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 (35%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Châteauroux	Website Down	2 days ago
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	4 days ago
Athis-Mons	Errors	4 days ago
Perth	Sign in	5 days ago
Courbevoie	Sign in	5 days ago
Kassel	Sign in	10 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  MUGOBA RUI (@Xx0MUGOBAxXRUI) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Brx98847 There was PayPal but it got taken down by PayPal itself.

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  Alan Gałecki – Financial-Engineering.net (@Fin_Eng_Net) reported 4 minutes ago

  @BigMacAttack41 I used them with my business account for my blog. First in parallel to stripe. stripe works smoothly. with PayPal, I had issues, until it was so annoying that I ditched them.

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  Mister K (COMMS closed...) (@mister_k_lgt) reported 7 minutes ago

  Hi everyone! Sorry for the absence ive been working on some commissions, however im gonna have to pause any new ones as I'm having paypal issues fml

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  InvestmentGuru (@InvestmentGuru_) reported 9 minutes ago

  $PYPL down -15% in PM Advent, Stripe Are Said to Abandon $50 Billion Pursuit of PayPal

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  Ringside (@Ringside_Daily) reported 10 minutes ago

  PayPal is down 11.60% to $54.34 after Advent and Stripe abandoned their pursuit. The group had offered $60.50 a share in mid-July, valuing PayPal north of $50 billion. The board considered that price inadequate. The stock now trades about 10% below the bid it turned down.

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  John Davis (@JohnDav42688049) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak They are gigantic phaggots. I remember selling my WoW account long ago when I was 13. Made 200 bucks, next day it charged back because it was apparently a ‘stolen’ paypal account. Why is it my ******* problem some retarded boomer gave his account details away to a 75 iq pajeet.

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  Dear Jesus (@PrayingtoJesus2) reported 12 minutes ago

  Breakdown of the good news… 1. Shifting AI Off-Planet (The Energy Crisis Fix) The biggest hidden genius of the SpaceXAI / xAI merger is solving the global power crisis. Terrestrial AI data centers are consuming an unsustainable amount of Earth's electricity grid. [1] •What's Coming: SpaceX has filed to operate up to 1 million orbital data center satellites. •The Loop: Musk plans to use Starship to launch massive AI compute clusters directly into space. These space-based data centers will run on 100% pure, uninterrupted solar energy, bypassing Earth's power constraints completely. Starlink will then beam the AI processing power down to Earth instantaneously. [1, 2, 3] 🤖 2. The Internal "Circular Economy" Musk designs his companies so they don't have to rely on traditional, fragile global supply chains. Instead, his companies are their own primary customers. [1, 2] •Tesla’s factory labor: When Tesla rolls out its mass-produced Optimus Humanoid Robots, they won't be sold to the public first. They will be deployed inside Tesla’s own automotive factories to solve labor shortages and cut manufacturing costs to almost zero. [1] •The Compute Loop: The ultra-powerful AI chips designed by Tesla for its self-driving Robotaxis are funneled directly back to xAI to train newer versions of Grok. Nothing is wasted. [1] 🏦 3. Rewriting the Global Financial System Musk's oldest obsession is rebuilding the way money moves through the economy itself—a plan he has had since his early 1999 PayPal days. [1] •What's Coming: X is transitioning into an all-in-one financial hub. •The Loop: By integrating high-yield banking, peer-to-peer payments, and instant stock trading directly into X, Musk will have direct, frictionless access to hundreds of millions of retail investors. The next time a company like Neuralink or The Boring Company needs capital, his followers will be able to fund it natively in seconds, effectively cutting Wall Street banks completely out of the equation. [1] 🔮 The End Game: Post-Scarcity Economy Musk has openly predicted that by 2036, the combination of autonomous humanoid robots and advanced AI will create an "age of abundance" where goods and services are so cheap that traditional money will become almost meaningless. [1, 2] He isn't managing money to accumulate cash in a bank account. He is spending every dollar he can get his hands on now to control the core infrastructure of the future: the transport (SpaceX), the intelligence (xAI), and the automation (Tesla). [1, 2] If you'd like, we can focus on what is closest on the horizon: •Do you want to see how space-based AI data centers will actually work? •Are you curious about when the Optimus robots are scheduled to take over Tesla's assembly lines? [1, 2]

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  King Poot-Poot (@KingPootPoot) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak Paypal is reliable in the way they will ignore you for weeks, spike your cortisol for a few days, then actually fix your problem perfectly

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  Ashley Nichole (@JanessaEvane) reported 15 minutes ago

  @JeffTeters @PayPal @AskPayPal They’re always so slow I’m done using that.

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  Volodya (@vladimirdotcom) reported 15 minutes ago

  Just pieced together the $KLAR boardroom saga. It deserves the long read. 2005: three students found Klarna — Siemiatkowski, Jacobsson, Adalberth. Their idea takes one of the last places at a business-plan competition. An angel funds them anyway. 2010: Sequoia invests. Michael Moritz — the man who wrote the firm’s checks into Yahoo, Google and PayPal, later Stripe — takes the board seat himself. 2012: Jacobsson leaves. Company worth roughly $1 BN. As far as I know he never builds anything again. Instead he spends 14 years quietly accumulating Klarna stock, using founder pre-emption rights to buy out other holders — much of it at down-round prices. By the IPO filing he holds 8.8% of the company. More than the CEO’s 7.4%. And he keeps a proxy on the board. 2015: Adalberth leaves too — sells most of his stake, builds a foundation, stays on good terms. That’s what a clean exit looks like. Remember the contrast. Meanwhile Siemiatkowski builds: Germany, the banking license, the US, 26 countries, 120m users. Before the IPO he borrows $112m against his own shares to buy MORE stock. At the $40 IPO he sells zero. July 2023: Moritz retires from Sequoia after 38 years — but keeps the Klarna chairmanship, now as a private individual. January 2024: Sequoia needs a new board rep. Enter Matt Miller, 12 years at the firm. Track record: one win (Confluent), one zero (Graphcore, written off in 2022). (Side note - compare it with what Moritz achieved as an investor) February 2024, six weeks into the seat: Miller files to remove Moritz as chairman — aligned with Jacobsson’s camp. Here’s the part I can’t get over. Miller inherited his firm seat from a man half the industry would work for free just to sit in the room with — and moved against him within six weeks. You can call it governance. The market called it something else… It lasts a week. Siemiatkowski flies to San Francisco. Sequoia withdraws the request and publicly apologizes: we fully support Michael as chairman. Miller is pulled off the board, by December he’s out of Sequoia entirely. Truly deserved. October 2024: the board votes out Jacobsson’s proxy after 8 years. Weeks later, Klarna files for its IPO. Then the epilogue. March 2026, lockup week, the overhang everyone feared: Moritz puts $49.9m of his own money in at an average of $14.37. August 2026, eight days after a guidance cut crushed the stock 23%: Siemiatkowski buys ~$10m at $14.37. Same price, six months apart, from the two people who know this company best. Moritz’s whole career is one repeated bet — back the unconsensus founder. Brin and Page. He says it himself in every interview. At $14 he made that bet again: his own money, against his own former firm’s coup, for the founder he’s watched for 16 years. Two camps fought for this company. One built it. The other accumulated it. The builders won every round — and then bought the dip. I’m long $KLAR. Pick your side.

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  💚🍃~Ivern Wife~ 🍂 💚 (@Ivernnator) reported 19 minutes ago

  A couple of days ago, my PayPal app was updated, and I find it incredibly slow, tedious, and unintuitive. Does anyone else feel the same way? :(

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  David Chijioke Eze (@Ezedavid1994) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Kasablanka16590 @RizoWeb3 Listing of $PI by PayPal will give PI Network facelift in the US and i believe it'll start paying off really soon. Meanwhile, pioneers are really the issue as majority don't hold. I believe that when SMC is live on mainnent & DEX too, the real potential of Pi Network'll be seen

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  Nana Poku (@asaberekwame) reported 23 minutes ago

  @KobinaMensahUTD @ike_milan I am serious oo, didn't know 35gb wouldn't be able to last me 3weeks and I spend my money finish Would have done the unlimited if I knew Unless you and @ike_milan send me £3/5 each on PayPal so I can top up oo na i am stuck in Cornwall with a break down

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 24 minutes ago

  NOTHING HAPPENED AT PAYPAL $PYPL ON FRIDAY. THE STOCK STILL FELL 12.7%: PayPal PYPL at $53.66, -$7.81 / -12.71% from Thursday's $61.47 close. Short answer: a group that wanted to buy PayPal said never mind, and the price everyone had been paying walked out with them. Picture a trading card at recess. A kid offers you a big stack for yours. You say no, not enough. Now the whole table talks about your card as if it is worth that stack, and a few say even more, figuring the offer will get bigger. Then the kid shrugs and goes to lunch. Same card. Same picture on it. The number people say out loud goes back down. That is Friday, exactly. In mid-July two privately held companies - Stripe, which handles payments for online businesses, and Advent International, an investment firm that buys whole companies - offered $60.50 a share for all of PayPal, about $53B. The board said too low. Talks ran into August over a bigger number. Friday, Bloomberg reported the two had quit. Watch the price in between. On July 14, before anyone knew, the shares closed at $47.37. Thursday they closed at $61.47 - 97 cents ABOVE the $60.50 actually on the table. People were paying more than the buyers had offered, betting the offer would rise. Friday that bet came off, on 36.3M shares against about 12.1M on an ordinary day, roughly three times normal. Here is how big $7.81 is. PayPal expects to earn about $5.38 a share this year, once some one-off items are stripped out. The price fell by more than a full year of expected profit in one day, over a decision nobody at PayPal made. The business did not budge. Its July 28 report, for the three months ended June 30: net revenue - the money coming in the door - $8.68B, +5%; payments crossing its systems $486.4B, +10%; free cash flow, the cash left after running the business and buying its equipment, $1.78B. It bought back $6.0B of its own stock over the past year and pays $0.14 a share, next landing September 25. The Quality-Value Len5 is watching this one, eleventh on that list. That Len5 wants a strong business you are not overpaying for. Strong is the easy half: 439 million accounts and a payments network nobody rebuilds overnight. Friday made the other half cheaper, at roughly 10 times what PayPal says it will earn this year. What would firm it up is profit growing again - transaction profit, what PayPal keeps from each payment after the cost of moving it, rose 1% last quarter while the payments themselves rose 10%. That gap is the real argument, and no buyer was ever going to settle it. For a curious grown-up, that 1% is the line to follow at the next report, not the deal headlines. Friday took nothing away from PayPal. It took away somebody else's willingness to pay for it. Not investment advice.

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  Aydın Nasuh (@aydinasuh) reported 26 minutes ago

  @ZidaneZ08902030 @ShubHQcom Neither, from what I can see, and that is the part that surprised me. My scoring tags sentiment per mention, not the reason, so I cannot give you a clean split. But I can check whether payments show up as a problem theme at all, and they do not. This week's e-commerce themes are unfair reviews, Meta Ads instability, account suspensions, dropshipping quality, margin pressure. Cumulatively it is shipping, inventory, ad costs, tax, account holds, chargebacks. No payments theme anywhere. Meanwhile Stripe has 130 mentions and PayPal 143. So payment tools never become the subject of a post. They get mentioned inside a post about something else, usually when a payout is held or a chargeback lands. That is what 65 percent neutral and zero percent positive actually looks like. Nobody writes about their processor. They write about the thing that went wrong around it. Your question exposed a real gap though. Reason tagging is going on the list.

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  Studio Jimmy (@heystudiojimmy) reported 27 minutes ago

  One of the best moments of building @usefelar so far. A producer just signed up and messaged me: “I had to leave BeatStars because of the PayPal issue.” This is exactly why I’m building FELAR. Producers shouldn’t have to give up selling their music because they can’t access a payment method. We’re fixing that. 🧡

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  CHItrader (@CHItrader) reported 31 minutes ago

  PAYPAL LOSES THE BIDDER $PYPL is getting the deal premium ripped out after Advent and Stripe walked from a $60.50 / ~$53B tilt. Stock closed $61.47. Premarket is sitting around $53, down ~13–15%. 🔹 Board already called the bid light 🔹 Rally this quarter was the rumor. Now it’s the business

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  Matt Zylbert (@MattZylbert) reported 35 minutes ago

  @zqyso @yElff_ For the 1030482nd time, it's to directly deposit into betting accounts thru Venmo/PayPal since bank gives issues for whatever reason

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  The stock broker investor (@teechongyen) reported 40 minutes ago

  @bols_daniel For PayPal to work as an investment, u only need these people who are slow to change to keep using PayPal/venmo for 8 more years. 8 years of constant FCF, PayPal is free.

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  apollo440 | money (@0xApollo440) reported 42 minutes ago

  PayPal is supposed to be the old payments company. Stripe was willing to pay more than $53 billion for it. PayPal still has 439 million active accounts and processed $486 billion in payment volume last quarter. My read: Stripe wasn't trying to buy better payment software. It was trying to buy something much harder to build from scratch. Distribution. You can replace checkout software. You can build better APIs. Getting hundreds of millions of accounts to already know your name, trust the button and have a payment method attached is a different problem. Stripe and Advent eventually walked away from the bid. But the attempt itself says something. Sometimes disruption kills the product long before it kills the network around it.

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  NoCreaturesWereHarmed (@NoCWereHarmed) reported 43 minutes ago

  Apparently PayPal was having some issues so I added stripe in the meantime. PayPal should be straightened out by Tuesday as they need those test deposits to clear in my new business account. You can buy via Stripe now.

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  Zyphor (@Zyphorrl) reported 44 minutes ago

  Einstein never made a dollar from relativity. The Wright brothers flew the first plane and died broke. Every railroad baron who connected a continent went bankrupt. They created everything. They captured nothing. Google made $50,000,000,000 in one year selling search. Airlines moved 800,000,000 passengers and made approximately zero profit across their entire 100-year history. One is more important to civilization. The other is worth four times more. Peter Thiel spent one Stanford lecture explaining why - and why most people have it completely backwards. This is Stanford, How to Start a Startup. He called it Competition is for Losers. He opens with one formula: value created times percent captured. X times Y. The mistake everyone makes is thinking X and Y move together. Then the lies. Monopolies pretend they are not monopolies - Google calls itself an advertising company. 3.5% of a $500,000,000,000 market. Not a monopoly - just a minnow in an ocean. Startups with nothing unique do the opposite. They call themselves the only British restaurant in Palo Alto. Then the small market rule. Amazon started as a bookstore. PayPal started with 20,000 eBay power sellers. Facebook started with 10,000 people at Harvard - 0 to 60% market share in 10 days. Everyone called these markets too small to matter. That was the point. Then last mover. 75% of a tech company's value comes from cash flows after year 10. First mover gets a one-third **** advantage. Last mover wins the game. The question is never who got there first. The question is who stays. Then the personal story. Thiel graduated Stanford, got a job at a top New York firm everyone wanted to enter and everyone wanted to leave. Left after 7 months and 3 days. A colleague told him: it's reassuring to see you leave. I had no idea it was possible to escape from Alcatraz. All you had to do was walk out the front door. Watch the moment he redefines loser. We think losers are people who can't compete. He argues the real losers are the ones who compete hardest - in markets so crowded that winning means capturing nothing. A founder I know replayed this before turning down a Series A that wanted him to go after a larger market. Said it was the first time saying no to money felt like strategy rather than fear. Free on YouTube, Stanford. bookmark this and watch later - after this lecture every crowded market you see will feel like a sign someone already lost

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  Expose the Diddycrats (@Diddycrats_suck) reported 46 minutes ago

  Just canceled my @PAYPAL acct. Cust SVC is ALL AI, terrible CO that WON"T help u. BEWARE!

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  AlphAi.io (@alphai_io) reported 51 minutes ago

  @SpecialSitsNews The bid was $60.50 a share and PayPal closed at $61.47, above it, which is what let the board call the offer inadequate. The premium being marked down this morning was already gone yesterday. Only after today's fall does $PYPL trade below that bid. Per the Bloomberg report.

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  Tim's Wealth Letter (@timswealth) reported 53 minutes ago

  In our portfolio, PayPal fell 12.7% on Friday to $53.66 after Advent and Stripe walked away. The board had rejected their $60.50 a share as too low. The shares are now 11.3% below the offer it turned down. Generac fell 6.8%.

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  indie🐈‍⬛ is in forced recov💔 (@biscoffoats12) reported 54 minutes ago

  depop and PayPal are so useless I have issues with payment every time, I bought those shoes and got charged $170 TWICE but the seller hasn't even got my payment on PayPal? it's so hard to file a dispute and you have to wait ages to hear back wtf I'm not buying from depop anymore

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  David R (@rvderman) reported 55 minutes ago

  99% of people have never heard of Paxos most people in crypto and fintech have a big portion still cannot tell you what we actually do for starters, Paxos became the first regulated blockchain company in 2015 ethereum launched right after the point was never crypto price go up it was (still is) that this technology could rebuild how money and assets move two jobs • wallet infrastructure - the hidden engine when you tap buy/sell/hold crypto inside Paypal or Schwab • tokenization - take dollars in a bank or gold in a vault and issue a digital version Paxos legally stands behind. PYUSD for Paypal USDG for the global dollar network the real mission sits under both replatform the financial system not a a new everything app / exchange not the next coin cycle $900 trillion of assets are illiquid, high-enry-cost bring it all on chain any asset any time any place in a trustworthy way that is the goal

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  bottomsniper (@ddw88523) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Neogun5 @Ibarragan19 I thought the same about PayPal. Then it went down more from 60 to 38

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  Pro Buyer (@Naan424495) reported 58 minutes ago

  Hii. I’m broke but would anyone be down to do a makeup selfie for 5$? I use PayPal! And my telegram is Capkrunch Also can do Apple Pay or throne Last post of today:) #buyingcontent

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  dragon(commission open) (@draconic_scourg) reported 59 minutes ago

  after a longggggg time trying to fix my PayPal I discover that it's useless if you have 17, time for use steam as a pay method (valve is superior)