Unapplied payment notice · Meta Platforms

Meta has held $1.74 million in “Pending” since 7 July 2026. Wires we sent three weeks later already cleared.

We are a Meta Business Partner agency. Meta’s own billing page lists these transfers as received. Meta has confirmed in writing that it has all of our money. None of it has been applied to a single invoice.

$1,740,000 Received by Meta, marked Pending
44 Days the oldest transfer has sat in Pending
$110,000 Profit lost since ads stopped, at $5,000 a day
$1,515,071.50 What Meta bills us while holding more than that

Meta’s own billing page

Meta Business Manager payments page listing eight wire transfers between 6 July and 31 July 2026, five of them marked Pending
Business Manager → Billing → Payments. Business name and payment IDs redacted by us. Every other figure is Meta’s.
Wire transfers as Meta records them, oldest first
Date receivedAmountMethodStatus
6 Jul 2026$300,000.00Wire TransferPartially complete
7 Jul 2026$300,000.00Wire TransferPending
15 Jul 2026$300,000.00Wire TransferPending
17 Jul 2026$400,000.00Wire TransferPending
22 Jul 2026$440,000.00Wire TransferPending
27 Jul 2026$300,000.00Wire TransferPending
30 Jul 2026$200,000.00Wire TransferComplete
31 Jul 2026$100,000.00Wire TransferComplete
Pending total$1,740,000.00

The two most recent transfers cleared. The five older ones did not. Same account, same method, same bank. A processing backlog would have cleared 7 July before it cleared 31 July, so whatever holds this money is not a backlog.

What Meta told us

Email from ar at meta.com dated 5 August 2026 saying the credit request is still pending
5 August, Meta Collections. The subject line we wrote reads “pending payments – URGENT – ADS NOT RUNING”. The answer: the request is still pending, and they will let us know.
Email from ar at meta.com dated 6 August 2026 explaining how to view payments in Business Manager
6 August. Instructions on how to find our payments in Business Manager, with a Help Centre link. We had never asked where the money was. We could see it. We asked for it to be applied.
Email from ar at meta.com dated 7 August 2026 confirming all payments were received
7 August, in writing, from ar@meta.com.
“We would like to inform you that we have received all the payments. Our internal team is currently working on the pending credit reinstatement request. Once it is approved, your account will be activated.”

Meta Collections, 7 August 2026

Meta Pro Team reply saying the concern has been highlighted to a dedicated team
Meta Pro Team. Our concern has been highlighted to a dedicated team, with priority notes added to the case.
Live support chat where the agent says their team does not support this issue and then leaves the conversation
Live support chat. We explain that the accounts are fine and the payments were never credited, and ask to be connected to monthly invoicing. Fifteen minutes later: “my team does not support this issue.” Then, on the transcript, Andres has left the conversation.

Every team has acknowledged it. No team owns it.

Meta agrees the money arrived. Meta agrees the request exists. Meta agrees the blocker is inside Meta. Six weeks on, no one at Meta will say who decides.

Dozens of support tickets, emails to Accounts Receivable since 31 July, LinkedIn messages, partner outreach, finance confirmations, payment confirmations. Each channel confirms the problem and forwards it. None of them returns a decision, a timeline, or a name.

Meta removed our direct account representatives in June. What replaced them is a form that answers with a 24-hour promise and nothing after it.

What we are asking for

One person at Meta with the authority to apply money Meta already holds.

A senior owner in Finance, Monthly Invoicing, or Payments who can make the decision rather than route it onward.

We prepaid against our invoices, which is why Meta bills us $1,515,071.50 while sitting on $1,740,000 of ours. We have asked for no credit line increase at any point, and every invoice we hold is undisputed. Meanwhile the campaigns this money was meant to run are stopped, and that costs roughly $5,000 in profit every day.

Why this is public

The oldest transfer has been sitting in Pending for 44 days. Our emails have gone unanswered since 31 July. The private channels confirmed the problem and then stopped moving it.

Every figure and date on this page comes from Meta’s own billing records and Meta’s own written replies. The screenshots are unedited except where we removed our business name, payment IDs, case references, and the email addresses of individual people.