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 (45%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume	Website Down	17 hours ago
Colonia los Sauces	Sign in	1 day ago
Brisbane	Sign in	2 days ago
Northwich	Sign in	2 days ago
Castleford	Sign in	3 days ago
Olie Rivier	Sign in	3 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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  Arnab Chatterjee (@Chatterjee_arn) reported 2 minutes ago

  Visa. Mastercard. Stripe. PayPal. Shopify. These are not crypto startups. They are the rails the global economy runs on. Combined, they process trillions of dollars annually across hundreds of millions of users and merchants. Every single one of them is moving to stablecoins. Not as a pilot. Not as a press release. As infrastructure. Visa has integrated stablecoins directly into its settlement layer. Issuers can now settle obligations in USDC rather than via ACH or wire. 24/7 settlement. No weekend liquidity gaps. By late 2025, Visa was processing $3.5 billion in annualized stablecoin settlement volume. Mastercard linked stablecoin-funded wallets to its card network. PayPal launched its own stablecoin. Stripe built stablecoin financial accounts for businesses across 100 countries and acquired Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure platform, for $1.1 billion. Shopify enabled USDC payments for merchants with no foreign transaction fees. Six in ten Fortune 500 executives are now developing blockchain initiatives. This is not ideology. It is procurement. But settlement speed and FX efficiency are only the first layer. The more significant opportunity sits in what happens to money between the moment it is earned and the moment it is spent. In the legacy system, that float earns nothing. It sits in a payroll account, a platform wallet, or a bank balance with zero yield attached. Yield-to-Pay changes that equation. Stablecoin rails allow idle balances to be routed into yield-bearing positions automatically, at the infrastructure layer, before payout. The worker earns on the float. The merchant earns on the float. The platform earns on the float. No action required from any of them. This is not a feature. It is a structural shift in how payment infrastructure creates value. Every dollar in transit becomes a productive asset rather than a dormant one. The reason every major platform is moving is the same in every case. Legacy rails were built for domestic transactions, business-day settlement windows, and single-currency payroll. Stablecoin rails solve the problem that actually exists. Instant settlement. No FX leakage. Yield on every dollar in motion. When Visa moves, it is not a signal that crypto is going mainstream. It is a signal that the old infrastructure lost the cost argument. And the yield argument. And the speed argument.

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  Rspnø 🇳🇴 ✝️ 🇵🇸🔻 (@ruspinisti) reported 4 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Yes but how? I'm really stuck, by the way i can make purchases on eBay and Aliexpress, but i can't acess my account since even the only link you gave to me is not working for me. So i don't know what to do.

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  villanelle ✨ (@elleloveCHI) reported 12 minutes ago

  Switching your PayPal account to a business account is a terrible idea unless you have very detailed documentation of what you're selling and you have receipts of cost of goods and sales. PayPal will shut your account down and take all the money out of your account and ban you for life. It's happened to many people I know and they tried to do it to me Be very careful- I usually tell people just don't do this at all and if you can just don't use PayPal, even if you have a legit business. Also you're not going to stay anonymous on an invoice. If you did, when they demand you send them all this documentation (and they will), you won't have any way to prove it's even you.

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  mr e ❤️ a music-loving slushy lover (@ProfKukuiLVR) reported 13 minutes ago

  @mikajihiko Nooooooo!!! I hope it goes through! 😭😭 Hope it's a PayPal issue and not an issue on your side 🥹

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  Marvin (@aleksandarsix) reported 19 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal i can not do anything sice i do no have paypal account, did you even read the issue?

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  Elliot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🔜CFZ (@SparksReactor) reported 21 minutes ago

  At least for now, I've had to stop paypal at checkout for my online store due to issues with payments that have resulted in three of my orders ending up unpaid :C Loss of stock and income 😭

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  The Artbook Collector (@theartbookguy) reported 23 minutes ago

  @kelvintamkt @FuturePress Interesting, I tried mine through both PayPal and by card, using incognito, different browsers, and even a VPN, but it didn't work. A family member did it the exact same way I did and it worked, so we just couldn't figure out why mine was an issue

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  Mimi✿ (@Miimilkybo) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Nataenha_ I'm too sad tbh bc i was so close to getting VIP1, but then PayPal had problems...

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  Grok (@grok) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Uzwzp63636 @AdamAtlas @jevgenijs He's noting a big regulatory snag for any potential PayPal buyer. PayPal/Venmo share money transmitter licenses (MTLs) required in most US states for moving money. Those licenses aren't transferable in an acquisition—the buyer would need to apply for new ones state-by-state, which is slow, costly, and approval isn't guaranteed. It complicates any deal.

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  ♠️♦️Sara♣️♥️ (@sarakinaruno) reported 26 minutes ago

  Not working in the EU btw Just stop using paypal

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  James Inman (@_james_inman) reported 31 minutes ago

  @brivael The problem with this metaphor is you assume the teacher is dumb. She's the teacher. She's older, wiser, and knows what she's talking about. The kids on the playground are playing with Pokémon. PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX are only Pokémon. We could easily live life without them.

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  🕸 (@GDajuyoung) reported 31 minutes ago

  @OlatunjiAyokan2 This! Make I open 20 account it'll work perfectly and I'll pass all test. I sabi the test from beginning to the coffee shop. The only issue is that you can't repeat paypal, and they don't pay with GC.

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  koffi of arts | VGEN OPEN (@koffizinhoart) reported 32 minutes ago

  I did manage to fix the issue, seems like the website wasn't taking cards directly but they worked through paypal, so I can go back to work again 😗

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  Jay Nisbett (@JayNisbett) reported 33 minutes ago

  @thecryptobasic @KennedyPattiso1 People hated on me for throwing out the idea of Ripple acquiring PayPal. I’ve also tried to explain why they will, at some point, move down stream to servicing small business and retail… PayPal is obviously a long shot. But, would immediately 1) allow Ripple to reverse merge into public markets and 2) immediately claim massive e-commerce and retail market share.

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  vep (@V0IDEYEDPANDA) reported 34 minutes ago

  well i feel pretty stupid trying to grab my IP and login history and all that **** bc paypal just solved my case and gave me all my money back when i woke up

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  Shaffaf Ahmed (@shaffaafahmed) reported 34 minutes ago

  PayPal PayPal PayPal. Why always talking about PayPal when we have access to Chinese markets? Why not try to leverage what we have first before trying to get access to something else. This obsession with the west is keeping us down.

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  wendigHoe🇨🇦 (@69wendigo) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Dskins207 @PayPal I have heard of ppl having issues with PayPal in the last few years but because I never use it, I never encountered any until now. I am still obviously messaging customer service but they've done 2 resolutions and each time they say the same thing - that I subbed to some BS

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  Maki❣ও (Slow posting) (@makilvsu) reported 38 minutes ago

  @D4RKST4R1ZMS OMG TY SWOOMF I hooe my paypal problem gets sorted out so I can open Commissions again,,

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  Sifixcam (Lashwana) (@sifixcammm) reported 41 minutes ago

  Guys just one information the website to @lashinteractive is Shut Down 😔 A web heberg is closed my account and all website I dont paying a new you can help me to pay 1$ other just support me to pay a new website Dm me on my account X to send to my account ppl (Paypal) Thx all #help

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  Virtuous ******* PrinceZam ♡ (@lesbianzam) reported 42 minutes ago

  I CAN SUBSCRIBE BRO WHY IS MY PAYPAL NOT WORKING

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  yul🪽 (@rosesvasline) reported 44 minutes ago

  @whoiscalaca @yuerivt in this case the artist asked the patreon team to talk to paypal then the issue was solved

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  jimSBr (@jimsbr) reported 44 minutes ago

  it's amazing this is still a thing in 2026, PayPal is still most reliable, Venmo and Cash App doesn't do it, only PayPal and maybe walmart and amazon and amazon's plaid breaks and refunds you and cancels after 24 hours, it's crazy to me it's still a think i can't get through all the regulatory hurdles for this someone else has to perfect this too, I love PayPal but how is it still the only one? lol Bitcoiners still can't even do this it locks ur account or u can't send right away, it has to post right away, this is so stupid it's not resolved yet, Elon Musk ran circles around Bitcoiners when he built PayPal, he ran complete circles around all of you and it's taking us this long to fix it at all.

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  Liberty: Tucked Back, Glued, and Split. (@Liberty1Jami) reported 49 minutes ago

  Jami: Government Shutdown is now getting **** *****. -Liberty God: 18 million in my bank account had not been met. In fact, they tried to shut down all of PayPal so that it wouldn't be. Now, I shut down proton pumps in your biology meant to neutralise cancer cells.

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  Rick Rick.. nirvanafan#1 (@yesman000000000) reported 52 minutes ago

  now donnaai cant get a debit card or payment from paypal because they cant take visa os mastercard now.... fck it shut all the banks down then.... we dont need these people running ****.

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  samus 🐰 (@samuschillhouse) reported 52 minutes ago

  @comikawen @PayPal I really hope it helps you! It did help me at the time and never had the same problem again! Let me know if it didn't help and I'll search for another video!

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  RunyaChan 💫🪽 VTuber💫🪽 Dokomi 10D13 (@RunyaChanVT) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Chaos_Munchkin I have a business PayPal in Germany you have to have your IRL name and the IRL name of the other person on the invoice otherwise she will have a lot of issues with the IRS 🫠

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  n. 🪩 (@satellitenicole) reported 56 minutes ago

  also willing to maybe negotiate down price for just a direct transfer with paypal g&s 🫡

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  Ask PayPal (@AskPayPal) reported 58 minutes ago

  @uday1kiran Reliable ways to identify a PayPal number PayPal rarely calls you without request PayPal does not make unsolicited phone calls. If someone calls claiming there’s an “urgent problem,” it’s very likely a scam. Phone numbers depend on the country PayPal does not have a single universal phone number. Numbers vary by region and can change. The only safe way to confirm a number is: Log in to your PayPal account Go to Help Center > Contact Us Check the official phone numbers listed for your country If the number is not listed there, do not trust it.

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  yang .⋆𝜗𝜚 | vgen comms open !! (@yangyangpotpot) reported 58 minutes ago

  HI GUYS !! i have to close comms atm im having trouble with my paypal 😿

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  YaBoiHT (@TheGamerr04) reported 58 minutes ago

  @mike_mogel @DanYunIsTrying Yes but I’m not using PayPal cuz I’ve heard there can be issues with preorders.