How to Enable Payment Authorization With Stripe

With Jotform’s Stripe Payment Integration you can easily enable payment authorization—a two-step process that lets you place a hold on funds now and capture them later. This comes in handy if you need to confirm stock, schedule a service, or take extra steps before finishing a sale. By holding payments instead of processing them right away, you get more flexibility and control over how and when customers are charged.

Whether you’re creating a new Stripe payment form or updating an existing one, setting up payment authorization only takes a minute. Here’s how:

1. In Form Builder, select your Payment field and then on the right side of it, click on the Wand icon.
2. Now, in the Stripe Integration window that opens on the right side of the page, click on Additional Gateway Settings to expand it.

3. Next, under the Additional Gateway Settings section, scroll down to Charge Customer Immediately and, on the right side of it, toggle it off.
4. Once you’re done, click on Continue.

That’s it. Now you can authorize payments upfront and capture them later when everything’s ready.