# Error 516: Authorization Expired

PayMe's message with `language: "en"`: **Sale authorization has been expired**

The capture came more than 7 days after the authorization, so it can no longer be captured. This error doesn't void it.

## Usual causes

- A late `capture-sale`.

## What to do

- Release the hold with [Refund Sale](/payments/post-sale-actions/post-refund-sale), otherwise the card issuer releases it on its own schedule.
- Alert before the limit: [Capture, Refund, Void](/agents/steps/capture-refund-void).

The full list of codes is on [Errors](/payments/getting-started/errors). If something else is going on, see [Troubleshooting by Symptom](/agents/errors/troubleshooting).