Whatnot incident
Some customers in the U.S. who choose to pay with Venmo may be experiencing higher than normal failures.
Whatnot experienced a minor incident on December 4, 2025 affecting Purchase, lasting 2h 8m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Purchase
Update timeline
- investigating Dec 04, 2025, 01:24 AM UTC
We are seeing increases in failure rates for Venmo payments in the U.S. - we have been notified by our payments service provider of the issue and are awaiting updates from them on recovery. https://www.paypal-status.com/history/eventdetails/94878
- investigating Dec 04, 2025, 01:25 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- resolved Dec 04, 2025, 11:33 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.