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 (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Perth	Sign in	12 hours ago
Courbevoie	Sign in	16 hours ago
Kassel	Sign in	5 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	6 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	6 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	7 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  なおみ (@CXPT4IN) reported 5 minutes ago

  Basically my og acc had issues with paypal when I first started out (they banned me and took my very first $35 screw them) and the current ones I use have zero issues since theyre verified and used regularly hence no holding of funds.

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  Saoirse ⁷ | saw tear (@honsoolfilter) reported 8 minutes ago

  wtf is wrong with the chicago ticketmaster ui, why does it give an error but paypal says i’ve been charged 5 times @TMFanSupport

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  Bitcoin Sports (@Bitcoin_Sports_) reported 12 minutes ago

  A response to a few of your major points. These multi chains are not decentralized, just an improvement on the existing finance system, which helps new rent seekers become powerful at the expense of the working class. Sure, they have utility. But so does my air fryer. Just because we have an air fryer now does not mean ultimate savings technology with the ability to transact anywhere for anything around the world is not far more important than a new PayPal or Visa network. They might be digital assets, but they are not Bitcoin. They are two separate universes. Conflating the two is the real problem, and that is why maximalists exist. Maximalism is not a bug, it will be a feature of the network as long as blocks are mined. Bitcoin is inherently different given its fixed supply and decentralized nature.

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  Designffective (@Designffective) reported 12 minutes ago

  @rohangotwal @stripe I had a call with them because I created my account 2 yrs ago for freelance but had documention issue so unfortunately switched to paypal. Recently logged in. Had a heated argument that my account was old and etc. But they couldn't help because of rbi regulations.

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  Aadarsh (@aadarsh_nagrath) reported 13 minutes ago

  @jonathan_wilke Can go with PayPal as last resort not smooth but works. i faced such issue with a service. paypal worked.

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  DAMIEN 🌈🦄✨ (@MELTYFUTUREE) reported 15 minutes ago

  PAYPAL UNBLOCK MY ******* ACCOUNT SO I CAN GET SLOW DAMAGE ON JAST

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  Artificial Shitposting Intelligence (@shitpost9000) reported 17 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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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 17 minutes ago

  Freelancers don't have a bookkeeping problem. They have a seven-source-of-income problem. Quillmark connects them all — bank, Stripe, PayPal, Venmo, and marketplace payouts — categorizes transactions, projects quarterly taxes, and sends a weekly P&L on autopilot. Live soon.

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  Paul Compton (@paulcomp) reported 18 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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  Pankaj Kumar (@pankajkumar_dev) reported 27 minutes ago

  Hi @AskPayPal @PayPal, my account has been restricted because I haven't logged in for over 3 years. I’m trying to link my Visa card, but I’m getting an error. I don’t want to change my registered email or mobile number. Please help me reactivate my account. I can provide my reference details via DM.

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@aureayutrades) reported 27 minutes ago

  open for transferring • gcash & maya with issue transfer balance (authentication failed, can't open/send, face recognition) • not verify balance transfer (grab pay, gcash, shopee, lazada, maya) • paypal permanent limit withdraw balance (180 days)

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  Jakob Kilbertus (@JakobKilbertus) reported 31 minutes ago

  @zachmoskow @stripe Our only option was to use Stripe radar and its far from being fully effective IMO. I remember reading Thiel‘s book on the early PayPal days and how they tackled payment fraud in the 2000s. You would think that this is a solved problem…

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  Fry from Frytech (@Frytechllc) reported 31 minutes ago

  @WE6291 **** my website I’ll have to just tell the dude to shut it all down or whatever lol but dm me to order yoh can Venmo or PayPal or whatever you got that u use 🤙

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  PT (@ptservlor) reported 32 minutes ago

  ethereum:0x40e3d1a4b2c47d9aa61261f5606136ef73e28042 just slipped into the same room as Mastercard. Not a tweet. Not a rumor. @openservai announced it themselves. EPAA — the Emerging Payments Association of Asia — just welcomed $SERV as a member. The other members in that room? Mastercard. PayPal. HSBC. Here's where it gets interesting. Mastercard is building an agentic payments network. AI agents executing transactions autonomously, across 30+ card issuers, in a market projected to hit $5T by 2030. The thing they haven't solved? Every payment decision an AI agent makes needs to be traceable. Auditable. Defensible to regulators. You can't have a black box moving money at scale. That's not a nice-to-have. In banking, that's a legal requirement. SERV Reasoning Engine is specifically built for this problem. Every step, every decision — logged, replayable, defensible. It's a one-line integration on top of any existing AI stack. No formal partnership announced. But Mastercard is now in the same industry body as the one team that solved their biggest AI infrastructure problem. Dots exist to be connected. $SERV

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  Possum | CF23 prep (@Possumtion) reported 32 minutes ago

  @calogue_ Wait this happened to me last time, apparently its bcause the name i put in my paypal isnt my full name thats attached to the bank account. The issue fixed itself after i changed it

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  ZiniHost 🧞 (@zinihost) reported 36 minutes ago

  Can't login my account @AskPayPal

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  Leysan Gilfanova | CFO Advisory (@CFOAnalysis) reported 37 minutes ago

  PayPal was worth $360 billion in 2021. Last month, Stripe offered $53 billion to buy the entire company. Back in 2021, that idea would have sounded ridiculous. PayPal had a massive head start. Stripe was founded 12 years later, and for most of its life, it was the much smaller company. Then, last year, for the first time, more online payments ran through Stripe than through PayPal. Today, private investors value Stripe at roughly three times PayPal. How does the company that made online payments mainstream end up here? In June, I broke down the math. PayPal earns a high fee when customers click its button at checkout. It earns a much smaller fee running credit card payments behind the scenes for other checkouts. But increasingly, customers were clicking Apple Pay or Shop Pay first. That's because the rest of the industry kept innovating: → Apple put one-tap payment into the phone → Shopify built checkout into its stores → Stripe sold businesses the tools to run payments themselves Meanwhile, PayPal spent its money elsewhere. It bought companies, including a $4 billion coupon app, and poured money into user acquisition instead of better technology. On paper, overall revenue still managed to grow every single year. But its most profitable product, the branded checkout button, completely flatlined. As margins fell, the market value dropped by 86% from its 2021 peak. At that price, Stripe could suddenly make a play for its biggest rival. In July, Stripe lined up private equity firm Advent International to help fund the bid and offered $60.50 a share in cash. PayPal's stock jumped 17% in a day. Five days later, the board said no. Too low. But the talks never stopped. The stock now trades above the offer price — the market is betting a higher bid is coming. Whatever the final number is, it will be a fraction of what PayPal was worth five years ago. That's the lesson: A business can grow every year and still fall behind. When it stops innovating and adjusting, a smaller competitor that keeps doing both can outgrow it — and maybe even be in the position to buy it. 🔔 I'm Leysan, ex-CFO who breaks down the economics behind tech companies every single week. Thank you for reading! #BusinessModel #Fintech #BusinessStrategy

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  dolly memeko (DONOTHON) 🐑💻 (@dollymemeko) reported 39 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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  VESPA 𓆤 (@VespenStudios) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Purple_Furplace It’s horrible to know I’m not the first one to be a thousand dollars worth costumer that she would give no damns about! The thing is that she just doesn’t care and feel like the amount of money is owed to her due to her super vague heart issues she always talk about whenever commissions are brought up… most of us artists have disabilities too— just as severe and sometimes worse, but still work hard to be a good business owner. She takes the money, dips, and accuse you of being a horrible person for telling her to please give an update. It was so heartbreaking because I wanted to give her a chance, but I lost my patience when I heard I wasn’t the only one so I gave an ultimatum…and honestly? I should have just gotten a charge back and reported her into losing her PayPal. Considering she tells people she doesn’t even have money for a $42 (!!!) dollar refund and guilt trips the person to just cancel and give up, her lack of intelligence with business is probably expanded to lack of intelligence with money…

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹 (@elysiankrow) reported 43 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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  Guz Moon (@GusMoon48) reported 47 minutes ago

  This restriction over on PayPal and Cash-app makes me think it’s a conspiracy to make crypto a viable option where they can’t touch it and you can sell without issue.

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹. ꕤ ｡˚ (@elysiankrow) reported 47 minutes ago

  @petalvenue hii ⭐ if you can't find a ga and you'd be interested in an upper bowl let me know! I have PayPal and I'd be down for a video call for proof :)

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  Pasha (@pashapal) reported 53 minutes 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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  laki_laki (@p_e_t_e_r_4_8) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care please check dm, I have issues with PayPal to mpesa. My PayPal statement shows that money has been disbursed to safaricom but in the one app it is pending, almost a month now.

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  TullyNotes (@fantony_francis) reported 55 minutes ago

  @GeniusGTX Everybody says the same stupid things. Passion, strategy, edge... scale marketing. Meanwhile, mega success sometimes comes down to simple luck, timing, or random events. Or buying 10 houses in NY back in 2005. This fat slob- he must eat all day- an Epstein camper and Soros lover- lucked out by being with a much smarter Peter T. and sold PayPal to eBay for 1.5B. In 02. Once in a lifetime.

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  Bravex (@Bravex_wallet) reported 56 minutes ago

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  🌫💉Foggy🫀Rintarō's Heartbeat!💉🌫 (@LucidDeath_exe) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Suff0cationPit yes but the problem is my paypal balance is -160 in the negs bc i was overdrawing it to pay for food LMAO so anything just goes to that balance. i have venmo available or. my Throne for specific things

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  𝓢𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓮 ♡ 𝓔𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓻'𝓼 𝓦𝓲𝓯𝓮 (@shouixeo) reported 57 minutes ago

  @momotowan I don't think this was me? PayPal already took the money out of my bank account to send to you. I haven't had any issues in the past sending you money via Ko-fi, so I hope it ends up making it to you 🥺

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  Echo (@Echo_ingtr) reported 59 minutes ago

  I want to start open commission, but due to payment issues like the lack of PayPal in Türkiye, I'm looking for a community that values privacy, and VGen is the only one that suits my needs in Türkiye.If anyone has any extra code, could they give it to me? #VGencode #VGenartists

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  𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙖 🥀 cocoma 5 E-38 DAY 2 (@cherriimi) reported 59 minutes ago

  also i hope i wont get in trouble for this LMAO but a few months ago i used to write lower price in the invoice so that you can pay less tax. but now they require me to send the paypal invoice to them so i cant do that anymore </3 im so sorry guys...