Defining statuses

Statuses are the actual states that a document moves through in the pipeline.

A transaction can contain two types of statuses, a drop status and a pickup status. A document is moved into a drop status when the events and conditions of a transaction have been completed. A pickup status takes the document from the previous drop status and moves it through the next transaction. Created and Scheduled are examples of statuses.

Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation provides a default set of statuses. These statuses are used to connect transactions. Your business practices may call for use of one or more extended statuses. These statuses do not stand alone and only follow the status from which they are extended.