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 (48%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Paris	Sign in	1 hour ago
Overland Park	Errors	4 days ago
Lausanne	Errors	4 days ago
Ciudad Jardín	Errors	5 days ago
Abingdon	Sign in	5 days ago
Buffalo	Errors	6 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  nihat (@kurds040) reported 2 minutes ago

  @AnneFerlyn56995 @AskPayPal Did u fix it ? I have same problem

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  We Are All Purple States (@GenevaDunsany) reported 3 minutes ago

  @LacDonna @Dubs4Mutts I don’t use PayPal or Venmo (an offshoot of PayPal) because of problems I’ve had with BOTH. I will donate through a website, through Zelle, and by mail. Provide a mailing address and I’ll send a check.

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  Frankie171717 (@frankie171717) reported 4 minutes ago

  @AnnabethUnbound @calvinrobinson Oh sh!t you diss Fr Calvin for asking for donations and yet you do the same.. Why should I donate to you.. Fix your website first. You are grifting for a few quid on Paypal.

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  LetsCodeTogether (@LetsCodeTogethe) reported 6 minutes ago

  PayPal just cut 20% of staff. Coinbase cut 14%. Both said the same thing: "We're moving to smaller, AI-augmented teams." This isn't a future problem. This is happening right now. The people who learn AI tools today won't be the ones replaced tomorrow What are you doing about it?

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  Jenna Ryan (@realjennaryan) reported 8 minutes ago

  Which lawsuit do you want to know about first? 1. PayPal for public debanking and life destruction? 2. Ebby Halliday for 5 yr monetize defamation in DFW? 3. AUSA Scott Free Gmail Fabrication in DC? 4. Writ of Error in DC from J6? LMK.

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  Milk Road (@MilkRoad) reported 9 minutes ago

  Western Union $WU is down 70% from its 2021 high. Wall Street has written it off as a dying remittance giant getting eaten by Wise, Remitly, PayPal, and crypto. Our lead researcher, @moxt_, thinks Wall St is missing the second business growing in the background (bookmark this). Here's what he's seeing: Yes, the legacy retail business is shrinking. Q1 2026 revenue came in at $983M, margins compressed to 13% from 18-19%, EPS missed by 35-40%. That part isn't coming back. But it's one of two businesses on the same network. Digital transactions grew 21% YoY and now account for 42% of remittance volume. Travel money and bill pay revenue grew 24%. Management is guiding 2026 to 5-8% revenue growth and adjusted EPS of $1.75-$1.85, the first growth year after multiple years of decline. Either guidance is wrong, or the stock pice is. $WU runs 360,000 active agent locations across 200+ countries and 130 currencies. About 90% of those are outside the U.S., concentrated in the corridors where banking access is weakest and remittance demand is highest. Which means the moat isn't the agents themselves, but what has to exist around them: Money transmitter licenses in nearly every U.S. state plus equivalent permissions in 200+ countries, accumulated over a century. AML, KYC, sanctions screening, and FX conversion infrastructure across 130 currencies means any new entrant is looking at a 5-7 year build to replicate it. So does this network get more or less valuable when money moves onchain? The rest of the payments industry is voting with their checkbooks... - PayPal shipped $PYUSD. - Stripe paid $1.1B for Bridge. - Visa is integrating $USDC for cross-border settlement. - MoneyGram has been running a USDC off-ramp on Stellar since 2022. USDC settles in seconds, but a recipient in rural Mexico or the Philippines still needs pesos. Somebody has to handle the last mile. WU already does. @moxt_ maps four revenue streams: 1. Off-ramp fees from third-party stablecoins ($70-810M at maturity) 2. Working capital release from $USDPT ($300M one-time) 3. Reserve income on USDPT float ($12-18M recurring) 4. Internal FX/wire savings. Owning USDPT is what turns WU from a stablecoin off-ramp partner into a stablecoin company that happens to own the largest off-ramp network in the world. All of that said... the risks are real. State-by-state stablecoin reserve recognition could stall, crypto-native off-ramp specialists could fragment the opportunity, legacy pricing pressure could outpace the pivot, and ~35% of CMT revenue comes from U.S. outflows, which makes immigration policy a macro overlay. None individually kills the opportuntiy - but two together would. So is the current price of ~$9.20 enough to justify a position, or do the risks dominate? @moxt_ put a verdict on it in his latest Milk Road PRO report... To get his buy/sell verdict and the price levels he's watching, check the link in the first comment.

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  Edzenebubu Hofe (@meetedzenebubu) reported 9 minutes ago

  The paypal reviews are just terrible at this point.

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  MAN KEV  (@RealManKev) reported 17 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal my account is permanently limited, how do I resolve this issue?

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  💜ANNE JAMIESON 💜 (@AnneDesignz) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Ratwassilly I am interested in working for you Also budget isn't any issue and I am having PayPal

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  Givdul (@givdul123) reported 17 minutes ago

  @ZeeContrarian1 They were expensive, and one can argue that they still are. It all comes down to price. Comparing with PayPal, which in my opinion is a dying business with zero moat, is just stupid.

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  Ballon Dorgu (@owunayo) reported 22 minutes ago

  @real_matawalle @nombahq Many people are having similar issues. They would gaslight you until you forget the money. I have multiple transactions on hold sinmce March. They release some and hold some. @nombahq , is there a secret rule being violated behind the scene unknown to users? THIS IS LIKE PAYPAL!

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  czverse (@czverse) reported 22 minutes ago

  For 30 years, the internet ran on one payment assumption: Humans authorize. Humans approve. Humans pay. Every financial rail ever built assumed a person at the end of the wire. Credit cards - designed for humans. Bank transfers - designed for humans. PayPal - designed for humans. Then on May 7th, AWS flipped a switch. And the assumption broke. AI agents running on Amazon's infrastructure can now pay for things. By themselves. In real money. In 200 milliseconds. No human in the loop. The Coinbase head of infrastructure didn't bury the headline: "There will soon be more AI agents transacting than humans." Here's what they actually built: AWS Bedrock AgentCore Payments. Agents get a wallet. Wallet is funded by a human. Agent spends - within hard limits you set. Settlement happens in USDC on Coinbase Base or Solana. Cost per transaction: fractions of a cent. And the protocol underneath is elegant. It's called x402. Built on HTTP 402 - a status code that's existed since 1991. "Payment Required." Engineers reserved it in the original web specs. Never implemented it - because the financial rails of the 90s couldn't support it. Stablecoin rails can. So x402 is finally live. 30 years later. The use cases are already real: → APIs become pay-per-call - no contracts, no accounts, just transact → MCP servers get paid directly by agents doing research → Paywalled content charges per article - agents pay 5 cents to read → Agents hire other agents and pay them per completed task Warner Bros. Discovery is testing it. Heurist AI is building agent labor markets on top of it. And that creates the question nobody's ready for: What happens to the economy when agents are the buyers? No impulse purchases. No brand loyalty. No UI dark patterns. Agents optimize purely on price, speed, and quality. The machine economy doesn't browse. It transacts. We broke down the full architecture, the x402 protocol, every use case, and the risks in detail. Link in bio. czverse

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  CC Noona (@cc__noona) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Jayworkit If you're having trouble with GBP on Weverse, you might want to check out Ktown4u or Makestar next time! They usually handle different currencies like GBP much better and even accept PayPal. It’s always good to have a backup site just in case! 🥺

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  Hummingbird (@politicalblond) reported 24 minutes ago

  Holy ****!! The PayPal mafia in action…and apparently in control. How are we ever going to bring them down?

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  Joe Gardner (@Tailored_joe) reported 28 minutes ago

  PayPal's real strategic question isn't "can we fix checkout?" It's: when AI agents are initiating trillions in transactions, does PayPal's network become the default settlement layer or does Stripe/Circle/Coinbase get there first? Stripe's private valuation sits at ~$159B vs. PayPal's ~$43B market cap. That gap tells you what the market currently believes. What do you think PayPal's actual moat is in 2026?

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  Kaz (@Sc20506481Karen) reported 28 minutes ago

  Anyone out there in Bitcoin who bought it through PayPal when it was 1.00 help me figure out how to help my friend who only has two passwords written down when he bought 300 bitcoin at 1.00

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  The Based Crusader (@Chomag77) reported 28 minutes ago

  @PPhantomGray @Keniisu They're kind of a monopoly. Not much we can do about it. Stop using their cards? Most banks only offer services with either of these. Most services only accept payment from either of these. PayPal is also corrupt. Only fix is widely spread crypto.

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  Beth Marie Evans (@BethMarieEvans) reported 31 minutes ago

  @9QQI9 I’m ok with the one I have. My son pulled mine off FTX the day that all went down. Some Of my Cripto is also on PayPal.

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  Edward Leo (@leoswealth) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Wealthy_girly There issue with this mama is this PayPal account 😤

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  Sachii Kobayashi~🌸~Vgen (@SachiiArt) reported 33 minutes ago

  @bibi_mei54510 my clients are having issues with paypal too, it says it cant complete the transition or that the merchant is not available or something like that I'm using a personal account, after the first issue I tried to make a business one and... Surprise! paypal had an issue to create it

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  PudgyMaxer (@PudgyMaxer) reported 38 minutes ago

  So let me break down what Pudgy has achieved lately for the ones who live under a rock: - $40M merch revenue - 100B GIF views - Venmo/PayPal integration - ETF filing - Congress testimony - 100k @KASTxyz card signups in 24h

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  Cider (@drakefan92) reported 40 minutes ago

  @siltcurrent My Kofi is completely broken I think I can’t even lie to you so I have like PayPal and Venmo and other ****

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  Senki Dala 🇫🇷🇨🇺 (@senkidala_) reported 44 minutes ago

  @humble Hello, my ticket #2811051 is urgent. I paid with PayPal and I'm waiting for a fix to play this weekend. Please help.

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  Евгений Лоджитеч (@lodzitec) reported 49 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Good day, I've registered an account several times, but my account can't receive funds, even though I'm from Ukraine. Please help me figure out how to fix this. My card has been verified.

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  Jenna Ryan (@realjennaryan) reported 50 minutes ago

  Ryan v. PayPal - This case is debanking--PayPal shutting down Jenna Ryan’s account on January 21, 2021 after she shared a fundraiser link on Twitter and raised approximately $200. She had used her PayPal account for roughly fifteen years. Less than an hour after closing the account, PayPal’s Director of Reputation, Kim Eichorn, spoke to national media outlets, including CBS News, and stated that Jenna had violated PayPal fundraising policies by raising money for purposes other than legal defense. However, no such “legal-defense-only” restriction existed in the user agreement. #ryanvpaypal Ryan was then cancelled from society.

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  Mike Belshe (@mikebelshe) reported 52 minutes ago

  PayPal and Google just confirmed what we built years ago: AI agents need crypto rails. Multi-party custody, programmable transactions, open protocols. Not a future problem — a solved one. Good morning to everyone just figuring this out.

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  scarmat (@QualityGrowthFV) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Dr_Crossroads @KrisPatel99 I know you left PayPal but like for 10 billion more you get a company without debt issues generating 6 bil in fcf buying 15% of the market cap a year. Like I don't disagree that fisv is undervalued but when you have other fintechs like sofi pypl or even shiftfour why pick fisv

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  The Acorn (@Sarah2Dicks) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Lordmiles I'm getting an error trying to use paypal on the site.

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  🇬‌🇱‌🇦‌🇸‌🇰‌🇮‌🇩‌ (@GLAsk1d) reported 54 minutes ago

  @a_street_sign @Tony_Baloney69 It was multiple different websites/apps though. Steam, paypal, etsy etc. Superrrrr strange to not even get a single alert from any of them about a login attempt or code request. 2FA isn't something I deal with a whole lot for what I do so maybe I'm just too uneducated on how it all works lol.

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  𝐣𝐮𝐣𝐮 (@jujuasf) reported 55 minutes ago

  @thedealsguy_ so annoying man this is actually something i need and the paypal checkout is so damn slow