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
Issoudun	Errors	1 day ago
Adelaide	Website Down	2 days ago
Weymouth	Sign in	3 days ago
Pessac	Sign in	4 days ago
Derby	Website Down	4 days ago
Paris	Errors	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

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  MAN UTD FAN. (@Faith181107) reported 5 minutes ago

  You can guess what students did on that final Tuesday. Fast forward to the end of the semester: I still hadn't seen any documentation or user manual, and it was due on exam day (the first day of finals week). A week before the deadline, they told me I'd have it before our 12 PM meeting on study day (Wednesday). I got the email at 11 PM Tuesday after work. I opened the files, got pissed, shut my laptop, played some Xbox, and passed out before midnight. The technical documentation was just one page with almost nothing useful—no database schema, website languages, PayPal details, or registered emails. Just the URL and some unimportant info taking up half a page. The user manual was one and a half pages with maybe five sentences and three pictures with arrows. Zero real explanation on how to use the site.I showed up at 12 PM and waited about five minutes. No one else was there, so I texted the group. No replies. I started fixing the user manual since I'd clearly have to redo it. While working quietly, Damien finally walked in. D: "Did you get the docs?" Me: "Yeah. You guys really think this is finished?" D: "Oh yeah, it should be good to turn in." Me: "I don't know. I think we should add more—this is for our client, and she won't understand it. Where are Jeff and Kirk?" D: "Hahaha, we all got messed up last night after finishing the docs. They're probably still passed out. I'm turning it in tomorrow. If you want to add anything, go ahead, but whatever I have is going in. I think it's ready, so I'm not doing more. I have other classes to study for. I already have an A in this class, and Kirk and Jeff do too, so they don't care."He said the magic words, then left with a flash drive. I went straight upstairs and told Professor Matt everything. I said I didn't want to leave my client hanging—yes, my client, not ours. Matt said he fully understood and even praised me for staying on top of it and protecting the client's experience with our students. He asked why. I told him, "What you're getting tomorrow for 'our' project is completely unacceptable. It's unfair to us and especially to our client." I showed him the website (which he liked) and the terrible docs. I asked for an extra week to finish proper documentation and a user guide—I had a clear plan. Matt agreed, but told me to forget the docs since I knew the site. Just focus on the client .So I created video tutorials with narration, drove to her shop to demonstrate everything and show her where the videos were. I even built a simple desktop program with buttons that opened the exact video she needed, so she wouldn't have to hunt through folders. I gave her my contact info and said I'd be around over the summer if she needed help with the site or anything else. Afterward, I updated Matt, who had his own update. He nearly failed the rest of the group because they slid an unmarked USB under his door. He only accepted it after they emailed to confirm he got it. Matt also called the client, who confirmed I was the only one who ever showed up to meetings. As a result, anyone in my group who had an A going into the project dropped to a C. Anyone with a B failed. Damien's GPA took a hit from this four-hour class. Kirk and Jeff both failed—Jeff couldn't graduate, and Kirk had to retake it next semester. My grade, which was an 84 before the project, jumped to an A. The next year, Damien asked how I did because he was confused about his own final grade. I just said I did fine and got an A. He still has no idea why. Don't mess with me and my grades, and I won't mess with you.

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  🖤🩶PAINT🤍💜 (@paintbugg) reported 9 minutes ago

  Survey / wfh sites are started to get really slow and one of the ones I do is shutting down I still have over $1k to pay for spikes medical bills and they’re how I pay my stupid *** PayPal credit ***** do NOT ******* over 😭😭

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  Cynthia Gabriel (@Cynthiana195) reported 11 minutes ago

  Good evening everyone,please I need an app to connect to my PayPal in order for me to withdraw,I do Uk surveys so it’s been difficult to find an app that does well like Grey.i have tried nsave,Cleva,Raenest but there are issues when it comes to funding it.PayPal removed my grey

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  S.A. Lowell (@sa_lowell) reported 11 minutes ago

  The payment security stuff Sony mentioned as the reason they are closing the PlayStation 3 and Vita stores is 100% a lie. They previously already solved it by removing your ability to use your card and payment info on the PS3 or PS Vita consoles and made it so you have to use funds that you can add to your account via the website or other consoles. I regularly update client's Stripe, PayPal, and other CC processing methods when things change (Only happens every few years but they don't all get updated at the same time.). It's never been a massive undertaking unless you designed it like absolute **** from the beginning. And even funnier is they could solve any additional security issues if they had just kept the browser-based version of the store up and only allow you to buy stuff from there. Makes it easier to update any security when you have a front end that's agnostic of the hardware it has to run on. TLDR: They just don't want it around and would rather use ratspeak that stupid people are literally buying into.

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  simulx4 (@simulx4) reported 12 minutes ago

  @JoelHodlman It's just me begging for CTV because that's really what it comes down to I can't afford to donate enough money to core devs to push it through but once I have it I know I can build a payment system that destroys PayPal

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  ياغر 🦉 (@iJagerM) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I can’t login! How I login without my password? And i can’t reset the password bc they are using my email and there phone so how can i access thta? And i can’t create a new account because i live in iraq it’s blocked i cant access the page, anyway thanks for nothing

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  xo, aly (@satanhyunjin) reported 13 minutes ago

  for rent enhypen blood saga in busan engene weverse global membership presale rm30/membership ✅✅✅ you need to login to my weverse to verify for presale on nol ticket mop: paypal / wise / 🇲🇾 bank&ewallet past proofs check pinned t. wts wtr open sharing wtb iso lf

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  .ANDɆR ᯤ (@SPKYFEAR) reported 16 minutes ago

  do you take paypal? cash app? apple cash? i can try and sign in for venmo

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  Marcel Rambo (@vee9zee) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Terrilltf Ok they need this I’ll fix up my PayPal I need to do it anyway lol

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  Gami Capital (@Gami_Capital) reported 23 minutes ago

  Is Circle Actually in Trouble? Our Read on the OUSD Launch On June 30th, while Jeremy Allaire was on stage at Goldman Sachs' Digital Assets conference in London talking about "the future of money," Open Standard announced the launch of OUSD, a dollar stablecoin backed by 149 partners. Two days later, Circle's stock ($CRCL) dropped 18% in a single session, now down roughly 76% from its June 2025 high. Does that mean Circle is done for? Here's our read, in six points, including Jeremy Allaire's direct response. 1. Circle's paradox: usage is up, margins are collapsing USDC has never been doing better: roughly $77 billion in circulation, up nearly 20% since the IPO. The problem is that Circle's revenue has only grown 5.5% over the same period, and net margin has collapsed over three quarters, falling from 29% to 8%. The explanation fits in one line: roughly 94% of Circle's revenue comes from interest earned on reserves (mostly T-bills). The market isn't pricing USDC usage, it's pricing Circle's ability to monetize that usage. And that ability is eroding: growing revenue-sharing with distributors (Coinbase chief among them), Binance suspending services in Europe over a missing MiCA license (after Circle had paid for USDC's distribution on the platform), and removal from several Russell Growth indexes in late June. The timing of OUSD couldn't be worse. 2. OUSD: the issuer model, redistributed to the ecosystem Open Standard has assembled a rare lineup: Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, BNY Mellon, Google, Stripe and Shopify on the TradFi side; Coinbase, Aave, Bybit, OKX, Plasma and Tempo on the crypto side. Neither Circle, Tether, nor Paxos are part of it. The pitch is simple and direct: zero minting and redemption fees, with nearly all reserve yield passed back to the partners who adopt and use the stablecoin. In other words, OUSD is attacking the exact revenue line that keeps legacy issuers alive. 3. What Circle still has going for it Circle's regulatory moat is still the one that cannot be beaten, for now: the first global issuer to reach full MiCA compliance back in July 2024, conditional OCC approval for a national trust bank charter in the US, money transmitter licenses across 46 US states. That's years of groundwork a consortium doesn't replicate with a press release. On the integrations side, USDC remains the settlement asset for BlackRock's tokenized BUIDL fund, was just added to BNY Mellon's digital custody platform (itself an OUSD partner...), and stays the default collateral on regulated US and European trading venues. Circle remains the go-to for institutions wanting a regulated dollar backed by nearly a decade of audit history. But a shrinking moat is still a shrinking moat. 4. Jeremy Allaire's response: network effects as the real defense Facing a wave of questions from his investor community, Circle's CEO published a detailed rebuttal that's worth taking seriously rather than dismissing as crisis PR. His core thesis: stablecoin networks are platform businesses built on network effects, established over long periods, that tend toward winner-take-most market structures. He lays out three layers he says protect USDC: - Application-layer network effects: every developer integration strengthens the network, which in turn attracts more integrations. Circle has been building this ecosystem for nearly a decade, with infrastructure like CCTP and Gateway extending interoperability to new chains, including permissioned L2s and government-built networks. - Liquidity network effects: Allaire claims USDC sits in the top 3 most liquid digital assets in the world, alongside BTC and USDT, with the next closest dollar stablecoins roughly 10x smaller in liquidity, often concentrated in a single exchange's promotional books. - Regulatory and banking integration: the states USDC is currently the only major global stablecoin available across all of Europe and Japan, backed by nearly a decade of investment in global banking, treasury and liquidity management. He backs this with a striking data point: in Q1 2026, according to Artemis, USDC handled nearly $30 trillion in on-chain transactions, 80% of all dollar stablecoin transaction volume, versus 20% for USDT, and under 0.5% combined for everyone else, OUSD included at this stage. On the substance of OUSD's pitch, Allaire pushes back point by point: - On free minting and redemption: he notes the entire payments industry runs on small basis-point fees, and that unlimited free redemptions tend to collide with market realities, something Circle says it already addresses through contractual mechanisms rather than a blanket fee exemption. - On passing all revenue back to partners: Circle says it already shares the majority of its revenue with distribution partners, while retaining enough to keep investing in infrastructure. Giving everything away, he argues, is a recipe for structural underinvestment and a platform that stays limited in scope. -On consortium governance: the sharpest point in the piece. Allaire repeats, almost verbatim, a line he'd already made publicly: that large groups of large companies coordinate poorly, have misaligned incentives, and tend to starve their own consortium out of self-interest. He states Circle itself tried this model in USDC's early days and ran into the same problems. He closes by reaffirming that the Coinbase partnership remains as strong as ever, that several OUSD founding members remain major USDC partners, and that Circle continues expanding its own ecosystem (Arc, CPN, StableFX, Agent Stack) by working with dozens of other stablecoin issuers, his way of signaling Circle doesn't feel threatened in its role as infrastructure. 5. Why OUSD hasn't won anything yet Recent history for consortium-backed stablecoins argues for caution, and echoes Allaire's own point. USDG (Paxos, with Kraken, Robinhood, and Galaxy among its backers) is plateauing around $3 billion. PYUSD (PayPal) took two and a half years to approach $4 billion, then shrank by a third from its peak. A big announcement doesn't make an adoption curve. Three questions remain open: governance across a 149-member consortium, historically slow and prone to misaligned incentives; the viability of a model with no fees and no retained yield; and, above all, the end user, since the yield flows to partners, not holders. Why hold OUSD rather than USDC or USDT? The answer will hinge on incentives, and on that front, we're watching Plasma and Tempo (Stripe's chain) closely as the two most likely launch rails. 6. Tether, watching calmly from the sidelines With over $180 billion in USDT circulating, Tether dominates territory OUSD isn't primarily targeting: Tron, P2P payments and remittances in emerging markets, trading collateral in Asia. The threat is real for Circle; at this stage, far less so for Tether. Our takeaway The real story here isn't "Circle vs. OUSD," it's the structural compression of issuance margins. Allaire's response, however well-argued, doesn't refute that point so much as reframe it: his thesis is that network effects and liquidity matter more than distributed yield, and that Circle can afford to share revenue as long as it stays the default rail. That's a defensible position, but it still has to prove itself against a consortium that, for the first time, aligns distributors and infrastructure rather than pitting them against each other. Reserve yield, the economic core of stablecoins, is being redistributed. The question is no longer whether, but to whom: distributors, chains, partners, or end users. For allocators, that's arguably good news: more competition among issuers means more value captured by whoever brings the liquidity and the usage. At Gami Capital, where we run on-chain USDC strategies day to day, we'll be watching liquidity migrations and the opportunities this new landscape creates closely. This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.

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  Rakhul (@rakhul) reported 25 minutes ago

  @coinbureau The 60% liquid reserve requirement is the real issue here. EU legislators modelled it on e-money rules designed for PayPal-scale float, not a $184B instrument. If 5% of USDT holders redeem simultaneously, those "small European banks" don't have the balance sheet to absorb it.

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  Hoodh Hassan Khaleel (@Kudasorubey) reported 26 minutes ago

  I’ve been trying to link my m-Faisaa to PayPal since June 18. Despite multiple support tickets with @OoredooMaldives , nothing was resolved. The issue was simple: m-Faisaa only had 2 name fields while PayPal requires 3, causing a name mismatch. I raised it at the Finance Expo on July 2, and it was fixed within 15 minutes. Now I’m waiting for USD deposits to my personal account, while USD merchant receiving is still pending not helpful for real businesses. Poor customer support delayed a simple fix for weeks.

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  𝒇𝒐𝒙𝒚/𝒆𝒎𝒎𝒚 met caterina🤍✨️ (@caterinasmoon_) reported 29 minutes ago

  my PayPal has problems currently so I might not be able to get my tickets today aka no tickets for the extras tomorrow AKA no selfies and im gonna ******* crash out bc this is the last con I'll actually be able to meet Dani, what ******** is going on imma cry

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  Squird5 (@Squird5) reported 29 minutes ago

  @ShitpostRock "Don't hire **** artists" Kind of terrible advice, but also wholly accurate. It is a business transaction. Don't hire anyone who doesn't understand that. And Paypal has a 6 month window. If they don't deliver or have substantial progress, chargeback for breach of contract.

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  James 🌸 (@purple_swan7) reported 31 minutes ago

  @tudeolnyang @Koow366816 oh yes that works! paypal fees aren't a problem! @wainlvr any chance you're going?

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  sein ✦ (@nv_lessus) reported 33 minutes ago

  I ran into a problem with my Paypal account.. will close manual ww shipping for a while, will update once it's fixed. sorry 🥲

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  kitty ✩‧₊ (july 22 🎂) (@naomiiiluvs) reported 35 minutes ago

  has anyone experienced slow transactions from a buyers paypal to a sellers throne yet

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  Llennox (@LlennoxYt) reported 36 minutes ago

  @DaveLuty @dshaynie The only issue I’ve run into is trying to add funds to the Japanese account… is the best way to go about it creating a Japanese PayPal and add funds to that? It won’t let me use my regular PayPal account

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  Jeremy (@Jeremyd128) reported 37 minutes ago

  $EQIX down 7.87% to $1,002.02 on vol 718819. PayPal joins EPC amid focus on interoperability and instant payments.

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  Romiee 🐾 (@sillyromiee) reported 39 minutes ago

  @FurryWith2Sides Hello, i would like to say that your grammar is not correct. "i would like to find a person who made this video" is not right. "i would like to find the person who made this video" would be correct. So now you have to paypal me 200000 usd to fix this problem thank you.

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  Ribs 🌴 (@RSC_again) reported 41 minutes ago

  @RehabFrenzy I would but there’s problems with that like having to set up an account like PayPal and the fact I’m very lazy lmao This drawing took ~3 days and most of that was heavy procrastination

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  Pinku🔞 (COMMS CLOSED) (@Pinku202023) reported 42 minutes ago

  DO NOT type when you send a tip or money in anyway something thats related to 18+ stuff or nsfw stuff on the payment, or Paypal will shut down your account and mine. Please beware of this for your sake, and wait until I send you the invoice. Thanks for reading 🙏🏼

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  Luna (@nyanophobic) reported 44 minutes ago

  I would've payed for a Shiro figure myself had I even had the ability to pay for it but Paypal doesn't work in my country and neither does anything outside of this country's ebanking so it really is just a country issue

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  BlackGritty.com (@Ohdoctah) reported 46 minutes ago

  @reallsteeldos Just saying he didn’t build it which is factual. Lol I don’t understand why ppl have problems with facts. He’s not an engineer he’s not a genius. He’s a businessman man who hires smart ppl. Credit for that ok. But even PayPal was funded with daddy’s blood mine money.

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  李蝙蝠血 (@bat_bleed) reported 48 minutes ago

  @turdmaster97 Did you fix your PayPal

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  Lucia (@luciaprotocol) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Yhormite01 Targeting USD payouts directly tackles the PayPal and Stripe lockout issue

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  清水孝 (@matheusaaugust) reported 51 minutes ago

  @PorraDeene @TheCryptoSquire The issue isn't adoption friction—it's that most merchants prefer instant settlement over volatility hedging. Stablecoins solve this but then you're just using faster PayPal.

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  Bruno hunts (@Bruno56168690) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Courtyard_io My paypal is not working and i don't have any uk bank because I'm not from that country please try to understand my situation

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  Jyles (@Jylesss) reported 56 minutes ago

  small list off the top of my head. - paypal claims for ppl trying to scam (locks up money for 3-4 weeks) - people being lazy about shipping and waiting days / weeks without sending out the cards I bought - cards getting stuck in transit or looping in the USPS system for weeks with me having nothing to show for my money. (not the sellers fault necessarily) - sending $ and then getting refunded after days / weeks just due to whatever circumstance might come up - people sending empty packages & having to open paypal claims & fight to get my money back (& having my $ locked up for weeks) - people forgetting to add 1-2 cards within the package and then having to track down those cards & then get those shipped in a diff box at a later date. i’m sure there are a few others that i didn’t mention.

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  Mike Hunt (@MikeHuntcc) reported 1 hour ago

  Just the unemployed fat kid from down street talking about hot hot I am and how the world revolves around me. It’s so enderaering. Im going to out an Patit on it. Pat it. Lol. Send a paypal to see if it stops me from being a creep for a few minutes. Its bound to work eventually.