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 (42%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Kassel	Sign in	4 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	4 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	5 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	5 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	7 days ago
Adelaide	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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  Dave Cobra (@Dave_Cobra_) reported 4 minutes ago

  @anamazingpita @Venmo @PayPal Thank god it's not just me. I reported it and they tried to gaslight me that it was on my end. Then opened another chat and was told it was their issue.

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  Sameh Nassar (@siynrr) reported 5 minutes ago

  @jonathan_wilke Do you have any issue w PayPal gateway or your bank account?

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  Mukya 🪸☕️ 𝄆 HOUSE OBSCURUS 𝄇 (@MukyaVT) reported 6 minutes ago

  Okay, I need some advice.... I have been going in circles since Monday with Twitch Support and PayPal. - Twitch says the latest payout was received - PayPal Says it was not - Twitch asks me to check again - gives me reference+transaction ID's - PayPal still says there is nothing pending or in my account with those numbers - Twitch tells me payments cannot be reissued once it shows successful - Twitch says issue has to be sent via email for further 'investigation' - Email is LITERALLY a copy paste of the same info all 3 agents in their instant chat sent - I sent screen shots of all conversations to show Paypal CONFIRMS THERE IS NOTHING PENDING - Twitch now says I have to wait 30 days for the money to MAYBE be sent back to them so they can MAYBE reissue the payment ......im so tired.... $600 for bills just gone....and I might not ever see it

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  chris (@xiresxd) reported 6 minutes ago

  @LoganSesh i've had the same problem, then i choose paypal as payment method and worked

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  Annamae🤍ꕤ P4L (@illicitaura) reported 6 minutes ago

  Hello everyone just wanna send out a warning to NOT buy any tickets from @Camerella424 !! She’s a scammer and sent me a fake ticket 🫠🫠 I was stupid and fell for her kindness. Her PayPal account was not working and Venmo also flagged the transaction as scam, so what did I do? I used Apple Pay… which doesn’t cover anyone so I’m currently out $450. Everything seemed legit, especially with proof, but turns out I was wrong. Please don’t give me crap for this, I already feel stupid. Just wanted to warn people.

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  Jakob Kilbertus (@JakobKilbertus) reported 7 minutes ago

  @zachmoskow @stripe Our only option was to use Stripe radar and its far from being fully effective IMO. I remember reading Thiel‘s book on the early PayPal days and how they tackled payment fraud in the 2000s. You would think that this is a solved problem…

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  palazzetto delle aste (@PalazzettoA) reported 7 minutes ago

  @mayemusk @boringcompany Vision: a PayPal and X merger as a global hub The starting point is the current situation with Stripe trying to acquire PayPal, a deal that creates strong concentration in the payments industry regardless of whether Musk is involved. The alternative vision is that Musk himself, one of PayPal’s original co-founders, should instead pursue a merger between PayPal and X, avoiding the need to route his own products through Stripe, which today feels like a contradiction. The structural advantage is that Revolut already proves you can offer instant credit, like loans issued in minutes, without being a traditional bank, operating instead under electronic money licenses. This allows you to bypass part of the classic regulatory rigidity, while still remaining subject to antitrust and compliance oversight. Direct experience with both payment systems matters here: PayPal settles funds immediately, while Stripe holds them for weeks despite lower fees, a real problem for anyone who needs to move cash quickly and pay suppliers on time. The core of the vision is building a fully vertical ecosystem: X becomes the platform, PayPal the payment and financing engine, and Musk’s products, Tesla, Starlink, the future Optimus robots, robotaxis, get sold directly with one click, financed through monthly installments charged to the PayPal card, without ever leaving the platform. In this scenario, X should not compete with TikTok on mass, low-price sales, but position itself for a high-spending audience, selling high-value goods like watches, used cars with built-in financing, premium products that justify real advertising investment, leaving low-margin mass sales to other platforms. The revenue model becomes multi-layered: income from advertising that sellers must buy to gain visibility on the platform, income from interest and fees on financing extended through the card, and lower credit risk because the system already knows users’ spending behavior thanks to artificial intelligence.

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  🌙SOL🦈【Shiver】 (@SolAltairVT) reported 12 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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  The Dude Invests (@LevinBurant) reported 21 minutes ago

  Michael Burry dumped $BABA few months ago and piled his cash into $JD. JD also happens to be my only remaining Chinese company in the portfolio, one that hasn't performed very well. I ran my shares-to-zero model and it's looking very solid: - with dividend intact, it would take roughly 9 years to reduce shares to zero - cut the dividend and we're down to only 7 years This has vibes of PayPal at $40, but then again... China.

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  Scott S (@scottslabio) reported 21 minutes ago

  Deleting the commit does not remove the secret. *** keeps history. The blob is still reachable by hash, still in every clone and fork, likely in a mirror you have never heard of. Rotate the credential. A team that spends the first hour rewriting *** history instead of revoking the key has spent the hour the attacker needed. Public repos are scraped continuously. A committed cloud key is found and used in minutes, not days. Push protection blocks the credential before it leaves your machine, which beats detection after the fact. The supply chain side is worse. Event-stream 2018: maintainer handed the package over, new owner added code targeting a bitcoin wallet. No bug. The maintainer changed. Dependency confusion 2021: public packages matching internal names at higher versions, builds fetched the attacker's copy. Worked against Apple, Microsoft, PayPal. No vulnerability. Just resolution order. xz-utils 2024: multi-year effort to gain maintainer trust and reach sshd. Found by an engineer investigating a half second login slowdown. Dependency review cannot be a one time check. The package that was safe when you chose it can change hands afterwards. Wrote up the full breakdown of repo security, credential rotation, and three supply chain attacks that worked without exploiting a single bug.

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  🩶 (@euini_) reported 24 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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  Pasco Sheriff (@PascoSheriff) reported 26 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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  pubby 💕🐩 (@puppypaints) reported 28 minutes ago

  and on TOP of EVERYTHING HAPPENING i found out today that discord has been double charging me for nitro every month for over a year either some random discord account has somehow been using my PayPal information or it’s a error on their end i have no clue but holy ****

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  William Short (@WilliamShortss) reported 28 minutes ago

  @bsvdrip @BitcoinSVCOL @coinbase What’s the problem? You send them a token, they sell it and give the end user the dollars. As long as PayPal know what assets they are selling (they do) there is no problem.

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  T, N, rives (@Pomskyd2) reported 33 minutes ago

  I have @AskPayPal problem almost 3 months never go away INDIAN scamming destroying everything.

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  Haliban (@YesCersss) reported 34 minutes ago

  @DarkHaliburton @MCVet087 No, I have a guy that I just PayPal $25 each month too and he does all the updating and all that ****. I don’t have to worry about anything but just paying him my money.! Like I said, I’ve had it for like four years now never had any issues and the best part is,

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  Collin Rauen (@Crauen17) reported 39 minutes ago

  Hands down the worst customer service team i’ve ever dealt with in my life is @PayPal

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  WorshipCarrie 💸 (@worshipcarriee) reported 40 minutes ago

  @jay39646384336 PayPal @bgcarrie send before they shut down

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  Kabuki_koi (@kabukikoi_) reported 42 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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  PayPal Developer (@paypaldev) reported 45 minutes ago

  PayPal Sandbox: $5,000 Of Fake Money In 60 Seconds PayPal's sandbox hands every developer a fake buyer and a fake seller (merchant), each preloaded with USD 5,000. Nobody tells you the balance is editable, so you can set it to any number you need to test. Full flow: 1. Developer dashboard, toggle top left set to Sandbox. 2. Left nav, Testing Tools, then Sandbox Accounts . 3. Create account. Personal is your buyer, Business is your merchant. 4. Set Country to the market you are actually building for. 5. Make one of each. A seller with nobody to buy from tests nothing. 6. Find your row, click the three dots under Settings, then View/Edit account. 7. Login Info holds the email and password. Click the eye to reveal it. 8. Log in to the PayPal Sandbox. Your Client ID and secret come from the Business account, under REST API apps, then Create App. The Personal account has no such section, which is what trips most people up.

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  Susanna Chisholm (@SC4X_2025) reported 46 minutes ago

  I don't think so. You go to China. I have no business nor want to go to China. Ps: 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. So I had to pay back you guys for temporarily credit my account. I was greatful for that. I love your platform great app. I felt there was deception and theft by extortion on this online business. Just like when I was tricked to thinking I won a McDonald's $100 gift card. McDonald's on my s**t list now. I get to find something else on McDonald's the company destroys our rainforest. Did you know trees the length of a football field is chopped down every hour. That's here and there. Mainly you know who else is sleeping in bed with our government. Instead of gift certificate, I got signed up with Affordable Obama Care that I was unaware off. I found this out by accident through the IRS. Just like you guys are in bed with other online businesses the one's that go phishing. I take that back. Engineering at best most consumers are naive muchless that you put burden of proof on us. 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 of why I have come to conclusion... Thank you for listening. Have a nice day.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 50 minutes ago

  Most DTC founders lose money to FX mismatches, stuck payouts, and chargebacks — then find out at month-end, when it's too late. Built Hawkledger to fix that. Watches Stripe, Shopify, and PayPal in real time and emails one morning brief: the fix to push back. Live soon.

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  Panini Jesus🥪 (@Dornoc429) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Arjunssidhu @_jaannelle the main issue with paypal imo is they like nickel and diming you with fees. like if you're trying to transfer out to your bank acc it's either wait 5-10 days or pay the 1.75% instant transfer fee. also their USD/CAD exchange rate is always worse than the actual value

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@aureayutrades) reported 51 minutes ago

  open for transfer 💸 • permanent limit paypal withdraw balance (180 days) • not verify balance transfer (gcash, maya, shopee, lazada, grab pay) • gcash & maya with issue transfer balance (facescan, authentication failed, can't open, can't send)

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  zach’s bittersweet 𑣿 (@foundsynk) reported 52 minutes ago

  and i looked through my PayPal & Venmo i don’t want a thread a month later coming up bc im slow like

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  Jort van Meeteren (@jortvanmeeteren) reported 52 minutes ago

  @HeadspaceHelp Hi! I read that you’re having problems with Paypal in the EU at the moment, but I don’t have Visa, Mastercard or any of the other payment options. Are you planning to add iDeal/Wero or will I have to wait until the Paypal issue is resolved to be able to renew?

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  Mistress Stitches 𓄧 (@MissStittches) reported 53 minutes ago

  I knew I was gunna be a problem as soon as those Cashapp & PayPal notifications made my ***** throb

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  Yadav Ramdewar (@Official_YadavR) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Godsent001p 384 usd to pay for car as i had an accident but couldnt fix my car since 2 years, i travel mostly by bus and am always late paypal: YadavRamdewar877

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  svy ⚠︎ ⌇ 📼🧪🐾 (@svyraaaaa) reported 56 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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  X Freeze (@XFreeze) reported 58 minutes ago

  The more you watch Elon, the more obvious it becomes how much one person can shift the trajectory of humanity He is not playing the same game as everyone else Most people try to optimize for “How will this look?” Elon keeps returning to these questions • Is it true? • Does it violate the laws of physics? • Does it move humanity forward? That mindset explains everything That’s why he bought 𝕏 and turned it into the platform where truth shines brightest That’s why he kept building rockets even after the world called the explosions failures That’s why Tesla and SpaceX pushed manufacturing deeper into America instead of treating production as someone else’s problem That’s why he’s building Grok to relentlessly pursue truth That’s why Starship exists: not to make a slightly better rocket, but to make humanity multiplanetary.....just think about the scale People think Elon’s secret is money If money were the goal the story could have ended when PayPal sold to eBay. He was already enormously wealthy Instead he put everything back into problems that looked impossible and came close to losing it all multiple times while solving some of humanity’s hardest challenges That is the part most people still underestimate Without Elon pushing through years of brutal hard work and building what others called impossible none of what you see today would exist He is not optimizing for the next quarter His goal has always been to move humanity forward