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Level 1
posted Aug 25, 2022 5:02:15 PM

Paypal credit cards marked inactive incorrectly

A few days ago all PayPal credit cards were marked inactive and revert back to inactive if you try to fix them.  It's using the new "crypto and master card" style login.  Any news on a fix?  Basically all our transactions go through that connection so Mint is basically unusable for us now. 

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Level 15
Aug 25, 2022 5:05:46 PM

Contact PayPal at (888) 221-1161

New Member
Oct 5, 2022 12:07:02 PM

Also have same problem

If I delete from mint, it will connect properly for 1-2 days. And then it turns inactive after that. There is no way to force "active"

Level 2
Mar 17, 2023 11:23:12 AM

Hi,

I have the same issue where my paypal credit cards are being marked inactive.

Were you able to find a fix?

Level 1
Mar 17, 2023 3:38:55 PM

Same issue here too the PayPal credit card marked inactive or just not showing up at all. 

Level 1
Mar 18, 2023 7:38:14 AM

I also have this issue. PayPal Credit has worked fine for years, but the other day Mint forced the account to inactive.  I even deleted and re-added the account since I didn’t care about history. Unfortunately same issue. The PayPal deposit account balance is fine, but not the credit account. Seems there’s a connection issue on Mints end recognizing the credit account. 

Level 1
Mar 18, 2023 8:52:57 AM

I guess we keep waiting. Right now mint is marking my credit card account as a checking account... This definitely feels like issue on mint side. It was working a few days ago but still even then not automatically getting balance information I had to manually update it by logging back in on mint. 

Level 2
Mar 18, 2023 9:26:51 AM

Same issue here, super annoying. Paypal has always had issues with the transactions with mint that I've had to get around, but not showing up at all won't work. Any fixes?

Level 1
Mar 18, 2023 9:42:50 AM

I just contacted Mint support and they indicated their tech team is aware of the issues with PayPal and are working on it. My experience with bank/account/connection issues like this is they can usually get resolved within a few weeks to a couple months at the latest. For now we just have to sit tight. 

Level 2
Mar 18, 2023 10:13:30 AM

Thanks for the update.
I had to import all my transactions from PayPal Credit Cards manually for now.
Guess will have to use another credit card for the automatic transaction imports till this is resolved.

Intuit Alumni
Mar 18, 2023 11:18:04 AM

If you having trouble with a Mint account being inactive, please chat with Mint here, and they can work on forcing the account back active. @samanderson2 

Level 2
Mar 18, 2023 11:55:37 AM

They told me that was a temporary fix, and it does not fix the issue

"If we do not resolve the issue with just marking it back to active that will go back to active so if you would like I can mark it back active but you will most likely have to chat back tomorrow to do the same as well."

Level 2
Mar 18, 2023 12:15:32 PM

Apparently chat can fix this if you have time to sit around with them for a long amount of time. I did not have the time to waste my day with fixing their issue. Frustrating, but advice if someone here has time to kill. This should be able to be fixed in the background for all users involved, without me having to sit there and do Intuit's job for them 

@CarissaM 

Level 1
May 16, 2023 1:43:10 PM

Two months later, still an issue. I don't really care that much because Mint's handling of PayPal transactions is mostly broken anyway, but this is still a bug.

Level 2
May 16, 2023 2:16:57 PM

Same here.

Support mentioned they are aware of the issue and will just have to wait on a fix.

Finally, I gave up and started pulling paypal transactions manually.

Level 2
Jun 2, 2023 5:25:54 AM

Is Mint going to do anything about this?

Level 1
Jun 6, 2023 6:17:07 AM

This just happened to me as well :(  so frustrating

Not applicable
Jun 7, 2023 6:55:26 AM

Happening here, too. "Call Paypal" is an inadequate fix. How is that still pinned as the solution?! 

Not applicable
Jun 10, 2023 8:54:23 PM

I'm having the issue too. Unable to mark the paypal Mastercard account active

Level 2
Aug 23, 2023 7:37:25 AM

Now Mint is blocking paypal altogether. Any solution? 

Not applicable
Aug 23, 2023 8:50:30 AM

I just noticed an issue starting up with both PayPal accounts as well.  The credit card account did start working again for about two months, but today the whole PayPal stuff can't connect.   I would be willing to say this could be more PayPal's fault than Mint possibly because I know PayPal has been trying to compete with Mint personally for budgeting services and they keep messing with their site. 

Not applicable
Aug 25, 2023 9:50:36 AM

This came back for me as well. No longer can link paypal account and PayPal credit. Still no functionality for PayPal savings. This is frustrating. 

Level 1
Aug 25, 2023 12:59:17 PM

Mint has been slowly getting less usable, a trend which started immediately after acquisition by Intuit. I'd bet this is a behemoth fight and we're caught in the middle.

 

Back to a ledger book, these online services are useless.

 

Edit: Same issue, all my PayPal credit card-related accounts are incorrectly marked inactive and cannot be manually updated.

Level 2
Aug 26, 2023 4:06:07 AM

Mint chat was able to refresh it for me and it worked. I’m not sure why it had to be refreshed by them, but that helped

New Member
Oct 25, 2023 5:46:50 AM

Same issue for me. Kind of annoying because it just happens randomly.