PayPal: checkoutnow failed

PayPal was partly broken for 5 minutes on 22 Oct 2026.

Measured by trying the real thing every five minutes from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt.

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Sydneydid not see it fail

Passed

Virginiasaw checkoutnow fail

Failed

Frankfurtdid not see it fail

Passed

What happened

Opened22 Oct 2026, 01:45 AEDT

Closed22 Oct 2026, 01:50 AEDT

Lasted5 minutes

Stepcheckoutnow

CitiesVirginia

Closed after two consecutive clean windows, which is how this network avoids opening ten incidents for one flapping service.

The screen we saw

No screenshot for this one. The capture is not switched on yet: it needs a screenshot-only job on the walk fleet, and that code is frozen while P49's clock runs.

What PayPal says

We have no readable line from their status page.

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Everything else

Is PayPal down right now? · Every incident we have measured

navaal.ai/status/paypal/2026-10-22-checkoutnow · this URL does not change · every incident we have measured · incidents as CSV. Checked by Bilby, the nightly store check from Navaal, Sydney. No ads, no trackers. Not affiliated with PayPal.