# Card Payment Status Inquiry
source: https://developer.mastercard.com/payment-acceptance-api/documentation/use-cases/card-payment-status-inquiry/index.md

This section explains the card payment status inquiry flow in Commercial Direct Payments (CDP), covering how a Creditor Agent requests and receives payment instruction details.
Diagram statusinquiry

1. The Creditor Agent submits a request to retrieve the payment instructions.
   API Reference: `GET /creditor-agents/{ica}/payment-acceptances/{instruction_identification}`

2. CDP validates the request against the `instruction_identification`.
3. CDP retrieves the payment instructions data.
4. CDP returns the payment instruction data to the Creditor Agent.