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 (47%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Offenburg	Errors	4 hours ago
Brisbane	Errors	1 day ago
Herblay	Errors	2 days ago
Jacksonville	Errors	2 days ago
Chungju-si	Errors	2 days ago
Montréal	Sign in	2 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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  Habib Saba (@HabibSaba4) reported 35 seconds ago

  @AskPayPal Hello, I'm having trouble logging into my account because I no longer have access to the registered phone number. I can access my email, but I'm stuck at the 2FA step. Calling support is too expensive for me. Can you please help me verify my identity through other means?Thank you

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  Ayere Daniel🇳🇬🇬🇭🇰🇪 (@drey_dr7) reported 47 seconds ago

  @20DollarChicken @Maryine_34 Begging for YOUR own money is crazy 😭 PayPal did same to me. Fix: Tell clients "bank transfer only" now. Cash out via Bybit P2P → instant. No begging. Never again: [check my pinned]

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  InternetHateMob (@InternetHateMob) reported 7 minutes ago

  It is amazing just how bad @PayPal customer service operates. The "AI Assistant" is terrible. I disputed a charge after the vendor gave me the runaround. And PayPal closed the dispute in favor of the seller? Based on what?

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  十べえ (@shimipan) reported 10 minutes ago

  @achthenuts I'll look for other services. The problem is that PayPal is the easiest money transfer service for people overseas. I feel bad making commission requesters use other, more complicated methods.🥲

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  Zethuzz (@Zethuzzzz) reported 13 minutes ago

  @PayPal in spite of setting a default card, you keep withdrawing from the wrong account . Problem did not exist earlier. Why are you making this worse?

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  youtube.com/@ezhdking (@StarR80733) reported 14 minutes ago

  No one gives a **** about ur **** life loser u dont even deserve ur fame u have no talent no skill and now u CRY because paypal blocks ur pennies? Real men DO NOT complain but sit down and grind. Ur a manchild. Grow. The. ****. Up.

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  yuany (@yuany194687) reported 14 minutes ago

  Hey @BeatStars ,I have a payment issue where a 'Successful' sale didn't hit my PayPal or Wallet. Ticket #542882. Can someone look into this?

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  ✪Leslie✪ (@aWh1te_Cr0w) reported 15 minutes ago

  sighhhssss..... i would do commissions ngl but 1) minor and i dont wanna mess with paypal while underage and 2) im terrible with keeping motivation but i also kinda wanna do commissions for royale high diamonds because i love royale high........

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  Shirochenko Dmitriy (@dmshirochenko) reported 15 minutes ago

  Breaking down Balance (@GetBalanceHQ), YC S20 fintech built by ex-PayPal operators Bar Geron and Yoni Shuster. They provide financial infrastructure for B2B commerce: embedded payments, digital trade credit, and B2B BNPL. Core mechanic: Buyers get net terms up to 90 days. Sellers get paid immediately. No more cash flow drag. Targets B2B marketplaces, merchants, and enterprises in chemicals, steel, lumber, retail, food. Live with Alibaba, Instacart Business, Sony, Upwork, Fiverr, FashionGo, B-Stock. Surprising demand signal: Heavy pull from fragmented industries where net terms are a hard execution pain. #Startups

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  DODANING (@DODANING) reported 15 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal What a terrible service they offer, and the customer service is even worse!

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  Vitto (@LaSpadix) reported 18 minutes ago

  99 problems and 1 solution: a 300€ gift on PayPal

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  Leo (@neurolauncher) reported 20 minutes ago

  @maxkarpis Will do Max! Actually there's a really interesting dynamic in the Turkish market right now. For starters global payment systems like PayPal are banned here due to local data regulations. But here the crazy part even though Turkish banks are super modern and issue standard Visa and Mastercards locals still can't use Apple Pay. It’s mostly because of strict data localization laws by the local authorities and local banks not wanting to share commission fees with Apple. So instead of a simple NFC tap Turkish users are forced to unlock their phones, open a specific bank app and scan a QR code just to make a mobile payment. The irony is that as a foreigner I can easily use my overseas Revolut card with Apple Pay everywhere in Istanbul without any issues while my local friends are stuck scanning QR. If revolut can offer a smoother NFC experience or somehow navigate the Apple Pay hurdle tech savvy users will flock to them instantly. With the Lira's volatility giving locals a seamless way to hold exchange, and spend in multiple currencies without massive bank spreads is highly demanded. Actually @getmidas has also stocks and etc but they dont have banking systems. It is just for investors super app The important thing is ending money abroad from a Turkish bank account usually involves high SWIFT fees and terrible UX. Revolut's frictionless P2P and international transfers would solve a huge pain point. I'll definitely keep an eye out and share any updates!

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  BrainHazeFart (@BrainHazeFart) reported 21 minutes ago

  @dreamonworship I am going to send some money I am in the middle of transfering some stuff around and paypal may be fussy slow🥀

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  StreamVOD (@stream_vod1) reported 22 minutes ago

  @richtosho @esther_irene_ That’s the real issue. With Cash app and PayPal not accessible in Nigeria, people are forced to look for other options to receive international payments this just shows how big the gap still is. That’s why personally I use @Vbanapp , it just makes things a lot easier.

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  m. (@adorekem) reported 22 minutes ago

  PayPal need to fix their payment system, all this scheduled payment business is crap take my payment immediately!!!

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  Dave (@Dave93014561487) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care hello, why is paypal not working on the new My one app?

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  Sean Gonzalez (@SeanGon08951848) reported 30 minutes ago

  @LynneBP_294 I never had any real bad issues with PayPal and been using them for over 20yrs.

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  惜缘际渊 (@xiyuanjiyuan) reported 32 minutes ago

  Due to my misunderstanding of PayPal policies, I’ve run into some issues and decided to step away from Twitter and close my account. Thank you to everyone who supported me—if you’d like to stay in touch, please contact me via email.

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  tic toc (@TicTocTick) reported 36 minutes ago

  To the untrained eyes it did pop The problem is it has closed below my own support level That’s not nice All these so called PayPal mafia stocks look like cat **** wrapped in dog 💩 Idk why tho

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  aurora 🌙🐲🪽🦋🪻🫧 (@wishkept) reported 38 minutes ago

  @ecutruin @Xurran @PayPal unfortunately , you are entitled to the artist's process when that artist is selling it as a product to you , that is the point of a commission ☺ it is an artist's responsibility to accommodate you when you are purchasing a custom work from them , and once more , in this particular process the "artist" here *did* share their "progress" however it was not authentic and they continued to story that the art work was their own work without any generative AI tools used lastly , human beings are not omnipotent , so it is not viable for us to magically generate some sort of mind reading ability of foresight to tell the future as to whether or not someone is going to go back on their word or lie outright , the point remains still yet: even if you *did* make an agreement beforehand , that person can still lie , they don't have to honor their word , which is still not the fault nor responsibility of the client when the liar turns out to be the artist who was peddling a product that was dishonest , this is the very core of a "scam" what is the client meant to do ? interrogate them ? there is no guarantee of the truth , even still , the artist continues to double down , this is one particular scenario and though you are attempting to make some kind of blanket statement to defend the potential usage of AI still makes no difference here unfortunately the artist was deceptive , and agreements beforehand or after the fact made no difference , because the artist was questioned and denied the claims , and continued to be unable to produce a commission with the details requested in accuracy , instead what was delivered was inconsistent with what was advertised and the artist's behavior and "progress" provided contradicted the artist's own statements i don't disagree with the latter part of what you are saying , and some people do trace AI , you're right about this , i'm not going to get into a debate about whether it's right or wrong because it has nothing to do with the scenario . artists sometimes trace over real life references or even pictures they took of their selves for poses , sometimes models will model poses and allow artists to use it as a base for free or for cost , so i understand what you're saying . sometimes people are forthcoming about it and other times they are not , sometimes there are people out there who even trace over other artist's works without permission and sell it as their own no AI involved , but we cannot blame clients if the artist is the one who holds the responsibility to be honest about it when it comes to using AI , and the person was not drawing over AI - the luxray had 5 legs , absol has 4 eyes , even if you traced over AI to assist your art work then anyone can debate that elsewhere , but a person who is paying attention to what they're doing is not going to include these blatant mistakes , and there are even more to list . some people are still not able to easily spot AI , and they don't understand; it's still new to some , and it's still new to my friend here , people have to learn to spot it and make their choice as to whether or not they are going to support or or avoid it . but regardless of that , the artist explained away even these glaring issues as her own works , which , if it even had been true , then perhaps there is even more of an issue than the simple usage of AI . still , this is the whole purpose of making a TOS , which the artist must do; it makes no sense for that responsibility to be on the client , because it is not their business and they are not the ones who are held to account for the invoices . if you're trying to say that commissioning someone in good faith without witnessing a TOS first is unwise , then i can't entirely disagree with you , but the responsibility is still on the person who was dishonest . people may try new things and be unaware , and that's just something that happens . i've been scammed before by people who didn't even use AI , this was well over a decade ago and AI wasn't really a thing - they just simply chose not to complete the commission . i don't bear any resentments towards them or anything , so i'm not attempting to detract , i'm just saying that we cannot always prevent or predict what someone is going to do to us , so it's unfair to expect a client to be all knowing , they are not running the business , they are merely a patron and if the business owner takes advantage of the patrons , then who is at fault ? we can only know what we know until further information is revealed , and the artist here was still revealed to be deceptive in the end . perhaps it is a learning lesson for the client , sure , but for the artist , if they are not willing to operate truthfully , what can be done ? there is no willingness to change the structure of the business nor admit to the fact that AI was used , she's already determined that , which cannot be helped . we cannot force others to concede , but stand by our own convictions

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  Dustin (@r0ck3t23) reported 39 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel and David Sacks were going to write a book about PayPal. Elon Musk’s chapter was titled “The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk.” The PayPal Mafia. The sharpest venture minds of a generation. People who had built with Musk. Watched him operate up close. They thought he was out of his mind. Thiel: “When Elon was building both Tesla and SpaceX in the 2000s, people thought he was just really, really crazy.” This was not the press misunderstanding a founder. This was his own people. And they were not wrong by accident. They were wrong by design. Because the framework everyone uses to calculate risk is built on one assumption. That the laws governing what is possible are fixed. Musk did not share that assumption. Thiel figured that out later. Thiel: “If one of the two companies had succeeded, you would say, well, maybe he still got really lucky. But when two out of two companies that people thought were completely harebrained both succeed, you have to reassess.” One success is luck. Two is a different kind of intelligence entirely. Musk was simultaneously trying to privatize space and electrify transportation. Two industries with the most entrenched players on Earth. Two that had eaten billions in failed attempts. Two that governments spent decades trying to move and couldn’t. He did both. At the same time. Nearly went bankrupt doing it. And came out the other side owning both. That is not luck. That is not even genius. That is a different relationship with reality itself. The conventional risk model measures one thing. The probability of losing what you already have. Capital at risk. Downside scenarios. Protect the position. Musk was running a different equation entirely. He was calculating the cost of not trying. The risk of building a reusable rocket and failing is a rounding error. The risk of humanity remaining trapped on a single planet forever is not. The conventional investor sees a 90% chance of losing everything and calls it irrational. Musk saw a 100% chance of civilizational stagnation if no one moved and called that the real risk. The math was never wrong. The lens was just incomprehensibly larger. Thiel: “Somehow the rest of us are too risk-averse, or there’s something about risk he knows that we don’t.” That is Peter Thiel. One of the most ruthless, clear-eyed thinkers in venture capital history admitting the model broke. Not that Musk got lucky. That the rest of them were running a flawed framework and didn’t know it. That should keep you up at night. Because if the PayPal Mafia had the wrong model, the question is not whether Musk is exceptional. The question is how many other things the conventional framework is catastrophically wrong about right now. How many ideas getting buried today look obvious in ten years. How many founders are being told they don’t understand risk when they are the only ones who do. The chapter never got written. The man it was supposed to warn us about built two of the most important companies in human history instead. They are still writing the explanation. He already moved on to the next impossible thing.

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  Marie Claire (@CouerMarie) reported 43 minutes ago

  @qatarairways Am a disappointed client from Germany ,it’s hard to reach your customer support and also to get refund from PayPal for flight cancellation 7PQPIQ.And 7QIAW more than 35 days and still pending .kindly fix this .

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  David Solheim (@davidtsolheim) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Austen I feel like we are at the stage before people trusted paypal where "there's no way i'd trust the internet with my bank account information". Slow and steady, then all at once.

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  David Dent (@ddent366) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Owlizard Ah I see now. They couldn't make the payment at the level they booked. If it were once or twice I might add with bad wi-fi / early Patreon and Paypal I used to have trouble connecting my payment methods but this seems rather a large number not just one or two?

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  ⁷💜케이트🐳 (@chrryblossomjin) reported 50 minutes ago

  @hope_hobi_11 Aw really?? I don't have paypal anymore cause I deleted it after all that weverse concert trouble 🫠 but I could mail you the money for it! I've done that tons of times with another army friend

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  Anakhelon (@Anakhelon) reported 52 minutes ago

  @GamingWithNuke @KrestoTheArtist The problem isnt really ISPs, its payment processors. If they cant make money they won't do it. If Visa/Mastercard/PayPal etc all say no go to processing the "donation". then they cant make money off of it.

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  Shae🍪 (@UbaeShae) reported 52 minutes ago

  @JuriJin_vt @Vixsial The other crazy thing I remember was him needing to use multiple PayPal accounts cause he would have “issues”. He even used his cousin’s account and apparently she wasn’t aware of what it was for. Then she was scared cause she was getting threats on his behalf, so the admin

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  Slaves and Skunks Brazil (@like_farts) reported 53 minutes ago

  I APOLOGIZE TO EVERYONE WHO MADE A PURCHASE AND HAS NOT YET RECEIVED ACCESS TO THE DOWNLOAD. THIS ISSUE IS RELATED TO MY "ITCH IO" ACCOUNT LINKED WITH "PAYPAL", WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNDER A REVIEW PERIOD. I EXPECT EVERYTHING TO BE WORKING PROPERLY BY TOMORROW.

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  Bwire♊ (@Bwire_254KE) reported 54 minutes ago

  @dexxe I'm getting a panic attack, my Mpesa App suddenly stalled not working anymore, uninstalled it so that I can install it afresh. Checked playstore and its not there, has been replaced by my oneAssApp which isn't compatible with my phone. Can't make a withdrawal from Paypal am stuck

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  Marwane (@MarwaneResub) reported 58 minutes ago

  @AnthonyEclipse Exactly. And the chargeback problem goes deeper than just the supplier. Most stores hitting that wall are still processing everything through Stripe or PayPal — one flag and your getting shutdown.