Most of this page is admin-only. Maintainers can see payment state everywhere but cannot change it.
How a payment is created
Only by allotment. There is no way to raise a payment against an unallotted delegate, and no way to change an amount after the fact except by comping and re-raising.
The payment states
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Pending | Created but not yet sent. |
| Sent | The link is with the delegate. |
| Paid | Money received. The delegate is confirmed. |
| Failed | An attempt failed. The delegate is unchanged and can retry. |
| Comped | Waived by a staff member. The delegate is confirmed without paying. |
| Offline | Received outside the platform and recorded by hand. |
Automatic confirmation
With Razorpay, a paid link fires a webhook. The signature is verified, the payment is marked paid, the delegate is confirmed, a receipt is emailed and the sheet is updated. Nobody does anything.
With UPI or a static link there is no webhook. Every payment must be reconciled by hand. Budget for that when choosing a provider in fees and payment setup.
The three admin actions
Mark paid offline. Records that money arrived outside the platform. Confirms the delegate.
Comp. Waives the fee entirely. Confirms the delegate with no payment.
Cancel. Withdraws the registration.
Do not do this
Never mark a payment received without external confirmation in front of you: a bank statement line, a UPI reference, a receipt. A wrongly marked payment confirms a delegate who has not paid, sends them a receipt, and is invisible afterwards except in the activity log.
Reminders
A daily job emails everyone who is allotted and unpaid. It sends at most eighty messages per run, never sends the same reminder twice within twenty-four hours, and does nothing at all when payments are disabled.
You do not trigger it and you cannot send one manually from the console. If a specific delegate needs chasing, resend their allotment email from the registrations desk.
Reconciling: a workable routine
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Filter the registrations list to status Payment sent.
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Match against your bank or UPI statement for the day.
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For each match, mark paid offline with the reference in hand.
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Leave the rest. The reminder job chases them.
Refunds
The platform does not process refunds. It shows the refund policy you wrote on the payment page; the money movement happens in your payment provider's own dashboard. Record what you did by cancelling or annotating the delegate so the next person understands the state.