystation or download a results file and feed it back into your systems. With batch you maintain your own payment schedules and run batches whenever you need to. Read more