PayPal error: Things don’t appear to be working at the moment

You received a Paypal error message saying “Things don’t appear to be working at the moment”, but you don’t know the reason. This article will explain why you have this issue and how to proceed.

Why Payments Standard integration isn't processing transactions?

You received the error message “Things don’t appear to be working at the moment” from PayPal:

This error typically occurs for two reasons:

• You have entered your PayPal email address or PayPal Identity Token incorrectly
• Your Encrypted Website Payments set to ON

Other reasons can affect your payment transaction. For example, if you are using a plugin for Wordpress (like “WooComerce”) you will have this issue because you only need EWP if you are using a manual button.

How to solve this issue?

You need to test all available options to identify which ones lead to an error message.

If your issue is not resolved by the above linked article, please contact PayPal customer service for further troubleshooting.

To contact customer service, please check the contact page which is at the bottom of any PayPal page for contact options, or reach them out by Facebook or Twitter.