Clients of UK fintech Revolut confronted delays getting their salaries paid on Friday, with customers complaining of being left at nighttime by the $5.5bn (£4.1bn) firm.
Revolut was hit by “technical difficulties” on Friday that delayed the fee of salaries into customers accounts. Clients took to Twitter (TWTR) to complain and query the corporate about what was occurring.
“Seems like loads of people including me haven’t received their salary today via Revolut,” Twitter person Jessica van der Oever wrote on the positioning.
van der Oever’s message was echoed by many others.
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“Seem to have the same issue as most with salary not coming through even through employer confirmed its been sent,” Adam Zabinski tweeted.
“Revolut has not paid any UK customers their salaries today!! Issue ongoing since 3am,” Christel van Rijn tweeted. “They have not provided an ETA and offered no support to any customers for covering bills.”
A spokesperson informed Yahoo Finance UK: “Unfortunately, we encountered a technical issue which caused a delay in some payments being credited to customer’s accounts. The issue has now been resolved, and all payments have since been credited. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.”
An analogous message was posted on Revolut’s official Twitter account mid-afternoon on Friday.
Nonetheless, for a lot of the day the corporate’s official weblog and Twitter account carried no point out of any drawback and its standing web page mentioned all methods have been operational.
Clients complained concerning the lack of communication from the corporate.
“I, and many others, have not received my salary,” Kev Harrison wrote on Twitter. “And I cannot contact anyone on the chat. Not acceptable!”
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Revolut urged particular person prospects on Twitter to make use of its chat function within the app to talk to a customer support. A number of complained they have been unable to get via to an agent. In response to a different Tweet concerning the concern, Revolut mentioned it was “having a heavy demand of chats and requests” that was creating delays.
The wage points are an embarrassing slip up for Europe’s most useful monetary expertise companies. The corporate was valued at $5.5bn earlier this yr.
Whereas not an official bank, Revolut affords prospects options that permit them to pay their wage right into a digital “e-money” account that may then be used to pay direct debits, payments, or be spend utilizing one in every of Revolut’s playing cards. Revolut has over 13m prospects in around the globe and prospects held £2.2bn in its accounts on the finish of final yr.
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