Purpose

This section describes the types of payment result sent to you when a payment has been processed. These are shown in the table below.

Note that the shopper can cancel at any point in the payment process, including when a card is declined by its issuer. The shopper always has the choice of trying another method of payment, such as another card.

Use

When a payment has been processed, either through to success or to cancellation, information about the processed transaction is made available to you in three ways:

Types of Payment Results

This table shows the types of payment result sent to you when a payment has been processed.

Note that the right-most column in the table is only relevant if you have Payment Notifications enabled, for more information, please refer to Payment Notifications (Callbacks).

status/condition

transaction ID generated
(view with the MAI)

email sent

Payment Notification sent

successful

Yes

Yes

Yes

declined

Yes

No

No

cancelled

No

No

Yes

browser closed
connection broken
or similar

No

No

No