diff --git a/backend/src/payments/entities/payment.entity.ts b/backend/src/payments/entities/payment.entity.ts
index 963524ab..90f73943 100644
--- a/backend/src/payments/entities/payment.entity.ts
+++ b/backend/src/payments/entities/payment.entity.ts
@@ -71,6 +71,14 @@ export class Payment {
   @Column({ type: 'enum', enum: PaymentStatus, default: PaymentStatus.PENDING })
   status: PaymentStatus;
 
+  /** Last reconciled Soroban escrow outcome. */
+  @Column({ type: 'varchar', length: 20, nullable: true })
+  escrowStatus: 'pending' | 'confirmed' | 'failed' | 'timed_out' | null;
+
+  /** When the escrow state was last reconciled with the chain. */
+  @Column({ type: 'timestamptz', nullable: true })
+  escrowReconciledAt: Date | null;
+
   @Column({ type: 'timestamptz', nullable: true })
   paidAt: Date;
 
diff --git a/backend/src/payments/providers/soroban-escrow.provider.spec.ts b/backend/src/payments/providers/soroban-escrow.provider.spec.ts
index dbcd678c..47b2e2be 100644
--- a/backend/src/payments/providers/soroban-escrow.provider.spec.ts
+++ b/backend/src/payments/providers/soroban-escrow.provider.spec.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import { ConfigService } from '@nestjs/config';
-import { SorobanEscrowProvider } from './soroban-escrow.provider';
+import {
+  EscrowOutcomeStatus,
+  SorobanEscrowProvider,
+} from './soroban-escrow.provider';
 
 describe('SorobanEscrowProvider', () => {
   const configValues: Record<string, string> = {
@@ -10,8 +13,9 @@ describe('SorobanEscrowProvider', () => {
 
   function createProvider() {
     const configService = {
-      get: jest.fn((key: string, defaultValue?: unknown) =>
-        configValues[key] ?? defaultValue,
+      get: jest.fn(
+        (key: string, defaultValue?: unknown) =>
+          configValues[key] ?? defaultValue,
       ),
     } as unknown as ConfigService;
 
@@ -57,8 +61,8 @@ describe('SorobanEscrowProvider', () => {
   });
 
   it.each([
-    ['releaseEscrow', 'soroban_release_stub-booking-123'],
-    ['refundEscrow', 'soroban_refund_stub-booking-123'],
+    ['releaseEscrow', 'soroban_release_stub_booking-123'],
+    ['refundEscrow', 'soroban_refund_stub_booking-123'],
   ])('returns the transaction hash for %s', async (operation, expectedHash) => {
     const { provider } = createProvider();
     const result =
@@ -77,4 +81,55 @@ describe('SorobanEscrowProvider', () => {
       status: 'stub',
     });
   });
+
+  describe('reconcileEscrow', () => {
+    it('keeps stub status pending and non-final', async () => {
+      const { provider } = createProvider();
+      await expect(provider.reconcileEscrow('e1')).resolves.toMatchObject({
+        status: EscrowOutcomeStatus.PENDING,
+        final: false,
+        retryable: true,
+      });
+    });
+
+    it.each([
+      ['confirmed', EscrowOutcomeStatus.CONFIRMED, true, false],
+      ['failed', EscrowOutcomeStatus.FAILED, true, false],
+      ['timed_out', EscrowOutcomeStatus.TIMED_OUT, false, true],
+    ])('maps %s', async (raw, status, final, retryable) => {
+      const { provider } = createProvider();
+      jest
+        .spyOn(provider, 'getEscrowStatus')
+        .mockResolvedValue({ status: raw });
+      await expect(provider.reconcileEscrow('e1')).resolves.toMatchObject({
+        status,
+        final,
+        retryable,
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('treats transient RPC failures as retryable, never final', async () => {
+      const { provider } = createProvider();
+      jest
+        .spyOn(provider, 'getEscrowStatus')
+        .mockRejectedValue(new Error('503 Service Unavailable'));
+      await expect(provider.reconcileEscrow('e1')).resolves.toMatchObject({
+        status: EscrowOutcomeStatus.PENDING,
+        final: false,
+        retryable: true,
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('reports non-transient errors as final failures', async () => {
+      const { provider } = createProvider();
+      jest
+        .spyOn(provider, 'getEscrowStatus')
+        .mockRejectedValue(new Error('contract trapped: invalid escrow'));
+      await expect(provider.reconcileEscrow('e1')).resolves.toMatchObject({
+        status: EscrowOutcomeStatus.FAILED,
+        final: true,
+        retryable: false,
+      });
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/backend/src/payments/providers/soroban-escrow.provider.ts b/backend/src/payments/providers/soroban-escrow.provider.ts
index 7721c445..9c5bc6cb 100644
--- a/backend/src/payments/providers/soroban-escrow.provider.ts
+++ b/backend/src/payments/providers/soroban-escrow.provider.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,32 @@
 import { Injectable, Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { ConfigService } from '@nestjs/config';
 
+export enum EscrowOutcomeStatus {
+  PENDING = 'pending',
+  CONFIRMED = 'confirmed',
+  FAILED = 'failed',
+  TIMED_OUT = 'timed_out',
+}
+
+export interface EscrowOutcome {
+  escrowId: string;
+  status: EscrowOutcomeStatus;
+  /** True only for confirmed or definitively failed settlement. */
+  final: boolean;
+  /** True when the caller may safely retry reconciliation. */
+  retryable: boolean;
+  reason?: string;
+}
+
+const TRANSIENT_ERROR_PATTERN =
+  /timeout|timed out|etimedout|econnreset|econnrefused|enotfound|socket hang up|network|rate limit|too many requests|\b(429|500|502|503|504)\b|try_again_later|unavailable/i;
+
+/** Whether an RPC error is transient and therefore retryable. */
+export function isTransientRpcError(error: unknown): boolean {
+  const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+  return TRANSIENT_ERROR_PATTERN.test(message);
+}
+
 /**
  * Bridges long-term booking payments to the Soroban payment escrow contract.
  *
@@ -65,4 +91,85 @@ export class SorobanEscrowProvider {
     this.logger.log(`[Soroban] getEscrowStatus: ${escrowId}`);
     return { escrowId, status: 'stub' };
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Maps a raw escrow status payload to a normalized outcome. Unknown or stub
+   * statuses stay pending so they are never reported as final settlement.
+   */
+  normalizeOutcome(
+    escrowId: string,
+    raw: Record<string, unknown>,
+  ): EscrowOutcome {
+    const value = String(raw?.status ?? '').toLowerCase();
+    switch (value) {
+      case 'confirmed':
+      case 'success':
+      case 'released':
+      case 'refunded':
+        return {
+          escrowId,
+          status: EscrowOutcomeStatus.CONFIRMED,
+          final: true,
+          retryable: false,
+        };
+      case 'failed':
+      case 'error':
+        return {
+          escrowId,
+          status: EscrowOutcomeStatus.FAILED,
+          final: true,
+          retryable: false,
+          reason: raw?.reason ? String(raw.reason) : undefined,
+        };
+      case 'timed_out':
+      case 'timeout':
+        return {
+          escrowId,
+          status: EscrowOutcomeStatus.TIMED_OUT,
+          final: false,
+          retryable: true,
+        };
+      default:
+        return {
+          escrowId,
+          status: EscrowOutcomeStatus.PENDING,
+          final: false,
+          retryable: true,
+        };
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Fetches the escrow state and returns a consistent outcome. Transient RPC
+   * failures yield a retryable, non-final pending outcome; non-transient
+   * failures yield a final failed outcome.
+   */
+  async reconcileEscrow(escrowId: string): Promise<EscrowOutcome> {
+    try {
+      const raw = await this.getEscrowStatus(escrowId);
+      return this.normalizeOutcome(escrowId, raw);
+    } catch (error) {
+      const reason = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+      if (isTransientRpcError(error)) {
+        this.logger.warn(
+          `[Soroban] transient RPC failure for ${escrowId}: ${reason}`,
+        );
+        return {
+          escrowId,
+          status: EscrowOutcomeStatus.PENDING,
+          final: false,
+          retryable: true,
+          reason,
+        };
+      }
+      this.logger.error(`[Soroban] escrow ${escrowId} failed: ${reason}`);
+      return {
+        escrowId,
+        status: EscrowOutcomeStatus.FAILED,
+        final: true,
+        retryable: false,
+        reason,
+      };
+    }
+  }
 }