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 (40%)
• Errors (39%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Tlaquepaque	Errors	7 hours ago
Bron	Errors	19 hours ago
Calp	Sign in	19 hours ago
Sevilla	Errors	1 day ago
Rome	Errors	1 day ago
Isola Maggiore	Errors	2 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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  EliteWave Consulting (@Elitewavecons) reported 2 minutes ago

  PayPal doubles down on stablecoins and crypto tools, signaling mainstreamed digital assets are shifting payment economics from a fringe option to a core revenue driver. #Fintech

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  Alex **** (@alexdikeh) reported 3 minutes ago

  @base Same script each time. I thought by now base would have brought a long lasting solutions to the problem of ACH, SEPA, PayPal, Debit/Credit cards and co payments and transfer problem. I was thinking we were about to have a functional international all in one payment platform.

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  FDC INC (@fdcincshop) reported 3 minutes ago

  Now user email is available across platform from paypal account. And i need to seperate admin priviliges from user account. add email credential to -login- blogger page

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  Felix 🫀 Fanfaron - Adam Raki Plush Coming Soon! (@FelixFanfaron) reported 5 minutes ago

  @beanyzilla @ACGGoods Weirdly mine also showed me being charged (or 'payment pending') the full amount at the time of the preorder, but now since the apparent PayPal refund it only shows the down payment in my bank account, so it may be worth double checking for any and all transactions with ACGGoods

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  Forrest Berg (@Forrest_Berg) reported 7 minutes ago

  @KnowingBetterYT PayPal forced it! Wasn’t optional on the PC login

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  ✯ PESSI ✯ (@plastiktubes) reported 8 minutes ago

  does anybody else have issues with paypal not letting them deposit to a bank account with money on a business profile or does mine just hate me

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  Gentle Harasser (@gentleharasser) reported 8 minutes ago

  Hey @Brunch_BCN I've spent half an hour trying to buy tickets and it won't accept any card on your website, revolut, ing, visa, mastercard, nothing... What s the problem? This is ridiculous. Why don't you have PayPal? I'm not the only one failing. It's extremely frustrating, wtf

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  Cuppa (@CuppaXD) reported 11 minutes ago

  @cyndiquills Try using paypal instead of your card, i havent been able to use my card for like a year even after changing cards, heard alot of people with this issue too

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  David Macaulay-Smith (@DMS_Reports) reported 14 minutes ago

  Midge Purce’s early goal was the difference, but Gotham FC’s defense was the story. The Bats shut down Bay FC for a 1-0 victory at PayPal Park, extending their unbeaten run to five matches while recording their league-leading 10th clean sheet of the season.

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  World of Bills 💸 (@World_Of_Bills) reported 16 minutes ago

  Oyaa @Safaricom_Care , another field day sio? 32 hrs gone since I raised my PayPal mpesa issue, still unresolved

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  Cryptothreads.io (@CryptoThreadsX) reported 17 minutes ago

  @CoinMarketCap Real substance here - $8.68B revenue beat, raised FY guidance, PYUSD now in 70 markets. The $81M crypto adjustment is a rounding error next to that; the actual story is PayPal building real infrastructure across stablecoins, agentic payments (via AP2/ACP), and identity. This is a fintech incumbent taking crypto rails seriously

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  Inkfy (@inkfycreates) reported 19 minutes ago

  Lastly, people need to stop panicking every time these posts come out per month. There is no decent, widely available alternative and there are many issues with PayPal, but it works fine if you typically don't do anything crazy. People risk their livelihood too easily.

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  anthonyz.xrp | anthonyzNFT.eth 🍌🍄 (@anthonyzNFT) reported 21 minutes ago

  @moonpay @circle @PayPal I’m down

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  🔞bisicko | Ageless/minors will be blocked🔞 (@bisicko_critter) reported 21 minutes ago

  ive seen a couple posts abt paypal limiting and i wanted to share an interesting experience i had so i got limited a couple years ago for the reason of not having submitted id (used to not need to) + getting my acc compromised. at the time i had issues with id and only had (1/5)

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  TheGrindStream (@TheGrindStream) reported 23 minutes ago

  Hey yall. @_CinnamonTea_ is having a tough time as @PayPal is giving her trouble so if anyone can help her buy either commissions or donating money for her event this weekend its very important to her and I wanna help any way i can while paypal fixes their mess up.

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  Priya (@withpriyajain) reported 26 minutes ago

  Every founder and freelancer I work with eventually asks a version of the same question: their first US client is ready to pay, and they have no idea which route gets them the most money. Most default to PayPal because it's the only name they recognize. I used to as well, until I sat down and mapped every way money can move from a foreign client's account to mine. The gap between the worst option and the best one is not small. It's the difference between losing $350 and losing $29 on the same $5,000 invoice. Here's the full map THE RBI-LICENSED PLATFORMS: Skydo, Xflow, Razorpay, Infinity, BriskPe. These hold the RBI's PA-CB license and give you virtual US/UK/EU account details, so your client just sees a normal local transfer on their end. You receive INR at the real mid-market rate. Skydo: $19 flat under $2K, $29 up to $10K, 0.3% above that, plus GST Infinity: 0.5% all-inclusive Razorpay: 1% flat Zero FX markup on all of them, free automatic FIRA The part nobody mentions: these platforms KYC you before you ever receive money. That means the nightmare scenario, funds landing and then getting frozen for months, structurally can't happen. Money sits in RBI-mandated escrow, and if something does go wrong, you have the RBI Ombudsman in your own timezone. WISE AND PAYONEER Wise converts at true mid-market rate for about 1.6-1.8%, and picked up in-principle PA-CB approval in 2025 (limit now ₹25 lakh per invoice). Good if you want multi-currency balances. Payoneer only earns its place through marketplace integrations, Upwork, Fiverr, Amazon. The moment you withdraw to INR you eat a ~2% markup plus a $4 fee under $400. Both can freeze flagged accounts for up to 180 days, and since they're foreign-regulated, the RBI Ombudsman can't help you there. But Payoneer has the option to withdraw your money to the source account if the transaction doesn't go through for any reason. PAYPAL 4.4% + $0.30 transaction fee, 3-4% FX markup on top, 5-8% effective cost. Worst pricing here and the worst freeze record in the industry, with holds reported past seven months and active class-action suits about it. Only use it if the alternative is not getting paid, and withdraw the second it lands. DIRECT SWIFT WIRE Intermediary banks skim $15-30 before it even reaches India. Your bank adds a receiving fee (HDFC ₹200-750, SBI 0.125%). Then a hidden 2-4% FX markup gets baked into the rate. Then 18% GST on the fees. You'll lose ₹1,500-2,500 on a typical transfer and chase the branch for your FIRC yourself. Makes sense for large negotiated volumes, ideally with an EEFC account so you can convert when the rate favors you. STRIPE AND DODO PAYMENTS @stripe India is invite-only and lands at 6%+ once you add conversion and GST, and needs a registered Indian entity. Skip it unless you're a card-led SaaS business. Dodo Payments is a Merchant of Record, like Paddle or Lemon Squeezy, it becomes the legal seller and handles global VAT for you. ~5.5-6%+ effective cost, but that's the price for not filing VAT in 220 countries yourself. Use it for product checkout, never for B2B invoicing. THE US LLC ROUTE (Mercury, Relay, Meow) This is a US-presence play, not a payment rail. All three need a US LLC and EIN first. Free banking, but the money still has to come home, so you'll pay Wise/Skydo/SWIFT fees on top to repatriate. Never actually cheaper. The compliance stack is real too: IRS Form 5472 (miss it, $25,000 penalty), plus Indian FEMA/ODI rules on owning a foreign entity. Worth it only if a US client will exclusively pay by ACH, you need full Stripe access, or you're holding working USD (Meow's ~5% APY makes it the pick there). Most people who go this route could've used Razorpay, Skydo, or Winvesta's virtual US account details instead, without touching an LLC at all. THE THREE THINGS THAT KEEP YOU SAFE, WHATEVER YOU PICK > Get your FIRA every time, it's your proof of export income and keeps GST zero-rated > Register for GST past ₹20 lakh turnover and file a LUT > Use the right purpose code (P0802/P0805 for software and business services), the most common reason payments get flagged is the wrong code None of this needs a registered company except Stripe and the US LLC route. PAN and a savings account get you started everywhere else. Please note: The rates can change day to day across different platforms, check the official website for live rates.

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  HongshuG (@H0ngshuG) reported 27 minutes ago

  Higgsfield Filmmaker Grant: Why I Want It I've been working as a Motion Designer in Advertising for 10 years. Adidas, PayPal, Walmart. Most of that work lives in small decisions nobody is supposed to notice. That's the part I care about. Deep work, the kind where you sit with one shot long enough that it stops looking like a shot and starts feeling like a memory. I got good at the craft. But I was almost never in the room when the story got decided. The deck arrived approved and my job was to make someone else's idea move. I want to learn to be the director of the story now. Advertising raised me. The commercials I saw as a kid did more to shape what I thought the world looked like than most films did. That's real power and most of us have stopped using it. We make content instead. Content evaporates. Nobody's grandchild is going to quote a piece of content. AI filmmaking is the first time I can reach for the other thing. No crew, no cast, no location, no permission. Just the image in my head and the hours to chase it down. What I want to build is work that resonates. A small film with a character and a turn in it, made with enough care that a stranger feels something they weren't expecting to feel from an ad. And I want to help push this medium past the phase it's stuck in — gorgeous clips with nothing underneath, made in ten minutes, forgotten in five seconds. The tools got fast. The work should get deeper. I have 10 years of knowing why a shot works. I want to spend the next 10 pointing that at stories that resonate and visuals that leave a memory behind. The last thing I made wasn't for a brand. It was a 3-minute animated film for my 2-year-old daughter. She's the character, our dog is in it, and everything she loves is in it too. The train. The zoo. The sticker animals. She's watched it more times than anything I've ever made for a client. I want to learn this craft properly, tell stories worth remembering, and make work that shapes culture instead of just filling it. Reel below 👇

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  Senius (@CryptoSenius) reported 32 minutes ago

  @CoinMarketCap PayPal is clearly doubling down on digital finance stablecoins are becoming part of the mainstream payments conversation.

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  Plaxun Lumilost 🇲🇿 (@Plaxu_n) reported 33 minutes ago

  @ObakeNekoWorks That is a possibility or someone might have tried to login to your account and the system is keeping tabs on your account? Someone has been trying to get into my PayPal but i don't fall for the fake email and text links.. modern day hacking is so annoying :<

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  Dess 𖤐 (@roguespider07) reported 34 minutes ago

  I can transfer my paypal to my bank account. problem solved.

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  Gonz (@GonzoBeyondo) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Jarhead3534 @WeedVet I quit selling on eBay around 2018 or so. Once shipping rates really started increasing. Between eBay fees, PayPal fees, and shipping costs, their overall cut eats well past any potential profit margin. And then there's the problem ppl, and eBay always sides with the buyer.

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  🌨⚡️Azoth🔞⚡️🌧 (@DarkWaterBeach) reported 36 minutes ago

  @PupEspresso_ @dtnols Yeah paypal does this. My dad added his own money to his PayPal to pay for soemthing and they **** his account down We had to seek legal action to make them give the money back

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  yekkusu.bsky.social (@yekkusu) reported 41 minutes ago

  Understandable? Sure. However: wishing your governemnt would do anything to control PayPal when PayPal itself as being a huge issue with anything NSFW recently even ******* the whole itchio site for example? Right now you're being held hostage and your choice is accept or move.

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  zoe (@_zoekahn_) reported 48 minutes ago

  2. Check your chargebacks cross reference your customer service tickets. (Each platform that accepts payments needs to be monitored Shopify, PayPal, Affirm, etc) Chargeback management can help solve underlying issues around friction in the post purchase customer journey. Often times, we find that customers "have been trying to reach out to support" and then confusion because the customer support "inbox is at 0". With some digging, we find 'reply to' emails routing to nowhere, consumer requests are going to spam, OR maybe someone is reaching out via social media inboxes that aren't being checked. With customers who submitted chargebacks and they HAVE reached out to support, this offers a chance to be able to either win the chargeback w/ evidence OR find ways that we could have dealt with the situation differently to avoid the chargeback.

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  Koshin Jabarti 🇵🇸 (@DirieKoshin) reported 48 minutes ago

  @BlindWaveCrew hey i have trouble paying beyond with paypal

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  taz 🤖🎧 (@tazthemenace) reported 50 minutes ago

  Part of the problem is even if Stripe is a good alternative, the way people suggest a ton of different things means ppl are spread everywhere and you may have to make multiple different accounts to comm people, as opposed to everyone accepting a single common site like PayPal was

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  Batfella 🦇 (@Batfella_Rises) reported 55 minutes ago

  @JonesyShwemes @bekamaciorowski @RebekahMac8a93 I cant fault you Jeff. The only reason I do is so I can get the payment details and report to Paypal etc , its very rare that we close down a paypal account but it has happened.

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  Techmeme (@Techmeme) reported 56 minutes ago

  PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, above $8.47B est., transaction margin dollars up 1% YoY to $3.9B, and a $1.1B profit, down from $1.26B in Q2 2025 (@eschisgall / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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  sameer ahmed ansari (@AhmedAnsar2173) reported 56 minutes ago

  @rbi @bankofbaroda It's been 10 days since I reported a 3DS authentication issue preventing my debit card from being added to Upwork and PayPal. No resolution or update has been provided. Kindly resolve this issue as soon as possible. #BankOfBaroda #CustomerCare #DebitCard

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  joey 🐈‍⬛ (@joeyyyyeoj) reported 57 minutes ago

  does anyone have paypal i’m trying to add £5 towards my chair and idk throne still hates me i have had this problem since may i can only make one payment every few weeks it’s really annoying 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 it’s not even my cards fault atp if paypal won’t take my money always LIKE PLEASE LET ME JUST ADD £5