Diffrence between payment status and financial_status in REST Admin API

[LouisLin28]

I'm trying to build a data platform for my client, syncing the order list of his shop in the platform.

The API I tried to access is Retrieve a list of orders.

There are two similar statuses:

1. Payment Status : a status can been seen directly in one's shop.
2. financial_status : a parameter in REST Admin API.

I have several questions as below:

1. What's the deference between these two statuses?
   These two statuses seem alike, however, there few statuses only display in Payment Status such as Overdue / Expiring / Expiring.
   
   
2. How can I get the actual status via API? 
   Since there are several differnces bewtween these two, I'm not sure how can I align the actual status of an specfic order.
   For example, there's an order which indicates "Pending" in Payment Status. And the financial_status I retrieved via REST Admin API shows "Pending". On the other hand, there's another order shows "Expired" in Payment Status, but the financial_status still display "pending".
   
   

   	Payment Status	financial_status
   Order A	Pending	pending
   Order B	Expired	pending

   
   Therefore, according to the responses of API's, I can't know the actual payment status. I'll always get "pending" statuses in the platform I try to build for these two orders.
   My interpretation is that the statuses I retrieved from APIs are not the actual payment statuses.
   If so, how can I get the actual status via API?
   

Any ideas about the connections between these two statuses?

[Liam]

Hi LouisLin28,

On the GraphQL API there's a paymentTerms field on the product object that you can query - would this be closer to what you're looking for?