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Pre-authorizations and Authorization Adjustments for Developers
This technical blog post explains how developers can implement a hotel booking payment process using Adyen's API. It covers pre-authorizations, amount adjustments, extending authorization expiry dates, capturing payments, refunding payments and webhook payloads.
At Adyen, we understand that modern businesses across different industries require various payment solutions for different use cases. In a basic payment flow, the amount from your payment request is authorized and then captured. But sometimes you may want to change the amount or extend the length of the authorization. This is known as a pre-authorization, followed by an authorization adjustment.