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Innocent O Community Member

Membership Upgrade

Hello,

 

why does my Card buy connects but is declined when I try to upgrade to the Plus membership plan?

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Nikola's avatar
Nikola S Retiring Moderator

Hi Innocent,

 

Thank you for your message. I am sorry to hear about the trouble while upgrading your membership. In general, this happens when the transactions you’re attempting on your card keep being declined by the bank. Please contact your card-issuing bank for more information about the specific charge decline.

If you’re still experiencing issues after checking with your bank, a quick way to contact our support team is by clicking the 'Chat with Upwork' button on the Contact Support page.

 

~ Nikola

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Myriam's avatar
Myriam C Community Member

The money is already on the paypal balance.At the moment that´s the only way I can pay but when I try to pay it complains that paypal doesn´t have a verified card

Ronna's avatar
Ronna P Retired Team Member

Hi Myriam, 

 

Thank you for sharing your concern. You can use other billing methods available to you to upgrade your membership. You can visit this helpful article to learn more. 

 

~Ronna
Soumya's avatar
Soumya S Community Member

Dear Upwork Compliance Team,

I hope this message finds you well.

I am writing to inform you that I encountered an issue while attempting to purchase a membership on your platform. Specifically, when adding a billing method, the system displayed the following message: "We are unable to authorize your card. Please add another billing method or contact your issuing bank."

After speaking with my bank, they confirmed that everything is in order on their end. As such, I kindly request that you review this issue on your side and provide clarification on why the payment is being declined. I am eager to complete the membership purchase but am unable to proceed due to this error.

Your prompt assistance in resolving this matter would be greatly appreciated. If further information is needed from my side, please feel free to let me know.

Thank you for your time and support.

Best regards,
Soumya Singh

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Luiggi R Retiring Moderator

Hi Soumya,

 

We’ve escalated your community post to a support ticket. One of our agents will be in touch with you soon to assist.

~ Luiggi
Abdul Rauf's avatar
Abdul Rauf D Community Member

i have been using my account from 2022; it was on membership plan but when i want to renew, it shows that when my profile will be approved, then i can renew it plus it stays on private even when i change it to public.

Luiggi's avatar
Luiggi R Retiring Moderator

Hi Abdul,

 

If you are having trouble switching your membership plan from Basic to Freelancer Plus, that's because today is the last day of your current billing cycle, and you won't be able to make changes to it until it's renewed.

 

Please allow 24 hours for the billing cycle to renew. Once it does, you can upgrade your membership plan.

~ Luiggi
Vasilios's avatar
Vasilios M Community Member

Hello, Upwork Support team.
I signed up for Upwork a few days ago.
I successfully purchased connections when I created my account.
But now I can't purchase connections and memberships.
I'm getting this error:
"Sorry, something went wrong on our end. Please refresh the page and try again. If this issue keeps happening, contact customer support."
Please help me resolve this issue as soon as possible.
I look forward to working with you on Upwork.
Hope you can help.

Rahul's avatar
Rahul R Community Member

Hi Upwork support team,

 

I'm trying to avail Freelancer Plus Monthly membership plan for the first time. Had been trying with both my Visa and Master cards. But I'm getting the same error response "Sorry, something went wrong on our end. Please refresh the page and try again". My current billing cycle is Sep 18, 2024 — Oct 17, 2024. Is this has to do anything with the membership recharge.

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Joanne P Retired Team Member

Hi Rahul,

 

We saw your post in the community and converted it into a support ticket to give it the attention it deserves. Rest assured that one of our agents will contact you.

~ Joanne
Upwork
Jayaram's avatar
Jayaram N Community Member

Hello, 

I am a freelancer from India.

I want to upgrade my membership to Plus monthly. But if I trying to upgrade, it will show some error like this:

Message: Sorry, something went wrong on our end. Please refresh the page and try again. If this issue keeps happening, contact customer support.

My primary billing method is working properly when buying connects.

I am getting this error from last two weeks. I tried after refreshing page and re Log in. Same issue continued. I wont have another billing method.

Can you please help me to solve this?

Pradeep's avatar
Pradeep H Retired Team Member

Hi Jayaram,

 

I am sorry to hear about the trouble you faced while upgrading your membership plan. I shared your report with our team and one of our agents will reach out to you using a support ticket to assist you further. You can access your support tickets here.

 

- Pradeep 

Sonali's avatar
Sonali K Community Member

I recently created an account on Upwork.
I am unable to upgarde my plan even though I have added the correct payment details? It is constantly showing me an error. I am trying to upgrade from Agency Basic to Agency Plus. 
The payment details are updated in my account settings

Pradeep's avatar
Pradeep H Retired Team Member

Hi Sonali,

 

I shared your report with our team and one of our agents will reach out to you using a support ticket to assist you further. You can access your support tickets here.

 

- Pradeep 

Timir's avatar
Timir P Community Member

I signed recently as freelancer. trying to upgrade my plan from basic to plus using Credit card payment method but its giving error since last 4 days. I tried two different cards which are working well on other online platforms like AWS and microsoft, but when using it here getting below message. I have enough balance in my card account to make payment, verified card settings as well to make sure it allows online transactions.  Actually same cards are being used on other online platform without any problem.
Error Message:-

Sorry, something went wrong on our end. Please refresh the page and try again. If this issue keeps happening, contact customer support.

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Pradeep's avatar
Pradeep H Retired Team Member

Hi Timir,

 

I shared your report with our team and one of our agents will reach out to you using a support ticket to assist you further. You can access your support tickets here.

 

- Pradeep 

Hamza's avatar
Hamza A Community Member

I use 2 cards, one is master and second is a visa and they both have more than sufficient balance but I am getting the same error every time "our payment could not be processed. Please choose an alternate payment method or retry again later." and my both cards are from different banks and i talk to both of them there is no issue from there side.

 

Please solve this issue ASAP. I want to buy connects and upgrade my account to premium.

Joanne's avatar
Joanne P Retired Team Member

Hi Hamza,

 

I can see that our team already assisted you with your concern. If you need further assistance, please feel free to update the ticket, and our team will be happy to assist you further. 

 

~ Joanne
Upwork
SIVA's avatar
SIVA P Community Member

Dear Joanne,

 

can you guide please , as there is no problem from bank end ! how to upgrade the membership plan !

same problem like Hamza .

kindly guide to upgrade !

Shilpa's avatar
Shilpa V Community Member

Hi there! I am having a problem while buy connects. When I add the card details it's giving and error which is  "We are unable to authorize your card. Please add another billing method or contact your issuing bank".

I already checked with my bank, everything is OK. So please help me to fix it to buy connects. Thank you so much!

Annie Jane's avatar
Annie Jane B Retired Team Member

Hi Shilpa,

 

We’ve escalated your community post to a support ticket. One of our agents will be in touch with you soon to assist.


~ AJ
Upwork
SIVA's avatar
SIVA P Community Member

actually yes - i have also faced this issue .

Simon's avatar
Simon K Community Member

I am getting this Error:
We are unable to authorize your card as the billing details you entered does not match with your bank or credit card company. Please add another billing method or contact your issuing bank.

I checked with my bank, they said everything is ok. I got even message in the app in the detail of the transaction that upwork checked my card and now the card can be used. From upwork I recieved confirmation email that my card was added, but when i look at my payment method there is no card added.

So i try to add my card again and then it doest let me and sais the same message again..

I went throug 6 pages here and havent found a working solution.

Please help. 
What could be the causes and how to solve them? 

Luiggi's avatar
Luiggi R Retiring Moderator

Hi Simon,

 

We’ve escalated your community post to a support ticket. One of our agents will be in touch with you soon to assist.

~ Luiggi
Hammad's avatar
Hammad A Community Member

Hi team,

 

I am trying to add a card in my Upwork account, but fails to get added and errors out with the message "We are unable to authorize your card as the billing details you entered does not match with your bank or credit card company. Please add another billing method or contact your issuing bank."

 

It is worth mentioning that in my email, I am getting the emails that this card has been added into my Upwork account, but in frontend I am getting the above error.

 

And it is the card I am using in at least 3 other big platforms successfully.

 

Can you help?

 

Thanks

Luiggi's avatar
Luiggi R Retiring Moderator

Hi Hammad,

 

We’ve escalated your community post to a support ticket. One of our agents will be in touch with you soon to assist.

~ Luiggi