# Release payment authorization

Releases the full remaining authorized amount. Call this endpoint when you will not be making any additional captures. Payment authorizations may also be released manually from the Mollie Dashboard.

Mollie will do its best to process release requests, but it is not guaranteed that it will succeed. It is up to the issuing bank if and when the hold will be released.

If the request does succeed, the payment status will change to `canceled` for payments without captures. If there is a successful capture, the payment will transition to `paid`.

> 🔑 Access with
>
> [API key](/reference/authentication)
>
> [Organization access token with **payments.write**](/reference/authentication)
>
> [OAuth access with **payments.write**](/reference/authentication)

# OpenAPI definition

```json
{
  "openapi": "3.1.0",
  "info": {
    "title": "Accepting payments",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "license": {
      "name": "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International",
      "identifier": "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
    }
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://api.mollie.com/v2"
    }
  ],
  "security": [
    {
      "apiKey": []
    },
    {
      "organizationAccessToken": []
    },
    {
      "oAuth": []
    }
  ],
  "paths": {
    "/payments/{paymentId}/release-authorization": {
      "parameters": [
        {
          "name": "paymentId",
          "description": "Provide the ID of the related payment.",
          "in": "path",
          "required": true,
          "schema": {
            "type": "string",
            "pattern": "^tr_.+$",
            "example": "tr_5B8cwPMGnU"
          }
        }
      ],
      "post": {
        "summary": "Release payment authorization",
        "x-speakeasy-name-override": "release-authorization",
        "tags": [
          "Payments API"
        ],
        "operationId": "release-authorization",
        "security": [
          {
            "apiKey": []
          },
          {
            "organizationAccessToken": [
              "payments.write"
            ]
          },
          {
            "oAuth": [
              "payments.write"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "description": "Releases the full remaining authorized amount. Call this endpoint when you will not be making any additional captures. Payment authorizations may also be released manually from the Mollie Dashboard.\n\nMollie will do its best to process release requests, but it is not guaranteed that it will succeed. It is up to the issuing bank if and when the hold will be released.\n\nIf the request does succeed, the payment status will change to `canceled` for payments without captures. If there is a successful capture, the payment will transition to `paid`.\n\n> 🔑 Access with\n>\n> [API key](/reference/authentication)\n>\n> [Organization access token with **payments.write**](/reference/authentication)\n>\n> [OAuth access with **payments.write**](/reference/authentication)",
        "requestBody": {
          "content": {
            "application/json": {
              "schema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "profileId": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "pattern": "^pfl_.+$",
                    "example": "pfl_5B8cwPMGnU",
                    "description": "The identifier referring to the [profile](get-profile) this entity belongs to.\n\nMost API credentials are linked to a single profile. In these cases the `profileId` can be omitted in the creation request. For organization-level credentials such as OAuth access tokens however, the `profileId` parameter is required."
                  },
                  "testmode": {
                    "type": [
                      "boolean",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "Whether to create the entity in test mode or live mode.\n\nMost API credentials are specifically created for either live mode or test mode, in which case this parameter must not be sent. For organization-level credentials such as OAuth access tokens, you can enable test mode by setting `testmode` to `true`.",
                    "writeOnly": true,
                    "example": false
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "responses": {
          "202": {
            "description": "The request was accepted and will be processed asynchronously.",
            "content": {
              "application/hal+json": {
                "schema": {},
                "example": {}
              }
            }
          },
          "404": {
            "description": "No entity with this ID exists.",
            "content": {
              "application/hal+json": {
                "schema": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "description": "An error response object.",
                  "required": [
                    "status",
                    "title",
                    "detail",
                    "_links"
                  ],
                  "properties": {
                    "status": {
                      "type": "integer",
                      "description": "The status code of the error message. This is always the same code as the status code of the HTTP message itself.",
                      "minimum": 400,
                      "maximum": 599,
                      "example": 404
                    },
                    "title": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "The HTTP reason phrase of the error. For example, for a `404` error, the `title` will be `Not Found`.",
                      "example": "Not Found"
                    },
                    "detail": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "A detailed human-readable description of the error that occurred.",
                      "example": "The resource does not exist"
                    },
                    "field": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "If the error was caused by a value provided by you in a specific field, the `field` property will contain the name of the field that caused the issue.",
                      "example": "description"
                    },
                    "_links": {
                      "type": "object",
                      "required": [
                        "documentation"
                      ],
                      "properties": {
                        "documentation": {
                          "type": "object",
                          "description": "The URL to the generic Mollie API error handling guide.",
                          "required": [
                            "href",
                            "type"
                          ],
                          "properties": {
                            "href": {
                              "type": "string",
                              "example": "https://docs.mollie.com/errors"
                            },
                            "type": {
                              "type": "string",
                              "example": "text/html"
                            }
                          }
                        }
                      }
                    }
                  }
                },
                "example": {
                  "status": 404,
                  "title": "Not Found",
                  "detail": "No entity exists with token 'uct_abcDEFghij123456789'",
                  "_links": {
                    "documentation": {
                      "href": "...",
                      "type": "text/html"
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "422": {
            "description": "The request contains issues. For example, if you are trying to release a payment that that is not in an authorized state.",
            "content": {
              "application/hal+json": {
                "schema": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "description": "An error response object.",
                  "required": [
                    "status",
                    "title",
                    "detail",
                    "_links"
                  ],
                  "properties": {
                    "status": {
                      "type": "integer",
                      "description": "The status code of the error message. This is always the same code as the status code of the HTTP message itself.",
                      "minimum": 400,
                      "maximum": 599,
                      "example": 404
                    },
                    "title": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "The HTTP reason phrase of the error. For example, for a `404` error, the `title` will be `Not Found`.",
                      "example": "Not Found"
                    },
                    "detail": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "A detailed human-readable description of the error that occurred.",
                      "example": "The resource does not exist"
                    },
                    "field": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "If the error was caused by a value provided by you in a specific field, the `field` property will contain the name of the field that caused the issue.",
                      "example": "description"
                    },
                    "_links": {
                      "type": "object",
                      "required": [
                        "documentation"
                      ],
                      "properties": {
                        "documentation": {
                          "type": "object",
                          "description": "The URL to the generic Mollie API error handling guide.",
                          "required": [
                            "href",
                            "type"
                          ],
                          "properties": {
                            "href": {
                              "type": "string",
                              "example": "https://docs.mollie.com/errors"
                            },
                            "type": {
                              "type": "string",
                              "example": "text/html"
                            }
                          }
                        }
                      }
                    }
                  }
                },
                "example": {
                  "status": 422,
                  "title": "Unprocessable Entity",
                  "detail": "Authorization cannot be released because the payment is not in the authorized\nstate.",
                  "_links": {
                    "documentation": {
                      "href": "...",
                      "type": "text/html"
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "x-readme": {
          "code-samples": [
            {
              "language": "shell",
              "code": "curl -X POST https://api.mollie.com/v2/payments/tr_WDqYK6vllg/release-authorization \\\n    -H \"Authorization: Bearer live_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM\""
            },
            {
              "language": "php",
              "code": "<?php\nuse Mollie\\Api\\Http\\Requests\\ReleasePaymentAuthorizationRequest;\n\n$mollie = new \\Mollie\\Api\\MollieApiClient();\n$mollie->setApiKey(\"live_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM\");\n\n$mollie->send(\n    new ReleasePaymentAuthorizationRequest(paymentId: \"tr_WDqYK6vllg\")\n);",
              "install": "composer require mollie/mollie-api-php"
            },
            {
              "language": "node",
              "code": "/*\nWe don't have a Node.js code example for this\nAPI call yet.\n\nIf you have some time to spare, feel free to\nshare suggestions on our Discord:\nhttps://discord.gg/VaTVkXB4aQ\n*/",
              "install": "npm install @mollie/api-client"
            },
            {
              "language": "python",
              "code": "'''\nWe don't have a Python code example for this\nAPI call yet.\n\nIf you have some time to spare, feel free to\nshare suggestions on our Discord:\nhttps://discord.gg/VaTVkXB4aQ\n'''",
              "install": "pip install mollie-api-python"
            },
            {
              "language": "ruby",
              "code": "# We don't have a Ruby code example for this\n# API call yet.\n#\n# If you have some time to spare, feel free to\n# share suggestions on our Discord:\n# https://discord.gg/VaTVkXB4aQ",
              "install": "gem install mollie-api-ruby"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "components": {
    "securitySchemes": {
      "apiKey": {
        "type": "http",
        "scheme": "bearer",
        "x-default": "live_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM"
      },
      "organizationAccessToken": {
        "type": "http",
        "scheme": "bearer",
        "x-default": "access_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM"
      },
      "oAuth": {
        "type": "oauth2",
        "flows": {
          "authorizationCode": {
            "authorizationUrl": "https://my.mollie.com/oauth2/authorize",
            "tokenUrl": "https://api.mollie.com/oauth2/tokens",
            "scopes": {}
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "x-readme": {
    "explorer-enabled": false,
    "samples-languages": [
      "shell",
      "php",
      "node",
      "python",
      "ruby"
    ]
  }
}
```