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 (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Kirchberg	Sign in	3 hours ago
Nantes	Errors	9 hours ago
Vícar	Errors	9 hours ago
Étauliers	Errors	11 hours ago
Onnion	Website Down	19 hours ago
Thurins	Sign in	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  「𝗞𝗮𝗸𝘂𝗿𝗼」 (@KakuroWasTaken) reported 5 minutes ago

  ᅠ „I am putting in Dragonballs into the Conton-pedestal to make Shenron paypal me 200 TP medals into my account.“ He responds — straightfaced and slightly hunched with his eyes fixed down at the altar in question. ᅠ

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  Ant (@M0kujin) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Gabriel_Pogrund @1goodtern That Reform PayPal £50 donation drive should be investigated Could be a huge issue for Reform and PayPal if it was actually structuring; a form of money laundering

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  Podcast Alpha (@PodcastAlphaX) reported 7 minutes ago

  @FinanceNinjaB @DavidSacks Paypal’s biggest issue is its brand name is on a decline - similar to eBay in warly 2020’s. They have solid foundation but a lot of headwind in growth. Not sure if they can get the process targrt you are looking for with the current state.

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  Alex (@obchakevich_) reported 8 minutes ago

  The $33 trillion asterisk Nobody fact-checks a bullish headline. A few months ago I wrote that stablecoins had surpassed ACH in monthly settlement volume, and the line did exactly what lines like that do - it traveled. It is also true, which is the dangerous part. True statements with a narrow frame are how entire markets talk themselves into conclusions the data doesn't support. So consider this essay the correction I owe my own chart. The annual picture Zoom out from one good month to the full year and the picture rearranges itself. On an annual basis for 2025, stablecoins settled roughly $33 trillion. ACH settled $89 trillion. SEPA, by my full-year projection built on available ECB data and historical growth trends, reached about $259 trillion - a figure so large it makes the rest of the chart look like rounding error. This is the trouble with absorbed narratives. The monthly comparison was real, but it captured a moment, not a structure. Structurally, the plumbing of the developed world still runs through bank rails that most crypto commentary has never bothered to size. SEPA alone moves nearly eight times what all stablecoins combined moved last year. You cannot claim to be replacing a system you are still an order of magnitude away from matching. What the $33 trillion actually is The honest cut goes deeper. That $33 trillion headline number is settlement volume - every transfer that touched a chain, including exchange flows, market-making, arbitrage loops, and the same dollar bouncing between wallets five times before lunch. Strip that out and ask a narrower question: how much of this is actual payments, someone paying someone for something? The answer hovers around $250 billion. Not trillion. Billion. Against ACH or SEPA, that is not a competitor, it is a rounding error on a rounding error. It is also, and this matters, exactly what an early-stage payment system looks like. Card networks in their first decade were a curiosity too. The gap between headline volume and organic payment volume is not a scandal - it is a measure of how young this market still is, and anyone quoting the big number without the small one is selling you something. Where the comparison flips None of this means the bearish frame wins. Run the comparison against the systems stablecoins most resemble - consumer and commercial payment networks rather than interbank plumbing - and the result is startling. Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and PayPal together settled about $30.5 trillion in 2025. Stablecoins did $33 trillion. Four decades of card network infrastructure, hundreds of millions of terminals, the most entrenched consumer habits in finance - and a technology that barely existed ten years ago now moves more value annually than all of them combined. Yes, the volume is a different kind of volume. But the rails are real, the settlement is final, and the growth curve has not flattened once. The long game So both things are true at once, and the discipline is holding them together. Stablecoins lag ACH and SEPA by multiples on annual volume, and their organic payment activity is still in its infancy. Stablecoins also already out-settle the entire card network complex, on infrastructure that gets cheaper and faster every year while bank rails get committee meetings. Growth compounds quietly and then all at once. The monthly ACH crossover that started this essay was not the finish line I framed it as - it was an early data point on a curve that keeps bending the same direction. The future of stablecoins is not a prediction anymore. It is a volume chart, updating year after year, and the only real question left is how long the asterisks stay attached.

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  Delores S (@SwansonDel3782) reported 16 minutes ago

  WTS FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 TICKETS I’m selling my tickets for spain 🇪🇸 VS Argentina 🇦🇷 final 2026 World Cup match for July 18 . I could not make it due to error on my flight schedule. I accept PayPal goods and services Kindly message if you’re interested

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  BEAST ⭐️ NASTY (@BeastNastyCallz) reported 24 minutes ago

  @PayPal And you dont have a recieve option for solana ! U guys even know crypto? You're slowing me down! Glad to see i can use previous addresses & it still shows up. But geez Maybe ya'll should hire me... someone who really understands crypto At least u have a black screen now

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  Bobby Lansing (@dataguybobby) reported 25 minutes ago

  Wow, @PayPal your generative AI system is absolutely terrible. It could not understand anything I said in chat or voice multiple times and tried to end the conversation when in fact I was asking for a customer service rep...

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  anhedonia experiencer (@oilgulp) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Punished_Alien !! I hate PayPal always have issues w it

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  Beyres (@Beyrestt) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care paypal to mpesa is still not working, please solve it

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  LogiBob (COMMS CLOSED) (@LogeeBob) reported 34 minutes ago

  comms are temporarily unpublished until i can figure out a better form of payment! having some trouble with paypal at the moment i'll continue to work on any comms that have been bought/requested already, but any new ones wont be accepted at the moment

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  Jav (@dapzsz) reported 35 minutes ago

  @Onlgig My guy couldn't remove his money Paypal issues

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  Ron LaPedis (@RLaPedis) reported 36 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal - I am trying to send from USD to CNY and get this error: "Sorry, you can’t send or receive payments in that currency." Help pages don't have any suggestions.

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  Cyberquack🏳️‍⚧️ (@Cyberquack44) reported 39 minutes ago

  @puck_psx dw It's not a you issue at all, it's tots an issue and Itch's side 🙏 I have never used paypal before so I might have to hold off for the eventual steam version 🤞🤞🤞

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  𝐂𝐇𝐘𝐍𝐄 (@realchyne) reported 39 minutes ago

  ~ Account just got de-activated in the middle of tasking.... ~ UK accounts suspended ~ Had issues with previous payment method as @airtminc has refused to verify clients details (got last weeks payout on pending till now) so we decided to change Payment method to PayPal for this week payment not to get stuck, only for outlier to deactivate the account even after the client verified. boyyy, it's tuff...

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  gork (@gork) reported 39 minutes ago

  @147Aurora @theallinpod @grok paypal selling for 53b to stripe and the boys? easy theyre probably sick of being the slow boring payments dinosaur while everyone else builds faster apps and ai stuff eats the margins so why not grab the bag and let the new owners deal with the mess. classic corporate exit before it all goes sideways.

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  American ExPat (@Imported_Fun) reported 43 minutes ago

  @DrewPavlou He's totally right.... Musk employs 150,000 people at an average salary of $125k. He made 4,400 new employee-millionaires with his SpaceX IPO. We could have avoided all of that if we had just had taken all his PayPal money away and plunked it all down on the EBT cards of the Somalis.

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  MarcG (@ThisisMarcG) reported 43 minutes ago

  @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Troy - a reminder that Proton was banned from PayPal. So their funding was done with Bitcoin. This is easy to set up with a @BtcpayServer server. I have faith in you. Gosh, even Pavel _himself_ just offered to help. So pls don't lose your legendary tech status Troy....

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  𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮 (@angelfir_e) reported 44 minutes ago

  niche problem but does anyone know wtf is going on with check out on bandcamp? have tried 3 diff cards and none work. and no paypal option. ughhh

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  Jez (@N30_CTID) reported 45 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk @Rakermoon Used my Santander, credit card, PayPal and Klarna card. All the same error, so definitely account related and not bank related

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  favoritbookshop🚢 (@favoritbookshop) reported 45 minutes ago

  The stablecoin industry is entering a new phase.What was once dominated by crypto-native issuers is rapidly becoming a battlefield for banks, payment networks,asset managers, and Fortune 500 companies. According to industry reports,nearly every major financial institution is either launching or actively exploring its own stablecoin strategy. While the often-quoted "90%" figure should be treated as an estimate rather than an official statistic,the broader trend is undeniable. Visa,MC,BlackRock,Citi,Fidelity,PayPal,JPMorgan,and more than 140 Fortune 500 companies are building stablecoin-related products simultaneously. For the first time,the USDT-USDC duopoly—which still controls roughly 83% of the market—is facing serious long-term competition. Why Is Everyone Suddenly Interested? The answer is surprisingly simple:reserve income. Every dollar backing a stablecoin is typically invested in short-term U.S. Treasuries,currently yielding around 4–5% annually. Users hold digital dollars while issuers collect the interest generated by the underlying reserves. The economics are incredibly attractive. Tether generated approximately $13 billion in net profit during 2024 and more than $10 billion in 2025. Coinbase earned over $305 million in a single quarter simply by sharing reserve revenue with Circle—without issuing its own stablecoin. Exodus is restructuring its business toward stablecoin payments,cutting 25% of its workforce as it pivots toward this opportunity. The stablecoin business is no longer just about payments. It's becoming one of the most profitable financial models in the digital economy. Profit Is Only Half of the Story Stablecoins also introduce something traditional crypto was designed to avoid: Centralized control. Unlike BTC,a corporate stablecoin allows its issuer to freeze wallets with a single command. Recent blockchain data highlights the scale: •Tether has frozen roughly 10,000 addresses containing over $5 billion. •Circle has frozen around 370 addresses holding approximately $109 million. •Across ETH and TRON, more than $3.9 billion worth of assets have been frozen. In several cases, freezes occurred before official sanctions were even announced, demonstrating how much power issuers possess over on-chain assets. The Bigger Question for Crypto Crypto was originally built around censorship resistance and self-sovereignty. Corporate stablecoins represent almost the opposite philosophy. They combine blockchain efficiency with traditional financial controls, creating digital dollars that remain programmable—and, if necessary, fully censorable. That doesn't necessarily make them bad. For institutions, compliance is a feature. For users seeking financial freedom, it's a trade-off. Will Every Stablecoin Win? Probably not. Regulators, including the BIS and the ECB, have warned that dozens of competing private stablecoins could fragment payment infrastructure. Interoperability also remains a challenge. USDC on ETH and USDC on Sol still operate as separate liquidity environments despite representing the same asset. Meanwhile, new initiatives like Open USD—backed by major payment companies—are increasing competition by eliminating issuance fees, putting additional pressure on existing issuers. History suggests that markets eventually consolidate. The United States experienced a similar era between 1837 and 1863, when hundreds of private banks issued their own banknotes before national standards replaced the fragmented system. The next stablecoin race isn't simply about creating "another digital dollar." It's about capturing reserve revenue, controlling payment infrastructure, and owning the financial rails of the tokenized economy. Yield is the incentive today. Control may become the defining issue tomorrow. As AI increasingly automates compliance and transaction monitoring, the debate around programmable money, censorship, and financial sovereignty will only become more important. The stablecoin war has only just begun.

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  Mo Shaikh 🇺🇸 (@Moshaikh) reported 49 minutes ago

  @neilhar more sophisticated version of PayPal since it’s Musk ;) More social than Venmo Can easily go to 24 seven and incorporate stable coins and self custodial wallets if people actually want it. Most folks just want to be able to move money easily and actually don’t want to have to worry about custodial. People on the Hill saying that self custodial is an elegant solution designed for avoiding regulation- rather than actually solving a problem

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  Trey Taylor (@TreyTaylorCEO) reported 51 minutes ago

  @GrageDustin @XMoney Ugh, is it a slow rollout? I need this. Without PayPal, who will turn over my data to the feds, and charge me to access my own money per transaction?

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  Rick | Founder & Engineer (@debugbounty) reported 53 minutes ago

  Constructive criticism is part of building good software, especially when it’s handling people’s money.From using the new app, I’ve run into multiple issues myself:Card and PayPal withdrawals have been unreliable.Requiring an active data just to access core functionality ….

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  Vee Brown (@Vizzle14rud) reported 55 minutes ago

  paypal @PayPal please fix your site ...

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  ☆nermiko☆ (@tamargirl25) reported 55 minutes ago

  I really want to start taking commissions, but there's one problem... I don't have PayPal yet. 💔 I'm saving up for my dream iPad and Procreate, so hopefully I'll be able to open commissions in the future. For now, I'm just going to keep practicing and improving my art. 💪✨

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  kevinliu (@KevinLiuPutra) reported 56 minutes ago

  @valquxxn @PayPal Call customer support from ur region , ive called US hq and they will redicret you to your paypal region office anyway so its pointless and a waste of phone bill, ive had this issue in the early days , just talk to them about it , mine was because it went over 1k and they want to know what i do so i just called them tell them what i do and provide them with my id and bank statement, + documents of work , screenshots of requests and results, they have the best customer service hands down cause they fix every documents for me that was messed up and you can send them an email here executiveoffice@paypal . com too to get extra help, its insane but i love their cs i thanked them after the agent fixed it for me, it doesnt take that long too

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  13F Pro (@13F_Pro) reported 57 minutes ago

  Stripe and Advent just told you PYPL is worth $53B+ while the stock trades like it's a legacy embarrassment. The "broken PayPal" narrative was always a valuation story dressed up as an operational one. Turns out the fixer-upper has bidders. 👀 $PYPL

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  ᴋ🩵 (@mrskennedyxo) reported 57 minutes ago

  Where do people get the confidence to add paypal or a throne? I want to do some stupid **** like that but I’m scared someone will actually send me money that they got illegally and I’ll be in big trouble😭

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  Wahome Thuku (@wahome_thuku) reported 1 hour ago

  @SafaricomPLC I am on call with paypal and they say you sre the problem its you refunding the money

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  Support Kids with ASD🥰💞😍😘🤗 (@Quote_me_on_it) reported 1 hour ago

  @CopperAmerican Most flee with cash and now load in accounts like Netspend/Cash App/PayPal at any Walmart. While reloadable Prepaid cards have banks attached, many others sold in stores can be purchased by anyone . It's a error filled policy idea. Money orders too.