Polymarket Customer Service: Getting Help On The Right Polymarket
You probably landed here mid-problem: an app that will not load, an order that did not fill, money you cannot find. So Polymarket customer service routes first, all of them verified working as this was written, and then the part no support page will tell you, which is that about half of what people open tickets about is not a fault at all. Knowing which half your problem sits in saves you a ticket, days of waiting, and a lot of frustration, and that is the promise this page pays off below.
The Quick Answer
On the global polymarket.com site, use the blue chat icon in the bottom-right corner of the site or email support@polymarket.com. On the US app, email support@polymarket.us or use the chat inside the app, and check status.polymarketexchange.com before you write anything. Which of those pairs applies to you, the fixes to try before contacting anyone, and the three common complaints no support agent can change are all below.
First, Confirm Which Polymarket You Are Actually On
Here is the trap this page exists to spring you from: "Polymarket" is two different companies, and their support channels do not cross. Polymarket US is a CFTC-regulated exchange, operated through QCX LLC, that holds US dollars and answers to a federal regulator; what that structure produces in practice is broad, state-specific availability under federal oversight. The global polymarket.com site settles in crypto and does not accept US deposits; US visitors see a message that depositing is not available in their region. Why the two venues exist at all is its own story, and the mechanics of how Polymarket works differ between them all the way down to what your balance is made of.
For a support question, the venue decides everything: where your money lives, which rules govern it, and who can actually see your account. Polymarket's own Help Center draws the line in one sentence, listing support@polymarket.com "for the website" and support@polymarket.us "for the US app." Write to the wrong one and you are asking a company that has never heard of your account to find your money.
| Polymarket US (the app) | Polymarket (global site) | |
|---|---|---|
| Who Runs It | QCX LLC, a CFTC-regulated exchange | The global polymarket.com platform |
| Your Balance Is | US dollars | Crypto |
| Support Email | support@polymarket.us | support@polymarket.com |
| Chat | In-app chat | Blue chat icon, bottom-right of the site |
| Where To Check First | status.polymarketexchange.com (live status page) | Help Center troubleshooting articles (no public status page) |
The two email addresses in that table are the single most useful row on this page. They are one letter apart at the end, and they reach two different companies.
The Support Routes, Verified
On the US app, the published routes are the in-app chat and support@polymarket.us. The exchange also runs a public status page at status.polymarketexchange.com, which shows live system status, incidents, and scheduled maintenance. That page is the first stop for any "is it me or is it them" question, because it answers in one glance what a ticket would take much longer to tell you.
On the global site, the routes are the chat launcher, which the Help Center describes as the blue chat icon in the bottom right of polymarket.com, and support@polymarket.com. The Help Center itself is worth a pass before you write in; it carries FAQs plus troubleshooting articles for specific errors, including dedicated fix pages for the "Network Error" and "Claim Failed" messages.
Neither venue publishes a response-time commitment, so we will not invent one. What you control is the quality of the ticket: the email tied to your account, the market name, the approximate time, what you expected, what happened instead, and a screenshot. One complete message beats four fragments arriving out of order.
What Support Cannot Fix, And Why That Is Good News
This is the section that earns the page. Three of the most common complaints are not faults, and no agent on either venue can change them, because each one is a market doing exactly what a market does. The good news: nothing is broken, and your money is where the rules say it is.
"My order never filled." Both venues are exchanges, so every trade needs a real counterparty on the other side. If you offered 38 cents, an implied 38% chance, and the cheapest seller wanted 41 cents, an implied 41%, nothing was matched, and your order simply rested there, working. That is not a bug; that is what liquidity decides in any prediction market, and thin markets can leave a fair-looking order unfilled for hours. The fix is a decision, not a ticket: pay the seller's price, or keep resting and accept you may never fill.
"The market settled the wrong way." Every contract settles on a resolution source named in its rules in advance, and if the outcome matched that source, the settlement is correct even when it feels absurd, even when a different source said otherwise. A ticket cannot re-decide a market. There is a real dispute process when a source is misread or a rule is ambiguous, and what a settlement dispute actually looks like is narrower than most people hope: it is about whether the stated rule was applied, never about whether the rule was fair.
"The price moved before my order went through." Prices move continuously as news and orders arrive. If the market ran from 40 cents to 55, its implied probability jumping from 40% to 55% while you were deciding, the old price was not taken from you; it stopped existing. Speed complaints are occasionally real platform faults, but a price that updated between your glance and your click is the product working.
The 30-second triage. Order sitting open? Nobody accepted your price, and 38 cents only trades when someone else takes the other side of that 38% read. Market settled against you on its named source? Correct settlement, and no ticket changes it. Price jumped before you clicked? The market moved. Anything else, especially money that left your bank and never reached your balance, is a real ticket.
Sort your own complaint against those three before writing in. If it fits one, the honest answer is already in front of you. If it does not fit any of them, you likely have a real ticket, and the next section is the order to work it in.
The App Will Not Load: The Order To Try Things In
Specific beats sympathetic, so here is the sequence, numbered on purpose.
- Check whether it is you or them. On the US app, open status.polymarketexchange.com in a browser. An active incident or maintenance window means the fix is patience, not reinstalling. One detail worth knowing from the US exchange's own documentation: open orders are canceled before maintenance begins. An order that vanished during a maintenance window was not eaten; it was canceled by rule, and you re-place it after.
- Confirm the venue. A US user opening the global polymarket.com site will hit walls by design, including the region message on depositing. That is not an outage; it is the two-company split at work, and whether Polymarket is legal where you are covers what US users can and cannot do on which venue.
- The boring trio. Force-close and reopen the app, check for an update in your phone's app store, and switch between Wi-Fi and cellular. Stale app versions and half-dead connections cause more "Polymarket is down" moments than Polymarket does.
- Look up the specific error. On the global site, a literal "Network Error" or "Claim Failed" message has its own Help Center article with steps. An exact error string is a gift; use it.
- Then contact support, on the channel matching your venue from the table above, with the full ticket described earlier. By this point you have already ruled out the causes that generate most tickets, which makes yours faster to resolve.
A Worked Example: "My Order Disappeared And The App Froze"
Run one messy, realistic complaint through the whole page, because real problems arrive tangled. Say you are on the US app, you had an order resting at 42 cents, an implied 42% chance, the app froze at night, and in the morning the order is gone. That is two problems, not one. The freeze is a real technical symptom: step one says check the status page, and if it shows overnight maintenance, both mysteries may already be solved, because the freeze was the platform going down and the missing order was canceled before maintenance by rule. Nothing needs a ticket; you re-place the order. But if the status page shows nothing and the app still will not load after the boring trio, now you have a legitimate ticket for support@polymarket.us or the in-app chat: one sentence on the freeze, one on the missing order, the market name, the time, a screenshot. Notice what the triage did: it split a scary story into one working-as-designed rule and one real fault, and only the fault gets the ticket.
The Part Where We Level With You
We spend real time on these venues: Stokastic trades prediction markets and holds positions in them, and every position we hold is eventually graded against the settlement source, not against how right we felt. That discipline is exactly why this page keeps insisting that most "broken" things are rules. The rule that costs newcomers actual money is not an app bug at all; it is the shape of the trade. Selling an unlikely outcome collects a small premium and risks most of a dollar. Roughly speaking, one loss erases the premiums from about 15 wins. No support ticket recovers that dollar, because nothing malfunctioned. If you are still learning what these contracts even are, start with the event-contract basics and how these markets work before you fund anything, and read how Polymarket compares with Kalshi if you are choosing a venue rather than fixing one.
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The Venue Tag Is The Whole Page
Zoom back out. Every route above came tagged to a venue because that tag is the answer: two companies, two email addresses one letter apart, two different places your money can live. Channels and rules change, so confirm the route on the venue's own site before you write in; the two-company split is the part that will still be true when they do. Ask "which Polymarket?" first, sort your complaint against the three things no ticket can change, and you will either fix the problem yourself or file the rare ticket that deserves a fast answer.
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FAQ: Reaching Polymarket, By Venue
How do I contact Polymarket customer service? On the global polymarket.com site: the blue chat icon in the bottom-right corner, or support@polymarket.com. On the US app: the in-app chat, or support@polymarket.us. The two emails reach two different companies, so match the address to the venue holding your account, and send one complete message: account email, market name, time, what you expected, what happened, screenshot.
Does Polymarket have live chat? Yes, on both venues, and they are separate systems run by the two separate companies. The global site's chat opens from the blue icon in the bottom right of polymarket.com; the US app's chat lives inside the app itself. Open the one attached to the account you actually hold, because the website chat serves the website, not the US exchange.
Why is the Polymarket app not working? Check status.polymarketexchange.com first; an incident or maintenance window there explains everything at once, and open orders are canceled before maintenance by rule. If the status page is clean, force-close the app, check your phone's app store for an update, and switch between Wi-Fi and cellular. A literal "Network Error" or "Claim Failed" message on the global site has its own fix article in the Help Center.
Why did my Polymarket order not fill? Because no one took the other side at your price. Both venues are exchanges, so a trade only happens when a counterparty matches you: an order resting at 25 cents, an implied 25%, fills only when a counterparty meets your price or better. An unfilled order is the market telling you your price was not accepted, not a malfunction.
Disclosure and fine print. Stokastic trades prediction markets and holds positions in them. Because this page also links to our Kalshi guides: we have no affiliate or commercial relationship with Kalshi. We do carry sign-up offers for some other prediction-market and betting platforms, including the Polymarket offer disclosed next to the link above. Event contracts are regulated derivatives, not sportsbook wagers, and a position can lose its full value. 18+, where available; risk of loss is real. Nothing on this page is trading advice, a pick, or a recommendation. We describe the support routes and mechanics, not the venues' service quality, which we have not measured, and channels change, so confirm the route on the venue's own site before you write in.
