Subscription Payment Error


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I got an email this morning stating there was a payment error for this months subscription, the details were all correct, i retried, got the same error.

So at this point i decided to delete my payment method and re-add it, and it wouldn't accept the details.

So i decided to swap to a credit card, and again, it failed to accept the details.

I'm now stuck with no payment methods on my account, and no way to process the subscription that's due

Speaking to others on a discord, and they are also experiencing the same error

Please Help!

Horizon Hunters

I'm one of those people! (Hey Jon)

There's another a thread (not in Website Feedback) about it too: https://paizo.com/threads/rzs7vww1?Got-a-weird-email-from-Paizo-this-mornin g


JonDemand wrote:
Please Help!

I am sorry you (& we) are experiencing this. I am seeing the same errors and hope Paizo support fixes it today! I was really looking forward to reading through the digital version this afternoon.


Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Pathfinder Accessories, Rulebook Subscriber; Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber

+1 to getting the error on the payment method I've always used. Have not tried to troubleshoot myself, but adding my voice to the issue


Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

I'm another in thw same boat as Jon. Got the email, tried to reset my card info, and now the store wont accept ANY card info.


Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
K_mac wrote:
I'm another in thw same boat as Jon. Got the email, tried to reset my card info, and now the store wont accept ANY card info.

Even if you get a new card added, it doesn't seem to be accepting them either. I was able to add a new payment method and then removed the old one and I get the same error on retry.


Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Adding my voice to the choir, same thing happened last month with Hellbreakers. Same payment method I used to manually order Hellbreakers, so I know it worked and nothing has changed since then.


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

I'm sure as soon as someone wakes up in Seattle it will be fixed. A company's No. 1 priority is to fix how people give them money.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Having the same issue on my end.


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Pathfinder Maps, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

I do not envy Customer Support when they come in this morning to a flood of complaints about this.

I expect we will get some sort of response in about two hours.

For reference, I also got the e-mail and went into my Paizo account (directly, not using the e-mail link since I had no way to verify authenticity) to find the payment method was declined. I went in to edit, filling in my phone number so it would see a change.

Waiting to see what happens. I figure with this many people seeing the problem, there is no reason to write Customer Support. They already likely have an overflowing e-mail box.

Silver Crusade

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Pathfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

It'd be nice to have a single month where we did not have issues on subscriber day.

Horizon Hunters

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Maps, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

+1 Same error and it's the same payment method I've always used.


Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

+1. Same error.

Shadow Lodge

JonDemand wrote:

I got an email this morning stating there was a payment error for this months subscription, the details were all correct, i retried, got the same error.

So at this point i decided to delete my payment method and re-add it, and it wouldn't accept the details.

So i decided to swap to a credit card, and again, it failed to accept the details.

I'm now stuck with no payment methods on my account, and no way to process the subscription that's due

Speaking to others on a discord, and they are also experiencing the same error

Please Help!

Same, failed, checked card, no issue, no attempt on the card.

Deleted & re-entered details, failed to even save the card.

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

I tested my payment info on a Society scenario and it worked just fine.


Pathfinder Adventure, Adventure Path, Starfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Still no go for me, thought I have at least been able to re-save my credit card info.


Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Accessories, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

Same payment issue for me.


Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Same.


Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

This is the type of error that really should be triggering a page/alert to someone at Paizo and an official statement even outside of business hours. A 5 hour outage at this point with no communication is not a great policy, especially given the low degree of business hours overlap for the EU customers and Paizo.


There is a red banner alert on the Manage Subscription page now.


Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber
cozyflyer wrote:
There is a red banner alert on the Manage Subscription page now.

Yup I see it now, good. That still should have been there hours ago, IMO.

Silver Crusade

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NielsenE wrote:
cozyflyer wrote:
There is a red banner alert on the Manage Subscription page now.
Yup I see it now, good. That still should have been there hours ago, IMO.

You understand that Paizo is predominantly in the Pacific time zone right? A few hours ago most people that work there were still asleep.


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::Goes up to sign that states "Days without incident on subscriber day" and sets it to "0":: ><


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NielsenE wrote:
Yup I see it now, good. That still should have been there hours ago, IMO.

They aren't on-call MDs. No one is going to die if our books are delayed a few hours.


Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber
Cori Marie wrote:
NielsenE wrote:
cozyflyer wrote:
There is a red banner alert on the Manage Subscription page now.
Yup I see it now, good. That still should have been there hours ago, IMO.
You understand that Paizo is predominantly in the Pacific time zone right? A few hours ago most people that work there were still asleep.

I do, as I said in the post just a little above -- they should have pages/alerting going off if all subscriptions are failing. That is the type of a failure mode that 100% should wake people up -- or schedule your bulk subscription auth run during your business hours. If you want to run the bulk auth during an overnight lull, you 100% need monitoring & alerting of it to deal with problems quickly.

Silver Crusade

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Nobody is going to die because books are a little delayed my guy


Cori Marie wrote:
Nobody is going to die because books are a little delayed my guy

This really isn't something we should wish to disrupt the work-life balance and mental health of already dedicated and stressed employees over. In perspective, no harm, no foul. I don't see any harm to us.


Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

Everywhere I've worked in tech or consulting that had money changing hands, has had 24/7 monitoring and alerting. You've seen the number of people wondering if there was a hack, or other problem. This is different from 24/7 tech support, which I do not expect at Paizo scale.

Now this could be something Paizo has off-loaded to their store vendor for health and monitoring. And perhaps their vendor can't respond here/put up the banner and they need to work out a better SOP (standard operating procedure) for widespread payment failures.

I'll drop this now, since I'd like the thread to stay focused on any communication we get from Paizo about resolution.


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Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

My payment went through and I have Galactic Ancestries. Unfortunately, Hellfire Dispatches is missing from my library. I'll give CS a bit before opening a ticket.


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Pathfinder Adventure, Adventure Path, Starfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Placed and have Galactic Ancestries, but only the per-chapter version, not the single PDF. Like Xethik, I'll give it a bit before badgering CS.


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Same - hit Refresh and it processed, but only automated per chapter Galactic Ancestries.


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I hit retry now on my manage subscriptions page and it said it processed.

Pawns are in my Library but Lost Omens Hellfire Dispatchers is not.

Paizo Plus gold has not been added for this order, which may take until after it is shipped. But last months order has not been applied yet either and it has definitely arrived.

Can't wait til these kinks are worked out of the system.

Dark Archive

Drat, it seems as though my order was just… vaporized, maybe because I retried the order one too many times and got declined. Any idea if there will be a way to re-make that order?


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Yoshua wrote:

I hit retry now on my manage subscriptions page and it said it processed.

Pawns are in my Library but Lost Omens Hellfire Dispatchers is not.

Paizo Plus gold has not been added for this order, which may take until after it is shipped. But last months order has not been applied yet either and it has definitely arrived.

Can't wait til these kinks are worked out of the system.

I actually have that same issue; last month's subscriber order not generating any Paizo gold.

I opened an incident with the Customer Service team to inquire.


CatJCMcK wrote:
Drat, it seems as though my order was just… vaporized, maybe because I retried the order one too many times and got declined. Any idea if there will be a way to re-make that order?

Open a ticket using the Customer Support link below -> How do I reach customer service article. From my experience, Paizo CS is responsive to tickets, although today may be a 3 alarm fire Monday!

Horizon Hunters

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Maps, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

I had to manually push the retry button. I have the Multi pdf of SFGA but do not have the hellfire in my library.


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BW1ll wrote:
I had to manually push the retry button. I have the Multi pdf of SFGA but do not have the hellfire in my library.

Unfortunately, I no longer have a retry button and the "Next Order" date has changed to June 16th. Mine will have to rectified by customer service.


Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Retried on Hellfire Dispatches in subscription and card is charged (pending) so I expect I'll be seeing the PDF in my library soon-ish.


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BW1ll wrote:
I had to manually push the retry button. I have the Multi pdf of SFGA but do not have the hellfire in my library.

This is exactly the same thing I've had. The order went through, but the single file PDF of Galactic Ancestries is missing and there is nothing for Hellfire Dispatches.


Pathfinder Rulebook Subscriber

something seems to be happening in general. I ordered a lot of maps from teh sale, and payed for 'go faster' shipping so i'd have it for my next game and it's still (3 days on) in awaiting fulfillment. I'll be shocked if they make that 3 day shipping time at this rate!!


Pathfinder Rulebook Subscriber

my order is s till stuck in awaiting fulfillment.


Ahh here we go again , same issue as last months subscription... impossible to pay with multiple cards


Pathfinder Adventure, Adventure Path, LO Special Edition, Maps, PF Special Edition, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Maps, Starfinder Society Subscriber

If it's the same as last month, stop trying. Nothing will work and if you try too many times, you have to wait for CS to fix it manually. Best bet is to just wait until they say they've fixed it.

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