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 (43%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Perth	Sign in	5 hours ago
Courbevoie	Sign in	9 hours ago
Kassel	Sign in	5 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	5 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	6 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	7 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  𝓑𝓾𝓷𝓷𝔂𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵ლ(╹◡╹ლ) (@annaplayzlove) reported 4 seconds ago

  for those who saw my cashapp post PLEASE STOP DMING ME SCAMS i know how these work u dont need a fee on cashapp bc On platforms like Cash App or PayPal, if there is a transaction fee, the platform automatically deducts it from the sent amount.....like cmon ppl. i aint slow

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹. ꕤ ｡˚ (@elysiankrow) reported 3 minutes ago

  @exactlymegs hii ⭐ I'm selling a lower bowl ticket for tomorrow and I'm willing to negotiate! axs transfer is available, I'd be down for a video call and I have PayPal :)

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  KUYIK BASSEY (@IamKuyikBassey) reported 5 minutes ago

  @paga I have being trying to link my PayPal account and it's not working. I can't find the option even after watching your video on YouTube. How can I have a working and active PayPal account in Nigeria?

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  ☔Lyam | Vgen comis OPEN☔ (@xLyamart) reported 5 minutes ago

  @SammyPhox_ Hi! I had the same problem. Wait for PayPal to transfer the money, because if you transfer it "quickly" they charge an exorbitant fee.

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  QUACK!!🪿 (@Quack_ky) reported 6 minutes ago

  We’re currently experiencing an issue with sending out order summary and payment emails. If you have placed an order but haven’t received your email yet, please send us a DM on Twitter/X at @quack_ky. We sincerely apologize for the delay and any inconvenience caused. If PayPal is your only available payment method, please kindly allow us another 3–4 days while we work to resolve the issue. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding! 🙏💖 #LEOBUNNY #スタゼノ #stanxeno

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  Kabuki_koi (@kabukikoi_) reported 16 minutes ago

  @MukyaVT The fact PayPal gave you transaction ID makes me really question Twitch. Maybe set up a bank account for payout? I’ve not had an issues in < 3 years.

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  VESPA 𓆤 (@VespenStudios) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Purple_Furplace It’s horrible to know I’m not the first one to be a thousand dollars worth costumer that she would give no damns about! The thing is that she just doesn’t care and feel like the amount of money is owed to her due to her super vague heart issues she always talk about whenever commissions are brought up… most of us artists have disabilities too— just as severe and sometimes worse, but still work hard to be a good business owner. She takes the money, dips, and accuse you of being a horrible person for telling her to please give an update. It was so heartbreaking because I wanted to give her a chance, but I lost my patience when I heard I wasn’t the only one so I gave an ultimatum…and honestly? I should have just gotten a charge back and reported her into losing her PayPal. Considering she tells people she doesn’t even have money for a $42 (!!!) dollar refund and guilt trips the person to just cancel and give up, her lack of intelligence with business is probably expanded to lack of intelligence with money…

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  Leysan Gilfanova | CFO Advisory (@CFOAnalysis) reported 22 minutes ago

  PayPal was worth $360 billion in 2021. Last month, Stripe offered $53 billion to buy the entire company. Back in 2021, that idea would have sounded ridiculous. PayPal had a massive head start. Stripe was founded 12 years later, and for most of its life, it was the much smaller company. Then, last year, for the first time, more online payments ran through Stripe than through PayPal. Today, private investors value Stripe at roughly three times PayPal. How does the company that made online payments mainstream end up here? In June, I broke down the math. PayPal earns a high fee when customers click its button at checkout. It earns a much smaller fee running credit card payments behind the scenes for other checkouts. But increasingly, customers were clicking Apple Pay or Shop Pay first. That's because the rest of the industry kept innovating: → Apple put one-tap payment into the phone → Shopify built checkout into its stores → Stripe sold businesses the tools to run payments themselves Meanwhile, PayPal spent its money elsewhere. It bought companies, including a $4 billion coupon app, and poured money into user acquisition instead of better technology. On paper, overall revenue still managed to grow every single year. But its most profitable product, the branded checkout button, completely flatlined. As margins fell, the market value dropped by 86% from its 2021 peak. At that price, Stripe could suddenly make a play for its biggest rival. In July, Stripe lined up private equity firm Advent International to help fund the bid and offered $60.50 a share in cash. PayPal's stock jumped 17% in a day. Five days later, the board said no. Too low. But the talks never stopped. The stock now trades above the offer price — the market is betting a higher bid is coming. Whatever the final number is, it will be a fraction of what PayPal was worth five years ago. That's the lesson: A business can grow every year and still fall behind. When it stops innovating and adjusting, a smaller competitor that keeps doing both can outgrow it — and maybe even be in the position to buy it. 🔔 I'm Leysan, ex-CFO who breaks down the economics behind tech companies every single week. Thank you for reading! #BusinessModel #Fintech #BusinessStrategy

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  Plugin Company (@plugincompany1) reported 23 minutes ago

  @CoFoundersNik I experienced exactly the same issue with PayPal. Had to sell the business and use a lawyer to get the funds back. Not same numbers but 100% the same experience. Money held, can't buy products, can't fulfill orders because of that, results in more chargebacks etc.

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹 (@elysiankrow) reported 26 minutes ago

  hello ⭐ I can't dm u but if you're interested I'm selling an upper bowl for the 27th!! it's available for AXS transfer, I'd be down for a video call and I have PayPal g&s :)

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  Susanna Chisholm (@SC4X_2025) reported 28 minutes ago

  @PayPal I just experienced the worst trauma. A freecreditscore just f'd me royally and managed to find a loop 🕳 to win to ach withdrawal from my PayPal account. I love your platform great app. Though. In losing. I paid back the provisional credit. Meanwhile, I felt there was deception and theft by extortion on this online business part. Just like when I was tricked to thinking I won a McDonald's $100 gift card. To think now in retrospect, McDonald's the company responsible for destruction of our rainforest. Did you know trees the length of two football fields are chopped down every hour. That's here and there. Mainly you know who else is sleeping in bed with our government. Instead of not getting the gift certificate as advertised, I got signed up with Affordable Obama Care that I was unaware off. I found this out by accident through the IRS. Just like PayPal sided with this online businesses that go phishing. I take that back. Engineering at best. You put burden of proof on me. Apparently, the business that took my $32 provided a better rebuttal. I don't get to look at their discovery. In good conscience, I paid back to PayPal. The end. For your perusal. I have already requested to close my account. But here is a caption, at my expense and humility, of why I have come to conclusion... Thank you for listening. Now I shall clean up my browser. Have a nice day.

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  Damilare (@DamilareEyan) reported 29 minutes ago

  @biggestblogger_ @PayPal @PayPal you don’t want to have problems with Nigerians Do you?

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  Not Sure (@DrRichardPitre) reported 30 minutes ago

  Anyone else having trouble killing their blood sucking PayPal account?

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  erick 🥔 (@__Joyb0y) reported 33 minutes ago

  @mygamesir Got a problem placing a preorder. I got charged but didn't get a confirmation mail, just got sent back to checkout page and nothing else happened. I used PayPal.

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  Share_Trader (@KoosKanmar) reported 33 minutes ago

  @wile_e_za Marathon Petroleum, HubSpot, IBM , PayPal and I have an order in for Veeva System lower down.

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  Mr.Something (@TheMrSomething) reported 33 minutes ago

  Comms are still closed, but since the client had a slot before I had issues with Paypal, I decided to take and finish the comm. I hate making people wait.

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  🌙SOL🦈【Shiver】 (@SolAltairVT) reported 37 minutes ago

  @demialien Artist who had to issue a refund before: you are actually given the option to refund in full or refund what you received. Any fees that were taken out by VGen/PayPal are yours to refund, if agreed to or if you choose to, since VGen and PayPal cannot release those fees themselves.

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  🩶 (@euini_) reported 37 minutes ago

  @PayPal @AskPayPal #paypal You waited until I started making more than like, twenty dollars at a time, until I received my FIRST larger commission amount, to randomly ban my account. That is incredibly predatory. 😒 I have given you every single piece of information that you’ve asked me for. I’ve given you proof of commission requests/work, my LLC/business license, my ID, my bank statements, everything, and you’ve been flagrantly ignoring me since then. I’ve reached out for an appeal and had to learn from a chat room representative that you’ve denied it. You’ve took money that I need for groceries and bills and placed it on a SIX MONTH hold over your assumption that, because I sell digital products, I’m scamming someone??? Fix the AI that bans the accounts and make this place better for independent artists please. I draw for people! I make money from that! It may not be a lot to you, but this money gives me a week of groceries to feed my entire family. At least give me the funds I deserve, for the work I’ve done.

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  Local China Man (@LocalChinaShop) reported 40 minutes ago

  STILL LOOKING FOR THAT INTERNET WIFE, PROBLEM IS THEY KEEP RUNNING AWAY. SEND ME YOUR PAYPAL IF YOU WANT SOME

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  Hande #istanbulsözleşmesiyaşatır (@bebebuskuvusu) reported 41 minutes ago

  @PayPal I cannot login no matter what. I cannot reset my password either. and no one is helping. I have money in my account and cannot reach

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  AD Sleazo AKA AD. (@adsleazo) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Underdog @UDSupport Underdog doing that dumbass paypal glitch again.

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  Susanna Chisholm (@SC4X_2025) reported 43 minutes ago

  @PayPal As a consumer never had a problem with disputes when Alex was CEO aside from logisticsof how he ran PayPal. Thanks to your new CEO, your profit ecosystem investors all happy since your new CEO, is a good thing. Oddly, seems that consumers anger about their disputes etc are more intensified since the new CEO. How could that be if everything else financially looks good with PayPal. Not making this up, after all, the 2026 FTC warning concerning consumer protections etc., there is some truth to it.

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  Sarah (@DrVermeule) reported 43 minutes ago

  @devahaz Not to give a Dutch uncle, but I thi k people may be too young and beleive SV started with PayPal mafia . I do not know 1 person prior to 98 who was a "founder" . My first job was at the maple tree Inn in sunnyvale when I was 16 checking in the tech travelers on mon pm. It was 85% Darpa/dod and 15% foreign, mainly european /Japanese. Only ever saw people sell pieces to larger corps or else everyone was a cubicle employee at bigger companies. The system fundamentally shifted from that, which IS what people refer to as SV for the love of tech, it fundamentally shifted to everyone wants to be a founder and then comes the finance. No problem...but theyre 2 diameteically oppossed operating systems. Those days. That vibe. Its gone and not possible to even have an inkling of that "spirit" becauase the raisin d'etre shifted.

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  dawgyg - Defcon (@thedawgyg) reported 44 minutes ago

  @dvnblj @0x686967 yea i was on Efnet in the mid and late 90s.. fighting tnt and glitch in IRC take over wars with tdk (those damn kids) and dznutz/kryptonic/dev and a few others.. it was fun til the massive ddos nets started popping up.. the first time mafiaboy (the kid in canada that has first recorded ddos against ecommerce circa 2000) hit me with his trin00 net it dropped my entire city.. so then i started building my own net to retaliate lol but he ended up getting arrested a couple months later for ddos'ing paypal and them

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  Vitaliy Sokolov (@askvitaliy_) reported 46 minutes ago

  @SMB_Attorney When I started in business, you had to put the card in that little manual knuckle-buster imprinter with the carbon paper. That meant the card was physically present. Back in the day, we made a photocopy of the customer's credit card and ID to verify they were actually there and check their face against the ID. People literally never disputed a charge unless their card was physically stolen, at which point they would call the bank, say they were robbed, and provide a police report. Where this all went wrong was with eBay and PayPal. Suddenly it became: "You didn't get the product" or "It's not what you expected," followed by endless disputes. That is where it all began. When it comes to smaller banks, if you send them evidence, they will actually read it. But with the top ten banks in the United States, the person reviewing your case is almost certainly overseas (like Chase having reps in the Philippines). Do you think they read it or care what you wrote? Customers claim they never received a product, so we submit the UPS label, tracking data, GPS coordinates, and the delivery photo showing the package dropped at their door. You still lose the dispute. Why? Because nobody actually reviews the evidence; they just decide at random. The entire credit card processing system is fundamentally broken, driven by two core issues: 1. Widespread customer abuse with zero accountability: Customers increasingly abuse chargebacks simply to avoid paying for items, especially high-value goods, because they know there are no consequences. Even when customers dispute a charge by accident (for example, mixing it up with other unrecognized charges) and promise via email to call their bank and fix it, they forget, and the merchant still loses. Furthermore, most businesses do not work with direct merchant acquirers; they use payment aggregators who do not fight chargebacks the same way a direct processor would. The banks simply do not care enough to fix this. 2. Outdated legacy infrastructure and evaluation: The evidence-collection and review processes are completely archaic. AI would make far better, fairer decisions analyzing dispute evidence than manual overseas reviewers. People often blame Visa or Mastercard, but chargeback decisions are made by the issuing banks. Payment processors love to label businesses as "high risk." We are not high-risk; the issue is simply that consumers buy items they do not want to pay for. If the industry had a centralized database tracking how many chargebacks an individual consumer files across cards, the "high-risk merchant" label wouldn't even need to exist, because verifying buyer legitimacy would be straightforward. Back in the day, merchant processors physically visited your business to inspect your operation and verify your inventory before giving you merchant access. Today, aggregators let anyone instantly open an account without even verifying their identity, enabling scammers to set up fake storefronts selling $50 iPhones. Then, two days later, they freeze legitimate accounts demanding identity verification out of nowhere. The entire model needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

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  AD Sleazo AKA AD. (@adsleazo) reported 46 minutes ago

  @UDSupport paypal not working for withdrawals again

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  svy ⚠︎ ⌇ 📼🧪🐾 (@svyraaaaa) reported 47 minutes ago

  open to fair offers!! can do a payment plan with down payment (will be listing price if going down that route!) paypal only c:

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  Pasha (@pashapal) reported 48 minutes ago

  @esaagar Xcancel / nitter received cease and desist letters on 8/24 as well. Wonder if the PayPal mafia is shutting down the monopolized peasant internet before midterms: On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.

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  Thomas (@ThomasOyxxx) reported 54 minutes ago

  𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞. Culture isn’t designed. It’s discovered, usually by accident. A toy photo, a broken render, a nickname that stuck. That’s how $FEFER was born. Not from a whitepaper, not from a marketing plan. From CT deciding a jaw that never loaded was funnier than anything a team could have scripted. ➜ First launch failed ➜ Team stepped back ➜ Community didn’t That sequence matters more than people give it credit for. Most memes die the moment the original push loses steam. Fefer got a second life because the people holding it treated the token like it was worth continuing, not restarting. ➜ Relaunched on @coinsdot + @Stable ➜ Snapshot of 4,827 original holders ➜ Airdropped directly, no claim forms, nobody left behind That’s not a small detail. Snapshotting the original holders instead of starting a fresh cap table is the difference between “new project borrowing an old joke” and “same community, new chapter.” Where it stands right now: ➜ $3.9M market cap ➜ $569K liquidity ➜ Live on a USDT-powered L1 backed by Bitfinex and PayPal Ventures Stable is still early. Its identity is still being written in real time, and the projects active in it now are the ones that end up shaping what people associate with the chain later. $FEFER isn’t trying to win on utility. It’s trying to win on being unforgettable, and a meme that survives its own failed launch and still gets airdropped back to the exact people who believed in it the first time is hard to forget. Nobody decides which meme becomes the face of a chain. The timeline does. 👀 Fefer didn’t restart. Fefer continued. CA: 0xDEeE8f25fe3B5C33AeF78637278ACBFF23EeBFa6 Always DYOR and verify the contract before interacting. @savefefer

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹. ꕤ ｡˚ (@elysiankrow) reported 58 minutes ago

  @journalstears hii ⭐ if you can't find a ga and you'd be interested in an upper bowl let me know! I have PayPal and I'd be down for a video call for proof :)