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 (42%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Milan	Sign in	15 hours ago
Hamburg	Errors	2 days ago
Paris	Errors	2 days ago
Ciboure	Sign in	3 days ago
Forbach	Errors	3 days ago
Brussels	Errors	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  ʸᵃˢᵘ. (@Yazulu_) reported 7 minutes ago

  @CookedUpThoodp @stupidnerd__ Yo bro, im so sorry, im not! I have this problem with my paypal, so, i cant receive any money that its not Reais (🇧🇷). It sucks, but i appreciate!!

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  xiisalt ✈️ Japan Expo H6-N754, OFFKAI (@xiisalt_) reported 9 minutes ago

  No updates on items stuck in customs Please also be ready with cash or PayPal! My data is not working 😭

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  World Monitoring Center (@WMC_WORLD) reported 9 minutes ago

  Bill Gates daughter runs a shopping app that secretly took credit for sales it never made. Here's what happened: When you buy something online after clicking a link from a website or app, that website or app gets a small cut of the sale from the store, as a thank you for sending you there. It only gets that money if it actually sent you there. Phia is a shopping app made by Phoebe Gates, daughter of Bill Gates, and her co-founder Sophia Kianni. It tells you where to find the cheapest price and best discount codes. It has 1.2 million downloads in the last year and raised $43.5 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and celebrities like Sydney Sweeney, Khloe Kardashian, and Hailey Bieber. Bloomberg tested the app along with a researcher named Ben Edelman and a rival app called Capital One Shopping. They checked more than 50 shopping websites, including #Walmart, #Nike, and #Zara. Here is what they found. When someone was about to finish buying something, Phia's app secretly opened a hidden browser tab in the background, without the person clicking anything or asking for it. That hidden tab quietly told the store "this sale came from Phia," then closed itself within seconds. Most people never saw it happen. This means Phia could take the money back reward even if a person found the item completely on their own, or even if they clicked a link from a totally different website first. In one test, someone clicked a deal link from a Wirecutter article to buy something on Nordstrom. Phia's hidden tab quietly swapped in its own code and took the reward meant for Wirecutter instead. This trick is called cookie stuffing. It is against the rules of every major store and shopping network involved, including Walmart, eBay, and a platform called Impact(.)com. Impact(.)com has already suspended Phia's account and is now checking Phia's past sales to see how many were affected. Phia says this was a mistake in their code from December, and they fixed it within a day of being told about it. This is not Phia's first problem. Back in November, researchers found an older version of the app was secretly copying entire webpages a person visited, including bank statements and private emails, and sending that data to Phia's servers. The company said it was only trying to figure out which websites were shopping sites, and it has since changed the app to stop doing that. A similar accusation happened to PayPal's Honey app in 2024, and PayPal is still dealing with a lawsuit over it today. Phia is now facing the exact same kind of accusation, in just its first year.

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  Dr. Mauser (@Dr_Mauser) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Redchief000 @monsterhunter45 When I get big enough that this is an issue, I'll put a little paypal widget on my site for absolution.

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  Anirudh Sharma (@anirudhology) reported 10 minutes ago

  Which one are you stopping first: Kafka, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, or Flink? All 4 run on the JVM. Amazon, Alibaba, and Microsoft each maintain their own JDK distribution (Corretto, Dragonwell, Microsoft Build of OpenJDK). A company doesn't build and maintain a runtime for a language it is quitting. Payments tell the same story. PayPal's backend is Java, Square's server fleet runs on the JVM, and Alipay clears Singles' Day traffic on Ant Group's Java middleware. When money moves online, a JVM is usually somewhere in the path. Of course, my argument also has caveats. Python owns machine learning, Rust owns systems programming, Go owns small services that must start in a jiffy, and Java is still waiting on value types a decade after Project Valhalla was announced. The point is: every language earns its seat somewhere. So, when you say "you can just stop using Java", you are smuggling in a dangerous, hidden assumption: that whatever you switch to is better, for every workload at once. I find this short-sighted at best and plain stupid at worst. Superiority is per workload, and for long-running services on large heaps, Java is tough to beat. Let me tell you a few: 1/ JFR records everything a misbehaving **** process did, at ~1% overhead, while it runs. No other mainstream runtime ships profiling this complete. 2/ Generational ZGC keeps pauses under 1ms on heaps of hundreds of GB, and it compacts memory while doing it. 3/ The JIT optimizes the program for the behavior it actually sees at runtime, and re-optimizes when it guessed wrong. A compiler that finished before your program started can't do either of those things. 4/ Virtual threads run millions of concurrent tasks as plain sync code 5/ Code written in 2005 still runs on Java 25 The language moved slowly because it refuses to break the people who build on it. Dunking on Java is the price of that guarantee. Sadly, it works because posting costs nothing while the engineers who'd push back are busy running your data infra on the thing you told them to stop using.

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  サナぺン👶🏻🍭 (@sanapen2912) reported 11 minutes ago

  doing beyond live today but very annoyed that they forced me to use paypal for payment... these american tech monopolies need to be broken up

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  NOISE FREQUENCY (@Noise_Frequency) reported 15 minutes ago

  @9Syht And if we all join together, we can take them down, or at least make their lives difficult as hell. Mass report them, community note request them, report them to paypal.

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  Oundo (@fewchuree) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care The issue is with your app not PayPal

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  AmericaHQ2ExoticNecrotizing (@TomLeb) reported 18 minutes ago

  Yes, I think while Ubering in Houston the signal was given to me about Cash App. I think if you just bad it they could steal from you. The no service part seems really middle finger to their “users”. A lot of former workers they hired and now fired - likely had little expertise. Lots of firms, breaches and criticism. But who is it really for? Drug dealers. They know it. I think the k my real valuable thing was Square bc they got there hands on a patent or tech came out of Wash U in StL. You wan to use a credit card with fraud protection and zero fraud liability - for as many transactions as possible. Read this stuff / don’t send money to strangers. Like that’s their entire biz structure. Years this has been going on. Typical silicon start up / designed not to allow any criticism. - growth is only goal. But they are out do their element. And who need to send each other all them cash? Money laundering. eBay was PayPal - people bought stuff and pioneers the service and security and trust. That’s hard won experience and wisdom. Look who and how they market to. Problem is once brand takes off normal people think it’s as good as any other product / service. Nothing these **** firms do is for the customer. It’s just maximizing numbers and growth. They don’t get it - values - are just greed and lying and non disclosures and toxic everything.

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  sohu🐀 (@sohu_art) reported 19 minutes ago

  i will not send wips, you will receive only the completed piece, I will fix something if I make a mistake or forgot something. payment via paypal only thats all!

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  CliffWill (@cliffwillYT) reported 23 minutes ago

  You fundamentally are misunderstanding what the issue is. You were given funds to a tournament and for whatever reason moved them from the secure paypal to a shared banking account with someone that is technologically illiterate. You were extremly negligent with those funds that’s why it’s an issue.

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  World Wallnews (@world_wallnews) reported 28 minutes ago

  PayPal issues PYUSD on Polygon, integrates into Open Money Stack for easier business use of stablecoin.

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  Walter (@walt_russell02) reported 32 minutes ago

  I have 3 home service businesses in 2 states and have been using @Workiz (home service CRM) for 5 years. I’m vibe coding my own and giving up consistent reliability for control and here’s why. 1. No api. 2. Can’t change the booking funnel. Look at 1800 got junk or any of the largest home service businesses. Zip code input for availability -> client info -> time selection is proven. It works. I want it. 3. With Quo (openphone) we can send texts that do not have “Text STOP to unsubscribe” Workiz is a huge company and they have to constantly safe guard compliance. I don’t care. It absolutely pummels our first text response rate to new leads. Think 30% difference in response rate. Terrible. Sue me I’d rather have efficiency. 4. There are at least 5 integrations I can think of for automations on nurturing leads, referrals, current clients, invoices that i want full control over. They cap you on automations and have limited integrations without using Zapier that sucks and breaks constantly. 5. Admin dashboard. This is huge. I want to be able to talk to my data constantly. I want to change UI of how I see everything our backend touches. Cannot do this. 6. Payment processing. 3.49 percent is brutal on no swipe POS processing of invoices and when employees card reader dies. PayPal POS has WAY more favorable rates. I have done it for one of my businesses and it’s worth it already in closed leads, follow ups, website conversion rates with better funnel, and understanding of our data. They have honestly been great and IMO significantly better than other sometimes more expensive options ie housecall, service titan, jobber, etc. Not to mention saving 8k a year.

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  Merchant Risk Desk (@MerchantRiskDsk) reported 32 minutes ago

  @supawatkaewma One dispute triggering full account closure even with evidence submitted shows the real risk of routing everything through a single processor's Connect layer, they own that decision entirely. Moving to whop just shifts you to a different aggregator with a similar structural risk, payout holds tied to internal reviews, no real appeal path. The more durable fix is decoupling your payment acceptance from any single platform's risk call. PaymentKit lets you run Stripe, PayPal and others in parallel with your own token vault, so one processor's dispute policy cannot end your ability to pay clients.

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  6FS (@6FigureSlavery) reported 37 minutes ago

  @SpaghettiKozak I have the same issues with monobank. PayPal always works though.

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  Crystal Brown🇺🇸 (@justxcrystal777) reported 39 minutes ago

  Ms Ziles… you are doing witchcraft on people and killing people. I have physical proof because you are messing with my x account. You have hacked into my computer, deleted things from my QuickBooks account locked my PayPal account and you’re fake sitting on your pedestal… you are a failed CEO and you should spend more time at your company than you do ******* with my account. I am not the person to play with because I tell you what my extended family just had two bouts of cancer. Another can can’t get their career off the ground. They’re constantly being drained and they’re constantly being targeted so I suggest you sit ******** down and shut ******** up and that’s final. Focus on your children, your company and your career because if you don’t, I will take all of it. I am not the person that needs to be humbled. I have laid low for 44 years. You are messing with people’s brains when you are the CEO of a company that deals with brains while running MK ultra on people… tread very carefully… you are a therapist on paper. It is not normal for people who are therapist and mess with people’s brains and have a company to try to destroy said company at the same time. You want to be by his side by all means I really don’t care. But you will stop targeting me. You will stop targeting my son. You guys like too much drama this is not billionaire behavior. You think this is royalty you want to steal the country at **** point you think this is royalty. You want to be a queen…. But this is your behavior. Absolutely not. The only stupid ***** in this conversation is you. Trying to break brains running MK ultra on people and thinking that that’s going to strengthen your brand. I am sick of this. I reverse engineered PTSD I am Meta conscious I did the work It is not normal for someone to Target you that is psychopathy especially when it’s a therapist who owns a brain company. Do you see where I’m going with this? Pull your crazy together and start acting like a lady. I know I’m crashing out, but they know that I’m exasperated… your behavior will never get you accepted…

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  Lloyd (@Lloydcommotion) reported 41 minutes ago

  Is there a reason that the @Eurostar app is not accepting @Revolut cards at the moment? Or it seems any cards from the apple wallet var a credit card. Even on the website there is an issue with @paypal. A glitch? Be good to know.

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  Cody J. Swanson (@CodyJSwanson) reported 41 minutes ago

  When I was ceo of Paypal, one thing I learned is the fraudsters always make the most noise about an issue.

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  diane seven deadly (@dianesd7game) reported 42 minutes ago

  @AnthonyL1920429 just wise! paypal in brazil is different, its terrible :( wise is better and more secure for us

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  𝕃 𝔼 ℕ (@Lenloovlz) reported 46 minutes ago

  I was planning to open my FIRST commission for atleast 3 clients... BUT RIGHT TIME THE ******* PAYPAL HAVING ISSUE TODAY AND I CANNOT HAVE MONEY FROM INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE... AAA

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  MinContrast (@PastAssistant) reported 49 minutes ago

  @AskPaypal Support has been unhelpful for a full month now. They are failing to fix errors and/or correct the instructions for adding or changing currencies in cases where the relevant clickable options are missing from the "Wallet" tab. Your AI assistant is the worst one.

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  𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓷 𝓭𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 (@tsar_____bomba) reported 50 minutes ago

  @RobInBaltimore @TheTNHoller what did elmo muskovite "invent" exactly? he was late to the game with tesla, nothing more than an injection of VC. his first business netted $22 mil total and was bought by a computer company that very quickly shut down. paypal was garbage until thiel's VC got involved.

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  Bastiichu (@Bastiichu) reported 51 minutes ago

  @RunyaChanVT you tried to solve the issue privatly i think the next step, since you can't revoke it via Paypal, is to go public you could try again and say when thy won't answer you in x days you go public to give them one last chance to solve it without going public, but they dont deserve it

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  JasensCustoms.com - Panzer Fight Stick (@JasensCustoms) reported 52 minutes ago

  I complained to @PayPal - PayPal closed the case immediately saying I didn't cancel ahead of the renewal. Word of warning to everyone - @discord makes canceling automatic subscriptions incredibly difficult. I am seriously considering closing my server and building an old school BBS again.

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  50/50innertainment (@5050RecordLabel) reported 54 minutes ago

  Attention those having problems with Restrictions & payouts & need solutions beyond Facebook's support team! 1. Did you know that you can contact the Consumer Federal Public Bureau and they will help you. If Meta claims they issued a payout to your bank, PayPal, or Stripe, but the funds are frozen, missing, or rejected, file a complaint against the payment company or bank via the CFPB Complaint Portal. 2. If Meta is completely refusing to calculate, acknowledge, or clear your monetization earnings, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is the correct federal regulator. The FTC monitors deceptive business practices, breach of digital merchant contracts, and unfair treatment of independent creators. Take Action: Submit a formal business fraud report at the official FTC Report Fraud Portal 3. State Attorney General: File a report with your state's Attorney General Consumer Protection Division. State AGs have dedicated teams that routinely force tech companies to assign real humans to investigate local creator complaints. 4. Better Business Bureau (BBB): File an official complaint on the BBB Meta Platforms Profile. Meta maintains an active team on the BBB to resolve issues and protect their corporate rating, often resulting in direct contact

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  Phaedrus00 (@Phaedrus00) reported 54 minutes ago

  @LucilleMel27318 @RepJayapal either way this is NOT the TAXPAYERS problem...let mehico & the rest of the TURDworld countries figure it out...The AMERICAN TAXPAYER is NOT OBLIGATED and Paypal needs to remember she OWES the TAXPAYER not a bunch of illegal LEECHES here 4 FREE S**T

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  ιαм ωσσ∂ (@1amwood) reported 54 minutes ago

  @200_EMA_xx Bro sometimes consider the factors, Yes MTN makes alot of money but to compare them with PayPal is slow. PayPal is online n its cashout methods is way different n a different compared to mtn that got momo vendors scattered around the country like mosquitoes that any can withdraw

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  𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲⁸ & 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭. (@dimpledormlover) reported 54 minutes ago

  24 hours later i was finally able to pre order my albums only cause i choose the direct creditcard payment method and not through paypal... idk why fans still has so many issues with PP... nvm i'm happy now.

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  MPH (@0x_MPH) reported 55 minutes ago

  I believe the SaaSpocalypse will be proven to be overblown. @michaeljburry knows this. Though I believe his "AI bubble" call is too early, I happen to agree with some of his other calls. One of which is an extremely undervalued and beaten down stock I feel could outperform: $PYPL PayPal Bullish Thesis: Valuation is cheap by almost any measure: PYPL trades around $46 (down ~40% over the past year, off a 52-week high of $79.50), with a market cap near $40B. The trailing P/E is roughly 8x — a value-stock multiple for a company with 20%+ ROE — and the forward P/E sits near 8x as well. EV/EBITDA is around 6x and free cash flow yield is well into double digits. Burry himself has flagged PayPal as trading at ~8x earnings while generating strong buyback-fueled capital returns. Revenue and growth: Q1 2026 revenue came in at $8.35B, up ~7% YoY and beating estimates by nearly 4%. Total Payment Volume hit $464B, up 11% YoY. Branded checkout — long the bear case — actually accelerated to 2% currency-neutral growth from 1% the prior quarter, and PSP (merchant) volume growth accelerated to 11%. Debit card and tap-to-pay volume rose 60% YoY, and Buy Now Pay Later TPV grew 23%. Venmo — the hidden asset: Venmo TPV growth accelerated to 14% YoY, its sixth straight quarter of double-digit growth, with "Pay with Venmo" TPV up 34%. Management has now split Venmo into its own reporting segment under the new "Consumer Financial Services & Venmo" business line — a structural change that makes its standalone value visible for the first time and opens the door to a potential spin-off or strategic deal, something the market has speculated could unlock real value. PayPal Ads — a new, high-margin growth lever: PayPal launched "Curated Ads" in April 2026, a data-driven ad network that ties ad impressions directly to verified purchase data rather than cookies — leveraging PayPal's enormous first-party transaction dataset. This is a nascent but potentially high-margin revenue stream layered on top of existing payment volume, similar to how Amazon turned its retail data into a multibillion-dollar ads business. Balance sheet and capital returns: As of Q1 2026: $13.5B in cash/investments against $11.6B in debt — a solid net cash-ish position for a company generating $6B+ in annual free cash flow. On a trailing-12-month basis, PayPal returned $6B to shareholders via buybacks (reducing weighted average share count by roughly 7-8% YoY) and just initiated its first-ever quarterly dividend ($0.14/share). Management has reiterated a ~$6B buyback target for full-year 2026 against a market cap of only ~$40B — that's roughly 15% of the company being retired in a single year at depressed prices. New leadership and cost discipline: The board replaced CEO Alex Chriss with former HP CEO Enrique Lores (effective March 2026), pairing the transition with a ~20% workforce reduction, a $1.5B AI-driven cost-savings program over 2-3 years, and a wind-down of the PayPal Ventures arm (with Jefferies hired to explore secondary sales) — all aimed at sharpening focus on the core Checkout, Venmo, and Payment Services businesses. Michael Burry's stake Scion Asset Management disclosed a ~3.5% position in PayPal in April 2026 at around $49/share, calling it a top pick in his "software-payments" basket — ranking it ahead of Fiserv and Adobe on stock-based comp discipline. Burry has continued adding to the position through Q2, framing recent weakness as technical (private-credit/software-debt driven) rather than fundamental, and specifically citing management turnover as an "overhang" rather than a broken thesis — i.e., a catalyst still to play out, not a reason to avoid the stock. Separately, filings from SG Americas have fueled speculation of an activist investor building a stake. Key risks: guidance calls for a high-single-digit non-GAAP EPS decline in Q2 2026 and roughly flat transaction margin dollars for the full year; competition from Apple Pay, Stripe, and Block continues to compress branded checkout; there's an active shareholder class-action related to prior revenue-forecast disclosures; and the CEO transition itself is an execution risk, not just a catalyst. tl;dr $PYPL bull case: trading at ~8x earnings, $6B buyback/yr (~15% of market cap), new dividend, $13.5B cash vs $11.6B debt. Venmo TPV +14% YoY (accel. 6 straight qtrs), now its own segment. New Curated Ads business. New CEO cutting $1.5B in costs. Michael Burry built a 3.5% stake, calling it his top payments/software pick. Priced for pessimism, not for a cash machine.

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  🪷 wawa (@babytrait) reported 56 minutes ago

  @parasolpon i agree. the security issues is more important bc what do you mean anyone can see your phone number and paypal information like that 💀💀 the bear sketch is most likely drawn over the other animals they made first and erased