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 (41%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Kassel	Sign in	7 hours ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	12 hours ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	1 day ago
Arumpo	Sign in	2 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	4 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  미치광이 헛소리 (@MurofInsanity_) reported 26 seconds ago

  @saimai_000 excuse me. Are you planning to sell online overseas? I don't mind how much the shipping cost is... The remittance is a little problem for this, I can overseas money transfer or using PayPal... I'm really curious about this book🥹💦 I would appreciate it if you could consider it

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  Bill Crowell (@n4hpg) reported 3 minutes ago

  @GeorgeGammon I watched your discussion with @philippilk about USD as a reserve currency with great interest. You gentlemen are both right, but I point out that people change systems reluctantly at first, but then suddenly. Nobody knows this better than software developers like me. Making the transition for even better systems like moving from Windows to Mac is a pain at first until it isn't. Sending wire transfers through Swift is a PAIN IN THE ***. It's also slow. One could say it has a lot of friction. PayPal has low friction. I'm hearing that CIPS is a low friction system. Will CIPS become trusted? That's the key. China is the world's manufacturer. She consumes raw materials and produces finished goods. It make sense to engage in transactions in RMB when possible if it is convenient. Where the Chinese appear to be building a better reserve system is via #Gold. If one can transact in RMB and have frictionless reserves in gold, that would be an attractive system. Lastly, there's resentment. Because of the behavior of the USA in sanctions and seizures of USD by foreign actors, there is great resentment building against the USA. We now have large parts of the planet that hate us for stealing their money. All eyes on China.

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  TheBitcoinBaby (@bitcoinbabyswfl) reported 9 minutes ago

  Brother… you’re melting down on the timeline over a declined payment.Nobody “begged” you for anything your bank flagged your own transaction, we offered solutions, you blocked every number, and now you’re performing tough-guy karaoke on X.If you’re going to talk like a villain, at least make sure the screenshots don’t show you panicking over Apple Pay, PayPal, CashApp, and a card decline in the same hour.I run a company. You ran from a conversation.Stay safe out there, keyboard warrior.

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  KJ (@KJ1981ya) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Mickskinz Just go to PayPal login Forgot password They'll send link to email to create a new one.

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  Ame ʚ✞ɞ (@amechnn) reported 14 minutes ago

  @pwurfects oh my god what 😭 i never had that problem, also paypal is literally for adults why does it matter if u do these kind of purchases

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  KJ (@KJ1981ya) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Mickskinz You changed it? I had that issue with my old PayPal, couldn't figure it out, ended up having to make a new one with diff email address....

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  The maestro (@maestroslay) reported 15 minutes ago

  Elon Musk sat on a conference sofa in November 2008 with both his companies weeks from running out of money and the credit markets frozen shut. Lehman had collapsed 8 weeks earlier. No investor in the room was writing cheques for an electric car startup. Tesla had laid off staff in October and was down to a balance that would not clear another payroll cycle. Watch how he handles the funding question. He is being asked to defend a business that had already burned through most of what he made at PayPal. The Model S existed as a plan and a price nobody believed, and the Roadster was shipping in small numbers at a loss per car. Six weeks after this conversation the Tesla round closed on Christmas Eve. He was on a sofa arguing for a company he was days from losing.

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  Jason Skadsen (@OptimisticJ33) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Kalshi This is an early-stage report, not a product launch. CoinDesk says 𝕏 is in talks about paying creators in stablecoins (Circle’s USDC is the example named). The source is one person familiar with the discussions who also works with other platforms testing the same idea. 𝕏 has not confirmed anything. Treat it as a live option under review, not a done deal. What is actually changing? Great question… Two separate things are being mixed together: 1. Confirmed: 𝕏 is killing Revenue Sharing. New enrollments already stopped. The old program ends September 7; the last payouts land around September 11. It is replaced by Original Content Rewards, which is supposed to pay for original ideas, reporting, expertise, and commentary instead of ad-impression farming. 2. Unconfirmed: How those new rewards get sent. Today payouts go through Stripe or 𝕏 Money. Stablecoins would be another rail, not the new rewards program itself. Nothing in 𝕏’s official creator announcement mentions crypto. Why would they even consider it? Again, great question… Creator payouts are a messy, global, small-dollar problem. Bank wires, local rails, FX spreads, and minimums eat a lot of what mid-tier creators actually receive especially outside the US. Stablecoins (market cap now over $300 billion) settle in minutes, in dollars, without a correspondent bank in every country. That is the same reason $SPCX already uses them for some Starlink payments in “long-tail” markets. 𝕏 hiring Benji Taylor (ex-Coinbase Base, wallets/DeFi) in March fits the same direction. 𝕏 Money is already rolling to a slice of Premium+ users. YouTube already lets some US creators take PayPal’s PYUSD. Meta has started paying selected creators in USDC on Solana and Polygon. 𝕏 would not be first; it would be the largest social app to try it at scale.

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  Pasco Sheriff (@PascoSheriff) reported 19 minutes ago

  Pasco Sheriff’s Office is aware of several warrant scams. The scammer claims to be a Pasco Sheriff’s Office member or other local government employee informing the potential victim that they have a warrant and have to pay a fee. These payments are made through gift cards, PayPal, Bitcoin, Zelle, and other similar accounts. The scammer will provide PSO’s closed Grove location to appear authentic and spoof a number associated with PSO, such as our general information line. PSO will never contact individuals for any form of payment to resolve issues, criminal or otherwise. PSO stresses that these messages are not legitimate.

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  Alam Aguilera Couto (@AlamCouto) reported 20 minutes ago

  @abdwaleed92 I don't know if you saw my message. I tried to donate to your GoFundMe. But I couldn't. I tried to donate to your brothers Paypal. But I couldn't. I asked around and someone said there had been recurring problems with donating to GoFundMe Chuffed has always worked with me

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  Moyrith (@moyrith) reported 22 minutes ago

  @DeVeyrn yeah, i’ve already seen around 100 people reach checkout and leave without buying. maybe PayPal isn't the only problem here

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  Multi (@Multi_mike01) reported 23 minutes ago

  The agentic economy didn't arrive gradually. It arrived all at once. NVIDIA sized the agentic AI opportunity at $1 trillion. Google launched AP2 with over 60 partners including Mastercard, PayPal, and Visa. OpenAI and Stripe shipped an Agentic Commerce Protocol directly inside ChatGPT checkout. All of that happened within the last eighteen months. The capability side of this equation has scaled faster than anyone predicted. Agents are already booking flights, managing portfolios, signing agreements, and initiating payments without a human approving each step. The trust infrastructure hasn't moved at anywhere near the same pace. Society spent over twenty years handing data to applications through the internet. Now agents are being handed the keys to money and decisions, and the accountability layer that should have been built first is still being assembled after the fact. @Concordium's MCP server allows an agent to check, before interacting, whether its counterparty carries a verified identity and what that verification guarantees. Machine-readable accountability for machine-speed transactions. Capability scaling without trust infrastructure isn't a technical gap. It's a liability that compounds every time a new agent goes live without a verified human behind it. #Concordium #ConcordiumAmbassador

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  Jon Randell Smith (@jonrandellsmith) reported 28 minutes ago

  Wise, Payoneer and PayPal are all complicit in the annihilation of Palestinians: They've been shutting down accounts used by Palestinians to survive in Gaza as well as those who've been displaced outside of Gaza. Happened to someone I've been supporting yesterday (again)

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  Lady Sif Avellana🔥 🐿️ Massive Nuts Vtuber (@MassiveNutsSif) reported 28 minutes ago

  Hi @TwitchSupport i just recently moved and had to redo my onboarding again. Back in 2021 when i did the onboarding the first time i was forced to choose Paypal, as one of your fields for local bank transfer is a drop down menu instead of manual fill in. This is relevant for me as a sole proprietor, as my tax forms use my legal name but my bank account is a company account registered with the company name. I wanted to see if it would be possible for me now to use SEPA, as you recently advertised it could save EU streamers some money on fees... HOWEVER I'm still forced to use PayPal, is there any way you could help me with this? Note i did write Twitch Support back in 2021 as well...

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  Wil Marren (@king_o_whales) reported 29 minutes ago

  My PayPal got permanently deactivated :/... can I make a new one without getting in trouble? The weird thing is That i wasnt using it either and only found out about it because I did need to use it...

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  Jayden (@Jayden6411742) reported 29 minutes ago

  @_KenjiTheRonin @Luxvozz Well that's great to hear. One problem. I have no idea how to use PayPal. Since I never used it once in my entire life.

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  Ridark (@ridark_eth) reported 29 minutes ago

  The entire world launch market was about $4 billion a year. He stood in front of Stanford students and said his rocket would fly for about $6 million a flight, against a competitor charging many times that this is Elon Musk in October 2003 – introduced as the guy from PayPal, because that is all he was SpaceX is one year old in this room. No Falcon has flown. Tesla does not exist yet as anything you would recognise he divides the whole market by the number of flights and reads the number out loud, the way you would check a bill on why the price had never come down: he says nobody had tried to build the vehicle and the engine and the avionics in one building, so every rocket carried four companies' margins no slides worth the name – a room of maybe a hundred students – a man in a black shirt who has not yet been photographed a million times this recording exists because Stanford filmed its entrepreneurship course for a teaching archive and put it out free bookmark & watch today ↓

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  Koop Designs (@koop_designs05) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Solyant1 @StopKilingGames I mean yeah, the point of the coin is for the guy to make money. No one is denying that lmao, he's making money through a pretty untraceable mean so Take Two lawyers can't track him down easily from donation collections You want them to link their legal PayPal instead?

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  Akp.eth {unemployed arc} (@akp_eth) reported 30 minutes ago

  @lechriss17 georestrictions is a very big problem tbh, imagine being blocked by @PayPal and @moonpay

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  Black Beret (@BlackBeret3) reported 32 minutes ago

  This is actually pretty good for China travel. When I was in China, the only QR code payment processors were Alipay and Weixin Pay. If the vendor accepts Alipay, there’s almost never a problem, but if the vendor only accepted Weixin Pay, there was a lot of problems getting my US financial institution to approve the transaction. So I would either have to use cash or switch to a credit card if Weixin Pay wasn’t working. So PayPal being allowed to be used in China will reduce a lot of headache for foreign travelers. Though you absolutely should set up a WeChat account prior to travel for more efficient communication with Chinese contacts.

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  ㅇㄸㅇᩚ (@stilljm_o37) reported 34 minutes ago

  @RllyMyHope It seems like it’s not working right now… They said it would take some time to fix it. Also, I noticed that Wise was newly added as a payment option instead of PayPal. I was able to purchase it through Weidian, though…

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  Under Exile57 (@under_exile57) reported 38 minutes ago

  According to cyberleek chips It Can Be Used In Clubs And GTA 6 Online Server Owners Can Disable The Chips App If They Want Chips Can Be Traded To Real Life Money via Banks Also PayPal (can/might) Be One Of The Payment Methods

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Jason______A @PayPal @AskPayPal nobody has a rep, thats the whole problem. theres no named human to escalate to at consumer tier, which is why 39 people here have the same story and none of them end differently

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  Odd (@Perioddical) reported 47 minutes ago

  @mullinsverse @lukellios they’ve not replied to any of my emails either so I’ve opted to open a PayPal case before it’s too late as my issues date was August 24th (my item was delivered though, just with a lot of inconsistencies to the mockup and damage for a preorder grade + lack of emails), good luck

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  TeddyDeadyBear (@teddydeadybear) reported 51 minutes ago

  Man I got an email from PayPal that I had some refund thing and I did a bit of research first to make sure the refund was real and also checked the email and saw it was the real one but after clicking the link and logging in to claim my money I’m worried I got scammed cause I didn’t receive anything and I’m worried it was a login info steal attempt and now I feel super stupid for even logging in through a link to begin with whether it was a scam or not. I really hope it isn’t a scam and it’s legit but me being in need of cash right now made me behave stupid

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  emilia heard ivy live!! (@emiliatmy) reported 51 minutes ago

  painfully sadly crying screaming SELLING 1x ariana grande silver vip ticket for the 27th august london… i paid 359€ so around £308 !! paypal g&s is no problem, can also meet up at the arena today if u want but only today cause i’m leaving tomorrow morning!

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  mau (@fuckingeats) reported 51 minutes ago

  i’m selling a ticket (sec 412) for ariana grande in london 24th august.🫶🏻 i have no problem to do paypal g&s! dm! #arianagrande

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  Chris Shipley (@shipleycgm) reported 53 minutes ago

  This is an awful experience, and why the convenience of payment processors like PayPal are not in your favor if you experience trouble like this. American Express credit card? Easy chargeback. Also be wary of debit cards, they don't operate the same way as credit cards.

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  nekocha isnt going outside for another 6 months (@nekochanui) reported 58 minutes ago

  I immediately send my paypal money to one of my bank accs bcs i dont trust paypal with all the issues i've heard of artists not being able to access their money anymore.... I wish vgen would just hold it for me and give the payout when the comm is done

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  toyalana (@toyalana) reported 59 minutes ago

  i gotta fix my paypal so i can do comms