Is PayPal down right now?

Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.

No - as of the most recent check, www.paypal.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 16h 50m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.

No - as of the most recent check, www.paypal.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 16h 50m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.

No - as of the most recent check, www.paypal.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 16h 50m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.

No - as of the most recent check, www.paypal.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 16h 50m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.

Not necessarily. A merchant's checkout calls PayPal's payment processing systems in the background, which run separately from the consumer site at paypal.com, so one can have trouble while the other works normally. Trying a different merchant's PayPal checkout is a quick way to tell whether the problem is isolated to one site's integration or affects PayPal more broadly.

Usually not. A payment can sit pending while PayPal completes a routine review, while a bank transfer takes its normal processing time, or while the recipient has not yet accepted the funds. Pending is a normal state for some payment types on its own and does not by itself indicate a service problem. If the app and site are otherwise loading and working normally, a single pending payment is far more likely to resolve on its own than to reflect an outage.

No. A decline is usually a response from the funding source, a linked bank account or card, or a risk check on that specific transaction, not a sign that PayPal itself is unavailable. It happens while the rest of the app or site continues to work normally. A genuine PayPal outage looks different: the app or site fails to load, or actions fail broadly across accounts rather than for a single payment.

Login problems can come from either side. A forgotten password, an expired session, or a two-factor code issue is common and account-specific, while a broader login outage would affect many users signing in at the same time. Confirming that paypal.com or the app is reachable at all is the first useful signal, since a login failure with everything else loading normally points at the account rather than the service.