PayPal is up but my store isn't. What now?

Then the fault is in your setup — your theme, an app or your domain. Bilby will walk your store, try to buy something, and show you the screen where it stopped. It's free.

Is PayPal down?

No. PayPal is working.

We load PayPal's checkout SDK, its checkout page and its API host. Checked from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt 2 minutes ago.

Sydney · 2 min — WorkingVirginia · 2 min — WorkingFrankfurt · 2 min — Working

Last 24 hours · 1 of 96 blocks had a failure

PayPal is up but my store isn't Email me if PayPal breaks

What PayPal says

We haven't found a machine-readable status page for PayPal. Ours is above, from trying the real thing.

Last 90 days

working 99.9% of the time since 19 Oct 2026 (10 days) (0 incidents)

No incident has been recorded yet.

Every incident we have measured

Is it just my store?

If PayPal is working and your store still can't pay, the fault is in your setup. Bilby will walk your store now and show you the screen. Free.

Check my store

How we check

Every 5 minutes, from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt, we load PayPal's checkout SDK, its checkout page and its API host. Not a ping. Not their status page.

Normally 1.5 s from Sydney, 1.0 s from Virginia, 706 ms from Frankfurt — the slowest step we run, measured since 19 Oct 2026 (10 days).

How we check, in full — the method, the rule and our own four canaries

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Questions

Is PayPal down right now?: No. PayPal is working. We load PayPal's checkout SDK, its checkout page and its API host. Checked from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt 2 minutes ago.
How do you know PayPal is down?: Every 5 minutes, from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt, we load PayPal's checkout SDK, its checkout page and its API host. Not a ping. Not their status page.
PayPal is up but my store isn't. What now?: Then the fault is in your setup — your theme, an app or your domain. Bilby will walk your store, try to buy something, and show you the screen where it stopped. It's free.