{"id":167516,"date":"2025-12-04T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/167516\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:05:07","slug":"is-venmo-down-outage-affects-payment-app-as-thousands-report-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/167516\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Venmo down? Outage affects payment app as thousands report issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venmo faced a widespread outage Wednesday night. The payment app said it was working on a fix. <\/p>\n<p>Venmo said it was working to fix an issue affecting the payment app Wednesday night after thousands of users reported encountering problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re aware that some users are experiencing issues with Venmo right now,&#8221; Venmo said in a post to X. &#8220;Our team is working on a fix, and we&#8217;ll update you as soon as it&#8217;s resolved. Thanks for your patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reports spiked Wednesday evening on <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/venmo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">DownDetector<\/a>, a website that tracks outages by user reports. Some reported issues logging in, transferring funds or using the Venmo debit card linked to their accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The app allows users to send money to other users and transfer funds in and out of bank accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peer-to-peer payment apps have exploded in popularity in the last decade. Venmo had 92 million active users as of last year. It has been owned by PayPal since 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re aware that some users are experiencing issues with Venmo right now. Our team is working on a fix, and we&#8217;ll update you as soon as it&#8217;s resolved. Thanks for your patience.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Venmo (@Venmo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Venmo\/status\/1996421538753794176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venmo faced a widespread outage Wednesday night. The payment app said it was working on a fix. Venmo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-167516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}