I cannot complete my Apple Developer Program membership purchase.
I have attempted the US$99 purchase five times since 17 July 2026. Each attempt behaves identically: I receive the Order Acknowledgement email stating the order will be processed within 2 business days, but the payment is never actually charged — no funds are ever debited from my card — and the enrollment status remains "Pending" indefinitely. No error message, no decline notice.
This looks like the authorization succeeds while the capture never completes, after which the order sits in Pending forever instead of failing cleanly so I could retry with a different method.
Entity type: Individual Apple Account region: Kazakhstan Support case opened today: 20000121077930 (no reply yet)
Two questions for anyone who has been through this:
- Did a stuck Pending order have to be cancelled by Apple before a new payment attempt could succeed?
- For accounts where card payments never capture, did paying from Apple Account balance (gift card) work instead?