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 (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Thurins	Sign in	1 day ago
Roubaix	Errors	2 days ago
Lisbon	Errors	2 days ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	2 days ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	3 days ago
Cublize	Website Down	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Daniel - Budai Media 📧 (@thedanielbudai) reported 4 minutes ago

  One of our peptide clients woke up last week to a dead checkout and funds on hold. No warning or email the night before. Just a Stripe shutdown that hit overnight and froze everything. This wasn't bad luck or a compliance mistake on their end. Stripe's own policy FAQ now states they are not accepting RUO peptide merchants. New applications get declined. Existing accounts get reviewed and terminated when the underwriting team catches what's being sold. Stripe, PayPal, and Square all have the same structural problem for this category. They approve accounts fast and underwrite them later. The moment a review catches the product type, the account dies. And industry reports on Mastercard's 2026 BRAM update indicate research peptides are specifically flagged, with fund holds that can run 90 to 180 days after shutdown. Three months of revenue frozen while you're rebuilding from zero. The brands that survive this aren't the ones it doesn't happen to. They're the ones who built the infrastructure knowing it would. The survival setup looks like this: A dedicated high-risk merchant account with an underwriter who explicitly approves peptide merchants, not an aggregator that approves first and asks questions later. A backup gateway already live and tested before the primary goes down. A shutdown becomes a bad day instead of a dead business. A billing descriptor that matches your store name. Chargebacks kept under 1%. Research-only language everywhere on the site. The June 28 Stripe policy change is one wave. There will be more. Build the fallback while your current processor still works. I put together a full payment processing guide specifically for peptide stores covering everything above in detail. Comment "PAYMENTS" and I’ll send it over.

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  Compound248 💰 (@compound248) reported 10 minutes ago

  $PYPL - here is what will actually happen. In a very real sense, it is out management's hands: • PayPal Board receives credible unsolicited offer (from Stripe and Advent); Revlon duty kicks in. • Board immediately engages counsel and investment bank. • Board forms a committee to oversee the situation. • Committee has the i-bank suggest who else could bid. • Mid-process, someone strategically leaks the Stripe bid. This creates a new dynamic: given no large $PYPL anchor owner, the shareholder base quickly begins turning over from "long-term owners" to "event-driven / arb." Those new shareholders aren't looking for a long-term compounder, further pressuring the company to seek a takeout path. • Management and an i-bank work up the "stay independent" plan. Unfortunately, the comps are horrible ($FISV & $GPN), making 3rd-party bids hard to beat, even if you prefer to execute independently. • Conduct an initial IOI process to see if alternative bidders might come in higher than $60.50. They will. • Depending on what comes back, may expand outreach to additional bidder groups. Data room and diligence process become formalized. • Offer is going up from $60.50 to $65, then $68 (or whatever). Stripe probably competes in that range. • Board cannot justify the "stay independent" path. • Bank and committee whittle the bidder group down to a small set of finalists. • Seek "best and final" (sometimes more than once!). • Announce a deal anywhere from $60.50 to $70+. • Game over. I'm not saying that PayPal cannot stay independent and public; it could. I am saying it likely won't stay independent and public. If you don't have an anchor owner who can stand up to the dual forces of Revlon + Event-Driven shareholders, the momentum of the "process" takes over and makes it very difficult to say no to a credible offer at a premium. The die is already cast.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 11 minutes ago

  A guy used PayPal for 9 years. He sent money. He received money. He linked his bank account once in 2017 and never opened Settings again. His friend a former PayPal fraud analyst who spent 6 years inside the risk and security division was over for dinner when the guy mentioned he got scammed buying concert tickets online. "Did you pay with Friends and Family or Goods and Services?" "I don't know. What's the difference?" His friend put down his fork. "Pull up your account. Right now." He looked at the account for 90 seconds. "You have no two-factor authentication turned on. You have 6 preapproved automatic payments you didn't know about including one that's been charging you $2.49/month for 7 months from a service you've never heard of. Your data is being shared with third parties because a setting PayPal turned on by default is selling your shopping behavior. You've been paying a 4% currency conversion fee on every international transaction when you could've paid close to zero. And that concert ticket scam? You sent $180 as Friends and Family. You'll never get that money back." He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes. The guy said "I've had this account since college and never touched any of this." His friend said "PayPal is counting on that. The less you look, the more they make in fees, in data, and in disputes you can't win because you didn't know the rules." Here's every setting he changed 🧵

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  robert peachey (@RPeachey86) reported 11 minutes ago

  @ddash_ca @compound248 PayPal has already turned it down and stock is at 56.40

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  Hera (@Heralya1) reported 14 minutes ago

  @zaahenyaoihands Yeah my country has the same problem, Im able to bypass that cause I have a foreign credit card .. Though I once used VPN on paypal and it worked..I have no clue how 😭😭

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 17 minutes ago

  An early PayPal employee described the moment the team realized Elon Musk was different from every other founder in Silicon Valley. It was something dark. The team was in a meeting discussing a product setback. Everyone was frustrated. Someone made a comment about maybe pivoting the product or considering alternative approaches. Normal startup conversation. Rational. Measured. Elon's response was physical. He stood up. His jaw tightened. He said something close to "if we pivot we die. We don't pivot. We fix it." Not loudly. Almost whispered. But the energy in the room changed completely. The employee said what was different wasn't the words. Every founder says "we don't give up." What was different was the look in his eyes. He said it was the look of someone who literally cannot conceive of the possibility that this doesn't work. Not "won't accept" failure. Cannot process it. As if the neural pathway that handles the concept of quitting doesn't exist in his brain. He said in that moment he understood that Elon doesn't choose persistence the way other people choose it. Other people weigh the options and decide to keep going. Elon doesn't see other options. The path forward is the only path his brain can map. Everything else is a dead pixel on his screen. That's not a learned skill. That's an architecture. And it explains both his extraordinary success and the trail of broken relationships, burned-out employees, and personal damage he leaves behind. The same wiring that makes failure invisible also makes other people's pain invisible.

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  † コリナ † (@blackxbaccarat) reported 17 minutes ago

  @dimpledormlover I think there must be an error in the shop. A few days ago paypal wasn’t working and today I tried again and the shipping costs to Austria were three times higher. Instead of 80$ (a few days ago) they’re now nearly 300$ for the same 11 preorder items 🧐

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  J.K (@FixRigYT) reported 19 minutes ago

  Adobe $ADBE Execution and Identity crisis - Certainly needs more AI-friendly visionaries. PayPal $PYPL Passive & Defensive Moat - Expand U.S. products / services into EU no matter how hard it is. Leadership problem with both. Just a thoughts of these two.. 🤔

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 24 minutes ago

  wts wtr nct 127 membership for the redline in Seoul ✨ 100k idr | 6 usd 🌷 accept: paypal, wise, qris, Ina bank ✨ weverse login access available: ✅✅❌❌ 💌 DM me if you're interested! t. wts wtb rent membership nct 127 seoul the redline

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  Priye Ruby Johnson (@PriyerubyJ) reported 26 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello @AskPayPal. My PayPal account was recently permanently limited because it was reportedly linked to another account with unresolved issues. I believe this may relate to an old account I created years ago but never really used.

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  The Rhino (@Schweino68) reported 26 minutes ago

  @stripe Customer Support is legit terrible. CS: Please verify your bank. Me: I can't - you never sent me microdeposits and you dont support my bank via instant verification. CS: I understand this is frustrating. Please verify your bank. Thisclose to just going to @PayPal

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  anhedonia experiencer (@oilgulp) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Punished_Alien !! I hate PayPal always have issues w it

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  MHINBRON (@colorgravemhin) reported 28 minutes ago

  ✨Be a gamer✨ Join a dev server to demand rebindable controls because your S key is broken. "Use arrows." No I won't enjoy that. "I'll Paypal you money for a new keyboard." No it's OK. Money is tight and I won't enjoy it anyway. I'll just refund.

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  Rhysa Darling 🖤⛓️‍💥🥀 (@RhysaDarling) reported 28 minutes ago

  I've had consistent problems with using Paypal for tips/donos. Has anyone else had to verify personal information multiple times? Also does anyone know of a better alternative to using Paypal?

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  trade spaylater, ggives, load, paypal, atome, cc (@aureayutrades) reported 29 minutes ago

  available services load to cash (regular load, load card, bizzload) paypal to cash binance to cash cash to paypal cash to binance razergold to cash gcash/maya with issue transfer balance (facescan, authentication failed, can't open/send money)

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 33 minutes ago

  Check your login activity (someone may already be inside) He said: "Go to Settings. Click Security. Select 'Manage your logins.'" A screen appeared showing every device and browser that had logged into his PayPal account with dates, locations, and device types. There was a login from a city he'd never been to. From 4 months ago. On a device he didn't own. He said: "Someone accessed your account from another location. They didn't drain it that would trigger a fraud alert. Instead, they've been making small charges through a preapproved payment they set up. $2.49 here, $1.99 there. Small enough that you'd never notice. This is called a low-and-slow attack, and it's the most common type of PayPal fraud because it flies under the radar." They logged out every device. Changed the password. Enabled two-factor authentication. Filed a dispute. He said: "Check this screen once a month. If you see a device or location you don't recognize, someone else has access to your account. Kill the session immediately."

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  Memo (@mthblk56) reported 34 minutes ago

  Paid €25 for a German number on and it’s completely useless! 🚫 SMS verification codes arrive 2+ hours late, it doesn't work for WhatsApp or PayPal, and support is ignoring my tickets while my subscription expires in 2 days. Fix this or issue a refund! 💸 #Quackr @quackrio

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  ASHT0N (@ashkmeow) reported 36 minutes ago

  @drainddog hii, i’m tryna fix my paypal situation atm so i’m HOPEFULLY going to be switching back to paypal/kofi payments v soon 🤞

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  Sharkbyte (@sharkbyte1k) reported 37 minutes ago

  Because original article is down. summary: 1. 2014 Icahn pushes for separation of paypal from ebay 2014. Board rejects, later settles proxy fight, spins off paypal. 2. 2019 Elliot/Starboard pushes for spinoff of stubhub/classifieds. ebay resisted, later sells both, CEO departs.

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  Ric (@r_ric000) reported 38 minutes ago

  it is extremely difficult to reverse a proven losing battle. think how pathetic Adobe and Paypal have been! they are all great companies and make great profits. but the stocks keep going down anyway. The same is happening to Netflix! In a sustained downtrend while all others are going up, there are simply less motivated buyers and just more sellers who want to cut loss or keep some hard earned profit. It is a very unfortunate death spiral unless a miracle in business occurs to reverse. I would not stay with proven losers at all, knowing that my ammo is limited and my money is more likely to make money somewhere else.

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  BILLIONAIRE UNIVERSITY® (@TheBillionaireU) reported 38 minutes ago

  27-year-old Elon Musk paid $200 a month for a leaky roof office and slept in it because it was cheaper than an apartment. Summer of 1995, no money, no income, so he showered at the YMCA for 4 months and worked out of the nastiest place you can imagine. The office had 1 hidden advantage an internet provider sat on the floor below, so he drilled a hole in the concrete and plugged straight into their server for near-free bandwidth. He couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router either, so he read a white paper and wrote an emulator, skipped the web server entirely to save CPU cycles, read port 8080 directly, and coded the first national maps, directions and yellow pages on the internet that summer in C with a little C++. The company was Zip2 online city guides, where to eat, how to get around. By 1998 CBS came to film the vintage Jaguar, the 6-figure salary, the dog, the house, the girlfriend, and a market Microsoft had tried to enter and failed. Then the reporter asked the standard 1998 question where is the internet going? The 27-year-old answered like he’d already seen the ending: “The internet is the superset of all media. Print, radio, broadcast all of it folds into the internet. It’s the first two-way medium that’s intelligent, where consumers choose what they see and when they see it.” That was 28 years ago and he was describing a feed. A year later Zip2 sold for $307M, the money became X com, X com became PayPal, and PayPal became rockets. It all started with a drill and the server downstairs.

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  Beyres (@Beyrestt) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care paypal to mpesa is still not working, please solve it

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  Bobby Lansing (@dataguybobby) reported 44 minutes ago

  Wow, @PayPal your generative AI system is absolutely terrible. It could not understand anything I said in chat or voice multiple times and tried to end the conversation when in fact I was asking for a customer service rep...

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  jimmy von buffett 🌺 (@creamstarters) reported 46 minutes ago

  paypal is so useless they limited my account after their own website had an error with logging me in.... how is that my fault

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  Bert the Seal (@Digital7rapping) reported 47 minutes ago

  @ForgeStoreSTL Wow I’ve never really heard other stores talk about it and they always have PayPal on there. Have you tried asking other stores how they avoid the issues you’re having ?

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 49 minutes ago

  wts wtr nct 127 membership for the redline in Seoul ✨ 100k idr | 6 usd 🌷 accept: paypal, wise, qris, Ina bank ✨ weverse login access available: ✅✅❌❌ 💌 DM me if you're interested! t. wts wtb rent membership nct 127 seoul the redline

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  BitcoinSafari /Education & Developers Program (@BitcoinSafariTZ) reported 53 minutes ago

  @bitlancework D. Tools that make sense to normal businesses Invoices in USD or EUR that settle in BTC. Automatic receipts. Project milestones. Time tracking. Fiat off-ramps so a freelancer can cash out to M-Pesa, bank transfer, or stablecoins if they want. The client never has to touch Bitcoin if they do not want to. They pay with card, Bitlance converts, freelancer receives BTC. The complexity is abstracted away. This is the key. Bitlance is not asking the world to become Bitcoiners overnight. It is meeting both sides where they are, and using Bitcoin to remove the expensive middlemen in the middle. 6. Real impact: who this helps most Let us get specific, because "financial inclusion" is an abstract phrase. The designer in East Africa She is world-class. Her portfolio is on Behance. But 80% of clients ghost her when they see she cannot take PayPal. On Bitlance, she can take a $300 branding project, get paid in BTC in 10 minutes, and convert half to shillings for rent and keep half in BTC as savings. Her income goes up and her costs go down. The US startup founder He needs a dev for 20 hours this month. He does not want to deal with contractors in 3 countries and 3 payment systems. He posts on Bitlance, pays with his company card, and knows the dev will get paid immediately when the milestone is approved. No wire forms. No FX fees. The writer in Argentina Local inflation is 50% a year. Getting paid in pesos means losing value while the client processes payment. Getting paid in USD is hard because of capital controls. Getting paid in Bitcoin means she is paid in a global asset she can hold or convert when she chooses. It is a hedge and a paycheck. The agency They have 12 freelancers across 8 countries. Managing payroll used to take a full day and $200 in fees. Now they fund one Bitlance wallet and pay everyone out of it. Reconciliation is one export. Everyone gets paid faster. 7. The objections, and the answers "But Bitcoin is volatile" True. That is why platforms like Bitlance offer instant conversion to stablecoins or local currency at withdrawal. You can choose to be paid in BTC and hold, or be paid in BTC and convert in 1 click. The point is you have the choice. The rails are Bitcoin even if the unit you spend is stable. "What about taxes?" Bitlance provides exportable reports with date, amount in BTC, and USD value at time of payment. It does not solve your local tax law, but it makes reporting 10x easier than trying to track wallet addresses manually. "What about scams?" Escrow and reputation. Same as any marketplace. The difference is that because the money is in escrow, not in a company bank account, even if Bitlance went down tomorrow, funds could still be released by 2 of the 3 keys. That is a safety net traditional platforms cannot offer. "Will clients actually use this?" They already do when it is easier and cheaper. Most clients do not care what the backend is. They care: can I post a job, find good people, pay with a card, and know the work will get done. Bitlance delivers that, and the backend just happens to be Bitcoin. 8. The bigger picture: this is about economic sovereignty When you get paid through a traditional platform, you are a tenant. The platform sets the rules, takes the cut, and can evict you. When you get paid in Bitcoin through a platform like Bitlance, you are a participant in an open network. Think of it like email. Gmail is a great email client, but no one owns email. If Gmail bans you, you can move to Proton and keep your address and contacts. We need that for work. Bitcoin is the open protocol for value. Bitlance is trying to be the open protocol for freelance work on top of it. Portfolios, reviews, and escrow history could eventually be portable. You would not be locked into one marketplace. That matters because the next 10 years of work will be more freelance, more remote, and more global. The payment infrastructure has to match.

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  Pup 🦴🏳️‍⚧️🐾 (@Creamsodac00kie) reported 55 minutes ago

  Hey. I have one cat, two kittens. The two kittens have HORRIBLE eye infections. Nothing is helping them. Our third cat has a possibility of a broken paw. We have do NOT have money for a vet. If I do manage to get like paypal or something I will link it and do commissions.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 55 minutes ago

  Turn on login alerts and payment notifications By default, PayPal sends email confirmations for completed payments. But it doesn't always alert you about new logins, password changes, or account modifications. His friend said: "Go to Settings. Click Notifications. Turn on alerts for everything logins, sent payments, received payments, password changes, linked device changes. Get them via email and push notification." He then showed him the Activity page a full log of every transaction, login, and account event. Most people never scroll through it. He said: "Spend 2 minutes once a month scrolling through your Activity feed. Look for payments you don't recognize, logins from unknown devices, or subscriptions you forgot about. That $2.49/month charge ran for 7 months before you noticed it. If you'd been checking Activity once a month, you'd have caught it after the first charge."

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  Kay {COMMS CLOSED} (@_UnknownArt5) reported 60 minutes ago

  Hey guys! Just had my paypal account get permanently disabled. I have no idea on why or how but they’re keeping all the money i’ve earned from my keychains for up to 180 days. Don’t worry keychains will still be sent out. And any payment problems are now fixed.