Pending
In accounting, pending means submitted or authorized, not settled.
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Not a rule
Bookkeeping convention — not codified. US GAAP governs recognition, measurement and presentation — not the mechanics a bookkeeper uses to get there. Anyone citing a standard for this word is citing the wrong thing.
Every citation in this system, with the text we read and the date we checked it, is in US GAAP and where these rules come from.
Pending, in use
Quoted from the 7 documents that use the word — what it does to an interface, in the spec's own sentence.
A pending card authorization is not a transaction.
A pending row renders at full opacity with a 2px --warning left border and its pending status.
Accessible name includes the entity: "Payment pending".
What it is not called
Each of these is a real word for a different thing. Using it here is what makes a product read as though it was built by someone who has not done the work.
- processing
- in progress
Nearby in the catalog
No component names this concept outright. These are the ones in its part of the system, which is a weaker claim — but a component nothing links to is a component nobody finds.
Terms this one depends on
Also in Cash
Defined in Lexicon. This page is generated from that document, so the two cannot disagree.