Order and Transaction Lifecycle

This page helps you understand the order lifecycle at Cashfree.

When you create an order at Cashfree Payments, there are various states that this order may go through before reaching your account. The various states help you understand the status of the order and the payment associated with it.

Order State Details

Order State	Description
ACTIVE	Orders are marked as ACTIVE, when an order is created by the merchant through an API request to Cashfree Payments.
PAID	Orders are marked PAID when the payment is verified by Cashfree Payments and the payment is successful.
EXPIRED	Orders are marked as EXPIRED when the order has exceeded `order_expiry_time` specified by merchant to complete the order.
TERMINATED	This status might come ONLY if you request to terminate the Order using [Order Termination API](Order Termination API). This indicates that customers can no longer pay for this order.
TERMINATION_REQUESTED	This status might come ONLY if you request to terminate the Order using [Order Termination API](Order Termination API). This indicates that you have requested to Terminate the order, however, its still under process. Order gets Terminated only if there's no transaction in a non-terminal state. If a transaction is in intermediate state and gets success then status can go from TERMINATION_REQUESTED to SUCCESS also.

To view order details from the Payment Gateway Dashboard,

Go to Transactions > Orders. All the orders applicable for that filter applied will be displayed along with the order status.

Click on any particular order to view more order details such as Order ID, Order Amt, Transaction ID, Method used for payment, Phone Number and so on.

Payment State Details

Customers can try to make multiple payments for orders at Cashfree. Every new payment attempt leads to a new payment attempt in our system. These payments follow their own lifecycle at Cashfree Payments.

Payment State	Description
SUCCESS	Transactions are marked as `SUCCESS` when we get a successful response from the bank, and we can capture the amount in our system. Once payment is marked as `SUCCESS`, we mark the order as `PAID`.
FAILED	Transactions are marked as `FAILED` when we get a failed response from the bank.
NOT_ATTEMPTED	Transactions are marked as `NOT_ATTEMPTED` initially when a transaction is created and an acknowledgement is awaited from the bank.
PENDING	Transactions are marked as `PENDING` when we have successfully sent the request to the bank but waiting for a response from the bank.
FLAGGED	Transactions are marked as `FLAGGED` if we have identified any risks associated with the transaction.
CANCELLED	Transactions are marked as `CANCELLED` when there is success response post time to live. In this case, the amount will be reversed to the customer without any charge being levied to them or the merchant.
VOID	Transactions are marked as `VOID` when we do not want to capture the transaction amount. This is only applicable for card-based pre-authorized transactions or to UPI one-time mandates. The amount is reversed immediately in these cases by Cashfree Payments.
USER_DROPPED	Transactions are marked as USER_DROPPED when customers drop out of the payment flow without completing the transaction. It will help you understand if customers attempted to pay or not. Some common scenarios where the transaction will be marked as USER_DROPPED are: - Android UPI Intent Payments - when a user clicks on the back button in the UPI app without making any payment attempt. - Card Payments - when a user drops out of the payment flow by closing the OTP verification page. - UPI Collect Transactions - when a user does not enter the UPI PIN and closes the transaction screen

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Updated about 2 months ago