Batched orchestrations are for data imports. They're likely created as part of a backend process and are initiated via data feeds.
Orchestrations can remain continuously listening for funding until deliberately closed. Useful for open ended payment scenarios like tip links where funding trickles in based on exposure and engagement. In this scenario, the funding step will process income, calculate contracts, and attach sent payments to the orchestration for later reporting.
Orchestrations can be interactively built up and immediately executed and closed. This is useful for explicit payment grouping scenarios where you want to prepare a set of payments and explicitly define funding up front. These can be funded via invoice or instant card payment still, but they are immediately executed
The payment cycle mode defines how a payment cycle behaves. continuous (Orchestrations can remain continuously listening for funding until deliberately closed. Useful for open ended payment scenarios like tip links where funding trickles in based on exposure and engagement. In this scenario, the funding step will process income, calculate contracts, and attach sent payments to the orchestration for later reporting.) batched (Batched orchestrations are for data imports. They're likely created as part of a backend process and are initiated via data feeds.) immediate (Orchestrations can be interactively built up and immediately executed and closed. This is useful for explicit payment grouping scenarios where you want to prepare a set of payments and explicitly define funding up front. These can be funded via invoice or instant card payment still, but they are immediately executed) export