“Payment on your order has failed.” Is this grammatically accurate?

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  1. Payment on your order has failed.
  2. Payment for your order has failed.
  3. Payment of your order has failed.
  4. Your order payment has failed.

I prefer 1st, but which one is correct for error message in online store?

EDIT:

All 4 sentences seem to be grammatically accurate, so the question is about which of them is more common.

Answer

I believe the first is more common in America, and to my mind has a more informal tone. The second would be more common in the UK, and is probably the most grammatically correct.
The third is less common; the fourth needs a possessive, and it isn’t a common collocation in this circumstance.

Although I don’t think any of them is technically incorrect, I’d favour number 2.

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