PayPal had 16 outages in the last 2 years totaling 150h 3m of downtime — averaging 0.7 incidents per month.
There were 16 PayPal outages since March 9, 2026 totaling 150h 3m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
Initial Notification: We are currently experiencing an issue affecting Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) authorizations, and customers may see declines and checkout errors. Our team is working on resolving the issue and mitigating the impact. Affected Regions: Global
Detected Resolved: We experienced an outage affecting Apple Pay transactions. Our engineers have resolved the issue, and the impact has been mitigated. Affected Regions: North America
Initial Notification: We are currently experiencing degraded performance affecting PayPal Checkout and customer checkout experiences. Our team is actively investigating and working to mitigate the impact. Affected Regions: Global
Detected Resolved: We were experiencing an issue affecting multiple Venmo products, Our engineers have resolved the issue, and the impact has been mitigated. Affected Regions: Global
Resolved: The issue affecting Venmo transactions has been resolved, and services have returned to normal. Our team continues to monitor the environment to ensure stability. We apologize for any inconvenience. Initial Notification: Venmo is currently experiencing service degradation affecting some transactions and account-related functionality. Our technical teams are actively investigating and working to restore normal service. Affected Regions: Global
Initial Notification: We are currently experiencing Degraded Performance affecting Refunds, Payments, Authorizations, Pay with PayPal Integration. Our team is working on resolving the issue and mitigating the impact. Affected Regions: Global
Initial Notification: We are currently experiencing Degraded Performance affecting customers checking out with PayPal within merchants native mobile apps using the in-app web view. Our team is working on resolving the issue and mitigating the impact. Affected Regions: Global
Initial Notification: We are currently experiencing Degraded Performance affecting Withdrawals. Our team is working on resolving the issue and mitigating the impact. Affected Regions: EMEA
Initial Notification: We are experiencing an issue that is affecting Merchant Reporting for accounts subscribed to TZ6. Our technical teams are actively working on generating the report, and we will provide a further update as soon as the report is available. Affected Reports: TZ6 reports Affected Regions: APAC
Initial Notification: We are experiencing an issue with a payment network partner that is affecting the timing of fund settlements. As a result, your payout may be delayed past its normal schedule. We are actively working to release your funds as quickly as possible. This does not affect your available balance information, and there is no action needed from you at this time. Jul 10, 02:13 UTC
Initial Notification: We are experiencing a system issue that may be impacting Payouts Processing and Network, Integration - Batch/API/Webhooks in our Production Environment. Our technical teams are actively working towards resolving the issue. Jun 11, 20:07 UTC
Resolved: This issue has been resolved as of Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:22 GMT. This issue has been resolved as of Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:22 GMT. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:22 GMTInitial Notification: We are experiencing a system issue that may be impacting Checkout Services in our production Environment.Our technical teams are actively working towards resolving the issue. Apr 17, 04:59 UTC
Resolved: The issue has been resolved as of Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:12 GMT The issue has been resolved as of Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:12 GMT Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:47 GMTInitial Notification: We are experiencing an issue that may be affecting multiple merchants reporting for accounts subscribed to DDR reports TZ5(North America). Affected Reports: DDR - Reports Our technical teams are actively working on generating the report, and we will provide a further update as soon as the report is available. We are experiencing an issue that may be affecting multiple merchants reporting for accounts subscribed to DDR reports TZ5(North America). Affected Reports: DDR - Reports Our technical teams are actively working on generating the report, and we will provide a further update as soon as the report is available. Apr 10, 16:31 UTC
Resolved: The impact to Reporting in our Production Environment has been mitigated. All TZ5 reports have been successfully delivered. Affected Regions: North America Mar 13, 21:58 UTC Initial Notification 2: We are experiencing a system issue that may be impacting Reporting in our Production Environment. As a result, some merchants and partners may experience delays in report delivery to SFTP. Our technical teams are actively working towards resolving the issue. Mar 13, 19:32 UTC Initial Notification: We are currently investigating an issue impacting scheduled report generation after a recent schedule time change prevented the job from running as expected. Engineering teams are working to rerun the original job and reviewing logs to identify the root cause. Next update will be provided once the job rerun is confirmed or additional findings are available. Mar 13, 20:37 UTC