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retry payment

To retry a payment is to attempt to make the same payment again after an earlier attempt to make it failed or was not completed.

In plain English

This means making another try at a payment that was meant to go through earlier. The new try is for that same payment, and it happens because the first try failed or did not finish.

In context

Here, "retry payment" prompts the user to try making that same payment again after the earlier attempt failed or was not completed.

Situation
Reading card, bank, wallet, authorization, decline, pending, and settlement states
What it communicates
prompts the user to start another payment attempt.

Meaning limits

The term alone does not state why the earlier attempt failed or was not completed, or what result the new attempt has.

Examples

“After the first attempt failed, she retried the payment for the same order.”

Core meaning

“When the earlier attempt did not finish, the message asked him to retry the payment.”

In context