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 (38%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Lyon	Errors	2 days ago
Paris	Sign in	4 days ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	4 days ago
Tlaquepaque	Errors	6 days ago
Massy	Website Down	6 days ago
Montlouis-sur-Loire	Sign in	8 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Shadab Farooqui (@shadab) reported 2 minutes ago

  Interesting that a Nasdaq traded company @PayPal ONLY offers chat based support and apparently does not have any way to escalate a technical issue which the chat agent was unable to resolve. Is this for real? @PayPal @AskPayPal

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  Alex Berman® 👑 Galadon (@alxberman) reported 5 minutes ago

  I remember sitting with these lawyers in New York, and they were lecturing me about how they can't use cold email to grow their business. And for a while, I believed them. But then I looked it up. In New York, lawyers can email anybody in business they believe might be "in the market for legal services." And if someone owns a business, they're in the market. So yeah, they were wrong. Cold email is totally fine. They just never checked. And I've made that same mistake - plenty of times. When I was starting out, I'd block myself on things like: "How do I take payments?" "Do I need a business license?" "Am I even allowed to sell this?" And the key part is - I never searched. Because it wasn't really a question. It was an excuse. The moment someone says "just use PayPal," you're at a fork. Either you go, "Oh, yeah, I could." Or you get mad. You reject it. You invent a new reason. I had a friend who went all the way. Built the funnel. Wrote the copy. Recorded all the videos. Set up payments. Everything was done. And he never launched. All the blockers were gone. But the mindset that stopped him at the beginning? Still there. That voice that says "I'm not ready" doesn't leave just because you did the work. What actually slows you down isn't risk. It's assumption. And the fact that you never checked. That's exactly what we break inside Galadon Gold. This is not a course. It's my actual outbound system - tools, flows, and frameworks that generate real leads and sales. 4 coaching calls a week. Courses. Private community. Cancel anytime. You just plug in and move. Join now. Talk soon, -Alex

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  avens 𖣓 (@heyavens) reported 7 minutes ago

  @BrillVFX I normally don’t make posts like this, but after giving this person more than enough time, patience, and opportunities to communicate with me, I feel like this needs to be made public. On July 8th, I paid him to create an intro for my team. We said deadline was 1 week. Its is now Aug 7,2026. After receiving the payment, he sent me 1-2 updates showing that he had started working on the project. That was essentially the only real progress/update I received. I didn’t rush him. I gave him roughly 1–2 weeks without bothering him because I understood that creative work takes time. After that period passed with no update, I reached out simply asking about the status of the intro. It then took him another week just to respond. When he finally responded, he explained that he was dealing with a situation involving his family problems. I completely respected that. I didn’t argue with him, pressure him, or immediately ask for my money back. I gave him additional time because I understood that real-life situations come before a project. Another week passed. I reached out again asking for an update. No response. From that point forward, I continued trying to contact him and no communication. At this point, an entire month has passed since I paid him, I still do not have the intro I paid for, and I have not received consistent communication regarding the project. Eventually, after repeatedly trying to handle this privately, I told him that if I continued receiving no response, I would have no choice but to make the situation public and pursue a refund through PayPal. I gave this situation every opportunity to be resolved privately before posting anything publicly. I was patient, I respected the personal circumstances he told me about, and I gave him significantly more time because of them. This post is not being made to send harassment toward anybody. I’m posting this to document my experience and warn other people who may consider purchasing work from him. Everything I’m stating here will be accompanied by screenshots so people can look at the timeline, messages, payment, and communication themselves and form their own opinion. I paid for a service on July 8th. I gave him weeks of patience and multiple opportunities to communicate with me. I still have not received what I paid for. At this point, based on my experience, I believe I was scammed. I have opened/pursued a dispute through PayPal to recover my money. I genuinely wanted to handle this privately, but there comes a point where ignoring a paying customer and failing to deliver what they purchased needs to be addressed. Receipts/screenshots below.

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  Joulse (@joulsounet) reported 9 minutes ago

  Airbnb Part 2 I clicked PayPal on a booking just to check the payment flow Airbnb instantly confirmed the reservation and charged me €1,000 without showing any final confirmation screen or asking me to confirm the booking I canceled it within a minute and immediately messaged the host explaining it was a mistake and asking for a refund Then I realized it was non-refundable Turns out the co-host is the same host I had a dispute with a month ago They refused to refund me and Airbnb says they can’t do anything So I’m now €1,000 down with no reservation @Airbnb I really need you to step in here

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  ✦ darko! |-/ (@_puppyllenhaal) reported 9 minutes ago

  I WAS FINALLY ABLE TO FIX MY PAYPAL ACCOUNT IM SO HAPPY THAT IRS WORKING NOW THANK GOD

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  Aditya (@AdityaCursed) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Cal_I_Guess No option to add Paypal. The only reliable way is buying giftcards which only come in 1k,2k,3k etc. if i wanna buy a game thats 599 i gotta pay an extra 400 to get a 1000 rupee gift card and only use half on the digital purchase. Not the case with physical. Unless they fix this+

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  værze (@varzecs) reported 10 minutes ago

  @metacolt1 @CardPurchaser Ebay barely protect sellers at all. You can just say it doesnt work, is broken with minimal evidence and they will side with you instantly, worse if you used paypal.

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  Qynève (@qyneve) reported 12 minutes ago

  @PsypupKo you can issue a chargeback on paypal directly, you'll get refunded, paypal always sides with the client!

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  Kevin Astuhuaman (@KevinAstuhuaman) reported 12 minutes ago

  1st time I faced this issue was 14 months ago at PayPal while working with the new Datadog MCP. It may seem from the outside that tech moves fast, but the reality is that adoption within organizations takes a while

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  Miss_Nancy (@Godfearingbadie) reported 12 minutes ago

  I am a user in Nigeria with a fully linked Paga account. A US sender is trying to send a Goods & Services payment to my email, but your automated filter is blocking it with a 'payment no longer available' error. Please help me manually open a support ticket." @AskPayPal

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  KT (@KT87985373) reported 13 minutes ago

  Brittney constantly says “leave my children alone” and acts outraged that people review what she publicly broadcasts about them. The problem is, Brittney herself keeps putting her children and alleged CPS calls into her content over and over again. Not occasionally. Repeatedly. Just in 2026 I've tracked 134 substantive retellings of Brittney’s personal CPS history across 91 streams on 83 separate dates between January 1 and August 5, 2026. She talks about her children being questioned by CPS, what CPS allegedly asked them, how the visits supposedly traumatized them, what allegations were made about their food, bedrooms, medical care, firearms, drugs, prenatal care, the baby, her parenting and her home. Then those stories become evidence that she is being persecuted. Then specific creators are accused of calling, inciting, “dog-whistling,” knowing the caller or being responsible because of who they associate with. And very often, all of this is happening alongside memberships, super chats, gifted memberships, Cash App, PayPal, Venmo, registries or other financial support. A few examples: 2/17 — “Get HELP Stat!!!” — 1:25:00–1:39:54 Brittney recounts six alleged CPS visits, police entries, drug accusations, drug testing and police canines while gifted memberships and Cash App support are being discussed. 2/18 — “Dehumanizing & Outright Lies!!” — 1:00:17–1:09:43 She tells the story of CPS allegedly being told she cooked for Craig but not her sons and says a caseworker inspected her refrigerator. Her child is audibly part of the stream while memberships are being gifted. 2/23 — “A Talk With My Daughter: The Impacts of Harassment on a Family” — 28:53–35:27 Her daughter is literally brought onto the channel to discuss how the online conflict and CPS calls allegedly affected the children. 6/28 — “Let’s Pick Up Where We Left Off” — 4:35:30–4:43:12 She discusses money viewers sent after a serious CPS allegation and explains that it was intended for an attorney. 8/2 — “What’s That About Nicknames?” — 2:18:28–2:26:31 She again talks about CPS repeatedly coming to the home because of online allegations while memberships, Cash App, PayPal and Venmo are being promoted. So spare me the idea that simply reviewing her public streams is somehow “exploiting” her children. She is the one repeatedly making alleged CPS calls and their supposed impact on her children part of her channel’s storyline. And she knows damn well people review these streams. She talks about clips. She talks about screenshots. She talks about people saving streams. She talks about transcripts and documentation. She asks people to send her clips. She discusses collecting material for attorneys, CPS and the district attorney. So this whole shocked act that people actually listen to what she publicly says is ridiculous. There is also an obvious contradiction in constantly demanding that everyone stop discussing the children while continuing to publicly disclose intimate details about them whenever those details help reinforce the victim narrative. The children are apparently completely off-limits... until their alleged trauma helps prove how persecuted Brittney is. Then suddenly we hear about CPS interviews, fears of police, medical treatment, sleeping arrangements, pregnancy, the baby, drug accusations and what caseworkers supposedly found. And to be clear: none of this means every CPS call was fake or that every donation was specifically given because of CPS. But the recurring content pattern is impossible to ignore: Talk about the children → tell another CPS story → describe the family as victims → accuse someone in the community → outrage the audience → promote or receive financial support → repeat. You cannot repeatedly use your children’s alleged trauma as evidence in your public persecution narrative and then declare that nobody else is allowed to discuss the very information you chose to broadcast. Protecting children means limiting their exposure. It does not mean making their alleged trauma recurring content whenever it is useful for sympathy, loyalty and financial support. At some point, “leave my kids out of it” needs to start with the person holding the microphone.

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  Richardson Dackam (@RichardsonDx) reported 17 minutes ago

  Money becomes useless to an autonomous agent when it gets trapped in the wrong financial system An agent might: earn $500 through a checkout provider hold $200 in USDC have a card issued by another provider need to pay a SaaS merchant that only accepts cards Those are all "money" but operationally they are different islands Customer pays → money sits in Provider A Agent needs to spend → purchasing power exists in Provider B So WE (Humans) have to move/reconfigure/fund things for our AI agents And their autonomy collapses the moment money gets stuck The hard problem isn't giving an agent money It's making sure money earned in one system can become purchasing power in another without a human moving it Earn here → hold there → spend somewhere else → keep going An agent should be able to earn through one provider, hold value somewhere else, move that value when needed, spend through another rail, and keep reinvesting what it earns without a human stepping in to bridge the gaps My goal with Mandate is to give autonomous AI agents that economic freedom I want anyone to be able to have an intelligence that can create value, earn from that value, reinvest what it earns, and compound it into something bigger over time That's why Mandate had to be open source and provider agnostic No single financial provider covers every way an agent might earn, hold, move, or spend money One agent might receive revenue through Stripe, hold USDC in Coinbase, spend through Lithic, and use a bridge in between. Another might use entirely different providers Receive: Stripe / PayPal / stablecoins / marketplace payouts Hold: bank / financial account / wallet / stablecoin treasury Move: ACH / wire / bridge / onchain transfer Spend: card / bank transfer / stablecoin / x402 Mandate financial stack is composable: providers provide the financial building blocks. Mandate turns them into one economic system the agent can use. You can connects whichever providers you choose into one continuous economic account Because autonomous agents won't operate in a crypto-only or fiat-only world. Crypto alone can't solve economic autonomy when most of the world an agent needs to operate in still runs on fiat, cards, and banks Fiat alone can't solve it either, because agents will increasingly use payment systems built for machine-to-machine commerce. The future is hybrid. The infrastructure has to be composable. I built Mandate so that an agent can operate across both as one continuous economy

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  Victoria 💫 COMMS CLOSED (@Victoria9ax6) reported 21 minutes ago

  I will reopen comms in about a week, I’ve been having problems with paypal so my bad for that. I’ll try to get it fixed soon 🫶💞 thanks for being patient

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  CMG (@gn_calmg_7) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Venmo @PayPal I am totally in a quandary with Venmo. I have been suspended and I don’t know why. I sent my photo ID to them as they requested but it has still been months and no word. I can find no answers to what probably is an easy fix

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  LordWilsonVilla🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿UAI (@LordWilsonVILLA) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Dread_Moth_ @AskPayPal I've just closed my PayPal account, too many problems with PayPal paying on the checkout page without me authorising payment

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  0verKill404🇻🇪 ☕ (@0verKill404) reported 29 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello! I just need to fix a single error regarding my birthdate, which I entered incorrectly when I created my account, and I haven't been able to resolve it for a long time. Please, I need help Fix it so that everything is up to date 🙏🙏

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  Dayjia Meatball Blackwell Satire/Parody (@NaanBeenAri) reported 34 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I need help with a closed case from an ongoing issue. I have timestamped proof of an on-time cancellation, but your resolution center closed it unfairly and charged me after all. It was a trial from Adobe and cancelled it right on time! You both ghosted me! @grok help

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  Hopeful N7 (@HopefulN7) reported 35 minutes ago

  @PayPal Placed an international @Etsy order that took 28 days to arrive damaged & missing items. To keep buyer protection, I should've escalated to PayPal day 1 to freeze seller funds. Giving them time to send a replacement exceeded that window. 30 days is wild with how slow Etsy can be.

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  Joris Mak bsky: @jorismak.nl (@MakJoris) reported 36 minutes ago

  @OpenAI @OpenAIDevs The checkout is broken, it lists iDeal as an option but never gets there. It says 'card is declined' for a payment option without a card (or even redirecting to iDeal). This is like picking Paypal but saying my 'card is declined' before even asking to login

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  dexter (@Evilcabbit67) reported 37 minutes ago

  this guy is lowered down to 25 if anyone wants him! cash app and paypal

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  Synergy 🌙🩵 (@Syniichu) reported 38 minutes ago

  @004Nubi I had to file a dispute on PayPal for a commission from a popular artist for not doing it, so she decided to try to revoke my rights to a concept art she made for free reworking my elements 🤨 Crazy bc she has this problem too

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  Foximus (@FoximusNate) reported 40 minutes ago

  @TechnoUniversa1 I have trouble with paypal...I cant open commission for long......😞

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  Kasper🔜Bday countdown (@KasperGalactica) reported 45 minutes ago

  UPDATE ON THE BUYEE ISSUE THEY JUST HATE MY PAYPAL I HAVE SHIPPED HIM OUT

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  Gioel (@wonder_land1A) reported 46 minutes ago

  @PayPal PayPal @PayPalSupport Your digital systems are completely broken and supporting fraud. eBay officially ruled in my favor on July 29 for item 168207396673 (corporate fraud device) and voided the purchase. Yet PayPal refuses to redund …

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  Wide-Load Wolf 🔞 (@FireDad_Alpha) reported 50 minutes ago

  He robbed 155 dollars from me, my call out went nowhere, I’ll never see my money back. It’s too late to issue a refund from PayPal. He was giving a friend of mine a hard time on his commission. I don’t have the pull on here some do. But please. Just don’t waste your time

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  𖤐 Karl Kingscholar｡ 🀨 (@onelastorm) reported 52 minutes ago

  @tomochingus It worked, we are soooo back 🫡🫡🫡 Really glad I was able to buy it... At first I got sad because I thought it was an issue on my end (sometimes PayPal doesn't accept my card) and I thought I wouldn't be able to buy it... But it worked!!! Thank you for your hard work on the zine

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  Founder Tribune (@Founder_Tribune) reported 54 minutes ago

  Elon Musk explains why he never starts with a product. He starts with a list he made in the shower: Musk is asked whether he begins with a specific product in mind. A Model S, a Falcon 9 and reverse-engineers his way there, or whether he starts by spotting something broken in the world and commits to fixing it, even without knowing how. Neither framing quite fits his answer. Every company he's built Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, and PayPal and Zip2 before them traces back to his time in college, when he set out to work out "what would most affect the future in a very likely to be a positive way." That single question produced a shortlist of five areas. Three he was confident about: "The three areas where I was quite sure would be positive were sustainable energy, internet, and making life multiplanetary." And two he wasn't: "There were a couple other areas where maybe a question mark, like AI and rewriting genetics." Those two came attached to a warning: "Potentially negative consequences, hopefully positive, but something could go wrong." The striking part is how the whole framework surfaced. Not from a strategic planning exercise or years of deliberation: "Those were the five areas that I could come up with standing in the shower basically." The takeaway: Musk doesn't chase products, and he doesn't start with what's broken. He starts one level higher by asking which domains will most shape the future of humanity, backing the ones he's convinced are net-positive, and letting specific companies fall out of that filter. The Model S and the Falcon 9 are downstream of a decision he made years before either existed. fu

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  Tokyo 👑 (@___theTRUTH) reported 55 minutes ago

  If u already don’t have PayPal, don’t get it. 0/10 don’t recommend. Customer service terrible & they never resolve ****.

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  AFRICA IS HOME GLOBAL (@AfricaisHOME2) reported 59 minutes ago

  PayPal is putting explicit revenue targets on its three core units as new CEO Enrique Lores reviews the company’s strategy and pushes for faster execution. In April the payments firm reorganized around Checkout Solutions and PayPal, Consumer Financial Services and Venmo, and Payment Services and Crypto, with a single leader for each business to cut duplication and speed decisions. Lores said the goal is to sharpen focus, simplify operations and get closer to consumers after years of slower growth and margin pressure. The company has also set a cost savings target of at least 1.5 billion dollars over the next two to three years through AI, process redesign and structural realignment, with the savings reinvested into growth initiatives. For 2026 management is guiding to transaction margin dollars roughly flat to slightly down excluding interest, 3 percent growth in non transaction operating expenses, and non GAAP EPS in a range between slightly negative and slightly positive. The reset comes as PayPal tries to diversify beyond its traditional checkout business and rebuild momentum in higher margin areas. In Q1 2026 revenue rose 7 percent to 8.35 billion dollars and total payment volume grew 11 percent to 464 billion dollars, with Venmo and Braintree both delivering mid teens TPV growth and buy now pay later and pay with Venmo volumes up 23 percent and 34 percent. Q2 showed continued strength in those same units, with transaction margin dollars up 1 percent and up 3 percent excluding interest on customer balances, prompting the company to raise its full year outlook for TM dollars and EPS. Lores is emphasizing financial services as the largest driver of future TM dollar growth, expanding Venmo into a fuller financial platform, scaling PYUSD stablecoin which is now the largest federally regulated stablecoin, and partnering in AI commerce with Microsoft and others. At the same time the company returned 1.5 billion dollars to shareholders in the quarter and started a 14 cent quarterly dividend, while warning that macro pressure in Europe and competition from Big Tech and fintechs will keep the near term environment tough. - World Business News.

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  Bill Crowell (@n4hpg) reported 60 minutes ago

  I still do not see the use case for Bitcoin. It's not secret once your public key is known as all transaction history is visible in the blockchain. From a utility standpoint, I already have electronic money used in everyday transactions. It's called PayPal. With border guards now routinely unlocking and searching peoples mobile devices, the idea that you can cross borders and take wealth with you secretly is an illusion, too. The scarcity argument is also a straw man. Just because something is scarce doesn't make it intrinsically valuable or useful. Folks point to the value of a "proof of work" or the energy consumed in "mining" bitcoin. This would be like saying that a table is more valuable because someone sanded it by hand instead of using a power sander. Just because it's hard doesn't make the outcome more valuable. I've interviewed many Europeans who survived WW2. What was valuable in war are gold and diamonds. In SHTF with the grid and networks down, how are you going to exchange that Bitcoin without access to the blockchain server network? Bartering in gold, silver, ammunition or other things of value will be more useful.