Overview Understanding Amounts

• Notification Amounts
• Conversion
• Fees

It is important to understand the amounts through notifications - what's processed, what is fee, how the conversion works and most important - what you need to add to customer's balance or deduct.

{danger.fa-exclamation} IMPORTANT: The transaction and session amounts may change during processing. Mode details can be found in Notification Amounts section.

Notification Amounts

As the transaction processing goes, you may notice that sometimes the amount is changed for the approved deposits. This is due to specifics of some PSPs. For example, bank wire and crypto both are the payment methods that require customer to make the actual transfer "offline" - disconnected from the PSP interface, so the customer may change to amount and/or currency.

The transaction amounts appear in three places through the notifications:

• session.amount and session.currency represent the amount attempted, what you send in the cashier login request for payment/withdrawal, or what customer submitted in withdrawal request, always in base currency (same currency as you send in cashier login request).
• session.processed_amount and session.processed_currency represent the total processed amount of all approved transactions created during cashier session or using Direct API, in base currency.
• transaction.amount and transaction.currency will reflect what the customer submitted within the cashier, but may change in final notification according to what is received from PSP. Amount received in final notification is how much you add to - or subtract from customer's balance.
• transaction.processed_amount and transaction.processed_currency is what the customer will see in receipt or SMS from bank. Please note that currency may differ if changed within the cashier or after - at PSP. When currency is changed, transaction.conversion_rate will indicate at which rate conversion from amount to processed_amount is done.

Key points about the amounts:

• transaction.currency will always be the same currency as you sent in the initial API call.
• when transaction is processed, transaction.amount will always be an equivalent to transaction.processed_amount, either in the same currency, or different - calculated according to transaction.conversion_rate.
• transaction.amount, transaction.processed_amount and transaction.processed_currency may change when it gets to final status - according to amount processed and registered at PSP.
• if processing is taking a while at PSP side, transaction.conversion_rate may change.
• when a withdrawal is requested with transaction.processed_currency different from transaction.currency, you use transaction.currency as base for payout processing, but actual processing at PSP will be in transaction.processed_currency

Conversion

In some cases the processing is done with different currency that the one you send initially. This is possible in cases:

• when cashier offers additional currencies based on settings, customer may choose one of these offered currencies
• different currency is used at PSP side, this is per PSP and merchant account - some would offer extra currencies, others will process in the same currency

Conversion at Praxis side in never applied to refunds and any transactions via Direct API, except the cases when conversion is done at PSP.

If withdrawal request is submitted in currency different from base currency, the actual processing will be done in currency selected by the customer and reflected in transaction.processed_amount and transaction.processed_currency.

Fees

If you are using fees, there are certain points to consider. Fee can be added (customer is charged extra on top of the amount intended) or included (fee is deducted from the amount to be delivered). Fee amount can be calculated either as flat fee (fixed amount) or percent (% of transaction amount).

The easies way to illustrate the effect of fee is per example. The example below illustrates the amounts for $10 transaction (deposit, withdrawal) and 7% fee.

deposit, fee included

• amount at transaction status page shows $9.30 (amount to be added to customer's balance at the website)
• note about the amount in receipt will indicate $10.00 (actual amount charged)
• transaction.amount = 930
• transaction.processed_amount = 1000
• fee = 70

deposit, fee added

• amount at transaction status page shows $10.00 (amount to be added to customer's balance at the website)
• note about the amount in receipt will indicate $10.70 (actual amount charged)
• transaction.amount = 1000
• transaction.processed_amount = 1070
• fee = 70

withdrawal request, fee included

• amount at withdrawal request status page shows $10.00 (amount to be deducted to customer's balance at the website)
• transaction.amount = 1000
• transaction.processed_amount = 930
• fee = 70

withdrawal request, fee added

• amount at withdrawal request status page shows $10.70 (amount to be deducted to customer's balance at the website)
• transaction.amount = 1070
• transaction.processed_amount = 1000
• fee = 70