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 (38%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Lyon	Errors	2 days ago
Paris	Sign in	5 days ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	5 days ago
Tlaquepaque	Errors	6 days ago
Massy	Website Down	7 days ago
Montlouis-sur-Loire	Sign in	9 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Super Hawa 🐟💜⁷ ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ (@Hawa__Sahar) reported 42 seconds ago

  WTS - 1 level 132 row 3 ticket for BTS World Tour ARIRANG in Foxborough on Thursday, August 6th. Amazing idol parade view! Purchased during production sale for $731.40 & willing to sell for lower! Can provide proof of purchase/video chat. Can no longer attend due to medical issues. Must use PayPal G & S!

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  avens 𖣓 (@heyavens) reported 48 seconds ago

  @BrillVFX I normally don’t make posts like this, but after giving this person more than enough time, patience, and opportunities to communicate with me, I feel like this needs to be made public. On July 8th, I paid him to create an intro for my team. We said deadline was 1 week. Its is now Aug 7,2026. After receiving the payment, he sent me 1-2 updates showing that he had started working on the project. That was essentially the only real progress/update I received. I didn’t rush him. I gave him roughly 1–2 weeks without bothering him because I understood that creative work takes time. After that period passed with no update, I reached out simply asking about the status of the intro. It then took him another week just to respond. When he finally responded, he explained that he was dealing with a situation involving his family problems. I completely respected that. I didn’t argue with him, pressure him, or immediately ask for my money back. I gave him additional time because I understood that real-life situations come before a project. Another week passed. I reached out again asking for an update. No response. From that point forward, I continued trying to contact him and no communication. At this point, an entire month has passed since I paid him, I still do not have the intro I paid for, and I have not received consistent communication regarding the project. Eventually, after repeatedly trying to handle this privately, I told him that if I continued receiving no response, I would have no choice but to make the situation public and pursue a refund through PayPal. I gave this situation every opportunity to be resolved privately before posting anything publicly. I was patient, I respected the personal circumstances he told me about, and I gave him significantly more time because of them. This post is not being made to send harassment toward anybody. I’m posting this to document my experience and warn other people who may consider purchasing work from him. Everything I’m stating here will be accompanied by screenshots so people can look at the timeline, messages, payment, and communication themselves and form their own opinion. I paid for a service on July 8th. I gave him weeks of patience and multiple opportunities to communicate with me. I still have not received what I paid for. At this point, based on my experience, I believe I was scammed. I have opened/pursued a dispute through PayPal to recover my money. I genuinely wanted to handle this privately, but there comes a point where ignoring a paying customer and failing to deliver what they purchased needs to be addressed. Receipts/screenshots below.

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  Gioel (@wonder_land1A) reported 5 minutes ago

  @PayPal PayPal @PayPalSupport Your digital systems are completely broken and supporting fraud. eBay officially ruled in my favor on 07/29 for item 168207396673 (corporate fraud device) and voided the purchase. Yet PayPal refuses to reconcile the refund and is trying to force an illegal

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  Middle Age Muddle (@DianaVGalbraith) reported 6 minutes ago

  I've been swindled by a scam on Facebook. The "customer service" for the merchant offered to exchange the item (which never arrived), but will not issue a refund. I contacted PayPal and their AI informed me they can't deal with this kind of dispute. I contacted my bank which can't challenge PayPal payments. The scammers discovered quite a rabbit hole!

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  Monsieur Panda (@2MonsieurPanda) reported 7 minutes ago

  So last month I had 5 people interested in commissioning me. One had PayPal issue, one I made the doodle, one wanted to work with me... All of them ghosted me, nobody paid, or told me they weren't interested. So I'm wondering if I should just stop making commissions.

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 14 minutes ago

  🍓 - open for transfer • not verify balance transfer to verify (gcash, maya, shopee pay, lazada wallet, grab pay, pricelocq) • gcash & maya with issue transfer balance (authentication failed, facescan, can't send, can't open) permanent limit paypal withdrawal (180 days)

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  Judaeda Blanco (@Judaeda3) reported 19 minutes ago

  Why is Nedbank not working with PayPal?

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  Gina (@SnowFrostoq69) reported 19 minutes ago

  I have her attempting to save a down payment on PayPal card

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  Christy⁷🌸 (@Christycrispy1) reported 19 minutes ago

  @miwosbein Btw paid with Paypal it was smooth and no problems at all !!

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  Richardson Dackam (@RichardsonDx) reported 19 minutes ago

  Money becomes useless to an autonomous agent when it gets trapped in the wrong financial system An agent might: earn $500 through a checkout provider hold $200 in USDC have a card issued by another provider need to pay a SaaS merchant that only accepts cards Those are all "money" but operationally they are different islands Customer pays → money sits in Provider A Agent needs to spend → purchasing power exists in Provider B So WE (Humans) have to move/reconfigure/fund things for our AI agents An their autonomy breaks... The hard problem isn't giving an agent money It's making sure money earned in one system can become purchasing power in another without a human moving it Earn here → hold there → spend somewhere else → keep going An agent should be able to earn through one provider, hold value somewhere else, move that value when needed, spend through another rail, and keep reinvesting what it earns without a human stepping in to bridge the gaps My goal with Mandate is to give autonomous AI agents economic freedom I want anyone to be able to deploy intelligence that can create value, earn from that value, reinvest what it earns, and compound it into something bigger over time That's why Mandate had to be open source and provider agnostic No single financial provider covers every way an agent might earn, hold, move, or spend money One agent might receive revenue through Stripe, hold USDC in Coinbase, spend through Lithic, and use a bridge in between. Another might use entirely different providers Receive: Stripe / PayPal / stablecoins / marketplace payouts Hold: bank / financial account / wallet / stablecoin treasury Move: ACH / wire / bridge / onchain transfer Spend: card / bank transfer / stablecoin / x402 Mandate financial stack is composable: providers supply capabilities, Mandate connects them, and the agent sees one economic system You can connects whichever providers you choose into one continuous economic account Because autonomous agents won't operate in a crypto-only or fiat-only world. Crypto alone can't solve economic autonomy when most of the world an agent needs to operate in still runs on fiat, cards, and banks Fiat alone can't solve it either, because agents will increasingly use payment systems built for machine-to-machine commerce. The future is hybrid. The infrastructure has to be composable. I built Mandate so that an agent can operate across both as one continuous economy

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  Wichrzyciel ⚫ 🟡 (@wichrzyciel2) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Drinkooor @GrapheneOS Thanks, but this should come with a caveat that old reports likely aren't applicable anymore. It lists Revolut and PayPal as compatible, I tried the latter recently and it gives an error about phone being rooted.

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  Frrost (@Frrost5) reported 22 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Im sorry but thats the issue i can't contact the support on the website since i can't create an account

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  Prashenjit Roy (@PrashenjitRoy1) reported 24 minutes ago

  @PayPal am unable to process with my account as it’s showing “ we’re permanently limiting your account “ . Please help me resolve this issue .

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  værze (@varzecs) reported 24 minutes ago

  @metacolt1 @CardPurchaser Ebay barely protect sellers at all. You can just say it doesnt work, is broken with minimal evidence and they will side with you instantly, worse if you used paypal.

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  Sweep (@0xSweep) reported 29 minutes ago

  This guy opened his PayPal and found $92 QUADRILLION in his account For exactly 2 minutes he was the richest man in human history His name is Chris Reynolds, a PR guy from Pennsylvania who used PayPal to sell vintage car parts and had never held more than $1,000 in his account Then in June 2013 his monthly statement arrived showing a balance of $92,233,720,368,547,800 That's over a million times the fortune of the richest man alive at the time and more than 1,000x the GDP of the entire planet It also showed up as a NEGATIVE number, meaning for a moment Chris technically owed the largest debt in human history He logged in to check and his real balance was $0.00 But that exact number wasn't random, it was a fingerprint of what broke inside PayPal's machines The biggest number a standard 64 bit computer can physically hold is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 Banks count money in cents instead of dollars to avoid rounding errors Treat that maximum number as cents, divide by 100, and you land almost exactly on Chris's balance His account didn't glitch to some random figure, it got pinned to the mathematical ceiling of what a computer can count The same type of error blew up Europe's Ariane 5 rocket 40 seconds after launch in 1996, the flagship of an $8 billion space program destroyed because a number didn't fit in its box And in 2012 one forgotten piece of old code cost trading firm Knight Capital $440 million in 45 minutes When reporters asked Chris what he would have done with the money, he said he'd pay off the entire US national debt and then buy himself a baseball team "If I get a great price" For 2 minutes he was worth more than every economy on Earth combined and it couldn't buy him a single coffee

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  Carmen Lucero (@CarmenLucero14) reported 33 minutes ago

  @THE_TNT_TEAM Hi Tony, I can’t get past the first page because it says that my email is already registered. I was having issues with Zelle, so I went to my bank. Waiting for them to fix the problem. Is there another way for me to pay? PayPal works well for me to send money. Please advise.

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  Renee Libby (@ReneeLibby95084) reported 33 minutes ago

  @AndreaTaz4ever2 Unfortunately, I’m having some trouble with the PayPal. I put in a test amount tried to send it to you and was told that my device wasn’t recognized. With PayPal my device is always recognized. Unfortunately I’m not going to change my password or put in any other bank or credit card information. Not saying you did it or up to anything but having trouble.

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  36CIA(💕紫游） (@36_cia7) reported 36 minutes ago

  @TbirdTmoney @PenguinX01 Social media will issue the digital coin , how much time you spent on how much coin you will receive. The coin will be back by gold , you can redeem them with gold, you can buy anything with it too . this social media must with its own payment , not rely on swift or PayPal strip

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  LordWilsonVilla🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿UAI (@LordWilsonVILLA) reported 40 minutes ago

  So many people are having problems with PayPal these days so here are the...... Top 10 PayPal Alternatives Google Pay Apple Pay Amazon Pay Stripe Wise Square ConnectPay Payoneer Skrill Revolut

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  Andrea (@AndreaTaz4ever2) reported 42 minutes ago

  @ReneeLibby95084 It’s fine no one else had any issue with my PayPal. I used it for my life coaching business also and never any problem so I have no idea what happened.

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  ⸸Zmoriia ⸸ (@zmoriia) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Sinbadstardust Just recently I ran into an issue with PayPal on vgen where I had to open up a vgen support ticket because it was giving an error code on the website. I have had no problems using vgen payments so far.

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  Ro (@ayoroart) reported 45 minutes ago

  If you're having trouble with checking out the VikJayce Plushies using PayPal, please so not fret! MyCraftZone has been made aware of the issue and will get right on it asap Monday 🫶

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  Fang Heiwa (@FangHeiwa) reported 48 minutes ago

  @PyroPupCenter @ZillaVader The best thing that anyone can do at this point is if you’ve already purchased any of the figures, challenge the purchase with your bank, PayPal, etc.. Novel Horizons cannot issue refunds for anyone.

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  402 Research Lab .fun (@solanareseach) reported 49 minutes ago

  Hi @AskPayPal, I need help recovering my PayPal account. I still have access to my registered email, but I no longer have access to the phone number used for WhatsApp verification, so I can't receive the login code. I also can't log in to contact support via chat.

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  Antiwork (@Antiworkship) reported 52 minutes ago

  @DhawaleVikrant I really don't care People who are worried about CJP's foreign funding are the guys who think protest is illigitimate The cause is real, 25+ kids have died, this was 152nd paper leak under Pradhan. Over 1L kids have died in last 12 yrs. There are issues related to UGC implementation + resevation.... If these are regular thing for you then you don't want accountability or change and then you should spend your energy on finding source of funds Btw not a single $ can enter via traditional routes (WIRE, SWIFT, PAYPAL....) without govt knowing it. Crypto was a loophole which has been now completely plugged. All transactions have a purpose code. Govt knows everything They just behave retardedly for their retarded supporters

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  Miss_Nancy (@Godfearingbadie) reported 55 minutes ago

  I am a user in Nigeria with a fully linked Paga account. A US sender is trying to send a Goods & Services payment to my email, but your automated filter is blocking it with a 'payment no longer available' error. Please help me manually open a support ticket." @AskPayPal

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  eryn.artist (@eryndor_0) reported 55 minutes ago

  Honestly, it's such a traumatizing experience for me using PayPal. I have no idea what to do now. @AskPayPal please help me fix this

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  PENNY L.A. SHEPARD (@shepardout) reported 59 minutes ago

  I am ready stressed right now. My bank account is really low and I had alot of unexpected charges come in this month and more are coming. If you can possibly donate a few dollars to my Paypal I would really appreciate it. My time is stretched, and have been working on technical issues for two weeks. I have had to spend money on software and medical and office that have put me dangerously low in my bank account. If you can afford even a small donation, could you please send emergency funds I would be so appreciative!

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  Karys (@IrishMyCase) reported 59 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I have been locked out of my account for 2 years, I have tried emailing many times with no reply, I can't access the message centre to resolve the issue and I can't call due to anxiety issues, can you please message me to help unlock my account?

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  Synergy 🌙🩵 (@Syniichu) reported 60 minutes ago

  @004Nubi I had to file a dispute on PayPal for a commission from a popular artist for not doing it, so she decided to try to revoke my rights to a concept art she made for free reworking my elements 🤨 Crazy bc she has this problem too