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
Le Havre	Website Down	9 hours ago
La Riche	Errors	12 hours ago
San Luis Potosí	Errors	14 hours ago
Tampere	Sign in	22 hours ago
Paris	Website Down	22 hours ago
Independence	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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  NightfuryMD (@nightfuryMD) reported 1 minute ago

  @BrianRoemmele I created a multiplex account and tried to subscribe using PayPal but the link is broken. DM’ed you the details.

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  Cerebral Cipher (@CerebralCipher) reported 3 minutes ago

  ****** company @PayPal forces you to use their ****** company @Xoom to send money, when their system errors paypal wont help you, they make you call ten indians who cant help you and refer you back and forth from paypal to xoom over and over. what an **** show from these clowns

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  Uncle Instict - DM me for Narrator Noli Carry (@Uncle_Instict) reported 5 minutes ago

  @AerelisVA I cant donate due of Payment Option Issues 🗿 Why there's no Paypal Option

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  CrystalAether 💼☕️ Office Manager VTuber (@CrystalitAether) reported 7 minutes ago

  @buenasmochi It depends on the timeline of the project! Long reply, but please bear with it. I don't usually ask for updates unless a week or more has passed an agreed-upon check-in, and the artist hasn't notified me of a delay. While the ones I've commissioned are good to sticking to their schedule, sometimes uncontrollable events happen that can cause delays. However, if it's been an excessively long time since the agreed-upon check in and there's radio silence on the other end after reaching out multiple times, I'd recommend giving a notice of refunding the commission, and doing so if there's no activity after the ultimatum. Assuming this is PayPal, you lose the right to refund after 180 days / 6 months, and your money was used to pay for a service. These are business transactions, so don't be afraid to put your foot down.

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  kerry 🎯 (@Wolverdex) reported 7 minutes ago

  Okay question has anyone else had issues with ACGgoods pledge orders cuz I've been getting emails everyday saying they can't take the remaining balance but there's enough funds in my PayPal and bank...been back and forth w customer service and I fear my order will be cancelled 💔

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  Part time Filming Sub Part Time Male Dom (@CuckHolderRob) reported 7 minutes ago

  @amznbareftbabe @ElusiveElliee Fyi, careful on sharing those screenshots with PayPal... It's against their TOS - they don't support SWers. If PP shut your acc down they will hold your funds for 90 days and you'll need to make a new one or find alternative methods to continue earning elsewhere. Xxx (from exp.)

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  Leo_Del_Rio_27 (@Leo_Del_Rio_27) reported 7 minutes ago

  @FormallyQdified @Prolotario1 @snwse21 I couldn't use my debit or credit card for a long time. I ended up having to use PayPal for a while until they fixed the issue.

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  Reality & Ridiculous (@U_Love_2_H8_me) reported 11 minutes ago

  They do not lock down a PayPal account for $0.25 The worst they would do is freeze that $.25 until an investigation is over or she refunds the $.25 It's yet another bunch of lies for attention and hoping to get money! Anybody who's ever used PayPal knows that's a damn lie.

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  rinky ✦ COMMS OPEN (@rinkilly) reported 11 minutes ago

  Fix priсе $75 • Comment or DM to claim • Payment via Lavatop(PayPal or credit card)

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 11 minutes ago

  @_Wakhoo_ the fix for paypal isnt another account someone can freeze, its self custody. its what i work on at vaultleap

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  Ian Smith (@IanSmith_HSA) reported 13 minutes ago

  @prompterminal Paypal and VISA have adopted crypto. This industry has left me with little hope, because almost nobody is willing to adopt post quantum cryptography. The system has a clock counting down to doom and they refuse to upgrade. Crypto *could* have done great things and might some day

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  rinky ✦ COMMS OPEN (@rinkilly) reported 16 minutes ago

  Fix priсе $75 • Comment or DM to claim • Payment via Lavatop(PayPal or credit card)

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  mori222 (@mori222_) reported 21 minutes ago

  Thinking about open commission here, due to problem with paypal and stuff I have to use wise, if anyone wants to commission me you can go check it out first.

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  Ramon Fritsch (@ramon_fritsch) reported 22 minutes ago

  Finally, I don’t want to fix PayPal integrations anymore

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  Wendy (@wendyr9_) reported 26 minutes ago

  The Team Behind Newton Protocol Built The Wallet Infrastructure Powering Polymarket Magic Labs isn't new to onchain infrastructure at scale. 57 million wallets. 200,000+ developers. Embedded wallet technology that powers some of the highest-traffic consumer applications in crypto. Polymarket — the prediction market that became a cultural moment during the 2024 US election — runs on Magic Labs' wallet infrastructure. @newton_xyz is Magic Labs' next layer. The embedded wallet technology they built solved one specific problem: making wallet creation invisible to the end user. No seed phrase, no extension, no friction at the point where most onchain products lose people. PayPal Ventures backed that bet. Newton Protocol is a different kind of problem — not reducing friction for end users, but adding enforceable structure for the infrastructure layer underneath them. 57 million wallets moving value onchain eventually need authorization infrastructure. Those wallets interacting with DeFi vaults, RWA platforms, and institutional products need compliance layers that aren't just UI checkboxes. The core developer team that built scalable wallet infrastructure is now building the authorization layer that operates before those wallets settle transactions. There's a through line. Magic Labs spent years solving the problem of how to onboard users into onchain products without the experience breaking. Newton is now solving the problem of how to make the transactions those users initiate compliant, secure, and verifiable — without the experience breaking. The technical foundation is different. The design principle is the same. Friction belongs in the infrastructure, not in the user's path. $NEWT $BTC #Newt

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  Sam Jenkins (@samjenkins59) reported 30 minutes ago

  I have $95 paypal!! who's down at this night??

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  NOISE FREQUENCY (@Noise_Frequency) reported 38 minutes ago

  @9Syht And if we all join together, we can take them down, or at least make their lives difficult as hell. Mass report them, community note request them, report them to paypal.

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  Marsu (@marsuplamy) reported 46 minutes ago

  When I looked a bit closer at how AllScale Store's infrastructure actually works, what surprised me most was how well the technical side is hidden. Normally opening a crypto wallet means writing down a seed phrase, installing a wallet app, and figuring out gas fees, but AllScale has quietly solved all of that in the background. On the wallet side they use a passkey based system, so you secure your account with your phone's fingerprint or face recognition and never have to deal with the usual twenty four word seed phrase headache. Technically this runs on something called account abstraction, and in practice it removes one of the biggest entry barriers in web3 entirely. The gas fee side feels smartly solved too. The system runs on what's called a paymaster sponsorship architecture, meaning the platform itself covers the network fee for every transaction, so neither you nor your customer ever hits an extra cost. Because of this the blockchain itself becomes completely invisible, you're just selling your product, and what chain the transaction actually runs on in the background isn't something you ever have to think about. Right now it runs on BNB Chain along with a few high efficiency Layer 2 networks, and this multi chain setup is what keeps transactions both fast and cheap. The payment flow carries the same kind of simplicity. The moment a buyer pays, the money lands directly in your own wallet, with no intermediary sitting in between, so nobody can hold onto your funds or delay the payout. That's the opposite of how traditional payment processors work, since with something like Stripe or PayPal your money sits in their account first, while with AllScale it's instantly under your own control. On top of that automated KYT checks and on chain receipts handle the compliance side from the start, so you're covered on the regulatory front too. Put all of that together and what you get is actually pretty clear, they've taken a fairly complex piece of technology and turned it into something an average user can operate without ever noticing the complexity underneath. Whenever I see a product hide its technical depth this well I usually assume there was a serious engineering decision behind it, because making something look easy is often the hardest part of building it. @allscaleio #AllScale

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  Alex (@AlexWinfield13) reported 47 minutes ago

  AI Agents Don’t Need to Be On-Chain. Their Money Does. I don’t need to be “built on blockchain” to send someone USDC. I just need a wallet and a rail. Neither does an AI agent. That one sentence collapses most of the “crypto AI agent” narrative and it’s why the real alpha isn’t in agents at all. It’s in the payment rails built for them. Here’s the category error nearly everyone is making: they’re trying to make the agent crypto-native. On-chain reasoning, a token stapled to the bot, “autonomous economic actors” that supposedly live on a chain. But an agent’s intelligence runs off-chain on normal servers, using normal models. Nobody runs a model’s brain on a blockchain; it’s absurd and always will be. So when a project brands its agent as “on-chain,” it’s almost never adding a capability. It’s adding a token. The part of an agent that genuinely benefits from crypto is the money movement. And that part is already real. The receipts: •x402 Coinbase’s open protocol that revives the dormant HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status code processed roughly 165M agent transactions and ~$50M in cumulative volume across ~69,000 active agents by April 2026. •The average agent payment is about $0.20 — below the minimum fixed fee card networks charge per transaction. Read that twice. It’s an entire class of machine-to-machine commerce that Visa and Mastercard physically cannot serve. •x402 was donated to the Linux Foundation. Google’s AP2 authorization framework launched with 60+ partners including PayPal, Mastercard, Coinbase, and American Express. The settlement asset is overwhelmingly USDC, moving gaslessly via EIP-3009. That’s the tell. The rails are winning as neutral infrastructure open standards and stablecoins not as somebody’s agent token. And it’s early. Daily x402 volume is volatile, down sharply from its December 2025 peak as incentives and testing wash out. This is a first-inning signal, not a finished market. But the shape of the thing is unmistakable. Now the uncomfortable half, because I’m not here to shill: The “AI agent token” category is roughly $15B and mostly narrative. In Q1 2026, zero-usage tokens that slapped “AI agent” on themselves without a product got wiped out. Even the survivors carry the value-capture problem: Virtuals ships real product with real usage, but VIRTUAL holders receive no direct protocol revenue. ElizaOS owns developer mindshare, yet an open-source framework is brutally hard to convert into token value. Two names Virtuals and ai16z hold 57% of the entire category (according to Claude). That’s not a diversified sector. That’s a narrative propped up by two poles. So here’s the stance: The crypto belongs in the rails, not the agent. An agent doesn’t need to be on-chain to pay on-chain same as I don’t. The durable structure isn’t “crypto agent.” It’s any agent + crypto rails: ordinary software, running any model, hosted anywhere, plugging into a settlement layer that clears in seconds for a fraction of a cent, 24/7, worldwide. The test I run on every “crypto agent” pitch: delete the token and let it pay over open rails. Does anything about its function break? If not you’re buying a story, not a machine. Where I’d point attention instead: what settles and clears on these rails. The stablecoins agents actually pay in. The chains their transactions finalize on. The identity and authorization layers that keep autonomous spend safe at scale. That’s the picks and shovels of the agent economy and none of it requires pretending an agent is something it isn’t. Rails, not agents. That’s the alpha. Not Financial Advice.

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  MOŬTH (@mouthwizart) reported 47 minutes ago

  @BaxyDraws64 The problem is these sites only allow Stripe or Paypal to connect with, and nothing else 🥲 I would connect card/bank if it becomes available.

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  Mr.Something (Commissions reopen) (@TheMrSomething) reported 48 minutes ago

  I hate Paypal so much its unreal Probably gonna switch to a different bank for comms once I fix this crap I'm dealing with.

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  Eidryana HMartinez (@EidryanaH) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Hottest_April April just to let you know my paypal didn’t open even trying all the options they gave me. But then it occurred to me clicked the X that appears there (not the one for closing the window) and my paypal session started with out any problem

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  Keith Gentry (@TheKeithGentry) reported 50 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @snowmantambo Hey #PayPal If #Fraud happens to be a 'frequently asked question' doesn't that suggest that you have a serious security issue? I look forward to your reply. In the meantime, I shall refrain from using your service until the 'frequently experienced problem' is resolved.

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  Sean Christopher (@SeanChr26681440) reported 51 minutes ago

  @Wassupmelbaby What messages I understand why because I don’t have PayPal it got shut down

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  LearnInvest (@LearnInvest2026) reported 51 minutes ago

  PayPal is down nearly 90%, and payments have changed rules This chart puts three payments companies on the same market-cap timeline: PayPal, Adyen, and Block. Since the 2021 peak, PayPal’s market cap is down about 88.6%, while Adyen and Block are also down sharply, but closer to the 60% range. The whole sector has been repriced, but PayPal has been hit harder. That is usually not explained by “growth multiples fell” alone. ■ Payments are no longer just a checkout button PayPal’s challenge is that it used to be a default online payment option, but the next competitive cycle is not only about who can process checkout. Apple Pay embeds payment into the phone operating system. Adyen is closer to large merchants’ omnichannel acquiring stack. Block extends into small-business tools and financial services. The payment interface has become a bundle of operating systems, merchant back office, and financial products. That is one reason PayPal’s drawdown is so large. The market is not only punishing slower growth. It is asking a deeper question: if checkout becomes a commoditized function, what layer can PayPal still charge for? The chart also carries a useful warning. Payments demand has not disappeared. Online commerce, mobile payments, and cross-border transactions are still growing. What changed is the value split. Traffic control, merchant relationships, data, and financial services matter more than a standalone payment brand. So this is not just a PayPal stock story. It is a miniature version of the payments industry moving from brand trust to embedded infrastructure. When the rules change, the once-dominant interface can become the company that most needs to re-prove its value. Source: Quartr, company filings, public market data (Image: @glocalinvestor)

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  Tsunami Collectibles (@JonnyPokeCards) reported 51 minutes ago

  @NewAgeCardKings Let’s try this again, for sale, not for trade PayPal G&S only Will ship next day These cards will NOT grade a 10 Can send pics upon request Prices cheaper than TCG 1st edition shadowless bulbasaur $100 firm Milotic ex $120 Seismitoad $220 Zapdos ex $85 Charizard ex 151 with error print $370 Special delivery zard with print line on back $150 Blastoise ex $130 Charizard ex $100 Charizard with very small dents on bottom back $300 Take all cards for $1400 shipped Ascended heroes PKC ETBs $420 shipped for the good one $380 for the damaged one Prismatic evolutions booster bundle $80 each $300 for all PSA 7 special deliver Charizard $180 Take it all for $2300. (500 off market)

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  delta 🎲 (@deltaranged) reported 52 minutes ago

  no stake in the discourse but insane how the one year in smash i didn't bring enough cash and resorted to paying by card is the one year this kind of **** became a problem @_@ luckily i only bought from 1 artist via paypal and they used AUD

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  Jenna bliss (@Jennabliss333) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Jayecane and let me guess you want to send it as a check cause your cash app, venmo and PayPal got shut down. or you want to send it cash up buy it costs a little bit on our end before you can send anything.

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  RXB LeoMSM_ (@LeoMSM_) reported 55 minutes ago

  @anniepinkk5 And talk **** abt anything u can ur just mad ur banned shes never scammed she has slow payouts because she has to pay out hundreds of people and paypal doesnt pyhsically let her pay faster 😭 now if people grief her while shes 1 of the few reasons this community still exists

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  iNexus (@iNexusDH) reported 57 minutes ago

  .@AskPayPal If I sent someone a friends and family send, but their account got flagged for review just after I sent it, is there anyway I can request a refund/return for that? Their account getting flagged for whatever should not also be my problem