Unscheduled payments

Learn what unscheduled payments are and how they work.

In some cases, you as a merchant can trigger a transaction in the background without the customer in session. You must use a valid customer initiated transaction as a reference where the customer has explicitly agreed to use these stored credentials for unscheduled payments.

Some of the examples for storing credentials are:

• additional bookings of services or content which exceed the initial anticipated amount
• automatic balance loading
• micropayments, where one wants to gather small amounts and only capture one larger amount
• delayed fulfillments which exceed the validity of an authorization

The following payment methods support unscheduled payments:

• Credit Card, Debit Card
• Unzer Direct Debit
• PayPal

See also

• Enable recurring payments with direct API integration
• Enable recurring payments with PHP SDK
• Enable recurring payments with Java SDK