Is PayPal down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with PayPal right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check PayPal continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are checkout or payment, can't log in, no response / timing out, can't connect, 5xx error pages and messages not sending. Those are the options the report button offers for PayPal, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With PayPal specifically, PayPal routes transactions through regional payment processors and bank networks that can fail independently, and account access depends on authentication servers that may be unreachable from your location or ISP. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For PayPal, try logging in from a different device and network, then attempt a small test transaction to a verified recipient. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on PayPal's side. Specifically: do not retry failed transactions repeatedly, as each attempt may be queued and process when service recovers, resulting in duplicate charges. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. PayPal does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe paypal.com directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what PayPal says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at status.paypal.com, and it is linked further up this page. That is PayPal's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to PayPal or paypal.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need PayPal's own support, not us.