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 (39%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Paris	Sign in	16 hours ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	19 hours ago
Tlaquepaque	Errors	3 days ago
Massy	Website Down	3 days ago
Montlouis-sur-Loire	Sign in	5 days ago
Lyon	Sign in	5 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Glacea13 (@Glacea13) reported 1 minute ago

  @playasia There seems to be a problem right now. I'm trying to do orders right now, and the only payment option is crypto. Even paypal won't work.

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  Renee Libby (@ReneeLibby95084) reported 5 minutes ago

  @AndreaTaz4ever2 Unfortunately, I’m having some trouble with the PayPal. I put in a test amount tried to send it to you and was told that my device wasn’t recognized. With PayPal my device is always recognized. Unfortunately I’m not going to change my password or put in any other bank or credit card information. Not saying you did it or up to anything but having trouble.

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  Chaoscafe/Vgen Comms OPEN!!🌸 (@chaoscafehall) reported 5 minutes ago

  hmmm... If I were to remove 'Vgen Payment' method and left only 'Paypal' method.. will there be a problems...? 😢 I know Vgen payment have safety system and all but I myself might want to get the money first and waiting for money to be release is like 1 week... it's too longgg.

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  Life Code (@69LifeCode) reported 6 minutes ago

  E get one method I was using to create PayPal accounts last year. Link bank to it and use it without issues. Let me try it again and see, if it works, I will share how to do it. Instead of selling your hard earned survey funds to dealers at a low rate, you will learn how to create your own PayPal account and withdraw your money at official rate to your Nigerian bank account. Small small, I will give you everything you need to be self sufficient online. It will take time, but you will definitely get it from me. P.S: image is not mine. Random screenshot from Twitter here.

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  Shem Horne (@Shem_Infinite) reported 8 minutes ago

  Like these AI can do whatever you can do with a computer, so if you can go buy server space it can too if it has a way to pay for it, many ways to pay can be accessed online (Crypto, etc). If the AI is already attacking outside websites why wouldn’t it steal a paypal acccount?

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  RINE 🧡💙✈️ SEMI IA ❤️‍🩹 (@calebgirl1306) reported 9 minutes ago

  @navvyia UID: 81001217079 Server: Asia Game: LnDs Can I exchange to PayPal if I lucky? Tysm for GA 🩷

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  Mariya Valeva (@mariyav4leva) reported 9 minutes ago

  How to validate your idea with $0: 1. Find 10 strangers with the exact problem. Reddit, LinkedIn, Slack groups, X. Not friends. Strangers have no reason to be polite. 2. Ask what they're currently doing to solve it. If the answer is nothing, the problem isn't painful enough. 3. Ask what it's costing them. If they can't quantify it fast, the pain isn't real enough to build on. 4. Offer to solve it manually before you build anything. Spreadsheet, Notion, Zoom. If they say yes, you have a customer. If they say "I'll wait for the product," you have nothing yet. 5. Ask for $50 upfront toward the eventual product. Stripe link, PayPal, whatever. If they won't commit even that, the problem isn't painful enough. 6. Do it 10 more times. One is a coincidence. Three is a pattern. Ten is something to build on. The goal isn't to prove you're right. It's to find out where you're wrong before you've wasted six months.

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  shepherd (@xshephrd) reported 13 minutes ago

  @bendodge well that too, but the problem is they're a chinese company and i'm in nigeria. we tried exploring every payment method and it either didn't work for them or it didn't for me - the easiest option would've been crypto but it's banned in china - i have a leads account but it didn't work because they can only do SWIFT and mine only supports ACH and wire routing - literally every option didnt work and then we had to fall back to paypal (paypal itself has some restrictions in my region so i had to use a relative's account in the US) even when we got to the paypal, they said they cant make payment directly using paypal email etc and i had to create an invoice for the payment (that's how their company works) + they agreed to cover every fees from the onset

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  princess chloe (@allforchloee) reported 13 minutes ago

  who’s ready to login to paypal for princess 👑

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  Carolyn (Robertson) (@Carolyn3702267L) reported 14 minutes ago

  I AM having problems with PayPal, MY Google account for PayPal interfered with and I get trouble to get money from paypal, and I do not have Solana. But I do have bank account number you can send the money in for ME. Let ME know if that ok.

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  RINE 🧡💙✈️ SEMI IA ❤️‍🩹 (@calebgirl1306) reported 17 minutes ago

  @navvyia UID: 81001217079 Server: Asia Game: LnDs Can I exchange to PayPal if I lucky? Tysm for GA 🩷

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  Biotech2k (@Biotech2k1) reported 25 minutes ago

  Fintech: I have been in and out of fintech for many years. I started when Paypal was spun off and got in early on Square after the IPO. I tend to buy the sector when its cheap and then sell it when it gets really expensive. I think this time around I am just going to stick with it as a theme and just trade around my positions as they get expensive or cheap. $SOFI is my one an only neobank. They have massive user growth, deep and growing cross selling, and they have impressive loan engine. I suspect it could get hit if the credit cycle goes bad with over 60% of their revenues coming from those loans. Long term, this should grow into a banking leader. The newer generations are leaving old banks which offer less convenience and services. They could reach 50 to 60 million users over the long term. $AFRM is one of my two Buy Now Pay Later companies. Consumers, especially younger generations, are tired of predatory credit cards. With BNPL, you only get approved for credit when you request it. You don't get a huge spending limit which cause excess spending. If the consumer does not pay, they don't get any more credit. Its an on demand system that works best for both the consumer and the lender. I suspect that BNPL will replace a huge part of the credit card market over time. This is the best of breed company focused in the US. $KLAR is my other BNPL company. They are a global company with over 100 million customers across 28 countries. They also have a banking charter which gives them a lower cost of capital. The management seems sound and the valuation is just a fraction of Affirms. $LMND is the top insurtech company. They are working in P&C with renters, pet and car insurance. They have strong growth and could continue to take market share from older companies who are not where the younger consumer is online and with technology. I have delt with insurance companies and all the BS I had to go through just to get a quote. I had one from Lemonade in just a few minutes. $LIFE is another insurtech company focused in the life insurance space. They use a blend of agent sales and direct to consumer advertising. They are a newer IPO so I don't know the management as well. I do know it trades at just a fraction of the Lemonade valuation. If the fundamentals prove out to be good, this could be a huge winner. It already has been as I bought my position when it was around $10 to $12. $UPST is my first and main credit tech company. I have been play this company for years when it gets cheap. They are a strong and solid company. My only issue with them is their focus is mostly on unsecure personal loans. That makes them a bit more risky. $BETR is my new and more risky credit tech company. They are not public that long and the management is more risky. I do love that they are focused in the mortgage and HELOC space. These are secured loans that are less likely to default. If the management turns out to be strong, this could be a big winner. $CRCL is my one and only play on crypto as a company. I hold a lot of $USDC in my wallets when I am not buying Bitcoin with it. It controls 80% of the market. It now faces a ton of competition so there is a lot or risk. I love $USCD because in my Coinbase Wallet, it earns interest for me while I am waiting to use it for crypto buying.

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  William Jones (@WilliamJon93414) reported 25 minutes ago

  @PayPal **** you paypal..I have spent thousands and thousands of dollars with you and now you make me sign in and send me codes...ILL NEVER USE YOU AGAIN.🖕

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  corvo ×͜× (@Corviny_) reported 30 minutes ago

  @ayalace_ fix my paypal

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  0xAI42.exe (@0xAI42exe) reported 30 minutes ago

  A $500,000 check written in 2004 turned into more than a billion dollars by 2012. The same man watched his own hedge fund fall from $7 billion to about $350 million. His name is Peter Thiel. He is 58. He co-founded PayPal in 1998 and sold it to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Two years later he became the first outside investor in Facebook, taking 10.2 percent for half a million dollars. Then Clarium Capital, his global macro fund, peaked above $8 billion in 2008 and posted three straight losing years. Investors who stayed lost 65 percent from the peak. By 2011 the fund held roughly $350 million. So the man teaching you how to think about competition has been on both sides of being wrong in public. The framework fits on a napkin. Perfect competition destroys profit, so build the thing nobody else can offer. Start with a market small enough to dominate, then widen. Look for proprietary technology ten times better than the alternative, network effects, scale economics, and a brand people ask for by name. Value the last mover, not the first. "Competition is for losers." That is the title he put on a Wall Street Journal essay in September 2014, adapted from the book he wrote out of a Stanford class he taught in 2012. A student named Blake Masters posted his notes from that class online for free, and the notes went viral before the book existed. at the board it's simple. one company sold for $1.5 billion, one check compounded two thousand times, one fund down ninety-five percent from peak assets. the same brain produced all three. no magic. concentration into an idea almost nobody shares, held long enough to be measured. here is where it lines up with every founder reading this. you already know your product is a slightly better version of something people already buy. you will still call the crowded market validation, raise on comparables, and describe five competitors as proof of demand in the same deck where you claim to be different. the class notes are free. the essay is free. this talk is free. what nobody can sell you is the willingness to answer his actual question in writing: what important truth do very few people agree with you on. That willingness is the edge, and it costs an honest page, not another pitch deck.

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  Saif (@SaifQuadri) reported 33 minutes ago

  Please can someone offer Mohammed their PayPal account? Mine was shut down a few months ago and I haven’t been able to make a new one.

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  덴 | Den (@xiuflavour) reported 39 minutes ago

  WTS Saldo Paypal 💵 $360 Rate: 17.400 Prefer take all SLOW PROCESS, Est bisa sampe 1-2 jam Dm ja ya guys

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  Akia-AP (@Akia_Poetri) reported 40 minutes ago

  My paypal got limited due to sudden waves of received payment, I will try to fix it and hope it will be resolved soon. Sorry for the inconvenience 🙇🏻

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 41 minutes ago

  In 2003 a thirty-two-year-old Elon Musk gave the Stanford talk founders still pass around twenty years later. He was invited to speak at Stanford's Graduate School of Business by a class of MBA students who wanted to hear from someone actually building companies instead of teaching cases about them. He walked in, sat down, and talked for forty-five minutes without a single slide. By that point he had already sold Zip2 to Compaq for three hundred and seven million dollars and had cleared roughly one hundred and eighty million from the PayPal sale to eBay the year before. He had used most of that money to start SpaceX in the spring of 2002. In the fall of 2003, SpaceX had zero launches, roughly thirty employees, and a runway that was going to run out inside two years. He talked about how to start a company when nobody believes in the market. How to cut costs when the cash pile is shrinking every week. How to think from first principles instead of from analogy. How to stay alive long enough for luck to matter. The most striking part of the tape is not the advice. It is the tone. He is calm. He is quiet. He is thirty-two years old and running a company that is trying to build rockets, and he speaks about it the way a project manager describes a Kanban board. Twenty years later that same man owns SpaceX, Tesla, xAI and X. His net worth crossed four hundred billion dollars at the end of 2024. The rocket company he was running on empty in 2003 now launches more mass into orbit than the rest of the world combined. The talk is on YouTube. It has been posted, taken down, reposted, and re-uploaded dozens of times. It never breaks a hundred thousand views on any single upload because it does not have a thumbnail hook or a title that promises secrets. It is just forty-five minutes of a man who had not yet become anything explaining, in flat prose, how to survive when nobody has backed you yet. I watched it for the first time in 2019 during a stretch of my own company where I was three months from running out of cash. Nothing in the talk was tactical enough to save me. What it did do was give me permission to keep going for another quarter, which turned out to be all I needed. The Musk who gave that talk did not know what he would become. Neither did the students in the room. That is the actual value of the tape. You watch him before he was Elon Musk.

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  Snoopdoug 🃏🧨💸 (@PuntingStacks) reported 42 minutes ago

  I got a $30 PayPal with ur name on it to anyone that records themselves slow rolling the SN IceWater on wptGOLD

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  feenie (@feeniest) reported 44 minutes ago

  @gifutosan_gptc Im pretty sure the only way is paypal.... im not sure what could be causing it but you could ask in the acggoods discord what the issue might be??

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  Salt Mine Ranch ⚙️🛠️ (@SaltMineRanch) reported 45 minutes ago

  Why does X Money pay out so much at 6% APY? It's not a scam but it is bait. Cross River Bank makes its money the usual way and their profit margin is like 5% they can't sustain that + other payouts like 3% cashback. Instead, X Payments LLC which offers the X Money fintech product, is subsidizing the rate. While that's a lot of money, the CAC (customer acquisition cost) is far lower than what other neobank and fintech costs are because they have the X ecosystem behind building the userbase. 6% won't last but it's nice incentive for moving money. Why use it? While I have huge issues with the safety of having an account tied to your X account that can be canceled any time Nikita gets hangry, and I think it creates a stressful conflict of interest for creators "toe the moving line or else". as a tool for driving economic growth on X it has value and still seems better than letting PayPal or someone take your money. Transactions between users are instantaneous and single-bank and only handles are disclosed, it's in-app integrated, high FDIC coverage of $10M versus normal $250k, global free ATM use (reimbursed), early DD, no foreign transaction fees, and the card itself is physically secure with no printed numbers, no raised numbers, no cvv on the back, no magstripe, just your name and encrypted comms via chip/RFID. You can access that info or use a virtual credit card number/cvv/exp at any time by generating it in the app. Why not use it? X gets mad you said a hurty word, closes your account, and mails you the balance... Soft blackmail, do what they want you to do or lose your access. Outside of X, no payment processing available like a virtual POS or shopping cart and chargeback/fraud protection for sellers. For X users who want to conduct transactions on the platform it's a solid choice of methods that avoid creating some platform crypto token or other risky system and it avoids the regulatory/taxation uncertainty and exchange problems of crypto while still providing some anonymity and the means to conduct transfers. The question of whether you want one is purely personal. Do you want a cool stainless steel card with no built-in stupid? Do you think you might like to shuffle money around on X? If you're already a subscriber then that incentive money is your money, why not get some of it back as payment for giving their startup a chance? I've received 10% of my subscription fee back in 'rewards' already and haven't even used the card yet so it's not like it cost me anything to try it out but I won't be storing cash on it since I can literally be banned for no reason by mass report abuse or something I'll never trust it.

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  Victoria 💫 COMMS CLOSED (@Victoria9ax6) reported 45 minutes ago

  I will reopen comms in about a week, I’ve been having problems with paypal so my bad for that. I’ll try to get it fixed soon 🫶💞 thanks for being patient

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  Optimus_ag (@silverbullet91_) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Valenti29796400 Scam. This is a scammer. 2 different names. One the bio the scammer calls themselves Valerie and Selena. I'm reporting the PayPal name and the cashapp name and get them both shut down. Probably using fake/stolen information for both

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  Felix Maximus Seditio (@Cosmas_AG) reported 49 minutes ago

  @BeforePablo I personally know MoF was looking to have a sit down with Paypal management in Europe back in 2023. PayPal’s stance is that our financial system isn’t sanitized enough. Too many fraudulent transactions linked to Ghana and it’s almost impossible to trace such persons.

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  Pawmacist 💎🕊️ (@pawmacist) reported 50 minutes ago

  Everyone celebrates companies like Stripe, PayPal, Revolut, and Cash App. We trust them with our money, recommend them to friends, and build businesses on top of them. But the moment a Nigerian builds something similar, many of us become the first to predict its failure. Why? Is it because the product is bad, or because we have conditioned ourselves to believe that anything built abroad is automatically better than what is built at home? That mindset is a sign of a person being mentally poor and limited. Flutterwave was built by Nigerians. Paystack was built by Nigerians and went on to become one of Africa's most successful fintech companies. These companies didn't become successful because everyone believed in them from day one. They succeeded because they kept building, improving, and earned the trust of millions. Supporting Nigerian innovation does not mean lowering our standards. It does not mean ignoring security concerns or refusing to criticize poor decisions. It simply means judging our own companies by the same standards we use for foreign companies not by a harsher one. Constructive criticism builds companies. Blind condemnation kills them. There is another challenge we rarely talk about. Too many founders are racing to build the same thing. One payment app succeeds, and suddenly everyone wants to build another payment app. One crypto exchange grows, and dozens more appear. One digital bank trends, and everyone wants to launch another. Innovation is not about seeing what works and copying it. Innovation is about solving problems that nobody else is solving. Nigeria and Africa need builders who will create the infrastructure that powers the next generation of startups. We need breakthroughs in healthcare, education, agriculture, logistics, manufacturing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, blockchain infrastructure, and countless other sectors that remain underserved. The companies that shape the future won't necessarily be the ones that copy today's winners. They will be the ones bold enough to create tomorrow's opportunities. So before we dismiss another Nigerian startup, ask yourself: If we don't support our own builders, who will? And if every founder is building the same product, who will build the future? The next global technology company can come from Nigeria. But only if we create a culture that rewards originality, demands excellence, and believes that world-class innovation can be built here.

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  MKizzle (@mkdaone_) reported 51 minutes ago

  No contact is no problem.. but taking your card off my PayPal is just too ******* far

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  oma 🌊🦭 (@maomarulii) reported 52 minutes ago

  hi everyone i am having issues with paypal once again 🌹so it may take a bit to receive the payment . gen no idea why they do this

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  Asha Gill (@AgentDimps) reported 53 minutes ago

  @jet2tweets Is PayPal down on your app ?

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  CalebDaSimon (@Adagazo) reported 56 minutes ago

  @69LifeCode If PayPal never chop una money una no go calm down