What does each payment (batch) status mean?

A payment is a collection of transactions presented to EPP within a CSV file. This payment, or cluster of transactions, follows a lifecycle with its status reflecting progress.

The statuses are:

• Uploaded: is the first status of the payment and means that the payment has been received.
• Creating: is when the payment is being processed and the transactions are being created.
• Created: means all the transactions in the payment have been created.
• Approving: is when the funds for the payment has been received or guaranteed and the proceeds of the transactions are being made available to the recipients.
• Approved: is when the transactions’ proceeds are available to the recipients (if set up, communication would have been sent).
• Cancelling: is when a payment cancellation request has been received and is being processed. 
• Completed: is when the payment has ended; either because all the transactions have been received or if the payment has been cancelled.
• Failed: is when something went wrong during payment creation. You should be able to download the error report from the View Payments screen.
• Pending review: is when an Operations user requested payment create and the Supervisor user still needs to review the request.
• Declined: is when a payment create request was declined by a Supervisor user.