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 (48%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Stockton	Sign in	2 days ago
Brighton	Errors	3 days ago
Génelard	Website Down	3 days ago
Paris	Sign in	3 days ago
Overland Park	Errors	7 days ago
Lausanne	Errors	7 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Oluwarotimi Ilori (@OluwarotimiIlo1) reported 6 minutes ago

  @SoccerScientis hello mate, cant get your the name on my paypal account and this link said error.....ilori from UK

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  MUSTY! (@MUSTY_420) reported 7 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello I need you to resolve my account issues for me

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  Moni⁸ ⋆.˚ ALD1 IS 8 🩵 (@Farewelleovv) reported 8 minutes ago

  my paypal is not working and i can’t buy the LS 💔💔💔💔 pls someone manifest it’s not sold out by tomorrow that is a decent time in my side of the world to contact customer support 💔💔

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  ♱⃓˚₊‧꒰ა cierra​ 👁️🪶|| healing arc ໒꒱ ‧₊˚​♱⃓ (@CierraTenshi) reported 8 minutes ago

  @sawy0s @PayPal There were times that they were but this time, I was just getting shut down everytime💔

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  PetiteNativee (@PetiteNativee) reported 9 minutes ago

  Who's up? Down to paypal me for some ***? Dm me.

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  AmicuNoa🧜‍♀️🌊 Vtuber | Emote Comms OPEN (@AmicuNoa) reported 9 minutes ago

  @StarlightAkari_ @zachbussey Paypal has been known to lock accounts and lock balances. Venmo hasn't done that to my knowledge and I can pull it out right away. I avoid paypal at all costs because of all of their issues.

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  Krøw 🩸🐦‍⬛ (@Krronyss) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Spookidusk Ugh, this is terrible! If you sent payment through PayPal you could theoretically do a chargeback since it hasn't hit the 6 month mark- if you are comfortable w that and feel you have no other options. If you wanted, I'd be happy to draw something for you for funzies <3

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  💜ANNE JAMIESON 💜 (@AnneDesignz) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Ratwassilly I am interested in working for you Also budget isn't any issue and I am having PayPal

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  Danny North (@iamodynorth) reported 11 minutes ago

  tweets so accurate Glitch thinks a copy of the movie legitimately got leaked to me (@GooseworxMusic check your PayPal)

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  creatrixZBD (@zbdEmanuelle) reported 14 minutes ago

  @_kahleah @StuffKSaid It's not that difficult to get a new paypal. Esp if it's been ages since u got yeeted. I am just amazed it seems she got off her arse and solved one of her problems.

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  evie (@smxd__2) reported 14 minutes ago

  since my account is permanently shut down on paypal the only form of payment i’ll be using is venmo. thanks for your understanding my loveys🫶🏻.

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  M (@ml721721) reported 16 minutes ago

  @KeithMalinak I used to sell a lot on eBay until most of the buyers started saying the item arrived broken (which it wasn't it was a picture of their broken item) and eBay sided with the buyers. So the sellers were out the item, eBay & PayPal fees, shipping etc and left frustrated 🙄

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  Haalover (@Haalove1981) reported 18 minutes ago

  Update: It are Paypal issues and the artist decided to refund instead of letting clients wait. I hope we can continue once thing get sorted out.

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  Mr. Pounce 🖋️📚 Loremaster Vtuber (@MrPounceTV) reported 20 minutes ago

  @rhiow I stopped doing direct tips. Too many stories about PayPal tip chargebacks, or getting an unusually large tip that is flagged as suspicious and freezes the account. I've personally never had an issue, but I know it does happen. I use bits for 'direct' monetary now.

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  C.C (@citrusCT) reported 21 minutes ago

  everybody going all out with the hbd to bro @Vzgo_007 im too lazy for that **** gang. fix ur ******* paypal bro so i can send money so that u can buy a bomb *** kebab

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  Mobot685 (@marshallpress0n) reported 24 minutes ago

  @omoalhajaabiola @RaenestApp The actually solve reliable bank transfers without the constant issues we face with PayPal, Wise, or Payoneer in Nigeria. No more frozen accounts or long waiting periods. Exactly we’ve been waiting for!

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  Esco Obong (@escobyte) reported 25 minutes ago

  What do Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Twitter, Shopify, Slack, and PayPal have in common? They all started as monoliths and relied heavily on monoliths for years after becoming unicorns. Do you actually have enough load on the system such that you need to scale the users service independently from the orders service? Can you not fit tens of millions of users, payments, products and orders in the same database cluster? Is your team so large that development velocity is an issue and you need seperately deployable services even when there’s no load scaling benefit just to alleviate operational scaling issues? The biggest benefit of a monolith is dead simple transactions. If your app does things like charging cards, updating inventory, or reserving cars/rooms, those actions need to succeed or fail all together. In a monolith, that’s easy: wrap them in a single database transaction. With microservices, you need distributed transactions or eventual consistency 💀. A saga pattern to coordinate failures and rollbacks across a chain of services. This is error prone, expensive infra, runs slower and takes months longer to develop/test. It also requires way more maintenance as the system evolves. It limits your velocity when introducing new concepts and flows which startups often need to do quickly. Start with a monolith. Get speed and correctness by default. For special needs like real-time streams or heavy compute loads, you can justify adding another service if it actually needs different composition of CPU, memory or storage that can scale independently from everything else. Each microservice is supposed to exist to solve a specific scaling or operational pain point. Let the real bottlenecks shape your architecture.

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  Ben Valentin (@TheBenValentin) reported 26 minutes ago

  Anthropic just went after 30 million small businesses. Claude for Small Business dropped this week. 15 pre-built workflows. Connectors to QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Docusign, Google Workspace. Invoice chasing, payroll planning, lead triage, contract review, cash-flow monitoring. All baked in. No extra charge beyond the Claude license. Here's what most people will miss about this: The biggest AI lab on the planet just told small business owners they're worth building for. Not enterprise. Not Fortune 500. The 10-person company that's been duct-taping tools together for years. That's a market signal. When Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all start shipping SMB-first products in the same quarter, it means the enterprise-only era of AI is over. But pre-built workflows are the floor, not the ceiling. They solve the generic problems every business has. The real unlock is when a business deploys an agent trained on their specific operations, their specific data, their specific customer patterns. That's where the ROI compounds. Generic workflows get you started. Custom agents get you ahead. 10-city live tour starting yesterday. Free half-day workshops for small business owners. Anthropic is doing field sales now. Let that sink in. What's the first workflow you'd hand off to an agent tomorrow morning?

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  Termites (@TermitesRGood) reported 30 minutes ago

  @N1HawkLive @zachbussey So let me get this straight people that have their checking account attached to Twitch. It’s $100 now. But PayPal who charges 3% fee is 50. If that’s the case, a lot of streamers will never get paid maybe two or three months down the road

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  Leyla Customizable Model | MLS (@melar_cus_model) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Dekmo_5 Payments through PayPal are currently experiencing issues, so buyers may not be able to complete payments using this method at the moment We’ll do our best to resolve the problem as soon as possible

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  Mindful (@DeeperExistence) reported 41 minutes ago

  @xoxofromlia You saying that to me as if that’s a problem lmao only thing is I don’t have Cash App no more so PayPal or Zelle

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  John Langley Doe (@JohnLangleyDoe) reported 41 minutes ago

  @tak_ya_anna No problem I sent it through PayPal as Mono doesn't work here👍

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  Usama Razzaq (@usamaa2326) reported 51 minutes ago

  Is there any issue @RedotPay card? PayPal not spotting card. #paypal #redotpay

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  Mythos (@BlackwindMythos) reported 52 minutes ago

  @hxneycafe YEAH IKR!? She spun a whole story about being broke and having health issues and breaking her hand and wah wah wah then blocked me after all that effort. It was just past the time I could have had paypal intervene too.

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  mimi (@pvppyunhc) reported 57 minutes ago

  @mingihiko im too young for a paypal acc so maybe i could just have my friend login and send her the money for it idk😭

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  Omoalhaja (@omoalhajaabiola) reported 57 minutes ago

  2017-2018 I lost many gigs just because of payment issues. You had to wait for 14 days for fiverr to clear your funds. Using PayPal with pseudo-names and masked location means you are one message away from getting suspended. It’s truly transformative to see @RaenestApp solving these issues for freelancers

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  Mark M (@iwasmmueller88) reported 58 minutes ago

  @MTG_HODL @CardPurchaser You issue a refund, and file a damaged in transit claim with eBay’s ESE insurance. Then you move on. You’ll get paid out in like 3 days max to your PayPal and then you block the buyer.

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  hunter (@hxxntrr) reported 58 minutes ago

  You can walk into any Apple Store in America, buy $50,000 in MacBooks and iPhones on 0% business credit cards, and resell every single item for 85 to 95% of retail on eBay, Swappa, and Facebook Marketplace the same day. Cash in your bank account by Friday This is how people convert 0% credit limits into liquid cash without Plastiq, without Melio, and without paying a 2.85% processing fee The Apple Store accepts credit cards for purchases up to $50,000. No questions. No ID beyond what's needed for Apple Pay. You walk in, buy 8 MacBook Pros at $2,499 each, and walk out with $19,992 on your Chase Ink Business Unlimited at 0% APR List them on eBay as "Brand New Sealed" at $2,199 each. They sell in 24 to 48 hours because sealed Apple products have the highest resale velocity of any consumer electronics on earth. People buy them because they're getting a $300 discount on a product that never goes on sale $2,199 x 8 = $17,592 in eBay revenue eBay + PayPal fees (13%): -$2,287 Your net cash received: $15,305 You spent $19,992 on a credit card. You got $15,305 in cash. You "lost" $4,687 "That's a terrible deal" No. You converted $19,992 in credit into $15,305 in LIQUID CASH at a cost of $4,687. That's a 23.5% conversion fee Plastiq charges 2.85% but has a $100K annual limit and many payees are restricted. Melio charges 2.85% but some payments take 5 to 7 days and large amounts trigger manual review The Apple resale method has: No annual limit (buy as much as they'll sell you) No payment restrictions (it's a retail purchase) No manual review (it's a credit card transaction at a store) Cash in your bank within 3 to 5 days (eBay payouts are fast) And you can improve the conversion rate dramatically: iPhones resell at 92 to 96% of retail (better than MacBooks). A $1,199 iPhone 16 Pro Max sells for $1,050 to $1,100 on Swappa within 48 hours. That's only a 5 to 8% loss after fees iPads resell at 88 to 93% of retail AirPods Max resell at 85 to 90% Apple Watches resell at 82 to 88% The optimal mix for maximum cash extraction: $30,000 in iPhone 16 Pro Max units (25 phones at $1,199): resell at $1,080 avg = $27,000 - 13% fees = $23,490 net. Loss: $6,510 (21.7%) $20,000 in iPad Pro units (10 iPads at $1,999): resell at $1,799 avg = $17,990 - 13% fees = $15,651 net. Loss: $4,349 (21.7%) Total credit card spend: $50,000 Total cash received: $39,141 Conversion rate: 78.3% Effective "fee": 21.7% "21.7% is way worse than Plastiq's 2.85%" Yes. If Plastiq works for your use case, use Plastiq. The Apple method is for when you need: More than $100K liquidated (Plastiq has limits) Cash in 3 days not 7 No paper trail linking credit cards to bank deposits through a payment processor (the cash appears as eBay/PayPal revenue, not as a Plastiq transfer) Amounts above $25K per transaction (Melio flags large single payments) The people doing this at scale aren't converting $50K. They're converting $200K to $500K across multiple Apple Stores, Best Buys, Costcos, and authorized resellers. At that volume they have eBay stores with Top Rated Seller status, which reduces fees to 10.5% and pushes the conversion rate to 82 to 85% There's also the Amazon Retail Arbitrage version: buy Apple products at retail, sell on Amazon as a third-party seller, Amazon pays out every 2 weeks. The conversion rate is similar but Amazon's customer base is willing to pay closer to retail for the Prime badge and the Amazon return policy A guy in our network converts $80K to $100K per month from credit cards to cash using this exact method across Apple, Costco, and Best Buy. His blended conversion rate after eBay fees and marketplace fees: 81%. He converts $100K in credit into $81K in cash every month $81K in cash from $100K in 0% credit. His "cost" of $19K per cycle is his equivalent of a processing fee. He treats it as a cost of capital. $19K to access $81K in free cash for 15 months = effective annualized cost of 18.6% "18.6% is expensive" Compared to what? An MCA (merchant cash advance) charges 40 to 150% effective APR A hard money loan charges 12 to 18% + 2 to 3 points A personal loan at 680 score charges 15 to 24% APR A credit card balance at standard APR: 24.99% 18.6% annualized for UNSECURED CASH with NO APPLICATION PROCESS, NO UNDERWRITING, and NO REPAYMENT SCHEDULE beyond minimums at 0% for 15 months is cheaper than almost every alternative source of liquid capital for someone without assets to collateralize And the credit card rewards on $100K in Apple Store purchases: roughly $2,000 to $3,000 in points. That drops the effective cost to 15.6 to 16.6% btw the IRS doesn't track retail purchases on credit cards. The purchase shows up as "APPLE STORE #R123" on your credit card statement. The eBay revenue shows up as income from your eBay seller account. If your LLC is the eBay seller, the purchase is a "business inventory expense" and the revenue is "product sales." The accounting is clean this is the emergency version of the liquidation play. when you need cash in 72 hours, can't wait for Plastiq, and need more than $25K. you walk into Apple, buy everything they'll sell you, walk out, list it on eBay, and have cash in your bank by Friday. the most liquid asset in America isn't gold or bitcoin. it's a sealed iPhone lmfaooo (we get 700+ score business owners $100K-$250K in 0% business funding. how you liquidate is your business. we build the capital stack. link in bio)

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  Vasja (@VasjaBocko) reported 59 minutes ago

  @PayPal , on top of being by far the most expensive payment provider (topped only by @Klarna), you also do not offer the option to withdraw foreign currencies in anything other than our local currency (EUR). If I do want to withdraw, you force a conversion in which for about 4.000 EUR you take 150 EUR fee. Your web app being completely broken and your support useless is then the final slap in the face. Shameful.

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  Hao Jün (@haojun222) reported 60 minutes ago

  i'm Malaysian, live between NYC, Dubai, Spain, and nomad. Earn in USD, invest globally, send MYR home, trade on hyperliquid last weekend i used: -Wise (1.5% fee) -Chase bank (slow + fee) -Binance (worse rate) -Paypal -Hyperliquid (separate wallet) Paypal took $40 from my mom's birthday transfer so I'm building @tachyon_fi one app for all of it, with one API to route between all routes