Link of order state with Order status

Question

I wanted to confirm what is the link of order status to order state..?
Means if i link multiple Order status to order state e.g. to Processing, what does it mean?

Answer 1

An order state can have multiple order statuses, whereas one order status is the default of one order state.

You can check out the Order States and Statuses here: System > Order Statuses as shown in this picture:

Standard order status as of Magento CE 1.9.2.0 (see table sales_order_status) are:

• Canceled
• Closed
• Complete
• Suspected Fraud
• On Hold
• Payment Review
• PayPal Canceled Reversal
• PayPal Reversed
• Pending
• Pending Payment
• Pending PayPal
• Processing

The order statuses are already explained in detail here: https://magento.stackexchange.com/a/516/231