Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Paypal reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (42%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Rome	Errors	1 hour ago
Isola Maggiore	Errors	16 hours ago
Schmallenberg	Errors	2 days ago
Berlin	Sign in	6 days ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	6 days ago
Nantes	Errors	7 days ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  LuigiFan45 (@luigiten1) reported 27 seconds ago

  @frozenwhitehawk It's more of a problem for social media digital artists since PayPal is seemingly run by prudes that hate the idea of their service being used to send money for drawn porn and look for any reason to screw them over and steal their money

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  Ermagire 🌺🔪 (@Ermagire) reported 1 minute ago

  I have a business permit and I have no issues with PayPal so far 🤔 Also, artists need to have business permits to not get in trouble legally

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  Michael Diaz (@MichaelDiazer) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Natsuken425 @ABrinstar @hafuma Yes? Every payment goes through paypal, the thing we're talking about. Aka every payment through paypal gets taxed. What do you think they go through? Your mother? Jeetskin, you're retarded as ****, settle down, drink your cow piss, eat your curry and follow the train.

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  DividendMillennial (@DividendMil) reported 6 minutes ago

  $PYPL just reminded everyone why chasing headlines is expensive. PayPal reported a double beat: • EPS: $1.38 vs $1.28 expected ✅ • Revenue: $8.68B vs $8.47B expected ✅ • Payment Volume: $486.5B vs $468.5B expected ✅ • Raised full year adjusted EPS guidance to $5.38 vs $5.31 expected ✅ It’s funny how so many people abandoned $PYPL when sentiment was terrible, and now many of those same investors are rushing back after a strong quarter. The market has a way of rewarding patience and punishing emotion. The best opportunities usually don’t feel comfortable when you’re buying them

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  @CXTM COMMS OPEN!! (1/3) (@Chixyart) reported 12 minutes ago

  @pnkplasticfangs cool, so what about giving people a damn other option to "accept donations" since we can't use paypal, bcs that's the whole issue, how are me or any other artist getting money from all over the world when there is like 1 big app that does that?

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  Tur (@FathurMakaramah) reported 13 minutes ago

  Hi @AskPayPal , I can't reset my password. After selecting SMS verification, I get "We're having trouble confirming it's you." I still have access to my email and phone. My account is from Indonesia. Please help me recover my account. Thank you.

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  reo (@reopocalypse) reported 14 minutes ago

  @kapalkilayyyy i tried replacing my parents' info to mine when i turned 18 but paypal immediately took my account down and banned my email addresses </3

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  pinkplasticfangs (@pnkplasticfangs) reported 21 minutes ago

  @ArtzKeith tldr: if you conduct business on paypal w/o a business license on a business account, they have the right to shut down ur acct bc ur breaking TOS/doing business illegitimately. taxes are just a biz byproduct. if you earn a certain amount in the US, you get taxed accordingly

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  hexpurp (@hexpurpp) reported 23 minutes ago

  @NezKals @NamesakeGeodite Just do your research on their policies, make sure you're doing business with a business PayPal account. Make sure you have tax identification and you won't have any issues. +don't use paypal like a bank account, people who have issues like this don't know how to use paypal.

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  Club ***** (@TheClubVixen) reported 23 minutes ago

  @NamesakeGeodite 99% of people's issues with paypal is just them not knowing the law. Like you would need to to choose not to be a sole proprietor, and instead be another business type. If you choose that then yes you need the legal info regarding it.

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  Dess 𖤐 (@roguespider07) reported 24 minutes ago

  I can transfer my paypal to my bank account. problem solved.

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  HongshuG (@H0ngshuG) reported 30 minutes ago

  Higgsfield Filmmaker Grant: Why I Want It I've been working as a Motion Designer in Advertising for 10 years. Adidas, PayPal, Walmart. Most of that work lives in small decisions nobody is supposed to notice. That's the part I care about. Deep work, the kind where you sit with one shot long enough that it stops looking like a shot and starts feeling like a memory. I got good at the craft. But I was almost never in the room when the story got decided. The deck arrived approved and my job was to make someone else's idea move. I want to learn to be the director of the story now. Advertising raised me. The commercials I saw as a kid did more to shape what I thought the world looked like than most films did. That's real power and most of us have stopped using it. We make content instead. Content evaporates. Nobody's grandchild is going to quote a piece of content. AI filmmaking is the first time I can reach for the other thing. No crew, no cast, no location, no permission. Just the image in my head and the hours to chase it down. What I want to build is work that resonates. A small film with a character and a turn in it, made with enough care that a stranger feels something they weren't expecting to feel from an ad. And I want to help push this medium past the phase it's stuck in — gorgeous clips with nothing underneath, made in ten minutes, forgotten in five seconds. The tools got fast. The work should get deeper. I have 10 years of knowing why a shot works. I want to spend the next 10 pointing that at stories that resonate and visuals that leave a memory behind. The last thing I made wasn't for a brand. It was a 3-minute animated film for my 2-year-old daughter. She's the character, our dog is in it, and everything she loves is in it too. The train. The zoo. The sticker animals. She's watched it more times than anything I've ever made for a client. I want to learn this craft properly, tell stories worth remembering, and make work that shapes culture instead of just filling it. Reel below 👇

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  Dragin Hikari🟦🟩| the Neorai Legacy (@DraginHikari) reported 30 minutes ago

  @kierancore @TIELENAHLFAN That's sort of the issue, PayPal has it's success because it's basically managed to deal with the massive wall of red tape that is international money transfer which is why most competitors always feel more restrictive because navigating this field is generally a nightmare.

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  .°•☆✨Starly! (Hiatus) 🌱🌙🍄🇻🇪 (@DrStarline) reported 32 minutes ago

  I think the real problem is that the other alternatives aren't as available world-wide as paypal is if they were, I'm 100% sure paypal wouldn't be as popular as it is right now. Everyone uses it bcus it's accepted in a bunch of countries, way more than the other alternatives

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  chives 🖤🥟 (@chvtf143) reported 34 minutes ago

  good morning 🥺 anyone here knows what app is suitable to replacing paypal. i have been seeing so much issue about the app and also the fee is crazy.....🥲🥲

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  yekkusu.bsky.social (@yekkusu) reported 35 minutes ago

  Understandable? Sure. However: wishing your governemnt would do anything to control PayPal when PayPal itself as being a huge issue with anything NSFW recently even ******* the whole itchio site for example? Right now you're being held hostage and your choice is accept or move.

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  levi-holic (@amjustlevi04) reported 36 minutes ago

  I never had a problem with Paypal ever since I started using it since 2023, so I don't know why these artists are experiencing these kinds of problems. I just send invoice with TOS and detailed information, get paid, and that's it.

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  Mike Bergmann (@mrbergmann) reported 36 minutes ago

  $PYPL Conference Call Wrapup: PayPal beat and raised the full year, and the story still has a problem: EPS still fell 1% to $1.38, and next quarter they guide it DOWN double digits. Revenue +5%, but the earnings line is going backward while the guide goes up. Read past the raise.

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  Unknown Traveler 🇺🇸 (@nothanksfrankie) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Na11Ariel I've paid PayPal at least $16,000 in transfer fees over the past decade. It's their loss. It's not even possible to communicate with a human being when you have a problem like this. I should be thanking them. I've stayed with PayPal because I'm too lazy to wire transfer funds and the service has been a convenience I've been willing to pay for. Now, I'm all done. They can now write off the ~$180+ per month that I've spent in just the past 12 months wiring money to my wife. Fees have increased substantially in the past year alone. That they don't care about losing my business tells me I'm making the right choice looking for an alternative too.

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  robert peachey (@RPeachey86) reported 39 minutes ago

  PayPal conference call was decent. The CFO was a little more cheery, which has me thinking that they got some growth finally coming down the pipeline. $pypl

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  kevinmonitor 🦋 social 🔮 (@kevinminh_alt) reported 41 minutes ago

  @RuV_2nd from my research, it looks like this issue can only happen if you have too much money in your PayPal account. so make sure to transfer to your bank account regularly!

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  Arch (Comms - Open) (@_vnarch_) reported 41 minutes ago

  The paypal issue with artists is sad but it always makes me wonder why dont they transfer their money into their bank accounts immediately? Its been made clear multiple times when so many accounts get limited randomly

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  Scythe | Commissions Closed link Bio (@NamesakeGeodite) reported 42 minutes ago

  Now that I posted that edited screenshot. business owners with permits, artists who use PayPal, and people with over 20k in their PayPal balances have started sharing that they've experienced the same thing. This proves that this was never just a "tax fraud" issue.

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  CHEZ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚˖ (@holych3z) reported 43 minutes ago

  @piipstachio What if the kofi is connected to PayPal? Is that a problem too? (newbie in doing commissions)

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  Zarafan 🇻🇪 (@Zarafaneando) reported 43 minutes ago

  @inkfycreates Yeah, and everyone else Warns and Helps its User to prevent any issue. PayPal is the only one that doesnt care, because at the end they can claim the money for "Not following/knowing the Rules".

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  B U N N Y (@bunnyghost9) reported 43 minutes ago

  @glubo11 Yeah that's my biggest problem with posts like that, they looove complain but don't offer any kind of help or alternative for artists who rely on paypal "DON'T USE PAYPAL!!!" ok ***** then show me an alternative that's available in Venezuela

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  Flesh Forge (@Flesh_Forge) reported 53 minutes ago

  @bruhshark @hafuma Problem is, Many clients pay only to paypal and nothing else.

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  willynilly (@willynilly53634) reported 57 minutes ago

  @TheTriforceKid @NamesakeGeodite "stealing from people" and using paypal to avoiding taxes (which is exactly what many artists do) is what? If ur not stealing then u just send them documents and the problems gone and u get ur money back u think normal banks wouldnt block ur acc? Oh yes they would they have to

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  Forrest Berg (@Forrest_Berg) reported 59 minutes ago

  @KnowingBetterYT PayPal forced it! Wasn’t optional on the PC login

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  Philip Peake (@PhilipPeake) reported 59 minutes ago

  I have a website for CHL training for Oregon. A couple of weeks ago I had problems with the payment system (PayPal) and so rapidly added Stripe payments. The PayPal problem was resolved, and I left both systems live. Most people seem to prefer Stripe, and the CC fees are lower with Stripe. I don't think I want to maintain two payment systems long term, and am leaning towards going with Stripe only. Any comments/comments?