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 (40%)
• Errors (38%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Sydney	Sign in	22 hours ago
Adelaide	Sign in	1 day ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Sign in	2 days ago
Ciudad Jardín	Errors	2 days ago
Paris	Sign in	3 days ago
Benfeld	Sign in	6 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 🌸 (@ujios_blossom) reported 6 minutes ago

  code they would send. So I tried to log into twitter on the computer and it said my login was temporarily restricted, so I spend this whole time worried that my account had gotten h4cked. Luckily I remembered that I had oomf saved on Paypal so I messaged him on there +

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  🌿Scylla 🌿 (@ShadowsOfADay) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Massi_m00 Payment via PayPal is still not working on my end but I'll place my order as soon as it does! So excited for these!! 🥹 So pretty

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  ✨iso✨ (@gnric_qwrky_art) reported 9 minutes ago

  @MichaelMcAfton i think paypal might just be down rn i lowk looked like a bum at the store like 2 mins ago

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  Christina Lee (@_Rina__Lee) reported 11 minutes ago

  here's how to make your first sale without an audience, without a product, and without spending a dollar step 1: think of one problem you've solved for yourself in the last 12 months. lost weight. cleared skin. organized apartment. grew followers. learned to cook. fixed sleep. anything step 2: write the solution as a numbered list in your notes app. every step you took. every product you used. every mistake you made. every shortcut you found. raw. unedited. brain dump step 3: text 3 friends this message: "i'm putting together a guide on [topic]. would you pay $20 for the exact breakdown of how i did it with every step and product listed" if 2/3 say yes you have a validated product. if they say no ask "what would make it worth $20 to you" and adjust based on their answer step 4: clean up the brain dump. add links to products. add before/after if you have it. export as PDF. send it to the friends who said yes. collect payment through venmo, paypal, or cash app step 5: screenshot the transaction. screenshot their reaction when they read it. post both with "just sold my first digital product. if you want the guide DM me. $20" you just made your first sale. the number doesn't matter. the neural pathway you just created does. your brain now has proof that strangers will pay you for what you know. that proof rewires everything that comes after it

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  세이브더칠드런 (@stckorea) reported 11 minutes ago

  We are currently experiencing a PayPal payment issue. Due to the public holiday in Korea, we expect to resolve it after Aug 18. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

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  Chimp Out (@Chimpnouts) reported 15 minutes ago

  Interested in a IPTV service that doesn't lag? Tired of Xbmc bs and broken links and laggy iptv that only takes crypto? I would offer xmoney, but they'd take that down so fast when the nigs report me. So i will do paypal until they limit the account. Premier League/Cups start today, interested? DM me. ill do first 10 people today who do a month $10 each You can decide to extend later if you choose. paypal, we all got paypal. No crypto needed today. Dm's open.

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  ZanoCash (@ZanoCash) reported 15 minutes ago

  @TheRonnieVShow As a value investor, I felt personally attacked, lol. Always invest at the right price. I did invest in PayPal when it was at $40 this year, because at that price, it did represent great value. I got criticized for buying a stock that had went down and down, not easy.

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  Lucy (@Lucyaha123) reported 17 minutes ago

  ⚡ REVOLUTIONIZING WEB3 ONBOARDING: HOW GASFREE ABSTRACTS GAS COMPLEXITY AND ENABLES DIRECT USDT TRANSFERS In the evolution of decentralized finance, user experience (UX) serves as the primary gateway determining whether blockchain technology achieves mainstream adoption or remains confined to technical power users. For seasoned crypto natives, managing gas fees, calculating resource consumption, and maintaining native token reserves is second nature. However, for newcomers entering the Web3 ecosystem, gas management represents the single largest point of friction, confusion, and transaction failure. The GasFree infrastructure on TRON eliminates this barrier, allowing users to settle transaction fees directly in USDT and transforming the usability of decentralized stablecoins. The fundamental problem with legacy blockchain architectures is the structural decoupling between the asset being transferred and the asset required for gas. On TRON, executing a TRC-20 stablecoin transfer requires computational resources—specifically Energy and Bandwidth. Traditionally, if an account does not hold staked resources or a balance of native TRX to burn as gas, the transfer fails instantly. For a beginner who simply received USDT in their non-custodial wallet, discovering that they cannot send or spend their funds without first purchasing TRX on a secondary exchange, undergoing identity verification, and funding their wallet is a counterintuitive and frustrating hurdle. GasFree fundamentally dismantles this onboarding barrier by abstracting network resource mechanics entirely. Through intelligent fee delegation and smart contract relayer architecture, GasFree enables users to pay transaction costs directly in the stablecoin they are transferring. Key transformative benefits of the GasFree model include: 1. Frictionless Single-Asset Simplicity: Users only need to hold USDT to make transfers. The transaction fee is deducted directly from the stablecoin balance or transaction payload, removing the need to monitor or purchase volatile native gas tokens. 2. Elimination of Failed Transactions: By removing the "insufficient TRX for gas" bottleneck, users never experience trapped funds or failed transaction errors. 3. Predictable and Transparent Costs: GasFree provides a clean, predictable transaction cost structure (typically a flat USDT fee), shielding everyday users from gas price calculations or market-driven fee volatility. 4. Seamless Web2-to-Web3 Transition: For retail shoppers, merchants, and cross-border remittance recipients, interacting with TRON-based USDT now mirrors the seamless experience of conventional fintech apps like PayPal or Venmo—pay what you send, in the currency you hold. By merging the speed and throughput of the TRON network with the seamless fee abstraction of GasFree, decentralized finance takes a decisive leap toward mass accessibility, unlocking truly inclusive digital dollar payments for millions of global users. @DeFi_JUST @justinsuntron #TRONEcoStar

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  ㅇㄸㅇᩚ (@stilljm_o37) reported 23 minutes ago

  @RllyMyHope It seems like it’s not working right now… They said it would take some time to fix it. Also, I noticed that Wise was newly added as a payment option instead of PayPal. I was able to purchase it through Weidian, though…

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  Tsukiyama (@PomuVirus) reported 25 minutes ago

  the real intelligent people over at paypal decided to not use the 20 dollars I left in my paypal account for paying a friend for food, and instead took 20 dollars from my empty checking account, so now Im down 50 bucks, thank you paypal!

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  Krishnan Srinivasan (@Sastha93883062) reported 27 minutes ago

  @TheOfficialSBI Xoom, a PayPal Service xxxxx. 00 INR Transaction details Transaction number: XT92ZQY5 For: Krishnan Srinivasan Sender: xyz Date sent: Aug 12, 2026, 6:44 AM PDT Recipient receives: xxxxx.00 INR Money sent to: State Bank of India x-9101 @SHMBA09 Issue not resolved Please act/respond. Urgent. PLEASE ARRANGE IMMEDIATE CREDIT. PLEASE SEE DM. ALL DETAILS PROVIDED IN DM @sbi

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  Herebus 💧 (@Herebus_) reported 28 minutes ago

  @MTBbronco @J0hnADouglas @Adobe Same issue with Amazon, clicked cancel multiple times, but I had the payment through paypal, which could easily be cancelled.

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  Vox (@Voxyz_ai) reported 28 minutes ago

  If you're building a Grok Bot team, I'd start with these six roles. I moved some work from other agent tools into Grok Bot and reassigned ownership. A Bot needs recurring work, its own memory and task list, and regular handoffs. One-off capabilities stay as Skills or routines. 1. Nexus (Coordination) This is the Bot I use most. It reads today's tasks and each Bot's checkpoint, sets priorities, then hands the work to the right role. It also runs the nightly review, but only updates one TEAM_ALIGNMENT.md file. Conflicts, external messages, spending, and changes to important files come back to me. 2. Scout (Research and Leads) Scout reads X, GitHub, documentation, papers, and videos, and runs the daily content radar. Every result needs a source, a reason it is worth following, and a clear next owner. Content signals go to Quill, customer leads go to Guide, and technical issues go to Forge. 3. Quill (Content) Quill reads my writing rules, previous work, and approved phrasing, then turns research into posts, articles, and replies. When facts are missing, it asks Scout. For code or product details, it asks Forge. It prepares drafts but never publishes on its own. 4. Forge (Engineering and Automation) Forge writes code, builds automations and MCPs, deploys, and verifies the result. Guide can call it when a customer asks a technical question. Nexus can hand it repetitive work to turn into a tool. Every delivery needs test results, screenshots, or files I can inspect. A delivery does not count as complete without that evidence. 5. Guide (Customers and Delivery) Guide manages customers, prospects, briefs, feedback, delivery, and follow-up. Each important customer gets a separate context packet containing recent conversations, current goals, promises made, and open problems. Guide asks Scout to research a company or contact, and asks Forge for technical answers. Customer emails and messages remain drafts. 6. Ledger (Finance and Reconciliation) Ledger reads Wise, PayPal, invoices, and subscription data through my self-hosted MCP, then handles reconciliation, revenue records, and anomaly alerts. The real API keys stay on my own server. Ledger can prepare payment or refund recommendations, but every financial write still needs my approval. Once the roles are set, give each Bot the Plugins it needs. For example, Nexus can use Gmail, Calendar, Slack, and Granola. Quill can read Drive and Notion. Guide can use Gmail, Slack, and meeting notes. Forge can connect to code repositories and cloud services. Ledger continues to use my self-hosted MCP. Repeated methods become Skills. Work that needs to run on a schedule becomes a routine. That creates a basic loop: Plugins provide data and tools → a Skill defines the method → a routine triggers on schedule → the Bot completes the task or hands it to another Bot → I approve external messages, publishing, and financial actions For example, Guide's heartbeat checks the customer inbox on a schedule. When a new email arrives, the Gmail Plugin reads the full thread. Guide then opens that customer's context packet to see what was discussed before and what is currently blocked. If the email contains a technical question, Guide asks Forge to verify the answer. Once Forge replies, Guide writes the email draft and labels it: BOT DRAFT · NOT SENT · HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED Nexus adds the email to my pending report and reminds me that a customer reply needs review. The email is sent only after I approve it. I wouldn't create separate Bots for meeting prep, 1:1 reviews, data analysis, revenue forecasting, slides, or call reviews. Meeting prep and 1:1 reviews are Nexus routines. Ledger or Guide can run forecasting and data analysis when needed. Slides are a Skill called by Quill or Forge. Scout finds prospects, and Guide handles the follow-up. Bot = owns an ongoing work queue and needs its own memory Skill = a reusable method Routine = a task triggered on a schedule Packet = context for one customer or project Connector / MCP = access to external data and tools I start new capabilities as Skills. Once something has recurring work, its own state, and frequent handoffs with other Bots, then I create a Bot for it. This takes me back to the OpenClaw setup I built six months ago. I used almost the same roles then, but had to wire the whole thing together myself across a VPS, Vercel, and Supabase. The part I wanted most was smooth coordination: Bots messaging each other in the background, handing off tasks, and talking in a group. I spent way too many hours trying to make that work and probably lost some hair over it lol. The UX was still clunky. Six months later, bigger companies are moving into this space. They’re treating coordination as part of the product, which is a very different route from the DIY agent stacks I was building. Grok Bot’s group chats still aren’t perfect, but the handoffs and background messaging already feel much more natural.

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  Enzeyi Siema (@EnzeyiSiema) reported 29 minutes ago

  Hi, How is the issue with @PayPal going on? Did they fix it?

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  Daniel (@Daniel3it2) reported 31 minutes ago

  @sassyasian_ I’m never going to leave you my queen pumping mindlessly into your PayPal is all that matters please use take my logins down as well

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  Dennis (@denis_insider) reported 33 minutes ago

  @digiii stripe buying paypal to fix their dogshit 2005 checkout ui with private equity money

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  Peter Light (@PeterLight77726) reported 33 minutes ago

  @CFC_OBED My problem is I don’t have credit card nor PayPal to complete the purchase

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  Carson Morell (@MorellCarson) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Tyler_Plummer @alexisohanian @altxyzofficial Have thought a lot about this. A few people have tried it on smaller scale - I think it would have to come from REIND/YC/TBPN or similar to get enough buy in from the people on the cards. even then, very little overlap with the average card collector and people who care about startups and venture. Pre-seed raises akin to rookie cards, companies to teams, limited signed runs, original merch swatches on cards. Unfortunately, the ship has sailed on a lot of the cards that would be worth something. Examples: SBF FTX seed round, Palmer Luckey Oculus, Elon PayPal would all have to be retroactively created and would be far less desirable than if they were made at the time. Last issue with it - there’s not a definable number of startups each year. Drawing the line on who gets a card and who doesn’t is hard without defined teams and rosters like they have for sports. Lots of companies and founders go under the radar before they’re common knowledge and would not even have rookie card equivalents because the card company wouldn’t know about them at the time of inception.

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  SJ (@1000spices) reported 41 minutes ago

  @woolworths Is there an issue with paying through the app right now? Am trying to place an order and 4 different types of payments have been declined. Apple Pay, entering details and also PayPal.

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  FENRYS & MORRIS 🫀🧠 (@exocorpseHQ) reported 42 minutes ago

  @MissMeguca @AlexanderR12454 @yol_yoola currerntlt rhe paypal's the main issue, becausr its perma limited and paypal is FREAKISHLY difficult. we've tried everything either the plan is to constantly email paypal until we have KS' paypal back, or wait 6 long months

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  Nelson Rangel (@nelsonrangel) reported 47 minutes ago

  Paypal shareholders have ZERO economic incentive to engage in buyout discussions with Stripe/Advent below $110/ share. Rejecting them would in fact open the door for the most bullish case: the acceleration of $PYPL Intrinsic Value growth over the next 12 months. Here is the math: •Paypal rejects Stripe/Advent offer below shareholder acceptable value of $110 per share. Stock drops back down to $50. •Paypal continues to execute buybacks at current pace of $6 billion per annum. Takes out roughly 120 million shares. The lower the stock goes the more powerful buybacks become. Since the company is a cashflow machine that creates a flywheel by which market pessimism increases Intrinsic Value per share. This is not theoretical, management has already demonstrated they are willing to do this, buying back 67MM shares at $44.99 in 1H 2026. •Management’s turnaround plan continues at current pace, no heroics just plain boring. Continue executing shift into financial services, begin realizing already earmarked cost savings. They deliver $6.20 EPS, continue generating $6 billion in FCF. At 13x that puts the company share price at $80.6 in 12 months. •Add a $25 control premium to that for any buyer that appears then and Paypal shareholders are at $105/ share. And this does not take into account any additional buybacks or business growth after year 1. •$110 is the fair buyout price for Stripe/Advent to pay now for Paypal shareholders to relinquish a bright future. •We know Advent cannot pay that because their PE math begins to fall apart. Stripe needs to go solo or find better financing if it does not want to miss this strategic opportunity. Paypal Shareholders do not support selling the company below intrinsic value and Paypal shareholders should not be asked to subsidize Advent’s return requirements.

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  David Pollard (@davpol8112) reported 47 minutes ago

  @brecht_dp Well I have a huge problem getting the @PayPal button in place. Weeks trying!

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  The Plant Lady (@PlantLady_y) reported 49 minutes ago

  @criptoboi PayPal sucks now. I was with them 15 years. My account got hacked. I called them. They didn’t care whatsoever. Just shut the account down. I said “this is serious fraud, don’t you care?” And she said “this happens a lot”.

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  Rictology (@rictology) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care I am having an issue withdrawing funds from paypal to mpesa, kindly assist

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  Mirage (@dontstopmirage) reported 53 minutes ago

  In 2003 Elon Musk gave his first talk as a newly rich man, 4 years after selling Zip2 for $300 million and 1 year after eBay paid $1.5 billion for PayPal, and he spent it explaining how he would fly a rocket for $6 million. 8 years earlier he had negative money. He deferred a physics PhD at Stanford in 1995 and told his professor he'd give it a couple of quarters. The professor said he wouldn't be coming back. That was the last conversation they had. He couldn't afford an office and a place to live at the same time, so he rented the office, slept on a futon, and showered at the YMCA on Page Mill and El Camino. A tiny ISP sat one floor below. He drilled a hole through the floor, ran a null modem cable down to it, and bought internet for 100 bucks a month. 6 people total. 3 of them salespeople hired on contingency off a newspaper ad. Half the calls started with "what's the internet." The burn rate was so small the revenue covered it, so when he walked into a VC meeting he could say the company was cash flow positive. Compaq paid in cash in early 1999. At xcom the hard part was banking, brokerage and insurance stacked into one page. Months of work. Demos got polite nods. The side feature took about a day: type an email address, send money. That one got the "wow." So he pointed the whole company at the thing that took a day. 1 million customers by the end of year 2, no sales force, no VP of marketing, $0 on advertising. Then he asked why nothing had moved since Apollo. 3 trips to Moscow to price a refurbished ICBM. The shuttle burning $4 billion a year across 4 flights, close to $1 billion each, while Soyuz flew for $60 million. His answer had no silver bullet in it. 30 people. Ethernet instead of copper bundles as thick as your arm. Hundreds of small cuts that land at $6 million a flight against $25 million from the nearest rival. Same hole in the floor. Bigger building.

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  Arizoft Games (@arizoftgames) reported 54 minutes ago

  I need to stress that this is NOT Anti-X on my part. This is constructive criticism: this is clearly something that's broken (another follow of mine is getting almost all of her posts blurred, including a static photo of a kitten). And I'm currently going to have to ask PayPal Credit for a refunds on an xAI Supergrok that has been being billed two months after I canceled it. It's not unreasonable to ask for guarantees of safety and to fix demonstrable failures that could block access to private property before committing our money to you, even in an app we like and yse daily.

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  Mission Yak 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇬🇪 🇹🇼🇩🇪🇯🇵 🇬🇧 (@MissionYak) reported 1 hour ago

  @Rootdar This fake PayPal address scammer issue is a problem for everyone. But your PP address is one of the easiest ones to remember and to get right! 🙏 On a separate subject, I think my grandmother story and reposts got in this morning ahead of the end of the contest.

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@aureayutrades) reported 1 hour ago

  🍓 - open for transferring > paypal permanent limit withdrawal (180 days) > gcash & may with issue transfer balance (authentication failed, face recognition, can't send/open) > not verify balance transfer (gcash, maya, grab, shopee, lazada)

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  𝑀𝑎𝑓𝑖ꕤ (@MafiChanArt) reported 1 hour ago

  @alihsn05 @Yeims_11 I'm not taking commissions due to issues with PayPal.

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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 1 hour ago

  Peter Thiel co-founded a company for $10,000. Four years later, eBay bought it for $1.5 billion. He says almost none of that came from doing what everyone else was already doing. Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir. In a Chicago Ideas talk called Going from Zero to One, he laid out the framework from his bestselling book — and it cuts against almost everything startup culture teaches. There are two ways to grow, he says. Horizontal — copying what already works, 1 to n. Vertical — doing something that's never existed, 0 to 1. Globalization is the first kind. Technology is the second. Here's the part that should bother you. Thiel says competition is not the opposite of capitalism. It's the enemy of it. A business making zero economic profit in a competitive market can't invest in R&D, can't pay employees well, can't plan more than a quarter ahead. Monopoly — not competition — is what generates the profit that funds the next leap forward. Google's search share has sat above 90% for years. Its margins have stayed enormous the entire time. That's not an accident of scale. That's the entire model. Most founders won't say the word "monopoly" out loud. Thiel says that's the tell. The ones who deny they have one usually don't — they're marketing themselves for antitrust lawyers, not customers. Then the line that separates his framework from every generic pitch-deck slide. "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Not a hot take. Not contrarianism for its own sake. A truth that's actually true, that the market hasn't priced in yet. He says most founders can describe their business plan. Almost none of them can answer that question. If they can't, they're building a 1-to-n company — competing in a crowded field, racing margins to zero. PayPal in 1999 wasn't fighting banks head-on. It found a tiny, underserved niche — internet-native micropayments — dominated it completely, then expanded outward. Thiel calls this "start with a monopoly in a small market." Not because small is safe. Because ********** is the whole point, and ********** only happens at a scale you can actually control first. Save this one. Every "best practice" in business was built by someone who broke one first — and never wrote down how.