4. Authorize a Transaction

▶ Run in Postman API request example showing POST endpoint for simulating card clearing with amount and transaction token parameters.

Transactions which are authroized, will be settled by the card networks by default in the Live enviornment.

In the Sandbox this is simulated via our /simulate/clearing endpoint. This endpoint that will trigger the Settlement of a transaction.

Code

curl --location 'https://sandbox.lithic.com/v1/simulate/clearing' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: e65e2478-f516-4c9d-af36-7d1ebc5414fd' \
--data '{
  "amount": 3831,
  "token": "408f63aa-fb26-408e-bcd1-ed3b620a29f8"
}'