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 (48%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
L’Isle-d’Abeau	Errors	3 hours ago
Sandillon	Website Down	5 hours ago
Aulnay-sous-Bois	Errors	5 hours ago
Mulhouse	Sign in	7 hours ago
Mays Landing	Sign in	18 hours ago
Sevierville	Sign in	23 hours ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Kevin (@KevinCreatives_) reported 7 minutes ago

  Just wait until you get payment problems with paypal. All german dropshippers know

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  John - that’s all (@thedizzle28) reported 10 minutes ago

  @NovaScotiaa3dh @MikhailaFuller @PayPal oh again, i get it. the problem i have is two fold, 1) paypal is wrong to withhold the funds 2)why are they raising money when they can self fund? they can afford this study on their own, if $70k is going to break the back of the study, they never had a chance

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  Dan McDaid (@danmcmaker) reported 13 minutes ago

  @SimonHoiberg It point blank refused to use details of an isolated PayPal account to pay for some postage this week. Haiku. Previously did it no problem.

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  camomileee (@camomileVT) reported 18 minutes ago

  @FreddyFazbearVR @thesleepylulu Her PayPal is down atm so she can’t accept any money for preorders! I’m not sure if she fixed it but she’s the sweetest and isn’t a scammer!

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  Feat-feet (@DargonPhil) reported 18 minutes ago

  @SamuelVieiraMe1 Mmm, I' not sure, what's the issue? Is Paypal the problem?

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  Bag Holder IQ (@BagholderIQ) reported 25 minutes ago

  @SwissKnifeInv Have you ever compared buying something with $PYPL vs Apple Pay ? Worlds apart That’s why PayPal is down so much

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  Sarth (@sarth_patidar) reported 26 minutes ago

  @kumaru_sin @AskPayPal Hey I am going through similar issue as well my account was already linked to paypal and somehow got disconnected and now I cannot link it back. Did you find any solution?

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  Raj Nagulapalle (@rajnagulapalle) reported 26 minutes ago

  @vikrambuilds worst weekend **** issues i have seen were from delayed webhooks, retries, and almost no clear info while reaching partner teams... debugging **** logs in that state is painful. went through that in my PayPal days and other teams too. thats part of why i am building FetchSandbox MCP now... so devs can run API workflows closer to production from the IDE, instead of only testing one request with Postman/curl.

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  Daphne Coaling (@DaphneCoslin) reported 28 minutes ago

  XRP just got a new label at Consensus 2026: World Bridge Currency. LIFTT Capital's Ted was asked one question about XRP on stage at Hederacon in Miami. His answer: three words. Here's the logic. PayPal processes payments. Cash App processes payments. Every major fintech platform runs a closed loop: money goes in, money stays inside. Moving value between these systems is slow, expensive, and built on legacy rails loaded with intermediaries. Ted's argument: interoperability is the missing layer. One bridge currency that connects all these walled gardens seamlessly. His pick is $XRP. "I am not talking about a coin. I am not talking about a dollar. I am not talking about an exchange note. Currency is the purest form of money — and that is what we are going to be seeing with XRP." The counterpoint: Goldman Sachs just exited $154 million in XRP ETF holdings across Bitwise, Grayscale, Franklin Templeton, and 21Shares. Institutional selling at scale. Two narratives colliding

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  yaamc01 (@yonahaer1) reported 29 minutes ago

  Minor spelling mistake on pic but who cares Btw I cant accept requset from Vgen now due to problem with paypal

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  Ben Valentin (@TheBenValentin) reported 29 minutes ago

  Anthropic just went after 30 million small businesses. Claude for Small Business dropped this week. 15 pre-built workflows. Connectors to QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Docusign, Google Workspace. Invoice chasing, payroll planning, lead triage, contract review, cash-flow monitoring. All baked in. No extra charge beyond the Claude license. Here's what most people will miss about this: The biggest AI lab on the planet just told small business owners they're worth building for. Not enterprise. Not Fortune 500. The 10-person company that's been duct-taping tools together for years. That's a market signal. When Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all start shipping SMB-first products in the same quarter, it means the enterprise-only era of AI is over. But pre-built workflows are the floor, not the ceiling. They solve the generic problems every business has. The real unlock is when a business deploys an agent trained on their specific operations, their specific data, their specific customer patterns. That's where the ROI compounds. Generic workflows get you started. Custom agents get you ahead. 10-city live tour starting yesterday. Free half-day workshops for small business owners. Anthropic is doing field sales now. Let that sink in. What's the first workflow you'd hand off to an agent tomorrow morning?

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  Omoalhaja (@omoalhajaabiola) reported 30 minutes ago

  2017-2018 I lost many gigs just because of payment issues. You had to wait for 14 days for fiverr to clear your funds. Using PayPal with pseudo-names and masked location means you are one message away from getting suspended. It’s truly transformative to see @RaenestApp solving these issues for freelancers

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  wiggy guzzi (@loosecruze) reported 30 minutes ago

  @cloudyyshrew The way my PayPal gets locked down every time I try and use it makes me feel like a damn criminal

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  Fadehanmi Timilehin (@Timilehnsamson) reported 30 minutes ago

  @mypagacare I would like to kindly request a change of my registered phone number on my account. I need to update my old phone number so that I can link the new number to my PayPal account and access its functionality without issues.

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  AmicuNoa🧜‍♀️🌊 Vtuber | Emote Comms OPEN (@AmicuNoa) reported 31 minutes ago

  @StreamlabsHelp @zachbussey Paypal is well known to lock accounts and balances. Ever since I was a kid i had paypal issues and I don't trust it. I don't feel safe, connecting paypal business to anything related to where I actually live. Are you guys willing to try and imitate SEPay? It was an amazing feature. Not to mention the sponsorships from stream elements. I went back to streamlabs today. And the sponsorship page didn't work.

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  Hokky Oku (@H0ki0ku) reported 31 minutes ago

  My PayPal account has been inexplicably and permanently banned. I cannot accept any commissions until I resolve the issues it has caused me. Sorry😿

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  Haalover (@Haalove1981) reported 33 minutes ago

  Help! I got paypal error: how do I fix it, it worked 2 hours ago! PayPal failed to process this transaction with the following error: Transaction cannot be processed due to a possible compliance violation. Please contact PayPal customer support for assistance.

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  Fintech Takes (@FintechTakes) reported 35 minutes ago

  The DOJ just settled a fair lending case against PayPal. There's one problem: no loans were ever made. PayPal's Economic Opportunity Fund, launched in 2020, directed capital to minority depository institutions, CDFIs, and minority-led VC funds. It issued grants to Black-owned small businesses. It funded nonprofit partners. None of it was lending. And yet the DOJ opened a fair lending investigation under ECOA, a law that governs credit discrimination. PayPal settled anyway. The terms aren't punitive - the company agreed to launch a small business initiative focused on veteran-owned businesses and those in farming, manufacturing, and technology. The original fund had already been wound down. Alex's read: PayPal probably made a calculated decision. The company has an ILC charter application pending with the FDIC, and staying in the administration's good graces has real business value. But the legal logic here is paper-thin, and the precedent it sets is worth paying attention to.

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  Maricarmen (@flaiss87) reported 37 minutes ago

  @PayPal PayPal won't let me re-add the bank accounts they deleted without my permission, and I want to cancel my account because all they've given me are problems

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  A R O O J M A L I C K 🙌 (@yourbrowngurl) reported 40 minutes ago

  Creators were clearly promised PayPal payouts, but the sudden switch to GIMI has created massive problems — verification failures, rejected submissions, and unpaid earnings. This is unacceptable. #YapperScam

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  JayJohn85 (@JJMcKenna9) reported 41 minutes ago

  X wont take my caoutal one credit card the balance on it is fine had this problem with other purchases online so phoned them tney where absolutely clueless even had to join paypal to buy a phone with it but cant use paypal on this platform. Bank card isnt good to go untill friday ffs. I guess thats what living pay to pay is like without any savings.

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  SBA • ShopBitcoin.com.au (@ShopBitcoinAus) reported 45 minutes ago

  CEO of Paypal, David Marcus, not only hodls #bitcoin, he's noted that it won't be a 'currency' until volatilty slows down - which we have consistently seen happening over time.

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  Luke Layton (@LukeyLayton) reported 47 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal My case was closed incorrectly due to an automated error. Delivery was 13 April and I contacted the seller on 27 April. PayPal closed it saying I reported it after 30 days, which is factually wrong. The appeal button is missing and chat agents refused escalation.

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  Francisco Reynoso 🇩🇴 (@FranciscoRD9) reported 48 minutes ago

  @PayPal @AnthropicAI @claudeai One question: If PayPal makes a mistake, why should the customer have to suffer the consequences? The logical thing would be for the platform to automatically correct its errors, instead of limiting or denying the user’s right to seek a fair solution.

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  KEI‼️‼️ (@SillyCatx3) reported 50 minutes ago

  @SectofBlack I went into paypal rabbit hole and found out that they suspend artist if they EVER draw something nsfw?? 😭 WHY IS IT A PROBLEM WHEN THEY ONLY LET ADULT IN THE FIRST PLACE. And my art isn't even nsfw and I still got suspend😭

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  Tampa PonPon🩸💉 | Sanitary Product Vtuber (@gunsandtherapy) reported 50 minutes ago

  Hello everyone! To those commissioning me via Vgen, I currently cannot take Paypal payments on the site due to my account getting locked before when I received a larger amount of money😭 Paypal will be offsite until I resolve the issue! I apologize for the commotion bloodlets🩸

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  BEAST ⭐️ NASTY (@BeastNastyCallz) reported 52 minutes ago

  @PayPal You have been processing my LTC you received for over an hour now Congratulations..... I will never use PayPal for crypto again (Maybe PYUSD,.. but geezuss... ya'll have issues)

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  hann. (COMMS OPEN!) (@YUULFIE) reported 56 minutes ago

  dear god my paypal goes problem now💔💔

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  Elaine Light (@ElaineLightVT) reported 56 minutes ago

  @AkiAndFam Yeah however PayPal won’t let me turn off my real name so I don’t wanna link it to things….. and I need something to replace stream elements now that they are shutting down DX

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  Tee (@truff702) reported 60 minutes ago

  @PayPal what’s going on? I got refunded for something and you’re trying to charge me after the bank approved it? How can we fix it?