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Payment states and modifications

A payment can have several states, and change states when a modification is made.

StateDescription
CREATEDThe payment has been initiated.
AUTHORIZEDThe user has accepted the payment.
ABORTEDThe payment has been actively stopped by the user.
EXPIREDThe payment has expired. See Timeouts.
TERMINATEDThe merchant has stopped the payment.

When a payment is initiated it has the state CREATED. Once a payment is CREATED, several modification actions can be made:

Each modification action is defined as a separate endpoint in the API.

The following flow diagram describes when each modification action is applicable.