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How long does it take to restore my service after payment and reactivation?

Slicemage
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

Like many others, my auto pay for this month failed, and my service was suspended - with no warning I might add. I received the text about autopay, and failure / account suspension today with no advance notice of disconnection.

 

I've logged into my account and have now paid manually and my account says that it has been reactivated, however I still have no data or voice service on my phone. How long does it take to get running again after payment and reactivation?

 

It's ridiculous that a customer of several years who has never missed a payment is instantly cut off of service with no warning, and even moreso that trying to access the self-serve system resulted in a blank white page for several hours, so I couldn't even make a payment. And when the site finally came back up, it was glacially slow. Thinking this will probably be my last period with PM, this has been an exceedingly negative experience for a long time customer.

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@Slicemage 

Your account is showing active? You do not show any funds in  your balance? Has pm debited your balance your plan amount in your payment history?

 

If all of the suggestions have failed then log into your account. Go to the plans or usage page. Click on lost/stolen. Suspend your service. Log out/in. Resume your service. Log out and reboot. If this does not restart your service you will have to contact the moderators.

 

Using lost/stolen with active service will likely cause your rewards to not apply on your next renewal. If this happens contact the moderators after renewal and have them apply them manually to your balance.

 

This widespread autopay system failure has caused a lot of grief for many customers and that is unfortunate. Certainly changing providers and abandoning your nearly 4 years of loyalty and other rewards is certainly an option but considering these are your first 2 posts to the community since 2017 it sounds like you have had pretty flawless service up until this time.....I'm surprised you would cut and run after your first system issue. Being a prepaid provider the non payment of your plan amount automatically suspends your service as it does at all prepaid providers in Canada. You would have to open a postpaid account at another provider to avoid suspension.

 

The only other warning you get that your account is suspended is not recieving the second of two text messages from pm at noon eastern after renewal. The first informs you of your rewards being successfully added to your balance and the second would normally tell you your account successfully renewed. 

@Slicemage 

 

Try removing your sim card for a minute and then reinserting it.

 

You can also try resetting network connections under your network settings.

kselmak
Mayor / Maire

It is very annoying, to avoid it i pay manually in advance.

This is prepaid service and the sms they send about upcoming payment is the warning really. Don't block those it's a great reminder.

No worries, your autopay reward is still coming if you pay manually.

You should restart your phone, maybe even put an extra buck then restart. It should be immediate, if it's still not working contact moderators by private message to Moderator_Team

Slicemage
Great Neighbour / Super Voisin

Hi there,

 

Yes, account status is active, and I have rebooted the phone - still no service. I'll give it a bit and try again though.

Dunkman
Oracle
Oracle

@Slicemage 

Once you reload funds, your account should re-activate immediately.  

Is your account status active?  

Maybe try to reboot phone.  

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