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Unfortunatelly XC has always worked that way - order is created and entered in db before payment is submitted, processed and result returned back to XC.

The same scenario as above will happen if you use PP Standard - the second you are redirected to PP page order is created in XC and if you bail out from that page without completing your payment for any reason that order stays in XC...

XC works the same way if you use payment gateway hosted page or iframe page....

The only way to avoid this is rewrite the whole order placement process and use transactions but MySQL ISAM storage engine which XC uses does not support transaction; InnoDB on the other hand does support transactions, it also has other advantages but that means rewrite the way XC works... Do you see this happening.. I don't...