# Child Payment States

#### Child Payment transaction:

Designed specifically to streamline subsequent operations triggered by merchants, these transactions seamlessly handle tasks that arise after initiating the payment.

Within the dynamic landscape of online payment transactions, The below table provides a comprehensive breakdown of [child states](#child-payment-transaction), their corresponding [parent states](https://sandbox-doc.gitbook.io/ottu-team-sandbox-doc/user-guide-proposal/payment/payment-recording-and-management/parent-payment-states#parent-payment-transaction), and succinct descriptions. Here, The parent state represents the initial status of a payment transaction before it progresses to any of its child states.

<table><thead><tr><th width="138">Child State</th><th width="134">Parent State</th><th width="222">Child State Description</th><th>                     Note</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Paid</strong></td><td>Authorized</td><td>As a merchant, you'll receive a portion of the authorized payment amount (i.e., will be captured).</td><td>Rest assured, a copy of the payment transaction will be created to keep track of all the details.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Refunded</strong></td><td>Authorized / Paid</td><td>In case of a refund, a partial or the full paid amount will be returned to the customer.</td><td><p>There are two refund states to be aware of:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Queued-refund.</li><li>Rejected-refund.</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Refund-queued</strong></td><td>Authorized / Paid</td><td>The payment amount is currently awaiting bank approval.</td><td><br></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Refund-rejected</strong></td><td>Authorized / Paid</td><td>The payment amount has not been authorized by the bank.</td><td><br></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Voided</strong></td><td>Authorized</td><td>Sometimes, circumstances change, and you need to reverse the payment immediately. Our system allows you to void (i.e., cancel) transactions that have not yet been sent to the bank.</td><td><p>Voiding can only be performed on transactions that have not yet been sent to the bank.</p><p>This action may be executed as a single task at the end of the working hours.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>