What is a forced authorization code in payment processing?

[Samuel]

I recently heard about a “forced authorization code” used in credit card transactions and wanted to understand what it actually means. From what I gather, it seems related to approving a payment manually when the system doesn’t automatically authorize it.

 

[isabel]

A forced authorization code is a manual authorization number supplied by a card issuer to a transaction when the system does not have the capability to authorize the transaction.