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Manual Capture in Production: Holds, Buffers, Split Payments, and the Seven-Day Clock

Manual capture means the number you authorize and the number you capture are different numbers, and the gap between them is where production bugs live. The rules that matter: you may capturelessthan you. . .
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August 10, 2026
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Manual Capture in Production: Holds, Buffers, Split Payments, and the Seven-Day Clock
WHAT HAPPENED
The minimum card payment is {$minimum} {$currency}. => $this->toMinorUnits($cardPortion, $currency), ], [ => $this->toMinorUnits($hold->authorized_amount, $currency), ], [ Manual capture means the number you authorize and the number you capture are different numbers, and the gap between them is where production bugs live. Everything in this post is a consequence of those four facts, learned on a platform where the final amount almost never matches the estimate.
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