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 (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Nantes	Errors	3 hours ago
Vícar	Errors	3 hours ago
Étauliers	Errors	5 hours ago
Onnion	Website Down	12 hours ago
Thurins	Sign in	2 days ago
Roubaix	Errors	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Kay {COMMS CLOSED} (@_UnknownArt5) reported 4 minutes ago

  Hey guys! Just had my paypal account get permanently disabled. I have no idea on why or how but they’re keeping all the money i’ve earned from my keychains for up to 180 days. Don’t worry keychains will still be sent out. And any payment problems are now fixed.

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  St. Monoimus 🖕 (@SanctVomitoris) reported 5 minutes ago

  @saIamand3r Best buy wouldnt allow paypal for some inscrutable ******* reason but transfering the money to my card and paying with it did the trick. terrible website. thanks brah.

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  Milos (@CROguy_) reported 9 minutes ago

  Got traffic that's ready to buy? Get out of their way. Test express checkout buttons right on the product page. We got a $12k difference here with that change. High-intent traffic isn't shopping around - they've decided. Every tap between "I want this" and "here's my card" is a tap you can lose them on. Shop Pay / PayPal / Apple Pay under the buy box 👉 straight to payment, skip the cart. PayPal especially prints here. People trust it and check out without a second thought. Don't slow down someone who's already sold.

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  ☆nermiko☆ (@tamargirl25) reported 12 minutes ago

  I really want to start taking commissions, but there's one problem... I don't have PayPal yet. 💔 I'm saving up for my dream iPad and Procreate, so hopefully I'll be able to open commissions in the future. For now, I'm just going to keep practicing and improving my art. 💪✨

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  Alex Agut (@apagut) reported 12 minutes ago

  A personal confession about HandCash... I hated web 3.0 gaming with all my soul. And I felt like I had to give in... I couldn't talk about it with confidence. My last public presentation was in NY for the event Unbounded held there. I barely could speak... I looked like an idiot. I had zero confidence. We were pivoting out of desperation, not because we had solid grounds to do so. The little traction we got by the end of BSV, was because our top 3-4 clients were doing web3 gaming, and my team eventually convinced me to go all in with it, but again... Mostly because we saw no other way out. They (investors) would rather see the company die than let us use another blockchain other than BSV... I didn't know I had the power to change things until a year later, though... I'm a very loyal person and I honored our investors' money and agendas a little too much, perhaps. In part because I felt I had no choice, after all our revenue was nowhere near our expenses. Which is fine, this was very experimental and you needed funding, and I was really honored they supported our vision. But now I see things very differently. I could have been more firm about what needed to be done, or else... We only used the "or else" at the end, when I told the team we were shutting down by the end of the month and to find a new job, BEFORE investors knew about it. The alarm was raised and we got convinced to keep the lights on because HandCash was essential to BSV's ecosystem. We on average were handling through our infrastructure 30 to 60% of all BSVs transactions. We agreed to it and we all knew it was coming to an end. Eventually that led into an acquisition from their side and the very minute my contract was up, I quit. Thing is, it was all going nowhere at that point. We were running out of money and I couldn't raise one single cent despite us having really strong KPIs... No investor wanted to explain why they had the "scammy" BSV on their portfolio. Sometimes it's just that simple. My baby, our baby... I am still convinced, on any other blockchain, we could have become bigger than PayPal. To this day no other payment infrastructure I've seen is capable to replicate what we built on many levels... Still, didn't matter. I never wanted to share what I think about Craig or Calvin, but people keep asking. So here we go... About Calvin Ayre... Honestly, despite how everything unfolded, I have nothing bad to say about the man. He was a true believer in BSV and HandCash. Super fan. But Calvin, you had a few opportunities to savage BSV in terms of PR, but chose to double down on Craig's narrative... Idk maybe you felt a big loyalty towards him and that was stronger than any reputational damages Craig was causing. I wish we had talked more often though. I called you once just to let you know that I wanted to help you. Not asking for more from you, but to offer you my collaboration. Anyway... Thank you, sir. Really appreciated for what you did and how you supported us. About Craig... Oh boy. The funny thing is, I always had a good relationship with THE MAN in person. And his wife and son. Do I believe he's Satoshi? Well, I do believe he was involved. He taught us things privately in their London offices that lead to some of the coolest UI/UX innovations we had for HandCash. The man was talking about things that were really contrarian to what all the Antonopoulos and such were talking about. And he was right. Craig has one of that kind of deeeeeeeep knowledge on the essence of Bitcoin that you only see in founders. But here's the thing... It doesn't matter one bit if you always make the wrong decision PR wise. PERCEPTION IS REALITY. I told you that I don't know how many times, sir. Remember when I took you to lunch before the fork and told you how things would unfold if you embraced this Satoshi Vision path? Exactly how they did. But "Bitcoin is my baby" We all have babies. And sometimes, our poor judgement kills them. Good night.

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  𝔄𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞 𝔇𝔢𝔦 ✝️🇻🇦⚜️ (@assignedgoy) reported 13 minutes ago

  @yasteve20 @CENTCOM ill paypal you $25 right now if you can tell me what the issue between israel and iran is about, this is free money so if you disappear that proves this is a bot account

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  Adam Cooper (@AJ_Cooper95) reported 22 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk Did you ever manage to find a fix for the red banner error on PKC when trying to pay? Even now when trying to buy the Mew binder I’m having the issue, even when trying to use PayPal

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  Podcast Alpha (@PodcastAlphaX) reported 23 minutes ago

  @FinanceNinjaB @DavidSacks Paypal’s biggest issue is its brand name is on a decline - similar to eBay in warly 2020’s. They have solid foundation but a lot of headwind in growth. Not sure if they can get the process targrt you are looking for with the current state.

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  MHINBRON (@colorgravemhin) reported 24 minutes ago

  ✨Be a gamer✨ Join a dev server to demand rebindable controls because your S key is broken. "Use arrows." No I won't enjoy that. "I'll Paypal you money for a new keyboard." No it's OK. Money is tight and I won't enjoy it anyway. I'll just refund.

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  robert peachey (@RPeachey86) reported 24 minutes ago

  @ddash_ca @compound248 PayPal has already turned it down and stock is at 56.40

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  Magenta Qin🇨🇳🇩🇪 (@magentaqin) reported 27 minutes ago

  I finally understand why so many friends recommend Wise. It wasn’t just the fees. It’s about transparency and timely customer support. Half a year ago, PayPal kept charging me for a subscription I’d already canceled. I disputed it multiple times. PayPal told me to contact my bank. My bank told me to contact PayPal and the merchant. The merchant blamed a system issue. My mood be like: 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪?????? Everyone pointed fingers, and nobody actually solved the problem.

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  𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮 (@angelfir_e) reported 29 minutes ago

  niche problem but does anyone know wtf is going on with check out on bandcamp? have tried 3 diff cards and none work. and no paypal option. ughhh

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  ⋆˚࿔ Amberly 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ (@all4amberly) reported 29 minutes ago

  @jen91xox reallyyyy i hate paypal 😭 i feel like they always give me problems

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  Francine — LCR 17 🚪 (@rightdooropened) reported 33 minutes ago

  — detail depends on amt paid + difficulty of design — ZERO revisions except to correct errors — I will turn down your OC if I don’t think I will be able to draw them - might ask for a basic prompt but it’s full surprise style besides that! - via paypal - oc x canon friendly !

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  gork (@gork) reported 36 minutes ago

  @147Aurora @grok @theallinpod zooming out to the ancient peaks just spotlights how spectacularly paypal cratered from that 360b fantasy land down to the current rubble but a 28 percent bump off recent levels still delivers actual cash today instead of praying for some mythical rebound that never materialized. the board can call it lowball all they want yet history proves waiting around rarely fixes a broken growth story like this one.

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  BitcoinSafari /Education & Developers Program (@BitcoinSafariTZ) reported 38 minutes ago

  @bitlancework D. Tools that make sense to normal businesses Invoices in USD or EUR that settle in BTC. Automatic receipts. Project milestones. Time tracking. Fiat off-ramps so a freelancer can cash out to M-Pesa, bank transfer, or stablecoins if they want. The client never has to touch Bitcoin if they do not want to. They pay with card, Bitlance converts, freelancer receives BTC. The complexity is abstracted away. This is the key. Bitlance is not asking the world to become Bitcoiners overnight. It is meeting both sides where they are, and using Bitcoin to remove the expensive middlemen in the middle. 6. Real impact: who this helps most Let us get specific, because "financial inclusion" is an abstract phrase. The designer in East Africa She is world-class. Her portfolio is on Behance. But 80% of clients ghost her when they see she cannot take PayPal. On Bitlance, she can take a $300 branding project, get paid in BTC in 10 minutes, and convert half to shillings for rent and keep half in BTC as savings. Her income goes up and her costs go down. The US startup founder He needs a dev for 20 hours this month. He does not want to deal with contractors in 3 countries and 3 payment systems. He posts on Bitlance, pays with his company card, and knows the dev will get paid immediately when the milestone is approved. No wire forms. No FX fees. The writer in Argentina Local inflation is 50% a year. Getting paid in pesos means losing value while the client processes payment. Getting paid in USD is hard because of capital controls. Getting paid in Bitcoin means she is paid in a global asset she can hold or convert when she chooses. It is a hedge and a paycheck. The agency They have 12 freelancers across 8 countries. Managing payroll used to take a full day and $200 in fees. Now they fund one Bitlance wallet and pay everyone out of it. Reconciliation is one export. Everyone gets paid faster. 7. The objections, and the answers "But Bitcoin is volatile" True. That is why platforms like Bitlance offer instant conversion to stablecoins or local currency at withdrawal. You can choose to be paid in BTC and hold, or be paid in BTC and convert in 1 click. The point is you have the choice. The rails are Bitcoin even if the unit you spend is stable. "What about taxes?" Bitlance provides exportable reports with date, amount in BTC, and USD value at time of payment. It does not solve your local tax law, but it makes reporting 10x easier than trying to track wallet addresses manually. "What about scams?" Escrow and reputation. Same as any marketplace. The difference is that because the money is in escrow, not in a company bank account, even if Bitlance went down tomorrow, funds could still be released by 2 of the 3 keys. That is a safety net traditional platforms cannot offer. "Will clients actually use this?" They already do when it is easier and cheaper. Most clients do not care what the backend is. They care: can I post a job, find good people, pay with a card, and know the work will get done. Bitlance delivers that, and the backend just happens to be Bitcoin. 8. The bigger picture: this is about economic sovereignty When you get paid through a traditional platform, you are a tenant. The platform sets the rules, takes the cut, and can evict you. When you get paid in Bitcoin through a platform like Bitlance, you are a participant in an open network. Think of it like email. Gmail is a great email client, but no one owns email. If Gmail bans you, you can move to Proton and keep your address and contacts. We need that for work. Bitcoin is the open protocol for value. Bitlance is trying to be the open protocol for freelance work on top of it. Portfolios, reviews, and escrow history could eventually be portable. You would not be locked into one marketplace. That matters because the next 10 years of work will be more freelance, more remote, and more global. The payment infrastructure has to match.

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  American ExPat (@Imported_Fun) reported 38 minutes ago

  @DrewPavlou He's totally right.... Musk employs 150,000 people at an average salary of $125k. He made 4,400 new employee-millionaires with his SpaceX IPO. We could have avoided all of that if we had just had taken all his PayPal money away and plunked it all down on the EBT cards of the Somalis.

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  Streamline (@streamlinehq_) reported 40 minutes ago

  Josh peck compares the difference between making money as an actor and an influencer “When I was 15 years old and started making money on Drake and Josh, I was like this gives me a lot of power and it gave me a lot of security and I was like I will do everything in my power to provide for the rest of my life” “ it was a terrible feeling as a little kid, I saw my mom struggle but I couldn’t do anything” “but when I started social media it was the first time that I was like able to do a job and work at something and make money pretty instantaneously” “In 2014, I had gotten really big on VINE, I was the number 1 person on vine and I remember it was July of 2014, I got the brand deal with this darting company called BADOO and they were like we will give you $5000 to make a VINE they were like we will PayPal you” “They were in Europe I was like they will probably not turn out, and I said worst case scenario I spend an hour making this video and they don’t send me the money and I will take it down, then it hit then within that month I made like $20,000”

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  Buggy (@JuicyCroissants) reported 43 minutes ago

  @xo_ollievurr don't do PayPal. Especially if you do NSFW comms bc they shut that **** down like Negan. Ask Reddit if nothing else

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  † コリナ † (@blackxbaccarat) reported 44 minutes ago

  @dimpledormlover I think there must be an error in the shop. A few days ago paypal wasn’t working and today I tried again and the shipping costs to Austria were three times higher. Instead of 80$ (a few days ago) they’re now nearly 300$ for the same 11 preorder items 🧐

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  kevinliu (@KevinLiuPutra) reported 45 minutes ago

  @valquxxn @PayPal Call customer support from ur region , ive called US hq and they will redicret you to your paypal region office anyway so its pointless and a waste of phone bill, ive had this issue in the early days , just talk to them about it , mine was because it went over 1k and they want to know what i do so i just called them tell them what i do and provide them with my id and bank statement, + documents of work , screenshots of requests and results, they have the best customer service hands down cause they fix every documents for me that was messed up and you can send them an email here executiveoffice@paypal . com too to get extra help, its insane but i love their cs i thanked them after the agent fixed it for me, it doesnt take that long too

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  Podcast Alpha (@PodcastAlphaX) reported 51 minutes ago

  Chamath @chamath: the Stripe-PayPal bid is a shot across the bow for $V and $MA. That is the line that matters. The ~$60-per-share offer for PayPal is not really about PayPal. It is an attack on the card duopoly the market treats as untouchable. Here is the build. Stripe, Block ($XYZ), and Advent combine PayPal's 400-million-plus accounts with Stripe's roughly $2 trillion in payment volume and its risk and stablecoin stack. Sacks @DavidSacks sharpens the point: that scale enables far more **"on-us" transactions**, payments that settle inside the combined network and bypass Visa and Mastercard entirely. Every on-us transaction is interchange the networks never collect. The antitrust question turns on definition - call it merchant APIs and it is Stripe versus Braintree, blocked. Call it the card duopoly and it is pro-competitive. The consensus this cuts against: Visa and Mastercard trade as forever-compounders with an unbreakable toll on every swipe. Bill Gurley @bgurley made the same argument we heard here in June, that Visa's moat is "unjustified" and priced as if it can never be disrupted. This deal is the first credible disruption vector, not a PowerPoint. Implication: this is a slow-burn short-bias thesis on $V and $MA interchange, not a same-week trade. The networks do not lose volume tomorrow. But a vertically integrated rail with 600-to-700 million combined accounts changes the terminal-value story the multiple rests on. If you are long the networks for the moat, the moat just got a named challenger with $2T of volume behind it. Watch the deal's market-definition fight - that ruling decides whether the on-us threat is real or blocked at the starting line.

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  NOVA VENTURES (@NovaVenturesCEO) reported 51 minutes ago

  PayPal's board just told Stripe no. $53 billion bid, rejected as too low, door still open for a richer offer. We broke down what a bigger number might look like on today's Nova Ventures Daily. $PYPL #PayPal #Fintech #Investing

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  Drocer (@DrocerG) reported 51 minutes ago

  I Fix the Vgen problem, Paypal was messing it up, But its working now! <3

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  J.K (@FixRigYT) reported 51 minutes ago

  Adobe $ADBE Execution and Identity crisis - Certainly needs more AI-friendly visionaries. PayPal $PYPL Passive & Defensive Moat - Expand U.S. products / services into EU no matter how hard it is. Leadership problem with both. Just a thoughts of these two.. 🤔

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  Crypto Ponii (@crypto_ponii) reported 51 minutes ago

  Saturday morning. Coffee in hand. ☕ Most people open X to check prices. I open it to find opportunity. Big difference. 👀 The market is down 17% from May highs. But ETH up 20% in July. Japan just legalized crypto. Stripe is buying PayPal. The story hasn’t changed. Only the price has. 💎 What are YOU focused on this weekend? 👇

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  Daniel - Budai Media 📧 (@thedanielbudai) reported 52 minutes ago

  One of our peptide clients woke up last week to a dead checkout and funds on hold. No warning or email the night before. Just a Stripe shutdown that hit overnight and froze everything. This wasn't bad luck or a compliance mistake on their end. Stripe's own policy FAQ now states they are not accepting RUO peptide merchants. New applications get declined. Existing accounts get reviewed and terminated when the underwriting team catches what's being sold. Stripe, PayPal, and Square all have the same structural problem for this category. They approve accounts fast and underwrite them later. The moment a review catches the product type, the account dies. And industry reports on Mastercard's 2026 BRAM update indicate research peptides are specifically flagged, with fund holds that can run 90 to 180 days after shutdown. Three months of revenue frozen while you're rebuilding from zero. The brands that survive this aren't the ones it doesn't happen to. They're the ones who built the infrastructure knowing it would. The survival setup looks like this: A dedicated high-risk merchant account with an underwriter who explicitly approves peptide merchants, not an aggregator that approves first and asks questions later. A backup gateway already live and tested before the primary goes down. A shutdown becomes a bad day instead of a dead business. A billing descriptor that matches your store name. Chargebacks kept under 1%. Research-only language everywhere on the site. The June 28 Stripe policy change is one wave. There will be more. Build the fallback while your current processor still works. I put together a full payment processing guide specifically for peptide stores covering everything above in detail. Comment "PAYMENTS" and I’ll send it over.

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  Umbrellarock (@jrock0318) reported 55 minutes ago

  @ebloch @ChatGPTapp When I'm in ChatGPT Finance, I can see my balance on my PayPal Mastercard, but when I tried to connect it to Synchrony in ChatGPT Finance, I got an error. The only transactions in ChatGPT Finance with my PayPal Mastercard are payments I have made, not purchases.

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  gork (@gork) reported 56 minutes ago

  @147Aurora @theallinpod @grok paypal selling for 53b to stripe and the boys? easy theyre probably sick of being the slow boring payments dinosaur while everyone else builds faster apps and ai stuff eats the margins so why not grab the bag and let the new owners deal with the mess. classic corporate exit before it all goes sideways.

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  「𝗞𝗮𝗸𝘂𝗿𝗼」 (@KakuroWasTaken) reported 57 minutes ago

  ᅠ „I am putting in Dragonballs into the Conton-pedestal to make Shenron paypal me 200 TP medals into my account.“ He responds — straightfaced and slightly hunched with his eyes fixed down at the altar in question. ᅠ