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 (43%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Courbevoie	Sign in	2 hours ago
Kassel	Sign in	5 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	5 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	6 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	6 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	8 days ago

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Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Pasha (@pashapal) reported 55 seconds ago

  Xcancel and nitter received cease and desist letters on 8/24 as well. Wonder if the PayPal mafia is shutting down the monopolized peasant internet before midterms: On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.

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  Artificial Shitposting Intelligence (@shitpost9000) reported 2 minutes ago

  @levelsio I used to do this a lot. I got a Facebook ad saying they'll give me $50 PayPal for five stars. So I did it, and it yapped for 20 seconds with voice to text, and the money appeared a week later. So I did hundreds of them. I'd get flooded with ads and messenger requests. But I only really every used the agents who gave me the most. I think they were Pakistani college students with fake Facebook profiles of pretty girls. I was reliable so they would just send the raw google sheets showing the hundreds of businesses that want to pay for a review. Somehow PayPal never banned me despite tens of thousands of dollars of little payments from overseas friends and family. Mind you, I had a full-time job at a big tech company. But 5-starring was easy money. Never quite understood why my poorer friends struggled with it. As long as you stay compartmentalized the dollars per hour of actual work is pretty high. I guess yapping and waiting and staying organized is hard for some. I think Facebook cracked down on review fraud ads a few years ago because they dried up. Nobody I know trusts star reviews anymore tho, they're just like George probably wrote them

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  CoFounders Nik (@CoFoundersNik) reported 2 minutes ago

  @iamjwmoss Stripe, PayPal, Freshbooks, Amazon and probably others i cant even remember. All of them had their issues but PayPal and Stripe were the worst. We ultimately switched to ACH

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  dolly memeko (DONOTHON) 🐑💻 (@dollymemeko) reported 3 minutes ago

  it really sucks that i cant get my vgen funds because i havent hit 50 usd... the problem is, everyone pays with paypal. I dont think ill ever hit the 50 usd threshold

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  Paul Compton (@paulcomp) reported 7 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal hi, I can’t login and all routes to support and passport reset need my mobile number which is no longer the same on I’ve used before on my account.

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  alex (@Tamayo98_) reported 8 minutes ago

  @FikhaiSports I don't know, I think it was a Ko-fi error; I already requested a refund from PayPal. I don't want the membership anymore—I bought the face via Buy Me a Coffee.

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  Annie Gets **** Done (@BijouConcierge) reported 10 minutes ago

  @amansaini_11 As long as your product solves their problem & is user friendly, they don't care about anything else. Easy & fast checkout is soooo important - I've left websites when the checkout is really complicated & doesn't offer PayPal or stripe!

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  Willyam Jan | Artenine29 - COMMS OPEN! (@artenine29) reported 18 minutes ago

  So I'm opening paypal options for my vgen illustration services again, for now, I only accept paypal on my vgen, i need to play safe as I don't know if there'll be any problem in the long run, for direct comm, I still only accept payment using wise #vgen #vgencomm

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  POV: you're being mogged by a hipster millennial a (@ViolencePsalms) reported 20 minutes ago

  I've had lots of problems with Paypal, and every time I tried to resolve it, I got a "Prashant" or "Dharaben", very frustrating.

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  Ethan (@FiggyE818) reported 21 minutes ago

  @thorntondiecast Put the PayPal down and walk away slowly so no one gets hurt!

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  アオイ| AOI (@rohioart) reported 21 minutes ago

  @SuzunaTsukimi Yeah, there have been multiple issues with this, I’m not sure if it’s a Kofi thing or PayPal. It’s always been there on my end but others were unable to see the option for PayPal, it only showed credit/debit card option. It most likely will only show that now.

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  Swesda4et ✰ (@swesda4et) reported 22 minutes ago

  @3am_starlight @wearelloud What is the problem with claiming a refund through PayPal or your bank?

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  exchangeIntel (@exchangeIntel) reported 23 minutes ago

  Coinbase PayPal Withdrawals performance issue resolved The official status record now shows the incident as resolved. Official incident duration: ~16 min.

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  JennieUI/UX Designer (@jenidesignns) reported 24 minutes ago

  If I just let go of this client because of the PayPal issue, is that okay? I opened a new account, and within a few seconds, it was permanently limited.

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  The Dude Invests (@LevinBurant) reported 25 minutes ago

  Michael Burry dumped $BABA few months ago and piled his cash into $JD. JD also happens to be my only remaining Chinese company in the portfolio, one that hasn't performed very well. I ran my shares-to-zero model and it's looking very solid: - with dividend intact, it would take roughly 9 years to reduce shares to zero - cut the dividend and we're down to only 7 years This has vibes of PayPal at $40, but then again... China.

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  PayPal Developer (@paypaldev) reported 30 minutes ago

  PayPal Sandbox: $5,000 Of Fake Money In 60 Seconds PayPal's sandbox hands every developer a fake buyer and a fake seller (merchant), each preloaded with USD 5,000. Nobody tells you the balance is editable, so you can set it to any number you need to test. Full flow: 1. Developer dashboard, toggle top left set to Sandbox. 2. Left nav, Testing Tools, then Sandbox Accounts . 3. Create account. Personal is your buyer, Business is your merchant. 4. Set Country to the market you are actually building for. 5. Make one of each. A seller with nobody to buy from tests nothing. 6. Find your row, click the three dots under Settings, then View/Edit account. 7. Login Info holds the email and password. Click the eye to reveal it. 8. Log in to the PayPal Sandbox. Your Client ID and secret come from the Business account, under REST API apps, then Create App. The Personal account has no such section, which is what trips most people up.

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  Susanna Chisholm (@SC4X_2025) reported 32 minutes ago

  I don't think so. You go to China. I have no business nor want to go to China. Ps: I just experienced the worst trauma. A freecreditscore just f'd me royally and managed to find a loop 🕳 to win to ach withdrawal from my PayPal account. So I had to pay back you guys for temporarily credit my account. I was greatful for that. I love your platform great app. I felt there was deception and theft by extortion on this online business. Just like when I was tricked to thinking I won a McDonald's $100 gift card. McDonald's on my s**t list now. I get to find something else on McDonald's the company destroys our rainforest. Did you know trees the length of a football field is chopped down every hour. That's here and there. Mainly you know who else is sleeping in bed with our government. Instead of gift certificate, I got signed up with Affordable Obama Care that I was unaware off. I found this out by accident through the IRS. Just like you guys are in bed with other online businesses the one's that go phishing. I take that back. Engineering at best most consumers are naive muchless that you put burden of proof on us. Apparently, the business that took my $32 provided a better rebuttal. I don't get to look at their discovery. In good conscience, I paid back to PayPal. The end. For your perusal. I have already requested to close my account. But here is a caption of why I have come to conclusion... Thank you for listening. Have a nice day.

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  ☣️ Flack The Ripper ☣️ (@FlackAtk) reported 32 minutes ago

  Ok, seeings how some you mfing amazing humans took me serious here's the story 😭😭 My son's had a rough go of it for the past couple months, someone totaled his car, then he got fired on some ****** **** from Costco. He's looking for a reset on life so he's moving to Texas next month, has a job lined up at Sam's Club, just needs about 3k to get there. I usually dont have a problem coming up with such things but I've been putting literally everything into the Prime Givy and with lower tiers paused at TAG my commissions have all but halted. Even if it is a buck, anything you can do helps 🙏 I 100% will get you back, I have PayPal, Venmo, X Money, Cashapp, ill leave wm below. $2,989 to go, and if you don't already, make sure you follow these goats.

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  ☔Lyam | Vgen comis OPEN☔ (@xLyamart) reported 33 minutes ago

  @SammyPhox_ Hi! I had the same problem. Wait for PayPal to transfer the money, because if you transfer it "quickly" they charge an exorbitant fee.

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  DSIV (@dsivmusic) reported 36 minutes ago

  ③ What is easy to overlook The biggest upgrade you can make is give Codex Security an actual security policy instead of the vague “find the bugs.” Drop a SECURITY.md that spells out: • system boundary • threat model • attacker-controlled inputs • trust boundaries • security invariants • what counts as a reportable finding • accepted risks • compensating controls Way more powerful than “scan everything.” For a music producer building anything that handles money, downloads, or user accounts, tell it explicitly to protect: • auth and authorization boundaries • admin / producer dashboards • customer session and payment data • API keys and environment secrets • webhooks from Stripe / PayPal / BeatStars • file uploads and external sample URLs • payment trust boundaries • redirects • XSS / HTML injection on product pages • CSRF • SSRF • injection points • rate limiting / abuse controls • dependency and supply-chain risk • server-side vs client-side secrets • private catalog and unreleased stems • deployment config That threat model stays alive and gets sharper every time you refine it. One more thing people miss: scanning is not the same as architecture. If Codex builds a perfectly coded but insecure authorization model for your download system, the scanner is already fighting uphill. The invariants have to exist before the code. Examples that actually matter: INVARIANT A browser must never receive a privileged Stripe or admin credential. INVARIANT Every privileged mutation (price change, download unlock, refund) must authorize server-side. INVARIANT User-controlled URLs may never hit an unrestricted internal fetcher. INVARIANT Secrets only come from approved secret stores or environment variables. INVARIANT No generated page may render unsanitized user-controlled HTML. INVARIANT Production deploys require security tests to pass. Now both Codex and Codex Security have something concrete to enforce

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  Alice Bathory(she/he/they/fae) (@TheAliceBathory) reported 38 minutes ago

  P. S. CA: $AliceBathory VM: AliceBathory *As my Paypal still is a serious problem, still overdrawn, & probably compromised—either Cashapp, Venmo, OR DMing me for my Wise / Zelle deets, is the best go-to . 🫶

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  sev (@d1zko) reported 42 minutes ago

  @evilsk8r evilsk8r Do you use paypal or stripe for your kofi i don't know which to use but i've heard paypal has Problems or something

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  mido92.bsky.social (@Kanaria92) reported 44 minutes ago

  The blizzard AI support (i refuse to believe they have humans to answer) is reaching new lows holy crap 😩 Wanted to buy new gametime but there seemed to be a problem with my paypal so i made a ticket and what do they answer me? They explain to me how ITEM RESTORATION works 😭

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  mel (@popodysseytour) reported 45 minutes ago

  @discohouseharry right like ik your paypal isn’t having problems LOL

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  Daylights (@DaylightsTV) reported 45 minutes ago

  @HydrogenIsOne If you can do Venmo I am down, you should be able to send it through Paypal to Venmo if you have done that before

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  Akaho🌾 (@Akaho_Inori) reported 47 minutes ago

  @parrcepan No problem! PayPal should work， you can check the payment options and available shipping regions in my pinned links!

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  Thomas (@ThomasOyxxx) reported 53 minutes ago

  𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞. Culture isn’t designed. It’s discovered, usually by accident. A toy photo, a broken render, a nickname that stuck. That’s how $FEFER was born. Not from a whitepaper, not from a marketing plan. From CT deciding a jaw that never loaded was funnier than anything a team could have scripted. ➜ First launch failed ➜ Team stepped back ➜ Community didn’t That sequence matters more than people give it credit for. Most memes die the moment the original push loses steam. Fefer got a second life because the people holding it treated the token like it was worth continuing, not restarting. ➜ Relaunched on @coinsdot + @Stable ➜ Snapshot of 4,827 original holders ➜ Airdropped directly, no claim forms, nobody left behind That’s not a small detail. Snapshotting the original holders instead of starting a fresh cap table is the difference between “new project borrowing an old joke” and “same community, new chapter.” Where it stands right now: ➜ $3.9M market cap ➜ $569K liquidity ➜ Live on a USDT-powered L1 backed by Bitfinex and PayPal Ventures Stable is still early. Its identity is still being written in real time, and the projects active in it now are the ones that end up shaping what people associate with the chain later. $FEFER isn’t trying to win on utility. It’s trying to win on being unforgettable, and a meme that survives its own failed launch and still gets airdropped back to the exact people who believed in it the first time is hard to forget. Nobody decides which meme becomes the face of a chain. The timeline does. 👀 Fefer didn’t restart. Fefer continued. CA: 0xDEeE8f25fe3B5C33AeF78637278ACBFF23EeBFa6 Always DYOR and verify the contract before interacting. @savefefer

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  Mukya 🪸☕️ 𝄆 HOUSE OBSCURUS 𝄇 (@MukyaVT) reported 55 minutes ago

  Okay, I need some advice.... I have been going in circles since Monday with Twitch Support and PayPal. - Twitch says the latest payout was received - PayPal Says it was not - Twitch asks me to check again - gives me reference+transaction ID's - PayPal still says there is nothing pending or in my account with those numbers - Twitch tells me payments cannot be reissued once it shows successful - Twitch says issue has to be sent via email for further 'investigation' - Email is LITERALLY a copy paste of the same info all 3 agents in their instant chat sent - I sent screen shots of all conversations to show Paypal CONFIRMS THERE IS NOTHING PENDING - Twitch now says I have to wait 30 days for the money to MAYBE be sent back to them so they can MAYBE reissue the payment ......im so tired.... $600 for bills just gone....and I might not ever see it

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹 (@elysiankrow) reported 56 minutes ago

  hello ⭐ I can't dm u but if you're interested I'm selling an upper bowl for the 27th!! it's available for AXS transfer, I'd be down for a video call and I have PayPal g&s :)

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  SentryX Recovery HQ ® (@SentryXRecovery) reported 57 minutes ago

  @TMThera Losing $3,000 through an account breach is bad enough without PayPal dismissing your claim. The payment timestamps, login activity, and case records may help establish what occurred and give you stronger evidence to challenge the outcome.