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Early Access Feature
Payment Actions is currently an Early Access feature. Please reach out to [email protected] or your customer success manager for access.

A payment_action is an object that represents additional actions or instructions that should be sent to the bank regarding a specific payment (e.g. a payment_order) that is distinct from the payment initiation instruction.

Attribute	Description
id string	Unique identifier for the payment order
live_mode boolean	This field will be true if this object was created with a production API key or false if created with a test API key.
actionable_id string	The id of the payment to action on. Optional, but if present, the `actionable_type` must also be present.
actionable_type string	The type of the payment being actioned on. One of `payment_order`, `expected_payment`. Optional, but if present, the `actionable_id` must also be present.
type string	The type of action decision for this specific payment action. The possible actions are determined based on the of the actionable.
status string	The status of the payment action. One of `pending` , `processable`, `processing`,`sent`, `failed`, `cancelled`
details object	The `action` specific attributes of the payment action.

Payment Action Types for each Payment Types

currently we only support positive pay actions forcheck type payments

Payment Type	Possible Action Types	Description
`check`	`stop`	Send a payment action notification to `stop` the corresponding check payment
	`issue`	Send a payment action notification to `issue` the corresponding check payment (also known as Positive Pay). This is a notification to the bank that the corresponding check has been printed outside of the bank and should be honored.

Payment Type

Possible Action

Types

Description

check

stop

Send a payment action notification to stop the corresponding check payment

issue

Send a payment action notification to issue the corresponding check payment (also known as Positive Pay). This is a notification to the bank that the corresponding check has been printed outside of the bank and should be honored.

Payment Action State Machine

The diagram below describes the changes and dependencies of the payment action state machine.

When the Payment Action is associated to an actionable of type payment_order, the payment action state is dependent on the state of the Payment Order. For other actionable types, such as expected_payment, the payment action state is not dependent on the state of the EP.

The following abbreviations are used to make rendering the diagram easier:pa is payment_action and po is payment_order. actionable refers to a type of payment that payment actions can be run on, specifically a payment_order.

Actionable State Matrix

The following describes the states of a payment action alongside the possible states for the corresponding actionable

Payment Action Status	Payment Order Status
`pending`	`pending`, `needs_approval`, `approved` `processing`
`processable`	`sent`
`processing`	`sent`
`sent`	`sent`, `stopped`, `completed`
`failed`	`sent`, `completed`
`cancelled`	`failed`, `cancelled`