When the Worldpay payment service receives payment requests from your website, we send these requests to the relevant financial institutions for authorisation. When the response from the financial institution has been processed, our payment service gives the payment a status and a Creation Date.
A typical payment is given a number of different statuses by our payment service as it moves through the payment process from authorisation to settlement. Understanding these payment statuses is important to understanding and managing your account(s).
For further details, see the Payment Status Definitions Guide.