Recording one
From a candidate's interview or from the pipeline: advance, reject, or hold. A decision carries a reason, which stays internal.
Where a stage transition is automatic, the platform records the outcome from the score. A manual decision always overrides it — the score is an input, and a person's judgement outranks it by design.
Advancing
Advancing creates the next stage's interview, generates or attaches its questions, charges that stage's credits and sends the invitation. This is why credits are spent per stage rather than per flow: a candidate who does not get past stage one never costs stages two onwards.
Rejecting
Rejecting closes the candidate's journey for this position. It does not delete anything, does not notify them by itself, and does not affect them at any other organisation.
Sending a rejection is a separate, deliberate step — see offers and rejections.
What the candidate can see
The recommendation and its reasoning are never shown to a candidate, whatever your result-visibility settings. Those settings govern their performance report; the hiring decision is an internal document.
Whether they are told the outcome at all is up to you, and telling them is a communication you send rather than something the platform leaks.