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unable to add credit/debit card or set up auto pay
Soy un cliente prepagado. After the new My T-Mobile experience update I was instructed to re-enable auto pay. When attempting to do so on line I could not add cred/debit card nor activate auto pay. Got this message "We are unable to process this payment transaction. Please visit a Retail Store to complete this transaction" Went to two retail stores, neither had seen this before and couldn't fix the problem while I was in store. I had to pay with cash to continue service.
An engineering service ticket was submitted and I was to receive a call back the next day, two days latter no call back. Sprint sucked and apparently now T-Mobile sucks after they merged. After more than a decade of trouble free service this failure may end my use of T-Mobile.
Has anyone else had to deal with this failure and if so has it been resolved for you…?
I reported earlier that the rep I spoke to credited me for the month and assured me that engineering would address the problem. I was grateful for the first part and considered the second part to be a pipe dream.
But, I have been checking once per week, and today I was able to restart autopay. Good luck with your own accounts.
Exact same issue here: text I needed to renew (which I never read at the time, as this system has been working for years), then suspended service, now the payment fields are grayed out just as shown above. I'm on an old Walmart-purchased pre-paid unlimited plan that I've been using for ~8 years, always with autopay, like the posters above.
Big thanks to Yabos above, whose “buy it at Walmart” solution worled perfectly. But please don’t tell me I have to do this every month now...
Similar experience here, https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/one-time-payment/payment just spins forever and will not load second step.
The part about prepaid that really makes it work is being able to pay for the service in advance, if that isn’t possible, the whole thing falls apart, so I really hope they figure out this one.
Finally… Glad I'm not the only one. Same issue as you all, and on old "Walmart" 100min / 5gb plan. Support and retail stores have been useless. The only way I've been able to fund my account is through refill cards.
Same issue. Prepaid user for years (the old "Walmart plan"). I went to the retail store, and they also couldn't do anything. They asked for cash, which I didn't have. They told me to call the prepaid service number, which I did. They were also useless. My service was canceled due to non-payment. Since my bill is only $30 I found a workaround by buying a $30 prepaid refill card online through Walmart that described itself as "email delivery". However, you're able to put your phone number into a field in the cart on Walmart's site, so they applied the payment directly to my account. After making the payment through Walmart I was notified that my account was re-enabled within 10 minutes. This is pretty pathetic. Multiple T-Mobile support entities (retail store, phone support, and prepaid phone support) couldn’t apply a payment to my account, yet another company (Walmart) could.
I too have this issue. I was notified that my autopay was cancelled when it attempted to process on Friday the 8th, and suddenly without service. After huge frustration with online and phone support I begrudgingly went to a retail location where they could not solve it nor knew what to do about it. Luckily I could pay in cash but will probably switch due to this latest mess up. I have had nothing but issues with customer service and the website in general so am willing to pay double what I do now for a product that works.
The same thing happened to me: 1) Text message to re-setup autopay. 2) Service cancelled. 3) Autopay not accessible. Grayed out as described. 4) Payments also grayed out and not accepting any form of payment. 5) I phoned T-Mobile. Rep tried 2 methods of accepting payment. Both failed.
Here's where I had better luck. My rep restored my service for a month without payment and forwarded the issue to engineering. He said the problem will be fixed by next month. We'll see.
FWIW, I tried calling to pay by phone but the person on the phone couldn't do anything either -- things were grayed out on their end. told me to go to a store as there may be some verification needed on the card that can only be done in person (e.g., swiped it). I went to a T-mobile store today to try and fix this and they also couldn't do anything -- the fields were grayed out for them as well. The guy thought it may be that the entire prepaid payment system is down, and to try again in a couple days. Fingers crossed.
Indeed, WTF. For a major telecommunications company to have a failure such as this in the implementation of a customer platform update is a complete failure of the project management team, who should be encouraged to seek career opportunities else where. I'm sure there's plenty of entry level positions in the fast food industry they might be able to handle …
I have the exact same problem! I've been a T-Mobile customer for almost 6 years. WTF! I just want to setup Autopay again!
