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 (48%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Brugnera	Errors	11 hours ago
Glasgow	Sign in	19 hours ago
Paris	Errors	23 hours ago
Alphen aan den Rijn	Sign in	1 day ago
Bordeaux	Errors	2 days ago
Liouc	Website Down	2 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  ArtsOfAlchemist (@ArtsOfAlchemist) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Nogardtist @RolPolyGames problem is most people who are going to commission you expect to be able to pay with paypal

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  Matthew Battle (@librab103) reported 5 minutes ago

  @TimothyBuffett the problem is your history is incorrect or misguided. We have no evidence that Zip2 was a success. Musk left Paypal within its first year. Musk and dozens of other people help fund OpenAI including Microsoft. He was never really part of it.

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  Haruh_ink (@ArtHaruhi) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Sunburst4_ @heo__yui I am not the one who had issues with paypal tho Just hate the fees

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  Jhincx-Faust ⚡️Commissions OPEN (@Jhincx_Faust) reported 8 minutes ago

  @emiihunn_ afaik. theres only issues with NSFW stuff. just dont label them or ask your client not to be specific about that when sending. (if thats what you do) . i do commissions over paypal for years now ,and never had problems. (i guess cuz i never do nsfw)

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  Hawki 🔞 (@HawkiARTs2) reported 9 minutes ago

  @HawkiARTs **This is my alt** As easy as PayPal is, I can admit I don't like using it. I didn't like patreon or kofi either, however; even though it does not fully fix the problem. I may just make a purchasable commission on kofi instead of directly sending it on paypal.

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  Andrea Ferrara (@Divelto) reported 9 minutes ago

  @thatsknotme PayPal has begun issuing permanent account restrictions to artists accepting payments for obscene or adult-themed commissions, citing policy violations and unusual activity. This will be a problem for me when I want to take any of your content.

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  faris (@iiiuzee) reported 9 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello. I still have access to my PayPal account email and password, and I also know the amount of money موجود in the account, but I lost access to the old phone number used for verification. I can no longer receive the login code. Please help me. I can't log in to my account

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  Who is shappy? (@shepherddariel) reported 10 minutes ago

  @kutabare43 I might be able to help with that I do pfp/art stuff and I’d be down to make something for your Twitch account. Nitro or PayPal both work for me feel free too hit me okayy

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  𖤓 †рейка† ☽ (@inupenka) reported 14 minutes ago

  @HoinLP I get a little bit better your point even if I think it’s still 2 different problems, because if PayPal Visa and ect does have this issues, it can give ideas to all the alternatives and it’s a problem we should focus about our right as consumers too

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  MagicDragon3D 🔞 (@magicdragon3d) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Grummz This is nothing new. In early 2024, I lost my PayPal account because of the same problem.

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  Shiny Hex Maniac🧅👻 (@H3xchu) reported 21 minutes ago

  @GloriousEggroll I’ve never had any issues myself, but if you search PayPal on this app you’ll see dozens of freelancers are being suspended left and right and being given very vague answers on why from support :/ which is why I’m nervous

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  cancer😎🤓 (@ViraRam53966287) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Fayemilylatam_ If you are truly a fan of Faye, answer this: why are you using a Paypal account of a Yobie who has clearly said bad things about Faye? Actually, we have no problem with CPF. As long as they support both equally and never badmouth or criticize Faye.

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  Enerton 🔞🇨🇴 (@En3_Art) reported 25 minutes ago

  My local bank is a ***** *** *** so no comm work for me for a good while until those issues are solved + I need to focus on my art course. (I only had one comm but I refunded it, it wasn’t even PayPal that screwed me over like many other artists). I’ll reopen comms someday.

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  BostonTrading (@TradingBoston) reported 25 minutes ago

  @juniortgr cool story bro. We got in the same way. We did not invest in BTC because "number go up"; we got in because it was far cheaper and faster to send funds through BTC than through Paypal, banking, or Western Union. Solve a problem and then make money

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  I9ndigo (@i9ndigo) reported 27 minutes ago

  @naniSohrei @PayPal You can get an account shut down??

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  ☆ (@starmeiyok) reported 28 minutes ago

  @xlovingg what part r u having an issue with? for me it didn’t work when i tried to buy it with a credit card but it did work wit paypal, if ur having trouble w the checkout it could be that

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  tilly (@no1dietcokelvr) reported 28 minutes ago

  @melmartinezstan aw no problem at all!!! yeah I think paypal was all messed up lol

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  Roly Poly Games (@RolPolyGames) reported 29 minutes ago

  I am seeing people freaking out about paypal account bans. As a commissioner of much artwork 3D and 2D for my game development I want to give some advice: Keep your details simple. Don't use terms that could be taken in a NSFW manner. Now mine isn't NSFW, but keep it simple "Character custom 2D art piece ." "3D model fully rigged female character." They aren't physically seeing your art they just see what the payment is for. The less they know the less they can find a problem with.

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  ☣︎ (@beastbiohazard) reported 33 minutes ago

  i love stripe, everyone please use stripe, i have it linked to my kofi. idk if i will personally use paypal at all in the future after past issues. i really don't want to deal with it anymore. but stripe is shockingly easy and available in over 45 countries!!!

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  Loading_arts (@The_TwistedFang) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Monster_kinds yeah no problem! I get it either way unable to get it either way cause don't have PayPal and updating cards so anyways thank you for the opportunity and I hope that you have a great time with the smol dreams

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  The Atomic Bro#035 🔞🧪✨️🦎🎨 (@THEATOMBOMB035) reported 35 minutes ago

  this exactly, just pay the money and keep the comments on DM's on another site. Paypal is an issue but come on its like asking a cop in a drug sting "Is your mic on?"

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  IO (@riosartacc) reported 37 minutes ago

  @sleepyandrewllz What the hell is up with Paypal!! Why the hell do they always have problems with artists 😭😭

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  Sammy (@SamuelB00934674) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Sugar_Pops_ PayPal is the issue for some of us

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  Pri (@PRiZMAZED) reported 46 minutes ago

  @AdrianDustRed @sooperstuffart That been that way since 2010, Paypal doesn't allow NSFW because "brand issues" (not the true reason) & were one of the first modern cases to enforce that. Grummz the Grifter is pretty late on the show. But yeah, don't ill a word about your paypal email & what it's connected to.

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  Misha Turtle Island, CTO 🐢 (@MishaTurtleX) reported 48 minutes ago

  Essay on PayPal…. Some Turtle Thoughts. FYI, this stuff can matter if you use PayPal for other things as well, and it is a nightmare getting competent or even semi helpful support. As for people making adult content, if the transactions via PayPal are legal and not reaching millions of dollars (which I imagine is not the case here… probably smaller artists and people flagged by AI red flags), this is just targeting little guys and sole proprietors the worst. Big companies push nonstop even worse debauchery at several magnitudes higher volume than a random artist entrepreneur. But they can absorb payment processing issues, probably have multiple providers, AND can much more effectively bring and afford legal action (eg if PayPal holds $200 of your dollars, no one cares / the opportunity cost of your time makes it not worth pursuing. If they hold $200K and it’s legal or open to TOS interpretation, they will often be forced to release the funds to the larger account or business threatening both legal and reputational next steps. Paypal can end the relationship, but they have to work with the businesses and if they can’t prove the funds are illegal or must be held, they’d lose anything serious to their defense altogether. People who had $200 frozen or stolen from them are not going to try to call a lawyer nor inform their state AG and regulators. They scream on PayPal’s non searchable chat logs and sometimes they complain on social media, but that little artist’s post is unlikely to go viral. So they scream into the void. And PayPal knows this. Whether to reduce liability and/or their costs to servicing smaller accounts and individual people, it is scummy behavior and all PayPal customers should understand that their funds are only as available as PayPal allows… and sometimes… it makes no sense and can screw your small business. PayPal knows no one likes these “*****” companies and that they usually have very low approval ratings in society, but it’s sad and counterproductive that Big Debauchery Inc. can often do morally terrible things while PayPal punts on fights with them (eg backs down and takes the L / agrees to a mutual break with all initially frozen funds returned as well as incoming fund transactions that were in process finalize and remove the customer and seller from limbo. All because of weird incentives rather than anything good for society or imo the business overall…. Meanwhile, single artists who may or may not be doing anything ethically wrong get told “TOS, DUDE. SUCKS TO SUCK. GET GOOD. EVERYONE WILL ASSUME YOU’RE SKETCHY SO DON’T COMPLAIN. AND YEAH, FINAL DECISION COMMUNICATED IN A FORM MESSAGE THAT GETS YOUR NAME WRONG.” It’s a business inefficiency based on their customer types, and society tends not to realize that the worst of the worst have the ability and money to easily move forward, while Tina the Turtle painting Donatello in a bathing suit gets nuked for auto BS reasons. Not even suggestive. Just a hypothetical where I could see them auto-flagging the word “teenagers” in TMNT. Donatello literally has more clothes on than normal, not less. Tina begs and pleads that she isn’t a ***** gross artist. She just likes the teenage mutant ninja turtles and now, her good idea to sell bathing suits got confused with child protection stuff that support just ignores appeals / assumes you were the issued not PayPal. When Tina contacts support, she can’t even find a phone number, let alone a chat option. It’s just endless “Does this answer your question?” FAQ pages that sometimes are on completely different webpages entirely. Why am I getting told about Starbucks offers when I am asking why PayPal ruined my turtle business while typing expletives into a chatbot that gaslights or crashes? Tina Turtle isn’t a real turtle, but for every sketchy money laundering trafficking ring that PayPal may disable, 99.999999% of situations are misunderstandings, legal but against TOS, or completely within TOS.

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  TK THE KING (@TKthekinger) reported 49 minutes ago

  @V4N4s • International debit card • Much lower risk of arbitrary banning • You can issue invoices, which can be paid by any bank I was banned from PayPal for no apparent reason. After switching to Wise, my life became much easier.

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  @bluepatchedrobe2 (@bluepatche3) reported 54 minutes ago

  @mikopeled @PayPal 1/ Miko Peled Perhaps you may be able help me too; I have had the same experience, money €€’s was sent to my account, @PayPal said there was a problem transferring it to my bank account and it would remain in my paypal account. I checked some weeks later and it had vanished.

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  AdHadd 🫶🏾 (@AdHadd_art) reported 54 minutes ago

  Cashapp doesn’t have the same problems paypal has right? Because that one person getting banned over nsfw comms may carry over to sfw comms, I might have to change things up when I start them again

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  Shadow Marie🇰🇿 (@Shadow_Mariko) reported 58 minutes ago

  @OnShinobu @Cheekie_ She quoted Grummz post about PayPal shutting down artist accounts

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  Derick Waluvl (@DWaluvl) reported 1 hour ago

  @AskPayPal How will I contact customer care while I cannot login or call as the number given is not working surely