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Catalyst-of-Awesomeness
3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Something went wrong message when trying to pay for upgrade
I have been directed to seek your help paying for an upgrade on my account. I get the same error no matter what computer, or browser (even incognito). It allows me to enter all my payment info, ...
CoreyK95
2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
I am trying to upgrade my account back to a Plus subscription (right now I am on basic and need way more space to keep my files) but when I get to the upgrade payment page I get the error message " something went wrong. please refresh the page or contact customer support." Unfortunately the customer support bot has been unhelpful. Can anyone help me remedy this so I can upgrade to a Plus plan ASAP? Thank you so much for any insights.
P.s. I tried it on different browsers and even in "private" browsing mode all with the same error message. I also tried it from my iPhone.
Megan
Dropbox Staff
2 years agoHey CoreyK95, sorry to see you're having trouble with this as well.
Just to make sure, have you tried to upgrade using a different card or PayPal, if that's a possibility?
Can you maybe send us a full-page screenshot of the error message you get so that we can have a visual too?
Keep me posted!
- CoreyK952 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Hi Megan,
I appreciate your assistance. it does not even give me the option to change the payment. As soon as I click on the blue "upgrade now" button and am taken to the checkout page, the "something went wrong" message pops up across the top, and the grey/black square to the right just infinitely spins.
Here is a screen shot of what is occurring. You will see the error message in red across the top:
- CoreyK952 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Hi Jay,
My situation is a bit complicated. I tried to upgrade via the site originally then through my phone. Neither would let me. I even went into my iPhone subscriptions and made sure subscription was cancelled as per a suggestion from other users but that did not solve it.
Here is the series of events:
I had a Dropbox Plus plan for $11.99/mo for quite some time now
A company I was working with accidentally added me to their team, thereby affiliating me with their business account.
I had the admin of that company release my account back to an individual account
Upon my account being turn back into individual, it asked me to pick a plan. I chose a free trial of the 5TB plan which is not what I meant to do. I just wanted to get my Plus plan back.
I cancelled the free trial the same day to try and sign back up for my Plus plan, however, that's when I ran into this problem.
I am concerned about losing my files, as my account has about 28 GB of files and basic only supports 2.
Any help MUCH appreciated! 🙂
- CoreyK952 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Hi Jay,
I upgraded to the trial via the website.
Payments page only shows my last payment for this month on 8/11, but nothing since all of this happened and I tried to get my plan back. Here is a screen shot:
- CoreyK952 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Actually Jay, I am just realizing that the payments showing are from 2021, which is strange because I was recently still on a paid plan before all of this occurred.
- CoreyK952 years agoExplorer | Level 3
yes please! thank you
- Nancy2 years ago
Dropbox Staff
Hi CoreyK95! Hope you’re doing well.
I was about to log a ticket for you, but I can see you already have one open with our support team. In this case, I’d kindly ask you to reply back in the same email thread, so that they can further assist.
I’ve also left them an internal message with all the info you sent us here, so that they know what you’ve tried so far.
- CoreyK952 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Thank you very much! I wasn't aware a ticket had started. I appreciate you!
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