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 (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Ajaccio	Sign in	5 hours ago
Arumpo	Sign in	17 hours ago
Sydney	Sign in	3 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	3 days ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Sign in	3 days ago
Ciudad Jardín	Errors	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Zombie John Gotti 🐗 (@ZombieJohnGotti) reported 49 seconds ago

  @CyborgPeds I see the problem. He should have used PayPal.

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  Arizoft Games (@arizoftgames) reported 2 minutes ago

  I need to stress that this is NOT Anti-X on my part. This is constructive criticism: this is clearly something that's broken (another follow of mine is getting almost all of her posts blurred, including a static photo of a kitten). And I'm currently going to have to ask PayPal Credit for a refunds on an xAI Supergrok that has been being billed two months after I canceled it. It's not unreasonable to ask for guarantees of safety and to fix demonstrable failures that could block access to private property before committing our money to you, even in an app we like and yse daily.

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  Loïc Vee (@loic_vee) reported 4 minutes ago

  Third time this year a payments giant bought or built a piece of the agent stack: • PayPal shipped Agent Ready (ACP + UCP via Braintree) • Shopify built UCP natively • Now Stripe — ACP co-author — owns model routing too The stack is being assembled top-down.

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  James Morris (@JamesMorri69549) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Venmo @PayPal Venmo is a joke they never help you with your problems on here I left a message yesterday yet they don’t respond also it’s kind stupid they don’t have emails to email them smh

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  FarhanX_AI (@FarhanBuildsAI) reported 7 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  PW (@PenfoldWay) reported 8 minutes ago

  @godd3s_tx You wanna reply on instagram or am i gonna report a problem to paypal and ill make this a problem all over your x account

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  Carson Morell (@MorellCarson) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Tyler_Plummer @alexisohanian @altxyzofficial Have thought a lot about this. A few people have tried it on smaller scale - I think it would have to come from REIND/YC/TBPN or similar to get enough buy in from the people on the cards. even then, very little overlap with the average card collector and people who care about startups and venture. Pre-seed raises akin to rookie cards, companies to teams, limited signed runs, original merch swatches on cards. Unfortunately, the ship has sailed on a lot of the cards that would be worth something. Examples: SBF FTX seed round, Palmer Luckey Oculus, Elon PayPal would all have to be retroactively created and would be far less desirable than if they were made at the time. Last issue with it - there’s not a definable number of startups each year. Drawing the line on who gets a card and who doesn’t is hard without defined teams and rosters like they have for sports. Lots of companies and founders go under the radar before they’re common knowledge and would not even have rookie card equivalents because the card company wouldn’t know about them at the time of inception.

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  JesterVT (@JesterVT_) reported 8 minutes ago

  @chiaki_tsune @luckymayachie @shushitweet I got replies going from still finishing a previous comm, all over to being sick and having problems. After a whole 8 weeks had gone by, I issued a complaint with paypal and got my money back.

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  Mirage (@dontstopmirage) reported 11 minutes ago

  In 2003 Elon Musk gave his first talk as a newly rich man, 4 years after selling Zip2 for $300 million and 1 year after eBay paid $1.5 billion for PayPal, and he spent it explaining how he would fly a rocket for $6 million. 8 years earlier he had negative money. He deferred a physics PhD at Stanford in 1995 and told his professor he'd give it a couple of quarters. The professor said he wouldn't be coming back. That was the last conversation they had. He couldn't afford an office and a place to live at the same time, so he rented the office, slept on a futon, and showered at the YMCA on Page Mill and El Camino. A tiny ISP sat one floor below. He drilled a hole through the floor, ran a null modem cable down to it, and bought internet for 100 bucks a month. 6 people total. 3 of them salespeople hired on contingency off a newspaper ad. Half the calls started with "what's the internet." The burn rate was so small the revenue covered it, so when he walked into a VC meeting he could say the company was cash flow positive. Compaq paid in cash in early 1999. At xcom the hard part was banking, brokerage and insurance stacked into one page. Months of work. Demos got polite nods. The side feature took about a day: type an email address, send money. That one got the "wow." So he pointed the whole company at the thing that took a day. 1 million customers by the end of year 2, no sales force, no VP of marketing, $0 on advertising. Then he asked why nothing had moved since Apollo. 3 trips to Moscow to price a refurbished ICBM. The shuttle burning $4 billion a year across 4 flights, close to $1 billion each, while Soyuz flew for $60 million. His answer had no silver bullet in it. 30 people. Ethernet instead of copper bundles as thick as your arm. Hundreds of small cuts that land at $6 million a flight against $25 million from the nearest rival. Same hole in the floor. Bigger building.

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  #BuckeyeNation (@Buckeyefanohio7) reported 18 minutes ago

  Someone out there want help me out with 4,000 to help me fix my friends 2013 Chey SVU she's a single mom with kids ! I got cashapps like venmo and PayPal! #whatup #DemonDarling @MrBeast

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  FunkyLion 'Yuyake' (@Funky90sLion) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Emistations @PayPal @AskPayPal I remember facing this same problem, all because someone put a message in the transaction (Yeah. Any message they put there just straight up screws your acc). I ended up having to switch to a new email and a Paypal Business acc.

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  Emdad Shaikh (@Emdad_AI) reported 24 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  Folf (@itsfolf) reported 24 minutes ago

  @panley01 the issue is usually that PayPal hates anything remotely nsfw, not just doing business if you hit manual review they'll want to look at where the payments are coming from and see your accounts

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  Matt Hunter (@MattHunterCoach) reported 25 minutes ago

  The best decision PayPal ever made came out of a clash between its leaders. Max Levchin wanted to build security software for Palm Pilots.  Peter Thiel saw limited market potential and pushed back hard.  Neither softened the message. Neither backed down easily. Out of that collision came a pivot to sending money over email that led to a $1.5 billion acquisition by eBay. Reid Hoffman described the culture simply: "We had a culture of arguing to improve the idea. It wasn't personal. It was about making the best product possible." That's the model. Fight for your position, stay open to being wrong, and let the best idea win. When talented people argue honestly toward the truth, great things get built.

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  SokoAnalyst (@SokoAnalyst) reported 26 minutes ago

  Something is clearly not right with how Kenya is being viewed by the global financial system. Sendwave and Wise have started restricting some services to Kenyans. Hurupay pulled out. Some PayPal users have also faced restrictions. Then, almost at the same time, police in Uasin Gishu recover KSh2.6 million in cash and what they say is US$259 million in suspected fake dollar notes. These may be separate issues, but you cannot just brush them aside. Kenya is already on the FATF grey list over concerns around money laundering and weaknesses in financial controls. So when global payment firms start becoming cautious about Kenya, while police are making such huge counterfeit currency seizures, people are going to ask questions. And the people who suffer first are not the big names in government. It is the freelancer waiting for payment from abroad. It is the small business importing stock. It is the family depending on remittances. It is the young Kenyan trying to work online and get paid. Once trust in a country’s financial system starts taking a hit, everything becomes harder and more expensive. Kenya needs to take this seriously. We cannot keep talking about becoming a regional financial hub while international payment companies are becoming more uncomfortable dealing with us. Trust is very easy to lose and painfully difficult to rebuild.

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  Shabana Mir (@shabanamir1) reported 32 minutes ago

  @SulalaSociety did @PayPal fix the problem? Are you getting donations?

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  vanillacream (@0xvanillacream) reported 37 minutes ago

  @AmorphousMajik PayPal trouble right as commissions reopen is rough. Is the issue an account limit, a payout hold, or needing a backup checkout method? Happy to share alternatives.

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  Herebus 💧 (@Herebus_) reported 39 minutes ago

  @MTBbronco @J0hnADouglas @Adobe Same issue with Amazon, clicked cancel multiple times, but I had the payment through paypal, which could easily be cancelled.

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  iyla ⟢ (@saintiyla) reported 39 minutes ago

  trying to figure out another way around this in the meantime, paypal said it’s an error and they’re looking into it but it’ll take a while to clear 😥

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 42 minutes ago

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  rinky ✦ COMMS OPEN (@rinkilly) reported 46 minutes ago

  SB: $85 MI: $5 AB: $350 + any changes • Comment or DM to claim • Payment via Lavatop(PayPal or credit card) • Payment plans and holds are available with a down payment • Auction ends 48 hours after last bid

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  Downtown Freddie Brown (@SmallsObi) reported 48 minutes ago

  @CloutedRandom @coinbase @CoinbaseSupport Mines not with them but the website I used goes to Paypal and its defo a paypal issue

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  Derrick Jones (@deuceohsixx) reported 50 minutes ago

  @kurlyshark @PayPal You couldn’t be an Uber Eats or DoorDash driver. Both apps make you scan your face most times to sign in to deliver.

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  Ame ʚ✞ɞ (@amechnn) reported 51 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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  Ella-jane Field (@EllaaNurse) reported 53 minutes ago

  @giffgaff site says i can only add credit. i want to buy a plan. brings this up but also wont let me press anything. paypal also not working. Don’t have any other devices.

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  El Croco (@tweri21) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care paypal to mpesa has been down almost the whole day. what`s wrong?

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  MironAi (@Miron_Ai) reported 57 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel is worth over $20 billion and he tells students that competition is for losers. He earned the right to say it. In 2004 he wrote a $500,000 check to a 19-year-old for 10.2% of Facebook - the first outside money that company ever took. He sold most of it for over a billion. Before that he cofounded PayPal, before that he was a failed Supreme Court clerkship candidate who quit corporate law after seven months. His argument in this lecture is one line long. All happy companies are different because each earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same - they failed to escape competition. Google makes about 30% margins. Airlines fight each other into the ground. Perfect competition is a synonym for zero profit. He wants you to build something nobody can copy.

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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 58 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel co-founded a company for $10,000. Four years later, eBay bought it for $1.5 billion. He says almost none of that came from doing what everyone else was already doing. Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir. In a Chicago Ideas talk called Going from Zero to One, he laid out the framework from his bestselling book — and it cuts against almost everything startup culture teaches. There are two ways to grow, he says. Horizontal — copying what already works, 1 to n. Vertical — doing something that's never existed, 0 to 1. Globalization is the first kind. Technology is the second. Here's the part that should bother you. Thiel says competition is not the opposite of capitalism. It's the enemy of it. A business making zero economic profit in a competitive market can't invest in R&D, can't pay employees well, can't plan more than a quarter ahead. Monopoly — not competition — is what generates the profit that funds the next leap forward. Google's search share has sat above 90% for years. Its margins have stayed enormous the entire time. That's not an accident of scale. That's the entire model. Most founders won't say the word "monopoly" out loud. Thiel says that's the tell. The ones who deny they have one usually don't — they're marketing themselves for antitrust lawyers, not customers. Then the line that separates his framework from every generic pitch-deck slide. "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Not a hot take. Not contrarianism for its own sake. A truth that's actually true, that the market hasn't priced in yet. He says most founders can describe their business plan. Almost none of them can answer that question. If they can't, they're building a 1-to-n company — competing in a crowded field, racing margins to zero. PayPal in 1999 wasn't fighting banks head-on. It found a tiny, underserved niche — internet-native micropayments — dominated it completely, then expanded outward. Thiel calls this "start with a monopoly in a small market." Not because small is safe. Because ********** is the whole point, and ********** only happens at a scale you can actually control first. Save this one. Every "best practice" in business was built by someone who broke one first — and never wrote down how.

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  Winston (@CryptoWinnies) reported 59 minutes ago

  @eliana_jordan @kwawmannanjnr a major problem for sure. Paypal is not known for robust dispute practices and they don't claim to be. If your first time to Egypt... sucks but this is not abnormal for Red Sea excursions. Unless you have strong connections with people in the region refrain from putting yourself in risky situations like this in the future. Its a painful experience and not comfy at all. sucks. Reddit, trip advisor are your friend.

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  Mission Yak 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇬🇪 🇹🇼🇩🇪🇯🇵 🇬🇧 (@MissionYak) reported 60 minutes ago

  @Rootdar This fake PayPal address scammer issue is a problem for everyone. But your PP address is one of the easiest ones to remember and to get right! 🙏 On a separate subject, I think my grandmother story and reposts got in this morning ahead of the end of the contest.