Anyone who’s signed into their PayPal account this morning may have seen this pop-up with the slightly odd message that “it may take extra time for your latest transactions to appear in your Recent Activity”. The same message is also appearing in PayPal emails. Balances, on the other hand, are said to be always up to date.
There is certainly something not quite right with PayPal’s systems at the moment. Many eBay sellers are reporting a problem where cleared payments in PayPal are showing as uncleared (with the hourglass logo) in My eBay and SMP. There is another glitch where buyers are getting the message that “the seller has refused your payment”, which may in some way be related to echeques, but doesn’t seem to have anything to do with sellers actually refusing a payment.
The latter problem can be solved by sending your buyer an invoice directly from PayPal rather than going through eBay. As for the former, PayPal emails do seem to be coming through pretty much on time (as far as I can tell), so if you need to know urgently about a payment, they may be the best way to do so.
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Finally found the time to post this then… :-p
*slaps Mark, but gently* :-p
I’d’ve posted it a lot earlier if I hadn’t had to talk crap on message boards first.
Talking crap on boards is what we do best 😀
Yawn, old news :-p
Looks like payment emails are also being delayed.