# Payment

The `Payment` family — 6 operations.

A payment is a card charge against an order as the processor sees it — authorized (the hold), captured, settled or failed. Payments are made at the till and the online channels, never here; the back office reads them here — the amount, the tip, the currency, the card brand and last four, and the processor references — and follows each one to its order and its tender.

## Operations

| Operation | Kind | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [authorizePayment](/reference/payment/authorizePayment/) | mutation | Authorize a card payment — reserve the money on the customer’s card without taking it yet. |
| [cancelPayment](/reference/payment/cancelPayment/) | mutation | Cancel a payment on an order. |
| [capturePayment](/reference/payment/capturePayment/) | mutation | Capture an authorized card payment — actually take the reserved money. |
| [payment](/reference/payment/payment/) | query | Look up one record — a payment on an order. |
| [payments](/reference/payment/payments/) | query | The payment list — each entry is a payment on an order. |
| [voidPayment](/reference/payment/voidPayment/) | mutation | Void a payment on an order — cancel it as if it should not have happened, keeping the paper trail. |