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
Milan	Sign in	22 hours ago
Hamburg	Errors	2 days ago
Paris	Errors	3 days ago
Ciboure	Sign in	3 days ago
Forbach	Errors	3 days ago
Brussels	Errors	5 days ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  figueira (@cfigueiras99) reported 10 minutes ago

  @PhantomStays And wouldn’t that ownership structure create issues with Shopify Payments, PayPal, etc., or is the ownership of the US LLC completely irrelevant?

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  Pella Babylon (@pellaeschate) reported 11 minutes ago

  @fewchuree @Safaricom_Care Even transfer from mpesa to Paypal is not working, this guy's need to get serious

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  Merchant Risk Desk (@MerchantRiskDsk) reported 16 minutes ago

  @supawatkaewma One dispute triggering full account closure even with evidence submitted shows the real risk of routing everything through a single processor's Connect layer, they own that decision entirely. Moving to whop just shifts you to a different aggregator with a similar structural risk, payout holds tied to internal reviews, no real appeal path. The more durable fix is decoupling your payment acceptance from any single platform's risk call. PaymentKit lets you run Stripe, PayPal and others in parallel with your own token vault, so one processor's dispute policy cannot end your ability to pay clients.

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  World Monitoring Center (@WMC_WORLD) reported 19 minutes ago

  Bill Gates daughter runs a shopping app that secretly took credit for sales it never made. Here's what happened: When you buy something online after clicking a link from a website or app, that website or app gets a small cut of the sale from the store, as a thank you for sending you there. It only gets that money if it actually sent you there. Phia is a shopping app made by Phoebe Gates, daughter of Bill Gates, and her co-founder Sophia Kianni. It tells you where to find the cheapest price and best discount codes. It has 1.2 million downloads in the last year and raised $43.5 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and celebrities like Sydney Sweeney, Khloe Kardashian, and Hailey Bieber. Bloomberg tested the app along with a researcher named Ben Edelman and a rival app called Capital One Shopping. They checked more than 50 shopping websites, including #Walmart, #Nike, and #Zara. Here is what they found. When someone was about to finish buying something, Phia's app secretly opened a hidden browser tab in the background, without the person clicking anything or asking for it. That hidden tab quietly told the store "this sale came from Phia," then closed itself within seconds. Most people never saw it happen. This means Phia could take the money back reward even if a person found the item completely on their own, or even if they clicked a link from a totally different website first. In one test, someone clicked a deal link from a Wirecutter article to buy something on Nordstrom. Phia's hidden tab quietly swapped in its own code and took the reward meant for Wirecutter instead. This trick is called cookie stuffing. It is against the rules of every major store and shopping network involved, including Walmart, eBay, and a platform called Impact(.)com. Impact(.)com has already suspended Phia's account and is now checking Phia's past sales to see how many were affected. Phia says this was a mistake in their code from December, and they fixed it within a day of being told about it. This is not Phia's first problem. Back in November, researchers found an older version of the app was secretly copying entire webpages a person visited, including bank statements and private emails, and sending that data to Phia's servers. The company said it was only trying to figure out which websites were shopping sites, and it has since changed the app to stop doing that. A similar accusation happened to PayPal's Honey app in 2024, and PayPal is still dealing with a lawsuit over it today. Phia is now facing the exact same kind of accusation, in just its first year.

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  Lea Verou, PhD (@LeaVerou) reported 26 minutes ago

  @chesscomsupport I'm trying to buy a Friends & Family subscription, but the payment page is buggy and rejects every single payment method. I have tried entering credit card details directly, using Apple Pay, using Google Pay, and PayPal. Most of them fail after I try to pay, showing "Your transaction failed. Please check your card details and try again.” Looking at the browser developer tools shows an HTTP 422 error. PayPal fails before it even starts with an "Error: Expected an subscription id to be passed to createSubscription" in the developer console. Since the Friends and Family subscription has a separate payment page, I suspect only that page is broken. I had no problem signing up for a free trial through Apple on my phone but I know that the Friends & Family subscription has to be purchased from the website.

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  vextajun | comms open (@vextajun) reported 27 minutes ago

  having experienced a gazillion problems with paypal im no longer listing it as my main transaction, i only accept through wise now 😔😔😔😔 i hope it doesnt make my comms sales plummet by 100% bc ik paypal is more widely used than wise 😭

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  Dark Intention (@MidniteSnack42) reported 30 minutes ago

  @dzygaspaw @Wendehopes ok just side question. You’re not saying there is an issue with the PayPal system being compromised or something? Is that right? It’s just more of a you guys don’t wanna deal with them.

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  IcyPryncess (@IcyPryncess) reported 30 minutes ago

  This is ALL OFFLINE when Jay first DMd me about it. July 6th! Was Sunday! I UPDATED him about what happened. I told people that I felt comfortable if the donations were in a safe place IN A BANK which is NORMAL FOR PPL TO HAVE!! As I don’t use PAYPAL doesn’t mean I DONT HAVE ONE?!?!? I USED IT because Jay asked me if I HAD one. How can you say you would wait for the refund which I’m trying to do, then not even wait to slander me while I’m trying to wait for the refund on business days?!!? MIND YOU SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FOR BANKS ARE NOT CONSIDERED BUSINESS DAYS!! You listened to what your community was saying and you succumbed to what they were saying in your ear. I said it got hacked because I THOUGHT that’s what happened I DID NOT KNOW THE FULL STORY BECAUSE I WASN’T THERE!!?!?? Yes my bf made a terrible judgement in opening his bank account and handing his phone to a stranger YES this is SO SO VERY STUPID TO DO!!! But he made a terrible terrible decision! You can call him names all you want but to act like this just “doesn’t happen to anyone” is so naive when you feel like you can see the good in people and trying to help some random person?!!!! You might say “oh I wouldn’t help a random person” but that’s just YOU! Thousands of ppl including myself would help someone in need?!! It just unfortunately backfired in our faces

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  Hanii || VGen Open (@thisainthani) reported 31 minutes ago

  @ru_sae Congrats! But, please don’t leave your money on PayPal. It’s too risky specially with the issues some users are currently experiencing rn. 🥲

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  SP (@0xSpresearch) reported 31 minutes ago

  I bet your mom has never used a crypto app. Mine hasn’t either. But she already uses: WhatsApp✅ Banking apps✅ GPay✅ PayPal✅ So the problem isn't that moms can't use financial apps. Crypto apps simply weren’t designed for them. Now imagine you work thousands of miles away and send money home every month. An app helps you send it. Your mom receives it. And the app’s job is done. But your family’s financial needs aren’t. What if the same app stayed useful after the money arrived? That’s the startup: a financial home for families living across borders. Remittance is just the beginning. Here’s what @SumiroStudio should build on Solana 🧵👇

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  TheDungeonDelver (@A_DungeonDelver) reported 31 minutes ago

  @RaltsAuthor You should. You don't know me except here and our occasional communication on YouTube, but I had a friend, a dear, wonderful friend whom I miss every day. His name was Eric and he was one of the programmers of Mechwarrior 2 from Activision back in the 1990s. Before GoFundMe, before anything much other than PayPal was a going concern, when I heard about his health problems - before I even really got to know him - I wanted to help. Because I'd gotten tons of fun out of MW2, and he seemed like a decent guy. He was working on a 3d terrain generator, procedural that is, that was based on what he'd done with 3d graphics in MW2 and at that time you had to sell something to get money on PayPal so we set up a donationware download point and put a PayPal button on it. It helped he and his wife get through a drought until SSDI kicked in. Open the GoFundMe. It's not begging; there's people who care about you, bet.

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  Slick Products (@slicklatex) reported 32 minutes ago

  Apologies if you've had trouble placing an order via PayPal the last few days - their wonderfully buggy WooCommerce plugin has once again broken my shop so is now disabled... card payments (or BACS) for now! 👀

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  Arjun Aditya (@arjunaditya_) reported 32 minutes ago

  @vidit_odedra 🤷it depends on the company’s foreign reserves, they can’t just provide you more rupees - if they do this - they’ll have a problem but they end up borrowing inr @AskPayPal pls correct me if im wrong

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  Noradin | Thumbnail designer (@justnoradin) reported 33 minutes ago

  @gfxverma @PayPal @AskPayPal Me too, brother. I had the same problem, but they didn’t give me any reason. When I contacted support and asked them, they said they didn’t know the reason either. 🥲

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  Poppavelli 🌊 (@12k_poppa) reported 33 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal why can’t we track pkgs we checked out with yall , gotta fix that

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  50/50innertainment (@5050RecordLabel) reported 35 minutes ago

  Attention those having problems with Restrictions & payouts & need solutions beyond Facebook's support team! 1. Did you know that you can contact the Consumer Federal Public Bureau and they will help you. If Meta claims they issued a payout to your bank, PayPal, or Stripe, but the funds are frozen, missing, or rejected, file a complaint against the payment company or bank via the CFPB Complaint Portal. 2. If Meta is completely refusing to calculate, acknowledge, or clear your monetization earnings, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is the correct federal regulator. The FTC monitors deceptive business practices, breach of digital merchant contracts, and unfair treatment of independent creators. Take Action: Submit a formal business fraud report at the official FTC Report Fraud Portal 3. State Attorney General: File a report with your state's Attorney General Consumer Protection Division. State AGs have dedicated teams that routinely force tech companies to assign real humans to investigate local creator complaints. 4. Better Business Bureau (BBB): File an official complaint on the BBB Meta Platforms Profile. Meta maintains an active team on the BBB to resolve issues and protect their corporate rating, often resulting in direct contact

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  Jenna bliss (@Jennabliss333) reported 35 minutes ago

  @Jayecane and let me guess you want to send it as a check cause your cash app, venmo and PayPal got shut down. or you want to send it cash up buy it costs a little bit on our end before you can send anything.

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  Linda Khumbanyiwa (@LynneKayennestu) reported 39 minutes ago

  How did I send a PayPal payment to the wrong account? not like me at all, my spirit doesn’t allow me to make cowboy errors but I ignored my gut.I went against my intuition.This is a reminder that it’s not just about listening to your intuition but actually acting on it🙏🌸🌸

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  ⋆.𐙚 ̊ ana ✩˙⋆♛ (@fixedonateez) reported 41 minutes ago

  paypal fix my pay in 4 challenge 💔💔

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  PolyBender (@p0lybender) reported 44 minutes ago

  ELON MUSK’S #1 REGRET: HE TOOK 70 SECONDS TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION He reflected on his carrer and revealed the biggest mistake he’s made across his companies, including his first startup and PayPal. The error? Prioritizing raw talent over personality. Musk admitted he made this mistake multiple times, wrongly believing that "it's just about the brain". He eventually realized that while intelligence is important, it actually matters significantly whether a person has a good heart.

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  SteelOnyx (@SteelOnyx720) reported 45 minutes ago

  @ballaakeeeee @SkyAsassino the unfortunate thing is that they taught kids in the discord server how to make money on cashapp and paypal to convert to crypto in order to buy. this site is actually where the entire issue i mentioned is isolated its not a widespread thing but they absolutely sell to kids...

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  🔆 (@Investorsam00) reported 45 minutes ago

  @MULLER100cpt @Blac_nels Abeg when you Dey say PayPal get issues , wetin be the main problem??

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  Jay_Aria 🦈☢️ (@JayAriavt) reported 47 minutes ago

  @parasolpon Not to mention vgen captures the same information... If your paypal has YOUR NAME on it you can see that name. It can capture ur email and even ur phone. Ive seen it before if anything its a security issue with paypal half the time... :/

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  RXB LeoMSM_ (@LeoMSM_) reported 47 minutes ago

  @anniepinkk5 And talk **** abt anything u can ur just mad ur banned shes never scammed she has slow payouts because she has to pay out hundreds of people and paypal doesnt pyhsically let her pay faster 😭 now if people grief her while shes 1 of the few reasons this community still exists

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  KIRA (Field Mutt) (@KiraMuttaro) reported 51 minutes ago

  @RossoVermil No, Kodiak says he canceled payments, PayPal returned the money due to StarCat’s account issues, and he needed it after losing his job. Without actual donation logs or proof it was kept for profit, and Kiwi made the call not him it’s not the smoking gun you’re making it.

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  lia⁷ is seeing bts in munich♡ (@itsapobangpo) reported 52 minutes ago

  i couldnt get the zip hoodie AGAIN bc of paypal not working i hate it here

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  Freyas Fantasy (Commissions Open) (@FreyasFantasys) reported 52 minutes ago

  @saltskully776 My business is banned from Freyas fantasys tiktok - Banned - to many strikes. 70,000 subscribers lost Freyas Fantasys 2 tiktok - shadow banned, then hackers, then restored but never worked. Freyas Fantasys 3 tiktok - Banned - 15 strikes in 1 night. Freyas Fantasys 4 tiktok - Banned - to many strikes Freyas Fantasys 5 tiktok - made using a vpn during the shut down. Videos posted are not promoted for some reason. 5 views in 10 months. Rednote - Banned. Its chinese tiktok. Of course im banned there. After 1 video. Wise banking- banned before i could even use it. I added money and got a ban message. Stripe banking - banned for being associated with nsfw content Cashapp - banned for illegal gambling activity? Pornhub - banned for…. I duno. It wasnt ***** enough? Youtube - banned. I think someone reported my content over and over. 45,000 subscribers lost. Gumroad - banned for being a potential risk Onlyfans - banned for not showing my face Etsy - got a cease and desist from crunchyroll for my first piece. Rumble - banned for literally being gay. Probably. Idk. the site is gross. Dont go there. Instagram1 - banned for Child ****, or so they claim. 13,000 subscribers lost. Instagram 2-6 banned for being related with first account Discord - Child ****. Insta put me on a list, and other websites check and preemptively ban Cgtrader - they just auto ban all lewd content. Paypal - banned for being associated with nsfw stuff. Venmo - banned when paypal was banned. Paypal personal - just banned. No relation to anything. Just got banned the same day. Discord 2 - banned for ban evasion when i checked the status of my appeal on the first account. its almost like i have to fight all these companys just to have a business in america.

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  The Private Ledger (@PreIPOMedia) reported 54 minutes ago

  I’ve written about 8 private companies. If you only look at the companies themselves, you are missing half the story. These are the companies that they most affect in the public market. Substack —> New York Times. I used to get articles sent to me from NYT and WSJ. Now I get articles from Substack. Legacy media is losing. Stripe —> PayPal. PayPal is now down 90% from its all time high mostly due to Stripe’s dominance. To understand PayPal’s downfall, understand Stripe. Anthropic —> Microsoft, Google. OpenAI was briefly Microsoft’s biggest strength. Now it seems like a weakness. Anthropic broke up OpenAI dominance and is stopping Google from dominating another field. ByteDance —> Meta. The company behind TikTok is Meta’s most direct competition. The war for attention is real. Polymarket —> DraftKings Piece is focused on ethical concerns mostly, retail is moving to prediction markets. SpaceX —> Boeing, RocketLab. SpaceX dominates launch and the industry as a whole, that being said, perhaps a rising tide raises all boats. Anduril —> Lockhead Martin, Palantir. Rewriting the defense tech playbook, shows the importance of defense software. Isomorphic Labs —> Eli Lilly, Novartis. A more speculative play but one that can huge dividends. Trying to use AlphaFold to change Big Pharma.

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  Lyod || Vgen artist (@Lyodfx) reported 55 minutes ago

  Genuine question for fellow freelancers/artists. Do you usually charge clients for PayPal transaction fees, or do you absorb those fees yourself? recently had a client cancel and got blocked because they felt the additional fees weren't communicated clearly enough. I'm not looking to argue orake some trouble,I'd genuinely like to learn what the standard approach is and how you communicate it upfront. I'd really appreciate hearing your guys experiences. 🙏

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  Sam Jenkins (@samjenkins59) reported 59 minutes ago

  I have $95 paypal!! who's down at this night??