Payment statuses

The GraphQL schema defines statuses like this:

enum PaymentStatus {
  INITIALISING
  OPEN
  CLOSED
  FAILED
  CANCELLED
}

The current status of your payment.

• INITIALISING - a draft payment. It may or may not have all required information to be executed.

  • Typically never happens via API. Can be created via the Flash Payments app under certain circumstances.

• OPEN - the payment is in progress.

• CLOSED - means successfully delivered.

• FAILED - an error has occurred with this payment.

• CANCELLED - the payment has not completed and has been cancelled.

  • Usually done by 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.