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
Benfeld	Sign in	1 day ago
Gérardmer	Sign in	2 days ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	3 days ago
Lodève	Errors	3 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	4 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Vex 🇷🇸 🧝🏼👨‍⚖️| Elf Judge Vtuber (@VexVextor124) reported 7 minutes ago

  @jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal Doubt. I am from Serbia. Before my only way of contact was Facebook and they shut it down. I cant call unless I want astronomic phone bills

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  Jack Diddly (@UdonoJackDiddly) reported 8 minutes ago

  @RobSchneider The government can track down every penny you put in a PayPal transaction selling a used bicycle, but refuse to track down the real criminals funding this ****.

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  Dogman705 (@Dogman705) reported 11 minutes ago

  @jaggedmaven this is a pretty large rant, but: i cannot run nightshade because getting an @AMDRadeon was my worse mistake this year. i found some of my stuff in some datasets that are widely used for ai training, so i cannot actually post anything without poisoning it, and i cant do it. and i have yet to set even a workflow to get the comissions running, i need to use USDT or USDC, that is my ONLY choice, and im kinda discouraged due fanbox and subscribestar are also not viable because @Wise would just let me down by its own rules, that somehow are above any involved country laws, and using paypal is just begging to be robbed. so by the time i solve my problems i'll face unfair competition by some ai dude profiting from my own effort if i continue posting, but if i dont post more often my reach will be buried into oblivion.

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  R.Louis (@RLouis1397) reported 16 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay I absolutely hate buying from eBay. Slow shipping and customer support. Always pay with PayPal when using eBay and have a credit card as the primary payment method for two layers of protection. Always DYOR on seller. If a price seems too good to be true, it probably is.

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  Christina Lee (@_Rina__Lee) reported 18 minutes ago

  you can pre-sell a product that doesn't exist yet, use the money to build it, and deliver it 2 weeks later. this sounds like a scam. it's how every software company, every course creator, and every successful launch in history actually works step 1: post about the problem you're going to solve. for 5-7 days. "here's what most people get wrong about X." "here's what i'd include if i built the ultimate guide to X." "who would want a step-by-step breakdown of exactly how i did X" step 2: count the replies. the DMs. the "me" comments. that's your pre-sale audience. they just told you they want it before it exists step 3: post "i'm building this. it'll be ready in 2 weeks. first 20 people get it at $27 instead of $47. DM me to lock in the early price" step 4: collect payment. through gumroad, stripe, paypal. whatever. the money arrives. now you have a funded deadline. the product isn't built yet. the motivation isn't an idea anymore. it's money sitting in your account from people who are waiting step 5: build it. in 2 weeks. the deadline is real because people paid. the pressure produces better work than 6 months of "getting it perfect" because perfection has no deadline and deadlines have no room for perfection step 6: deliver it. collect testimonials. screenshot the reactions. those screenshots sell the next batch at $47 without you having to convince anyone because the proof already exists from round one you just launched a product with zero inventory. zero risk. zero upfront cost. funded entirely by the people who bought it before it existed. the "scam" is actually the lowest-risk business model available because the market validated the idea with money before you spent a single hour building it

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  S 👑 EST.19XX ♊️ (@Simply_SunriseX) reported 21 minutes ago

  Down price $75 PayPal

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  𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐳𝐚 | Networking Guy (@Hamzaonchain) reported 28 minutes ago

  In 2012, Honey launched as a browser extension that promised to find coupon codes automatically and save you money while shopping online. It blew up. Millions of people installed it. Thousands of merchants partnered with it. Some of the biggest YouTubers on the internet promoted it. Then MegaLag started digging. What he found made Honey look very different from the innocent coupon extension everyone thought they were using. Honey could allegedly replace a creator's affiliate cookie at checkout, taking the commission for itself even when that creator had originally sent the customer to the store. And sometimes, Honey didn't even have to find you a better deal. MegaLag also found evidence that Honey's “best coupon” system wasn't necessarily searching the entire internet for the best price. Merchants could control which discounts Honey showed. Then things got worse. His later investigations uncovered Honey's alleged use of “stand-down” workarounds, allowing it to continue receiving affiliate attribution despite agreements telling it not to overwrite another affiliate's referral. By 2026, this wasn't just a YouTube controversy anymore. Affiliate networks started cutting ties with Honey, and the extension had lost more than 7 million Chrome users and thousands of merchant relationships. Then came the lawsuit. PayPal tried to get the case dismissed. It didn't work. On June 22, 2026, a federal judge denied PayPal's motion to dismiss the amended lawsuit, allowing the claims to move forward. And that's why I call Honey a scam. Not because it sometimes failed to find a coupon. But because something marketed as a tool for saving you money allegedly became very good at making money from the transaction itself. Honey wasn't looking for the best deal. It was looking for its cut.

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  [カで] (@xjpegx) reported 31 minutes ago

  Booth itself accepts both foreign credit cards and paypal so that shouldn't be a problem either. It's a bit less convenient than buyee, but also has lower fees.

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  Akshay Kumar (@AkshayP06) reported 34 minutes ago

  I'm having trouble contacting you guys. I need a resolution regarding negative balance. My activity and balance aren't matching. @AskPayPal

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  Aaditya Aanand (@biased_human) reported 38 minutes ago

  Shiprocket has no promoter. Nobody owns this company. 94.03% of the company is held by public and 5.97% is ESOP. Then who is the majority shareholder? Bertelsmann, German book publisher (Penguin), owns 21% of the company. Zomato also holds 7%. PayPal also holds above 1%. Founders of Shiprocket are selling shares worth ₹142 crore in this IPO. Not just founders, 45% of the IPO money is being used to give an exit to existing investors. They did over 20 crore transactions in FY26. But just 4.7% merchants of Shiprocket generates 89% of all the revenue. They call them power merchants. Shiprocket acquired Pickrr for 1000 cr and booked 800 cr in goodwill (extra payment they made to Pickrr for their brand value). They have paid goodwill before as well (Omuni), but all of them were loss making. 14 years into the business, Shiprocket is still loss making. They posted a loss of ₹600 cr in FY24. Magic happened and FY26 loss came down to ₹80 cr. That said, their core business is profitable.

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  TaegiBoraverse⁷ IS SEEING BTS ⊙⊝⊜ (@soumii05) reported 40 minutes ago

  There is a "loyal customer" am saying it in inverted commas coz u will know soon why So she saw i hv a digital shop and was like she wanted to supposely support my digital shop and buy smthing for her friend i told her okay and gave her my website I can do take her order manually and send via email no issue but since she said it was her bestfrnd birthday n wanted to give them a digital planner i gave her option of my website since i was busy and website they would hv got it within second after ordering it while manually i would hv been able to take her order on weekend since i had work and didnt have time to login my laptop and all I told her i had paypal option which she said she didnt have and then i said i have credit card And she was like she dont trust using credit card on my shop coz she think she get scam😭 like she been ordering frm me for like 2 ys once a while and knws hw my shop function yet she was like she may get scam😭 Like i do my best to make people happy and in return i get called scammer and being manipulative when all i do is help army when i can and rn i feel so close to closing all my shops coz with how these people are and how im no longer getting any sale 😭😭 Sorry for the rant at 3am im unable to sleep and started to cry again and thinking abt my ****** life and flop shops that i have worked so hard on for 2ys yet its a huge flop😭

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  Christina Lee (@_Rina__Lee) reported 40 minutes ago

  here's how to make your first sale without an audience, without a product, and without spending a dollar step 1: think of one problem you've solved for yourself in the last 12 months. lost weight. cleared skin. organized apartment. grew followers. learned to cook. fixed sleep. anything step 2: write the solution as a numbered list in your notes app. every step you took. every product you used. every mistake you made. every shortcut you found. raw. unedited. brain dump step 3: text 3 friends this message: "i'm putting together a guide on [topic]. would you pay $20 for the exact breakdown of how i did it with every step and product listed" if 2/3 say yes you have a validated product. if they say no ask "what would make it worth $20 to you" and adjust based on their answer step 4: clean up the brain dump. add links to products. add before/after if you have it. export as PDF. send it to the friends who said yes. collect payment through venmo, paypal, or cash app step 5: screenshot the transaction. screenshot their reaction when they read it. post both with "just sold my first digital product. if you want the guide DM me. $20" you just made your first sale. the number doesn't matter. the neural pathway you just created does. your brain now has proof that strangers will pay you for what you know. that proof rewires everything that comes after it

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  hamza abaoui (@abaoui_ham64421) reported 41 minutes ago

  @QudsNen @Au10tix's biometric processing for @PayPal raises major digital rights issues. Their links to Israeli intelligence and past data breaches threaten Palestinian privacy and data sovereignty.

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  Sɪɴʙᴀᴅ Sᴛᴀʀᴅᴜsᴛ☢️🎨『V-Artist』 (@Sinbadstardust) reported 42 minutes ago

  @BubblePuppyVT It is a paypal issue and I'm not US, Not a lot of other routes for me but I wont bore everyone with all the details of whats going on behind the scenes, its a waiting game currently but worst comes to worst I just have to close comms and thats sort of it.

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  Project Orange Garden (@pr_orangegarden) reported 44 minutes ago

  If the "PayPal" button to purchase does not show up on your end: 🔵 First, make sure you've filled in all the fields (name, email, phone, etc) because the PayPal button won't show up unless all fields have been completed 🔵 Clear your cache and cookies 🔵 Try a different browser So far, those methods work on our end. Please let us know if there are still issues. 🙏

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  DK (@DK1_DK1) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Halfords_uk I've now tried paying via PayPal. It processed the payment. I've had an email from PayPal confirming the payment, but your website (again) showed a basket empty error and the order isn't showing in my order history and no confirmation email. WTF is going on?

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  Intes (@itsIntes) reported 48 minutes ago

  𝟮𝟳-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 $𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘆-𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁, 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. Summer of 1995. Musk had just dropped out of a Stanford physics PhD program to start a company with his brother Kimbal. No money, no income, and for three or four months, he showered at the YMCA and worked out of what he later called the nastiest office you could imagine. The office had one hidden advantage. An internet service provider sat on the floor below, so Musk drilled a hole straight through the floor and ran a cable directly to their server, cutting his own bandwidth costs to almost nothing. He couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router either. “I personally wrote the first national maps, directions, yellow pages and white pages on the internet in the summer of 1995 in C with a little C++. Didn’t use a web server to save CPU cycles, just read port 8080 directly. Couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router, so wrote an emulator based on a white paper.” The company was Zip2, online city guides for newspapers, restaurant listings, directions, the basics of local search before local search existed. By 1998, CBS came to film him for a segment on his new life: the vintage Jaguar, six-figure salary, a market Microsoft had already tried and failed to enter. Then the reporter asked the standard question of the era. Where is the internet going? “The internet is the superset of all media. Print, radio, broadcast, all of it folds into the internet. It’s the first two-way medium that’s intelligent, where consumers choose what they see and when they see it.” That was 1998. He was describing a feed before anyone called it one. In February 1999, Compaq bought Zip2 for $307M .Musk’s cut was roughly $22M .That money became X. com, X. combecame PayPal, and PayPal became the seed money for everything after it.

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  Citizen ☕ Scientist (@WebWadeOfficial) reported 49 minutes ago

  @EnriqueJLores @PayPal We did $1.5 million/year via PayPal and 1.5 via Stripe until PayPal stopped sending us SMS login codes. Three calls over three weeks with PayPal support did not solve it. I unblocked all blocked numbers, O2 did an investigation and reported they're not blocking shortcodes and our account is working well and still able to receive money. Also waiting 72 hours before re-trying login (to reset the "you were deemed a "risk of hacking") doesn't work. So now we do 3 million/year with Stripe.. Support told us every time they'd let Dublin contact us but that never happened. Perhaps you can help us?

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  Oz "Karen Plankton Superfan" Pardo☮ (@OzPardo6) reported 50 minutes ago

  @VaporSoup7 so basically, he was known as the guy behind paypal, and the biggest problem people had with him in the episode at the time was his terrible acting.

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 51 minutes ago

  Jack Dorsey on why Square lends to businesses banks won't even look at: "We actually see their business." Asked what data justifies extending credit to a merchant a traditional bank would reject outright, Dorsey doesn't describe a better model. He describes a better position. "They use our register. They use our payments. They enter all their employees into our system. We see all their customers. We see their competition. We have a very deep understanding of how they're doing and who they are, and we don't make a judgment until we have a pretty strong understanding to make that risk assessment." A bank sees a business through the narrow aperture of a bank statement. Square sees the register, the payroll, the customer base, and the competition. The merchant runs the whole operation on Square's rails. Dorsey states the advantage plainly: "We've built our platform in such a way that we are the tool that's being used to run the entire business. So we have an advantage that others mostly do not." Outside data exists, but it's secondary: "Outside of our walls, we look at how sellers are engaging with Yelp or Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, or all these signals that people are sending around the world." And he immediately demotes it: "A lot of our assessment comes from our own understanding, our own data itself." The same instinct, own the surface where the activity actually happens shows up in Square Cash. "It's consistently broken into the top 20 free apps in the iOS App Store, which is a huge feat for a finance app. It's consistently been the number one above our competitors, Venmo and PayPal, over the past few months." Dorsey's explanation is that they refused to accept the category they were placed in: "We haven't seen it just as peer-to-peer. We've evolved past peer-to-peer and we've observed that people are using it as a spending device. And the more ability we add and the more capabilities we add to spend it in more places, the more adoption we see and the more retention we see." The sequencing was deliberate: "We started with the most critical thing, which is sending money between two people, and then we moved on to issuing a card that could be used online and offline." Sending money between two people is a feature. It is not, on its own, a business. The card is what converts a transfer utility into something people spend from and spending is where the surface widens. Square doesn't underwrite from a credit file, because it owns the register. Cash doesn't retain users through transfers, because it moved to own the spend. Worth noting what Dorsey doesn't say. Asked directly how Square makes money on peer-to-peer transfers, he answers with rankings, adoption, and retention never revenue. Read it as a tell either way: the monetisation is the card, or it hadn't been settled yet.

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  Phil Mason (@Philo1000) reported 51 minutes ago

  @MacDoug1 @Rogers I had a similar issue with that scumbag company #Paypal but at least I finally got through to the Toronto office!

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  Mike P (@mikepat711) reported 52 minutes ago

  The Cursor SpaceXAI overlap is giving Venmo PayPal vibes. Are Cursor and Grok going to stay separate things? This is called Grok Bot but I'm getting routed to a Cursor login portal when I try to launch the Mac client? What we doin here fam? I'm confused as ****

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  Jack (@Hammers6021) reported 54 minutes ago

  @OaklabsAlerts I tried to order something (a build and battle box for brilliant stars) and I got the same payment error that I had during the 30th booster bundle drop. Tried mobile and laptop with Apple Pay, credit card and PayPal.

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  soyty/comms open (@soytyxic_chupik) reported 54 minutes ago

  @DelusionM80867 Sorry but I don’t have PayPal cause of region( bt Boosty supports PayPal payments, and there shouldn't be any issues with verification

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  Yuyu 夢クズかわ ❤️‍🩹💉 2.0 DEBUT 8/15 (@YumeKuzukawa) reported 54 minutes ago

  @jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal they want to cut down cost and replace workers bc they are greedy and ofc to avoid accountability

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  Gabriel (@Gabriels42w) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Mutualaidboost2 I ask humble to help me I have problems with my anxiety and severe depression and fot the moment I can't work If someone can help me with on dollar or 2 how much you want this is my PayPal @CiucaGabriel1991 thank you a lot for help . I have also a 4fund but no one helps 😔😔

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  Legit Sleeper (@legitsleeper) reported 58 minutes ago

  @The_SecretShow One problem Bryan made like $800m selling Braintree and Venmo to paypal... What have you done, anon?

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  UNDY247K (@UNDY24K) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Sevens_October let me know if the payment went thru bro. Idk y paypal sometimes give me issues with my cashapp card🤩 but I'm re excited now to finish it and prep for volume 3

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  nothing to see here🇬🇧🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@antonello_web) reported 60 minutes ago

  @BleepinComputer Arghh! Again why companies are not careful! In Apr was PayPal, in June Facebook, yes it's terrible. Why this yanks are not careful with OUR data!

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  Context OS (@context_os_) reported 1 hour ago

  @ilyanovohatskyi @webflow Had to same issue with NameCheap, fortunately I paid with PayPal and they refunded me