Known Issue: Received payments not appearing in balance

PayPal_Frank
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"PayPal experienced a brief technical issue yesterday during a planned system update which resulted in some consumers being unable to see a transaction in their account history after it had processed. And, some merchants may not have received immediate payment.  
 
The technical issue has been fixed and PayPal is working to have these transactions reflected accurately for both consumers and merchants. 
 
We apologize for any inconvenience."
 
Hi everyone,
 
I know this has been a frustrating issue and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.  I want to assure you this was immediately escalated and is being worked on at a high priority.  We don't have an exact ETA but our engineers are working to fix the transactions affected by this issue as soon as possible.
 
- Frank
 
 
 
FAQs
 

Q. Why I cannot see the money in my balance? I am sure that I received a payment because I received the email confirmation.  

A system change last night has resulted in an issue whereby instant bank funded transactions are not appearing on account balances. Once you received the email confirming your payment the transaction did complete but it will only appear in the account balance once this issue is resolved.

 

Q. Why does the system not allow me to withdraw the payment that I already received?

You will be able to withdraw the funds once the transaction appears on your account balance.

 

Q. I received a payment, but I cannot see the money in my balance. Should I send the parcel?

Until the payments shows as completed in your account activity log we would advise you not to send out the parcel. We expect this issue to be resolved soon therefore this shouldn't cause any major delay to your parcel send.

 
 
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zalexander86
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I'm contacting my friends in the media tomorrow and this is getting a full story. Never has a website so epically failed.

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ZeroBalance
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mtnzookeeper
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Zerobalance Don't be a tool, this has nothing to do with the elections

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DBSpears
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I'm really worried this may go on for much longer than we think. If this isn't resolved by the close of normal banking hours on Friday it may not be fixed for weeks and if that happens it's possible this could bring down PayPal.

 

When finacial firms fail its folks like us that are left holding the bag. I'm really getting worried that it's much more serious than just a "glitch"

 

This looks very bad. Be afraid, be very afraid. 

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dami86
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Okay, update: both transactions on my end showed up. I received email notifications for both, logged in to my Pp account and there they both were sitting in my balance. So understandably I immediately transferred the funds to my bank. >_>

 

Just a heads up for you guys.

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SS16
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I've never been so happy to see the PP notification icon... I FINALLY received the amount in my balance! This was such a big problem, and I'm sure many people do haven't seen anything. Paypal definitely needs to learn from this age make sure this never happens again. Thanks for finally fixing this.
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mtnzookeeper
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Well this has happened quite a few times before. Report them to CFPB

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jfalkartist
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I woke up this morning to find the missing payment money has been deposited into my account.  Issue resolved.  Thumbs up, PayPal!

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bobs409
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It seems like payments are going thru again but my balance is out of whack!  There is a payment missing somewhere.

 

Be sure to check your balance activity to see if it all adds up correctly. 

 

Ever notice these glitches never go against paypal, always the users?  Nothing stops them from dipping in for their "cut" is there?

 

Guess they'll make money from all of this too. The longer they have our money, the more interest it makes them.

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Marshall74
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My balance now adds up correctly, but the line by line math is still out of whack.

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