Default membership payment status
You would need an extension to do this.  If you don't have bookkeeping integration, it wouldn't be hard to set the payment to &quot;Pending&quot; after it was recorded - but if you have bookkeeping integration, this would cause headaches.  You would need to find a way to identify a payment as belonging to a membership before it was written, which will be difficult, since the normal method (finding a MembershipPayment record) isn't possible - the MembershipPayment record is created after the contribution, not before.