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
Sydney	Sign in	1 day ago
Adelaide	Sign in	1 day ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Sign in	2 days ago
Ciudad Jardín	Errors	3 days ago
Paris	Sign in	4 days ago
Benfeld	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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  cassie 𓆩♡𓆪 ❥⋆ ˚｡⋆୨🪽୧˚ (@casmel0dy) reported 3 minutes ago

  $honeykuromi honeykuromi casbebe cashapp paypal chime donate to me for my health issues.

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  Loïc Vee (@loic_vee) reported 3 minutes ago

  Third time this year a payments giant bought or built a piece of the agent stack: • PayPal shipped Agent Ready (ACP + UCP via Braintree) • Shopify built UCP natively • Now Stripe — ACP co-author — owns model routing too The stack is being assembled top-down.

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  FunkyLion 'Yuyake' (@Funky90sLion) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Emistations @PayPal @AskPayPal I remember facing this same problem, all because someone put a message in the transaction (Yeah. Any message they put there just straight up screws your acc). I ended up having to switch to a new email and a Paypal Business acc.

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  Folf (@itsfolf) reported 6 minutes ago

  @panley01 the issue is usually that PayPal hates anything remotely nsfw, not just doing business if you hit manual review they'll want to look at where the payments are coming from and see your accounts

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  FarhanX_AI (@FarhanBuildsAI) reported 7 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  Karma’s Suppository (@realPhantomFuck) reported 9 minutes ago

  @benwegmann I’ve sold nine phones on Swappa and probably a dozen things on OfferUp and Craigslist over the years, I’ve never once had a problem. I’ve tried selling things on eBay TWICE and both times the seller attempted to scam me. eBay and PayPal are a cesspit

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  psyduck (@OlafBread) reported 11 minutes ago

  Crypto has a massive onboarding problem and every major exchange such as Binance and bybit has failed so far The moment your father and mother can transact crypto like they do with PayPal or cashapp at that moment crypto has made it in terms of onboarding

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  Lotus ★ (@anyileh) reported 12 minutes ago

  Basic Info: - Payment can be made via PayPal or Binance, BUT I prefer Binance - I Will not begin the commissions until I receive full payment - I'm a little slow when it comes to drawing, so please be patient. - I don't make elaborate backgrounds—just simple ones.

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  Nelson Rangel (@nelsonrangel) reported 13 minutes ago

  Paypal shareholders have ZERO economic incentive to engage in buyout discussions with Stripe/Advent below $110/ share. Rejecting them would in fact open the door for the most bullish case: the acceleration of $PYPL Intrinsic Value growth over the next 12 months. Here is the math: •Paypal rejects Stripe/Advent offer below shareholder acceptable value of $110 per share. Stock drops back down to $50. •Paypal continues to execute buybacks at current pace of $6 billion per annum. Takes out roughly 120 million shares. The lower the stock goes the more powerful buybacks become. Since the company is a cashflow machine that creates a flywheel by which market pessimism increases Intrinsic Value per share. This is not theoretical, management has already demonstrated they are willing to do this, buying back 67MM shares at $44.99 in 1H 2026. •Management’s turnaround plan continues at current pace, no heroics just plain boring. Continue executing shift into financial services, begin realizing already earmarked cost savings. They deliver $6.20 EPS, continue generating $6 billion in FCF. At 13x that puts the company share price at $80.6 in 12 months. •Add a $25 control premium to that for any buyer that appears then and Paypal shareholders are at $105/ share. And this does not take into account any additional buybacks or business growth after year 1. •$110 is the fair buyout price for Stripe/Advent to pay now for Paypal shareholders to relinquish a bright future. •We know Advent cannot pay that because their PE math begins to fall apart. Stripe needs to go solo or find better financing if it does not want to miss this strategic opportunity. Paypal Shareholders do not support selling the company below intrinsic value and Paypal shareholders should not be asked to subsidize Advent’s return requirements.

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  m444k (@m444k_) reported 16 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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  Erika (@ErikaMD25) reported 17 minutes ago

  @NEXZ_GLOBAL @ujuyuuu My paypal is not working so i cannot donate. I have already change the password but it still not working

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  Kayuki Arcticus🍦🐉【IRIAM US】🔜OffKai 2026 (@kayukiarcticus) reported 21 minutes ago

  @DokiDreamers So now my PayPal is pending authorization on every time I tried to use it while it was broken

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  Raiku 🐉 (@raikucom) reported 28 minutes ago

  Eddie Mitchell from @StablecoinNewss said something on Friday's Solana Circuit that's worth thinking about. We may end up in a world where payment providers look like fiat on the front, but the back end is all stablecoins. Invisible infrastructure. No consumer ever knows it's there. That's not a speculative future. Western Union is building one. PayPal already launched one. Banks that spent a decade saying this was a fad are now watching Circle step into European markets they vacated. The question isn't whether stablecoins are going to settle the next generation of institutional transactions. They are. The question is what infrastructure underneath them can actually guarantee those transactions land. That's the engineering problem that still hasn't been solved.

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  Anita's Art Account (@Sailor_Martian) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Diamondcritter_ @PayPal System is broken i think. Imma have to "wait patiently" for them to contact me back. Come on, I only want to send money overseas, maybe sell art.

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  iyla ⟢ (@saintiyla) reported 30 minutes ago

  trying to figure out another way around this in the meantime, paypal said it’s an error and they’re looking into it but it’ll take a while to clear 😥

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  David Stewart (@MrStewart_X) reported 33 minutes ago

  @survivetheark How to fix Ark and why (only part of the full list) I’ll cover the top 3 things currently stopping players—especially new ones—from playing, because Ark is on its way to being dead. This is for the PvP side. 1) Turrets: The work-to-reward ratio for turret and bullet production is drastically worse than soaking with a capped-saddle, high-health, stacked, mutated soaker. It takes a week to farm what a soaker can burn through in a few hours. Not cool. 😎 This leads to people living in caves regardless of 6x damage. No land bases—just rat 🐀 holes or mesh. People drop a Stego on you, beer-rocket the generator on land, and it’s GG… No new players are going to play like this. 2) Mutations: Because the team left it the same as Evolved. Let me explain how it’s supposed to work versus what actually happens. Mutations are 0/20 on both sides, so it was intended to give +40 levels. That’s a problem because a perfect tame is 224 (unless you use the new sea turtle trick to get a 225). Every time I see a 225, a Game Master almost certainly spawned it—224 is typically the real max. Breed two 224s together and you get a 250–270 depending on stats. That’s actually a really great start. Then you mutate. The intended max should be around 300-ish plus your own levels, putting a max Dino at 370–380. That’s still 70–80 levels short of the 450 cap, so there should be no way to reach max. That’s dumb as hell by itself. Instead, the team left mutation stacking in the game. That’s where you breed a mutated male to any 0/20 0/20 female (an “00 female”). This lets you stack mutations indefinitely. It’s super retarded and stops new players from ever competing. I can explain every reason why, but you’d have to hire me first. This leads to—guess what?—people buying Dinos via PayPal, cash, etc. Money your team isn’t getting. 🤦 What retards in leadership. Because of this, people buy Dinos. Duh. 🙄 That’s now literally the only way to play PvP. Ask anyone with a brain. 🧠 3) Because of both 1 and 2, new players cannot run the bosses. You can’t survive. Alphas live in the caves with Dinos they bought or Dinos they raided using Dinos they bought. So players just pay for boss runs. Does this sound like ******* fun? Yes, I’ve done all of this. I’ve been the alpha, bought and sold Dinos, and “fixed” mutations by going out to tame a low-level 00 female. I’m a pro. Any casual player will leave, and even a lot of hardcore players will leave. All that’s left is bought Dinos, meshing, and an impossible wall of entry if you want to play fully legit.

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  Derrick Jones (@deuceohsixx) reported 34 minutes ago

  @kurlyshark @PayPal You couldn’t be an Uber Eats or DoorDash driver. Both apps make you scan your face most times to sign in to deliver.

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  James T. Gordon (@jamestgordon) reported 35 minutes ago

  Facebook market place reselling flip this week: $1500 - buy price $2700 - sell price $1200 - net profit Dell Poweredge Server R730xd w/ 768GB RAM (24x32GB) When I saw this post to fb I had to get the exact RAM config right away. Seller was fast and once I had the exact specs I shot a pic to my memory buyer. He came back with a $100 per module. Right away I knew I could spend $1500 and get $2400 on the RAM. I offer $1200 on the server. Saw that the seller had seen the message but no response. Waited two hours but didn't want to loose the sale. Offered asking price and arranged to meet that evening. Ate a little on paypal fees for the $2400 but the buyer covers the minimal shipping charge. Will sell the server on fb marketplace for around $300. Quick flip. Electronics aren't the easiest resell but if you know what you're looking at then there can be a lot of upside. Definitely not a resale asset class to sleep on.

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  Angelo G. | Toxios Tek (@flerimeja) reported 42 minutes ago

  @developedbyed I think I got a ban like this on @PayPal and they never explained the reason. This is becoming the standard method to manage this type of issue.

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  Zinc G. ZDraco (@LegendofZinc) reported 43 minutes ago

  @PayPal @Mastercard Would instantly lock you out of buying anything cause that's how PayPal works, first use would lock you out and then close your account out even if it's LEGIT cause PayPal uses AI for everything and there's number 1 major issue there, PayPay was good before AI.

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  Matt Hunter (@MattHunterCoach) reported 44 minutes ago

  The best decision PayPal ever made came out of a clash between its leaders. Max Levchin wanted to build security software for Palm Pilots.  Peter Thiel saw limited market potential and pushed back hard.  Neither softened the message. Neither backed down easily. Out of that collision came a pivot to sending money over email that led to a $1.5 billion acquisition by eBay. Reid Hoffman described the culture simply: "We had a culture of arguing to improve the idea. It wasn't personal. It was about making the best product possible." That's the model. Fight for your position, stay open to being wrong, and let the best idea win. When talented people argue honestly toward the truth, great things get built.

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  MotherDuckie (@Mother_Duckie) reported 46 minutes ago

  IMPORTANT PSA: Tipping Through Streamelements can get you doxed if the person you are tipping has their Setting toggled off (which I think it is by default) which says Tippers may edit their username. If they have it where tippers may not edit their username and then must use only their paypal credentials, then the streamer being tipped will see your full name. Thankfully, I have trustworthy friendos and I found this out after tipping. We didn't know it was a streamer setting issue, we thought it was on the tippers end. Thought I'd get the info out to all the peeps taking tips through streamelements. Below is an image of where to find that setting.

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  Janes (@JanesUK89) reported 48 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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  Herebus 💧 (@Herebus_) reported 53 minutes ago

  @MTBbronco @J0hnADouglas @Adobe Same issue with Amazon, clicked cancel multiple times, but I had the payment through paypal, which could easily be cancelled.

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  valine ꕤ Vkusno i Tochka Glider. @ after dm! (@valereeyn) reported 55 minutes ago

  well for some reason, i am holding the paypal payment due to an issue. I hope everything will be fix it tomorrow🤍 tysm for today!

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  ʟɪxɪᴇʙᴇʟʟᴇ & ᴛʜᴀᴛ . ִ𐀔٠ (@lixiibelle) reported 56 minutes ago

  @skz_usa admin, i had trouble buying on 7Digital last week bc they said their PayPal was down, and I couldn’t check out without my linked PayPal account. do you know if we’re getting the singles on stationhead?

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  altermouv (@altermouv) reported 59 minutes ago

  @IntCyberDigest so they decided to let down the PayPal acquisition or it was just rumors 🤔

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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 59 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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  Ame ʚ✞ɞ (@amechnn) reported 1 hour ago

  @pwurfects oh my god what 😭 i never had that problem, also paypal is literally for adults why does it matter if u do these kind of purchases

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  Artur | Long-term investing & FIRE (@MoneyHacks16) reported 1 hour ago

  @DividendDrip How many times do you think Nike or PayPal holders averaged down?