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Simulate transactions on issued cards

You can conduct end-to-end testing of your integration by simulating card transactions on your Airwallex issued cards in the demo environment.

Key test scenarios include:

As a platform account, you can call the simulation APIs on behalf of a connected account using the x-on-behalf-of header.

About the simulation endpoints

The simulation endpoints, namely Create a transaction for the provided card API and Capture the transaction with the provided id API emulate a dual message:

  • Authorize request where funds are reserved on the available balance. Create a transaction for the provided card API creates an authorization transaction to be approved or failed based on the authorization controls of your account. For example, if you set a spending limit of $100 on your account and you attempt to authorize $110, then this payment will fail. This endpoint simulates the production behaviour of our payment networks.
  • Capture request where funds equivalent to the authorized amount are deducted from your account balance in your multi-currency Wallet. Capture the transaction with the provided id API captures the transaction if the authorization is approved.

Step 1: Obtain your access token

Use obtain access token API to obtain an access token to call our API endpoints.

Example request

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Example response

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Step 2: Initiate Authorization

Use Create a transaction for the provided card API to simulate an authorization request by providing the following request parameters:

  • card_id or card_number: If both are provided, then card_id takes precedence.
  • transaction_amount: Transaction amount to be authorized, maximum amount is $9,999.99.
  • transaction_currency: Currency code, only including USD, AUD, GBP, EUR, CAD, JPY, HKD, CNY, SGD, NZD, and CHF.
  • merchant_category_code: A 4-digit Visa MCC .
  • auth_code: A 6-digit authorization code for transaction testing. If not provided, it is auto-generated.
  • merchant_info: Description of merchant with an exact string length of 43 characters. If not provided, defaults to ‘CARD_TX_GENERATOR TEST’.
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Example request

The transaction will be approved or failed depending on the authorization controls. The response will return the transaction object similar to Get single transaction API.

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Example response

Step 3: Capture authorized funds

If the authorization has been approved (status: PENDING), use Capture the transaction with the provided id API with the authorization transaction_id from Step 2, to capture the authorized funds. The captured amount will be deducted from your account balance in your multi-currency Wallet.

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Example request
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