Bitly Status · History · Incident #88559

RESOLVED

Provider outage affecting PayPal Payment Method

Major · Started Aug 1, 2025 · 9:02 AM

  • Duration

    2h 35m

  • Severity

    Major

  • Detection lead

  • User reports

Summary

Provider outage affecting PayPal Payment Method

The 3rd party provider incident involving checkout with PayPal has been resolved.


  • Started

    Aug 1, 2025 · 9:02 AM

  • Resolved

    Aug 1, 2025 · 11:37 AM

  • Duration

    2h 35m

  • Severity

    Major

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

  • Identified

    Aug 1 · 9:02 AM Bitly

    We are currently experiencing a 3rd party provider outage impacting checkout and payment method updates when utilizing PayPal. Our on-call team is working with the provider to restore functionality for Bitly users. We will provide an update within 30 minutes.

  • Identified

    Aug 1 · 9:49 AM Bitly

    PayPal is continuing to experience issues that are impacting use on our checkout and payment method update functionality. They are actively investigating and working to mitigate the issue. To make a purchase, please utilize checkout using a credit card.

  • Resolved

    Aug 1 · 11:37 AM Bitly

    The 3rd party provider incident involving checkout with PayPal has been resolved.

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