Title: Membership Statuses
Last modified: August 28, 2022

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# Membership Statuses

 *  Resolved [Ryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fremzy/)
 * (@fremzy)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/membership-statuses/)
 * Hi,
 * Sorry if this exists somewhere; I’ve not been able to find it.
 * Question: How does RCP define the different membership statuses and how does 
   a membership status determine content access? For instance:
    – Does a member 
   with pending status have access to restricted content? – If a member’s payment
   renewal fails, what status are they assigned by RCP? – Will they still have access
   while payment attempt is being retried?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [highprrrr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/highprrrr/)
 * (@highprrrr)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/membership-statuses/#post-15960570)
 * Hi Ryan!
 * “Active” status will be required to view content restricted to that membership
   level.
 * When a renewal fails, the membership switches to “Expired”.
 * They will not have access until a successful payment is made.
 * I hope this helps!
    -James
 *  Thread Starter [Ryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fremzy/)
 * (@fremzy)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/membership-statuses/#post-15963956)
 * Thank you, James!
 * Yes, this clarifies it for me. Appreciate your time.
 *  Plugin Contributor [highprrrr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/highprrrr/)
 * (@highprrrr)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/membership-statuses/#post-15964029)
 * Awesome, I’m glad I could help!
 * Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have more questions.
 *  Thread Starter [Ryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fremzy/)
 * (@fremzy)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/membership-statuses/#post-15977720)
 * Hi James,
 * Sorry, a bit of additional clarification needed: when does RCP consider a payment
   as “failed”? Immediately a payment attempt fails or after the automatic retries
   by Stripe eventually fail? I’m finding in my test environment that when payment
   fails in Stripe, the member’s status does not automatically switch to “expired”.
   So I’m wondering if that switch only happens after Stripe has exhausted all retry
   attempts.
 * Please clarify?
 * Thanks

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