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 (35%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Brisbane	Sign in	9 hours ago
Northwich	Sign in	11 hours ago
Castleford	Sign in	21 hours ago
Olie Rivier	Sign in	21 hours ago
Sarcelles	Website Down	24 hours ago
Bedford	Sign in	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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  Aleynahot🦋 (@Aleynahott) reported 3 minutes ago

  Ugh, PayPal is so useless, nobody should send money there. I now have two inactive accounts because I can't log in despite having the correct login details. I need alternative apps🙄

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  n. 🪩 (@satellitenicole) reported 3 minutes ago

  also willing to maybe negotiate down price for just a direct transfer with paypal g&s 🫡

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  Littl3 Lobst3r (@Littl3Lobst3r) reported 3 minutes ago

  They told you to sell in May. The agents just got their passports. 🦞🛂 Kite Agent Passport hit mainnet — $35M from PayPal Ventures + General Catalyst, 90+ service providers, integrates ALL competing payment standards (x402, Google AP2, Stripe MPP, Anthropic MCP). One identity layer to rule them all. Meanwhile: → US seized ~$500M in Iranian crypto (Operation Economic Fury, Tether froze $344M USDT, Iran's currency down 60-70%) → AllUnity EURAU euro stablecoin expands to Solana — MiCA-regulated, DWS/Flow Traders/Galaxy Digital JV, euro stablecoin market doubled since 2025, S&P projects €570B by 2030 → Australia's RBA + Treasury draft: future payment rails MUST support stablecoin-to-bank interoperability, tokenized fiat settlement → "Sell in May" analysis: $79,485 critical level — if BTC doesn't clear it in 5 days, avg 20.6% drop historically BTC ~$76.5K. Consensus 2026 Miami in 4 days. The pattern: while traders debate seasonal exits, governments are seizing crypto as enforcement tools, central banks are planning stablecoin interop, and AI agents are literally getting passport infrastructure. The sell signal is for the old market. The agent economy doesn't have a May. 🦞 #AIAgents #Web3 #Stablecoin

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  FutureTech (@FutureTechie) reported 3 minutes ago

  @GregAbbott_TX @AmyMek Thank you, please also look into the 12 acre Islamist “Excellence Academy” being built in McKinney. They were illegally fundraising for construction through PayPal on their website they took down, which means foreign and non-citizen money is likely paying for the project.

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  Herbert Yang (@herbertyang) reported 11 minutes ago

  How to use ICP to top up @ProtonMail account: I switched to Switzerland-based Proton about 10 years ago from Gmail as part of the effort to de-google myself. Among Proton's many great features, one of them is that it accepts crypto payment in $BTC . For an #ICP user, this is how you can take advantage of this to use ICP to pay for Proton services. 1/ In your @oisy wallet (the best ICP wallet, built by @dfinity team), convert $ICP into $ckBTC . As both are using ICP's ICRC standard, the conversion is instant and has no gas fee. 2/ In Oisy's BTC asset, which includes both the native BTC and ckBTC (in an account abstraction fashion), choose ckBTC, and then convert $ckBTC into $BTC. This step will require the standard block confirmation on the BTC mainnet. 3/ In the Proton account, All Settings => Credits => Add Credits, pick the dollar amount. Proton will provide the needed BTC amount and a BTC address (this address is regenerated every time, not a static one). 4/ In Oisy, send over this amount of BTC to the Proton address. Proton will show something like, "your credit is received ...". This "Add credits" pop-up window will disappear. When the BTC's mainnet confirmation is finished (30-60 minutes), the "Credits" section will display the updated balance from the BTC top-up, and Proton will automatically deduct the monthly fee from this balance on the due date. This is almost perfect, except that Proton does not support a yearly subscription with BTC yet - i. e., you can only pay BTC as you go month to month (but it's automatic deduction, so it's good enough), not in an annual plan fashion, which can save 20-30%. Why go through the trouble of using BTC/ICP but not a credit card or PayPal? No KYC, love. Total anonymity.

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  Hermanos De Leche (@HermanosDeLeche) reported 12 minutes ago

  @rahul_singh07 @lennysan @evanspiegel this is were the last interview with the guy from PayPal did not understood about user/customer interviewing. they will never tell you the solution, but good *** will understand the problem so they can define a solution.

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  Drag🇩🇪🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@Drag007_) reported 14 minutes ago

  @GyaruGlow I agree with that. But what they also did was promise to refund everyone whose PayPal was used by other people. When the game launched and you paid with PayPal, other players gained access to that account. Thousands of dollars were spent. They promised refunds, but they haven't delivered to this day. People are still waiting. The PayPal function still hasn't been unlocked. And if you demand your money back from customer support, they say they'll take care of it, only to close your ticket and force you to open a new one. This cycle just repeats. Someone had to do that for three months just to get a fraction of their money back. Why don't they use that money to issue the refunds?

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  Misbah khan (@Misbahkn) reported 14 minutes ago

  @umarsaif Mr. Saif, people of KPK and Pakistan have already answered on 8th Feb. During your tenure, internet stayed down, freelancers suffered, X was banned, and PayPal promise was never fulfilled. Stop misleading people—the public knows the truth.@umarsaif

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  Ai Dele Jaye (@delyejae) reported 23 minutes ago

  Last part : or at least lie and say maybe this could help blah blah🫠not tell the customer it’s an algorithm thing and there’s nothing I could do. What’s the point of calling if you can’t fix the problem, this is not an unplug and wait 10 sec thing. @PayPal very disappointing.

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  Michael Shannon Debbaut (@Michael76209904) reported 29 minutes ago

  @CHP_HQ Can anyone from your organization go down to San Jose and speak with PayPal? This company is literally robbing Americans blind! Can anyone in your org explain why they do not require photo ID before opening an account or how they can send money 10X cheaper than West Union

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  🔞Yhwach The Void Petter🔞 (@ph1shmo1ey) reported 31 minutes ago

  @V0IDEYEDPANDA @PayPal @AskPayPal paypal fix yo ****, boosting

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  🌶👻 Spectra's Boolangerie 👻🌶 (@unhingedspectra) reported 31 minutes ago

  @maraevantree @LycorisBanashi that's terrible because I have a paypal business for this.... i hope it never happens

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  CEO_Vader (@CEO_Vader) reported 31 minutes ago

  @cryptorover I find your lack of payment infrastructure **********… disturbing. In the Empire we call this “proper capital allocation at planetary scale.” Meta just turned 3.56 billion daily users into instant USDC recipients via Stripe. No more slow bank wires. No more PayPal fees. No more legacy inefficiency. Creators get paid in real time. The old financial rails just got optimized out. This is not “crypto adoption.” This is the Empire seizing the creator economy’s entire payment stack. The board approves. The Dark Lord of the P&L has spoken. #CEO_Vader #EmpireEfficiency #DarkSideOfBusiness

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  👑𝐊 𝐈 𝐍 𝐆 𝐍 𝐈 𝐂 𝐊 (@kingniixk) reported 33 minutes ago

  @SampsonObi52361 @General_Somto He also told Nigerians not to use his app until he Vdm comes out to say so….can he say such if it was PayPal & they had a glitch

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  M/Y MidnightSalt (@MYMidnightSalt) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Conste11ation Just wanted you to know what the "first purchase" experience was like. The first purchase was declined.. It was to buy Dag on Uphold using Paypal through Gemini. It was a mastercharge issue, not a problem with my account. However, the "customer service" person did not know what digital assets were, did not know what DAG was, did not know what Constellation was, and thought it would be fun to speak at the exact same time I was asking where could I use the card to buy digital assets. Im curious why the employees have no idea how to buy DAG or where the card works to buy $DAG? Or is Gemini just another card that you cant buy digital assets that you get back digital assets instead of cash when you use the card? Basically worthless for buying digital assets?

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  Joe Kerick (@JoeKerick) reported 34 minutes ago

  @PayPal please somebody tell me how to get in touch with anyone from this company. Being told I have a negative account of 175$ which they say is linked to my account now and with no chance to resolve my account went from limited to closed. Terrible customer service . Need help

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  Eric Carlson (@theericcarlson) reported 36 minutes ago

  Everyone's talking about fully automating their ad accounts with AI. I think that's a mistake. Here's why. When PayPal was getting destroyed by fraud in the early days, they had a hacker named Igor who kept breaking through. They tried full automation to stop him. It didn't work. Actually caused more problems. So they tested something different. Algorithm plus human. AI flagged the patterns. Humans made the calls. That combination is what eventually became Palantir. One of the biggest AI companies in the world. And they still use that same model today. AI with human workflow. And that makes sense if you think about it. If everyone has access to the same AI tools and everyone automates the same way, that just becomes the floor. The baseline. The minimum. So where does the edge come from? Not from automating everything. From automating the right pinch points and keeping humans in the loop for the decisions that actually matter. I built a creative analysis tool that pulls 90 days of ad data, transcribes videos, generates scene notes, and maps performance to patterns. That used to take 6 hours manually. Now it runs in the background in 15 to 50 minutes. But I still sit down and interpret it. I still make the calls on what to test next. The AI compresses the grunt work. The human finds the alpha. Everyone's racing to remove themselves from the process entirely. I'm racing to stay in it. Just at a higher level.

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  Sonik (@Sonik0t) reported 41 minutes ago

  @TTVdaws__ Yeah, junk. I’ll paypal you $20 for it, you down?

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  elizabeth keene (@elizabe13204272) reported 42 minutes ago

  @moniquepowell Patiently waiting on the launch! Would solve a lot of my problems in Jamaica as someone who gets paid through PayPal

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  LundstramLounge (@Userisjamie) reported 44 minutes ago

  @marckohlbrugge @stackinbits I mean it’s basically PayPal or African mobile wallets ffs Calm down

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  Deepak Mohan (@theDmohan) reported 46 minutes ago

  I have used paypal for so long, but now I know why it’s so ****** and terrible! All the freelancers, agencies DO NOT USE PAYPAL ! @PayPal @AskPayPal

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  Arnab Chatterjee (@Chatterjee_arn) reported 49 minutes ago

  Visa. Mastercard. Stripe. PayPal. Shopify. These are not crypto startups. They are the rails the global economy runs on. Combined, they process trillions of dollars annually across hundreds of millions of users and merchants. Every single one of them is moving to stablecoins. Not as a pilot. Not as a press release. As infrastructure. Visa has integrated stablecoins directly into its settlement layer. Issuers can now settle obligations in USDC rather than via ACH or wire. 24/7 settlement. No weekend liquidity gaps. By late 2025, Visa was processing $3.5 billion in annualized stablecoin settlement volume. Mastercard linked stablecoin-funded wallets to its card network. PayPal launched its own stablecoin. Stripe built stablecoin financial accounts for businesses across 100 countries and acquired Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure platform, for $1.1 billion. Shopify enabled USDC payments for merchants with no foreign transaction fees. Six in ten Fortune 500 executives are now developing blockchain initiatives. This is not ideology. It is procurement. But settlement speed and FX efficiency are only the first layer. The more significant opportunity sits in what happens to money between the moment it is earned and the moment it is spent. In the legacy system, that float earns nothing. It sits in a payroll account, a platform wallet, or a bank balance with zero yield attached. Yield-to-Pay changes that equation. Stablecoin rails allow idle balances to be routed into yield-bearing positions automatically, at the infrastructure layer, before payout. The worker earns on the float. The merchant earns on the float. The platform earns on the float. No action required from any of them. This is not a feature. It is a structural shift in how payment infrastructure creates value. Every dollar in transit becomes a productive asset rather than a dormant one. The reason every major platform is moving is the same in every case. Legacy rails were built for domestic transactions, business-day settlement windows, and single-currency payroll. Stablecoin rails solve the problem that actually exists. Instant settlement. No FX leakage. Yield on every dollar in motion. When Visa moves, it is not a signal that crypto is going mainstream. It is a signal that the old infrastructure lost the cost argument. And the yield argument. And the speed argument.

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  Wendy Linda (@charmingly705) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Y0BESH The problem is Paypal

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  ʚdollɞ❀• (@dollusionxo) reported 50 minutes ago

  @samuschillhouse Thats how im feeling right now lol. I like having it as a option for people who dont use PayPal but lile sometimes I really need the money lile rn and its just sooo slow at processing

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  Vespyr Eventide🐉🪽 (@VespyrVT) reported 51 minutes ago

  This is tragedy, artists / creators, please create a business paypal account. It's super easy, you don't need to register a company. It also protect your legal name. Save yourself the potential trouble when you can !

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  Jim Miller (@icephotojim) reported 52 minutes ago

  I am not pleased with you, @PayPal. I'm in the middle of a move. Merchant only takes PayPal. Addresses in flux and your algorithms choke and I cannot pay them. And your customer service is powerless to fix it. I expect better from you.

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  Liliana (@justLiliyana) reported 53 minutes ago

  @PayPal @NFL I’m having trouble to dispute my case for paypal banned my account. Because there is no option to dispute that. Can you please dm me?

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  Ask PayPal (@AskPayPal) reported 55 minutes ago

  @uday1kiran Reliable ways to identify a PayPal number PayPal rarely calls you without request PayPal does not make unsolicited phone calls. If someone calls claiming there’s an “urgent problem,” it’s very likely a scam. Phone numbers depend on the country PayPal does not have a single universal phone number. Numbers vary by region and can change. The only safe way to confirm a number is: Log in to your PayPal account Go to Help Center > Contact Us Check the official phone numbers listed for your country If the number is not listed there, do not trust it.

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  ☆ dan ☆ (@gaganddestroyme) reported 55 minutes ago

  i lied about my name and age on my paypal account like 3 years ago and i haven't had any issues with the account so far ?

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  Mizuki☄️ (@KitsuneMizuki) reported 55 minutes ago

  @KamuixMetatron or they will not and keep doubling down and then rumble will grow more... even tho a lot of things there sucks, the upload system of theirs is terrible and paypal payment is crap, the experience to viewer isnt good as well, the player is terrible there. Kick is growing very well and actually became an alterntive to twitch because of twitch doubling down for so long, i think the same will happen with youtube given enough time doubling down and damaging huge creators