Yes, in my case it may just be that my node is not currently routeable-to ... I've not paid attention to it for a while.
For example I zapped this message by nostr:npub1vadcfln4ugt2h9ruwsuwu5vu5am4xaka7pw6m7axy79aqyhp6u5q9knuu7, but I don't see this reflected yet. Having an overview of zap attempts may help debug issues with them.
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No the payment worked fine. But receiving node has to publish a nostr event to confirm the zap.