Is PayPal down? Payment service briefly experiences 'system issue'

FILE - A user interacts with the PayPal mobile app in front of a PayPal logo on Oct. 27, 2024, in Chongqing, China. (Photo by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)

PayPal appeared to briefly experience an outage on Thursday morning, with thousands of users reporting issues at the height.

The company said on its service status page that it was experiencing "a system issue" that appeared to impact various PayPal products. 

"Our technical teams are actively working towards resolving the issue," it added.

Downdetector, which tracks online outages, had received more than 8,400 reports of issues as of 7:30 a.m. ET. The majority of the reports were over logging into the platform. 

By 8:30 a.m., PayPal's status page said all products were "operational."