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 (46%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Villeblevin	Website Down	1 day ago
Sydney	Website Down	1 day ago
Leonardtown	Sign in	3 days ago
Mayen	Sign in	3 days ago
Aubais	Errors	3 days ago
Harrow	Sign in	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Crystal Lion (Comms Open) (@Crystal_Lion) reported 4 minutes ago

  @shi_monalisa @PayPal Well, I promptly got permanently limited after submitting docs but the replies I got hopefully indicate it's a glitch on their end. They're looking into that flag.

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  Amechi (@amechi54322) reported 7 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Good day, I forgot my password as I haven't been using my account for over a year now. I have tried to verify my identity but it's not working. I am unable to reset my password. How do I reset my password now?

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  Dave Data Guy | author of 2 stock investing books (@DGretta_Author) reported 8 minutes ago

  PayPal $PYPL stock is literally down 84% the last 5 years. Most people have forgotten how utterly pathetic this really is. This stock is sure not your 'pal'

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  apollo440 (@0xApollo440) reported 12 minutes ago

  Zelle pushed $1 trillion last year and not one cent of it ever crossed a border. That's about to change, and the rail they picked isn't the one anybody would've bet on five years ago. A stablecoin. Early Warning Services, the bank consortium that runs Zelle, is starting with India. Obviously. No country on earth pulls in more remittance money, north of $100 billion a year, and a huge slice of it gets wired out of the US. So what carries it over? Not ACH, not SWIFT. Something called ZLUSD, dollar-backed, built specifically for the international hop. And the thing I keep circling back to has nothing to do with the tech. It's who owns this. Zelle is the bank-owned network. The entire reason it exists is that the big US banks watched Venmo and PayPal eat into retail payments and decided they weren't giving up the rest of the table too. Those banks. The same consortium. They quietly went and decided a stablecoin is the cheaper way to push a dollar across a border. Now remember how many years these institutions spent telling everyone crypto rails were a solution looking for a problem. The problem was cross-border the whole time. Fees, delays, three intermediaries stacked on top of each other, sitting right under their nose. They just couldn't admit it out loud while wire transfers were still printing money for them. Cameron Fowler, who runs EWS, framed it as an expansion of what Zelle already does. Technically true, sure. But nobody reaches for a stablecoin when the old plumbing is doing fine. Which stablecoin ends up winning the corridor was never the interesting question. The banks picking one up at all is. They followed the cheaper rail.

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  Trader 80/20🛡️ (@Trader_8020) reported 16 minutes ago

  💀 Forget $XRP for a second. The token is already a dead argument: no serious payments volume has depended on this shitcoin for years. Look at the company. @Ripple’s entire pitch was that it would kill the old payment rails. It didn’t. It got buried by them. SWIFT was supposed to be the villain. Instead, SWIFT is still here, faster, upgraded, and now building its own blockchain-style ledger. It still connects 11,000+ institutions and settles most cross-border payments within an hour. Ripple never disrupted the giant. The giant absorbed the pitch, kept the clients, and moved on. The market Ripple wanted did get won. Just not by XRP. It was won by dollar stablecoins: Tether, Circle, PayPal, Stripe, etc. Same speed, lower friction, no XRP volatility, and a unit every finance team already understands: dollars. The money did not move into XRP. It moved around it. And Ripple knows it. That is the whole point of $RLUSD. The company that spent a decade telling retail XRP was the future of payments ended up shipping a dollar stablecoin to do the job XRP was supposed to do. Sit with that. Ripple did not find product-market fit for XRP. It replaced it. Slowly, politely, and with enough marketing fog that holders could pretend it was bullish. The partners figured this out years ago. The marquee names ran pilots, took the press release, and left. MoneyGram took the check and exited early. Banks tested the story, then built private ledgers or used rails that made more sense. After more than a decade, name one major institution that must use XRP for real volume because nothing else can do the job. You can’t. Because there isn’t one. So kill the slogans. Ripple picked a fight with SWIFT and lost. It picked a fight with stablecoins and lost. It tried to sell itself as the bank-friendly crypto rail, and the banks did not need it. The company is still alive because it has a mountain of XRP and one of the best marketing machines in crypto, not because it outcompetes anyone. XRP is not the future of money. It is the leftover inventory of a company that ran out of ways to win. Every XRP holder knows this deep down, but they’re trapped in their position because they didn’t sell this shitcoin near $3–4. FDV is now $ 124B. What is Ripple as a company, or the blockchain itself, actually doing to justify that valuation? Zombie.

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  Chiyoka|VGen comms open (@ch1y0ka) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Emmaislovenxyo i use both payment, Paypal and VGen wallet too...well after this issue i'll use only VGen wallet since it's safer 🫠

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  TDS Therapist (@fl_trump2020) reported 22 minutes ago

  @codeofvets Gretchen I just tried to PayPal and it said there was an error. Can you dm Zelle info? @codeofvets

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  Helen Fleming (@hflemingtx) reported 22 minutes ago

  Do you know Chime Bank does not protect against fraud through their online funds transfer system. Unlike PayPal or Venmo, Chime will not refund in the event of a successfully disputed payment. I am referring an issue to IC3 and the FTC in an attempt to force accountability for scammers who use Chime for this purpose.

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  Anima - Expresso Nerd (@apenasanima) reported 24 minutes ago

  @ReticleRonin @Wario64 @MauroNL3 It's not actually a big problem in sorts games. Just hope they dont put a big outdoor about VISA, PAYPAL when playing Star Wars or BF6

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  RoJo (@RoJo202588) reported 24 minutes ago

  @ytunderground23 Wait. Didn’t the Beezer’s PayPal her money to fix her oven?? Yes they did. She’s as pathetic as Chantal.

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  Diary of Lydia (@diaryoflydia_mh) reported 26 minutes ago

  I realised stupidly that i only ordered one additional set of pjs so I have two in total could really use with a third so I can be a bit more hygienic if anybody could lend me a bit of money to fix this problem it’d be appreciated you will be paid back asap PayPal on next post

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  John (@Airborne71LLC) reported 27 minutes ago

  @nicoleakellz Thank you for clarifying that we may use any free authenticator and that DeviantArt receives no financial benefit or referral compensation from any particular service. The issue, however, is that the withdrawal process does not make that clear. Previously, withdrawing earnings simply required confirming the PayPal email address. Now, the process requires two-step authentication. When we scan the QR code provided during the DeviantArt withdrawal process, it takes us directly to the App Store page for a specific authenticator application. After installing or opening that application, we are immediately presented with a paid subscription screen offering a weekly plan for $7.99 or an annual package. Because DeviantArt’s QR code directs users to that specific App Store listing, it strongly implies that this is the authenticator application users are expected—or required—to use. Nothing in the process clearly explains that the linked application is only one option, that its paid subscription is unnecessary, or that users may instead scan the code with another free authenticator application. From the user’s perspective, this makes it appear that paying for the linked application is a required step before we can withdraw our DeviantArt earnings. Why does the QR code direct users to a specific paid application rather than simply displaying the authentication setup code for use with any compatible authenticator? Is there an option within the withdrawal process to select a different authenticator, and if so, why is that option not clearly displayed? DeviantArt should provide a clear, step-by-step video or illustrated guide showing users exactly how to: Select and install a genuinely free authenticator application. Scan or manually enter the DeviantArt authentication code using that application. Complete the two-step authentication setup. Verify PayPal and successfully withdraw their earnings. Avoid accidentally purchasing an unnecessary subscription from the application linked through the withdrawal process. The previous withdrawal process worked without this additional confusion. While we understand the need for stronger account security, the current process is hindering access to earned funds rather than helping users withdraw them securely. An official tutorial—and clearer language directly on the withdrawal page—would prevent users from being misled into believing that they must purchase a third-party subscription to access money they have already earned.

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  St Mary MacKiller (@StMaryMacKiller) reported 30 minutes ago

  @BevJohnst Spam. But go to your Paypal account via a browser (don’t click any links) and check everything is ok. There’ll be a notification on the account if there really is a problem.

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  matveikorotinnn (@matthew322003) reported 32 minutes ago

  SystemOfADown #SOAD #SOAD2026 #SOADParis Selling 2 tickets for System of a Down Paris Pelouse / Standing. July 2. For your and my safety we can use PayPal Goods & Services. 145 euros per ticket, but negotiable

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  ZAHID SHAFI (@zahid_shafi_01) reported 32 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I manually closed my PayPal account 30 ago and from day 1, i have been trying to regain access. Unfortunately, I'm unable to log in, reset my password, or reach support because it all require login. paypal help me to review my account. @PayPalIN

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  Brandon Scott Arbuthnot (@brando_sui) reported 34 minutes ago

  @aemondotsui @smileyJones0 Was -$0.97 balance in Paypal the other day, and it wouldnt let me sell from my crypto account to pay for it as a result (design error) Had to wait for support and endure a 25 minute phone call with "john"🇮🇳 to credit me $0.97 so I could even access my own crypto..

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  cheyenne 🎀 (@cherryprincessb) reported 38 minutes ago

  Can someone send me 20 on PayPal and I’ll pay it back ??? PayPal is giving me issues with my balance

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  ててしだよ (@PiFB46R6WcOsbq) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Etsy @EtsyHelp I've been unable to pay my bill (US$18.62) since May 27th. Tried JCB card, PayPal, multiple browsers, PC and smartphone — all failed. Etsy support confirmed the issue is on your end. Ticket #25360906. Please resolve this ASAP. #Etsy #EtsySeller

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  Death Life 🍉 | COMMS OPEN (@DeathyLife) reported 41 minutes ago

  Having issues with PayPal, so give me a few days 😞😞💔💔

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  Yeh🏴‍☠️Nah (@ToMyPirateShip) reported 41 minutes ago

  @BevJohnst It's a scam, don't click on anything and don't sign in to your PayPal via a link in SMS or email

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  //GHOST DANCE// (@YAKOKE_ACTUAL) reported 46 minutes ago

  Greetings everyone who hasn’t blocked or muted this account. @skoonrB here with an update. I was on the road all last week and the patches arrived while I was away from home, thus why I’m posting this update today. I received 155 patches, a mix of Ghost Dance, Scalper, Wind Talker and Dream Stalker. Much less than the 400+ subscribers. Some of you that are still here might actually want a patch, so the thought is if you were a Ghost Dance subscriber, comment below. In a week I will have Grok select 155 people and send them out, after cross referencing the subscriber list. To be fair if you want to enter for a patch then you should exclude yourself from requesting comms or kit, when and if we ever receive those. Radios are supposedly in route and those will go out to people that responded to the former post where people requested comms gear. We don’t have a clear number of how many there are but it will be made public once we get a count. Med kits, the only ones I know of are the two I have sent by anonymous person, those also will go out to two people on the Medicine Man list. Money. First transfer of funds has been sent to one of the members of former leadership. $3,769.16 was transferred to their PayPal account. This will be used for shipping of patches and comms gear / kit once received.  Once everything goes out any money left over will be split between several charities or organizations, to be decided by poll later. The subscriptions appear to have been cancelled last week, and from my understanding X and the party they use for payments hold the funds for up to three months. So three months from now we hopefully have all sent out and have our hands clean of this entire messy situation. Final note, all PII is on a secure Proton server and not held on any personal devices. Once all gear is sent out, all data will be deleted from the spreadsheets, then me and the other person who has access will delete our Proton accounts. ** Please just reply to this message if you were a subscriber and you want a patch. Thank you Bryan

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  Kurommi ♡ Waitlist Open ♡ (@Kurommi02) reported 47 minutes ago

  Seems like I'll have to make a disclaimer in my ToS that I can't do refunds. PayPal really sucks and I'm having such a big trouble trying to issue a refund to a client... PayPal support agent said I need funds for it, or I can call support of my country.

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  Mama_Succubus (@Mama_Succ) reported 47 minutes ago

  @RianiEmberblade Yup, lost over $300 with PayPal shutting down my account for no reason couple years ago. You could try @stubafrica

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  East Side Tea Party - #TeamSanity (@EastSideTea) reported 52 minutes ago

  @sonorancleaners @Shawan4Freedom Elon Musk doesn't have a trillion dollars. The things that Elon Musk built are worth a trillion dollars (at least the portion that belong to him). Those assets are worth so much money because people desire the products they produce. People want Tesla vehicles, satellite Internet, or chat on social media using X. PayPal solved many problems for people trying to conduct e-commerce. The Boring company is an engineering firm that resolves problems where people need to build tunnels underground in difficult terrain. The US government chooses to partner with SpaceX because trying to do it on their own created a space shuttle program that had two flights a year and a poor safety record. The reality is, if Elon Musk didn't add value to millions of lives, he wouldn't be worth a trillion. If you want Musk money, add more value to the world.

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  Disputely (@getdisputely) reported 53 minutes ago

  Most ecom founders treat chargebacks as a customer service problem. It shows up in how they staff it. How they track it. How seriously they take it until it's too late. Here is what chargebacks actually are: They are a direct attack on your ability to process payments at all. Visa and Mastercard run merchant monitoring programs that track your chargeback ratio in real time. Not monthly. Continuously. When you cross the threshold, the card networks flag you to your processor. Your processor opens a review. If the ratio doesn't drop fast enough, they terminate the account. No processor account means no Stripe. No PayPal. No Shopify Payments. No revenue. Getting a new merchant account after termination is expensive, slow, and sometimes impossible depending on the category. High-risk merchant accounts come with higher fees, rolling reserves, and processors who know you have no other options. The brands that lose their payment processing don't always close immediately. They spend months rebuilding infrastructure that took them a day to set up the first time. This is not a customer service problem. It is a business continuity problem dressed up as a customer service problem. The ratio is the metric that matters. Every unaddressed chargeback moves it in the wrong direction. Every prevented chargeback and every won dispute moves it back. Disputely is built around protecting that number. Prevention upstream. Recovery downstream. The ratio stays clean. Payment processing is the oxygen of an ecom business. Chargebacks are what cuts it off.

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  Hassan Kurusee (@HKurusee) reported 55 minutes ago

  Receiving USD in Maldives was never really the issue. BML might occasionally place a hold on incoming funds, but once you provide an invoice (genuine or fake), they release the money. The real challenge has always been sending USD abroad. Does PayPal solve that problem? No.

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  Vincent Kras (@vincentkras) reported 56 minutes ago

  @VeryRandomn_ @noelweks Hi did you recieve funds to your mpesa from PayPal I'm having same problem.

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  💢MR. SHADTZ💢 (@5HADST3R) reported 58 minutes ago

  @SandraaComEmily Hello, good evening/afternoon. I would love to accept your commission; however, I have a small issue. I do not have a PayPal account and only use GCash for payments. Unfortunately, this means I am unable to receive payment through PayPal. I hope you understand, and thank youfor-

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  Wrestling Pope (@Wrestlingpope83) reported 1 hour ago

  @pinklightsticc It would be far easier to following Seadlinnng if they had a payment option other than a credit card (which i dont have). Debit card or PayPal might get them more paid followers. I find this problem with Stardom PPV on stagecrowd, Diana and Actwres girls.

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  John (@John_l_eo) reported 1 hour ago

  Is that not called innovation. Why was PayPal not working for years? Decentralization was the answer to the hustling youths of Nigeria 🇳🇬 If you want good monetary policy then work on financial inclusion for the citizens of Nigeria.