My payment failed or my card was declined
If your payment failed, we email you and show a banner. We retry automatically after 3, 7 and 14 days from the first failure. Add a working card under Payment methods, or pay straight away with Pay now under Outstanding balance, both in Subscriptions & billing. If the last retry fails, the plan ends.
Steps
- Open Subscriptions & billing from your avatar menu and read the banner ("Your last payment didn't go through"). Choose Update card in the banner, or:
- Open the Payment methods tab, choose Add a card, and use Make default if it is not already the default.
- Open the Outstanding balance tab and choose Pay now. It also shows the next automatic retry date.
- If your bank asks for verification, finish it in the same window.
Good to know
- Common causes: expired card, insufficient funds, wrong security code, or the bank blocking an online charge. Your bank can tell you which.
- If your bank declines, try another card.
- Only people with billing permission can change cards or pay; others see that the account owner has been asked to update the card.