Paypal status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: sign in, errors and website down.
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.
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.
September 3: Problems at Paypal
Paypal is having issues since 10:40 AM AEST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!
Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.
- Sign in (45%)
- Errors (32%)
- Website Down (23%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:
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Errors | 22 hours ago |
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Sign in | 1 day ago |
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Website Down | 3 days ago |
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Sign in | 3 days ago |
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Website Down | 5 days ago |
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Paypal Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Chaos🔞Comms Open (@ChaosReverb) reported@Aerea_caeles No, actually I don't have that message, but I know who it is because of the comms. The biggest problem that theme from the PayPal and socialmedia theft (which I never got back my PayPal, because according to PayPal I am not me) is that person blocked many people on my social media and deleted entire chats, in addition to changing the passwords and emails. So I didn't even get the full conversations and when I recovered my accounts, I could never contact them again on Twitter because I never found them to explain what happened, and they never responded to me on Instagram either. Obviously, I contacted as many people as I could.
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GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) reported@JKhrushche10538 @linuxuser1996 We already provided a clear solution for the bug recently introduced by PayPal above. If you don't tell us what isn't working then there's no way for us to directly help with it. We can only guess what you're trying to do and what's not set up properly to cause an issue.
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Dhark (@traceytina16) reported@Safaricom_Care @SafaricomPLC we need to understand where our money is disappearing to since you don’t want to clarify what the problem is. It has now been over a week and nothing. On @PayPal money was transferred but it is only your app that says it’s pending ffs
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jinowns (@Jinowns87) reportedHere's another neat trick I do every year. If you have paypal, you can break down the entire cost into 4 payments. Meaning you pay 25% percent now while PayPal pays the merchant the entire amount and then you can make payments every 2 weeks. Doooo iiiittttt!!
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Expose the Diddycrats (@Diddycrats_suck) reportedJust canceled my @PAYPAL acct. Cust SVC is ALL AI, terrible CO that WON"T help u. BEWARE!
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Ben Po (@bens_report) reported@LindaRaschke PayPal 4 days pf3 down. Will it at least get a low to high day today? Hahaha
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GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) reported@TechX1320 @linuxuser1996 PayPal works on GrapheneOS with the per-app compatibility mode. It recently started requiring disabling secure spawning but works fine with the other defaults. It's a bug in PayPal's anti-tampering code and they'll likely fix it soon. It's unrelated to it not working elsewhere.
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Mimi (@mimicomments) reported@DrewPavlou Perhaps you could set up something simple like a buy me a coffee or paypal me link so people can support you directly. The Flynn issue seems hopeless for now. I hope that can eventually get resolves but seems you need to have a way for people to support you in general:
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🌙 Baiyue & Maowa!! 🐈⬛ (FLOOF model out NOW!!) (@BaiyueMaowa) reported@RedMaster787 With the whole misandrist review drama + paypal issues I had, VGen probably is so tired of me HAHA I would hate to bother them again for something that is so silly 😭
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Kali 🔞 (@domocup7eleven) reportedPayPal ******* shutting down my account cuz it’s been inactive apparently (it hasnt been, AT ALL)
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HypaValley | Algorithmic Trading (@HypaValley) reportedPYPL -14% over two sessions as Stripe/Advent walk away from $53B bid PayPal fell 12.71% on Friday, Aug. 28, when the walkaway news broke, then another 1.85% on Monday, Aug. 31. Cumulatively, that’s roughly 14.3% from Thursday’s close through Monday’s close as Bloomberg News reported that payment processor Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have abandoned their planned $53 billion acquisition of the fintech giant. Stripe and Advent had previously offered $60.50 per share; talks broke down after the bidders and PayPal's board failed to agree on a higher valuation. The collapse leaves PayPal to pursue an independent turnaround under new CEO Enrique Lores amid intensifying competition from digital payment platforms and slower organic growth. The drop erases months of deal-related gains and forces investors to reassess PayPal's standalone operational progress and profitability outlook. Two investment banks have slashed price targets in response, with Mizuho cutting its target to $51 and Loop Capital to $50, both citing competitive pressures and execution risk. Investors should monitor whether PayPal management explores alternative strategic options or accelerates its cost restructuring to restore investor confidence. #PYPL
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srwhite (COMMS OPEN) (@Srwhiteoficial) reportedokkk i have some problems with my paypal soo...
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Solemn Bhoi (@waseemm09) reportedHey @PayPal @AskPayPal @PayPal_Open plz Check Dispute: PP-R-RQN-642414527. You didn't solve after giving proffs & you just skip solution date 31 Aug. To 09 sep. Why bro? Plz solve the issue ASAP from your side.
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AMOS BLACKFIRE (@amoblackfire) reported@GOAT72573384663 @PayPal I have the same issue, since date 21 august, still pending
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Charles Steiner (@NickCrum111) reported@solari_the They say cash is king, and it does grant you more freedom than a credit card or a PayPal account. Trouble is . . . products are not always available locally to buy with cash . . and online purchasing betrays your privacy.
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Glorious God (@GloriousGod01) reportedHOW TO CREATE AND SELL AN EBOOK IN NIGERIA You do not need to be a professional writer to create an ebook. You just need to know something useful that other people want to learn. Here is the full process from idea to income: - Step 1: Pick a topic that solves a specific problem: The more specific your topic, the better it sells. "How to Register a Business Name with CAC in 2026" will outsell "How to Start a Business in Nigeria" every time. Think about what people ask you frequently, what you know well, or what you spent time learning that others would pay to skip. - Step 2: Write it: Use Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Write in simple, clear language. It does not need to be long. A 20 to 50 page ebook that solves one specific problem is more valuable than a 200 page ebook that rambles. Write like you are explaining to a friend. - Step 3: Design the cover: Go to Canva (canva. com) and search for ebook cover templates. Pick one, add your title and name, and download it. Free and takes less than 10 minutes. - Step 4: Convert to PDF: Once your ebook is ready in Word or Google Docs, export it as a PDF. That is the format you will sell. Go to File, then Download, then PDF Document. - Step 5: Upload and sell on Selar Go to selar. co and create a free seller account. Click Add Product, choose Digital Product, upload your PDF, write a clear description, set your price in naira or dollars, and publish. Selar handles payment collection and delivers the ebook automatically to your buyer. Payouts land in your Nigerian bank account the next business day for naira sales. You can also sell on Gumroad (gumroad. com) which takes a flat 10 percent per sale and pays via PayPal. Most Nigerian sellers access their Gumroad earnings through Payoneer. - Step 6: Promote it Share your Selar link on your WhatsApp status, X, Instagram, and any group you belong to. Your first sale almost always comes from people who already know and trust you. Offer a launch discount to create urgency and ask a few people to share your link as affiliates. Selar has a built-in affiliate feature you can activate for free. You do not need a large following. Nigerian creators with 500 engaged WhatsApp contacts consistently earn more than those with 50,000 cold social media followers. Create once. Sell forever. Start today. Above all, love God.
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Mike Boysen (JTBD/acc) (@mikeboysen) reportedMost people never see the inversion coming. They see the crash. The coup. The empty bank account. The factory that will not ship. Then they analogize: more staff, more robots, more of last year’s stack. Innovators do the opposite. They stay in the problem until the cost curve breaks. PayPal ousted Musk in 2000 for pushing a rebrand and a Unix-to-Windows NT migration. He did not wage a public war. He stayed a shareholder. eBay paid $1.5 billion in 2002. His ~11.7% stake — about $180 million — funded SpaceX and Tesla. By late 2008 both companies were days from death. Three Falcon 1 failures. Tesla about to miss payroll. One last rocket. Flight 4 worked on September 28. NASA signed $1.6 billion in December. He put his remaining cash into a $20 million Tesla bridge that closed Christmas Eve. Analogical thinking said “stop.” Physics said “one more launch.” Reusable first stages. Manual labor where the robots jammed. 5,000 Model 3s a week after he ripped out the over-automated line and slept on the floor. 75% of Twitter’s headcount gone so the cost of running the network inverted. That is not grit as a slogan. That is inverting labor, capital, and infrastructure until unit economics work. Follow people who have innovated at least once. Not the ones narrating the next analog. I built a platform to help average people think like that before you commit the capital. More on that soon. This is 100% a real interview LOL
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Ronald Britton (@Ronaldp38dy) reported@JayJayasuriya Permanent shutdown with zero explanation is such a hard place to be, no reason means no way to even fix whatever triggered it. Hope @AskPayPal actually gives you something concrete soon.
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OsoToro (@SystematicToro) reported💰+$421.72💰 $FLYE $GPRO $SSM Took out a $9k loan to fund my account, $8.5k got deposited after PayPal fees. Only taking system trades and not going stupid size so I don't blow up. I can't afford to lose this money and pay the payment on it. Slow start on the first day, unfortunately $SSM and $FLYE ramped back EoD otherwise would have been a great start. Previous Account Size: $8,500.53 Current Account Size: $8,922.25
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Stephen Urbanik (@UrbanikStephen) reported@BestBallJunkie @Underdog Well a free PayPal debit card would solve the problem here
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A.M. (@steelballrunner) reportedCrap, do I HAVE to submit some kind of photo ID to get my new Stripe/Kofi account to work? I said no to that for two whole years and my old Paypal account got shut down last week.
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Odogwu Herself (@IdaraImeh) reportedLook at the timeline and something clicks. May 2025, Coinbase drops x402 so agents can pay per request. September 2025, Google launches AP2 with over 60 partners including Mastercard and PayPal. January 2026, ERC-8004 hits Ethereum mainnet, almost 39,000 agents register in 90 days. May 2026, @Concordium’s Agent Registry goes live. June 2026, Proof introduces x401 to handle identity proof. That's five major pieces of agent infrastructure landing across just over a year, and the gaps between them keep shrinking. Payment, identity proof, runtime management, persistent registry, verified human anchor, each one built by a different team without waiting for the others to finish first. Nobody planned one unified system. It's assembling itself in public, piece by piece, weeks apart instead of years apart. That pace alone tells you something about how seriously the industry is taking this problem right now.
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Compsci Guy🇺🇲 (@compsciman) reported@linuxuser1996 Enable protection compatibility. Then temporarily set your password manager to none. Open PayPal. Login. Set your password manager back to the previous value. Close PayPal. Verify that you can open it again
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saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported@m4xlesbian they're trying to shut down the donations system (attempting to report to paypal and other portals that AO3 accepts donations from about the "depraved works" hosted by the website)
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NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reportedAnd Bridgett has to drive down to Santa Fe on Thursday for an appointment, and needs $150 to cover gas/food/related costs: Venmo: @ bridgetttru17 PayPal: @ bridgett190
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rinky ✦ COMMS OPEN (@rinkilly) reportedSB: $45 MI: $10 AB: $250 + any changes • Comment or DM to claim • Payment via Lavatop(PayPal or credit card) • Payment plans and holds are available with a down payment and for AB only • Auction ends 48 hours after last bid
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紅葉MOMICHI 🔜VeXpo (@momichiword) reported@cloverclubcos If it’s not too much trouble!!! I’d really appreciate it if you could help me with this. I can pay for the item and shipping via PayPal, and I also have a forwarding warehouse that can ship it to Taiwan for me, which should be a little cheaper than shipping it directly🥹
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Robert Wylde (@Real_Wylde) reported@divoraartstudio If you call me the name you see on the PayPal it’s over. I will use my finite resources to hunt you down and slap you silly until you stop.
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Meiya✨🍉 (@exqired_) reported@BreazyBash Tryin to snatch one but PayPal is giving me so many issues it says it blocked my bank from some bullshit, all I did was try linking my bank 💔💔 I just want my gem💔💔
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glo霞★ 🌽⚡️🌙 (@chiweis) reportedI mean I did click the link but it required me to login to my PayPal but I didn’t so that shouldn’t be a problem right? I changed my password anyway just in case