1. Place a real order with a real credit card.

2. In the order comments, you can see a 'Id' under the authorization information.

3. Login to your store's Authorize.net merchant interface, search for this authorization.

• You can search using the 'Id' from the above step or the customer's name.

• The status will be 'Authorize, pending capture'.

• Go back to the order page (on your store's site) and mark the order as 'payment received'. →This step will charge the credit card.

• Again, check the status using Authorize.net merchant interface.  The status should be 'captured, pending settlement'.  The status will change to 'settled successfully' in a couple of hours, or by the end of the day.

4. When that has happened, everything is working fine with your Authorize.net account.  If you do not want the charge on the credit card to be permanent, go to the order page on your site, and cancel the order. This will do a 'credit' transaction on your credit card.  You can now go back to Authorize.net merchant interface and verify that the authorization has been 'refunded'.

5. Lastly, after one day, if there has been online credit card purchases made, you should verify that funds are being transferred to your bank account.