Why would a Charge have a 'pending' status?

[Garrett Davis]

I'm implementing Stripe API into a Rails app. We are doing straight capture, no pre-auth or subscriptions.

I see the Charge object can have 3 statuses. I'm curious as to how I could wind up with a 'pending' status so I

can handle the situation properly. I assume it's for auth/capture flows or pending subscription charges, which

we don't use, but that's just a guess.

Thanks in advance.

[Remi J.]

Hey Garrett,

When you charge a customer's bank account via ACH, we don't know immediately if the charge succeeded. We attempt to debit the bank account and it might take up to 5 business days to receive acknowledgment of success or failure! During that time, the charge is considered as "pending" until it either succeeds or fails. This is documented here: https://stripe.com/docs/ach#ach-payments-workflow

When you charge a credit or debit card though we always know instantly if the charge succeeded or not. If you only charge cards you don't have to care about `status: "pending"` in your code.

Hope this helps!

Remi

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[Garrett Davis]

Awesome! Thank you for the clarification.