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 (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Ajaccio	Sign in	11 hours ago
Arumpo	Sign in	23 hours ago
Sydney	Sign in	3 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	3 days ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Sign in	4 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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  Lucy (@Lucyaha123) reported 7 minutes ago

  ⚡ REVOLUTIONIZING WEB3 ONBOARDING: HOW GASFREE ABSTRACTS GAS COMPLEXITY AND ENABLES DIRECT USDT TRANSFERS In the evolution of decentralized finance, user experience (UX) serves as the primary gateway determining whether blockchain technology achieves mainstream adoption or remains confined to technical power users. For seasoned crypto natives, managing gas fees, calculating resource consumption, and maintaining native token reserves is second nature. However, for newcomers entering the Web3 ecosystem, gas management represents the single largest point of friction, confusion, and transaction failure. The GasFree infrastructure on TRON eliminates this barrier, allowing users to settle transaction fees directly in USDT and transforming the usability of decentralized stablecoins. The fundamental problem with legacy blockchain architectures is the structural decoupling between the asset being transferred and the asset required for gas. On TRON, executing a TRC-20 stablecoin transfer requires computational resources—specifically Energy and Bandwidth. Traditionally, if an account does not hold staked resources or a balance of native TRX to burn as gas, the transfer fails instantly. For a beginner who simply received USDT in their non-custodial wallet, discovering that they cannot send or spend their funds without first purchasing TRX on a secondary exchange, undergoing identity verification, and funding their wallet is a counterintuitive and frustrating hurdle. GasFree fundamentally dismantles this onboarding barrier by abstracting network resource mechanics entirely. Through intelligent fee delegation and smart contract relayer architecture, GasFree enables users to pay transaction costs directly in the stablecoin they are transferring. Key transformative benefits of the GasFree model include: 1. Frictionless Single-Asset Simplicity: Users only need to hold USDT to make transfers. The transaction fee is deducted directly from the stablecoin balance or transaction payload, removing the need to monitor or purchase volatile native gas tokens. 2. Elimination of Failed Transactions: By removing the "insufficient TRX for gas" bottleneck, users never experience trapped funds or failed transaction errors. 3. Predictable and Transparent Costs: GasFree provides a clean, predictable transaction cost structure (typically a flat USDT fee), shielding everyday users from gas price calculations or market-driven fee volatility. 4. Seamless Web2-to-Web3 Transition: For retail shoppers, merchants, and cross-border remittance recipients, interacting with TRON-based USDT now mirrors the seamless experience of conventional fintech apps like PayPal or Venmo—pay what you send, in the currency you hold. By merging the speed and throughput of the TRON network with the seamless fee abstraction of GasFree, decentralized finance takes a decisive leap toward mass accessibility, unlocking truly inclusive digital dollar payments for millions of global users. @DeFi_JUST @justinsuntron #TRONEcoStar

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  emswhims #SHAKYKNEES26 |-/ (@emswhims1) reported 9 minutes ago

  @quinniferhugh @scaledxclancy @mvlberrystreet_ Yeah that is where I screwed up ... didn't question about PayPal and definitely should have. I had seen a couple people comment that they had purchased tickets from them previously with no problem. I put too much trust in that ... or maybe scammer just realized I was easy prey 😒

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  Panley (@panley01) reported 10 minutes ago

  Every week I see artists make tweets about PayPal suspending accounts. Make a business account. Seriously, I've survived disputes and refunds solely because I have a business account. Of course you'll get in trouble if you're caught doing business on a personal account like??

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  Dravathor (@Dravathor) reported 12 minutes ago

  @GrandukeAnduke If you paid through an invoice you should be able to get a refund through paypal with very little issue, if not could try and go through support but its likely gonna be hell

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  mau (@fuckingeats) reported 14 minutes ago

  i’m selling a ticket (sec 412) for ariana grande in london 24th august.🫶🏻 i have no problem to do paypal g&s! dm! #arianagrande

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  zero 🎷 (@space0dddity) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Marcothecoolest @XitterUser_69 tbf there is a report system iirc, however ao3 will not take works down unless they are incorrectly tagged OR they have links to websites like paypal... ao3 is like famous for letting basically anything slide idk why they think the fics are getting taken down by mods

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  🌿Scylla 🌿 (@ShadowsOfADay) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Massi_m00 Payment via PayPal is still not working on my end but I'll place my order as soon as it does! So excited for these!! 🥹 So pretty

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  Chimp Out (@Chimpnouts) reported 22 minutes ago

  @mattballew @RealUncleTesla shhh they will fix it, i withdraw 1k, and then deposited it back from paypal lol.

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  PowerFOOLThunderCLOWN (@PowerFool515) reported 25 minutes ago

  It's not even up for debate. @paypal @askpaypal worst internet co. 2deal with ever. I am disabled/dfixed income. Tried 2sell a phone on @swappa. Swappa's choice 2use PayPal ≈ worst decision they ever made. PP cust.service TERRIBLE. App suck (cant even upload pic of ID) Paypal🖕

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  ajp (@ajpnani) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Ciel2114 Yes I removed it. I am having a problem with PayPal yesterday. I need to fix it first.

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  🍄 Leafu_Sketches 🍄 (Comms Open) (@LeafuDibujis) reported 26 minutes ago

  @jamilahnicoley Hi, unfortunately I'm having problems with PayPal. If you have any other payment methods, we can look into it!!

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  sam .ᐟ ₊˚｡ ❆ (mimir comms 10/10 ‼️) (@cremezayniee) reported 28 minutes ago

  @dawnbreaker_joy i don't use kofi atm! im facing some issues within paypal itself 😞

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  psyduck (@OlafBread) reported 29 minutes ago

  Crypto has a massive onboarding problem and every major exchange such as Binance and bybit has failed so far The moment your father and mother can transact crypto like they do with PayPal or cashapp at that moment crypto has made it in terms of onboarding

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  Dr. Steve (not a doctor) (@rsd4444) reported 30 minutes ago

  @sjaguric @scriptles You can use it anyhere I think. It is like a bank with a debit card. I just set up to use on PayPal, and it worked. I will let you know if I run into any issues.

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  David Stewart (@MrStewart_X) reported 32 minutes ago

  @survivetheark How to fix Ark and why: (only part of the full list) I’ll do top 3 atm stopping players especially new ones from playing because Ark is on its way to DEAD. This is for PvP side 1) Turrets the work ratio to turret and bullet production is drastically more than a capped saddle high health stacked mutated soaker. Meaning it takes a week to farm what it takes a few hours to soak no cool.😎 This leads to people living in caves regardless of x6 damage NO LAND bases RAT 🐀 HOLES or MESH people just drop a stego on you beer rocket 🚀 the gen on land GG… No new players are going to play like this. 2) Mutations so because you are all retarded you left it the same as evolved. Let me explain the way it’s supposed to work and what has happened. Mutations are 0/20 on both sides meaning it was intended to get +40 levels this is a problem because a perfect tame is 224 unless you do a trick with the new sea turtle and can get a 225 everytime I see a 225 a game master dummy spawned it most likely because typically 224 is really the max. So you breed 2 224 together you get a 250-270 depending on stats let’s say that’s actually a really great start. Not you mutate max should be 300ish average plus of course you levels max Dino 370-380 depending on those stats that 70-80 away from 450 max so basically there should be no way to get max which in itself is dumb as hell. So what do you do your team leave in mutation stacking what’s that you say that’s where you breed a male with mutations with any female that has 0/20 0/20 also called an 00 female. This allows stacking indefinitely…. Super retarded stops any new players from competing I can give all the reasons why but you have to hire me first. This leads to guess what DINO PURCHASE via PayPal cash etc money your team isn’t getting 🤦 what retards in leadership. So yeah because of this people buy Dino duh 🙄 dummies that’s now literally the only way to play PvP ask anyone with a brain 🧠. 3) so because of both 1 and 2 above new players cannot run the bosses you can’t survive, alphas are in the caves, and they have Dino’s they bought or have survived for so long they raided got the Dino using Dino they bought. So guess what? Players pay for boss runs. No I ask you does this sound like ******* fun? Any yes 👍 I have done all of this been the alpha bought/sold the Dino, fixed mutations by going out to tame a low level 00female, yes I am a pro. I can tell you any casual player will leave, and even hardcore will leave. All that’s left is bought Dino meshing and impossible wall of entry if you want to play fully legit.

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  iyla ⟢ (@saintiyla) reported 33 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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  Bearlovesbull (@Bearlovesbull) reported 37 minutes ago

  🚨STRIPE’S ENDGAME: BUY $PYPL , OWN THE TRANSACTION LAYER $PYPL is an M&A probability curve. Stripe and Advent started at $60.50. PayPal said no. The stock moved to the bid. Now the only number that can fix this is the clearing price. My range is $65–72. Because $75+ requires Stripe to decide the strategic value of PayPal exceeds the regulatory and integration tax. Stripe owns the merchant infrastructure. $PYPL owns consumer distribution. Venmo gives Stripe the consumer network it never built. OpenRouter gives Stripe a toll road into AI commerce. Put it together and Stripe is positioning itself between the consumer, merchant, money movement and increasingly the AI agent initiating the transaction. That is the bull case. The bear case is equally simple. You are combining two enormous payments networks, inviting regulators into the room, spending $50B+ to do it and then asking two very different organizations to operate as one economic machine. So I wouldn't underwrite $PYPL here as a turnaround. If deal dies, $PYPL will price lower. If deal clears around $65–72, the shareholders monetize the control premium. If Stripe decides that PayPal is strategically irreplaceable, then we see $75+ becoming possible. For Stripe, the bigger question is quietly assembling the financial operating system for the next internet. Payments were layer one. Consumer distribution is layer two. AI agents may be layer three. $PYPL is the expensive bridge between them.

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  NakaSompo (@NakaSompo) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Tao_mans_son At work, but if I could give you a way to think about Kaspa. Think of it more like TCP/IP than like PayPal. Nobody asked in the 1990s, “When is JPMorgan going to adopt TCP/IP?” JPMorgan adopted applications and services that required the internet, and TCP/IP became part of the invisible infrastructure underneath them. The analogous path is: TCP/IP → Internet applications → enterprise adoption Kaspa → decentralized applications/rails → enterprise adoption So JPMorgan doesn’t necessarily “adopt Kaspa” or decide it wants to hold $KAS. It adopts some financial application because that application solves a real problem and that application happens to use Kaspa underneath because it needs real-time decentralized consensus/settlement. The major difference, of course, is that TCP/IP doesn’t have a native scarce asset. Kaspa does. That’s where the separate $KAS value-accrual question begins.

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  Leah (@absolutLeah) reported 39 minutes ago

  the fact that paypal make is SO HARD to close your credit with them when you didn’t even ask for it is RIDICULOUS @andyburnham pls fix it x

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  FENRYS & MORRIS 🫀🧠 (@exocorpseHQ) reported 39 minutes ago

  @MissMeguca @AlexanderR12454 @yol_yoola currerntlt rhe paypal's the main issue, becausr its perma limited and paypal is FREAKISHLY difficult. we've tried everything either the plan is to constantly email paypal until we have KS' paypal back, or wait 6 long months

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  Sean Martini (@smartini33) reported 41 minutes ago

  @coinbase Fix your tx or I ain't going anywhere. 50min already trying to withdraw to Paypal.. why can't you ever just work!!!

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  Marie Devine (@MarieKDevine44) reported 47 minutes ago

  @ElonMinnovateUS A. Yes, but I am being scammed by a person claiming His voice, his Telegram handle 《CEO EL●N MUSK》, and helped me "buy bitcoin" through Cash App sent to tesl-invhub .çom and can't draw out. tried to get new sign in password to PayPal, etc., coinbank withdrew $650 my bank w/c

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  Jason Skadsen (@OptimisticJ33) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Kalshi This is an early-stage report, not a product launch. CoinDesk says 𝕏 is in talks about paying creators in stablecoins (Circle’s USDC is the example named). The source is one person familiar with the discussions who also works with other platforms testing the same idea. 𝕏 has not confirmed anything. Treat it as a live option under review, not a done deal. What is actually changing? Great question… Two separate things are being mixed together: 1. Confirmed: 𝕏 is killing Revenue Sharing. New enrollments already stopped. The old program ends September 7; the last payouts land around September 11. It is replaced by Original Content Rewards, which is supposed to pay for original ideas, reporting, expertise, and commentary instead of ad-impression farming. 2. Unconfirmed: How those new rewards get sent. Today payouts go through Stripe or 𝕏 Money. Stablecoins would be another rail, not the new rewards program itself. Nothing in 𝕏’s official creator announcement mentions crypto. Why would they even consider it? Again, great question… Creator payouts are a messy, global, small-dollar problem. Bank wires, local rails, FX spreads, and minimums eat a lot of what mid-tier creators actually receive especially outside the US. Stablecoins (market cap now over $300 billion) settle in minutes, in dollars, without a correspondent bank in every country. That is the same reason $SPCX already uses them for some Starlink payments in “long-tail” markets. 𝕏 hiring Benji Taylor (ex-Coinbase Base, wallets/DeFi) in March fits the same direction. 𝕏 Money is already rolling to a slice of Premium+ users. YouTube already lets some US creators take PayPal’s PYUSD. Meta has started paying selected creators in USDC on Solana and Polygon. 𝕏 would not be first; it would be the largest social app to try it at scale.

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  ㅇㄸㅇᩚ (@stilljm_o37) reported 52 minutes ago

  @RllyMyHope It seems like it’s not working right now… They said it would take some time to fix it. Also, I noticed that Wise was newly added as a payment option instead of PayPal. I was able to purchase it through Weidian, though…

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  evannie 🎀💌 (@evanniestash) reported 53 minutes ago

  I'm holding my status as a former video editor and YouTuber for the time being because of another PayPal email confirming the permanent deactivation of my account after I contacted support about resolving disputes and negative balances. I can't use another payment system to refund my VGen clients and resolve the disputes from PayPal as it's locked on the payment platform, and sadly Wise, Payoneer and Stripe - the alternatives for client payments - isn't accessible in my country. It is potential that I'm requesting @_VGen_ support to ban my account permanently due to this mess - and I can't open my comms any longer - due to both my broken reputation and my PayPal account being banned. I'll update you when there's more info.

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  ‎ ⋆˚࿔𖦹 dvzed (@dangohs) reported 53 minutes ago

  OMGGGG same she was trying to scm me out of my tickets!! sent over a paypal link and she made excuses about it not working, woke up this morning and was blocked!!!

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  JATMN (@THEJATMN) reported 56 minutes ago

  @ChasejustChase @kutiekittenxo I don't have zelle🤷 I tried to setup during the early days before it was widely adopted. There was some sort of issue linking to my checking account. They couldn't figure it out. Bank later had it standard, still didn't function for me. My PayPal probably older than that person

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  Jay Brunet (@SRVpress) reported 58 minutes ago

  @RobHoffman_ @itsalexvacca Find out before you get involved in an advisor scheme 1. They "forget" to pay or they're slow to pay, or want to use some BS like PayPal. It's like pulling teeth. 2. Very often they're fishing into your business for info that's worth more than the payment.

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  vanillacream (@0xvanillacream) reported 1 hour 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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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 1 hour ago

  @thecanozer The payment access part is underrated. Getting Stripe + PayPal solves the first problem, but as the business grows I'd still avoid making either one the only payment rail. Access is step one, redundancy comes next.