Handling Financial Services with Square API in JavaScript/

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Cancel or Complete Payments

Cancel or Complete Payments

Learn to complete and cancel payment using the payment ID and idempotency key.

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Create payment with the APPROVED status
Cancel a payment by the payment ID
Cancel a payment using the idempotency key
Complete a payment

The possible statuses of payments are APPROVED, COMPLETED, CANCELED, or FAILED. Let’s try to understand the workflow of Square payments:

COMPLETED: If the autocomplete field is set to true in the CreatePayment request, the payment is processed immediately, and the resulting Payment object has the status field set to COMPLETED. This is also the default behavior. It means that if the autocomplete field is not set, the payment is set to complete immediately after they are created.
APPROVED: If the autocomplete field is set to false in the ...

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