India, Oct. 16 -- PayPal and Venmo are reportedly down on Thursday, for US users, affecting thousands. Downdetector noted a spike in complaints around 9 am.

PayPal showed a massive spike in outages with many sharing troubles they're facing. "Trying to order food but cant as the money is locked on my account," a person commented on the Downdetector page. "Nothing is working for me. Not the app or on my desktop. Seems as if they are working on it though," another person said.

Venmo, too, showed a similar outage. People shared their problems on the Downdetector page there as well. "Not working error message !!," a person said. Another added, "It's been completely offline for 20 mins."

Customers complained that they are not able to log in ...