Save and Verify the Card, Charge Later - Shopify

Question

I'm setting up my first Shopify store and would like to offer a free trial of a product. The basic idea is the customer is shipped the product at no charge and has so many days to try out and return the product. If the product is not returned within the time period they are charged the amount agreed upon up front.

Within Shopify there is only the option to capture payment immediately or to authorize and then manually capture payment later (7 day auth limitation).

What I would like to do is validate the credit card, but not pre-auth, then the ship the product to the customer for try out. If they decide to keep the product then I charge them 30 days later as agreed by the customer.

The method I want to use with Shopify is the same as detailed by Braintree here

https://support.braintreepayments.com/customer/portal/articles/1080637-collect-payment-at-a-later-date-aka-extend-authorization-

in the section "Save and Verify the Card, Charge Later".

Answer 1

You can use the option as you see it: authorize and then manually capture payment later

As an alternative, you could always capture the money, and if they actually do return it, refund them the money. That is how all TV sales work and they make bazillions doing that, so why not follow their lead?