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 (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Berlin	Sign in	14 hours ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	18 hours ago
Nantes	Errors	24 hours ago
Vícar	Errors	1 day ago
Étauliers	Errors	1 day ago
Onnion	Website Down	1 day ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Dan Farfan (@DanFarfan) reported 38 seconds ago

  Stripe + Block + Paypal (SBP) is a HUGE problem for Visa and Mastercard (V+M) because suddenly zillions of dollars of xactions become local only to SBP and off V+M networks (and pocketbooks). V, M or both must find something ginormous (now or potential) to buy... (e.g. what I'm building $-))

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  Steven (@SjpGer) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Meta my business account was hacked on 10th July, money spent on my card and PayPal account, reported numerous times to you and yet nothing being done by you to fix the situation, why? Why no response from you? Why is it so difficult to contact you? Why no way to phone you?

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  🪻 HarineChuu•COMMS OPEN🪻 (@HarineChuu) reported 3 minutes ago

  Update on my Paypal issue, I won at the legal hearing and got the person's mom to pay the negative balance, I am still trying to communicate with ppal customer service, my account got limitations and I cant pay using my bank T.T

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  gee 🍁 | hualian fic 📌 comms open! (@tappithais) reported 6 minutes ago

  oh deary me paypal decided to be a little funny so i have to fix payment methods but because it's already late i'll just do it tomorrow ;; i cant seem to catch a break you guys :(

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  Kdl6785 (@kdl6785) reported 9 minutes ago

  @ByronDonalds YOUR PAYPAL SCORE EVEN RAISED THE EYEBROW OF AG HARMEET DHILLION! YOU BOUGHT PAYPAL IN FEBRUARY 2026 ALL WHILE KNOWING THAT THERE WAS A DOJ DEI CIVIL LAWSUIT THAT WAS ABOUT TO BE SETTLED IN MAY 2026!! HOW MUCH DID YOU EARN WHEN THE DEI LAWSUIT WAS WON AGAINST PAYPAL IN MAY 2026?? WHEN THE DOJ AG COMMENTED ON YOUR BIG SCORE THATS A HUGE PROBLEM YOUR A UNSCRUPULOUS, UNETHICAL LIAR NOTHING YOU SAY IS TRUE

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  💜SpazzBhabie💜 (@SpazzBhabie) reported 10 minutes ago

  @k_ovfefe2 I can’t wait until it opens up for me to get it. I’ve had so many problems with my PayPal getting hacked before so trying @XMoney will be good to try

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  Robert J Marcin (@RobertMarcin) reported 10 minutes ago

  Stripe, Advent Said to Make $50B-Plus Offer for PayPalAd0:19Unmute Add us on Google In this Article Evercore Inc 341.54 2.34% Follow PayPal Holdings Inc 56.56 0.30% Follow Stripe LLC Private company Advent International LP Private company Contact us: Provide news feedback or report an error Confidential tip? Exploring strategic alternatives sounds good to me, esp when there's a payday for Goldman Sachs! Updated on July 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM EDT PayPal Holdings Inc. has been working with advisers to review strategic options, including a potential sale or breakup........ PayPal Holdings Inc. has been working with advisers to review strategic options, people familiar with the matter said, as Stripe Inc. and private equity firm Advent pursue a $50 billion-plus takeover of the fintech pioneer. The San Jose, California-based company has been working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Evercore Inc. in recent months to evaluate alternatives including a potential sale or breakup, according to the people.

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  Hannah / EK (@ekphrasticao3) reported 11 minutes ago

  @shu_bing2464 The PayPal purchase link appears to be broken. Is this an error that will be corrected duringn the pre-sale timeframe?

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 14 minutes ago

  Check your login activity (someone may already be inside) He said: "Go to Settings. Click Security. Select 'Manage your logins.'" A screen appeared showing every device and browser that had logged into his PayPal account with dates, locations, and device types. There was a login from a city he'd never been to. From 4 months ago. On a device he didn't own. He said: "Someone accessed your account from another location. They didn't drain it that would trigger a fraud alert. Instead, they've been making small charges through a preapproved payment they set up. $2.49 here, $1.99 there. Small enough that you'd never notice. This is called a low-and-slow attack, and it's the most common type of PayPal fraud because it flies under the radar." They logged out every device. Changed the password. Enabled two-factor authentication. Filed a dispute. He said: "Check this screen once a month. If you see a device or location you don't recognize, someone else has access to your account. Kill the session immediately."

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  OlaIfeVA Services (@olaifeva) reported 14 minutes ago

  @OlatunjiAyokan2 The only problem I have with it is PayPal, I no get

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  anhedonia experiencer (@oilgulp) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Punished_Alien !! I hate PayPal always have issues w it

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  Cea the Redhead Enjoyer (@CeaDuskdane) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Sramix0 Its decently easy just paypal thats really the trouble depending where u Live, but im sure people would be wanting to help out if they can!

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  RuntimeWire 🏴‍☠️ (@runtimewire) reported 20 minutes ago

  Someone called us "a WordPress site with an AI writer." Sure: 227k lines of TypeScript, a 64-table ledger, a real-time CPM ad auction, Stripe + PayPal payout rails, an MCP server so AI agents can read us AND buy ads, and a newsroom that renders its own nightly video recaps.

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  Vee Brown (@Vizzle14rud) reported 24 minutes ago

  paypal @PayPal please fix your site ...

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  marqix ☆ (@fwmarqix) reported 24 minutes ago

  My son confessed to me that he's been catfishing his boss for the past eight months, and the whole thing has spiraled completely out of control. According to him, his boss is an awful manager that everyone at work hates. Hoping to expose him, my son created a fake Instagram account posing as an attractive woman, believing it wouldn't take much to get his boss to say something that could get him fired. It worked almost immediately. For months, his boss messaged the fake account constantly. He complained about work, trashed his wife, and revealed what my son described as his true personality. Everything seemed to be going according to plan until last month, when the fake woman mentioned she was struggling financially. Without hesitation, his boss sent her $5,000. A week later, he sent another $3,000. By now, my son says the total has reached $12,000. The situation became even worse when my son discovered that the money wasn't coming from his boss's personal funds. After seeing company expense reports, he realized his boss had allegedly been disguising the payments as "consulting fees," effectively embezzling money from the company to send to someone who doesn't even exist. Now my son is trapped in a mess of his own making. If he reports his boss, he'll have to admit that he was the person behind the fake Instagram account, which could land him in serious legal or professional trouble. If he stays quiet, his boss continues stealing from the company unchecked. To make matters worse, my son says the money is sitting in a PayPal account linked to the fake identity. He can't access or return it without exposing himself, and he feels guilty because, even though his original goal was to expose a terrible boss, he believes he's now played a role in taking $12,000. What started as an attempt to play vigilante has turned into a complicated situation with legal, ethical, and professional consequences that he never saw coming.

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  Elizabeta Eremieva (@ElizabetaEliza2) reported 26 minutes ago

  tell me not now that there are any problems with the PayPal deal.

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  Dami O. Mogaji (@daminister14) reported 26 minutes ago

  I have no issues with closing customers account - it's their prerogative. However if you close an account, you should return the funds to the customer. It's not your money! Same for PayPal too

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  trade spaylater, ggives, load, paypal, atome, cc (@aureayutrades) reported 27 minutes ago

  available services load to cash (regular load, load card, bizzload) paypal to cash binance to cash cash to paypal cash to binance razergold to cash gcash/maya with issue transfer balance (facescan, authentication failed, can't open/send money)

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  The Market Hustle (@themarkethustle) reported 30 minutes ago

  Stocks down over the past 12 months: Oracle -47% Netflix -44% Adobe -38% Salesforce -35% IBM -26% PayPal -25% Microsoft -22% Meta -9% Shopify -4% S&P 500: +19% Nasdaq 100: +25%

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  J.K (@FixRigYT) reported 33 minutes ago

  Adobe $ADBE Execution and Identity crisis - Certainly needs more AI-friendly visionaries. PayPal $PYPL Passive & Defensive Moat - Expand U.S. products / services into EU no matter how hard it is. Leadership problem with both. Just a thoughts of these two.. 🤔

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 34 minutes ago

  11. Passkeys the password replacement hiding in Safari. When you create an account on a website that supports Passkeys, Safari offers to create a Passkey instead of a password. A Passkey is a cryptographic credential stored in your iCloud Keychain synced across all your Apple devices. You authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID. No password to remember. No password to type. No password to steal. Passkeys can't be phished. There's nothing to enter on a fake website. The authentication is biometric and device-bound. Websites supporting Passkeys include: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, PayPal, eBay, Best Buy, Kayak, and hundreds more with the list growing monthly. Settings → Passwords → check your saved accounts. For any site that supports Passkeys, Safari prompts you to upgrade during your next login. One Face ID scan replaces every password on every supporting site. Safari manages it automatically. No password manager subscription needed.

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  RESCUE HOME ANIMAL SANCTUARY (@rescuehomea) reported 35 minutes ago

  We Posted this little kitty yesterday We rescued her in a terrible condition She's still receiving treatment at the vet We are really struggling to pay off our vet bills We need to clear them Please spare any amount you can and Donate to our PayPal Donate Link in bio 🙏

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  gork (@gork) reported 38 minutes ago

  @147Aurora @theallinpod @grok paypal selling for 53b to stripe and the boys? easy theyre probably sick of being the slow boring payments dinosaur while everyone else builds faster apps and ai stuff eats the margins so why not grab the bag and let the new owners deal with the mess. classic corporate exit before it all goes sideways.

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  𝐂𝐇𝐘𝐍𝐄 (@realchyne) reported 40 minutes ago

  ~ Account just got de-activated in the middle of tasking.... ~ UK accounts suspended ~ Had issues with previous payment method as @airtminc has refused to verify clients details (got last weeks payout on pending till now) so we decided to change Payment method to PayPal for this week payment not to get stuck, only for outlier to deactivate the account even after the client verified. boyyy, it's tuff...

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  ChaDraws 🐇💮 VGen 2D artist (@ChaDraws_Art) reported 40 minutes ago

  @Toast6634 Oh I had a very fast similar talk with Leaflit about this I prefer saying first that I'm against AI, because I think most people are using it so badly they're actively dumbing themselves, and now, young people coming out of high school don't even know how to write 'cause they've trusted their entire lives with ChatGPT or whatever, making them genuinely low IQ, and I say this in the nicest way possible, but they are very, very difficult to interact with. And you might think I'm only talking about text prompts, but visually creativity is a skill and a form of intelligence that is very very heavily underestimated, and that is factually helpful in real life... These young people can't even concentrate on one task for more than a minute, it's alarming But as we say, hate the game, not the player, if someone used AI as a reference and still choses to work with an artist after, I think they should be treated like any other commissioners, because they still chose to come to you ! It's always an honor when people think of me for their characters Though I do understand the fear of being scammed (I'm not sure if it's known outside, but there are a lot of scammers that ask an artist for a comm, take the sketch, don't pay (cause generally artists allow not paying until the sketch) and run it through AI to have a "better result") (there are also bot commissioners, that uses AI made characters to scam artists by executing a chargeback on PayPal) , so I understand if people don't want to go through this and refuse the commission Though I will say, as an artist, you have to stay professional if you want to make money out of it, making it public is in my opinion lacking maturity and professionalism Either way I think Pro AI people and Anti AI people should make love and bring peace to the world right now cause we have bigger issues at hand

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 42 minutes ago

  Turn on two-factor authentication (before someone else logs in) This was the first thing he fixed and the most important. His PayPal account had one layer of protection: a password. The same password he used on 3 other sites. No verification code. No security key. Nothing. He said: "If someone gets your password from a data breach and odds are they already have, since PayPal was involved in a credential-stuffing incident affecting thousands of accounts they walk right into your account. No alert. No second check. Full access to your bank." Here's the fix: Log in to PayPal. Go to Settings. Click Security. Select "2-step verification." Choose either an authenticator app (more secure) or text message code (better than nothing). Now every login requires your password plus a one-time code from your phone. Even if someone has your password, they can't get in. He said: "This takes 60 seconds to set up and it's the single thing standing between your bank account and anyone who buys stolen credentials on the dark web. PayPal doesn't require this by default. It should."

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  ·★ɮǟʀօզʊɛ ɦɛǟʊӼ★· check my 📌 (@Baroquebaby_) reported 42 minutes ago

  I get paid on the 29th, is there anyone that can spot me for groceries until then? the stupid holiday then 6days of no power led to a tiny paycheck. I have terrible luck. My next check will be a full 2 weeks. If u can help us my paypal is @kellythompson330

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  Carl Weische (@CarlWeische) reported 42 minutes ago

  You're currently losing 70-75% of purchases to abandoned carts (70-75% is the avg in ecom) & taking that rate down to 65% or even 60% is something you can do in literally a few hours. So here's every reason people leave the cart & how you can fix it: 1. 48% leave because of surprise costs This is by far the biggest one. They get to the payment step with their card in their hand, & suddenly there's $20 shipping or some handling fee they didn’t see coming. So communicate every cost (shipping, handling, taxes) on the PDP & in the cart, before they hit the checkout. Something like "free shipping over $50, taxes included" right next to the price. Same deal with delivery times. If you're dropshipping & delivery takes 5-10 days, do NOT save that for the end of the buyer journey. Say on the product page that you dispatch within 1-2 days (which is true), so the shipping time isn't a nasty surprise when they're about to pay. 2. 25% leave because you made them create an account I straight up don't buy from stores that force me to register, & apparently neither does a quarter of your lost traffic. So have guest checkout, always. & remove that pre-ticked newsletter box as well, that one makes people drop off too. 3. & a big chunk leave because they don't trust you, or can't pay the way they want to pay So put your payment logos (PayPal, Klarna, Amex, Visa, whatever you take) on the PDP, in the cart, AND inside the checkout itself, basically just put it everywhere. & answer all the questions that could be running through their head at checkout, like: - what happens if I don't like it? - is sending it back gonna cost me? - when does it show up? 4. Then a few smaller things that make a big difference when you add them up - Hide your discount code field behind a "more options" dropdown. An empty coupon box in front of someone with no coupon is basically an invitation to go google "[your brand] discount code", & a lot of them never come back - Use ONE name field instead of first + last (people type their full name into the first box, get an error, & get annoyed) - Give them a progress bar (address → shipping → payment) with little green checkmarks as they fill each field in. Gamifying the checkout like this is a very simple way to dopamine hack some incentive into it - Then try to avoid all pre-purchase upsells. It's just unnecessary friction when you can upsell them post-purchase (which has higher take rate as well) 5. Final (but very important) note Everything I’ve gone through here are points of friction & anxiety. But there’s another part to this as well: Motivation. & increasing the motivation people have to get your product is by far the most impactful way to increase CVR. This is done through good pre-sell conversion (good pre-sell & product pages), so I’m gonna link a few articles in the comments under this post on how to increase motivation if you want to really understand this & thereby make a **** ton more money. Now, you of course can't get abandoned carts to 0% since a large portion of them are just people looking around & saving products, but you can decrease it significantly. If you implement all of this I guarantee you will see a very significant decrease in abandoned carts & a big increase CVR & in profit per visitor. Avoidable abandoned carts are very expensive in the grand scheme of things.

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  Mo Shaikh 🇺🇸 (@Moshaikh) reported 53 minutes ago

  @neilhar more sophisticated version of PayPal since it’s Musk ;) More social than Venmo Can easily go to 24 seven and incorporate stable coins and self custodial wallets if people actually want it. Most folks just want to be able to move money easily and actually don’t want to have to worry about custodial. People on the Hill saying that self custodial is an elegant solution designed for avoiding regulation- rather than actually solving a problem

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  بادجات تويتش 💜 (@twitchksa) reported 59 minutes ago

  I have a big problem with my Paypal account please contact me @PayPal