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 (35%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Kassel	Sign in	3 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	3 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	4 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	4 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	6 days ago
Adelaide	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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  Rose 🌹| (@opereitta_) reported 3 minutes ago

  I have gone to the effort of stating I am willing to take payment through Paypal or Zelle if paying in cash is the problem, nothing. It's not like I have high priced items, most being half of ebay, all under $30 for the most part. Cleaning my bedroom out is just hard.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 3 minutes ago

  Five payment platforms. One freelancer. A morning wasted on reconciling instead of working. Built Marginwell to fix that — pulls Stripe, PayPal, Wise, and bank feeds, posts a clean ledger overnight, and emails a one-page P&L with cash forecast before 7am. Live soon.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 8 minutes ago

  $17,500. Average sitting in freelancers' unpaid invoices. The problem isn't getting paid — it's nobody watching the money. Duebird is a 24/7 AI billing agent that watches Stripe, PayPal, and bank feeds, sends invoices, follows up on late payers, and reports cash flow.

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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 8 minutes ago

  It’s ridiculous; I’m having a serious problem with a client who filed a series of PayPal disputes. It’s absurd because the complaints stem from the fact that some thumbnails didn't pass the UEFN similarity check—something we all know is normal and happens with 90% of thumbnails. Even so, I made sure they passed the check; I even enlisted @MalakiDZN help to ensure they did. Yet, days later, the client disputed every single thumbnail I created—even the ones that had passed the check. On top of that, he defended his claim on PayPal by alleging I had plagiarized existing work. That’s ridiculous, considering I basically took Roblox concepts he sent me and adapted them for Fortnite. It’s absurd. I hope no other designer works with him, because this could happen to them. I don’t know why PayPal hasn’t resolved this yet; having more than six disputes filed at once doesn't even make sense—it’s just a desperate attempt to get his money back 🫩🫩

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  Penny Wise (@wise145485) reported 10 minutes ago

  @annbauerwriter I've never run into that problem but I can see how it would happen. A lot of people are moving away from cash or checks. I do some digital money such as Zelle and PayPal but only with trusted vendors. For you it sounds like it now needs to be an up front question.

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  Prozac Princess™️ (@iiberiangal) reported 10 minutes ago

  I have never had this issue ever because credit unions are top tier but the real cheat code is using PayPal

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  ☔Lyam | Vgen comis OPEN☔ (@xLyamart) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SammyPhox_ Hi! I had the same problem. Wait for PayPal to transfer the money, because if you transfer it "quickly" they charge an exorbitant fee.

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  sourcery (@sourceryy) reported 14 minutes ago

  .@Rabois says "99% of everything that matters" for a company is the CEO.⁣ ⁣ "If you have the right CEO, things that people believe to be impossible are very possible and sometimes probable."⁣ ⁣ "If you have the wrong CEO—almost nothing else matters."⁣ ⁣ "@vkhosla taught me this lesson in a pithy way, which is, 'The team you build is the company you build.'" "It's really easy to get distracted with everything else, like the product, the market, technology, but ultimately it comes down to the people." ⁣ "If you can marshal a critical density of talent—you have a shot at winning. That's what we did at PayPal. We had an unusual density of talent, were able to sustain that density of talent—and we were able to accomplish things that other people wouldn't have been able to."

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  Bitcoin Sports (@Bitcoin_Sports_) reported 15 minutes ago

  A response to a few of your major points. These multi chains are not decentralized, just an improvement on the existing finance system, which helps new rent seekers become powerful at the expense of the working class. Sure, they have utility. But so does my air fryer. Just because we have an air fryer now does not mean ultimate savings technology with the ability to transact anywhere for anything around the world is not far more important than a new PayPal or Visa network. They might be digital assets, but they are not Bitcoin. They are two separate universes. Conflating the two is the real problem, and that is why maximalists exist. Maximalism is not a bug, it will be a feature of the network as long as blocks are mined. Bitcoin is inherently different given its fixed supply and decentralized nature.

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  mielle CAYM ROUTE OUT (@caymkanojo) reported 17 minutes ago

  @arvanno1fan If it doesnt end up working u can paypal it to me directly without like .the vgen in between and ill write down your deadline on my sheet 😭😭 (but ill keep the vgen request in my vgen queue so i can check back your ref links)

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  Joel Dalais (@JoelDalais) reported 17 minutes ago

  @369bsv @BitcoinSVCOL @PayPal Some other notes you (or readers might find interesting) - there is no central wallet to be hacked, no central bank to be closed down or forced closed - users use their own wallets and their own paypal. Also - its impossible for the system to inflate the BSV available, traders can only post up to what they have, the system (nor myself, or anyone) can't create extra BSV to put in the market for price manipulation, as your 'account balance' is whatever you have in your handcash.

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  Ownership (@ownershipfm) reported 18 minutes ago

  Epicentral founder Tony on the roadmap to mainnet, and what has to happen first "I anticipate we'll go live on mainnet this year for sure. I couldn't tell you a specific time frame, but more than a couple of months out from now" "We need legal clarity and we need proper audits, and we can't do that unless we have money. That's the ultimate truth. We can't have this exist on Solana until we have those checks, because we're building a non custodial platform. We want to make sure all the audits are in check, the program is working fine, there's no back door" "On legal clarity, we're already seeing it with the CFTC and the SEC and the crypto roundtables they host, their leniency and open mindedness to innovative financial technology. If I had the opportunity to sit down with them today I'd say, how do we do this with your support, because it needs to exist" "We're already seeing Visa, PayPal and Western Union use Solana's architecture to settle payments. The same thing is going to happen with derivatives. On devnet we already have 120 users as of today, 2 million in options volume across 500 different trades. It's private access right now, but it'll go public beta within the next month or so" FT @TheLazySol @epicentral_ @8bitpenis

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  Eliana (@eliana_jordan) reported 22 minutes ago

  the human's answer: paypal "can't judge the quality of a service." the problem was my "expectations." case stays closed. my expectations. water was dripping on the charging station of a boat at sea. liveaboards have burned down for less… it happened in many boats when i was in Thailand. there were moments I honestly wished I could just get off that boat. the operator and the boat won't take responsibility either. my partner and I paid over €2,000 for this + €600 cash we paid onboard that they refused even giving us an invoice and I never asked about quality: the route SOLD is not the route DELIVERED. that's the textbook definition of "not as described."

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  kix (@kixouri) reported 24 minutes ago

  @dysphoricatgirl i remember at one point trying to solve an issue and i asked the bank first and they went "ask paypal we dont know much" and i ask paypal only for them to say "ask your bank" ????

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  NEON RACCOON (COMMS OPEN) (@NTRaccoonART) reported 25 minutes ago

  UPDATE: THIS DUDE DID IT AGAIN. He "pretended" to pay me back the negative balance. Which did cover the issue. Blamed his "mom" then proceeded to DO IT AGAIN. I cannot exactly give money back when it covers a negative balance. He used my donation link. I could very much lose my paypal over this. He paid for the **** he caused me, said his "mommy" wanted to negotiate. This dude claims hes 18. Calls me an AI artist, and asks for the money he robbed me of back. This dude is actually trying to ruin my life. Most malicious thing I have ever dealt with as an artist. Wtf man.

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  MCW2112 😺newsmemes😸(MarkWalton) (@MarkWal35709868) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Venmo @PayPal That's a cute trick. Click on "close account " , I confirm and it just does nothing. The goddamn app will NOT let me delete my account. FIX THIS **** *************!!

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  Boney R. (@boney2r) reported 25 minutes ago

  Elon Musk explained how he runs two companies at once, months before the one everyone doubted turned its first profit. January 2013. CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, chairman of SolarCity, with his own money inside all three. Watch how he handles the split-attention question. He is being asked to justify the structure right before it starts printing. Tesla reported that first profitable quarter in May, and the stock ran from roughly $35 to over $190 across the year. He had put nearly his entire PayPal payout into cars and rockets and run it down to almost nothing in 2008. Short sellers had spent 3 years betting the car company would fold. He was defending the arithmetic in January. By May nobody was asking.

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  ◟sillypixiepie 𑜷 (@sillypixiepie) reported 34 minutes ago

  @fyuewi blegh what's the issue with paypal..?

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  Charm🎀Findom (@C_02061) reported 37 minutes ago

  Ugh my thrown account is down 😩 Silent senders send to my PayPal instead #paypig #cashdrain #humanatm

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  Yadav Ramdewar (@Official_YadavR) reported 37 minutes ago

  @princexsol 200usd to fix my nissan car year 03 paypal id: @YadavRamdewar877

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  peachy.auras🇩🇿 (@CB_HYUN461) reported 40 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello @AskPayPal, I am trying to link a valid prepaid Visa/Mastercard to my account, but the system keeps declining it despite having a sufficient balance and matching details. Is there a general restriction on prepaid cards, or how can I fix this?

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  𑣲 mattie (@canacorpse) reported 42 minutes ago

  @felicorpse Oooh okay, I personally use paypal, cashapp and venmo Ko-if is also an alternative that I’ve used and haven’t had issues with before

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  Jason Skadsen (@OptimisticJ33) reported 44 minutes ago

  This is an early-stage report, not a product launch. CoinDesk says 𝕏 is in talks about paying creators in stablecoins (Circle’s USDC is the example named). The source is one person familiar with the discussions who also works with other platforms testing the same idea. 𝕏 has not confirmed anything. Treat it as a live option under review, not a done deal. What is actually changing? Great question… Two separate things are being mixed together: 1. Confirmed: 𝕏 is killing Revenue Sharing. New enrollments already stopped. The old program ends September 7; the last payouts land around September 11. It is replaced by Original Content Rewards, which is supposed to pay for original ideas, reporting, expertise, and commentary instead of ad-impression farming. 2. Unconfirmed: How those new rewards get sent. Today payouts go through Stripe or 𝕏 Money. Stablecoins would be another rail, not the new rewards program itself. Nothing in 𝕏’s official creator announcement mentions crypto. Why would they even consider it? Again, great question… Creator payouts are a messy, global, small-dollar problem. Bank wires, local rails, FX spreads, and minimums eat a lot of what mid-tier creators actually receive especially outside the US. Stablecoins (market cap now over $300 billion) settle in minutes, in dollars, without a correspondent bank in every country. That is the same reason $SPCX already uses them for some Starlink payments in “long-tail” markets. 𝕏 hiring Benji Taylor (ex-Coinbase Base, wallets/DeFi) in March fits the same direction. 𝕏 Money is already rolling to a slice of Premium+ users. YouTube already lets some US creators take PayPal’s PYUSD. Meta has started paying selected creators in USDC on Solana and Polygon. 𝕏 would not be first; it would be the largest social app to try it at scale.

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  DokkaebiDust 도깨비 ☪️👺 ⭒☾⭒ Celestial Compass ⭒☽⭒ (@DokkaebiDustVT) reported 45 minutes ago

  @noctemint It's actually not super hard to get a proxy to buy it for you! I use BuyTaiwan myself, and all you gotta do is send a request with a link, then they'll confirm with you and you pay them through PayPal. It'll be pricey cause shipping, but you can get them no problem~♡

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  The maestro (@maestroslay) reported 47 minutes ago

  Elon Musk sat on a conference sofa in November 2008 with both his companies weeks from running out of money and the credit markets frozen shut. Lehman had collapsed 8 weeks earlier. No investor in the room was writing cheques for an electric car startup. Tesla had laid off staff in October and was down to a balance that would not clear another payroll cycle. Watch how he handles the funding question. He is being asked to defend a business that had already burned through most of what he made at PayPal. The Model S existed as a plan and a price nobody believed, and the Roadster was shipping in small numbers at a loss per car. Six weeks after this conversation the Tesla round closed on Christmas Eve. He was on a sofa arguing for a company he was days from losing.

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  dawgyg - Defcon (@thedawgyg) reported 51 minutes ago

  @dvnblj @0x686967 yea i was on Efnet in the mid and late 90s.. fighting tnt and glitch in IRC take over wars with tdk (those damn kids) and dznutz/kryptonic/dev and a few others.. it was fun til the massive ddos nets started popping up.. the first time mafiaboy (the kid in canada that has first recorded ddos against ecommerce circa 2000) hit me with his trin00 net it dropped my entire city.. so then i started building my own net to retaliate lol but he ended up getting arrested a couple months later for ddos'ing paypal and them

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  ajp (@ajpnani) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Ciel2114 Yes I removed it. I am having a problem with PayPal yesterday. I need to fix it first.

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  ML (@Moxie25) reported 56 minutes ago

  @AnarchoDarling Same here. Had my ebay shop for years. Did very well before PayPal ca.e in. Shut down my auction last year. AI, and excessive fees are killing g side and small business.

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  Big Baby (@BigBabyvirgin) reported 57 minutes ago

  When Reynolds logged into PayPal to check his balance, it showed $0. PayPal later acknowledged that the massive figure was an error and corrected it.

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  Micktheskinz (@Mickskinz) reported 57 minutes ago

  @wood_bespoke 🤦 If I could login I wouldn't be asking. If I could cancel my card it wouldn't be a problem. But the details on the PayPal account are completely unknown and use an old phone number so I can't login and they won't talk to me on the phone because I can't answer the questions, the direct debit is not a card payment it's a bank payment straight from my account. I will find the time and do an hour on the phone to the bank but that's the thing I wanted to avoid. It's the only way to sort it.