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 (42%)
• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Seraing	Errors	1 day ago
Paris	Errors	2 days ago
Issoudun	Errors	3 days ago
Adelaide	Website Down	3 days ago
Weymouth	Sign in	5 days ago
Pessac	Sign in	6 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Chris Ramsey | SMB and R.E. (@ChrisRamsey60) reported 4 minutes ago

  Trial and error has built empires. Start, test, fail, listen, and pivot. Instagram started as a check-in app. Slack started as a video game. Shopify started as a snowboard store. Amazon started as an online bookstore. YouTube started as a video dating concept. Flickr started as an online game. Groupon started as a collective-action platform. PayPal started with PalmPilot payments. Twitch started as a lifecasting site. Nintendo started with playing cards. Nokia started as a paper mill. Avon started with books + perfume samples. Netflix started with DVDs by mail. Your first idea is rarely the final idea. Trial and error isn’t a backup plan. It’s the path.

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  Qupo (@QupoStuv35) reported 5 minutes ago

  I'm planning on opening commissions again soon but I've had issues with PayPal in the past. What are other payment processors do yall use for comms?

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  BlackGritty.com (@Ohdoctah) reported 6 minutes ago

  @reallsteeldos Just saying he didn’t build it which is factual. Lol I don’t understand why ppl have problems with facts. He’s not an engineer he’s not a genius. He’s a businessman man who hires smart ppl. Credit for that ok. But even PayPal was funded with daddy’s blood mine money.

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  goddess ezmeralda (@esmeraldkr) reported 6 minutes ago

  anyone know why my paypal is not working???

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  Panche I. (@PIsajeski) reported 6 minutes ago

  Some days I wish I had stayed at the outsourcing agency. Steady salary. Great colleagues. 9 to 5. Time for morning runs. My family was happy. I had every reason to keep going. I did not. In 2021 I built a small crypto project from Macedonia called Kromatika. Early days of decentralized finance. No legal path for a token issuer in my country, or honestly in most of Europe. We built anyway. Everyone in the space was improvising. On July 21, 2022, the US SEC filed a complaint in what became known as the Wahi insider trading case. 9 tokens were named in that filing as unregistered securities. Kromatika was one of them. I was not a defendant. But my token was named inside a US government document. You do not forget the day you read your project name in a federal complaint. If you followed the space back then, you already know the era. The previous US administration ran enforcement first on digital assets. Companies got chased. Not regulated. Chased. We were part of the collateral damage. I needed to stop. My head needed room. Continuing to push in that regulatory climate was going to break something I could not fix later. So I took the safe path. Went back to a dev shop, outsourcing agency work, steady salary, clear scope, weekends off, someone else's roadmap. No filings, no headlines, no risk. Every morning I ran, worked 9 to 5, went home to my family, and told myself I had made the right call. I told myself that for almost 2 years. Then everything changed. The new US administration replaced enforcement with regulation. The GENIUS Act recognized stablecoins as digital money. Europe followed with MiCA. Stablecoins became legal e money in both jurisdictions. Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Stripe, PayPal all moved in. The old fintech and banking layer started getting replaced by a new digital money layer, out in the open, with legal cover. If you have ever been burned in a market you believed in, you know what it feels like to watch it come back around without you in it. In 2024 I left the safe job. Started Blockia Labs, an agency helping banks and fintechs launch stablecoin and tokenization products. A few months ago I spun off AgentaOS as its own startup. A payment OS for the digital money era. Built on the exact rails I could not legally touch in 2021. We ship AgentaOS v2 on July 21, 2026. That date is not a coincidence. It is exactly 4 years to the day after the SEC complaint that stopped the first version. Same builder. Same conviction. Different regulatory era. Different ending. @KromatikaFi was affected. @agentaOS is born.

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  Schnute77 🐦🌻 (@Schnute771) reported 8 minutes ago

  @frontlinekit Seems PayPal has an issue, won't let me donate

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  MAN UTD FAN. (@Faith181107) reported 9 minutes ago

  You can guess what students did on that final Tuesday. Fast forward to the end of the semester: I still hadn't seen any documentation or user manual, and it was due on exam day (the first day of finals week). A week before the deadline, they told me I'd have it before our 12 PM meeting on study day (Wednesday). I got the email at 11 PM Tuesday after work. I opened the files, got pissed, shut my laptop, played some Xbox, and passed out before midnight. The technical documentation was just one page with almost nothing useful—no database schema, website languages, PayPal details, or registered emails. Just the URL and some unimportant info taking up half a page. The user manual was one and a half pages with maybe five sentences and three pictures with arrows. Zero real explanation on how to use the site.I showed up at 12 PM and waited about five minutes. No one else was there, so I texted the group. No replies. I started fixing the user manual since I'd clearly have to redo it. While working quietly, Damien finally walked in. D: "Did you get the docs?" Me: "Yeah. You guys really think this is finished?" D: "Oh yeah, it should be good to turn in." Me: "I don't know. I think we should add more—this is for our client, and she won't understand it. Where are Jeff and Kirk?" D: "Hahaha, we all got messed up last night after finishing the docs. They're probably still passed out. I'm turning it in tomorrow. If you want to add anything, go ahead, but whatever I have is going in. I think it's ready, so I'm not doing more. I have other classes to study for. I already have an A in this class, and Kirk and Jeff do too, so they don't care."He said the magic words, then left with a flash drive. I went straight upstairs and told Professor Matt everything. I said I didn't want to leave my client hanging—yes, my client, not ours. Matt said he fully understood and even praised me for staying on top of it and protecting the client's experience with our students. He asked why. I told him, "What you're getting tomorrow for 'our' project is completely unacceptable. It's unfair to us and especially to our client." I showed him the website (which he liked) and the terrible docs. I asked for an extra week to finish proper documentation and a user guide—I had a clear plan. Matt agreed, but told me to forget the docs since I knew the site. Just focus on the client .So I created video tutorials with narration, drove to her shop to demonstrate everything and show her where the videos were. I even built a simple desktop program with buttons that opened the exact video she needed, so she wouldn't have to hunt through folders. I gave her my contact info and said I'd be around over the summer if she needed help with the site or anything else. Afterward, I updated Matt, who had his own update. He nearly failed the rest of the group because they slid an unmarked USB under his door. He only accepted it after they emailed to confirm he got it. Matt also called the client, who confirmed I was the only one who ever showed up to meetings. As a result, anyone in my group who had an A going into the project dropped to a C. Anyone with a B failed. Damien's GPA took a hit from this four-hour class. Kirk and Jeff both failed—Jeff couldn't graduate, and Kirk had to retake it next semester. My grade, which was an 84 before the project, jumped to an A. The next year, Damien asked how I did because he was confused about his own final grade. I just said I did fine and got an A. He still has no idea why. Don't mess with me and my grades, and I won't mess with you.

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  LSU guy (@BradleyHum25017) reported 12 minutes ago

  @christywhy9 Yes. That would get rid of 2 trouble makers, Omar & PayPal. They have no respect for our country.

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  🪐 sammy 🪦 (@96caskets) reported 14 minutes ago

  to the person who did a chargeback on their donation for my cat Monkeys surgery it has made it so temporarily(?) they closed my PayPal account until i can do a few things to fix it....which is awesome i have no idea what to do currently but I'll figure it out hghhs

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  charlotte (ROCKETS GIRLFRIEND!!) (@onlineidolclub) reported 14 minutes ago

  @multi_milliepop @MoistFerocious you're able to hook up your mastercard to paypal!! when you pick "pay with paypal", itll ask you to login to paypal and then there should be an "add debit/credit card" option!!

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  Zorain Ansari (@ansari_zorain) reported 16 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal When I click chat support it says please login your account and I am unable to login my account

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  canada 💫🔨 (@canadabonk) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Tumble5Weed7 yaya its After that, after it takes u to the paypal login page below the login button is a "pay with other" button

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  CoinPoker (@CoinPoker_OFF) reported 21 minutes ago

  @elleloveCHI @B0bbyD1g1tal Coinbase sometimes has issues given their stance on poker sites / casinos, please try withdrawing to a decentralized wallet e.g. MetaMask / Trust Wallet that you control rather than a centralized exchange. Also avoid wallets that don't accept USDT (e.g. Venmo, Paypal)

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  yasmin ࣪ ִֶָ☾. (@cmetogethr) reported 36 minutes ago

  (i will be deleting this soon) a few of you have approached me asking for my paypal to help with my funding for private healthcare tests after being in hospital last week and i was reluctant to accept help, however after paying the majority and having a small hurdle left to go i thought id lay down and finally accept it. i dont want to post my details in public so if anyone has anything to spare, please dm me and i’ll tell you what you need to know 🤍 i appreciate every single one of you - every dm, reply, and any piece of support that you have already given me 🤍

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  BLOSSOM SEASON (@Blossomseason_) reported 40 minutes ago

  📢 Notice for PayPal Payments If you have already sent your payment via PayPal, please send me a DM. There was an issue with some PayPal payments, so I need to verify your transaction.

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  Pinku🔞 (COMMS CLOSED) (@Pinku202023) reported 41 minutes ago

  DO NOT type when you send a tip or money in anyway something thats related to 18+ stuff or nsfw stuff on the payment, or Paypal will shut down your account and mine. Please beware of this for your sake, and wait until I send you the invoice. Thanks for reading 🙏🏼

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  Kanga (@Kangarooei) reported 42 minutes ago

  @BellaDonnelly @GeachRosie24704 @belladonelly Hi , I think Rosie needs to down load the PayPal app. She needs to know how to donate from UK. I think she is trying to donate by sending on my email address. Not sure, difficult to work out but I think she is going to send a cheque. Thanks Bella,

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  James (@BazaXO) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Leevahh Down if u can cmg bank or paypal i got 1 recent

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  GFAM | twizlette 🧜🏼‍♀️ (@twizlette_) reported 44 minutes ago

  @bbjess Banned PayPal from my life years ago, I don’t give my number out (I rarely do Snapchat because I can unfriend and save my personal info if I want to connect), I put a sleeve over my Starbucks, I’m careful with treat stream, and I had a maintenance man sit on my bed in my apartment after pulling down his pants and showing me his pink boxers. He didn’t work there much longer and yes it was because he saw my gamer setup and thought it was cool. I wasn’t popular enough to have my location be realized thankfully. So all in all, she is telling straight facts about this stuff.

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  Timmy (@hyrumi_app) reported 46 minutes ago

  @oviosu hi, please can you fix users not being able to receive otp from Paypal during signup? One is stuck at the otp page from Paypal through your app.

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  Mehdi Ismail (@MehdiIsmail) reported 47 minutes ago

  @MAGAVoice Zohaan is working towards people improvement. Elon is working towards self-enrichment, that the system has been built for. he has the money, the larger zionist ecosystem , the Paypal gang. Zohran has nothing, and the entire media tried taking him down for doing right by people

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  lucia 🪐 (@aexphr) reported 49 minutes ago

  paypal decided to only now alert me that they have suspended my account. All donations are now in the process of being refunded as quickly as i can! I am so so sorry for the inconvenience thank you to everyone who donated I am just in the process of resolving this issue

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  Lemon れもん (@lexiton69) reported 52 minutes ago

  @fuwarinene @meowao That’s why you do PayPal’ chargeback there’s no excuse, 180 day window, it’s sad cause PayPal doesn’t fking manage the money VGEN does. I never use stripe or vgen wallet bc of that. And their server doesn’t do jack help they just ignore and close ur case via ticket

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  simulx4 (@simulx4) reported 55 minutes ago

  @JoelHodlman It's just me begging for CTV because that's really what it comes down to I can't afford to donate enough money to core devs to push it through but once I have it I know I can build a payment system that destroys PayPal

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  RESCUE HOME ANIMAL SANCTUARY (@rescuehomea) reported 57 minutes ago

  We rescued this old stray dog He has been lying on the ground lifelessly He's really sick and in a terrible condition. We have submitted him to the vet for urgent medical attention Please spare any amount you Donate to help us pay his vet bills PayPal Donate Link in bio🙏

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  Tay Baby 🥰(SELLINGONLY) (@Thickxprincess) reported 58 minutes ago

  @sshhhrn No dumb **** what you should’ve said was oh 25 perfect I respect your prices as the seller do you want me to use Cash app Venmo or PayPal? Not going to tangent about how it used to be 10 $15 go ahead and scroll down and show the rest of the ******* messages you sent like you only again are gonna share the screenshots to share your narrative lol. Why would I give you the price that I give my regulars when you’re no longer a regular because you’ve been ignoring me for literally the last seven months because I sent you a video a day late after the two years of a consistent content that I sent you I have one bad day or something in my family happens and I can’t get you the video within two minutes and it’s a day late and this is how you act.

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  alkimiadev (@alkimiadev) reported 58 minutes ago

  oh great, latam is in trouble now if these groups start targeting it. The security is laughably bad and so much so that even gov web sites in places like Mexico and Brazil do absurd things sometimes like disabling right click in the browser while also running 5+ year out of date wordpress based apps. I live in Argentina currently and find this a bit disturbing since mercado libre and mercado pago are tightly linked like how ebay and paypal used to be. Mercado pago getting pwned could turn into a major dumpster fire. I see this thing growing in latam in general because the comical security also extends to basically all mobile apps like rapi and pedidosYa(like uber eats) as just two almost obvious examples that almost certainly will get pwned eventually.

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  MASÎNÎ (@Lasthop_ke) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care @clinthanos @Safaricom_Care there is an issue with the PayPal withdrawals

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  Ghengis Koin (@GhengisKoin) reported 59 minutes ago

  Sad news about the paypal mafia guy who paraded around shoveling soy-tier pharmaceuticals down his gullet for 4 years at the behest of absolutely no one. Let this be a stern reminder to the rest of us that your life is predetermined.

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  lee williams (@thelee_x_w) reported 60 minutes ago

  @PayPal what's the point in using you for online safety? Twice I've had an issue over the years and both times it's for defective items but you find in favour of the seller. I've been scammed out of money and your if no help. Off to the ombudsman again. #PaypalScamPal