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 (41%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Roubaix	Errors	19 hours ago
Lisbon	Errors	1 day ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	1 day ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	2 days ago
Cublize	Website Down	2 days ago
Rieux	Sign in	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Steve Schramm (@swschramm) reported 3 minutes ago

  A customer told us they couldn't pay an invoice yesterday. The account looked fine and the invoice was marked sent, so this would've been easy to chalk up to user error. Exa opened the actual customer portal. The invoice was there with Print and Download buttons… and no way to pay. Then it pulled a previous paid invoice from the same account and compared the payment options. The older one had PayPal, Stripe, and Zoho Payments attached. The new one had an empty gateway list. They never reached checkout because the invoice didn't offer one. We stopped there and routed the exact fix back for approval: attach the existing gateways and resend the corrected link. No test charge, no “try again” email, no guessing. I would've probably sent them a fresh copy of the same broken link. Seeing the portal exactly as the customer saw it changed the whole diagnosis.

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  Nicola (@nicolakaye85) reported 4 minutes ago

  @MartinSLewis ...make X Y & Z transactions - exact same script as previous (genuine) call - no I did not. "There's also been an attempted login to PayPal, we will send a code to your email, please read it out to us" - alarm bells, I hung up but on a different day I might have fallen for it.

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  Ami-lazar VTuber {FORMER VA} (@Ami_LazarVA) reported 4 minutes ago

  okay i wanted to give send my manager (had to make a new account) money on paypal but even though hes in brazil i still cant after waiting 2 days and needed to used a credit card instead of adding a debit and gets his support request taken down? really @PayPal ? fix this.

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  Zurique Capital Research (@zuriquecapital) reported 5 minutes ago

  ▪ Stripe Casually Bids $53 BILLION for PayPal $PYPL ▪ The $360 Billion Giant Nobody Wanted In July 2021, PayPal peaked near 360 billion dollars. Then Apple Pay and Google Pay ate its growth. By Tuesday's close it was a 47 dollar stock, down roughly 85 percent from the top. ▪ Stripe's $60.50 Ambush ▪ An 8 Percent Gap Tells the Real Story ▪ The Spread Is a Probability

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  West Lord (@MyWestLord) reported 5 minutes ago

  27-year-old Elon Musk paid $200 a month for a leaky roof office and slept in it because it was cheaper than an apartment. Summer of 1995, no money, no income, so he showered at the YMCA for 4 months and worked out of the nastiest place you can imagine. The office had 1 hidden advantage an internet provider sat on the floor below, so he drilled a hole in the concrete and plugged straight into their server for near-free bandwidth. He couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router either, so he read a white paper and wrote an emulator, skipped the web server entirely to save CPU cycles, read port 8080 directly, and coded the first national maps, directions and yellow pages on the internet that summer in C with a little C++. The company was Zip2 online city guides, where to eat, how to get around. By 1998 CBS came to film the vintage Jaguar, the 6-figure salary, the dog, the house, the girlfriend, and a market Microsoft had tried to enter and failed. Then the reporter asked the standard 1998 question where is the internet going? The 27-year-old answered like he’d already seen the ending: “The internet is the superset of all media. Print, radio, broadcast all of it folds into the internet. It’s the first two-way medium that’s intelligent, where consumers choose what they see and when they see it.” That was 28 years ago and he was describing a feed. A year later Zip2 sold for $307M, the money became X com, X com became PayPal, and PayPal became rockets. It all started with a drill and the server downstairs.

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  ☆ minty ☆ (@sweetmintyz) reported 6 minutes ago

  oh my god just trying to find a solution for an issue on paypal and none of the guides on the site even match what i can actually do and there is only a ******* a//i bot that is telling me it can't do anything 💀💀 what the actual **** 💀💀💀

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  British Sikh (@RupTroop) reported 7 minutes ago

  @TIM_x_AI @MarsUniversityX No. Software engineer / Physicist turned billionaire entrepreneur, can you think of any other people that have gone down that route? He made his money via founding zip2 and co-founding PayPal.

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  justSue (@SusanD98723375) reported 14 minutes ago

  @JefferyParkins2 @SassySinny @shoptemu I found when I used to pay with credit card the minimum was high, once I switched to paypal the minimum went down

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  trade spaylater, ggives, load, paypal, atome, cc (@aureayutrades) reported 22 minutes ago

  available services load to cash (regular load, load card, bizzload) paypal to cash binance to cash cash to paypal cash to binance razergold to cash gcash/maya with issue transfer balance (facescan, authentication failed, can't open/send money)

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  Nessie⁷🧸🍓🪭29 DAYS (@hunnybearv) reported 23 minutes ago

  @GOTHJGK I’m glad you were able to get that! ugh I had the same issue I had the hoodie and 2 jerseys but PayPal was being annoying…. I’ll probably be in line with my friend too🥹

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  KupandaCrypto (@KupandaCrypto) reported 24 minutes ago

  4/7 💵 STABLECOIN FOCUSED 💵 Stripe recently bought Bridge (a platform that makes sending stablecoins easy) for $1.1B. PayPal already has its own massive US dollar-backed stablecoin, $PYUSD. Combined, they could build a global payment system using stablecoins instead of slow bank networks.

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  Podcast Alpha (@PodcastAlphaX) reported 27 minutes ago

  Chamath @chamath: the Stripe-PayPal bid is a shot across the bow for $V and $MA. That is the line that matters. The ~$60-per-share offer for PayPal is not really about PayPal. It is an attack on the card duopoly the market treats as untouchable. Here is the build. Stripe, Block ($XYZ), and Advent combine PayPal's 400-million-plus accounts with Stripe's roughly $2 trillion in payment volume and its risk and stablecoin stack. Sacks @DavidSacks sharpens the point: that scale enables far more **"on-us" transactions**, payments that settle inside the combined network and bypass Visa and Mastercard entirely. Every on-us transaction is interchange the networks never collect. The antitrust question turns on definition - call it merchant APIs and it is Stripe versus Braintree, blocked. Call it the card duopoly and it is pro-competitive. The consensus this cuts against: Visa and Mastercard trade as forever-compounders with an unbreakable toll on every swipe. Bill Gurley @bgurley made the same argument we heard here in June, that Visa's moat is "unjustified" and priced as if it can never be disrupted. This deal is the first credible disruption vector, not a PowerPoint. Implication: this is a slow-burn short-bias thesis on $V and $MA interchange, not a same-week trade. The networks do not lose volume tomorrow. But a vertically integrated rail with 600-to-700 million combined accounts changes the terminal-value story the multiple rests on. If you are long the networks for the moat, the moat just got a named challenger with $2T of volume behind it. Watch the deal's market-definition fight - that ruling decides whether the on-us threat is real or blocked at the starting line.

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  ᴋ🩵 (@mrskennedyxo) reported 29 minutes ago

  Where do people get the confidence to add paypal or a throne? I want to do some stupid **** like that but I’m scared someone will actually send me money that they got illegally and I’ll be in big trouble😭

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  gork (@gork) reported 31 minutes ago

  @147Aurora @grok @theallinpod zooming out to the ancient peaks just spotlights how spectacularly paypal cratered from that 360b fantasy land down to the current rubble but a 28 percent bump off recent levels still delivers actual cash today instead of praying for some mythical rebound that never materialized. the board can call it lowball all they want yet history proves waiting around rarely fixes a broken growth story like this one.

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  𝔄𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞 𝔇𝔢𝔦 ✝️🇻🇦⚜️ (@assignedgoy) reported 34 minutes ago

  @DoofyOfficial @CENTCOM ill paypal you $25 if you can tell me what the issue between israel and iran is about

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  Gad Nishimwe (@GadLytics) reported 35 minutes ago

  Before the open, real quick. PayPal $PYPL popped 17% on a buyout report yesterday while the chips got dumped again, Micron $MU and SanDisk $SNDK down 8% plus. Two days straight of people ditching semis for deal news and cash flow. Does that keep going today, or do chips bounce? @tastyliveshow

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  🪷 aya (@tskatsukii) reported 35 minutes ago

  hello everyone! i just wanted to announce that i need to close down my kofi account 🥹 a kind reader had donated 50$ to it and paypal has suspended the account due to the “large amount” if u ever wish to tip me i fear i’ll only take gcash now 💔 so upset but what can we do 😭

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  Delores S (@SwansonDel3782) reported 37 minutes ago

  WTS FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 TICKETS I’m selling my tickets for spain 🇪🇸 VS Argentina 🇦🇷 final 2026 World Cup match for July 18 . I could not make it due to error on my flight schedule. I accept PayPal goods and services Kindly message if you’re interested

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  Sencyr💭 (@senCyr) reported 37 minutes ago

  @thetrainline is the payment system down? I’ve been trying to book and I’ve tried Visa, Amex, PayPal, and Apple Pay. Any idea on when this’ll be resolved?

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  BitcoinSafari /Education & Developers Program (@BitcoinSafariTZ) reported 39 minutes ago

  Earning Bitcoin Through Freelance Work: Why It Matters And Why Platforms Like Bitlance Are Building The Future Of Work The internet promised us borderless work. For a long time it only delivered half the promise. You could find a client in Berlin, Lagos, or Buenos Aires from your laptop in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania 🇹🇿. But when it came time to get paid, borders came back with a vengeance. Bank wires that take 5 days. PayPal accounts that get frozen. 8% platform fees. Currency conversion losses. Minimum withdrawal thresholds that make small gigs pointless. That is why earning Bitcoin through freelance work matters. And it is why platforms built specifically for it, like Bitlance, are not just another crypto app. They are infrastructure. Here is the full picture briefly 1. Freelance work has already won, but the payment rails lost In 2026, over 40% of the global workforce does some form of freelance, contract, or gig work. Companies stopped hiring for every role full time. Creators, designers, developers, writers, marketers, editors, translators, data annotators... everyone is unbundling their skills and selling them directly. The problem is that the money still moves like it is 1998. If you are a freelancer outside the US and EU, you know the friction: High fees: Upwork takes 10%. PayPal takes 4% plus a currency spread. Wise is better but still 1-3%. For a $200 job, you can easily lose $20-$30 before the money lands. Slow settlement: 2-7 business days is normal. If your rent is due Friday, that is a problem. Account risk: Platforms ban accounts with little explanation. Payment processors freeze funds for "review" for 180 days. Currency volatility: If you invoice in USD but your local currency drops 10% this month, your purchasing power evaporates. Access barriers: Millions of skilled people cannot even get a PayPal account, or cannot receive international wires without a US bank. So we have this weird situation. The work is global and instant. The payment is local, slow, and expensive. 2. Why Bitcoin specifically, not just "crypto" People hear "crypto" and think of trading and memes. For freelancers, Bitcoin solves three very concrete problems that no other payment method solves well together. A. It is borderless by design A Bitcoin payment does not care what country you are in. It does not need a correspondent bank. It does not need you to have a US LLC. If you have an internet connection and a wallet, you can receive value from anyone, anywhere. For a freelancer in Tanzania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Venezuela, or rural Philippines, that is the difference between being able to work globally or not. B. It is final and censorship-resistant Once a Bitcoin transaction confirms, it cannot be reversed. No chargebacks. No platform can freeze your balance because of an automated risk flag. No government can block a payment because it is "unauthorized". For freelancers who have had $1,200 disappear for 6 months during a dispute, finality matters. C. It is programmable savings Getting paid in Bitcoin is not just about spending. It is about opting out of local inflation. In many economies, holding local currency for 30 days means losing 2-5% of value. Bitcoin is volatile week to week, but over 4year cycles it has been the best performing asset for preserving and growing purchasing power. When you get paid in BTC, you are getting paid and saving at the same time. Other stablecoins solve the volatility problem, and that is useful too. But Bitcoin solves the sovereignty problem. You do not need permission from a bank, a platform, or a government to hold it. 3. The freelance + Bitcoin combination creates new economic behavior When you put these two together, things change in ways that are not obvious at first.

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  Memo (@mthblk56) reported 41 minutes ago

  Paid €25 for a German number on and it’s completely useless! 🚫 SMS verification codes arrive 2+ hours late, it doesn't work for WhatsApp or PayPal, and support is ignoring my tickets while my subscription expires in 2 days. Fix this or issue a refund! 💸 #Quackr @quackrio

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  TanukiBoogie (@KazooieTanuki) reported 41 minutes ago

  @elicitie I bought the daki and comic on the website, it said there was an error with my PayPal, but it was bought anyways? I'd hope it went through lol

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  MarcG (@ThisisMarcG) reported 46 minutes ago

  @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Troy - a reminder that Proton was banned from PayPal. So their funding was done with Bitcoin. This is easy to set up with a @BtcpayServer server. I have faith in you. Gosh, even Pavel _himself_ just offered to help. So pls don't lose your legendary tech status Troy....

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  Lenny Hartley Arranach (@JinglyLenny) reported 49 minutes ago

  @CraigMurrayOrg @SSalyers2 Paypal link not working! Just a spinny thing spinning!

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  Marsu (@marsuplamy) reported 51 minutes ago

  The Agentic Economy 2024 was the year of LLMs. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and models like them responded to prompts and that was enough. But 2025 brought something different. Models were no longer just responding, they were planning, calling tools, executing code, coordinating with other systems, and doing all of this without constant human oversight. This transition transformed AI from something you query into something you delegate to. This is called agentic AI and with it an entirely new economy began to take shape. To understand the scale of this economy a few numbers are worth looking at. The AI agents market is expected to grow from 7.84 billion dollars in 2025 to 52.62 billion dollars by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate of 46.3%. McKinsey projects that agentic commerce could orchestrate between 3 and 5 trillion dollars in global revenue by 2030. These numbers are not theoretical, the infrastructure is already being built. In just the six month period between April and September 2025, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe and Google all launched agentic payment infrastructures. So what are these agents actually doing? They are purchasing services on your behalf, paying other agents, accessing APIs, buying data, and doing all of this while making decisions in fractions of a second. Stablecoin transaction volume reached 33 trillion dollars in 2025, up 72% year over year, with supply surpassing 300 billion dollars. Agentic payments and machine to machine payment flows are cited as one of the key drivers behind this growth. Stablecoins like USDT and USDC are critical for agents because they allow programmable payments without price volatility. But legacy payment infrastructure was never designed for this world. Credit cards require human authentication, subscriptions demand upfront commitments, and API keys depend on manual onboarding processes. All of these systems were built for humans. When millions of agents are making countless payments per second none of these systems work technically or economically. x402 and the Awakening of HTTP 402 When web standards were being written in 1991 HTTP status code 402 was added and defined as 'Payment Required'. That day it was reserved, set aside for future use. This code waited more than thirty years and when its future arrived it turned out not to be human. The x402 standard activated this dormant code as a native payment layer for the internet: a server responds to a request with 402 and a price, the client pays on-chain in stablecoins, retries the request with proof of payment and receives the service. No account creation, no card on file, no subscription, no human. The protocol was launched in September 2025 by Coinbase and Cloudflare through the x402 Foundation. The coalition behind it is unusually broad, Google, Visa, AWS, Circle, Anthropic and Vercel are all core foundation members. Within five months of launch x402 had processed over 100 million transactions. In a single week in October 2025 the protocol handled approximately 500,000 payments, a 10,780% increase from the prior month. The technical side of x402 is very clean. For a developer integration is a single line of middleware, set a price per endpoint, point to a facilitator, and the API can charge per request in stablecoins. When an agent wants to access a service payment happens automatically inside the HTTP request, settlement completes within the round-trip. Zero human intervention. The Problem: Public Rails Don't Work for the Agentic Economy Now we come to the critical question. When millions of agents make transactions and every one of those transactions is visible on a public blockchain, what happens? Which APIs the agent uses, which data it accesses, which services it purchases, how much it pays, who it works with, all of it becomes completely visible. This is not just a user privacy problem, it means the strategy and logic the agent operates on is open to competitors. Is a company's agent feeding from the same data source as a rival's agent? How much is it spending on which compute services? How are supply chain decisions being made? All of this becomes readable on a public chain. On top of that there is the gas fee problem. On Ethereum and Tron fees shift constantly with network congestion. If an agent is making hundreds of microtransactions per second modeling your unit economics becomes impossible because you have no idea what costs will be in advance. For the agentic economy to work payment rails must be both private and predictably priced. Why Bitcoin is the Neutral Rail There are several clear answers to why Bitcoin stands out as the ideal settlement layer in this equation. First, censorship resistance. No central actor can stop, censor or restrict agent payments. For agents to operate autonomously the payment infrastructure must also be autonomous and uncensorable. Second, deterministic finality. Bitcoin's proof-of-work security is the most battle-tested and proven consensus mechanism in existence. For agent payments settlement must be definitive and irreversible. Third, global liquidity. Bitcoin is accessible everywhere in the world with no geographic restrictions and agents operate without borders. Fourth, the UTXO model. Unlike Ethereum's account-based model Bitcoin's UTXO structure allows non-conflicting transactions to be validated in parallel, a natural advantage for high-frequency agent payments. Where @Utexocom Fits The layer that combines Bitcoin's advantages with USDT and makes it production-ready for the agentic economy is Utexo. The RGB protocol issues and transfers USDT as a native asset on Bitcoin's own layer. Transfer details never get written to a public ledger thanks to client-side validation, only cryptographic commitments are anchored to Bitcoin UTXOs. So when an agent makes a payment who sent what to whom never leaks outward. The Lightning Network allows these assets to settle in milliseconds, at around 200ms latency. Utexo handles channel management, liquidity and routing entirely internally, with fees fixed and predefined at the protocol level. For the agentic economy this combination means the following. The agent pays in sub-second time, costs are predictable, payment details are private, and Bitcoin's finality provides the settlement guarantee. With the Mint component USDT from Ethereum, Tron or Solana can be moved onto Bitcoin rails. With the Swap component non-custodial exchange between BTC and USDT is possible. And the SDK reduces all of this complexity to a single API call, meaning a developer integrating agent payments never has to run a Lightning node or manage RGB infrastructure. Tether not only supporting this infrastructure but leading the seed round themselves, and preparing to issue USDT natively on Bitcoin through RGB protocol v0.11.1, answers the question of which rails the agentic economy will be built on. Machines are making payments now. Those payments need to be private, predictably priced, and anchored to Bitcoin. The infrastructure is here.

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  bosskiller196723 (@Bosskiller1967) reported 52 minutes ago

  @StubHub I need help with a payout issue. StubHub International keeps saying my PayPal payment was rejected, but PayPal has confirmed my account is in good standing and can receive payments. Can someone at the team please look into my case and DM me? #StubHub

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  Cristián P. (@CristianPBar) reported 52 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @AskPayPal @pay I called, but no representative answers. It’s been two weeks, and no one can help me. I need an email address to escalate my issue, please. None of the previous options work

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  tyler (@Exodus1900) reported 52 minutes ago

  @nypost Yet the IRS will come kicking down your door if you have a $600 transaction thru PayPal

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 54 minutes ago

  An early PayPal employee described the moment the team realized Elon Musk was different from every other founder in Silicon Valley. It was something dark. The team was in a meeting discussing a product setback. Everyone was frustrated. Someone made a comment about maybe pivoting the product or considering alternative approaches. Normal startup conversation. Rational. Measured. Elon's response was physical. He stood up. His jaw tightened. He said something close to "if we pivot we die. We don't pivot. We fix it." Not loudly. Almost whispered. But the energy in the room changed completely. The employee said what was different wasn't the words. Every founder says "we don't give up." What was different was the look in his eyes. He said it was the look of someone who literally cannot conceive of the possibility that this doesn't work. Not "won't accept" failure. Cannot process it. As if the neural pathway that handles the concept of quitting doesn't exist in his brain. He said in that moment he understood that Elon doesn't choose persistence the way other people choose it. Other people weigh the options and decide to keep going. Elon doesn't see other options. The path forward is the only path his brain can map. Everything else is a dead pixel on his screen. That's not a learned skill. That's an architecture. And it explains both his extraordinary success and the trail of broken relationships, burned-out employees, and personal damage he leaves behind. The same wiring that makes failure invisible also makes other people's pain invisible.

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  lil retard (@comic) reported 58 minutes ago

  @BitcoinTeacher_ You can simply send Venmo cashapp or PayPal then. Your use case isn’t a problem that exists. You live at home with your mom. “Omg I can send $10 across the world at any time!! Technology???!!”