Payment/transfer question

[zethreal]

I've been playing around with bitcoins for a couple of months and was wondering how long after a payment is made should it show up?  I was told a payment was made roughly an hour ago but it isn't showing up in my wallet (not even as an unconfirmed transaction).  Luckily this was a small payment (~$5 USD) so I'm not terribly worried.  I was just wondering how long it may take to show up.  Yes, my bitcoin wallet is up to date & has all current blocks.

[kw71]

Please tell more details.  What is the status of your bitcoin client and how do you know a transaction was issued?

Sometimes, for instance, a website may not automatically issue the transaction but add it to some kind of queue for batch processing or manual review.

[zethreal]

Notification on the website states that the payment has been issued.  My bitcoin client is running with 131460 blocks (which matches the bitcoins charts website) - not sure what else you mean.

I have one other transaction from when I first started using bitcoins that's currently showing something around 16,000 confirmations.  

I just sent a payment to myself & saw it instantly (although it says 0/unconfirmed - which I'm sure will change shortly)