Known Issue: Received payments not appearing in balance

PayPal_Frank
Administrator
Administrator
"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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Thembi
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I got a payment confirmation email. ( dunno if its real) from a customer who stated the payment is pending since I have to pay his agent first..is there such a thing?
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nonaheredia
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Yes same here i send my money to my bank they said it will appear on may 11 but still the money is not arrived and it says its completed
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DPCreations
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@nonaheredia

It will take 3-5 business days for the money to show up in your bank account.  "Completed" only means that PayPal as completed the initiation process on it's end.  There is no two-way communication with the bank after that. 

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nonaheredia
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I send the money may 8 2017 and i check it yesterday It's not arrived yet i also checked it today but still the money not arrived.
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DPCreations
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Five business days will be 15 May.

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nonaheredia
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I hope it will be arrived today so tomorrow we can have the money when we go to cebu...
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Vishno
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Hi I just made a purchase at a website for $10, which i used funds from my account to pay with. But after purchase and I was redirected back to the original site, and the purchase was nowhere to be found. It's not to be found in my history and no email confirmation either, but the $10 is gone from my account. 

 

Anyone else tried this before?

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WipedOut
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If the charge has not appeard in your PP account by now I would highly urge you to login to PP and change your password for safety,  Can we ask what site you purchased from?

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ShiraYuki
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This is an ongoing issue with balance aside from the balance not providing the added funds they also have issue with transaction log not appearing in activity even invoices but the amount will be deducted from your account. try contacting paypal if you're one of the affected, when I called in I was told to just wait within the day and it should appear.

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Vishno
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I will mention the site. But it's a website I have made multiple purchases on before without problems. 🙂

 

 

But if it's an ongoing issue as ShiraYuki says. I will just try to give it some more hours and see what happends, and then contact paypal.

 

Edit: The transaction went through now (about 2 hours delay)

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