Tools · payment processing

Companies using PayPal_

As of 4 November 2026, 217,877 companies show PayPal: 217,644 carry it on their website or in their DNS records, 239 name it in their own job postings, and 6 do both.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Largest market
United States · 98,455 companies
Companies with 51+ staff
5,256 · 2% of the footprint
Top industry
Commerce & trade · 38%
Team that names it most
Software engineering · 177 postings
Hiring on it, last 30 days
199 companies
Most often alongside
Stripe · 179 companies
217,877companies show PayPal, all sources
217,644on their website or in DNS records
239name it in their own job postings
380postings naming PayPal, last 90 days
02 — Two ways we see a tool

Where PayPal shows up

Each population is counted on its own. We never add them up without saying so, because they answer different questions.

Website and DNS footprint217,644

Companies whose own pages load PayPal's scripts or embeds, or whose domain's mail and hosting records (SPF, DKIM, MX, CNAME) point at PayPal. From our crawl of 41.5M company websites and the DNS sweep behind it. Reach: the tool is in the building.

Job postings239

Companies whose own postings say the team works in PayPal. Read hourly from ~70 applicant tracking systems, with the function, a quote and a date. Intent: the team that runs it is hiring.

Both6

Companies in the footprint whose postings also name PayPal. The rest of the posting population (233) runs PayPal without a public trace on the site or in DNS, which is where job data earns its place.

03 — Who uses it

Companies on PayPal

Companies with 201+ employees and high-confidence evidence in their own postings; job boards and portals left out.

Seen through the website or DNS only

Companies with 1,000+ employees whose website or DNS carries PayPal but whose postings never name it: the part of the market job data alone misses.

217,877 companies show PayPal; 151 of them have over 1,000 employees.

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04 — Footprint breakdown

By country, company size and industry

The 217,644 companies with PayPal on their website or in DNS. Click a country for its own page where we have one.

By country
companiesshare
United States
98,45545%
United Kingdom
21,08310%
Germany
20,4369%
Italy
11,7675%
France
9,0984%
Australia
8,2484%
Spain
5,5583%
Canada
5,1072%
Brazil
3,1111%
Japan
2,3551%
Czechia
1,8341%
Netherlands
1,6131%
By company size
companiesshare
Self-employed
133,95562%
2-10 employees
53,90525%
11-50 employees
16,2057%
51-200 employees
4,2622%
201-500 employees
6030%
501-1000 employees
1840%
1001-5000 employees
1460%
5001-10000 employees
290%
10,001+ employees
320%
By industry
companiesshare
Commerce & trade
82,67238%
Media & content
30,31014%
Consumer services & leisure
22,92011%
Public, community & associations
22,81310%
Manufacturing & industry
18,3868%
Health care
6,6403%
Business & finance services
6,3763%
Automotive
5,1542%
Technology & software
5,0032%
Hospitality & travel
3,2061%
Property & construction
3,0921%
Agriculture & forestry
1,2561%
05 — What their DNS and pages also say

The mail, hosting and web stack of PayPal companies

Other tools found on the same companies' websites or in their DNS records. Mail providers and senders come from SPF, DKIM and MX; the rest from page code.

Shopify51,196 companies · 24%Cloudflare36,716 companies · 17%
Google Workspace26,195 companies · 12%
facebook_pixel26,050 companies · 12%
Mailchimp22,682 companies · 10%Stripe19,049 companies · 9%
Microsoft 36518,765 companies · 9%
google_cloud_dns_google_domains15,673 companies · 7%
Hotjar12,796 companies · 6%HubSpot10,317 companies · 5%
microsoft_teams10,095 companies · 5%
Typeform10,089 companies · 5%Klarna8,289 companies · 4%Matomo7,212 companies · 3%tawk.to7,195 companies · 3%
opensrs_hosted_email6,806 companies · 3%
06 — Job-posting evidence

Who runs PayPal inside the company

The 239 companies whose postings name PayPal: by country, size and the function of the role. The second number in the function table is companies.

Postings by function
postings · companies
Software engineering
177 · 124
Finance & accounting
142 · 93
Administration & office
51 · 7
Customer service & success
31 · 12
Product, program & project management
20 · 18
Marketing & communications
19 · 15
IT operations & business systems
13 · 12
Sales
12 · 10
Unclassified
8 · 8
Legal, compliance & risk
6 · 4
Posting companies by country
companiesshare
United States
13456%
Germany
229%
United Kingdom
198%
India
125%
Netherlands
52%
Canada
42%
Italy
42%
France
31%
United Arab Emirates
21%
Australia
21%
Switzerland
21%
Spain
21%
Posting companies by size
companiesshare
Self-employed
94%
2-10 employees
3113%
11-50 employees
5925%
51-200 employees
4720%
201-500 employees
3916%
501-1000 employees
156%
1001-5000 employees
2711%
5001-10000 employees
31%
10,001+ employees
94%
Hiring on it right now
postings
Postings, last 30 days
308
Postings, last 90 days
380
All open postings
590

199 companies opened a role that names PayPal in the last 30 days. A hiring team that names its tools is the moment to write to the person who owns the stack.

07 — Named alongside

What PayPal teams also ask for

Tools named in the same postings as PayPal. Office software is left out.

08 — payment processing

PayPal against the rest of its category

Ranked by companies naming each tool in postings. Whole category →

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217,877 companies show PayPal: 217,644 carry it on their website or in their DNS records, 239 name it in their own job postings, and 6 do both. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/tools/paypal)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • Website codeScripts, tags and embeds found on the company's own pages in our crawl of 41.5M sites. A tool counts once per company.
  • DNS recordsSPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX and CNAME records of the company's domain that point at PayPal or another vendor. Swept in cycles; dedicated mail-provider and hosting facets open once coverage passes 80% per country.
  • Job postingsRead hourly from the applicant tracking systems behind company career sites. A tool counts when the employer's own text names it as the team's system; candidate wish-lists and apply boilerplate are excluded. Confidence low, medium or high per company.
  • Sending infrastructureCold-e-mail sending domains are look-alike domains on a provider's infrastructure (DNS records, certificate logs) that redirect to the company. Absence is not evidence: only companies with a found sending domain are counted.
  • CompaniesCountry, size and industry come from the company profile we build from its website; headcount from LinkedIn where known, otherwise estimated. Job boards, portals and aggregators are kept out of lists.
FAQ

PayPal data: questions

How many companies use PayPal?

217,877 as of 4 November 2026: 217,644 carry PayPal on their website or in their DNS records and 239 name it in their own job postings; 6 show up in both. We keep the two counts apart because they measure different things.

What does "website or DNS" mean?

Our crawler finds PayPal's scripts, embeds and tags on the company's own pages, and our DNS sweep reads the domain's mail and hosting records (SPF includes, DKIM selectors, MX, CNAMEs) that point at PayPal. Either one puts the company in the footprint. The sweep is still running, so this number grows week by week.

Why is the job-posting number so much smaller?

A posting only names a tool when the team that will use it is hiring and chooses to say so. That makes it a smaller but stronger signal: it tells you which team runs PayPal, with a quote and a date. The footprint tells you reach.

How fresh is this?

Career sites are read hourly, websites are re-crawled on a rolling schedule and DNS is re-swept in cycles. The date at the top is when these counts were computed.

Can I get the list?

Yes. The first 20 are on this page; the full 217,877 with verified e-mails and a weekly feed of new PayPal users is in the product. Counting is free.

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