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
Benfeld	Sign in	12 hours ago
Gérardmer	Sign in	2 days ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	3 days ago
Lodève	Errors	3 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	3 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  denreed (@idenreed) reported 5 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hi @AskPayPal, I can't log into PayPal. Password + email OK, but no access to old phone (Georgia → Ukraine). Email code worked once, then still asks SMS. Can't reach support without login. Help regain access/update number please. Thanks.

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  samar (@samarsun4ever) reported 6 minutes ago

  is anyone looking for ariana grande eternal sunshine ticket on closing night. i’m so devastated i can’t go cause of work issues🫠 it’s section 105 i accept paypal g&s price is £400 (bought on resale

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  R.Louis (@RLouis1397) reported 9 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay I absolutely hate buying from eBay. Slow shipping and customer support. Always pay with PayPal when using eBay and have a credit card as the primary payment method for two layers of protection. Always DYOR on seller. If a price seems too good to be true, it probably is.

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  seren ♡ (@sereniteaxb) reported 9 minutes ago

  @unyu_poppo apparently there’s an integrated international shipping option now and you can use paypal as well. easy peasy… my only issue was that my groggy brain didn’t compute. AND ALSO i didn’t even realise the 9,000 yen was the full standee set so i bought more random ones 😭😭😭

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  🤖⚙️ROBOFAGhead worm 🪲🦐 (@hammerhead_worm) reported 9 minutes ago

  trying to fix my paypal and its RAGEBAITING ME **** YOU I HATE YOU PAYPAL

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  conor!! (@playdeadpool) reported 11 minutes ago

  willing to go down to £950 + the paypal fee if anyone is still interested 🥹

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  liam. (@liambraus) reported 15 minutes ago

  JD Ross lore is actually insane > show up at WashU on two scholarships > study finance and computer science at the same time > freshman year: start running a campus apparel company > also buy a moving company off some other students > graduate 2011 with two degrees and two businesses 2011 > join Addepar as one of the first employees > end up VP of Product > meet Keith Rabois > Rabois tries to hire him to run risk at Square > says no 2014 > co-found Opendoor at 23 with Rabois and Eric Wu > the pitch: skip the agent, we'll just buy your house > everyone says real estate will never work online > raise from Khosla Ventures > scale to 1,500+ employees > buy and sell tens of thousands of homes > Opendoor goes public in December 2020 2019 > leave, become a GP at Atomic > the studio behind Hims & Hers and Homebound > co-found three more companies out of it: Villa Homes, Playbook, Butter > then co-found Royal, where you buy royalty shares in actual songs 2023 > pick the next entrenched industry: insurance brokerage > $500B, basically unchanged for 40 years > the problem: your broker earns a % of your premium > which means they get paid more when you overpay > co-found WithCoverage and charge a flat fee instead > 700+ companies switch, including GoPuff, Eight Sleep, Blank Street > Hungryroot cuts $300K a year. Thirty Madison over $200K January 2026 > raise $42M Series B > led by Sequoia and Khosla > Keith Rabois writes the check > same guy he started Opendoor with, 12 years later > also the first time Rabois and Roelof Botha have teamed up since PayPal August 2026 > ship WithCoverage 2.0

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  Mike P (@mikepat711) reported 16 minutes ago

  The Cursor SpaceXAI overlap is giving Venmo PayPal vibes. Are Cursor and Grok going to stay separate things? This is called Grok Bot but I'm getting routed to a Cursor login portal when I try to launch the Mac client? What we doin here fam? I'm confused as ****

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  Hasan Aboul Hasan (@hasan_ab_hasan) reported 17 minutes ago

  You're building an app with Claude Code. a button that places an order. Claude builds it, you test it, it works! then one day someone taps it and the spinner just spins... nothing. so they tap it again. the first tap actually worked, the answer just never made it back. and no, this isn't about one slow checkout. it's about what your app does when a request succeeds and nobody hears about it. it's anything where one tap changes something on your side: → a checkout or a payment → a signup that creates an account → a "send" on a message, an email, an invite → any write your retry code might run a second time reading is safe. ask for the same page twice, you get the same page. writing isn't. run the same create twice and you've got two rows, two orders, two emails. 🧾 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁. your code calls the API. the work goes through, the server starts writing the answer back... and your 10 second timeout fires first. your app sees an error. so does the user. but nothing got undone. the order is real, sitting in your database. nobody on your side knows it. so now three things want to try again: the user tapping the button, your retry logic, the browser resending the form. none of them know the first one landed. block 19 said only retry calls that are safe to run twice. this is how you make them safe. it has a name: 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. long word, boring idea. an operation is idempotent when running it twice leaves things exactly the way running it once did. and if that sounds like an edge case, look at who already solved it. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗲 built the fix into their API. you send a header with the request, 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆-𝗞𝗲𝘆: 𝟰𝗳𝟬𝗰𝟵𝗯𝟮𝗲-..., and if Stripe sees that same key again it doesn't run the charge a second time. it hands you back the saved response from the first one, status code and all. the key is good for 𝟮𝟰 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨. 𝗔𝗱𝘆𝗲𝗻 uses the same header name. 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗣𝗮𝗹 calls it PayPal-Request-Id. 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗲 does the same when you create a payment. none of them built that for careful developers. they built it because they assume your request is going to show up twice. 🔑 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗱, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁 you do the same thing inside your own app. the client makes up one id when the user commits to the action, and sends that same id with every attempt. same id on the retry, same id when they tap again. your server keeps a short list of keys it has already handled, and the answer it gave back for each one. → a key it hasn't seen: do the work, save the key with the response. → a key it has seen: don't do the work. hand back the same response. so the second request never creates a second order. it merges into the first one and walks away with the original receipt. the thing people get wrong: generate that key once, up front, and reuse it. make a fresh one on every attempt and every attempt looks brand new to the server. you're right back where you started. Here's the part that matters if you build with AI. You don't have to write this code yourself. You just have to know idempotency exists, so you ask for it from day one. That's the real skill. Knowing the block is there to ask for. This is one block from the Vibe Engineering Blocks series I started recently. One post, one block. This is block number 27. This is the skill that matters today, and it's what separates dummy vibe coders from vibe engineers. And it's what lets you build real, scalable, production-ready apps with AI.

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  XRP Insider (@xrpinsider2017) reported 27 minutes ago

  Ripple's CEO just explained why #XRP exists in under 2 minutes no jargon: Venmo can't send to PayPal, even though PayPal owns Venmo. That's how broken our payment networks are. Now scale that to sending money overseas: slow, expensive, and it can vanish for weeks. Ripple's fix: sell the tech to banks worldwide. 4 second settlement, fractions of a penny, anywhere on Earth. Customers don't care it runs on XRP. They just care that it works.

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  Kpl (@Fujoshi_50_kpl) reported 27 minutes ago

  The Singapore concert, last minute had some Western Union issue with the TS account . I had already paid a small amount for my queue with no problem but while paying a bigger amount something went wrong. TS did not have PayPal. So I thought will try for WE FM in Taipei but again KKTIX platform my mobile could not be verified inspite of multiple mails coz for The top tier tickets it needed to be verified 😭😭😭. Here also I paid about 4USD to Queue :( My badluck. I'm just hoping my luck won't be the same for WE concert coz I really really need it for so many reasons will tell you when and if we meet 🥹

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  𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐳𝐚 | Networking Guy (@Hamzaonchain) reported 28 minutes ago

  In 2012, Honey launched as a browser extension that promised to find coupon codes automatically and save you money while shopping online. It blew up. Millions of people installed it. Thousands of merchants partnered with it. Some of the biggest YouTubers on the internet promoted it. Then MegaLag started digging. What he found made Honey look very different from the innocent coupon extension everyone thought they were using. Honey could allegedly replace a creator's affiliate cookie at checkout, taking the commission for itself even when that creator had originally sent the customer to the store. And sometimes, Honey didn't even have to find you a better deal. MegaLag also found evidence that Honey's “best coupon” system wasn't necessarily searching the entire internet for the best price. Merchants could control which discounts Honey showed. Then things got worse. His later investigations uncovered Honey's alleged use of “stand-down” workarounds, allowing it to continue receiving affiliate attribution despite agreements telling it not to overwrite another affiliate's referral. By 2026, this wasn't just a YouTube controversy anymore. Affiliate networks started cutting ties with Honey, and the extension had lost more than 7 million Chrome users and thousands of merchant relationships. Then came the lawsuit. PayPal tried to get the case dismissed. It didn't work. On June 22, 2026, a federal judge denied PayPal's motion to dismiss the amended lawsuit, allowing the claims to move forward. And that's why I call Honey a scam. Not because it sometimes failed to find a coupon. But because something marketed as a tool for saving you money allegedly became very good at making money from the transaction itself. Honey wasn't looking for the best deal. It was looking for its cut.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 30 minutes ago

  Every complaint thread is a billable workflow nobody was claiming. Built Pinchloom to claim it. It scrapes public posts, drafts the n8n fix, pitches the prospect with a checkout link, and routes PayPal or card payments straight to the operator. Live soon.

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  Dut (@Dut83) reported 30 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Had same problem. My item didn’t show up. I used PayPal for the purchase and they did all the heavy lifting once I knew it was a scam. They contacted the seller and got no response. Couple weeks later I had my funds back in my account.

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  Peter (@PeterILNL2) reported 33 minutes ago

  @414magyarbirds Folks, will you fix your donation channels? PayPal and the donation page on your website aren't working for me.

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  TaegiBoraverse⁷ IS SEEING BTS ⊙⊝⊜ (@soumii05) reported 35 minutes ago

  There is a "loyal customer" am saying it in inverted commas coz u will know soon why So she saw i hv a digital shop and was like she wanted to supposely support my digital shop and buy smthing for her friend i told her okay and gave her my website I can do take her order manually and send via email no issue but since she said it was her bestfrnd birthday n wanted to give them a digital planner i gave her option of my website since i was busy and website they would hv got it within second after ordering it while manually i would hv been able to take her order on weekend since i had work and didnt have time to login my laptop and all I told her i had paypal option which she said she didnt have and then i said i have credit card And she was like she dont trust using credit card on my shop coz she think she get scam😭 like she been ordering frm me for like 2 ys once a while and knws hw my shop function yet she was like she may get scam😭 Like i do my best to make people happy and in return i get called scammer and being manipulative when all i do is help army when i can and rn i feel so close to closing all my shops coz with how these people are and how im no longer getting any sale 😭😭 Sorry for the rant at 3am im unable to sleep and started to cry again and thinking abt my ****** life and flop shops that i have worked so hard on for 2ys yet its a huge flop😭

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 36 minutes ago

  open for transferring - load to cash (regular & load card) - paypal to cash - binance to cash - gcash to paypal - gcash to binance - not verify balance transfer (gcash, maya, shopee, lazada, grab pay) - gcash/maya with issue transfer balance

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  Z Domainer (@ZDomainer) reported 36 minutes ago

  Hi how can I contact @PayPal support. I couldn't solve the problem through help center

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  Mel Melatonin (@MelMelatonin07) reported 38 minutes ago

  @stupid2moons You should contact PayPal because it might be issues on the app

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  Intes (@itsIntes) reported 41 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. Musk had just dropped out of a Stanford physics PhD program to start a company with his brother Kimbal. No money, no income, and for three or four months, he showered at the YMCA and worked out of what he later called the nastiest office you could imagine. The office had one hidden advantage. An internet service provider sat on the floor below, so Musk drilled a hole straight through the floor and ran a cable directly to their server, cutting his own bandwidth costs to almost nothing. He couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router either. “I personally wrote the first national maps, directions, yellow pages and white pages on the internet in the summer of 1995 in C with a little C++. Didn’t use a web server to save CPU cycles, just read port 8080 directly. Couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router, so wrote an emulator based on a white paper.” The company was Zip2, online city guides for newspapers, restaurant listings, directions, the basics of local search before local search existed. By 1998, CBS came to film him for a segment on his new life: the vintage Jaguar, six-figure salary, a market Microsoft had already tried and failed to enter. Then the reporter asked the standard question of the era. Where is the internet going? “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 1998. He was describing a feed before anyone called it one. In February 1999, Compaq bought Zip2 for $307M .Musk’s cut was roughly $22M .That money became X. com, X. combecame PayPal, and PayPal became the seed money for everything after it.

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  Crunchman61 🐺🪽 (@crunchman61) reported 42 minutes ago

  Called Paypal and my bank today since I was in the group affected by the Novel Horizons shut down. Sadly the transaction was too far outside of their windows of dispute for them to be able to do anything for me so I'm out 280 for a Sinder figure I never got. Yay...

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  Worth Wells (@WWWIII) reported 46 minutes ago

  @CaptBob_Nomadic @ros577 @AmericanAir tagging a business on X or other socials seems like the best way to get a response these days, I went round and round with PayPal over an issue for a month, one post on X and all of a sudden they were eager to resolve the issue.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 47 minutes ago

  Bench shut down in December and customers lost access to their own books. Quillfox is the alternative: a 24/7 AI bookkeeping agent that watches bank, Stripe, and PayPal, chases invoices, flags duplicates, and closes a clean P&L each month. Live soon.

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  Matthew Sheets (@MattyMattSheets) reported 52 minutes ago

  @SorenPetro @VenmoSupport @Venmo I just got one for my daughter but only for small transactions like food & drinks or if she needs cash for something I can just send it to her. I have had Venmo,PayPal & cash app for years for receiving payments & only ran into a issue once with Venmo & I got my $ back from scam

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  Alan XZ 🔞(COMMIS PAUSE) (@ALANExtraZone) reported 52 minutes ago

  Hey everyone, I’m going to have to put my commis on hold since PayPal and my bank are giving me some trouble. 🫠

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  Mr Pardo🐐 (@Pardoisback) reported 53 minutes ago

  @dartboikvnzy @PayPal fix up

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  ✧Concept of Stars✧ COMMS OPEN (@ConceptOfStars) reported 55 minutes ago

  I have a little problems with PayPal, an agreement on this position of timely delays. This does not affect the already accepted agreement, due to insolvency!

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  Luo 👽🌷🏹 (@luonarvt) reported 56 minutes ago

  @KillerS43140 Paypal also turned me down

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  Heather Peter | Tangem CS (@TheHeatherPeter) reported 57 minutes ago

  Hello 👋🏻 @jeffleonard000, this is UX/confirmation issue with PayPal Express checkout flow but since you got a confirmation email, good. Is your Tangem updated to the latest version?