# Reports Status

> What pending, ready, and errored mean for a Report, and why status says nothing about whether the Report matched.

Source: https://help.withpersona.com/articles/3GUjrXmwigjXHRX4U29DTt/
Section: Reports > Introduction > Using Reports

## Overview

This guide explains the meaning of each Report Status.

Please note that a Report Status is unrelated to the content of the Report itself. (For example, the status of a Watchlist Report is unrelated to whether the Watchlist Report returned a match or not.)

## Statuses

- **Pending**: The Report is in the process of fetching information from a data source.
- **Ready**: Persona has received a response from the data source. The Report is ready to view.
  - “Matched” = you have matches - it can be that you dismissed some but not all, or you dismissed all but got new matches
  - “No Match” = you have no matches - it can be that you never matched or you dismissed all matches
  - Once a Report is Ready, it will never go back to Pending.
  - If a Report is being run on a continuous interval, its status will either go from **Ready > Ready**, or **Ready > Errored**.
- **Errored**: There was an error when fetching the information.
  - This can happen because insufficient inputs were passed to the Report, or because the underlying data source had an error.