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	2 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	2 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	3 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	4 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	6 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	6 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Sameh Nassar (@siynrr) reported 3 minutes ago

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

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  MCW2112 😺newsmemes😸(MarkWalton) (@MarkWal35709868) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Venmo @PayPal That's a cute trick. Click on "close account " , I confirm and it just does nothing. The goddamn app will NOT let me delete my account. FIX THIS **** *************!!

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  Yadav Ramdewar (@Official_YadavR) reported 7 minutes ago

  @princexsol 200usd to fix my nissan car year 03 paypal id: @YadavRamdewar877

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  Ridark (@ridark_eth) reported 7 minutes ago

  The entire world launch market was about $4 billion a year. He stood in front of Stanford students and said his rocket would fly for about $6 million a flight, against a competitor charging many times that this is Elon Musk in October 2003 – introduced as the guy from PayPal, because that is all he was SpaceX is one year old in this room. No Falcon has flown. Tesla does not exist yet as anything you would recognise he divides the whole market by the number of flights and reads the number out loud, the way you would check a bill on why the price had never come down: he says nobody had tried to build the vehicle and the engine and the avionics in one building, so every rocket carried four companies' margins no slides worth the name – a room of maybe a hundred students – a man in a black shirt who has not yet been photographed a million times this recording exists because Stanford filmed its entrepreneurship course for a teaching archive and put it out free bookmark & watch today ↓

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  Mistress Stitches 𓄧 (@MissStittches) reported 8 minutes ago

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

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 9 minutes ago

  $17,500. Average sitting in freelancers' unpaid invoices. The problem isn't getting paid — it's nobody watching the money. Duebird is a 24/7 AI billing agent that watches Stripe, PayPal, and bank feeds, sends invoices, follows up on late payers, and reports cash flow.

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  DAVE (@alixdavie2324) reported 12 minutes ago

  Would anyone be interested in my 2 sliver vip tickets for Ariana Grande in London on Aug 23rd. Send me a dm if you’re interested. willing to show genuine proof of the tickets. Will show you a screen recording down to the Ticketmaster app. PayPal G & S accepted

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  Ownership (@ownershipfm) reported 14 minutes ago

  Epicentral founder Tony on the roadmap to mainnet, and what has to happen first "I anticipate we'll go live on mainnet this year for sure. I couldn't tell you a specific time frame, but more than a couple of months out from now" "We need legal clarity and we need proper audits, and we can't do that unless we have money. That's the ultimate truth. We can't have this exist on Solana until we have those checks, because we're building a non custodial platform. We want to make sure all the audits are in check, the program is working fine, there's no back door" "On legal clarity, we're already seeing it with the CFTC and the SEC and the crypto roundtables they host, their leniency and open mindedness to innovative financial technology. If I had the opportunity to sit down with them today I'd say, how do we do this with your support, because it needs to exist" "We're already seeing Visa, PayPal and Western Union use Solana's architecture to settle payments. The same thing is going to happen with derivatives. On devnet we already have 120 users as of today, 2 million in options volume across 500 different trades. It's private access right now, but it'll go public beta within the next month or so" FT @TheLazySol @epicentral_ @8bitpenis

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  Jeffcoly | ZarGates (@Jeffcoly) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Forbes Slow and steady still works. Levchin took the hard DIY route from PayPal fraud wars to Affirm’s $25B valuation and actual GAAP profits. Rare to see a fintech that didn’t just burn cash forever chasing growth.

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  palazzetto delle aste (@PalazzettoA) reported 17 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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  Robert J Abalos (@robertjabalos) reported 17 minutes ago

  @peak_skier @MPelletierCIO You are so correct. I gave up on eBay about six years ago. Too many slow or dead listings. Site is overrun with scammers who file chargebacks after receiving items. Ironically, the site ran better before PayPal when buyers would mail envelopes with money orders or cash.

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  Bitcoin Sports (@Bitcoin_Sports_) reported 18 minutes ago

  A response to a few of your major points. These multi chains are not decentralized, just an improvement on the existing finance system, which helps new rent seekers become powerful at the expense of the working class. Sure, they have utility. But so does my air fryer. Just because we have an air fryer now does not mean ultimate savings technology with the ability to transact anywhere for anything around the world is not far more important than a new PayPal or Visa network. They might be digital assets, but they are not Bitcoin. They are two separate universes. Conflating the two is the real problem, and that is why maximalists exist. Maximalism is not a bug, it will be a feature of the network as long as blocks are mined. Bitcoin is inherently different given its fixed supply and decentralized nature.

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  Purvi Mehta (@mehtapurvi264) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Coinvo @PayPal without any error from my side since ages am unable to sign in to my account at all

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  X Freeze (@XFreeze) reported 22 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

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  Mr. Daimoku (@niftydaimoku) reported 26 minutes ago

  @PayPal @Venmo SHUT DOWN PAYPAL!

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  jfcistfgltm (@BowieIsWorried) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Berri_shawol I selected "Report a problem" on the transaction in PayPal and just explained what happened in the form

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  Ethan (@FiggyE818) reported 30 minutes ago

  @thorntondiecast Put the PayPal down and walk away slowly so no one gets hurt!

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  Hinako (@Hinakopm) reported 37 minutes ago

  @LooongJooohnson @PayPal Isn't this a solution for those who want to travel to China but are struggling with payment issues? If that's your thinking, can I say that the US started using WeChat to curry favor with China?

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  Joel Dalais (@JoelDalais) reported 38 minutes ago

  @369bsv @BitcoinSVCOL @PayPal Some other notes you (or readers might find interesting) - there is no central wallet to be hacked, no central bank to be closed down or forced closed - users use their own wallets and their own paypal. Also - its impossible for the system to inflate the BSV available, traders can only post up to what they have, the system (nor myself, or anyone) can't create extra BSV to put in the market for price manipulation, as your 'account balance' is whatever you have in your handcash.

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  WorshipCarrie 💸 (@worshipcarriee) reported 39 minutes ago

  @jay39646384336 PayPal @bgcarrie send before they shut down

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  GenZ Investor (@investingbyGenZ) reported 41 minutes ago

  @WagerWizard00 I agree that PayPal is still something but when you look at the overall revenue growth it’s not impressive. Unless they can get revenue acceleration then a low multiple is warranted in an industry like this. And what I said was that I think the chances of them reaching sustained revenue growth has gone down

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  Jayden (@Jayden6411742) reported 43 minutes ago

  @_KenjiTheRonin @Luxvozz Well that's great to hear. One problem. I have no idea how to use PayPal. Since I never used it once in my entire life.

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  TomOnTech (@TomOnTech) reported 47 minutes ago

  AI AGENTIC PAYMENTS: The Middle Layer May Capture the Most Value AI agents are beginning to purchase data, software, computing power and services without a person initiating each transaction. Over time, agents could conduct more transactions than people, with many payments worth only a few cents or fractions of a cent. This does not necessarily mean payment processors will collect large fees. Coinbase reported more than 165 million x402 transactions but only about $50 million in cumulative volume—roughly $0.30 per transaction. The x402 protocol is also open and charges no protocol fee. If basic settlement becomes inexpensive and standardized, more value may accrue to the middle layer between the agent and the payment rail. That includes: • Identifying the agent • Confirming its permissions • Setting spending limits • Metering resource consumption • Requesting and verifying payment • Routing the transaction • Managing fraud and compliance • Granting access to the requested resource Public companies positioned around this middle layer: Cloudflare $NET Cloudflare may have the most strategically important position because it sits directly between agents and online resources. Its Monetization Gateway is designed to let an API, dataset, webpage or AI tool require payment before providing access. Cloudflare can potentially handle the payment request, usage metering, verification and access decision at the edge. Cloudflare Wallets could also give agents programmable spending limits, approved merchants and maximum transaction sizes. This places Cloudflare on both sides of the transaction: helping online resources collect payments and helping agents make them. The products are still early, however, and meaningful revenue has not yet been demonstrated. Coinbase $COIN Coinbase has the most developed overall agent-payment stack. It created x402, operates Base, provides agent wallets, facilitates payments and participates in USDC economics. Because x402 is open and vendor-neutral, Coinbase’s long-term opportunity is not charging a large protocol fee. It is monetizing wallets, balances, compliance, business services and activity occurring through its infrastructure. Mastercard $MA Mastercard’s potential role extends beyond processing the payment. Agent Pay for Machines is designed to manage identity, permissions and trust across cards, bank accounts and stablecoins, including high-frequency payments worth fractions of a cent. Even if settlement moves to inexpensive stablecoin networks, Mastercard could remain involved as the credentialing and risk-management layer. Visa $V Visa is developing agent scoring, tokenized credentials, fraud models, stablecoin settlement and an agent directory. Its infrastructure may be especially relevant when an agent makes a larger purchase for a person and the merchant needs to confirm that the agent is legitimate, authorized and operating within the user’s instructions. PayPal $PYPL PayPal combines merchant distribution, consumer wallets, PYUSD, fraud management and dispute resolution. Its strongest opportunity may be serving as the connection between consumer agents and merchants rather than processing sub-cent machine-to-machine payments. Circle $CRCL USDC currently dominates x402 settlement, making Circle an important part of the underlying payment rail. However, Circle primarily earns reserve income on USDC balances rather than revenue from each transaction. High transaction volume matters only if it also creates larger funded balances or demand for Circle’s paid wallet, compliance and developer services. Marqeta $MQ Marqeta can issue virtual cards with detailed spending limits and programmatic controls. This makes it a useful middle layer while agents still need to purchase from merchants that accept cards but not stablecoins. Its role may become less important if direct wallet-to-wallet payments become widely accepted. My current ranking: $NET — payment and access decisions at the internet edge $COIN — wallets, facilitation, Base and USDC economics $MA — agent identity, permissions and trust $V — credentials, fraud protection and merchant acceptance $PYPL — connection between consumer agents and merchants $CRCL — underlying stablecoin settlement $MQ — programmable card bridge

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  𝒁𝑼𝑲𝑶 (@heiszuko_) reported 49 minutes ago

  @oluwayeml My Chinese vendor rip me $450 chime some months ago and na since 2021 I don Dey use am, I Dey see signs since on PayPal but i think say na PayPal issues till e finally happen on chime, my eyes clear

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  Winston (@CryptoWinnies) reported 49 minutes ago

  @eliana_jordan @kwawmannanjnr a major problem for sure. Paypal is not known for robust dispute practices and they don't claim to be. If your first time to Egypt... sucks but this is not abnormal for Red Sea excursions. Unless you have strong connections with people in the region refrain from putting yourself in risky situations like this in the future. Its a painful experience and not comfy at all. sucks. Reddit, trip advisor are your friend.

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@aureayutrades) reported 54 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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  KingPapiTax (@KingPapiTax) reported 56 minutes ago

  My PayPal is down trying to get it fixed sorry everything

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  Moyrith (@moyrith) reported 56 minutes ago

  @DeVeyrn yeah, i’ve already seen around 100 people reach checkout and leave without buying. maybe PayPal isn't the only problem here

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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 57 minutes ago

  Honestly, I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else. There are others who have gone through something similar or even the exact same situation with him, and apparently, they end up settling things amicably. I hope this can be resolved, as the whole thing seems completely crazy to me. I can understand a problem or a disagreement and working toward a solution, but filing PayPal claims over things that don't even fail a similarity check (like a background) is just absurd; he simply filed a claim for the *entire* job

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  Eliana (@eliana_jordan) reported 58 minutes ago

  the human's answer: paypal "can't judge the quality of a service." the problem was my "expectations." case stays closed. my expectations. water was dripping on the charging station of a boat at sea. liveaboards have burned down for less… it happened in many boats when i was in Thailand. there were moments I honestly wished I could just get off that boat. the operator and the boat won't take responsibility either. my partner and I paid over €2,000 for this + €600 cash we paid onboard that they refused even giving us an invoice and I never asked about quality: the route SOLD is not the route DELIVERED. that's the textbook definition of "not as described."