# Flagged payments

The flag status is used to alert you to any suspicious transactions on your account. Not every flagged payment is fraudulent, but flags indicate that a payment is worth investigating.

The risk settings configured for your business control when a flagged payment is triggered. When a payment is flagged, you must either [capture](https://www.checkout.com/docs/payments/manage-payments/capture-a-payment.md) or [void](https://www.checkout.com/docs/payments/manage-payments/void-a-payment.md) it manually. If you take no action, the payment expires automatically after seven days, and the funds return to the customer.

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## Flagged payments in the API

When using our API, a flagged payment is indicated in the response with `"flagged": true`. The field looks like this:

```json
{
  "risk": {
    "flagged": true
  }
}
```