Hello there, @oxendinefarm.
I'm here to help with your question about placing a hold on a customer's credit card.
Currently, this specific feature you mentioned is unavailable for QuickBooks Payments (Merchant Services). I can see how it can be useful both to you and other users as well.
Alternatively, you can temporarily make the customer inactive in your QBO account. Here's how:
- Go to the Sales menu and proceed to the Customers tab.
- Look for the name of the customer and click on it.
- Click the Edit button in the upper-right hand corner.
- Select Make inactive.
- Click Yes.
To make the customer active again, you can go back to the same page and click the Make Active button in the upper-right-hand corner. Here's an article about this for more details: Add and Manage Customers in QuickBooks Online.
You can view this article for a list of different methods you can process payments in QuickBooks Payments: Process and take payments with QuickBooks Payments.
You may refer to this article about what happens when you take payment from your payments account and a few guidelines to follow to protect and manage your new account and also prevent fraud: Accepting credit card payments: The Basics.
Keep me posted if you have follow-up concerns about QuickBooks. I'd be happy to help you more. Keep safe.