Order & Transaction

Every payment done via Juspay systems has 2 components:

1. Order - Represented by OrderId
2. Transaction - Represented by TransactionId

Order

An order is a representation of your shopping cart. It is something for which you want to collect payment for. The order contains important information like amount, customer details, shipping address, billing address, etc. Only after an order is created payment can be started.

Transaction

For every payment attempt against an order, Juspay creates a transaction. Payment Attempt is when user selects a payment method and confirms to go ahead with the payment

Each transaction is represented by a transactionId.
Transaction ID = MerchantID - Order ID - Transaction Attempt Counter
Example of a Transaction ID for a Merchant with Merchant ID ‘TestMerchant’:
TestMerchant-OrderIDLessThan21-1

Against 1 order there can be maximum 25 transactions

Payment Retry

By default, Juspay allows multiple transactions to be created against an Order. When you get users to retry the payment in event of an unsuccessful transaction, if the retry is done against an existing orderId, Juspay creates a new transactionId against the same orderId by increasing the Transaction Attempt Counter.

Refer below table for example

An order is marked CHARGED(equivalent to Paid) when any one transaction is successful

Order ID Best Practices

Each order created by Merchant in Juspay’s System is identified via a Unique Order ID, which should be:

1. Less than 21 Characters
2. Alphanumeric
3. Non-Sequential
4. Should not contain any Special Characters