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
Mechanicsburg	Sign in	9 hours ago
Stockton	Sign in	3 days ago
Brighton	Errors	4 days ago
Génelard	Website Down	4 days ago
Paris	Sign in	4 days ago
Overland Park	Errors	7 days ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  ZMER_LS🇵🇭 (@merlz_zen) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Hemomal @PayPal @AskPayPal There's a lot of people having this problem, but calling this out is a good thing.

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  kelvin (@kelvin20566282) reported 9 minutes ago

  @PayPal @AskPayPal Why is it that when an African receives money, it suddenly becomes a problem for PayPal? If you don’t support us fairly, then just block the service completely instead of targeting legitimate users. My account got permanently limited after receiving only $20.

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  AmicuNoa🧜‍♀️🌊 Vtuber | Emote Comms OPEN (@AmicuNoa) reported 11 minutes ago

  @StarlightAkari_ @zachbussey I am aware of that. I have had nothing but issues over the years with the paypal website. I have had no issues with Venmo as of right now.

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  Hokky Oku (@H0ki0ku) reported 13 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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  I, Mel ✨omarchella✨ (@Mel_763) reported 13 minutes ago

  @summermar2025 They reached out to me and asked about my orders but nothing happened. I paid via PayPal and got my money back, I don't get what their problem is

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  Briar🥀 (@witheredbriar) reported 13 minutes ago

  Update on Commissions: I will be closing them for now due to issues with PayPal, once the issue is resolved, I will open up again

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  Esco Obong (@escobyte) reported 14 minutes ago

  What do Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Twitter, Shopify, Slack, and PayPal have in common? They all started as monoliths and relied heavily on monoliths for years after becoming unicorns. Do you actually have enough load on the system such that you need to scale the users service independently from the orders service? Can you not fit tens of millions of users, payments, products and orders in the same database cluster? Is your team so large that development velocity is an issue and you need seperately deployable services even when there’s no load scaling benefit just to alleviate operational scaling issues? The biggest benefit of a monolith is dead simple transactions. If your app does things like charging cards, updating inventory, or reserving cars/rooms, those actions need to succeed or fail all together. In a monolith, that’s easy: wrap them in a single database transaction. With microservices, you need distributed transactions or eventual consistency 💀. A saga pattern to coordinate failures and rollbacks across a chain of services. This is error prone, expensive infra, runs slower and takes months longer to develop/test. It also requires way more maintenance as the system evolves. It limits your velocity when introducing new concepts and flows which startups often need to do quickly. Start with a monolith. Get speed and correctness by default. For special needs like real-time streams or heavy compute loads, you can justify adding another service if it actually needs different composition of CPU, memory or storage that can scale independently from everything else. Each microservice is supposed to exist to solve a specific scaling or operational pain point. Let the real bottlenecks shape your architecture.

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  Shari 🌸 (@sharduncan5050) reported 16 minutes ago

  @CarolineDPham @moonpay I’m having lots of trouble with MoonPay! I have a balance that I’m trying to Withdraw. The app only gives me two options, my bank account or my PayPal. I’ve tried both, repeatedly, and MoonPay will not finish the transaction. So frustrating!

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  Francisco Reynoso 🇩🇴 (@FranciscoRD9) reported 18 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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  Elaine Light (@ElaineLightVT) reported 18 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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  BGC Prince County - Summerside Club (@bgcSummerside) reported 19 minutes ago

  May 13th, 2026 Ken's No Frills BGCPC Summerside GoldRush Draw Results: #5146 WILLIAM COUGHLIN $9,499 *NEW AUTO-RENEWAL FEATURE NOW AVAILABLE* (this feature is only available for the PayPal, Credit Card, and VISA debit option) Keep forgetting when it is time to sign in again? With

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  💜ANNE JAMIESON 💜 (@AnneDesignz) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Ratwassilly I am interested in working for you Also budget isn't any issue and I am having PayPal

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  Conte Risto (@accualyisyou) reported 21 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal When trying to cancel an order, I am forced into a login loop where I can't do anything within the app. The option doesn't exist on browser after I uninstalled the app, and my phone refuses to continue with it. I have been scammed out of £200 and can't do anything.

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  AmicuNoa🧜‍♀️🌊 Vtuber | Emote Comms OPEN (@AmicuNoa) reported 21 minutes ago

  @StarlightAkari_ @zachbussey Paypal has been known to lock accounts and lock balances. Venmo hasn't done that to my knowledge and I can pull it out right away. I avoid paypal at all costs because of all of their issues.

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  Linas | true.eth (@LinasLekavicius) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Muthannaa_ @alexoakdev @squadletics Yeah Stripe doesn't allow paying for stuff like this. But even if they did, there's more problems - for example, I don't know how it's possible to do payouts to users through Stripe? I think technically you could use paypal etc., but you literally become a bank. Smart contracts and stablecoins is the only real solution for this model, probably

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  A (@BasicAshBitch) reported 23 minutes ago

  @gravey4rdkid Fix your PayPal, and we can do a tarot reading at some point 💪

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  ItsSeyrenhere 🐉🗡️| Returning back soon (@ItsSeyrenHere) reported 27 minutes ago

  @passingcatloaf Maybe this had to do with the bank have you contact to CS what happen. If usually PayPal no issue one

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  Goran Stojcic (@GanSic966) reported 27 minutes ago

  @HedgeFundTips The reason I invested in PayPal was due to their entrenched position in Europe, predicated on the idea that Apple Pay’s threat is neutralized by Android’s regional dominance. This, I am afraid is no longer the case. Google Pay is rapidly scaling across Europe, presenting an equally formidable, native operating system threat. Consequently, PayPal’s core branded checkout business is on highly unstable footing. We tend to underestimate the non-linear velocity of consumer behavior. While the shift from writing checks to swiping credit cards lasted couple of decades, the current migration from cards to native digital wallets (smartphones, wearables, and biometric authentication) is occurring at an exponential pace. In an ecosystem dominated by hardware-level convenience, PayPal lacks a structural moat. This fundamental erosion makes a further multiple compression and market cap drop entirely possible. I see a lot of parallels to Charter Communications (which I've been buying this week and last): despite robust legacy fundamentals and an aggressive, long-term share buyback program, Charter’s stock is down 65% in twelve months (worse than PayPal's 38% decline), and 80% over five years (same as PayPal). Both are down for the same reason - a fear that their core product is facing irreversible terminal decline.

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  kobbystone (@Kobbystone_1) reported 28 minutes ago

  @SIKAOFFICIAL1 Na so the reputation for the country dey spoil o, you won’t see it, and it with time it will be difficult for Ghanaians to access things internationally because these people spoil the Ghana name give we all, tight visa requirements then things, PayPal et al all no want come down

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  Mike Derscher (@MDerscher) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Yaw_nyame35 They do not have any problems with sending speeding tickets by email. And one can pay with PayPal instead of an international money transfer.

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  John - that’s all (@thedizzle28) reported 37 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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  Maricarmen (@flaiss87) reported 38 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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  evie (@smxd__2) reported 42 minutes ago

  since my account is permanently shut down on paypal the only form of payment i’ll be using is venmo. thanks for your understanding my loveys🫶🏻.

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  RubiSapa / ルビサパ (@RubiSapa79) reported 43 minutes ago

  Currently, my PayPal account has been permanently suspended, making it difficult for me to accept commissions at the moment. I will do my best to resolve this issue as soon as possible! I’m very sorry for the inconvenience.

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  Chute 75 (@chute75llc) reported 46 minutes ago

  @libsoftiktok Should be 10x that or paypal rounding error

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  SL (@SDL_921) reported 50 minutes ago

  @libsoftiktok Is the same type of “Settlement” begun under Obama that has PayPal “donating” to Left-wing NGOs instead of to the Treasury specifically to pay down our debt??

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  Purrwain 🐁🐈 VCvlt (@purrwain) reported 51 minutes ago

  @Pkhemi38 I'm looking into it posting it on PayPal or one of those audio only site sharing things! I'm also going to try cutting some of the breathing out and reposting it and see if it gets taken down again.

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  Mr. Pounce 🖋️📚 Loremaster Vtuber (@MrPounceTV) reported 54 minutes ago

  @rhiow I stopped doing direct tips. Too many stories about PayPal tip chargebacks, or getting an unusually large tip that is flagged as suspicious and freezes the account. I've personally never had an issue, but I know it does happen. I use bits for 'direct' monetary now.

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  The Dude 🧲 (@TheDudeofDeFi) reported 55 minutes ago

  @base Every UI you’ve released thus far is pretty bad. Base app is terrible. Think PayPal, Venmo, Cashapp, Zelle etc. Simplicity leads to adoption.

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  Plucky - 🐸🍄Twitch Partner (@xpluckyvt) reported 60 minutes ago

  @ClownPrinceTTV @Naaackers the issue was thier fees were to cover creditcard and paypal processes they wernt making anything, they placed thier bets via sponsorships