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 (39%)
• Errors (39%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Lyon	Errors	3 hours ago
Paris	Sign in	2 days ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	3 days ago
Tlaquepaque	Errors	4 days ago
Massy	Website Down	4 days ago
Montlouis-sur-Loire	Sign in	6 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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  Josh (@BuildTestScale) reported 1 minute ago

  The problem? The payments space is already crowded. Venmo. Cash App. Apple Cash. Zelle. PayPal. Everyone already has something that works. So X Money has to be better than just "send money." ⌯⌲

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  Charles Lockerman (@Lucky4583) reported 2 minutes ago

  @CDatrio26831 @GloriousAllianc May I suggest more platforms OG payment. I don't have either of those. My PayPal was hacked and I had issues with venmo. I have Cashapp and Zelle. Thank you.

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  Javiel Sanchez (@JavielSanchez7) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Emmydee1909 @LastThing2006 I de find card way I fit linked with PayPal. The Kesha card way they there just expired and Kesha no de issue card again

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  LordWilsonVilla🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿UAI (@LordWilsonVILLA) reported 9 minutes ago

  @CACandChill I've just closed my PayPal account Nothing but problems

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  Andrea (@AndreaTaz4ever2) reported 9 minutes ago

  @ReneeLibby95084 It’s fine no one else had any issue with my PayPal. I used it for my life coaching business also and never any problem so I have no idea what happened.

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  LordWilsonVilla🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿UAI (@LordWilsonVILLA) reported 11 minutes ago

  @LibertyValanc11 @PayPal I've just closed my PayPal account, too many problems with PayPal paying on the checkout page without me authorising payment

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  Ahmed Olabintan (@Ke_ji_wura) reported 13 minutes ago

  At the events we would take PayPal payments on my boss's phone. I had asked her several times over the years to add me as a PayPal contact because occasionally we would have connection issues due to the venue buildings or whatever and she wouldn't always be available to talk to them cuz she was coaching. Overall, she was a bit spacey and not very tech savvy like I've always been but I knew at some point this would be an issue. During covid, when we had a lot of events cancel and after doing my taxes, in my preparedness tendencies, I had the idea to put her SS# from my 1099 into my locked note app along with my family's info just in case we had another PayPal connection issue ever come up and they would ask for it for confirmation. Then I pretty much forgot about it.

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  Fher Men (@kra_1986) reported 15 minutes ago

  @bookingcom @bookingcomhelp Reservation 896280116. Overbooking relocation issue. Management approved a cash refund of CAD 329.44 in writing via Live Chat, but your system is now ignoring me. I have filed a dispute with PayPal and OPC Quebec. Fix this immediately.

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  Monica Jasuja (@jasuja) reported 17 minutes ago

  9/ My read after twenty years across PayPal, Mastercard, and Gojek: a table like Bernstein's tells you whether a rail is broken or just underpriced for its next stage. UPI's own numbers, including the ones already working quietly inside it, say underpriced, not broken.

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  KS (@FGshorts) reported 17 minutes ago

  Yes, be very careful. Scammers will do everything they can to steal your channel. I was recently contacted by someone on TikTok who said he wanted to buy my TikTok account and YouTube channel for $20,000. That was already a red flag because my accounts weren't even that big but still possible. He suggested using a middleman, which I always do, so I agreed. He invited me to a Discord server for the middleman service, and everything looked legitimate. People were active in the chat, there were positive reviews, and it all seemed professional. The middleman even sent me a screenshot of the payment the buyer had supposedly made. Everything looked real, including the PayPal payment. But right before I was about to transfer the accounts, I asked in the public chat if anyone could confirm the middleman service was legitimate. At first, nobody replied for two days, which already felt strange. Then I was suddenly contacted by five different people who told me their TikTok or YouTube channels had been stolen. It turned out the entire Discord server was run by bots, and the "middleman" was part of the scam. They were extremely professional and clearly knew exactly how to steal accounts. Be careful.

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  Pawmacist 💎🕊️ (@pawmacist) reported 18 minutes ago

  Everyone celebrates companies like Stripe, PayPal, Revolut, and Cash App. We trust them with our money, recommend them to friends, and build businesses on top of them. But the moment a Nigerian builds something similar, many of us become the first to predict its failure. Why? Is it because the product is bad, or because we have conditioned ourselves to believe that anything built abroad is automatically better than what is built at home? That mindset is a sign of a person being mentally poor and limited. Flutterwave was built by Nigerians. Paystack was built by Nigerians and went on to become one of Africa's most successful fintech companies. These companies didn't become successful because everyone believed in them from day one. They succeeded because they kept building, improving, and earned the trust of millions. Supporting Nigerian innovation does not mean lowering our standards. It does not mean ignoring security concerns or refusing to criticize poor decisions. It simply means judging our own companies by the same standards we use for foreign companies—not by a harsher one. Constructive criticism builds companies. Blind condemnation kills them. There is another challenge we rarely talk about. Too many founders are racing to build the same thing. One payment app succeeds, and suddenly everyone wants to build another payment app. One crypto exchange grows, and dozens more appear. One digital bank trends, and everyone wants to launch another. Innovation is not about seeing what works and copying it. Innovation is about solving problems that nobody else is solving. Nigeria and Africa need builders who will create the infrastructure that powers the next generation of startups. We need breakthroughs in healthcare, education, agriculture, logistics, manufacturing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, blockchain infrastructure, and countless other sectors that remain underserved. The companies that shape the future won't necessarily be the ones that copy today's winners. They will be the ones bold enough to create tomorrow's opportunities. So before we dismiss another Nigerian startup, ask yourself: If we don't support our own builders, who will? And if every founder is building the same product, who will build the future? The next global technology company can come from Nigeria. But only if we create a culture that rewards originality, demands excellence, and believes that world-class innovation can be built here.

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  Calamarei 💀 Kraken🩸2.0 Debut SEPT 18 (@CalamareiVT) reported 19 minutes ago

  @IllusionaryOne @PreePonee @SassinatorSteph My account was hacked. 2 FA bypassed to change my payout to paypal and an unknown email, and recieved no update notice. Payout gets sent to them. I find out this is why I wasnt getting paid last month. However they have stated I wont get a refund since it was sent to the hackers paypal. And Twitch isnt liqbke despite their security failing. When I asked how to prevent or what to do I was told to turn on 2FA and change password. I did this, on top of disconnecting all accounts. Yet I had 2FA on and changed my password a few months back. I wont get my payout back. Yet asking what is being done I told we care about your issue and are investigating. But how is my 2FA still being enabled going to prevent this from happening in the future if i didnt even get notice my stuff was changed AND it bypassed the 2FA. How do I know I’m not going to lose my payout each month? It wasnt my fault and if Twitch isnt able to be held responsible…then how am I suppose to rely on Twitch’s security with my personal information and income to pay bills? 1 months pay gone and im paying for the security issue of Twitch with late fees, past due bills, and etc. I would like my payout and some sort of way to know I wont have to check my payout settings everyday,

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  Super Hawa 🐟💜⁷ ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ (@Hawa__Sahar) reported 27 minutes ago

  WTS - Selling one FLOOR ticket for BTS World Tour ARIRANG in Foxborough on Wednesday, August 5th. Purchased for $611.40 during presale. Willing to sell for less! Can provide proof of purchase and video chat. Can no longer attend due to medical issues. Must use PayPal Goods & Services. Has a good view of the ramps the members come to!

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  MKizzle (@mkdaone_) reported 27 minutes ago

  No contact is no problem.. but taking your card off my PayPal is just too ******* far

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  RINE 🧡💙✈️ SEMI IA ❤️‍🩹 (@calebgirl1306) reported 28 minutes ago

  @navvyia UID: 81001217079 Server: Asia Game: LnDs Can I exchange to PayPal if I lucky? Tysm for GA 🩷

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  Åsk Dabitch Wäppling オスク・ダビッチ - オスクさん Дабитч (@dabitch) reported 29 minutes ago

  @bashildy Do you remember when Katrina happened and they raised money and Paypal shut their fundraiser down? 2005 was a helluva year.

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  KC Yelizze (@Yelizze_) reported 35 minutes ago

  Hi @AskPayPal , I called customer support today because I need to update the phone number on my account. The agent told me there's currently an internal system issue preventing them from changing phone numbers. Do you have any ETA on when this will be resolved?

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  basinglasing (@basinglasing) reported 35 minutes ago

  Take care feon @PayPal I have this problem they want infos they got already and I share click buttons and fall alltime in coma and can’t solve it cause I lost 2.8m in 2 month I have no nerves to solve and have just acc the millionaire who also have this csnt answer but proofed

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  𖤐 Karl Kingscholar｡ 🀨 (@onelastorm) reported 37 minutes ago

  @tomochingus It worked, we are soooo back 🫡🫡🫡 Really glad I was able to buy it... At first I got sad because I thought it was an issue on my end (sometimes PayPal doesn't accept my card) and I thought I wouldn't be able to buy it... But it worked!!! Thank you for your hard work on the zine

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  KingZero (@Kingzero60) reported 39 minutes ago

  @MrKimmKE Done but my problem now is the payment method Both paypal and stripe are not operating in Ghana Any solution to that?

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  Shadab Farooqui (@shadab) reported 39 minutes ago

  Interesting that a Nasdaq traded company @PayPal ONLY offers chat based support and apparently does not have any way to escalate a technical issue which the chat agent was unable to resolve. Is this for real? @PayPal @AskPayPal

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  Vicky Shettykind (@VShettykind) reported 41 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @AskPayPal please help with my issue. The above link does not help.

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  Prashenjit Roy (@PrashenjitRoy1) reported 44 minutes ago

  @PayPal am unable to process with my account as it’s showing “ we’re permanently limiting your account “ . Please help me resolve this issue .

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  Pierssy 💙 (@Pierssy) reported 50 minutes ago

  @PayPal @amazon Absolutely losing faith in your company, I ask for refund after being sold software that was not as described and you lot refused, terrible service. Now looking for alternate after over 20 years.

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  Super Hawa 🐟💜⁷ ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ (@Hawa__Sahar) reported 51 minutes ago

  WTS - 1 level 132 row 3 ticket for BTS World Tour ARIRANG in Foxborough on Thursday, August 6th. Amazing idol parade view! Purchased during production sale for $731.40 & willing to sell for lower! Can provide proof of purchase/video chat. Can no longer attend due to medical issues. Must use PayPal G & S!

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 51 minutes ago

  In 2003 a thirty-two-year-old Elon Musk gave the Stanford talk founders still pass around twenty years later. He was invited to speak at Stanford's Graduate School of Business by a class of MBA students who wanted to hear from someone actually building companies instead of teaching cases about them. He walked in, sat down, and talked for forty-five minutes without a single slide. By that point he had already sold Zip2 to Compaq for three hundred and seven million dollars and had cleared roughly one hundred and eighty million from the PayPal sale to eBay the year before. He had used most of that money to start SpaceX in the spring of 2002. In the fall of 2003, SpaceX had zero launches, roughly thirty employees, and a runway that was going to run out inside two years. He talked about how to start a company when nobody believes in the market. How to cut costs when the cash pile is shrinking every week. How to think from first principles instead of from analogy. How to stay alive long enough for luck to matter. The most striking part of the tape is not the advice. It is the tone. He is calm. He is quiet. He is thirty-two years old and running a company that is trying to build rockets, and he speaks about it the way a project manager describes a Kanban board. Twenty years later that same man owns SpaceX, Tesla, xAI and X. His net worth crossed four hundred billion dollars at the end of 2024. The rocket company he was running on empty in 2003 now launches more mass into orbit than the rest of the world combined. The talk is on YouTube. It has been posted, taken down, reposted, and re-uploaded dozens of times. It never breaks a hundred thousand views on any single upload because it does not have a thumbnail hook or a title that promises secrets. It is just forty-five minutes of a man who had not yet become anything explaining, in flat prose, how to survive when nobody has backed you yet. I watched it for the first time in 2019 during a stretch of my own company where I was three months from running out of cash. Nothing in the talk was tactical enough to save me. What it did do was give me permission to keep going for another quarter, which turned out to be all I needed. The Musk who gave that talk did not know what he would become. Neither did the students in the room. That is the actual value of the tape. You watch him before he was Elon Musk.

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  MarcoNc (@mremaarco) reported 52 minutes ago

  from me, now my paypal is not working, like hello?

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  LordWilsonVilla🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿UAI (@LordWilsonVILLA) reported 54 minutes ago

  @AegArsenal @Kabuk1 @AFCFixtureNews That's what I do now I've just closed my PayPal account, too many problems with PayPal paying on the checkout page without me authorising payment

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  RINE 🧡💙✈️ SEMI IA ❤️‍🩹 (@calebgirl1306) reported 55 minutes ago

  @navvyia UID: 81001217079 Server: Asia Game: LnDs Can I exchange to PayPal if I lucky? Tysm for GA 🩷

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  Cliff Ogega (@HacksawX0) reported 55 minutes ago

  @sirwos @PayPal @AskPayPal wewe jua this is going to be a long ride. I have the same problem and my issue has persisted from 16th last month