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name: payment-intent-status-failure-triage
description: Triage failed payment intents by failure type so recoverable ones get the right followup.
license: CC-BY-4.0
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# Payment Intent Status Failure Triage

## Inputs
The failed payment export, failure codes and the retry policy.

## Workflow
1. Group failures by the recorded failure code.
2. Separate recoverable types from hard declines.
3. Flag recoverable failures with no followup action.
4. Return the triage note without retrying charges.

## Output contract
Failure type | count | recoverable | action taken | reviewer

## Fictional acceptance test
Fictional day: 60 failed payments; 42 card_declined, 10 authentication_required and 8 other; the 10 authentication_required failures have no retry outreach. Flag 10 recoverable failures.

## Review gates
Re-check the failure code from the provider, not the checkout message. The note prepares followup; it never retries a charge.

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Method source: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/payment-intents