Billing Authorization Error Locked My Codespace Even After Payment Succeeded

[dave20101020-maker]

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Hi everyone, I’m having an issue where my Codespace is completely locked due to a billing authorization error — even though my payment did go through successfully.

Here’s what happened:

My first payment attempt failed with an authorization error.

I retried using another card.

This time the payment succeeded (the charge appears on my bank statement).

However, GitHub still shows “Invalid payment method – authorization hold failed.”

Because of this, my Codespace is frozen and I can’t commit or push any of my work.

The “Code” button also still shows old timestamps (e.g., “updated 19h ago”), confirming the workspace is stuck in a locked state.

I’ve checked the Billing > Usage page and can see that usage charges are appearing correctly (e.g., Codespaces storage usage $1.54), so my account definitely processed the payment — but the billing system hasn’t updated my authorization status.

I believe my account is stuck in a billing sync error, where GitHub’s system didn’t update the internal state after a successful charge.

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[shinybrightstar]

👋 Welcome to the GitHub Community, @dave20101020-maker! Congratulations on your first post! 🎉

Thanks for reaching out. I can see that our support team has cleared the restrictions from your account. Since your Codespaces is active again, I’ll go ahead and close this discussion.

Glad to see that the issue has been resolved.