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PayPal Outage History

Every past PayPal outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 366 PayPal outages since May 2021. The 40 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor April 17, 2026

April 2026: Initial Notification: Impact to checkout services (PP-LIVE-105481)

Detected Apr 17, 2026 1:00 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 17, 2026 1:52 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

PayPal experienced a minor service incident affecting their checkout services for 52 minutes. The disruption impacted users' ability to complete payment transactions during the outage period. The issue was resolved and checkout functionality was restored after approximately one hour.

Minor April 10, 2026

April 2026: Initial Notification: Impact to Merchant Reports (PP-LIVE-105411)

Detected Apr 10, 2026 12:34 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 10, 2026 1:51 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

PayPal experienced a minor service incident affecting merchant reports functionality. The issue impacted merchants' ability to access or generate their reporting data during the outage. The incident was resolved after approximately 1.3 hours of service disruption.

Minor April 9, 2026

April 2026: Update: Impact to Merchant Reports (PP-LIVE-105402)

Detected Apr 9, 2026 1:51 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 10, 2026 7:35 PM EDT · Duration 1 day

PayPal experienced a minor service incident affecting merchant reports functionality for approximately 29.7 hours. The issue impacted merchants' ability to access or generate their transaction and business reports through the platform. The incident has been resolved and merchant reporting services have been restored to normal operation.

Minor March 13, 2026

March 2026: Update: Impact to PayPal TZ5 BRR(BTR) Reports (PP-LIVE-105085)

Detected Mar 13, 2026 3:35 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 13, 2026 6:03 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

PayPal experienced a minor service incident affecting TZ5 BRR(BTR) reports functionality. The issue impacted the generation or availability of these specific business reporting features. The incident was resolved after 2.5 hours of service disruption.

Minor March 8, 2026

March 2026: Update: Impact to PayPal TZ6 Partner Reports (PP-LIVE-105004)

Detected Mar 8, 2026 10:59 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 9, 2026 8:12 AM EDT · Duration about 9 hours

PayPal experienced a minor service incident affecting TZ6 Partner Reports functionality for 9.2 hours. The issue has been resolved and the service is now operational. No additional details about the specific impact or resolution method were provided in the incident report.