diff --git a/eopayment/__init__.py b/eopayment/__init__.py
index 3f04451..22b5943 100644
--- a/eopayment/__init__.py
+++ b/eopayment/__init__.py
@@ -232,3 +232,8 @@ class Payment(object):
     @property
     def has_free_transaction_id(self):
         return self.backend.has_free_transaction_id
+
+    def payment_status(self, transaction_id, **kwargs):
+        if not self.backend.payment_status:
+            raise NotImplementedError('payment_status is not implemented on this backend')
+        return self.backend.payment_status(transaction_id=transaction_id, **kwargs)
diff --git a/eopayment/common.py b/eopayment/common.py
index b69d004..4d59229 100644
--- a/eopayment/common.py
+++ b/eopayment/common.py
@@ -185,6 +185,8 @@ class PaymentCommon(object):
             amount = amount.to_integral_value(ROUND_DOWN)
         return str(amount)
 
+    payment_status = None
+
 
 class Form(object):
     def __init__(self, url, method, fields, encoding='utf-8',
diff --git a/tests/test_base_payment.py b/tests/test_base_payment.py
index d96f99f..5d85462 100644
--- a/tests/test_base_payment.py
+++ b/tests/test_base_payment.py
@@ -20,10 +20,11 @@ import mock
 import pytest
 
 import eopayment
+from eopayment.common import PaymentCommon
 
 
 def do_mock_backend(monkeypatch):
-    class MockBackend(object):
+    class MockBackend(PaymentCommon):
         request = mock.Mock()
 
         description = {
@@ -107,3 +108,10 @@ def test_get_parameters(monkeypatch):
     transaction_parameters = payment.get_parameters(scope='transaction')
     assert len(transaction_parameters) == 1
     assert transaction_parameters[0]['name'] == 'manual_validation'
+
+
+def test_payment_status(monkeypatch):
+    _, payment = do_mock_backend(monkeypatch)
+
+    with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError):
+        payment.payment_status('whatever')