Order state when creating shipping label

Question

I have created a script that automatically create UPS shipping labels when a certain orders have the status "ready_for_ups".

However I'm unsure to which "state" I should assign this to. Is it "pending" or "processing".

Almost all of our payments are done with credit card and a few with bank wire transfer.

Answer 1

• Pending = not paid yet
• Processing = Paid not shipped/Shipped not paid

So I would go with processing