Is PayPal Down? PayPal Status & Outages
PayPal status updated
PayPal service health over the last 24 hours
This chart shows the number of user-reported issues for PayPal service health over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem.
Outage Map
See where users report PayPal is down. The map shows recent PayPal outages from around the world.
Top locations, last 24h:
- United States
- United Kingdom
Recent PayPal outage reports
See what users report when PayPal is down and how PayPal outages affect them.
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🇨🇦 Canada
it just says ~~ they having a problem verifying is me when i tried to transfer money to my card . I log out and tried to log in and is says same .. i changed the browser to log in then it says i should enable js on my computer meanwhile it is already.
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🇿🇦 South Africa
Mathapelo - Please assist. I am not able to withdraw money from my paypal account as the option is not available.I have linked my account and I have used this service several times. I have attached a screen shot of the options that are available. Please assist. I am not able to withdraw money from my paypal....
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🇮🇪 Ireland
Endless screen when loging in, on mobile and PC.
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🇺🇸 United States of America
Tabitha - I cash out money from an app I use and it still wasn't in my PayPal two hours later.
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🇺🇸 United States of America
csmith - cant access my card to unlock it..
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🇺🇸 United States of America
Click bill pay from home page and nothing happens. page refreshes. From the mobile app, bill pay just shows the generic page stating you would see bills here, but theres nothing else..
Bill Pay -
🇺🇸 United States of America
Barbara - Cannot sign in or make payments.
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🇺🇸 United States of America
Carence - Pay Pal does not recognise email or my password i have used for years. it say my email adress is avalid account.
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🇺🇸 United States of America
S - Trying for almost a month to send rent payment to local Costa Rican widow. I cancelled and resent with new ID for receiver and again it’s been a week. Problem with intermediary. Questionable email. Spoken to multiple agents to no avail. No problem with Banco National CR....
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🇺🇸 United States of America
monika - page does not load properly.
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🇺🇸 United States of America
Paypal says its processing and then nothing. No confirmation. It is not going through..
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🇺🇸 United States of America
transfer to both card and bank error/failed.
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🇺🇸 United States of America
Things dont appear to be working at this moment.
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🇺🇸 United States of America
Invoices page not loading.
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🇲🇽 Mexico
Luia - I got the message 'You have been blocked. We couldn’t load the security challenge.' when attempting to log in to paypal. Tried three different browsers with no success..
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PayPal Downtime Health — Last 90 Days
In the last 90 days, PayPal had 9 incidents with a median duration of 2 hours 16 minutes.
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Incidents
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Major Outages
9
Minor Incidents
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Median Resolution
Recent PayPal outages detected by IsDown
Full incident reports for recent PayPal outages, including timelines, affected components, and resolution details.
about 9 hours
Mar 08, 2026 at 10:59 PM
about 2 hours
Feb 18, 2026 at 04:46 PM
24 minutes
Feb 01, 2026 at 10:29 PM
4 minutes
Jan 28, 2026 at 10:53 PM
about 2 hours
Jan 19, 2026 at 07:37 AM
about 2 hours
Jan 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
| Title | Started At | Duration |
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Mar 09, 2026 at 02:59 AM UTC
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about 9 hours | |
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Feb 18, 2026 at 09:46 PM UTC
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about 2 hours | |
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Feb 18, 2026 at 02:26 PM UTC
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1 day | |
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Feb 02, 2026 at 03:29 AM UTC
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24 minutes | |
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Jan 29, 2026 at 05:13 AM UTC
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about 9 hours | |
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Jan 29, 2026 at 03:53 AM UTC
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4 minutes | |
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Jan 19, 2026 at 12:37 PM UTC
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about 2 hours | |
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Jan 14, 2026 at 03:20 AM UTC
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about 2 hours | |
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Dec 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM UTC
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about 5 hours | |
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Dec 03, 2025 at 11:58 PM UTC
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about 5 hours |
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PayPal Components Status
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Monitor PayPal alongside these services
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Payment Processing
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Payment Processing
MAINTENANCE
Coinbase
E-Commerce
OK
Google Ads
Advertising Networks
MINOR
Fastly
Web Hosting & CDN
MINOR
Microsoft 365 Consumer
Productivity Tools
OK
McGraw Hill
Education Technology
OK
Asana
Project & Work Management
MAJOR
BridgePay Network Solutions
Payment Processing
MAJOR
Pin Payments
Payment Processing
OK
Payrix Integrated
Payment Processing
OK
Nets Netaxept
Payment Processing
OK
About PayPal Status and Outage Monitoring
IsDown has monitored PayPal continuously since May 2021, tracking this Payment Processing for 5 years. Over that time, we've documented 362 outages and incidents, averaging 6.4 per month. When PayPal goes down, incidents typically resolve within 377 minutes based on historical data.
We monitor PayPal's official status page across 122 components. IsDown interprets PayPal statuses (operational and incident) to deliver precise health metrics and filter alerts by the components you actually use.
To check if PayPal is down, IsDown combines official status data with user reports for early detection. Vendors often delay acknowledging problems, so user reports help us alert you before the official announcement.
Engineering and operations teams rely on IsDown to track PayPal status and receive verified outage alerts through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or 20+ other integrations.
How IsDown Monitors PayPal
IsDown checks PayPal's status page every few minutes, across all 122 components. We combine official status data with user reports to detect when PayPal is down, often before the vendor announces it.
When PayPal status changes, IsDown sends alerts to your preferred channels. Filter by severity to skip noise and focus on outages that affect your business.
What you get when monitoring PayPal with IsDown
Track PayPal incidents and downtimes by severity
IsDown checks PayPal official status page for major/minor outages or downtimes. A major outage is when PayPal experiences a critical issue that severely affects one or more services/regions. A minor incident is when PayPal experiences a small issue affecting a small percentage of its customer's applications. An example is the performance degradation of an application. The moment we detect a PayPal outage, we send you an alert and update your dashboard and status page.
Get alerted as soon as users report problems with PayPal
PayPal and other vendors don't always report outages on time. IsDown collects user reports to provide early detection of outages. This way, even without an official status update, you can stay ahead of possible problems.
All the details of PayPal outages and downtimes
IsDown collects all information from the outages published in PayPal status page to provide the context of the outage. If available, we gather the title, description, time of the outage, status, and outage updates. Another important piece of information is the affected services/regions which we use to filter the notifications that impact your business.
Only get alerted on the PayPal outages that impact your business
IsDown monitors PayPal and all their 122 components that can be affected by an outage. IsDown allows you to filter the notifications and status page alerts based on the components you care about. For example, you can choose which components or regions affect your business and filter out all other outages. This way you avoid alert fatigue in your team.
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We monitor official status pages
IsDown checks the status of over 6,020+ services every few minutes. We aggregate official status information and normalize it, plus collect crowdsourced reports for early outage detection.
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When we detect an incident or status change, you receive an alert immediately. Customize notifications by service, component, or severity to avoid alert fatigue.
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PayPal Downdetector vs IsDown
Looking for PayPal outage alerts like Downdetector? IsDown monitors PayPal's official status page for verified incident data, not just user reports. Know exactly when PayPal is down, which components are affected, and when service health is restored. Here's why official PayPal status monitoring beats crowdsourced detection:
| Features | IsDown | Downdetector |
|---|---|---|
| Official PayPal status page monitoring. Know when PayPal is down with real time incident details. | ||
| Monitor 6,020+ services including PayPal in a single dashboard. | ||
| Instant PayPal outage alerts sent to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, and more. | ||
| Combined monitoring: PayPal official status plus user reports for early outage detection. | ||
| Maintenance feed for PayPal | ||
| Granular alerts filtering by PayPal components and regions. |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is PayPal down today?
PayPal isn't down. You can check PayPal status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors PayPal official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.
What is the current PayPal status?
PayPal is currently operational. You can check PayPal status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.
Is there a PayPal outage now?
No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
Is PayPal down today or just slow?
Currently there's no report of PayPal being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
How are PayPal outages detected?
IsDown monitors the PayPal official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.
Is PayPal having an outage right now?
PayPal last outage was on March 08, 2026 with the title "Update: Impact to PayPal TZ6 Partner Reports (PP-LIVE-105004)"
How often does PayPal go down?
IsDown has tracked 362 PayPal incidents since May 2021. When PayPal goes down, incidents typically resolve within 377 minutes.
Is PayPal down for everyone or just me?
Check the PayPal status at the top of this page. IsDown combines official status page data with user reports to show whether PayPal is down for everyone or if the issue is on your end.
What PayPal components does IsDown monitor?
IsDown monitors 122 PayPal components in real-time, tracking the official status page for outages, degraded performance, and scheduled maintenance.
How to check if PayPal is down?
- Subscribe (if possible) to updates on the official status page.
- Create an account in IsDown. Start monitoring PayPal and get alerts in real-time when PayPal has outages.
Why use IsDown to monitor PayPal instead of the official status page?
Because IsDown is a status page aggregator, which means that we aggregate the status of multiple cloud services. You can monitor PayPal and all the services that impact your business. Get a dashboard with the health of all services and status updates. Set up notifications via Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, and more, when a service you monitor has issues or when maintenances are scheduled.
How IsDown compares to DownDetector when monitoring PayPal?
IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if PayPal is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information instead of just relying on reports from users. The integration allows us to provide more details about PayPal's Outages, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.
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