PayPal status
PayPal uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · 30 days
- 100%
- Response time
- 1,352 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is PayPal down, or is it just you?
Multiple independent check rounds from rimetry's monitoring infrastructure, run seconds apart.
Our checks reached PayPal successfully in every round of the last check cycle.
| Check round | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Reachable | 100% | 554 ms |
| Round 2 | Reachable | 100% | 552 ms |
| Round 3 | Reachable | 100% | 546 ms |
| Round 4 | Reachable | 100% | 549 ms |
Based on 3,288 automated checks in the last 24 hours. Each round is an independent pass over the same endpoint, seconds apart — a single failing round is not an outage; repeated failures across rounds are.
What can be affected on PayPal?
These are the main PayPal functions that can experience separate issues.
- Login & authenticationTest signing in from a private browser window or another device
- PaymentsTry a second payment method before repeating a failed attempt
- TransfersConfirm whether the transfer was queued before retrying it
- Accounts & balancesBalances can lag — refresh once before assuming data loss
- Mobile appForce-close and reopen the app, then retry on mobile data
- APICheck whether the API behaves differently from the web interface
This list shows which parts can fail on their own. It does not mean any of them is failing right now — the live status above is the only claim we make about the current state.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
PayPal appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About PayPal
PayPal is a digital payment processor used for online shopping, peer-to-peer transfers, and merchant credit card processing. The platform supports a variety of functions including the PayPal Checkout button, Venmo integrations, and business invoicing tools for small and large retailers. Users notice issues when transaction authorizations fail, balance transfers are delayed, or the API returns errors during checkout. Rimetry tracks the health of these financial systems by performing regular availability checks to confirm if the payment gateway is functioning correctly for everyone.
Problems with PayPal can affect login & authentication, payments, transfers independently.
PayPal (paypal.com) is a banking service monitored continuously by rimetry's automated checks. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds in repeated independent rounds to detect outages and latency spikes the moment they happen.
Right now PayPal is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 1352 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to paypal.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like PayPal include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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Other banking tools people watch alongside PayPal. See the full category.
What is PayPal?
Online payments.
PayPal is part of our Banking category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · Login or two-factor approval fails
- · Balances and transactions won't load
- · Transfers rejected or stuck as pending
- · Card authorisations declined at checkout
Similar patterns often surface across other banking providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Test signing in from a private browser window or another device
- · Try a second payment method before repeating a failed attempt
- · Confirm whether the transfer was queued before retrying it
- · Balances can lag — refresh once before assuming data loss
- · Avoid resubmitting a payment that appeared to fail — check the transaction list first
- · Confirm push approval notifications aren't blocked on your phone
- · Try the mobile app and web banking separately; they often fail independently
- · Restart your phone if two-factor prompts never arrive
- · Contact your bank directly for anything involving money that already left the account
- · Check PayPal's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to banking.
FAQ
- Is PayPal down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Is PayPal Login & authentication down?
Login & authentication can fail on its own, separately from the rest of PayPal. Compare the live status above with your own test of that specific function. - Where can I see past PayPal incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to banking.