Why PayPal keeps charging after you thought you cancelled
Many services let you save PayPal as the way you pay. PayPal calls that an automatic payment, a billing agreement, or a subscription. Once it is saved with the merchant, PayPal can keep sending money on the schedule you agreed to.
Cancelling inside the company's own app or site does not always remove the PayPal permission. Leaving a card on file somewhere else is a separate path. If the merchant still has a PayPal agreement, the charge can keep appearing as PayPal on your statement.
Find them on the PayPal website
Sign in at paypal.com, open Settings, then Payments. Select Subscriptions and saved businesses (sometimes labelled Automatic Payments).
Pick the merchant. From that page you can cancel the automatic payment. Merchant contact details are often listed there too, which helps when you still need to close the account with them.
Find them in the PayPal app
Open the menu, then Subscriptions or Linked Businesses. Tap the merchant, open Account, then Unlink and confirm.
Wording shifts a little between app versions, but you are looking for the saved business or automatic payment tied to that merchant, then unlinking it.
Canceling in PayPal is not the same as canceling the membership
PayPal's own guidance is clear: stopping PayPal as the payment method stops future charges through PayPal. It typically does not cancel the underlying subscription or close your account with the merchant.
Contact the merchant to end the service itself. Otherwise they may ask for another card, mark you past due, or keep the membership open while PayPal no longer pays.
Also check App Store, Google Play and your card statement
Plenty of forgotten charges never touch PayPal. Apple Account subscriptions, Google Play subscriptions, and direct card billing each have their own cancel screens.
Scan recent statements for names you do not recognise, then cancel at the source. Our guides to finding forgotten subscriptions, stopping recurring payments, and identifying an unknown charge walk through those other paths. This site does not cancel anything for you.
What this site is not
Forget Your Credit Card is not a cancellation tool. It does not cancel other companies' subscriptions, dispute charges, or talk to PayPal for you. Those steps stay with the merchant and your payment provider.
What it is: a monthly payment that says exactly what it is. You pick an amount from $1 to $1,000, Stripe bills it, and confirmed payments count toward a public Lifetime board if you choose to appear.
Nothing comes back and nothing is hidden. STOP FORGETTING cancels at the end of the current paid period.