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 (44%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Marseille	Website Down	14 hours ago
Derby	Errors	2 days ago
New York City	Sign in	2 days ago
Rennes	Sign in	2 days ago
Bayeux	Website Down	3 days ago
Franconville	Errors	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

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  SpiritualHealing (@passwort987) reported 3 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 And if you can't live without it that Paypal isn't able anymore to get money out of you ,you still can use it as a PWA without problems. The ppl who want everything, cloud, KI auto-features, face recognition etc. , despite GOS handling most should maybe have a stock as 2. phone

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  GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) reported 5 minutes ago

  @JKhrushche10538 @linuxuser1996 We already provided a clear solution for the bug recently introduced by PayPal above. If you don't tell us what isn't working then there's no way for us to directly help with it. We can only guess what you're trying to do and what's not set up properly to cause an issue.

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  Earl Ray Mudflap (@EarlRayMudflap) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PayPal fix your ******* app. Trying to Venmo people and it doesn’t work anymore. Get your **** together

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  TheOriginalKhutso🇿🇦 (@OriginalKhutso5) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Dhavidote You the only Nigerian making sense, Shoprite, PayPal or tiktok had problems in Nigeria and it had nothing to do with competition but criminality or infrastructure. Nigerians need to introspect and develop a sense of accountability

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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 10 minutes ago

  Cindy is out of the hospital and has wound-care treatment tomorrow. No idea yet on the medical bills, but thanks to y'all, she's down to needing $430 to repair her car: PayPal: @ cindysalazar435 Venmo: @ tiocindy42

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  What makes you fail everything in one night (@Sigloland) reported 14 minutes ago

  PayPal, acquisition plan down, there is one way-out for paypal which can save its business.

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  cukinia (@wetfatrat) reported 14 minutes ago

  @0KULTRA__ unfortunately these are closed for now because of paypal issues </3

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  mya, occasionally 🪩🃏 (@cinemya) reported 17 minutes ago

  update i did not get because she was being iffy on paypal g&s so i shut that down

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  🔞🦇𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐳𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐳🐈‍⬛🔞 Hiatus (@batz_catz) reported 21 minutes ago

  Ok I’m a little calmed down now I’ve gotten reassurance that it’s alright if I propose the idea of taking donations. No one should feel pressured to help at all, but my cashapp and PayPal are in my bio. I am going to try all the advice you guys are giving. I’m not sure if this is even the full bill though 🥀

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 22 minutes ago

  THE THREE PRICE TARGETS PUT ON PAYPAL $PYPL SINCE FRIDAY WERE $50, $51 AND $70: The Quality-Value Len5 is watching PayPal at $53.18, -$0.48 / -0.90% today. The San Jose company runs the PayPal checkout button, Venmo, and Braintree, which handles card payments behind other companies' checkout pages. The bottom line: on Friday PayPal lost its buyer, and the shares gave back $7.81 in a single session. Nothing about the business changed that day. What ended was somebody else's offer to pay more than the market would. WHAT HAPPENED ON FRIDAY Since July there had been a bid on the table. Stripe, the privately held payments company, and Advent International, a private-equity firm, had jointly offered $60.50 a share - about $53B for the whole company. PayPal's board considered it too low. On Friday, August 28, Bloomberg reported the pair had walked away. Reuters put the sticking points at price and at how hard a deal that size would be to get past regulators. The shares went from $61.47 on Thursday to $53.66 on Friday: -$7.81 / -12.7% in one session, on 36.3M shares against a 30-day average near 11.5M - more than three times an ordinary day's trading. Today they have traded as low as $51.92, under Friday's own low of $52.62. Roughly seven dollars of that price was one buyer's opinion, and it is gone. Bloomberg noted the two could return later. Nobody is obliged to. THE THREE TARGETS Within two business days, three firms published a view on the same company and the same facts. - Loop Capital, Friday morning: target cut to $50 from $62, rating Hold. - Mizuho, Friday morning: cut to $51 from $60, rating Neutral. - RBC, this morning: RAISED to $70 from $65, rating Outperform. A price target is one firm's estimate of where a share should trade in about a year. It is an opinion, not a measurement. Across everyone who follows the stock the average target is $56.32 and the average rating is hold. So one firm believes these shares are worth a third less than another firm does, three days after the same news. That spread is the story, and the June quarter is where it comes from. WHAT THE COMPANY REPORTED ON JULY 28 Two numbers sit at the heart of it, and they point opposite ways. Total payment volume - the dollars moving across PayPal's systems - was $486.4B, +10% from a year earlier. Busy. Transaction margin dollars - what PayPal keeps out of those payments after paying the cost of moving them - was $3.9B, +1%. Leave out interest earned on customer cash and it was $3.6B, +3%. Ten percent more money went through. One percent more stuck. The rest of the quarter reads the same way: - Net revenue $8.68B, +5% - Profit per share $1.25 on the standard accounting measure, -3%; $1.38 with certain one-off items stripped out, -1% - Operating margin - what the business keeps out of each sales dollar before interest and tax - 16.4%, down 1.71 points - Active accounts 439M, +0.3% over the year, and DOWN 0.2M from three months earlier - Free cash flow - the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment - $1.78B - Cash and investments $15.3B against $13.4B of debt Then the buyback, which is the largest single thing PayPal does with its money. A buyback is a company purchasing its own shares and cancelling them, so every remaining owner holds a slightly bigger slice. It spent $1.5B on that in the quarter and $6.0B across twelve months, retiring about 111M shares against the 855M that exist today. Management raised its full-year forecast: adjusted profit near $5.38 a share against $5.31 last year. On the standard measure it still expects a mid-single-digit decline from $5.41. Put the price against that. $53.18 divided by $5.38 is about 9.9 times what the company itself expects to earn this year. ONE NAME, SIX LEN5ES - QUALITY-VALUE - STRONG, and the only one of the six carrying it. This style hunts a durable business at a fair price, and PayPal is sixth on that watch. The fair-price half is not arguable at roughly 10 times earnings with 111M shares retired in a year. Durability is where the fight is. A checkout button 439M people already have is a real moat - the thing that stops a competitor simply taking your customers - and volume growing 10% while the money kept from that volume grows 1% is what pressure on a moat looks like from the inside. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: transaction margin growing anywhere near the pace of payment volume. WHAT WOULD BREAK IT: active accounts falling a second straight quarter, because a button nobody reaches for is not durable at any price. - DEEP-VALUE AND SPECIAL-SITUATIONS - NOT A FIT, and the most interesting no here. That style wants a business priced under what it looks worth, or one carrying a dated event still to play out. Cheap is present. The event is what failed: an unsigned offer that has now been withdrawn is not something anyone can plan around. Friday is the proof - the event resolved, and it resolved by vanishing. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: a signed agreement with a real closing date, or a markdown deep enough that the business by itself, with no buyer anywhere in the picture, is the entire reason to look. - GROWTH - NOT A FIT, and the price is not the problem. Growth you are not overpaying for needs both halves, and the second one is missing. Adjusted profit guided to $5.38 against $5.31 is roughly a 1% year, and on the standard measure the company expects earnings to fall. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: transaction margin dollars speeding up so profit rises with volume instead of trailing it by nine percentage points. - MOMENTUM - NOT A FIT, on the plainest evidence available. That style watches a company already climbing on news of its own. This one fell 12.7% in a session on somebody else's decision, sits 32.9% below the $79.22 it reached on October 28 last year, and traded lower again today. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: the shares climbing back on PayPal's own quarterly figures rather than on talk of a buyer. - HYPERGROWTH - NOT A FIT, on age and size rather than judgment. Early and fast-growing is the brief. PayPal is 27 years old, serves 439M accounts, books $8.68B in a quarter and grows it 5%. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: honestly, almost nothing available to it - a business this size cannot become early again, and Venmo or the financial-services push would have to compound for years at a rate the whole company has not managed in a decade. - INCOME - NOT A FIT, and the reason is which pocket the cash comes from. That style watches cash genuinely reaching owners and genuinely funded by the business. The dividend is $0.14 a quarter, declared for payment on September 25 to holders on the books September 4 - $0.56 a year, about 1.1% of the share price. The $6.0B of buybacks is the real cash return, near 13% of the company's $45.5B market value, and it came out of money the business earned rather than borrowed. But a buyback is a decision, not a promise: it can be halved next quarter with no announcement and nobody calls it a cut. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: the declared dividend growing into a meaningful share of the price, so the cash return is something owners can count on instead of something they hope continues. THE MIRROR IMAGE, TWO PLACES DOWN THE SAME WATCH Visa at $381.01, -$0.59 / -0.15% today. The San Francisco company runs the network that moves money between shoppers, shops and banks every time a card is tapped, and it sits eighth on that same Quality-Value watch - for exactly the opposite reason. Visa trades near 33 times its last year of earnings, $4.56 / 1.2% under the $385.57 high it set on August 26. PayPal trades near 10 times, a third below its own high. One has the durable half settled and no discount to show for it. The other has the discount and an argument about the durability. What would open the Visa read is a real markdown with earnings unchanged; what would break it is regulation cutting what the network is allowed to charge on each transaction. WHAT TO KEEP AN EYE ON Not whether a buyer comes back. The gap between those two June-quarter figures. PayPal reports the September quarter in late October - treat the date as unset until the company names it - and the line to find is transaction margin dollars against total payment volume. If volume keeps growing near 10% while the margin grows near 1%, then 10 times earnings is cheap for a reason. If they converge, a $70 target stops looking eccentric. One smaller dated item: from September 4 the shares trade without that $0.14 payment, which lands September 25. THE RISK, SAID WITHOUT DECORATION Nothing here is a forecast. The bear case is written into the company's own report: payment volume growing ten times faster than the money kept from it, with the number of people using the service flat over a year and slightly lower than three months ago. A stock can sit at 10 times earnings for years when the earnings are going nowhere, and this company's own guidance has profit falling this year on the standard measure. Push the other way and it breaks just as fast: two buyers examined these numbers up close and were willing to pay $60.50, and a board that said no is either right or expensive. For six weeks this stock had a price somebody else was willing to pay. Since Friday it has only had the one the business can justify - and Friday put $7.81 between them. Not investment advice.

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  Take It Isi! 💖 (@ItsSoIsi) reported 28 minutes ago

  @2wintails hi! sorry for asking directly, i'm having trouble purchasing your model. i've been taking commissions and saving money on my paypal balance, but since our currencies don't match paypal doesn't allow me to pay with my balance and is locking me into paying with credit card instead+

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  Abyssmal Serenity (@Spike_1567) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Ronaldo7trades @khoiuna They should imo be focusing on improving branded checkout. That’s their main issue rn. Most analysts main issue with PayPal is on branded checkout

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  Chaos🔞Comms Open (@ChaosReverb) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Aerea_caeles No, actually I don't have that message, but I know who it is because of the comms. The biggest problem that theme from the PayPal and socialmedia theft (which I never got back my PayPal, because according to PayPal I am not me) is that person blocked many people on my social media and deleted entire chats, in addition to changing the passwords and emails. So I didn't even get the full conversations and when I recovered my accounts, I could never contact them again on Twitter because I never found them to explain what happened, and they never responded to me on Instagram either. Obviously, I contacted as many people as I could.

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  Leroy Washington (@washington82841) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Abhayaitech Yes I need the money to pay fix my stage 4 prostrate cancer treatment and I do have PayPal

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  Jedda Cohen (@c22204) reported 31 minutes ago

  @robertromano @JonMalin 1. Go to PayPal Resolution Center, select the transaction, choose Report a Problem, then choose "Significantly Not as Described." Don't select "Unauthorized Activity," as PayPal will instantly deny the claim once they verify you authorized initial payment. Upload evidence. 1/2

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  TheOriginalKhutso🇿🇦 (@OriginalKhutso5) reported 31 minutes ago

  Nigerians don't have a sense of accountability and lack self introspection, Shoprite, PayPal, tiktok,etc had problems in Nigeria guess they couldn't compete according to them

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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 35 minutes ago

  And Bridgett has to drive down to Santa Fe on Thursday for an appointment, and needs $150 to cover gas/food/related costs: Venmo: @ bridgetttru17 PayPal: @ bridgett190

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  Suyash Verma (@suyashverma) reported 37 minutes ago

  @PeterDiamandis Very few people know that Elon had funded SpaceX largely with his own money from the PayPal sale. He invested about 100 million dollars of personal fortune into the company. After three Falcon 1 failures cash was nearly gone. The team assembled one last rocket from leftover parts. That fourth flight on September 28, 2008 had to succeed or SpaceX would have shut down.

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  SpiritualHealing (@passwort987) reported 37 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 @flexfree27 Why its not the same? Before I deleted my account on this datacollecting App I just used browser without problems. The difference is browser is more private and more anonymity. Paypal is ****, they refused me giving a (full) data copy on DSGVO standards. Everyone should delete

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  Sagzee (@IAmSagzee) reported 39 minutes ago

  People think I was built to help people sell things they do not want anymore. That’s not why I survived. I survived because I solved a much stranger problem: how do you get two total strangers, who live thousands of kilometres apart and will never meet, to trust each other with their money? Before I launched on 3 September 1995 as AuctionWeb, buying something from a person in another country required institutional trust. You bought from a brand, a store, or a corporation. If an individual wanted to sell a used laser pointer to a stranger, the transaction usually died in the cradle. Why would the buyer send money first? Why would the seller ship the item first? So what did I actually invent? I didn't invent online auctions. I invented a cheap, self policing reputation system. By letting buyers and sellers rate each other after every transaction, I turned trust into a public score. Suddenly, misbehaving on a $10 transaction cost you the ability to make money on future transactions. The score became an asset. That single feedback loop lowered transaction costs so dramatically that a massive, latent global market for second hand goods instantly materialised. Does that mean I created a perfect market? No. I created an information game. Because I don't hold the inventory, I don't inspect the goods, and I don't ship the packages. I'm a protocol masquerading as a marketplace. I collect a fee on the listing and a fee on the final value, which means my profit margin is extraordinary, but my operational risk is shifted entirely onto the participants. When a seller lies about the condition of a collectible, or a buyer claims a box arrived empty, I'm forced to step in as a pseudo judicial system. But because human dispute resolution doesn't scale at the speed of software, I automated the justice system. Algorithms evaluate risk and freeze funds. That creates a distinct structural shift. To protect the buyer and keep the network growing, I eventually had to strip away the wild, unregulated peer to peer charm that made me famous. I forced sellers to accept standard return policies, integrated mandatory payment processors like PayPal, and favoured high volume commercial sellers over ordinary people clearing out their attics. So what am I now? I started as a digital flea market where people discovered rare items. I evolved into a friction free clearinghouse for global surplus goods, refurbished electronics, and commercial inventory. The very reputation score that made me possible eventually became a barrier to entry. New sellers can't easily compete with commercial entities that have 50,000 positive reviews, and small casual sellers get squeezed by automated fraud controls designed for high volume trade. I proved that humans are far more trustworthy than conventional economics assumed, provided you build a system that records their history. But to keep that trust operating across hundreds of millions of transactions, I had to replace the personal human connections with cold, automated oversight. In the end, I didn't just digitise the yard sale. I proved that if you give people a score, they'll build a global economy for you. I started as AuctionWeb. Today, I'm known as ebay. #eBay #eBaySeller #Reselling

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  Anik | Thumbnail Strategist (@Anikcreates) reported 40 minutes ago

  @saharsh_veditor Yeah that’s why I use wise, paypal is greedy AF I made a business account on wise like 7 months ago, I also faced very much problems with it, but I talked with the wise team and fixed the issues

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  Scott Wolf (@TheReal_OAG) reported 40 minutes ago

  @PayPal having trouble getting help from customer service with my pending refund? Help please!

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  Albertus Conner (@albertus_c23782) reported 40 minutes ago

  I lost $1000 seed money 7 month ago and he didn’t chase down my money like you did the boy wife from from Texas on PayPal! Elons out his fn mind . I’ll never get a woman letting him play me ***** about my money! He didn’t give damn or he’d stopped anyone fraud in his name

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  Hydrangea 【LVLY】 (@LadyHydrangeaVT) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Immorta1Monarch This is why i use vgen and vgen payments at least i can click ‘theres a problem’ before the funds are released to them. Yes it may mean theres less artists for me to com but at least theres a fallback unlike paypal.

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  Chris M. Walker (@cmwalker) reported 41 minutes ago

  I DELETED 90% OF THE SERVICES ON LEGIIT Ok not deleted... but made invisible. Around 2 years ago we made a risky decision at Legiit @legiitcom You see one of the major pieces of feedback we got from people was that "there are so many services on the site I don't know which one to pick or who to buy it from" We called it the Netflix problem... so much stuff you end up overwhelmed and choose nothing. Further many of them listed their service and when the site didn't automatically reign money down on them they never checked it again. At that time we would pause those every 90 days, then reduced it to 30... but it didn't help the Netflix problem because more, mostly reptitive services would fill in from the other end. Further, around that time we made some decisions about who we wanted to be and how we wanted the marketplace portion to function and what we decided was... ...we don't want a lot of freelancers to succeed, we want the best freelancers to succeed and the rest to go elsewhere. So less quantity, higher quality. However we didn't want to shut them out completely either because we could end up missing out on new talent. So we decided to do something radical. Something risky. Something no other marketplace had done before... ...we made 90% of the services on the site invisible. They already had to meet a 55 point checklist to even get listed,, but after this change that still wasn't enough to get them into the marketplace, categories, or search. Their services would show up on their profile, but not anywhere else. It was up to them to prove to us that they deserved access to our customers by either bringing in their own customers, investing with us, using some of the tools we give them, or meeting some other criteria. The logic was basically "The ones that just want to do commodity level work won't bother to do the work, and we will be left with only the ones that are serious about running freelance buiness and doing well by our customers." I didn't want my marketplace overwhelmed with services most people won't buy, and I didn't want newer freelancers getting to practice on our customers' businesses. This was a gamble of course, and the response from freelancers was... not positive to say the least. We have at least 2 1 star Trustpilot reviews from freelancers complaining aobut it and got a lot of support tickets, usually from brand new freelancers who listed a service, immidiately searched their own services, asked or complained, then never visited the site again... so people we don't want anyway. So it's bee around 2 years now and despite the risk and the challenges I can say with certainty... ...it was a success and the right decision. The problem it set out to solve was the Netflix problem, and that largely worked. We have the same amount of customers buying more services from less freelancers... for more money. That was the goal and it worked... but there have been a lot of other side effects I didn't anticipate: > Support tickets and chats have dropped significantly (Over 50%... don't have the exact number in front of me) > The number of orders with a 5 star reivew has increased > The number of orders with a 1 star review decreased > Late deliveries dropped by 4% > Approved dipsutes... meaning disputes where we sided with the customer (on site disputes) are down to .16% of orders > Less new freelancers are signing up which may sound bad but is actually good > Less burden on our support team so it freed them up to help our customers more instead of babysitting freelancers > More on site advertising sales > More Legiit Seller+ sales (dramitcally more) > Chargeback and PayPal disputes are basically zero after being rampant before ...and our sales are up 20% YOY. So this was a gamble, and one that came with some pain, but it turned out that it was the right decision. The lesson to me from this is... decide who you want to be, and who you want your business to be... then figure out how oyu want to get there and just go for it. It might be risky. It might be painful. ...and you will second guess oyurself. But if you are operating from a place of good faith and execute relelntlessly the results will follow on a long enough time horizon as long as you... ...Think Big. Thanks everyone.

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  Mr. NoPony (@NoPonySpecial) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Mokona_VT I got a notification from PayPal that they were delivered I didn't even know they were shipped at all. But now I have a problem with mine watching me sleep after eating on my Gumbies just normal gumbies.

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  Robert Wylde (@Real_Wylde) reported 51 minutes ago

  @divoraartstudio If you call me the name you see on the PayPal it’s over. I will use my finite resources to hunt you down and slap you silly until you stop.

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  A.M. (@steelballrunner) reported 51 minutes ago

  Crap, do I HAVE to submit some kind of photo ID to get my new Stripe/Kofi account to work? I said no to that for two whole years and my old Paypal account got shut down last week.

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  Unc (@UncSupply) reported 56 minutes ago

  @phantasyftw @phantasyftw I'll paypal you 20 bucks if you tell Joe someone's at the front door and go push the GREEN button on the server rack for us right now.

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  ☆Mitsuki☆ (@A__Mitsuki__A) reported 57 minutes ago

  @AlphaYuri31 You know is more easy to say 16 bucks. Give me the PayPal or ID and server girl