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 (41%)
• Errors (38%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Township of Evan	Sign in	19 minutes ago
Lodève	Errors	2 hours ago
Brisbane	Sign in	23 hours ago
Sydney	Sign in	1 day ago
Hochfelden	Website Down	2 days ago
Lyon	Errors	5 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  AT (@a_antonpole) reported 4 minutes ago

  @drp825_ Option sellers win 90% of the time- this one is complete, misleading, bullshit, because option Buyer will win once but big enough to offset and more his nine losses, Average down to reduce cost basis- this is called buying a falling knife, it’s really stupid, the stock can fall 70% like Facebook did a couple years ago, and it can stay there for years and years and years, like PayPal or ENPH etc. You must wait for the stock to stop falling and reverse back to the upside before you buy more, basically you have to buy the smiley face on the chart.

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  Carmen Lucero (@CarmenLucero14) reported 6 minutes ago

  @THE_TNT_TEAM Hi Tony, I can’t get past the first page because it says that my email is already registered. I was having issues with Zelle, so I went to my bank. Waiting for them to fix the problem. Is there another way for me to pay? PayPal works well for me to send money. Please advise.

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  PENNY L.A. SHEPARD (@shepardout) reported 7 minutes ago

  I am ready stressed right now. My bank account is really low and I had alot of unexpected charges come in this month and more are coming. If you can possibly donate a few dollars to my Paypal I would really appreciate it. My time is stretched, and have been working on technical issues for two weeks. I have had to spend money on software and medical and office that have put me dangerously low in my bank account. If you can afford even a small donation, could you please send emergency funds I would be so appreciative!

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  Ask The W (@AskTheWHQ) reported 8 minutes ago

  @paulg The founder has the right instinct. Hardware companies require patient capital, sustained execution and real customer demand. Nvidia took roughly three decades to reach a $1 trillion valuation. Pre-humanoid, many ambitious robotics companies have struggled because commercializing hardware is expensive and slow. Like using Paypal proceeds to build Tesla, SW successes may create the capital required for more ambitious hardware bets. Good to see more investors betting the long game in HW!

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  Cai Co (@CaiCo87) reported 10 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @EyoladeAbass In other words, don’t expect the issue to ever be resolved because their help center isn’t monitored by human beings and they engage in fraud.

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  . (@DatMLBro) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Fosudo The issue isn’t just Nigeria’s reputation. India has its own fraud and financial crime problems, yet PayPal serves them. The difference is leverage: India can push back. Nigeria’s weak institutions often leave us begging for access instead of demanding fair treatment.

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  willowdontknow (@Xx1tzwillowduh_) reported 14 minutes ago

  Does anyone know alternative payment app for commission beside PayPal? I've see many people got trouble with their PayPal. I don't have any plan to open art commission I might be open for the future so please let me know!

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 15 minutes ago

  The eBay check that bought PayPal in 2002 funded the founders of Tesla, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Palantir. The deal was announced on July 8, 2002, on the front page of the New York Times business section. The article you are looking at is that story. It was written by Matt Richtel. It ran 900 words and treated the transaction as a routine consolidation between two internet companies that had been circling each other for years. The purchase price was one and a half billion dollars in eBay stock. Negotiated and closed in a week. eBay had spent the previous two years trying to build its own competing payment product called Billpoint, had put thirty five million dollars into it as recently as March 2002, and gave up. On the day the acquisition closed, eBay announced Billpoint was being shut down. This is what losing to a better product looks like written into an acquisition announcement. The details in the article are the boring version of the story. The interesting version happened in the six months after. PayPal had about a hundred and fifty employees at the time of the sale. Fewer than thirty of them held meaningful equity. When the eBay stock cleared, most of those thirty people had between five and one hundred and eighty million dollars in liquid capital. They were mostly under thirty five years old. Almost none of them wanted to stay at eBay. Peter Thiel walked out with about fifty five million dollars and used it to co-found Palantir the following year and to start Founders Fund two years after that. Elon Musk walked out with about one hundred and eighty million and put most of it into SpaceX, which he had founded three months earlier, and into Tesla, where he led the Series A in 2004. Reid Hoffman took his exit money and started LinkedIn in December 2002. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim were engineers at PayPal who left with smaller checks and used them to start YouTube in 2005. Max Levchin took his money and eventually founded Affirm. Jeremy Stoppelman left and started Yelp. David Sacks left and started Yammer. Roelof Botha left PayPal's CFO seat and joined Sequoia, where he became one of the most successful venture investors of his generation. That group started to get called the PayPal Mafia around 2007 when Fortune ran a cover story on them, all standing around in Godfather suits. The combined value of the companies they founded, seeded, or ran after PayPal is over three trillion dollars. The eBay check that made all of that possible was a footnote in the 2002 New York Times business section. The reason the pattern is worth studying is that it is not really about the money. Twenty five people getting rich on the same day is a common story. It has happened a hundred times at other IPOs and acquisitions. The unusual thing is that this specific twenty five went on to found the next generation of the industry that had just paid them. Most exits produce quiet millionaires who buy houses in Palo Alto and take a decade off. PayPal's exit produced a wave of founders who started their next company within eighteen months. The best guess for why is not the capital. It is the confidence and the network. When you have built one thing that worked and cashed out at thirty two, and everyone in your closest circle also built one thing that worked and cashed out at thirty two, the psychological cost of starting the next one drops to almost zero. You do not need to raise from strangers. Your first ten investors are your former colleagues. Your first hire is somebody who used to sit two desks away. I keep this article printed on my wall as a reminder that the deals that look small in the moment are the ones that seed the next twenty years. The check was one and a half billion dollars. The return, measured across the next two decades of companies, was closer to three trillion.

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  Perma Banned ထ🔨 (@GiveMeBanHammer) reported 15 minutes ago

  I know many people are still shocked over the growing evidence that Jason Schreier likely exaggerated or perhaps even manufactured the Blizzard incidents. Guesses on motivations for why he did so differ but most speculate he’s "paving a way" - possibly allowing people he is friends with...or part of the same clique with...to take over jobs and leadership positions in Blizzard. If it turns out to be true then I want to assure you, NONE of this is new. These cliques have done this for over a decade now, and to show you a taste of what I mean, I will refer to you a little incident called "Game_Jam" 2014 Essentially, it was a high-profile and hyped Reality show where Game devs developed a game live. It was big, it was well prepped. It failed HARD. It got destroyed before it even had a chance to get off the ground. Now why did that happen? Well around the time of the event, Games Journalists started to make a whole bunch of coordinated very negative pieces on the Gamejam, a lot of blatant exaggerations of issues that made the show look like a disaster. Back then, most people didn't know that Games Journalists enjoyed lying, so they took these articles at face value. Hype for the show was destroyed and the show was cancelled. Again, why would that happen? Well it turns out, within the SAME DAY - a NEW Game Jam website got created, called "Rebel Game Jam". The "Rebel Game Jam", was run by someone that goes by the Initials ZQ. The website had links to "donations", and these donations, go directly to this ZQ's personal paypal account. Coincidence? To me its not. It turns out, ZQ has been shown to be quite good friends with many Games Journalists, many of them frequently write positive press about her and her single "game". Some of the games Journalists even actively donated to her Patreon. That's how much of a "good friend" they were with this ZQ. So again, don't be shocked if the theory that "Games Journalists like Jason Schreier exaggerated or manufactured horrible stories about Blizzard leadership so they get kicked out of the Company, ripe for replacement by their friends” turns out to be true. Always keep and eye out, do not trust Game Journalists. When they write something or do something - always ask yourself "who are they backing? What do theu actually want?” Am I being ******? Probably. Should you still watch out even if I am? Yes.

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  mamí (@r0sequartzmami) reported 17 minutes ago

  hey my loves, i no longer will be using PayPal as a method to receive payments because paypal keeps holding my money & giving me problems with my card. I will update you guys on the new forms of payment so you guys can have a swift booking experience 💖

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  L0c0 (@L0c002539318) reported 19 minutes ago

  keep building, slow cook $Agentlayer Project real Paypal for AI Agents

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  divyansh tiwari (@DivyanshT91162) reported 20 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  mcgibbykins (@mcgibbykins) reported 28 minutes ago

  @valkyrieinpink Just got it! I tried the other way first but it was declined as a high-risk transaction. 🙄 Went through PayPal no issue.

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  John Rush (@johnrush) reported 34 minutes ago

  I pay for 116 products, $730k a year. It’s insane 😵‍💫 Are there cheaper alternatives? 1. HOSTING & CLOUD DigitalOcean - $101.94 AWS - $2,938.64 Hetzner - $1,190.10 Heroku - $25 MonoVM - $10 Google Cloud - $4,125.34 Vercel - $46.29 Supabase - $25 MongoDB Atlas - $3,286.55 Azure - $1,462.31 Fly . io - $22.14 Hostinger - $9.99 Clerk - $25 Docker - $11 Cloudflare - $233.24 2. WEB, DESIGN & DEVELOPER TOOLS Apify - $39 Notion - $91.20 Figma - $258.71 Canva - $15 Excalidraw - $10 BunnyCDN - $10 Twilio - $358.70 SendGrid - $20 Sensorpro - $20 Float UI - $0 Imgix - $500 ScreenshotOne - $79 Uploadcare - $25 ScrapingBee - $99.99 Firecrawl - $599 3tsoftware - $998 Atlassian - $938.72 Cursor - $20 Gamma - $10 JetBrains - $63 Lordicon - $16 Webflow - $26.50 Zapier - $33.11 Zoho - $46.24 3. AI & LLMS Google AI - $3,000 OpenAI - $10,000 Codex - $200 Anthropic - $20,000 Claude Code - $200 Azure OpenAI - $50 Pinecone - $70.05 Exa . ai - $1,000 Groq - $0.53 Higgsfield - $49 OpenRouter - $105.50 Perplexity AI - $552 xAI - $20 4. TESTING & MONITORING Sentry - $232.56 StatusCake - $20 UptimeRobot - $7 Ghost Inspector - $49 LambdaTest - $35 Qase - $90 5. COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION Zoom - $18.75 Loom - $15 Mailjet - $22.45 Skype - $3 Slack - $176.96 Teams - $6 Google Workspace - $151.79 1Password - $21.73 Hubstaff - $700.69 360dialog - $57.39 Cake . com - $335.16 Google One - $26.62 Manychat - $25 StreamYard - $88.99 Typefully - $16 6. MARKETING, SALES & PAYMENTS Gumroad - $100 FirstPromoter - $84.15 Crisp - $400 Intercom - $78 Mailtrap - $15 Stripe - $0.30+ per transaction Paddle - $0.30+ per transaction Ahrefs - $249 DataForSEO - $100 Meta Ads - $25 Google Ads - $50 Mailgun - $27.62 PayPal - $316.85 Seo Gets - $29 Tolt - $3,044.29 TrustMRR - $50 TwitterAPI . io - $20 Vidalytics - $28.50 Webshare - $59.03 Devuap LLC - $19.99 KRAKEN - $ 7. LEGAL, ACCOUNTING, BANKING PandaDoc - $70 QuickBooks - $75 Mercury - $0 Carta - $100 Apple - $99 eSIM . net - $6 Metapay - $0 8. OTHER ProxySell - $50 TLDR - $5 Veed - $108 Grammarly - $12 X - $84 GoDaddy - $69.57 Namecheap - $10 iPostal - $10 Appliku - $10 AWS SES - $0.10+ per 1,000 emails Loops - $49 Google Play - $2.08 Apple Developer Account - $8.25 Black Magic - $5 Zenvoice - $10 Fibery - $10 ChatGPT - $50 Serper - $50 Indie Hackers - $10 Startups .com - $100 9. MY PRODUCTS Unicorn Platform - $19/mo SEObot - $99/mo ListingBott - $99/mo IndexRusher - $199 once AdBot & Tinyadz - $49/mo * the list is made with ai from my last 90 days of bank transactions. may miss yearly payments and include small errors.

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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 39 minutes ago

  @meetedzenebubu honestly the bigger issue isn't paypal specifically, it's betting everything on one platform at all, stripe has its own version of these problems too. we route across a couple processors using paymentkit instead of picking one "winner," keeps things running regardless of which one has a bad week.

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  Richard Ieuan Davies (@TheRavingRich) reported 40 minutes ago

  @HelpSupercard @WWE2KSupport My web store checkout has been broken since Thursday. Filed a ticket, got ZERO responses, and you just sent me a satisfaction survey for a ticket you silently closed. PayPal works fine everywhere else. Please have a human look at my account.

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  Hope (@LordGem3) reported 42 minutes ago

  @ArmandDoma It is hard though, right? Because, the PayPal mafia model is to pull a bunch of disconnected nodes together. You fund a lot of startups, some of them succeed. The successful ones consolidate into something greater than the sum of their parts. The problem with regulating ai is..

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  Yasir Ai (@AiwithYasir) reported 44 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  Wide-Load Wolf 🔞 (@FireDad_Alpha) reported 45 minutes ago

  He robbed 155 dollars from me, my call out went nowhere, I’ll never see my money back. It’s too late to issue a refund from PayPal. He was giving a friend of mine a hard time on his commission. I don’t have the pull on here some do. But please. Just don’t waste your time

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  DoMoka (@trustelmokadem) reported 50 minutes ago

  @QudsNen Palestinians biometric data is routed by PayPal to an Israeli firm linked to Unit 8200. That's a huge privacy violation and digital rights issue.

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  Hopeful N7 (@HopefulN7) reported 50 minutes ago

  @PayPal Placed an international @Etsy order that took 28 days to arrive damaged & missing items. To keep buyer protection, I should've escalated to PayPal day 1 to freeze seller funds. Giving them time to send a replacement exceeded that window. 30 days is wild with how slow Etsy can be.

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  Jack (@Hammers6021) reported 54 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk I tried to order something just now (a build and battle box for brilliant stars) and I got the same payment error that I had during the 30th booster bundle drop. Tried mobile and laptop with Apple Pay, credit card and PayPal.

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  Founder Tribune (@Founder_Tribune) reported 56 minutes ago

  Elon Musk explains why he never starts with a product. He starts with a list he made in the shower: Musk is asked whether he begins with a specific product in mind. A Model S, a Falcon 9 and reverse-engineers his way there, or whether he starts by spotting something broken in the world and commits to fixing it, even without knowing how. Neither framing quite fits his answer. Every company he's built Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, and PayPal and Zip2 before them traces back to his time in college, when he set out to work out "what would most affect the future in a very likely to be a positive way." That single question produced a shortlist of five areas. Three he was confident about: "The three areas where I was quite sure would be positive were sustainable energy, internet, and making life multiplanetary." And two he wasn't: "There were a couple other areas where maybe a question mark, like AI and rewriting genetics." Those two came attached to a warning: "Potentially negative consequences, hopefully positive, but something could go wrong." The striking part is how the whole framework surfaced. Not from a strategic planning exercise or years of deliberation: "Those were the five areas that I could come up with standing in the shower basically." The takeaway: Musk doesn't chase products, and he doesn't start with what's broken. He starts one level higher by asking which domains will most shape the future of humanity, backing the ones he's convinced are net-positive, and letting specific companies fall out of that filter. The Model S and the Falcon 9 are downstream of a decision he made years before either existed. fu

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  ZK (@zk_afc2) reported 56 minutes ago

  I don’t use PayPal Goods & Services because funds can be held for a long time and I’ve had issues with chargebacks in the past I prefer payment methods that don’t put either side through lengthy disputes

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  Agnostica Gnostica (@AgnostikGnostik) reported 58 minutes ago

  @froglet80 Thanks! I was hoping to avoid the fees and had linked it to my personal PayPal, but I guess that causes issues. Will try to sort it out as spoons allow 🥄

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  Susan Huey (@88845sh) reported 1 hour ago

  Real families in Gaza use X to crowdfund for survival, but lack of platform vetting attracts highly sophisticated X features expose the real login locations of accounts, GoFundMe and PayPal do not work inside Gaza, meaning every real campaign must

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  Rudolfs (@ecomrudolfs) reported 1 hour ago

  Had about 50+ people reach out to me a couple of days ago on insta about private processing So let me break down some common questions Nr1: legal structure If you sell in the US, have a US llc setup This will increase your auth rates and opens a lot of new doors (Same goes for other markets - have a local setup) Nr2: what is “private processing” It is not some payfac Its having processing directly from an acquiring bank You go to an ISO and they talk to the bank and do the whole underwriting process In the end you have your own MIDs (merchant IDs) And you are the only store processing on it Way less wrongful shutdowns than on payfacs cause your data is not mixed with others Nr3: the checkout Its very simple… All you need is a CRM It will high jack the shopify checkout process You build a custom checkout or use pre made templates and connect your MIDs to the CRM Usually will need the MIDs to either be able to issue a VAR sheet or have the NMI gateway But its very common so no worries on that Nr4: the benefits I dont even know where to start lol - full control over your checkout (split test and run what ever you want) - unrestricted upsell flows - if you do mrr then you can own your subscription tokens - apple/google pay wallets + paypal - way less wrongful shutdowns - next day payouts - almost a 0% chance at losing access to all processing - smart rebill logic - built in tracking (sent directly to your ad platform) - no more headaches from SP bs I could go on but you get the point If you are still on SP in the big 2026 its time to rethink your backend Q4 is coming up and volume spikes cause a ton of volatility with SP shutdowns (Not the case on MIDs as you have a HUMAN to talk to) Don’t end up not being able to process payments during November Set this up even as a backup if you don’t want to fully switch Either way if you have any questions or want to get in touch with the right people… Send me a dm

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  Timofei from adenslab.com (@timopowerz) reported 1 hour ago

  @mdniamul0 the off-site paypal point is real, but don't assume every client-side setup misses the purchase..... many flows return to a confirmation page and fire correctly i'd compare paypal completed orders against browser purchase events first. if the gap is real, webhook/capi is the fix..... with a stable event_id so browser + server don't double count

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  stancia (ultrasonikz) (@WpzkxW) reported 1 hour ago

  submitted to a label once problem, they followed up with ask for paypal but I DONT HAVE A ******* PAYPAL I DONT EVEN HAVE A GCASH THE ONLY THING I AHVE THAT SOMEWHAT RESEMBLES THAT IS MY BEEP CARD AND THATS JUST FOR BUSSES AND TRAINS AND I MOSTLY JUST GO JEEP BRUH IM SO STUPID...

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  avens 𖣓 (@heyavens) reported 1 hour ago

  @BrillVFX I normally don’t make posts like this, but after giving this person more than enough time, patience, and opportunities to communicate with me, I feel like this needs to be made public. On July 8th, I paid him to create an intro for my team. We said deadline was 1 week. Its is now Aug 7,2026. After receiving the payment, he sent me 1-2 updates showing that he had started working on the project. That was essentially the only real progress/update I received. I didn’t rush him. I gave him roughly 1–2 weeks without bothering him because I understood that creative work takes time. After that period passed with no update, I reached out simply asking about the status of the intro. It then took him another week just to respond. When he finally responded, he explained that he was dealing with a situation involving his family problems. I completely respected that. I didn’t argue with him, pressure him, or immediately ask for my money back. I gave him additional time because I understood that real-life situations come before a project. Another week passed. I reached out again asking for an update. No response. From that point forward, I continued trying to contact him and no communication. At this point, an entire month has passed since I paid him, I still do not have the intro I paid for, and I have not received consistent communication regarding the project. Eventually, after repeatedly trying to handle this privately, I told him that if I continued receiving no response, I would have no choice but to make the situation public and pursue a refund through PayPal. I gave this situation every opportunity to be resolved privately before posting anything publicly. I was patient, I respected the personal circumstances he told me about, and I gave him significantly more time because of them. This post is not being made to send harassment toward anybody. I’m posting this to document my experience and warn other people who may consider purchasing work from him. Everything I’m stating here will be accompanied by screenshots so people can look at the timeline, messages, payment, and communication themselves and form their own opinion. I paid for a service on July 8th. I gave him weeks of patience and multiple opportunities to communicate with me. I still have not received what I paid for. At this point, based on my experience, I believe I was scammed. I have opened/pursued a dispute through PayPal to recover my money. I genuinely wanted to handle this privately, but there comes a point where ignoring a paying customer and failing to deliver what they purchased needs to be addressed. Receipts/screenshots below.