Initial charge

An initial charge (upfront payment) is a payment that users pay while signing up a payment agreement. Only if the initial payment is successful, the agreement sign up is deemed success. Commonly the initial payment is set to the same amount as the agreement pricing (or the campaign price if applicable), but you can also set it to a larger amount in case they need to pay an additional fee (i.e., the discounted price of the phone if they purchase a smartphone with a subscription). The payment agreement approval step in the sign up flow is where the upfront payment amount is displayed to the user.

tip

Initial charge can be used with any types of payment agreement and campaigns.

Example industries/use-cases

✨ Any subscription model that requires user to pay an amount to start the subscription.

How it looks in the app

Vipps

MobilePay

API request snippet

"initialCharge": {
  "amount": 5900,
  "currency": "NOK",
  "description": "Initial Charge for the subscription",
  "transactionType": "RESERVE_CAPTURE",
  "orderId": "merchant-order-1234"
}