Billing Errors - managing payment methods, subscriptions, paying invoices & inaccurate unpaid balances

May 18, 00:04 UTC
Resolved - This incident is now resolved.

Issues with managing account information such as payment methods, addresses, and company names have been resolved. Invoices have been restored for customers that had difficulty paying their open balances as of May 9, 2024.

The majority of issues with managing/canceling subscriptions for account holders are due to unpaid invoices.

If you are receiving dashboard errors when attempting to make modifications to your subscriptions and services please note that you may have an unpaid invoice that was previously hidden that can be paid using the following steps:
1. Log in to your Cloudflare account
2. Click on “Billing”
3. If you see an unpaid invoice click on it
4. From within the invoice, click the “Pay Online” link
5. You will then be redirected to the Billing system where you can proceed with your payment
6. Once the payment is made you should be able to make any desired changes to your subscription including downgrades and cancelation that are in adherence with Cloudflare policies

Downgrades
https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/subscriptions-and-billing/change-plan/#change-domain-plan

Cancellations
https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/subscriptions-and-billing/cancel-subscription/#cancel-cloudflare-subscriptions

Cloudflare Policies
https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/account-management-billing/billing-cloudflare-plans/cloudflare-billing-policy/

May 1, 12:52 UTC
Update - Missing invoices are in the process of being restored for viewing/downloading via the dashboard.

Root cause for customers having difficulties with updating their payment method has been identified and a fix is in progress.

Investigation is ongoing for customers that are having difficulties managing/canceling their subscriptions.

If you require URGENT assistance, please raise a Support ticket or amend your existing ticket via the Cloudflare Dashboard, and we can help look into your account specific details.

Apr 29, 11:08 UTC
Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

Apr 26, 23:06 UTC
Update - Remediation for customers with missing invoices is ongoing. We anticipate it to complete by the end of day Monday, April 29.

If you require URGENT assistance, please raise a Support ticket or amend your existing ticket via the Cloudflare Dashboard, and we can help look into your account specific details.

Apr 25, 23:29 UTC
Update - Remediation for customers with missing invoices is in progress. We anticipate it to complete by the end of day Friday, April 26.

If you require URGENT assistance, please raise a Support ticket or amend your existing ticket via the Cloudflare Dashboard, and we can help look into your account specific details.

Apr 19, 15:43 UTC
Update - The team has removed the maintenance hold on all accounts.

Work to address difficulties paying off old balances has been completed.

Our work to resolve missing invoices for some customers is continuing and expected to be resolved by early next week.

Customers that were seeing unknown charges on invoices or have been incorrectly downgraded will have credits applied on their accounts in the next few days and will be notified via email when it is completed.

If you require URGENT assistance, please raise a Support ticket or amend your existing ticket via the Cloudflare Dashboard, and we can help look into your account specific details.

Apr 12, 07:47 UTC
Update - The team has removed the maintenance hold on all accounts.

Work to address difficulties paying off old balances has also now been completed.

Our work to find long term solutions for cases where customers are missing invoices, seeing unknown charges on invoices or have been incorrectly downgraded plans is continuing.

If you require URGENT assistance, please raise a Support ticket or amend your existing ticket via the Cloudflare Dashboard, and we can help look into your account specific details.

Apr 10, 01:19 UTC
Update - The team is currently removing maintenance hold on all accounts.

Separately, our work to find long term solutions for customers who are experiencing difficulties paying off old balances, seeing unknown charges on invoices or have been incorrectly downgraded plans are in progress.

If you require URGENT assistance, please raise a Support ticket or amend your existing ticket via the Cloudflare Dashboard, and we can help look into your account specific details.

Apr 9, 16:08 UTC
Update - The team is currently removing maintenance holds on all accounts.

Separately, our work to find long term solutions for customers who are experiencing difficulties seeing unknown charges on invoices or have had incorrectly downgraded plans are in progress.

If you require URGENT assistance, please raise a Support ticket or amend your existing ticket via the Cloudflare Dashboard, and we can help look into your account specific details.

Apr 5, 16:04 UTC
Update - We have identified separate root causes for some of the issues.
The team are now 80% through clearing the list of accounts blocked under maintenance hold. Accounts released from maintenance hold will return to having full billing and upgrading/downgrading functionality.

We are working, in parallel, to a solution for customers who are experiencing issues such as being incorrectly labeled as banned or bad debt, have missing or inaccurate invoices or have been incorrectly downgraded plans.

As we complete this work, impacted customers may continue to be unable to make changes to their billing account profile, including updating payment methods, billing addresses, or adding/upgrading/downgrading subscription plans. Additionally, they may face challenges in paying invoices and may see erroneous warnings about unpaid invoices. No other functionality of the Cloudflare platform is impacted, and our team is working on resolving this as soon as possible.

If you require URGENT assistance, please raise a Support ticket via the Cloudflare Dashboard, and we can help look into your account specific details.

Apr 3, 16:31 UTC
Update - The team are now working through each impacted account and removing any holds or blocks.

As we complete this work, impacted customers may continue to be unable to make changes to their billing account profile, including updating payment methods, billing addresses, or adding/upgrading/downgrading subscription plans. Additionally, they may face challenges in paying invoices and may see erroneous warnings about unpaid invoices. No other functionality of the Cloudflare platform is impacted and our team is working on resolving this as soon as possible.

If you require URGENT assistance, please raise a Support ticket via the Cloudflare Dashboard, and we can help look into your account specific details.

Mar 28, 21:15 UTC
Identified - The issue with the billing system has been identified, and our billing team is working on a permanent resolution.

Impacted customers may temporarily be unable to make changes to their billing account profile, including updating payment methods, billing addresses, or adding/upgrading/downgrading subscription plans. Additionally, they may face challenges in paying invoices and may see erroneous warnings about unpaid invoices. No other functionality of the Cloudflare platform is impacted, and our team is working on resolving this as soon as possible.

If you are impacted by this, we can help. Please raise a Support ticket via the Cloudflare Dashboard if you require urgent assistance with any billing or subscription related matter.

Mar 28, 15:53 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.

Mar 27, 19:35 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.

Mar 25, 00:02 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.

Mar 24, 08:07 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.

Mar 23, 15:34 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.

Mar 23, 04:25 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.

Mar 21, 08:05 UTC
Update - Work continues on-track towards a resolution

Mar 21, 00:46 UTC
Investigating - Some customers may not be able to make changes to their billing account profile, including updating payment methods, billing addresses, or adding/upgrading/downgrading subscription plans. Additionally, they may face challenges in paying invoices, and may see erroneous warnings about unpaid invoices.

These customer accounts may also be downgraded temporarily, unable to add new sites, and unable to purchase/transfer/renew domains.

No action is required for customers facing these issues for the time being
An automated clean-up process will take place to correct any incorrect categorisation.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/wsjmr28lwxw3