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## Overview

When a customer completes a checkout with Affirm as the payment method, Affirm authorizes a charge for the amount of the order. The charge enters a pending state on the customer's Affirm account. Authorized charges expire if you do not capture them before the capture deadline, which is a period **specified in your partnership agreement with Affirm**. If you did not define your authorization timing requirements because of inventory, pre-orders, or shipping time in your onboarding form, please contact your Client Success Manager.

After Affirm authorizes a charge, you can perform the following actions on it in WooCommerce:

  • [Capture](🔗)

  • [Void](🔗)

  • [Refund](🔗)

  • [Partial Refund](🔗)

You can perform all these actions in the [WooCommerce admin page](🔗).



## Capture

Capturing a charge does the following:

  • Charges the authorized amount to the customer's Affirm account.

  • Begins the customer's billing cycle.

  • Triggers the transfer process of funds from Affirm to the merchant.

Merchants typically capture a charge after fulfilling the order. We recommend auto-capturing if you usually fulfill orders within 5 business days so that the customer receives their purchase before their first bill.

You can [configure WooCommerce to auto-capture orders](🔗) by setting **Transaction Mode** to **Authorize and Capture**.



## Void

If you haven not yet captured a charge, you can cancel its authorization by voiding it. Voiding a charge is irreversible and Affirm is unable to reinstate those funds.



## Refund

If you have already captured a charge, you can reverse it and refund the amount to the customer's Affirm account. You can only process a refund within 120 days of capturing the charge. Refunding a charge is irreversible.



## Partial refund

If you have already captured a charge, you can reverse part of the charge and refund the specified amount to the customer's Affirm account. You can only process a partial refund within 120 days of capturing the charge. Partially refunding a charge is irreversible.

[Click here for more information about refunds in WooCommerce](🔗).