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⚪ PayPal's payment processing had a brief existential crisis but engineers talked it down from the ledge. Your ability to throw money at things online has been restored to normal dysfunction levels. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ 5d ago Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Detected Resolved: Impact to Online Checkout (PP-LIVE-110330)

// Status page says

Detected Resolved: We were experiencing outage affecting Online Checkout. Our engineers have resolved the issue, and the impact has been mitigated. Affected Regions: Global

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://www.paypal-status.com/history/eventdetails/110330

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⚪ PayPal's Buy Now, Pay Later got a little too literal about the 'later' part and started declining everything. Global checkout errors ensued while engineers performed financial triage. Now resolved, so your impulse purchases can resume their regularly scheduled deductions.
🟢 PAYPAL Sep 29, 2026
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