Auto pay stopped

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Following up on this, after the last conversation the thought was that this was a one off and I should try to confirm the auto pay went through between the charge date and next bill so I wouldn’t get late charged again. Unfortunately that time period was about 5 days and I missed it. However something different happened. Even though the last bill confirmed auto pay would be used for January’s bill, the next bill no longer said auto pay. I signed in to pay the once again “late” bill to find that somehow auto pay was no longer set up. This was not a change I made. Everything was still set up when I tried to troubleshoot this the last time. I got a notification for setting it up again but no notification that it was removed at some point.

I’ve set it up again and tried to turn on all notifications since I’m not getting any failure emails - the only notification I’ve received is when the next bill comes and the late charge drops. Customer service was unable to help confirm which specific notification would alert of an auto pay failure (and I have no idea what to think about the auto pay setup just disappearing with no notification).

And one more update: the original auto pay failure happened on Jan 2. There was no failure notification in email/text, nor did ApplePay transaction history show any failure (it has before when XFinity had a system bug that caused failures after March of '23). I engaged Apple after XFinity swore up and down that they processed the transaction and got a failure. Apple stated that there was a bug towards the end of 2023 that would tell users their card was expiring, when in fact it was a "temporary" expiry apple uses for security. They did not believe the payment failure XFinity reported was part of that - and expected that failure to show in my ApplePay transaction history as well. When they requested transaction information from XFinity to troubleshoot further, XFinity stated that they could not supply the necessary information for Apple to assist.

I used the same ApplePay method without modification in the XFinity website to immediately pay for the Jan 2 bill on Jan 7 and had a long chat conversation with XFinity from the 7th through the 10th. There was no expiry issue.

When I received a new bill today, and contacted the chat as suggested, they state that the auto pay was "auto removed due to the previous expiry" issue. But it was still set up when I was chatting with support more than a week after the original failure, and I used the same method (no longer on auto pay) when I paid my bill online today. To remove an auto pay setup for *any reason* without notifying the account owner is absolutely ridiculous, and I still don't understand the timeline of this "automated" action since the auto pay was still set up a week after the original failure.

If you search these forums, XFinity seems to have repeated issues with their Auto Pay system. I would suggest that they invest some engineers to fixing it, though if they continue to make $10 per each person's account that they screw up... maybe they won't.

It feels pretty gross to mark anything in here as an "accepted answer" since it's just more of XFinity giving the run around and putting in the minimum effort for their consumers.

This has happened to me multiple times. So, now, I check it to make sure it goes through. It did not on 6/11/2024. All was as it should have been in the auto-pay settings. Here’s my take on it. They give you a $5-10 credit for signing up for auto pay. One way they can get that back is by not letting auto pay work I.e. $10 late fee. It would not surprise me that this is what is going on. What point is it to have auto pay if it works sometimes, and doesn't others. I will not call. It is useless. I will head for the Xfinity store.  

Same happened to me however in April, then again in July. This is after having auto-pay set up well over a decade. If xfinity cannot manage their billing properly, without sending late notices and expecting late payment fees for their accounting failures, I suspect Verizon would be happy to accept the payment and have no issues maintaining auto-pay.