Fetch Tokens🔗
You can search for the tokens using the following:
2. Fetch a Token and Check its Status
A token represents a mandate registration and is generated after the authorisation transaction is successfully captured. A token contains customer's payment details stored by Razorpay and is used to create a recurring payment.
Handy Tips
For simplicity, tokens are considered to be mandates. Hence, the status of the token determines the status of the mandate registration.
Token Statuses🔗
As the authorisation transaction moves through its different states, the token that is generated also undergoes state changes. Following is the life cycle of a token:
| Description | Next Step |
|---|---|---|
| Indicates that the bank is processing the mandate registration. | Wait for the token.confirmed webhook |
| Indicates that the bank has completed the mandate registration. | Create recurring payment |
| Indicates that the mandate registration has failed. | Create the authorization transaction again |
| Indicates that the token has been cancelled. | Create the authorization transaction again if you want to charge the customer. |
| Indicates that the token has been paused by your customer. | The token is inactive. Your customer has paused the token. Ask them to resume the token to charge them. |
| Indicates that the token has been unpaused by your customer. | The token is active and you can charge the customer. |
Know more about the turnaround time (TAT) for cards and Emandate from the FAQs.
Next Step🔗
Charge the Token to Create Subsequent Payment
Once you have the token, the next step is to charge this token an actual amount as a subsequent payment.