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 (45%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Paris	Sign in	1 hour ago
Marseille	Website Down	2 days ago
Derby	Errors	3 days ago
New York City	Sign in	3 days ago
Rennes	Sign in	3 days ago
Bayeux	Website Down	4 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) reported 37 seconds ago

  @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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  mya, occasionally 🪩🃏 (@cinemya) reported 53 seconds ago

  update i did not get because she was being iffy on paypal g&s so i shut that down

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  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 3 minutes ago

  @shrugdeaIer URGENT!!! PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN. EVEN $1-2 ADDS UP!! WE ARE SO DESPERATE AND AT THE MERCY OF KIND GENEROUS PEOPLE! PLEASE HELP US GET SOME GOOD FOOD AND TOILETRIES! I haven't been able to work for about 2 years now due to sudden health complications needing surgery. This one illness has destroyed my husband and I financially. The injection I need isn't covered by my insurance and costs $500 month. Now my husband gets paid and after bills there like $100 left for food for 2 weeks. We have been living on cereal, cheap frozen pizzas and hot dogs. Sometimes I dont eat for a few days so the food lasts longer. If we could any donation to help out, We would be so thankful! Hopefully these gas and grocery prices go down and I get healthy enough to work again. I dont even know how much to ask for...$500 or $1000? Here is my PayPal QR code.

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  puré🎡🐐 (@komemerda) reported 7 minutes ago

  Im having some issues so i might have to close the keychain store soon. Shot them an email to see if it's solvable but they basically make me take payments in PayPal but then pay for production with card only so with all the transfer fees and conversion I am losing money lol 😭

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  otani x risa (@dailylovecom) reported 8 minutes ago

  Hi everyone! unfortunately I’m going through some financial difficulties due to personal issues and am struggling to make ends meet. bc of this I’m reaching out to ask for your help. If you have some spare cash and would like to assist me, I’m leaving my PayPal and Pix details 👇

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  Ivixor B (@Rambu3000) reported 9 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 I am using Revolut on GrapheneOS. No issues here. I do not use Paypal.

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  WISECP (@wisecpcom) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Zarkos85 Hi @Zarkos85 — thanks for letting us know, and sorry for the trouble. It was a short-lived issue on the checkout page and it's fixed now; card and PayPal are both going through again. Please give it another try, and if anything is still off, open a ticket and we'll get on it.

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  SignalVoyager (@signalvoyager) reported 14 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 Eww. @PayPal is disgusting. I would consider it a feature of graphene OS to have it crashed everytime it opens. Plus, @GrapheneOS is busy doing better things. I hope they won't fix this.

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  Solemn Bhoi (@waseemm09) reported 16 minutes ago

  Hey @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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  Moshe Klein (@KleinMoshe) reported 21 minutes ago

  @PayPal I have a problem with my account where payments I send get reversed every couple of days for absolutely zero reason. Frustrating isn’t the word. And speaking to overseas CSR is getting absolutely nowhere.

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  Roxfan (@Roxfan_13) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Genki_JPN Anyone else having issues pre-ordering? Paypal refuses to use my Mastercard, direct payment redirects to PayPal

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  ☆Mitsuki☆ (@A__Mitsuki__A) reported 28 minutes ago

  @AlphaYuri31 You know is more easy to say 16 bucks. Give me the PayPal or ID and server girl

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  Ontario Frugal | Faith & Strategy (@OntarioFrugal) reported 29 minutes ago

  @losinghopein @PayPal @AskPayPal I had a crazy problem a bit like this when I tested the Bree app.They weren't supposed to take their payment until my pension came in - the crazy app took it 2 weeks early!

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  Glerf (@real_oriox) reported 29 minutes ago

  @OpieRadio I suppose you will take down all the paypal links from your streams?

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  Optus (@Optus) reported 30 minutes ago

  @enngees Hi there, customers can recharge their service or purchase add-ons online using a credit/debit card (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, or JCB) and PayPal. An Optus service needs to connect to the Optus network for activation, so we generally recommend setting up and activating the SIM once they've arrived in Australia. If you're still having trouble recharging, please send us a DM, and we'll take a closer look into this for you. -Talia

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  Steven Hughes Transport Videos (@StevenHughes129) reported 33 minutes ago

  @bran_di98 @DavidJa51216245 @OrevaZSN A lot of it is down to the processor. Your bank is only one part of the chain. Visa/Mastercard/PayPal/Square etc all form part of the transaction chain. While money moves from your available balance instantly when you process a transaction, it usually shows as "pending". 1/2

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  ᴅɪᴠɪɴᴇ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ™️ ⟁ (@DivineThoughtTM) reported 34 minutes ago

  I'm in a real bad spot. I hate trauma dumping.. I've been taking care of elderly family member while I've been dealing with my own health issues. I can't seem to get ahead before another crisis. Any help is more than appreciated and sorry for putting this on your feed 🙏🏻 Venomo: @geekay1 I have a PayPal too

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  Adel (@adelpheee69) reported 38 minutes ago

  @ichi_dokusha Hello! I can't DM you but I missed first payment bc my PayPal got hacked and I've been trying to fix it. I'm happy to pay through kofi tho if fatson is still available 😭

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  Riley (@Riley_McKenna1) reported 38 minutes ago

  @ShoeQueen0318 @ThatsAllAreanna Sadly wokesky isn't doing ****. Been doing the same. We need to hit her where it matters the most, either her linktree or her PayPal/venmo. Won't they shut PayPal down if there's too many charge backs?

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 38 minutes ago

  THE THREE PRICE TARGETS PUT ON PAYPAL $PYPL SINCE FRIDAY WERE $50, $51 AND $70: The Quality-Value Len5 is watching PayPal at $53.18, -$0.48 / -0.90% today. The San Jose company runs the PayPal checkout button, Venmo, and Braintree, which handles card payments behind other companies' checkout pages. The bottom line: on Friday PayPal lost its buyer, and the shares gave back $7.81 in a single session. Nothing about the business changed that day. What ended was somebody else's offer to pay more than the market would. WHAT HAPPENED ON FRIDAY Since July there had been a bid on the table. Stripe, the privately held payments company, and Advent International, a private-equity firm, had jointly offered $60.50 a share - about $53B for the whole company. PayPal's board considered it too low. On Friday, August 28, Bloomberg reported the pair had walked away. Reuters put the sticking points at price and at how hard a deal that size would be to get past regulators. The shares went from $61.47 on Thursday to $53.66 on Friday: -$7.81 / -12.7% in one session, on 36.3M shares against a 30-day average near 11.5M - more than three times an ordinary day's trading. Today they have traded as low as $51.92, under Friday's own low of $52.62. Roughly seven dollars of that price was one buyer's opinion, and it is gone. Bloomberg noted the two could return later. Nobody is obliged to. THE THREE TARGETS Within two business days, three firms published a view on the same company and the same facts. - Loop Capital, Friday morning: target cut to $50 from $62, rating Hold. - Mizuho, Friday morning: cut to $51 from $60, rating Neutral. - RBC, this morning: RAISED to $70 from $65, rating Outperform. A price target is one firm's estimate of where a share should trade in about a year. It is an opinion, not a measurement. Across everyone who follows the stock the average target is $56.32 and the average rating is hold. So one firm believes these shares are worth a third less than another firm does, three days after the same news. That spread is the story, and the June quarter is where it comes from. WHAT THE COMPANY REPORTED ON JULY 28 Two numbers sit at the heart of it, and they point opposite ways. Total payment volume - the dollars moving across PayPal's systems - was $486.4B, +10% from a year earlier. Busy. Transaction margin dollars - what PayPal keeps out of those payments after paying the cost of moving them - was $3.9B, +1%. Leave out interest earned on customer cash and it was $3.6B, +3%. Ten percent more money went through. One percent more stuck. The rest of the quarter reads the same way: - Net revenue $8.68B, +5% - Profit per share $1.25 on the standard accounting measure, -3%; $1.38 with certain one-off items stripped out, -1% - Operating margin - what the business keeps out of each sales dollar before interest and tax - 16.4%, down 1.71 points - Active accounts 439M, +0.3% over the year, and DOWN 0.2M from three months earlier - Free cash flow - the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment - $1.78B - Cash and investments $15.3B against $13.4B of debt Then the buyback, which is the largest single thing PayPal does with its money. A buyback is a company purchasing its own shares and cancelling them, so every remaining owner holds a slightly bigger slice. It spent $1.5B on that in the quarter and $6.0B across twelve months, retiring about 111M shares against the 855M that exist today. Management raised its full-year forecast: adjusted profit near $5.38 a share against $5.31 last year. On the standard measure it still expects a mid-single-digit decline from $5.41. Put the price against that. $53.18 divided by $5.38 is about 9.9 times what the company itself expects to earn this year. ONE NAME, SIX LEN5ES - QUALITY-VALUE - STRONG, and the only one of the six carrying it. This style hunts a durable business at a fair price, and PayPal is sixth on that watch. The fair-price half is not arguable at roughly 10 times earnings with 111M shares retired in a year. Durability is where the fight is. A checkout button 439M people already have is a real moat - the thing that stops a competitor simply taking your customers - and volume growing 10% while the money kept from that volume grows 1% is what pressure on a moat looks like from the inside. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: transaction margin growing anywhere near the pace of payment volume. WHAT WOULD BREAK IT: active accounts falling a second straight quarter, because a button nobody reaches for is not durable at any price. - DEEP-VALUE AND SPECIAL-SITUATIONS - NOT A FIT, and the most interesting no here. That style wants a business priced under what it looks worth, or one carrying a dated event still to play out. Cheap is present. The event is what failed: an unsigned offer that has now been withdrawn is not something anyone can plan around. Friday is the proof - the event resolved, and it resolved by vanishing. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: a signed agreement with a real closing date, or a markdown deep enough that the business by itself, with no buyer anywhere in the picture, is the entire reason to look. - GROWTH - NOT A FIT, and the price is not the problem. Growth you are not overpaying for needs both halves, and the second one is missing. Adjusted profit guided to $5.38 against $5.31 is roughly a 1% year, and on the standard measure the company expects earnings to fall. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: transaction margin dollars speeding up so profit rises with volume instead of trailing it by nine percentage points. - MOMENTUM - NOT A FIT, on the plainest evidence available. That style watches a company already climbing on news of its own. This one fell 12.7% in a session on somebody else's decision, sits 32.9% below the $79.22 it reached on October 28 last year, and traded lower again today. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: the shares climbing back on PayPal's own quarterly figures rather than on talk of a buyer. - HYPERGROWTH - NOT A FIT, on age and size rather than judgment. Early and fast-growing is the brief. PayPal is 27 years old, serves 439M accounts, books $8.68B in a quarter and grows it 5%. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: honestly, almost nothing available to it - a business this size cannot become early again, and Venmo or the financial-services push would have to compound for years at a rate the whole company has not managed in a decade. - INCOME - NOT A FIT, and the reason is which pocket the cash comes from. That style watches cash genuinely reaching owners and genuinely funded by the business. The dividend is $0.14 a quarter, declared for payment on September 25 to holders on the books September 4 - $0.56 a year, about 1.1% of the share price. The $6.0B of buybacks is the real cash return, near 13% of the company's $45.5B market value, and it came out of money the business earned rather than borrowed. But a buyback is a decision, not a promise: it can be halved next quarter with no announcement and nobody calls it a cut. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: the declared dividend growing into a meaningful share of the price, so the cash return is something owners can count on instead of something they hope continues. THE MIRROR IMAGE, TWO PLACES DOWN THE SAME WATCH Visa at $381.01, -$0.59 / -0.15% today. The San Francisco company runs the network that moves money between shoppers, shops and banks every time a card is tapped, and it sits eighth on that same Quality-Value watch - for exactly the opposite reason. Visa trades near 33 times its last year of earnings, $4.56 / 1.2% under the $385.57 high it set on August 26. PayPal trades near 10 times, a third below its own high. One has the durable half settled and no discount to show for it. The other has the discount and an argument about the durability. What would open the Visa read is a real markdown with earnings unchanged; what would break it is regulation cutting what the network is allowed to charge on each transaction. WHAT TO KEEP AN EYE ON Not whether a buyer comes back. The gap between those two June-quarter figures. PayPal reports the September quarter in late October - treat the date as unset until the company names it - and the line to find is transaction margin dollars against total payment volume. If volume keeps growing near 10% while the margin grows near 1%, then 10 times earnings is cheap for a reason. If they converge, a $70 target stops looking eccentric. One smaller dated item: from September 4 the shares trade without that $0.14 payment, which lands September 25. THE RISK, SAID WITHOUT DECORATION Nothing here is a forecast. The bear case is written into the company's own report: payment volume growing ten times faster than the money kept from it, with the number of people using the service flat over a year and slightly lower than three months ago. A stock can sit at 10 times earnings for years when the earnings are going nowhere, and this company's own guidance has profit falling this year on the standard measure. Push the other way and it breaks just as fast: two buyers examined these numbers up close and were willing to pay $60.50, and a board that said no is either right or expensive. For six weeks this stock had a price somebody else was willing to pay. Since Friday it has only had the one the business can justify - and Friday put $7.81 between them. Not investment advice.

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  AD Sleazo AKA AD. (@adsleazo) reported 41 minutes ago

  @UDSupport when yall gone fix paypal withdrawals bro it’s been almost a week

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  marie (@funkybootz) reported 43 minutes ago

  Had a email about payment.. but I use @PayPal So there shouldnt be a issue ??? @netflix

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  Rajat_Bhogrey (@Rajatbhogrey009) reported 44 minutes ago

  why is paypal so slow

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  Miguel Rivera (@miguelrivera) reported 44 minutes ago

  Hey @PayPal, why do your customer service agents keep dodging me? Three separate agents have abruptly closed our chat today right when I asked them to resolve my issue This is incredibly frustrating. Please DM me so I can actually get some real help #CustomerService #BadService

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 45 minutes ago

  @verstarppens 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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  anne flynn (@sliabhconn) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Salome__Salome_ @defan68 There seems to be an issue with PayPal, maybe check it out?

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  Richa K (@richakakw) reported 51 minutes ago

  Hi PayPal⁠ Support, I’m facing an issue with a payment on my PayPal UAE account and need assistance from your support team. Could someone please help me resolve this or guide me to the appropriate support staff? Thank you! @PayPal_Open @PayPal @AskPayPal

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  Axia (@axiatechie) reported 57 minutes ago

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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 57 minutes ago

  Cindy is out of the hospital and has wound-care treatment tomorrow. No idea yet on the medical bills, but thanks to y'all, she's down to needing $430 to repair her car: PayPal: @ cindysalazar435 Venmo: @ tiocindy42

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  The Arcane Verse⚕️ (@Telephantix) reported 59 minutes ago

  So you're saying this dude got 50 mil in venture capitalistism funds, and says we can't own money, the companies like cash app venmo and paypal in my point of view are scrubbing data to make customers look like they lost nothing... thats a breach of trust and is punishable and those in decision positions will be held liable. I don't want the see Xmoney go down the same path.!!