{"id":2299,"date":"2026-04-21T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2299"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:51:00","password":"","slug":"what-does-submitted-or-pending-mean","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/what-does-submitted-or-pending-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does SUBMITTED or Pending mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SUBMITTED<\/strong>\u00a0(often shown as\u00a0<strong>Pending<\/strong>) means your message was\u00a0<strong>accepted and sent to the operator<\/strong>\u00a0but a final delivery result is not yet back. The message is still in the delivery pipeline &#8211; it may later become Delivered or Failed when the operator sends a delivery report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where you see it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In your\u00a0<strong>reports<\/strong>, the \u201cPending\u201d count is usually messages in this state.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In your\u00a0<strong>Delivery Report<\/strong>, some messages may stay in a pending\/accepted state until the operator confirms delivery or failure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why it matters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pending messages are not counted as delivered or failed until the final status is received.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If many messages stay pending for a long time, delivery reports may be delayed or not received for some routes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUBMITTED\u00a0(often shown as\u00a0Pending) means your message was\u00a0accepted and sent to the operator\u00a0but a final delivery result is not yet back. The message is still in the delivery pipeline &#8211; it may later become Delivered or Failed when the operator sends a delivery report. Where you see it Why it matters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1965],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2299","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-errors-error-codes"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":121,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Errors &amp; Error Codes","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/errors-error-codes\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}