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 (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Weymouth	Sign in	10 hours ago
Pessac	Sign in	1 day ago
Derby	Website Down	1 day ago
Paris	Errors	1 day ago
Paris	Website Down	1 day ago
Marseille	Sign in	1 day ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jordan Keyser (@jordankeyser) reported 7 minutes ago

  @CHINNIE1380 @Youngjoeybaby Yeah I used PayPal, didn’t know it would be an issue!

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  Jiā lēi (@CarlOkari) reported 9 minutes ago

  @roamapp @1047tekno We've had problems with PayPal as Africans for a minute now, why can't we fund with our Cards

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  Eliot (@AnuVex369) reported 13 minutes ago

  The Classic Playbook Bait (The Hook) They post mouth-watering food pics/videos + Complaints about high prices. Offer “half price”, “first meal free/taco free”, or “I’ll order it for you cheaper”. Use friendly animal persona or helpful vibe to build quick trust. Post on X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook — often cross-promoting the same content. The Ask Tell you to DM them to “place the order”. They quote a discounted price. Request payment via Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, PayPal “friends/family”, crypto, or gift cards (methods with little/ no buyer protection). The Execution Once you pay → They either: Ghost you completely (take the money and disappear). Send fake tracking or “order placed” screenshots. Claim “restaurant issue” and ask for more money. Occasionally deliver one small thing (the “free” first order) to hook you for bigger payments later. They use stolen accounts or newly created ones to stay under the radar. Why it works so well People are hungry + frustrated with prices. “First one free” lowers defenses. Looks like a helpful small side hustle. Scammers rotate accounts quickly before reports pile up. Red Flags Specific to These Scams Brand new account with few followers. No real business website or verifiable info. Pushes DM payments instead of official apps. Vague about how they get the deals (“I have connections”). Avoids showing real recent proof (timestamped receipts + deliveries). Real-World Impact Victims lose $20–$100+ per “order”. Many lose hundreds chasing “refunds” or second orders. Scammers often use the money for gift cards/crypto that’s hard to trace. How to Protect Yourself & Others Only order through official restaurant apps or established delivery services (DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.). If a deal sounds too good and requires paying a random person → it’s a scam. Report the accounts. Share this breakdown when you see suspicious “cheap food” posts.

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  xo, aly (@satanhyunjin) reported 14 minutes ago

  for rent enhypen blood saga in busan engene weverse global membership presale rm30/membership ✅✅✅ you need to login to my weverse to verify for presale on nol ticket mop: paypal / wise / 🇲🇾 bank&ewallet past proofs check pinned t. wts wtr open sharing wtb iso lf

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  Abbigurl (@AAbigail9052) reported 20 minutes ago

  @PatrickSBruck $25 tomorrow. Issues w/paypal.

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  Key 🗝 | VGEN COMMS OPEN!! ✨ (@jqe_arts) reported 21 minutes ago

  Paypal permanently limited my account and I still have pending commissions on VGen. Another option on VGen is Stripe but I don't know if its available in the Philippines. To my filo moots who may have experienced this same problem, what did you do? 😭 #artmoots #artph #vgen

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  tifa (working on c♡mms) (@tifaesu) reported 22 minutes ago

  my paypal account is suddenly permanently limited all of the sudden...? i had money in my PayPal balance and i searched up methods on how to deposit it into my debit card, but it seems like i have to wait for 150 days until i can receive it. does anyone know how to fix this? 😭

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  Gami Capital (@Gami_Capital) reported 24 minutes ago

  Is Circle Actually in Trouble? Our Read on the OUSD Launch On June 30th, while Jeremy Allaire was on stage at Goldman Sachs' Digital Assets conference in London talking about "the future of money," Open Standard announced the launch of OUSD, a dollar stablecoin backed by 149 partners. Two days later, Circle's stock ($CRCL) dropped 18% in a single session, now down roughly 76% from its June 2025 high. Does that mean Circle is done for? Here's our read, in six points, including Jeremy Allaire's direct response. 1. Circle's paradox: usage is up, margins are collapsing USDC has never been doing better: roughly $77 billion in circulation, up nearly 20% since the IPO. The problem is that Circle's revenue has only grown 5.5% over the same period, and net margin has collapsed over three quarters, falling from 29% to 8%. The explanation fits in one line: roughly 94% of Circle's revenue comes from interest earned on reserves (mostly T-bills). The market isn't pricing USDC usage, it's pricing Circle's ability to monetize that usage. And that ability is eroding: growing revenue-sharing with distributors (Coinbase chief among them), Binance suspending services in Europe over a missing MiCA license (after Circle had paid for USDC's distribution on the platform), and removal from several Russell Growth indexes in late June. The timing of OUSD couldn't be worse. 2. OUSD: the issuer model, redistributed to the ecosystem Open Standard has assembled a rare lineup: Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, BNY Mellon, Google, Stripe and Shopify on the TradFi side; Coinbase, Aave, Bybit, OKX, Plasma and Tempo on the crypto side. Neither Circle, Tether, nor Paxos are part of it. The pitch is simple and direct: zero minting and redemption fees, with nearly all reserve yield passed back to the partners who adopt and use the stablecoin. In other words, OUSD is attacking the exact revenue line that keeps legacy issuers alive. 3. What Circle still has going for it Circle's regulatory moat is still the one that cannot be beaten, for now: the first global issuer to reach full MiCA compliance back in July 2024, conditional OCC approval for a national trust bank charter in the US, money transmitter licenses across 46 US states. That's years of groundwork a consortium doesn't replicate with a press release. On the integrations side, USDC remains the settlement asset for BlackRock's tokenized BUIDL fund, was just added to BNY Mellon's digital custody platform (itself an OUSD partner...), and stays the default collateral on regulated US and European trading venues. Circle remains the go-to for institutions wanting a regulated dollar backed by nearly a decade of audit history. But a shrinking moat is still a shrinking moat. 4. Jeremy Allaire's response: network effects as the real defense Facing a wave of questions from his investor community, Circle's CEO published a detailed rebuttal that's worth taking seriously rather than dismissing as crisis PR. His core thesis: stablecoin networks are platform businesses built on network effects, established over long periods, that tend toward winner-take-most market structures. He lays out three layers he says protect USDC: - Application-layer network effects: every developer integration strengthens the network, which in turn attracts more integrations. Circle has been building this ecosystem for nearly a decade, with infrastructure like CCTP and Gateway extending interoperability to new chains, including permissioned L2s and government-built networks. - Liquidity network effects: Allaire claims USDC sits in the top 3 most liquid digital assets in the world, alongside BTC and USDT, with the next closest dollar stablecoins roughly 10x smaller in liquidity, often concentrated in a single exchange's promotional books. - Regulatory and banking integration: the states USDC is currently the only major global stablecoin available across all of Europe and Japan, backed by nearly a decade of investment in global banking, treasury and liquidity management. He backs this with a striking data point: in Q1 2026, according to Artemis, USDC handled nearly $30 trillion in on-chain transactions, 80% of all dollar stablecoin transaction volume, versus 20% for USDT, and under 0.5% combined for everyone else, OUSD included at this stage. On the substance of OUSD's pitch, Allaire pushes back point by point: - On free minting and redemption: he notes the entire payments industry runs on small basis-point fees, and that unlimited free redemptions tend to collide with market realities, something Circle says it already addresses through contractual mechanisms rather than a blanket fee exemption. - On passing all revenue back to partners: Circle says it already shares the majority of its revenue with distribution partners, while retaining enough to keep investing in infrastructure. Giving everything away, he argues, is a recipe for structural underinvestment and a platform that stays limited in scope. -On consortium governance: the sharpest point in the piece. Allaire repeats, almost verbatim, a line he'd already made publicly: that large groups of large companies coordinate poorly, have misaligned incentives, and tend to starve their own consortium out of self-interest. He states Circle itself tried this model in USDC's early days and ran into the same problems. He closes by reaffirming that the Coinbase partnership remains as strong as ever, that several OUSD founding members remain major USDC partners, and that Circle continues expanding its own ecosystem (Arc, CPN, StableFX, Agent Stack) by working with dozens of other stablecoin issuers, his way of signaling Circle doesn't feel threatened in its role as infrastructure. 5. Why OUSD hasn't won anything yet Recent history for consortium-backed stablecoins argues for caution, and echoes Allaire's own point. USDG (Paxos, with Kraken, Robinhood, and Galaxy among its backers) is plateauing around $3 billion. PYUSD (PayPal) took two and a half years to approach $4 billion, then shrank by a third from its peak. A big announcement doesn't make an adoption curve. Three questions remain open: governance across a 149-member consortium, historically slow and prone to misaligned incentives; the viability of a model with no fees and no retained yield; and, above all, the end user, since the yield flows to partners, not holders. Why hold OUSD rather than USDC or USDT? The answer will hinge on incentives, and on that front, we're watching Plasma and Tempo (Stripe's chain) closely as the two most likely launch rails. 6. Tether, watching calmly from the sidelines With over $180 billion in USDT circulating, Tether dominates territory OUSD isn't primarily targeting: Tron, P2P payments and remittances in emerging markets, trading collateral in Asia. The threat is real for Circle; at this stage, far less so for Tether. Our takeaway The real story here isn't "Circle vs. OUSD," it's the structural compression of issuance margins. Allaire's response, however well-argued, doesn't refute that point so much as reframe it: his thesis is that network effects and liquidity matter more than distributed yield, and that Circle can afford to share revenue as long as it stays the default rail. That's a defensible position, but it still has to prove itself against a consortium that, for the first time, aligns distributors and infrastructure rather than pitting them against each other. Reserve yield, the economic core of stablecoins, is being redistributed. The question is no longer whether, but to whom: distributors, chains, partners, or end users. For allocators, that's arguably good news: more competition among issuers means more value captured by whoever brings the liquidity and the usage. At Gami Capital, where we run on-chain USDC strategies day to day, we'll be watching liquidity migrations and the opportunities this new landscape creates closely. This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.

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  Sam Badawi (@Sam_Badawi) reported 26 minutes ago

  This is extremely bullish for $PYPL. In fact, it is screaming bullish. BUT (a big but), the only issue is the price. Both fundamentals and technicals need to align for the stock to truly recover. Today, the market would rather pay 156x forward earnings for $MRVL than 8x forward earnings and 1x sales for PayPal. I don't make the rules, I just play the game.

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  Key 🗝 | VGEN COMMS OPEN!! ✨ (@jqe_arts) reported 27 minutes ago

  I feel so bad for my clients I keep inconveniencing them 😭😭😭 I am doing my best to resolve the PayPal issue and I'm currently trying to setup a new way to receive payments. I refuse to be anything but the best for my clients !!

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  🦸 (@theDivineAkanbi) reported 27 minutes ago

  @CatiaKyen That's why we've preferred to build soe of our own systems for fixing sokeof these problems. For example we have @Vbanapp that we csn use instead of PayPal and any other abroad payment

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  🚜🇺🇦Steve Blurryenko🇬🇧🦈 (@TankieSlappa) reported 30 minutes ago

  @MariaNafoFella They DM donation requests with a paypal account. They avoid posting the paypal details publicly because we'd be all over than and get it shut down/refunded. Genuine Ukrainian fundraisers will share a payment link publicly.

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  Frank Prempeh II (@frankprempeh_ii) reported 32 minutes ago

  2/ The problem. Working DJs run their business on spreadsheets, DMs and PayPal links. The tools that exist feel built for accountants or wedding planners, not for someone doing load-in at 11pm. So I built the thing that puts the whole DJ business in one place.

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  Frederick James (@ogamx41771457) reported 33 minutes ago

  @77dynasty_ I can help with the PayPal problem for free

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  Ask PayPal (@AskPayPal) reported 33 minutes ago

  @BossFit_ng I understand you'd like to contact PayPal directly by email. For account-specific assistance, the best option is to reach out to PayPal Customer Support through the official support channels available in your account or on the PayPal website. They can review your situation and provide the most accurate guidance. Please contact Customer Support so they can assist you further. We appreciate your patience and hope your issue is resolved as quickly as possible.

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  zaezae66* (@lynnarmitage7) reported 35 minutes ago

  @livysmith99 @JamesMc89631483 liv just done it, paid by paypal, put the extra 87p so they'd be no processing fee's, but no problems at all.

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  Zens (@zenseiiny) reported 39 minutes ago

  @AdegbemboB If payment processing shows failed due to PayPal issue, if payment method gets updated to airtm.. will the payment still come in today?

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  Peinlicher Pimmelprimat Jonas Thunecke 🐵🐒😵‍💫🤪 (@beastiebearpig) reported 40 minutes ago

  @klose_alfred @myaltfr @myaltfr do NOT interact with this account! This dude is a scammer. he said the same to me and then he wanted by login data of my bank account, and as I refused to do that, he told me he can send money via paypal but I'd have to send him 50€ first.

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  ʙʀᴏᴏᴋʟʏɴ 🔞 (𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻) (@zeninproblem) reported 40 minutes ago

  I should also mention because they asked for more back than what they sent, I’m still $5 negative and can’t close my account bc of that, but also am restricted so I cannot put money in my account to fix the negative balance?? What sense does this make PayPal?

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  Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) reported 41 minutes ago

  Elon Musk on how PayPal got its first 100,000 customers in one month “I didn’t expect PayPal’s growth rate to be what it was, and that actually created major problems,” Elon explains. “We started PayPal on University Avenue [in Palo Alto], and after the first month or so of the website being active, we had 100,000 customers.” As Elon explains, the key to PayPal’s viral growth was it referral program: “We started off first by offering people $20 if they opened account and $20 if they referred anyone. Then we dropped it to $10, and then we dropped it to $5. As the network got bigger and bigger, the value of the network itself exceeded any sort of carrot that we could offer.” He continues: “And then we just did a bunch of things to decrease the friction. It’s like bacteria in a petri dish. What you want to do is try to have one customer generate two customers, or three customers ideally. And then you want that to happen really fast.” Elon estimates that PayPal spent $60-70 million to fuel this growth, before the company was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion. Source: @khanacademy (Apr 2013)

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  Arushad Ahmed (@dash8x) reported 41 minutes ago

  7/ Conclusion: The current PayPal x mFaisa collab is not solving the actual problem faced by creators as it's still not providing PayPal merchant services. It's just enabling using mFaisa with PayPal and allowing to receive personal payments from international PayPal accounts.

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  Venu ⚡ 888 (@vmr888ct) reported 48 minutes ago

  @senortilt @TiltRips Hi @tiltedben, I'm having an issue with withdrawals. I added my PayPal details, but the platform is only showing the option to connect a US bank through Coinflow. I'm from India, so I can't use a US bank account. Could you please let me know if PayPal withdrawals are supported for Indian users or if there's another withdrawal method available? Thank you!

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  X (@WagerWizard00) reported 49 minutes ago

  @George_Dubs_ @realroseceline I think the issue for PayPal on ads is people open PayPal/Venmo for a few seconds to pay for something they’ve already decided to buy, it's hard to capture someone's attention in that brief moment. Whereas people log onto Facebook/insta and doom scroll and can be inspired to buy

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  7 (@Alpha_Space007) reported 50 minutes ago

  If you order Amazon and cancel an order before it ships they try to steal your money. Its happened to me twice. Both PayPal and Amazon delete the orders. I take snapshots of everything so when they try to do that it doesn't work. Amazon should be shut down. This **** is a scam site. I cant order any large items either especially if its from China they just steal it at customs. Shut the whole ******* thing down Im done fighting for me to get my money back. Thieves!

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  Bean 🌱❤️🐰 (@humanbean808) reported 52 minutes ago

  @deobimom They added Google Pay (I think since PayPal was NOT working) and it works, but also if you have a Wise account you can do the bank transfer option and it works.

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  DigiVT 🌱🐾 Space Cat (@DigiiVT) reported 52 minutes ago

  Fun fact. Now that Stipe/Ko-Fi changed the way they check business information (in the EU). I am now stuck in a loop of: document shows my POBox, it does not accept POBox as a valid address, give private address, address doesn’t match document so is not approved... I already have a rich past of having problems with Ko-Fi and these payment systems, so I am kind of just done trying. Soon (in like 40 days) you will only be able to pay there with the PayPal options (cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo etc.). If you would ever want to tip me and are unable to use these payment options; you can also use the donation tab on digivt. store or the spicy blue site 💙

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  𝒇𝒐𝒙𝒚/𝒆𝒎𝒎𝒚 met caterina🤍✨️ (@caterinasmoon_) reported 55 minutes ago

  my PayPal has problems currently so I might not be able to get my tickets today aka no tickets for the extras tomorrow AKA no selfies and im gonna ******* crash out bc this is the last con I'll actually be able to meet Dani, what ******** is going on imma cry

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  Joe Behlow (@CyderKnight) reported 55 minutes ago

  @StockSavvyShay This is the same clown who is down 30% on adobe and PayPal

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  Dan (@danleg98) reported 56 minutes ago

  @PramilaJayapal PayPal are you stupid or are you acting stupid? Corporations and the 964 Billionaires employee 50% or more of the population You do understand that? The money you think they is ******* in assets that provide employment. You don’t have a tax problem, you have a spending problem

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  CYAN-ZET 🎀 ✨ ◤ ᴠᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ ◥ ✨🎀 (@CyanZet_) reported 60 minutes ago

  @SenSenVT Nuuu it's was my bank's problem, Paypal didn't do anything wrong