Payment Methods such as Credit Cards and Instant payments such as Cash App, PayPal, and Venmo will return an immediate authorization response, providing a clear indication of approval or decline in real time.

Many payment methods supported by Recurly have asynchronous approval and decline flows, requiring you to listen for status updates when the payment and invoice status is updated.

Subscriptions can experience mid-cycle events depending on the payment method, consumer interaction, and other events such as dunning and chargebacks.

Invoices and Transactions are tightly coupled in Recurly's system, and their status will have an effect on one another. Some events, associated with post-authorization events (voids, refunds, etc.) can affect transactions and invoices and will emit events.