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Payments & Renewal

Paying your fee

How paying works, how to tell it worked, and what to do if it fails.

3 min read Created 26 Jul 2026

Overview

You pay on a payment company’s own page, not here. We never see your card number or your banking login.

Your browser is not what confirms the payment. The payment company tells us directly. So if your connection drops halfway through, the payment can still go through — and a page that says success is not proof until your record here changes.

That is why the one rule for a failed payment is: check your bank first. If no money left your account, try again. If money did leave, stop — do not pay a second time. Send us the reference instead.

Paying twice is the one mistake worth avoiding. Getting a duplicate refunded takes as long as your bank takes, which is much slower than sorting out the first payment.

Reference

How you can pay Whatever we have set up — usually UPI, cards, net banking and wallets. The payment page shows what is available.
When your membership starts When the payment company confirms the payment. Usually within seconds, and it does not depend on your browser staying open.
Payment links expire If we send a new one, the old one stops working. Always use the newest email.
Money held but not taken Some failed attempts reserve money without taking it. Your bank releases it on its own schedule, often within a week. That attempt did not pay anything.
Paying by cash or cheque We record it against your membership and you still get a receipt here.

Step-by-step

  1. Open the newest payment link
    From your email, or from the panel on your dashboard. If we have sent several, only the newest one works.
    The payment panel on your dashboard.
    The payment panel on your dashboard.
  2. Check the amount and what it covers
    The page shows the fee, what it is for and which period. Check all three before you pay. Querying a wrong amount now is far easier than getting a refund later.
  3. Pay on the payment company’s page
    Pick how you want to pay and follow it through, including any check your bank asks for. Wait until it brings you back here.
    Closing the window part-way through is the most common reason a payment is taken but not recorded against your membership.
  4. Check your record here, not the success screen
    Your status should become Active and a receipt should appear under Receipts. That is the confirmation that counts.
  5. If it failed, check your bank before anything else
    No money taken: try again, ideally a different way. Money taken: stop, note the reference, and send it to us. Do not start a second payment.
    Screenshot the error and your bank entry. It makes tracing the payment much quicker.

Tips

Keep the payment reference. It turns a difficult search into a one-line email.
A card can be declined for reasons we cannot see — daily limits, or blocks on online use. Try UPI before assuming something here is broken.
Ad blockers and strict privacy settings can stop the payment page loading. Try another browser or your phone first.

Notes

We can see every attempt, successful or not.
A failed payment changes nothing about your membership. Nothing is lost by a failure — only by paying twice.
Refunds go back the way the money came, on your bank’s timescale rather than ours.

Troubleshooting

Money left your account but it still says Payment Due.

Why it happens: The confirmation has not reached us yet, or the money was held rather than taken.

What to do: Reload after a few minutes. If nothing has changed within a day, send us the reference. Do not pay again.

Your UPI app says success but the page did not update.

Why it happens: The browser lost the payment page while you were in your UPI app.

What to do: Reload your dashboard and check Receipts. Send us the UPI reference rather than trying again.

You paid twice.

Why it happens: A payment that looked like it failed had actually gone through.

What to do: Send us both references. We refund the duplicate. Your membership is not affected.

The payment link says it is no longer valid.

Why it happens: Links expire, and a newer one replaces the old.

What to do: Use the newest email. If that is the one failing, ask us for a new link.

Related articles

Renewing your membership Needs an account When you can renew, who sends you the link, and what happens if you miss the last date. Your receipts Needs an account Where to find your receipts, how to keep them, and how someone else can check one is genuine. What your membership status means Membership Every status you might see, what it means, and whether you or we need to do something next.
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