Payment statuses

The GraphQL schema defines statuses like this:

enum PaymentStatus {
  INITIALISING
  OPEN
  CLOSED
  FAILED
  CANCELLED
}

The status of a payment can be any of the following:

Payment Statuses:

• INITIALISING – a draft payment. It may or may not have all required information to be executed. Typically, this never happens through the API. Can be created via the Flash Payments app under certain circumstances.

• OPEN – The payment is in progress.

• CLOSED – The payment was successfully delivered.

• FAILED – An error occurred during processing.

• CANCELLED – The payment did not complete and was cancelled, usually by the Flash Payments operations team.

Important to understand that the Payment.history is a transfer logs and is not related to payment status at all. Sometimes the history may contain half a dozen entries, however your payment will go through only two steps: OPEN and CLOSED.