Hi,
Here the documentation about the Authorize payment plugin :
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/i...-authorize-form.html
As you can read for the API parameter :
API: Here you can select which API of Authorize.net to use. The SIM API will redirect the user to the authorize.net payment plateform and the credit card information will be asked at that moment. The AIM API will directly ask the credit card information on your website and will process the transaction in the background.
I think you mixed up the AIM mode with the CIM mode.
AIM does not allow to store the credit card and there is part of that in the official documentation (
www.authorize.net/support/AIM_guide.pdf
).
CIM has been made to allow the store to create "customers" in the Authorize database and store their credit cards.
But that mode is not handle by our current plugin.
Otherwise, AIM does not have any feature to update the "order status" after the payment.
For your last point ; the plugin have an option "instant capture" which allow you to force the capture of the payment directly.
Regards,