new payment system aint coming fast enough!!

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I also have posted on several threads about PN payment , As  warbleeder  says its about time PN updated their system !
Adam Walker said                    "There's no set date for this that we're able to share. "        mmmmm 
avatastic  said                            "Or in English - It's not coming."                                 
Surely it cannot be that Hard to Add a    PAY NOW ! button
for my own reasons its not reasonable to use DD so i pay with my Debit card , but am locked out of member center the day my bill is due ! , my connection is Shut down untill i press acknowledge and pay later !
But yet i have been with PN 4 years and have always paid this  way , but yet they still cut me off the day the bill is due ,alto temporary .
but like a lot of things lately with PN all we get is ,, we are looking at it 

[#2]

What do you mean by the "due" date?  The actual billing day or the last day of "grace and favour"?

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Users have agreed to pay bills when presented.  There is no "right" to a 14 day grace period, though generally PlusNet does allow it but has reserved the right to take action earlier.  Has the method of payments being attempted to be used but are failing agreed alternatives or simply ones which as individuals you have simply sought to use, even if habitually accepted by PlusNet.
I would expect any new billing system to be totally stringent on applying the T&Cs systematically to all accounts, thus if the way you are each attempting to pay is not explicitly agreed to be acceptable with PlusNet, the I would doubt that life will be much "better" for you under the new billing system.

@CRT,
For the sake of clarity are there specific types / classes of plastic payment cards which PlusNet does not accept?  If yes, does the rejection of their attempted use make clear why the use of the card is being declined?  Are there any conditions under which (no necessity to spell out if it is sensitive) a transaction could be declined OTHER THAN the card processing agent not accepting the transaction?
Has anyone at PlusNet examined the failed transaction logs for these users to determine at what stage of the process their payment attempts have failed?  (Answer via tickets!)  If they can be conclusively advised that the problem is with their card provider, they can go sort out the issue with them and get on with life.  If the issue is indeed with PlusNet, then as under the conditions of the T&Cs may be some individually agreed method of payment needs to be established... for the published £1.50 service charge.
Though as others have said, good budgeting and direct debits do work very well.

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ok town please tell me how the he ll im supose to pay my bill on the due date when they dont allow you access to a (pay now) button ....
now as i said in my last post it seems like they use jooomla or something simular for their website... if this is the case it is not rocket science to add a pay now button
and it kinda funny how plusnets website declines my payment 99% of the time but when i call it fly through their system.... thats not the bank thats plusnet....
all i ever get off plusnet is ..it must be ur bank... well ill say it again (like every month) NO IT IS NOT MY BANK!!! sort the stupid problem
so yea town you can bring up T&C's that plusnet state .... but it dose not state in there ...that you
A: have to ring to pay your bill
B: in order for you to pay online you have to wait till your 14 days grace are over!

so before you run around forums kissing up to plusnet why dont you actually read what others are saying?
p.s just a note the grace is not a issue that is awsome and id imagain it helps a lot of people (if they dont get paid on time etc)
and in all fairness plusnet should be compensating me atmo as they disconnected me LOOOOONG before my 14 days where over and without informing me prio

[#4]

Quote from: warbleeder

all i ever get off plusnet is ..it must be ur bank... well ill say it again (like every month) NO IT IS NOT MY BANK!!! sort the stupid problem so yea town you can bring up T&C's that plusnet state .... but it dose not state in there ...that you A: have to ring to pay your bill B: in order for you to pay online you have to wait till your 14 days grace are over!

I sought to make the post balanced - what do the rules say - what have individuals with difficult circumstances AGREED with PlusNet in respect of alternative payment arrangements - what actual evidence has PlusNet got to support "it must be your bank" ?
There will always be difficulty when people step outside of the established systems.  You might think that the right solution is a pay-now option, but that is not (at least presently) an AGREED method of payment through the website.  To resolve the impasse here there needs to be AGREEMENT with PlusNet that you can pay by the means you are attempting OR the cause of the on-line system failure needs confirming ("it must be" is not as conclusive as "we have confirmed that it is and here is the transaction reference number") so that you can go fix it or PlusNet clearly understands that there is an issue requiring exceptional consideration.
It is not a matter of sucking up - it is rather maturely accepting how things are and seeking a non-aggressive route to a resolution within the published T&Cs.  Arguing with in the T&Cs is a better bet than trying to fight from without.

[#5]

Sorry I've not had much to input in to this thread. Just to be clear, the updated billing engine is not going to be a short term project, this is going to take a long time to fully design, implement and integrate with our systems, as such I'm not going to give any timescale around this.
From going back through some of the comments it seems one of the issues is that some cards aren't being accepted when they should be. If the people affected by this particular bug can PM me with the card type only (delta, visa, electron etc) then I can see if there is a common factor in play.

[#6]

can i just mention that plusnet aint all too bad... ive been here for almost 5 years and you have done alot of me with faults bt couldnt be bothered to fix properly changing my billing date etc
but its just the fact of having to phone up every month to pay my bill ... thats grating me at the mo

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Chris,
Useful approach.
The first 6 digits (only the first 6 digits) of the big 16 digit number might also be useful to your system engineers to confirm that the PAN group is in the validation group.  This uniquely identifies the Major Industry Issuer and their identification number - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_card_number - these ought to be known to the card processing system, but some being missing has not been unknown in my personal experience with card verification systems.
For more info on credit card number structures and significance see here - http://www.celtnet.org.uk/ns/understanding-credit-card-numbers.html.
Kevin

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@Warbleeder,
By any chance, could this - http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,134906.msg0.html#new - be relevant to your problems attempting to pay by card?
Kevin

[#9]

Hi WB,
There has been a "development" on this issue here - http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,134906.msg1183580.html#msg1183580
Is this relevant to your issue?  This issue  - months being "1" instead of "01" - and thereby causing a validation failure has been identified by one PlusNet user as being related to FireFox profiles.
HTH,
Kevin