An equipment booking business may want to authorise funds before confirming a charge. The website must distinguish money held from money captured. Commission an operator queue with actual expiry evidence, rather than a green “paid” badge after authorisation.
Primary evidence and claim boundaries
Stripe documents manual capture, the requires_capture state and the card capture_before field. Expired authorisations release funds; eligible methods and windows differ. Primary reference · Read 17 October 2026.
Filled acceptance example
Synthetic teaching scenario, not a client case, provider integration test or business result. Scroll the example table on narrow screens.
| Synthetic booking | Evidence at review | Queue outcome |
|---|---|---|
| H17: authorised AUD300 | capture_before=18 Oct 10:00Z; now 17 Oct 10:00Z | 24 h remaining; eligible for staff review, not automatic capture |
| H18: same amount | now 18 Oct 10:00Z; expiry reached | Stop capture path; reconcile current provider state |
| H19: approved capture AUD240 | authorised 300; ordinary single partial capture | Capture240 proposal; remaining 60 released under documented flow |
| H20: method/window unknown | No capture_before or supported-method evidence | Do not promise a seven-day hold |
Practical handover procedure
- Agree cancellation, capture approval and customer wording with the merchant. Keep the provider state, authorised amount, capturable amount and final captured amount separate.
- Build a queue sorted by actual expiry with a warning margin chosen by operations. Exercise just-before, exactly-at and after-expiry inputs in UTC; display the local time separately.
- In the authorised supplier test account, verify a normal capture, a partial capture and an expired hold against provider records. Record staff approval and reconciliation evidence.
Interpret the outcome
At the declared review instant H17 has 24 hours, while H18 must leave the capture-ready queue. A timer does not extend the provider authorisation. The proposed 240 is a merchant instruction requiring its own execution record; this worksheet has not charged anyone.
Acceptance decision
The operator must be able to identify an expired hold without reading logs or assuming a universal window. Verify captured/released amounts and show unresolved settlement separately.
Limits and unverified work
Hypothetical booking and timing only. No financial action, eligibility decision or extension was performed. Multicapture, overcapture and method-specific arrangements require separate provider evidence.
Download the filled bilingual acceptance record — Contains these inputs, steps, expectations and limits. This is a teaching record, not an executable integration.