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GoCardless holds payouts after account closure

GoCardless closes merchant accounts without a stated reason and holds payouts for weeks or months.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 14 November 2025 · last reported 5 July 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Merchants using the GoCardless for WooCommerce extension report that their GoCardless accounts were closed or suspended without a clear reason, and that money from sales already made was held back for weeks or even months.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.