Payment Statuses

Pending

• A payment has been created successfully and awaiting payment action from end-customer
• Only applicable to payment methods with "delayed success confirmation"

Processing

• We have detected incoming payments or has started processing the payment

Cancelled

• Cancellation of a payment is only possible if a payment is still in pending status
• Also, payments captured by persistent payment methods cannot be cancelled
• A cancelled status means that a payment has been cancelled, and will no longer be able to capture payments or change to other states
• Any associated payment method will no longer accept incoming payments

Expired

• Payment will be made expired if payment not being made after certain period of time
• You may set the expiration time upon creation of Payment object
• Also, persistent payment methods cannot be expired

Failed

• *Payment failure reasons

• *- Payments can fail for various reasons

• Payments can sometimes be declined by the payment network

• Other reasons could be because of errors made when the end-customer was trying to make a payment. For example, sending of the wrong amount, or to a non-existent account

• *Error messages

• *- Failed payments should come with corresponding error messages. See Handling Errors to learn more about handling each error type

• *Handling failed payments

• *- You should reach out to your end-customer to prompt them to attempt to make the payment again, or to provide them with an alternative payment method

Paid

• The payment is successful. However, the funds are still pending and will not yet be available for withdrawal or transfers
• At this stage, you may inform your end-customer of a successful payment, and you may proceed to fulfill your goods or services

Completed

• At this stage, the payment is fully complete and funds have been made available for you to withdraw to your bank account or to transfer for other purposes