# Payment blocked due to excessive retries

On April 1, 2021 Visa implemented a new fee on excessive retries to enforce their rules prohibiting excessive payment reattempts. Visa’s rules broadly prohibit more than 15 retries of a single payment over 30 calendar days. To help users on [integrated pricing](https://stripe.com/pricing) plans comply with this new rule, after the 15th retry attempt on a Visa transaction, Stripe will automatically block subsequent retry attempts if Stripe determines there is a low chance of a successful authorization for the given charge.
The API response on the [Charge](https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges) object in this case will be:
`{`
`"error" => {`
`"charge" => "ch_123456789",`
`"code" => "card_declined",`
`"decline_code" => "generic_decline",`
`"doc_url" => "https://stripe.com/docs/error-codes/card-declined",`
`"message" => "Your card was declined.",`
`"type" => "card_error"`
`}`
`}`
The "outcome" field in the [charge.failed](https://stripe.com/docs/api/events/types#event_types-charge.failed) webhook will be:
`{`
`"network_status" => "not_sent_to_network",`
`"reason" => "previously_declined_do_not_retry",`
`"risk_level" => "normal",`
`"seller_message" => "Stripe blocked this payment.",`
`"type" => "blocked"`
`}`