19/05/2023
We had been using Mollie Payments without any major issues until we decided to enable PayPal for recurring payments. This is where our problems began.
Initially, everything seemed to work fine, but after a month, we started encountering errors when creating payments for clients using PayPal. These errors were labeled as 'Unknown' in the Mollie dashboard, prompting us to reach out to their customer support with several transaction IDs for investigation.
Unfortunately, our experience with their customer support was less than satisfactory. It took a week for them to respond, only to tell us that there was no issue on their end and that the problem was with our system. They pointed out that their system was getting 404 errors when calling our webhooks for payment statuses. We explained that the 404 errors were due to the payment IDs not being found in our system because the payments were not being created due to the errors on their end. Instead of further investigation, they insisted that the problem was on our end.
After multiple attempts to explain the issue, they requested logs from our side, which we provided. It was clear from these logs that there was an issue with their system incorrectly parsing the invoice ID from the payment description we were submitting. Despite this, they continued to insist that we upgrade to the latest version of their API, even though the version we were using is still shown as supported in their documentation.
After another week, they provided a workaround, which involved changing the payment description wording. This seemed to work for a few days, but then the same errors started appearing again. It turned out that the workaround did not work for languages other than English. They provided another workaround, which involved changing the payment description wording again, but this time in a grammatically incorrect format!
When we refused to implement a workaround with incorrect grammar, their response was less than helpful, stating that they would not make additional changes unless absolutely necessary.
Overall, our experience with Mollie's customer support has been disappointing. The lack of timely responses, the refusal to acknowledge a clear issue on their end, and the insistence on workarounds that were not fully tested or grammatically correct have left us frustrated and considering other payment providers. We hope that Mollie takes this feedback seriously and improves their customer support experience.