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 (35%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Malakoff	Website Down	21 hours ago
Marseille	Website Down	22 hours ago
Lyon	Website Down	1 day ago
Buckingham	Errors	2 days ago
Rugby	Sign in	2 days ago
Cancún	Sign in	2 days ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Neville Thumbcatch (@NThumbcatch) reported 9 minutes ago

  Serious question... Has PayPal ALWAYS been this ******* ****? Locked out of my account for 24 hours. Rang the helpline - 'Sorry, there's nothing we can do, we're having issues with our system.' A score of 1.3 on Trustpilot seems generous.

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  🚜🇺🇦Steve Blurryenko🇬🇧🦈 (@TankieSlappa) reported 10 minutes ago

  @MariaNafoFella They DM donation requests with a paypal account. They avoid posting the paypal details publicly because we'd be all over than and get it shut down/refunded. Genuine Ukrainian fundraisers will share a payment link publicly.

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  Mike (@MikeGlock19) reported 16 minutes ago

  @PayPal what’s the problem?

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  Jean-Philippe Lebœuf (@jpleboeuf) reported 19 minutes ago

  Tried moving money out of PayPal Business. Even Gemini 3.5 Flash Extended couldn’t explain it after a long back-and-forth, even with full access to PayPal docs and Reddit. PayPal, your documentation and UX are broken: if an LLM cannot get it, regular users have zero chance.

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  Game-****-strong (@Game_cockstrong) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Saladinbraham Ppl said the same thing with PayPal... Very similar story tbh. Not working out so well for them

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  Jade the Protogen (@AmodeusthePure) reported 22 minutes ago

  Uhh, so I have a problem…I tried to set up a PayPal account for Ko-Fi, but PayPal immediately flagged my account with suspicious activity as soon as I made it. I don't have an ID. What ******** do I do???

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  Evolvewithjuliet (@JulietRHalawani) reported 22 minutes ago

  @zillionokoye The only issue there is the PayPal email it asks for.

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  carmilla (@balaclavados) reported 24 minutes ago

  @DwayneCornel1 I’m not able to send DMs because an error keeps occurring. I use PayPal. Message me on Telegram: carmilla2026

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  Anna Goshorn (@GoshornAnna) reported 24 minutes ago

  @libsoftiktok @PayPal I got rid of paypal a long time ago. They are terrible!!

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  agus mu (@agusmu7) reported 24 minutes ago

  My biggest problem wasn't analytics. It was integration. Stripe still isn't available in my country, unfortunately. Most of my businesses run on WordPress with local payment gateways, PayPal, WooCommerce, FluentCart, and Easy Digital Downloads. The analytics tools I used weren't built around that setup.

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  William Hyland 🇺🇲 (@TankaByBill) reported 25 minutes ago

  @codeofvets @PayPal @stripe I have to agree with you. I have had serious issues with PayPal and a far smaller account. At this point, I do not believe they can be trusted.

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  Pomba (@LuckyPata) reported 26 minutes ago

  hey dudes, sorry about the lack of updates! recently got my business paypal account restricted and Im trying to sort this out. Does anyone have had a problem with it before? I really need some input here :(

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  Derek (@OilBeak) reported 36 minutes ago

  @PayPal I've been trying to get money off of your site and into my bank for like 6+ months and have run into issue after issue. I keep getting told "oh just try again" and things get pushed down the line for another week.

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  Niklas ⚡️ (@Niklas_Sikorra) reported 38 minutes ago

  @levelsio Buy PayPal for the memes and fix it.

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  David Dawson (@TinyTalesX) reported 38 minutes ago

  @What_is_Praise @catturd2 It’s a terrible process. After I complained enough I got a letter from PayPal basically telling me to sue the buyer if I felt cheated.

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  Peinlicher Pimmelprimat Jonas Thunecke 🐵🐒😵‍💫🤪 (@beastiebearpig) reported 39 minutes ago

  @klose_alfred @Mad_Bear_80 @Mad_Bear_80 do NOT interact with this account! This dude is a scammer. he said the same to me and then he wanted by login data of my bank account, and as I refused to do that, he told me he can send money via paypal but I'd have to send him 50€ first.

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  FC Dobbs (@dobbs_fc68313) reported 44 minutes ago

  @atensnut Never use PayPal (aka Shitpal) never have had any issues! I am able to Autopay Starlink as well.

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  Dusty72 (@BleedingMe18) reported 45 minutes ago

  @justvikinggg Lmfao she just keeps digging deeper. Holy ****. Didn't she literally just say her mom payed for spemthign because nobody could fund her enough money. Lmfao. Shes such a leech. Which is ironic cause now shes pinging PayPal for her financial issues as if they will do anything

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  Ereas ♔ (@ereas_kaanta) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Colour_awr @_VGen_ @PayPal I had the same problem as you a few months ago, for a smaller amount, but neither VGen nor PayPal helped me. The scammer got away with it and received his money back. 🫩

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  Old before my time (@wokeupold2day) reported 52 minutes ago

  @marknoble @grok Yeah I had paypal 15 years ago. Tell me again the problem that crypto solves?

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  Reaction Buffet (@reactionbuffet) reported 53 minutes ago

  If she has PayPal business account, they might be convinced into asking for a business name, number and address. They typically don't require it for a small business account (there might be a monetary window) but they can ask for that info. If she has personal only account, PayPal will not issue anything for CRA, and that's how she is evading declaring her $ gifts. It's crazy that her account has not been flagged BC she gets so much cash AND that she was collecting money in Syria

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  Just Bob (@voip_91) reported 53 minutes ago

  @codeofvets @GretchenPSmith @PayPal How does PayPal even stay in business? With all of the problems people have faced with them especially the hacked accounts, and all of the fraudulent messages, it’s hard to believe that they have much of a customer base anymore. Haven’t used them in years, and never again.

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  Esco (@EscoJ27) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Saladinbraham Reminds me of PayPal. Growing business. Low pe/ forward pe. They are buying back shares. Cheapest multiple in years. Market just doesn’t care. Down/ sideways for years. Adobe can do the same.

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  Creative Deduction (@CreativeDeduct) reported 54 minutes ago

  Next time you think of giving up, remember this picture. The picture is Elon Musk staring at the wreckage of another exploded Falcon 1 rocket, the third to fail on launch. In 2008, Musk was borrowing money from friends to pay his rent, going through a divorce, SpaceX was running out of cash, and to add to the misery, Tesla was at risk of missing payroll and going bankrupt. Down to his last $40 million of the $180 million he reportedly made from selling PayPal, Musk decided on one last roll of the dice and poured his remaining capital into a fourth launch on September 28, 2008. This time it worked. The rocket successfully reached orbit. Weeks later, SpaceX was awarded a $1.6 billion contract from NASA. A few months later, Tesla secured crucial investment to commence production of the original Tesla Roadster. "I gave both SpaceX and Tesla a probability of less than 10% likely to succeed," Musk later said. Musk could have taken a salaried job and never pursued entrepreneurship. He could have pocketed his PayPal millions and sat on a beach for the rest of his life. Instead, he risked it all and it paid off in a spectacular way, not just for him. His groundbreaking companies have given consumers new and better products and created 1000s of well-paid jobs. SpaceX alone has made more than 4,000 former and current employees Dollar millionaires. It also made Musk the world’s first trillionaire. His detractors tell you his wealth is undeserved. The truth is that when exceptional individuals like Musk run risks that may seem unacceptable to most of us, society progresses and we all gain. Instead of chastising success, we should take inspiration from people like Elon Musk. He didn’t get rich by accident or by luck. He got rich through entrepreneurship and ingenuity, and by taking risks.

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  Sam Boboev (@samboboev) reported 57 minutes ago

  BREAKING: @PayPal winds down venture arm as fintech giant restructures under new CEO PayPal is shuttering its 10-year-old venture team amid a broader corporate shakeup, according to five sources familiar with the matter. The fund’s headcount has shrunk from more than 10 in late 2025 to now only two, according to an archived version of the website for PayPal Ventures. Meanwhile, the page that listed the venture unit’s employees is no longer visible. PayPal is also exploring the sale of some of its positions on the secondary market and has hired the investment bank Jefferies to help with potential transactions, said one source familiar with the matter, who declined to be named while talking about private business dealings. PayPal established its venture arm in 2016, one year after eBay spun off the fintech into an independent company. Since then, PayPal Ventures, which invests off the fintech’s balance sheet, has backed more than 80 companies across three funds that total more than $850 million. Some of its more prominent bets include the fintech Plaid, the crypto custodian Anchorage Digital, and its exits include Bill com’s acquisition of the startup Divvy in 2021. The performance of the venture fund’s portfolio contributed 10 cents to PayPal’s $1.53 earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2025, as opposed to subtracting four cents in 2024, according to a February earnings release. News by Fortune

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  OTPB Martin 💫 (@Z2CGaming80) reported 57 minutes ago

  @beast_of_games @Jubama020 @desstema yea I only got PayPal you’ll find one soon or could wait since price going down

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  SFCAPONTE (CSM) 1775 2.0 (@SFCAPONTE1) reported 59 minutes ago

  @codeofvets @stripe Couldn t get the problem with paypal resolve?

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  v (@strwburry18) reported 59 minutes ago

  pls tip/buy &' if you need my paypal dm me!! its been so slow &' im drained i just wanna be appreciated for my pretty content :')

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  Malkhaz Mikeladze (@MalkhazMikelad1) reported 1 hour ago

  @AskPayPal + URGENT: @AskPayPal I am locked out of my PayPal account and cannot access my funds. SMS verification stopped working after password reset and I am stuck on login security check. Please escalate this case.

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  VC Intern (@the_vc_intern) reported 1 hour ago

  PayPal Ventures is winding down That is not just a cost-cutting story. It is PayPal giving up one of its windows into fintech before the next wave hits. The venture arm launched in 2016, backed more than 80 companies, and raised $850M across three funds. Its portfolio included Plaid, Anchorage Digital, Divvy, Talos, and other companies building the infrastructure around payments, crypto, banking, and fintech APIs. Now PayPal is restructuring. New CEO Enrique Lores is trying to simplify the company, refocus around core businesses, and make PayPal a technology company again. That makes the venture shutdown awkward. Corporate venture is not only about financial returns. For incumbents, it is market radar. A CVC fund lets a company see what founders are building before the category becomes obvious. Which payment rails are getting traction. Which compliance problems are becoming startups. Which fintech APIs are replacing internal roadmaps. Which crypto or banking infrastructure layers are moving from experiment to enterprise. PayPal can still partner, acquire, or invest later. But shutting down the venture arm means fewer early signals from the edge of fintech. The company is trying to get sharper. It may also be narrowing the lens right as fintech is getting rebuilt again.