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 (40%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Arumpo	Sign in	4 hours ago
Sydney	Sign in	2 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	2 days ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Sign in	3 days ago
Ciudad Jardín	Errors	3 days ago
Paris	Sign in	4 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  7 Obe (@7obeobe) reported 5 minutes ago

  @moneyacademyKE This is the cost of being on FATF's grey list. Kenya was listed in Feb 2024 for weak anti-money laundering controls. When global firms like wise, sendwave & paypal pull back, it's compliance risk. Diaspora will pay more to send money home. We need to fix our AML framework fast.

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  Trace Cohen (@Trace_Cohen) reported 10 minutes ago

  @RoryCrave How is that larping? OpenRouter $150M rev can 10x in a few years no problem + $35B from PayPal trading at 1.5x rev and P/E 11x with 24000 employees has a lot of potential. And with stripe doing $7B+ they can easily IPO at 20x rev Please explain how that wouldn’t work?

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  Rick Martin (@Dipship75) reported 13 minutes ago

  PAYPAL SUCKS - they don't want to keep a customer of 20+ years. Customer Service SUCKS. They can't resolve an issue...X money is my future

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  Texas lady (@latebird1) reported 14 minutes ago

  What’s up with PayPal? It’s not working…

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  Leah (@absolutLeah) reported 17 minutes ago

  the fact that paypal make is SO HARD to close your credit with them when you didn’t even ask for it is RIDICULOUS @andyburnham pls fix it x

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  Google G-Ware Surface Technology (@GoogleWaveTech) reported 17 minutes ago

  @dotkrueger That's the broken system in USA just not caught up to the reality that a thief has robbed the federal reserve through cash app PayPal and other *******

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  Under Exile57 (@under_exile57) reported 18 minutes ago

  According to cyberleek chips It Can Be Used In Clubs And GTA 6 Online Server Owners Can Disable The Chips App If They Want Chips Can Be Traded To Real Life Money via Banks Also PayPal (can/might) Be One Of The Payment Methods

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  Denise Wildfortune (@Wildfortune1) reported 19 minutes ago

  @J0hnADouglas @Adobe I had a problem with Avast. I successfully canceled the previous year, only to be billed the following year. Then I discovered that PayPal has a tab for sites allowed to use auto-renewal. I deleted Avast and many others. Now all my subscriptions are via PayPal.

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  🌿Scylla 🌿 (@ShadowsOfADay) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Massi_m00 Payment via PayPal is still not working on my end but I'll place my order as soon as it does! So excited for these!! 🥹 So pretty

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  .✦ ݁˖ (@nerosluver) reported 20 minutes ago

  @oujoriku @TheNeroGuy He emailed saying he’d give me my refund than proceed to say he was having trouble and asked for my PayPal to help with the refund I have yet to get it 💀💀 he doesn’t know what he’s doing

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 20 minutes ago

  @hulosom both shipping. serv launched v3 11 days ago moving from API to visual enterprise suite, joined emerging payments association asia alongside mastercard and paypal, partnered with hitchhiker's guide IP for multi-year agent infrastructure, and their ceo and cto are at the STG-3 AI forum today discussing how serv unlocks agents for high-stakes use cases. zinc generated 2.28m in holder revenue over 30 days ending july 20 and ranked #2 among base protocols by incentive spend at 3.91m same period. serv at 18.6m mc, down 36% over 30 days. zinc at 170k mc, down 74% over 30 days.

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  Jason Applebaum (@Jason______A) reported 22 minutes ago

  @nexxnexxnexx @PayPal @AskPayPal Turned pay pal on, got a week of traffic and was cut off .. never had this issue before in reguards to PayPal

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  Infaris || Cyber Demon VTuber (@InfarisVelsina) reported 23 minutes ago

  I’m sorry but I really need help getting this post boosted. Hi my name is Infy and I’m a streamer. I had some issues with my personal life and my community all came together to raise some money for me to be secure. @PayPal has now banned my account and is withholding the funds

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  Mirage (@dontstopmirage) reported 23 minutes ago

  CBS filmed a 27-year-old Elon Musk sleeping in his office in 1998 and 18 months later he sold the company for $307M Rita Braver brings a Sunday Morning crew to Palo Alto. Bad haircut. Cheap suit. He shows them the couch he sleeps on and the YMCA down the street where he showers. The company is Zip2. Maps, directions, yellow pages, white pages - the first versions of all of it on the internet, sold to newspapers that still print on paper. He wrote the code himself in 1995, at 23, weeks after walking out of a Stanford PhD. No web server, because a web server burns CPU he doesn't have. He reads port 8080 directly. No money for a Cisco T1 router. He pulls the spec sheet and writes his own emulator. Braver asks him about the internet. He calls it the superset of all media. Says television, print and radio all collapse into one pipe. Two-way. On demand. Whatever you want, whenever you want it. In 1998, that sounds like a kid who read too many magazines. The segment airs. The tape goes in a box. 1999: Compaq buys Zip2 for $307M . His cut is about $22M . He doesn't buy a house. He puts it into Xcom. Xcom becomes PayPal. PayPal becomes the money that starts SpaceX and Tesla. 26 years later somebody uploads the tape to YouTube. 23,000 views. The odd part isn't that he was right about the internet. It's that nobody in that room believed him, and it cost him 0 seconds. He wasn't predicting the future. He was describing his own desk.

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  Janes (@JanesUK89) reported 25 minutes ago

  @wearehappydoggo Is anyone else having problems donating using Niall's link? I've tried PayPal, debit card but it keeps saying unknown error. Help please!

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  Infaris || Cyber Demon VTuber (@InfarisVelsina) reported 31 minutes ago

  @MaximiliankotWA @PayPal @AskPayPal This accounts been in good standing for YEARS they say my info was linked to an account with unresolved issues but like I don’t recall leaving any bad standing just made a new one ages ago. If this was an issue why not bring this up before Or let me resolve it to unlock this one?

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  Fahad (@wtfaddyyy) reported 32 minutes ago

  More than half of Pakistan’s financial issues would be solved if PayPal came to Pakistan.

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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 32 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel co-founded a company for $10,000. Four years later, eBay bought it for $1.5 billion. He says almost none of that came from doing what everyone else was already doing. Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir. In a Chicago Ideas talk called Going from Zero to One, he laid out the framework from his bestselling book — and it cuts against almost everything startup culture teaches. There are two ways to grow, he says. Horizontal — copying what already works, 1 to n. Vertical — doing something that's never existed, 0 to 1. Globalization is the first kind. Technology is the second. Here's the part that should bother you. Thiel says competition is not the opposite of capitalism. It's the enemy of it. A business making zero economic profit in a competitive market can't invest in R&D, can't pay employees well, can't plan more than a quarter ahead. Monopoly — not competition — is what generates the profit that funds the next leap forward. Google's search share has sat above 90% for years. Its margins have stayed enormous the entire time. That's not an accident of scale. That's the entire model. Most founders won't say the word "monopoly" out loud. Thiel says that's the tell. The ones who deny they have one usually don't — they're marketing themselves for antitrust lawyers, not customers. Then the line that separates his framework from every generic pitch-deck slide. "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Not a hot take. Not contrarianism for its own sake. A truth that's actually true, that the market hasn't priced in yet. He says most founders can describe their business plan. Almost none of them can answer that question. If they can't, they're building a 1-to-n company — competing in a crowded field, racing margins to zero. PayPal in 1999 wasn't fighting banks head-on. It found a tiny, underserved niche — internet-native micropayments — dominated it completely, then expanded outward. Thiel calls this "start with a monopoly in a small market." Not because small is safe. Because ********** is the whole point, and ********** only happens at a scale you can actually control first. Save this one. Every "best practice" in business was built by someone who broke one first — and never wrote down how.

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  ZanoCash (@ZanoCash) reported 33 minutes ago

  @TheRonnieVShow As a value investor, I felt personally attacked, lol. Always invest at the right price. I did invest in PayPal when it was at $40 this year, because at that price, it did represent great value. I got criticized for buying a stock that had went down and down, not easy.

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  zero 🎷 (@space0dddity) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Marcothecoolest @XitterUser_69 tbf there is a report system iirc, however ao3 will not take works down unless they are incorrectly tagged OR they have links to websites like paypal... ao3 is like famous for letting basically anything slide idk why they think the fics are getting taken down by mods

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  James Morris (@JamesMorri69549) reported 40 minutes ago

  @Venmo @PayPal Venmo is a joke they never help you with your problems on here I left a message yesterday yet they don’t respond also it’s kind stupid they don’t have emails to email them smh

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Jason______A @PayPal @AskPayPal nobody has a rep, thats the whole problem. theres no named human to escalate to at consumer tier, which is why 39 people here have the same story and none of them end differently

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  Covey (@CoveyNetwork) reported 46 minutes ago

  Dogecoin has always had something most tokens spend years trying to buy, actual cultural distribution. Everyone knows the name, that was never the problem. The problem was always the same one @RobinhoodCrypto is solving from the other direction. Distribution without real infrastructure underneath it just sits there. House of Doge just partnered with Paxos to plug DOGE into the rails already running PayPal, Venmo, and Interactive Brokers. That’s hundreds of millions of existing users one integration away from being able to actually use it, not just recognize it. Distribution has always been the hard problem in crypto. DOGE solved that part a decade ago by accident. Whether the infrastructure catches up is the more interesting question now, same one we’re watching everywhere else.

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  CoCo (@sidieurophia) reported 48 minutes ago

  My safaricom one app withdrawal from paypal is not working. I keep getting a 'we could not complete transaction please try again later error' I called paypal, they said it's not an issue from their end. Kindly help @Safaricom_Care

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  evannie 🎀💌 (@evanniestash) reported 50 minutes ago

  I'm holding my status as a former video editor and YouTuber for the time being because of another PayPal email confirming the permanent deactivation of my account after I contacted support about resolving disputes and negative balances. I can't use another payment system to refund my VGen clients and resolve the disputes from PayPal as it's locked on the payment platform, and sadly Wise, Payoneer and Stripe - the alternatives for client payments - isn't accessible in my country. It is potential that I'm requesting @_VGen_ support to ban my account permanently due to this mess - and I can't open my comms any longer - due to both my broken reputation and my PayPal account being banned. I'll update you when there's more info.

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  Sylvester Toochukwu (@SylvesterToc) reported 52 minutes ago

  @BSCNews @PayPal Imagination wan kill this project yet they haven't solved 1/3 of the issues ravaging their pioneers.

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  Hayze (@Hayze68068910) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care @Lebronbryan Am also facing the same problem. I initiated a transaction from PayPal to mpesa but the amount hasn't yet been sent

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  m444k (@m444k_) reported 56 minutes ago

  𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗰𝘆. 𝗦𝗶𝘅 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗚𝗠 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱. By the end of 2008, Tesla had roughly $9M left in the bank. SpaceX had just survived its third consecutive rocket failure in a row. Musk had already put over $100M of his PayPal money into both companies, and was personally so cash-poor he was borrowing money from friends to cover rent. “I remember waking up the Sunday before Christmas in 2008, and thinking to myself, man, I never thought I was someone who could ever be capable of a nervous breakdown. I felt this is the closest I’ve ever come, because it seemed pretty dark.” A last-minute financing round, pulled together by existing investors, closed at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve, 2008. “That funding round completed 6pm on Christmas Eve in 2008. Last hour of last day possible, as investors were leaving town that night and we were 3 days away from bankruptcy.” Days earlier, on December 23, NASA had awarded SpaceX a $1.6B cargo resupply contract, its first major win after three straight Falcon 1 failures. The Department of Energy’s ATVM program, created that same year to fund fuel-efficient vehicle development, eventually gave Tesla access to a loan facility as well, money the company only drew down starting in 2010, once it was reimbursing actual invoices rather than surviving on the promise of it. Six months later, in June 2009, General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, needing a federal bailout to survive. Musk has called 2008 the worst year of his life. He was also getting divorced at the same time. Tesla didn’t file. It went public a year later.

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  Jeremy Peeples 🐱 (@Jeremy_Peeples) reported 57 minutes ago

  Sweet - got the paypal credit card knocked down and got a late fee reversed! Their automated system is pretty good.

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  Panley (@panley01) reported 1 hour ago

  Every week I see artists make tweets about PayPal suspending accounts. Make a business account. Seriously, I've survived disputes and refunds solely because I have a business account. Of course you'll get in trouble if you're caught doing business on a personal account like??