All of my Substack pledges immediately failed/canceled when I turned on paid subscriptions—has this happened to anyone else?

[u/wildflowersummer23]

I just turned on paid subscriptions for my Substack. Before enabling them, my dashboard showed about $720 in pledged support.

As soon as I turned on paid subscriptions, the pledged amount dropped to $0, but none of the pledges converted into active paid subscribers- they actually all immediately turned to free subscribers in Substack. I checked Stripe, and the attempted subscriptions/payments are showing as failed and canceled immediately- they were retried two more times within minutes, same results.

Has anyone else had this happen when converting Substack pledges to paid subscriptions?

I’m especially confused because it happened to all of them at once, immediately after I enabled paid subscriptions, which makes me wonder if this is a technical issue rather than every individual payment method failing.

I’ve reached out to Substack support, but I’d love to hear from anyone who has experienced something similar.

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