Manual Capture in Production: Holds, Buffers, Split Payments, and the Seven-Day

<p>In this guide, we explore system. Your transaction is pending. A timeout occurs. Now you're staring at a screen wondering if you just paid $1,000 twice or if your money

<p>Spent a morning chasing a reconciliation gap on a B2B invoicing flow: authorize at 23:40 local time, capture triggered by a backend job that runs at 00:10 once the invoice is

<p>Four agents entered an infinite loop in November 2025. They ran for 11 days. The bill was $47,000. Nobody noticed until it was over.</p> <p>The team was running a market

<p>A week ago I wrote about a payment that got stuck in <code>PENDING</code>, and the fix I shipped: a reconciliation job that only marks a payment settled <em>after</em>