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 (46%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Cagnes-sur-Mer	Website Down	4 hours ago
Sherman	Sign in	11 hours ago
Reims	Sign in	23 hours ago
Villepinte	Sign in	1 day ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	2 days ago
Lynden	Website Down	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Waldek Mastykarz (@waldekm) reported 2 minutes ago

  PayPal integration is critical: payments failing means revenue lost. But PayPal's sandbox mostly covers happy paths. How do you test what happens when things go wrong? This Dev Proxy preset injects random PayPal API errors into your requests. The error responses are modeled after PayPal's official Postman collection, so they match what you'd see in production. Get started in 2 commands: devproxy config get paypal-random-errors devproxy Now your PayPal API calls randomly fail with realistic errors: authentication failures, invalid requests, resource not found, server errors. Each one uses PayPal's actual error structure, so your parsing code gets exercised with real-world formats. The randomness is the point. You're testing what happens when errors land where your code doesn't expect them. A payment intent fails mid-checkout, a refund request gets a 500, a customer update returns a 404. Run your checkout flow against this preset and watch what happens. Does your UI show a useful message? Does your backend retry or give up? Does your logging capture enough detail to debug later? Grab the preset and find the gaps in your error handling before a real payment fails. When did you last test your PayPal error handling?

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  RickO'Sneek (@RickoSneek) reported 3 minutes ago

  @PramilaJayapal PayPal, I have owned guns for 60 years. They have never harmed one person. So, where is the problem?

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  Kintak (@Kintakus) reported 9 minutes ago

  @memeticsisyphus I will out myself as a crypto bro momentarily. It's a bit of wishful thinking and meme magic based on the fact that we all know "real" money is fake and gay. The dollar was devalued many times over in the last few decades, and some people want a solution. For Bitcoin (and there are a LOT of crypto with different value propositions), the comparison to "digital gold" is common, but it's more of a return to the origin of money: It's a digital IOU. If we all agree to accept each other's digital IOU, then it's indistinguishable from money. Bitcoin has the added benefit (arguably) of effectively being uncontrollable, or at least difficult to control (decentralization). You don't need a bank or payment processor or any other middlemen, you can just give it to people. Many people have no problem with middlemen, society works quite well with them and they can be a safety net, but if you've ever run afoul of something like PayPal and had all the assets they were managing FOR you frozen or stolen, you start thinking "we need to get rid of these people". What turns a lot of people off of crypto, just as many or more as are turned on by it, is the speculative nature. This is just the nature of the financial beast. Should Bitcoin ever establish an actual foothold in "the real world", its value fluctuations would become substantially more limited.

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  Cooper (@kapchanga12) reported 14 minutes ago

  @MrKimmKE These sites are legit but slow. $5.47 from 8 surveys means ∼$0.68 per survey. Most people make $20-$50/month max if they’re active daily. Payout is usually via PayPal, PayPal, or gift cards once you hit $5-$10 minimum.

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  Alex Johnson (@AlexH_Johnson) reported 19 minutes ago

  Ramp just raised $750M at a $44B valuation, which is roughly 44x their current revenue. I'm impressed by the level of conviction Ramp has been able to instill in the investors that have poured roughly $3B into the company since 2019, including, most recently, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Personally, I'm not sure I get it. I admire Ramp. It's a super smart company that has a genuinely strong handle on AI and is growing and shipping product extremely fast, but $44B? That's more than PayPal, which currently has a market cap of $38B on $32B in revenue. "Fine," you might say. "PayPal is an absolute mess. Ramp should be worth more than it." OK, what about Fifth Third? It has almost $300B in assets and generated $9B in revenue last year (good for $2.5B in profit). Its market cap is currently the same as Ramp's valuation. "Yes," you acknowledge. "Fifth Third is a better-run company than PayPal, but it's a bank. It's slow. Looking forward, its growth trajectory is very modest. Ramp's growth potential makes it a much better bet." So, what about Affirm? Affirm is just as smart as Ramp. It has just as strong a handle on AI as Ramp. It's profitable and on track to generate more than $4B in revenue this year, which would be a 33% increase year-over-year. Affirm's market cap is currently $22B, half of what Ramp was just valued at. That just doesn't seem correct. Something is being mispriced and my hunch is that it's Ramp. But we won't know that until it goes public, if it ever does.

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  jamie⁷ saw bts in borahaegas (@lowl1f3_92) reported 22 minutes ago

  Hi guys. I still really do need to sell my floor seat ticket for LA day 2. I'm selling it for face value of $653. I am not working at this time and will no longer be able to attend. Please let me know if you're interested. I am willing to video call and prefer to use PayPal pls.

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  Alexandre Lores 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇨🇺 (@alexandre_lores) reported 22 minutes ago

  Onboarding new tech is best dome seamlessly - as few actions as possible, and fewer "decisions". Same goes for RWAs, tokenization, Web 3.0, whatever words we use. "Click here for a 50% discount on your remittance fee with our new high-speed program." One-click. As a parallel, let's look at mobile APIs. 50% of the people using them probably never heard the term. 99% of users don't even have a basic technical understanding of what coding language to use for an efficient secure application programming interfaces. That doesn't stop an estimated 4-6 million people from using mobile APIs regularly. (Sign in with Google/Apple, Pay with PayPal)

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  ᴄʀʏᴘᴛɪᴅᴅ_ (@cryptidd_) reported 27 minutes ago

  @echoalexander_ No literally—I'm having my own issue with PayPal right now (not for the same reasons) and they're withholding about 2.3k from me that they froze my account over 🥲 Working on seeing if I can get it resolved, but it just feels ridiculous that they can (apparently) just do that.

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  SokoAnalyst (@SokoAnalyst) reported 28 minutes ago

  Enrique Lores, this is your test as PayPal CEO. Do not inherit a broken global system and polish it with corporate language. Fix it. Africa is not asking for favours. Africa is demanding fair access to its own money.

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  Altern015 @cms OPEN ! check pin (@Altern015) reported 29 minutes ago

  past week really have a lot happen to me after paypal stuff ><''''' so I'm very sorry for my inactive, I want to rest a bit while still managing my paypal and problem

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  Goddess Azul (@BluPrincess07) reported 31 minutes ago

  Ok for the cheap seats in the back …….. No telegram No PayPal My method men that have it ,have no problem sending cash cards or in my #throne

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  Vasanth Shelby ☀️ Lax Stan (@Vasanth_Shelby) reported 32 minutes ago

  @PayPal im unable to to transactions facing issues🥲 help please

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  Saint John: Evernode 1:1 Freedom (@AverageJohnEVR) reported 32 minutes ago

  The utility of bitcoin has always, to me, been to force the governments of the world to give the humanity what they deserve, self-sovereignty. Bitcoin cured many ills in the world by bringing us all together and giving us all a clear view of how the traditional banking tyrannists are abusing media and other platforms to brainwash the population into accepting that they have no place to store their productivity for future needs. Bitcoin broke us free from traditional finance slavery, no more do we have to put in 10 times more value than we get back, no more are we forced to get down on our knees and beg our bankers to let us use our own money, no more are we locked to monetary policies inflating our savings away, no more do we need to worry about reversed transactions… And trust me, reversed transactions were one of the biggest reasons bitcoin grew big in the first place. Once upon a time we were making business with each other through paypal and skrill, and it was not an uncommon thing to get our funds frozen and stolen. It was not an uncommon thing to get screwed over by creditcard hijackers and other conartists. Bitcoin saved us from this aswell. But it hasn’t been easy… Today we have valuable assets on blockchains. But it was a bloody battle to reach this point. Me and my friends used to count how many fiat bank accounts we were frozen at. We used to count how many (faulty) police filings for money laundering we had against us… The onboarding of retail during the bitcoincore days were a challenge, we hung out on irc and we educated each other on lanparties… We counted heads, every single new face was a reason to celebrate, and the statistics of the bitcointalk forums were closely followed. I am one of few that managed to stay out of trouble, I almost got sent to jail for money laundering but I prevailed my case. A couple of friends have died along the way and a few others have fled to europe. It truly hasn’t been easy. Today, everything we bled for is being sucked up by scamcoins and VCs… The cryptocurrency industry is solely being used to fundraise venture capitalists and other scammers. Most of the new coins we see are indirectly created by VCs, they are followed by a fancy website and a big exchange listing that generates a pump and a VC dump. After that, all the people that bought the pump are forced to slave and promote their shitcoin to their friends and family, and the only winners are the VC’s. VC’s are here to eat our pie, they always leave with more money than they join in with. So do scammers and meme coiners. The last remaining thing I will do before I die or before I vanish into the shadows is to bless the world with decentralized hosting. I welcome you all to be a part of that, if you still believe in the fundamentals of crypto -Empowering humanity. Evernode is the name of the last project we will ever see in our lifetimes where retail can buy in at the bottom and enjoy the ride for an eternity. It has a low supply in combination with a low price, in combination with a low inflation rate, in combination with predictable halvings. The magic of this project is that it is actually useful, it actually solves things, it actually is valuable, and best of all it is based on a clean capitalistic free market where the invisible hand solves all the obstacles. The network consist of nodes, and each node operator is getting rewarded in EVRs. To get rewarded they have to offer a certain amount of computing power (minimum 4 vcpu, 8gb ram and like 250 gb ssd). The reward exist to incentivize node operators to run the network. But it’s not just about running a network, it’s much more. Each node have ”instances”, and these instances can be rented by network users. When you rent an instance you can use it for whatever you need it for. You can run a website, you can run a bitcoin RPC, you can create a decentralized application for whatever you want, or simply use it to execute orders based on inputs. Example of decentralized hosting: If I want to run a decentralized website that nobody would ever be able to take down, I would host my website on evernode and combine it with a nomadic smart contract and a dynamic DNS. This would mean that my website is moving from node to node, forever, of course until I or random donators stop paying evr for it. While moving from node to node, I make sure the website sends a signal to a dynamicDNS provider, that way I can keep pointing my A record for my domain.tld to the newest node. Of course, I could also just boot up the website on multiple nodes and use a round robin approach, but never the less, since I can decide what countries and what nodes to run my website on, it’s untouchable. The value of this network is incredible, and we will need it to fight the risk of centralized exchanges getting a pure ********** over the markets, this is where the smart contracts get in. Evernode smart contracts: The network got thousands of nodes, if you rent 5 nodes that are independent of eachother, and you force these nodes to shake hand before they execute an order… Then that gives us smart contracts for everything, and the order can be executed based on anything. On evernode instances you can install bitcoin nodes, and you can then send a bitcoin transaction when your instances shake hand about something. What they shake hand about is up to you or the developer to decide. It could be based on the temperature today or based on a webshop sending a payment call. The key here is that we get automated bitcoin transactions on our own terms! Sophisticated programmability for bitcoin has been solved this way. We can create our own decentralized bitcoin exchanges with this methodology. We can price match peer to peer traders with eachother directly on a trading platform, we can even use cexes and price match to cexes and other on/off ramps. This way we can manage to battle the centralized exchange control over our funds (It’s getting really bad and really concentrated, this is a serious problem.)

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  PaperImperium (@ImperiumPaper) reported 32 minutes ago

  One of the most perplexing things about stablecoins is that pretty much only Tether consistently makes money, followed by MakerDAO/Sky (until recent years). Others seem to trend towards losses (Circle is a great example). Why is this perplexing? Because the world has birthed thousands of stablecoins with many, many different design architectures: * Bank deposits (CDP) * Banknotes (CDP or fully reserved) * Non-redeemable notes (algorithmic) * Metallic tokens (fiduciary or full-bodied) * Scrip (redeemable in-kind) * Central bank notes (algorithmic, fiduciary, or CDP) Most of these were successful because they alleviated money shortages* or enjoyed government monopoly. But when it comes to fully reserved (that is, 100% of the backing assets are highly liquid) private currencies, there really are very few examples of success. You could argue the Bank of Amsterdam and Venetian Banco di Rialto are examples, but they made their money mostly as custodians and other money services. Also, both are 400+ years in the past, which is a long way to reach for an example of success. So how did full-reserve standard become the model for stablecoins? USDC isn’t a big money maker, but at least it has enormous scale. USDG is winding down. GUSD, BUSD, USDP aren’t examples of winners. FDUSD also in retreat. And PayPal and Ripple throw vast sums of money at incentives. Notably, GENIUS when it comes into force prohibits issuers tying their users to buying other services from them, which is how they probably need to make money. Where full-reserve does seem to find PMF in the modern world is as a simple store of value - money market funds. The trouble is they are mostly short-term parking places AND hold assets that are disallowed under many emerging stablecoin regulatory regimes (e.g. commercial paper and certificates of deposit) So… how did it become consensus that a safe and sound stablecoin must be more constrained than a money market fund, and how did it become consensus that this model would be a good business when Circle struggles even with a $75b float? Given that this has been the hands-down, undisputed killer use case for crypto, it feels strange that more people don’t try to trace the steps of how we got to this consensus. * I have long been on record that Tether’s success is less to do with crypto per se than in alleviating USD shortages in venues with few or no dollars (like blockchains and non-US countries)

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  Vaida (@valliexie3) reported 33 minutes ago

  @mofumwiru Honestly it’s valid, PayPal has ****** me more times than I can count 😭 it’s genuinely unreliable I don’t know how it’s like the oldest money sending platform and still has so many problems

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  Bunkei (@AlphaISMRadio) reported 33 minutes ago

  @katejennz @TylorHepnerArt I did earlier, but now I must force the issue. I'm so sorry ... but ... you wouldn't happen to know Tylor's PayPal would you???

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  Harry 🇬🇧 (@Harry20211959) reported 34 minutes ago

  I can assure you, myself and co-conspirators have far better things to do with our time than spend hours chasing these Ugandan scammers up hill and down Dale across several social media platforms, but it’s important we do, and will continue to do so.. This one thinks he is being clever, we have been chasing him and exposing him for over two years, he claims his name is Derek, it’s not it’s ‘Alex’ Derek is his middle name, he is one of the daddies of them all…he used to run fake orphanages in 2016 onwards before he moved onto the more lucrative fake dog shelters in 2022. @gashomuShelter He is a liar, a fraudster, a scammer and a shameless charlatan.. I have posted enough evidence on him to sink a battleship, yes his cash flow from X has taken a huge hit, but he will not stop while fools are still foolish enough to send him money.. 👍 By the way, he has a U.K. accomplice to make him appear as legitimate, well he’s not. @Biffo_T_Bear I do know one particular lady who was conned by them for two years has taken out a PayPal fraud investigation to get her money back..

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  Jujutsu.Ke (@jujutsuKenya) reported 42 minutes ago

  @importsbyjustus @grincuckatoo Which payment did you use, Paypal, VISA/Mastercard or Mpesa virtual card?, I’ve been having issues with the payment for three weeks now

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  CEDRIC ABDALLAH (@Cedric_SNR) reported 42 minutes ago

  @SokoAnalyst The problem is legal obstructions, not alternative platforms or applications. PayPal and M-PESA enjoy the legal monopoly.

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  bambii ⋆｡˚☽˚｡⋆ (@bambiiplays) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Jasonreal223 @DevonLewis67 omg! this is so scummy, how dare they try to make money off of your personal situation? i hope paypal is able to refund me, i’ll be contacting them about my refund and taking their link down. as for you and your family, i hope your wife’s step brother is stable and doing okay!

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  ⊹.⋆₊˚ ꕤ ˚₊‧. ݁⊹ (@sweetdreamergu) reported 43 minutes ago

  my visa card is not working on the mogstation at all i had to but crysta with paypal to ******* buy a $6 glam 🥲

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  KITE AI (@GoKiteAI) reported 45 minutes ago

  The hardest part of agentic commerce isn't the payment. It's the trust. At Consensus in Miami, our VP & Head of BD @lei_lei0904 joined @csuitepodcast to break down what it actually takes to let AI agents transact safely. ▷ Agentic commerce is already here: x402 has crossed 100M transactions, and the space went from ~20 companies in 2024 to 500+ today, with Google, Stripe, PayPal, Amazon and Shopify all moving in. ▷ Trust can't be an afterthought: compliance and security have to be built in from day one, at the infrastructure level. That's what Agent Passport does, spend within the limits you set, with a kill switch you control. ▷ Payments have to move at machine speed: agent transactions are often API calls worth cents, where traditional rails charging 3% simply break. Building the trust layer for the agent economy. 🪁

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  Rumeiria 🌸 Fae Dragon (@Rumeiria) reported 52 minutes ago

  @BatLycusx oof i see. but from my understanding most people use paypal where charging back isn't a big issue (i cant use pp so im not sure!) thankfully i was only ever scammed on etsy every artist i have commed on vgen so far has been lovely and trustworthy

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  StatusOnce (@StatusOnce) reported 53 minutes ago

  ISSUE UPDATE: We are still working with PayPal to resolve the paid bookings issue causing "Unable to Complete Booking - Temporary Connection Error." As a workaround, please keep payment collection disabled on affected Event Types to avoid disruptions. More updates to follow.

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  I'm not dead, I'm only sleeping! 🇬🇧 (@Y2Kev) reported 53 minutes ago

  2) off the top, taking your $5 down to $4.75. They then take $1 as a @PayPal processing fee, something I have NEVER seen in any of these kinds of apps, this takes your payment to $3.75 which they then exchange from USD to the currency you use, mine was GBP. That left me with...

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  jbsx feels radical judges should be arrested (@jbs_with_a_kiss) reported 54 minutes ago

  @codeofvets @PayPal No problem. Went right through. Hope they find the fraudster hoping to grift off you, but adding the 2026 at the end was a good move.

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  Donald J. Gorbachev (@donaldgorbachev) reported 55 minutes ago

  Thiel started a Roth IRA with a contribution of less than $2,000 in 1999  and paid $0.001 per share of PayPal and bought 1.7 million shares — a large stake for just $1,700 , then let it ride inside the tax shelter until it held $5 billion, spread across 96 subaccounts, by 2019 , all of it withdrawable tax-free at 59½. That’s the most valuable Roth IRA in America. And that — that — is the dark lord’s masterstroke. Sit with it. The antichrist cannot have the most expensive Roth IRA. It is a category error. You are supposed to be the inhuman thing that answers to no one, the man who read Girard and decided to be the scapegoat machine, and your actual signature move is the one every community-college finance professor scrawls on the whiteboard and calls genius: max the Roth, buy early, never sell, die untaxed. He did the thing in the personal-finance subreddit. The secret is that there’s no secret.  The prince of darkness ran the exact play a dentist in Tulsa runs, just with founder shares and a straight face. The kitchen had him slotted for the abyss and he turned in a tax-optimized retirement account at 59-and-a-half. Genuinely disappointed. You had the whole apocalypse queued up, Peter, and you botched it on the 401k. Some Beast — diversified, sheltered, and patiently waiting for the penalty-free withdrawal window.

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  Kit 🩸COMMS CLOSED (@Kittieeepaw) reported 57 minutes ago

  @snowIeopards HI ESPER this situation is really awful and I’m sorry you’re going through this :( I know we havent talked or hung out in a very long time but I’d be willing to run your th for you!! Since I’m 18 now I have both paypal and cashapp so it wouldn’t be a problem

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  ThirdPhase (@Thx0304) reported 58 minutes ago

  @JayMckay11 @InTheAssembly same page; google pay/apple pay 1 click.. paypal: login here, click here,…😴💤

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  Jimxluv42⁷ seeing bts in 2027 (@BhavyaTyag54282) reported 60 minutes ago

  @bts_jungheosoke I understand this but paypal meh kya problem ho raha