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 (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
San Luis Potosí	Errors	44 minutes ago
Tampere	Sign in	8 hours ago
Paris	Website Down	8 hours ago
Independence	Sign in	18 hours ago
Rezé	Sign in	1 day ago
Milan	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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  Ian Smith (@IanSmith_HSA) reported 2 minutes ago

  @prompterminal Paypal and VISA have adopted crypto. This industry has left me with little hope, because almost nobody is willing to adopt post quantum cryptography. The system has a clock counting down to doom and they refuse to upgrade. Crypto *could* have done great things and might some day

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  I miss 🍑💧 (@emotsper) reported 6 minutes ago

  @pyonfye wtf..... im like pretty sure you still can add it..... unless its bc you added yoir age as younger than 16 on paypal.... bc thats usually the main issue

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  Lyod || Vgen artist (@Lyodfx) reported 6 minutes ago

  Genuine question for fellow freelancers/artists. Do you usually charge clients for PayPal transaction fees, or do you absorb those fees yourself? recently had a client cancel and got blocked because they felt the additional fees weren't communicated clearly enough. I'm not looking to argue orake some trouble,I'd genuinely like to learn what the standard approach is and how you communicate it upfront. I'd really appreciate hearing your guys experiences. 🙏

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  Noradin | Thumbnail designer (@justnoradin) reported 10 minutes ago

  @gfxverma @PayPal @AskPayPal Me too, brother. I had the same problem, but they didn’t give me any reason. When I contacted support and asked them, they said they didn’t know the reason either. 🥲

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  kooky🌻 genshin & honkai pilot /90+ proofs (@tttimotimo) reported 15 minutes ago

  Alright since I'm having issues with the other platforms,, i will be only accepting paypal for now till a further notice

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  Haywhy (@haryohorla12) reported 18 minutes ago

  @raycrypto_1 But what can we do to resolve the issue of PayPal cause it's really affecting boss

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  onog (@onogonog) reported 20 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser said sold out the first minute so i couldnt buy and then i hit about 5 more errors then paypal wont load then i sit in line and get to check out now the check out button just says processing

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  Crystal Brown🇺🇸 (@justxcrystal777) reported 20 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.

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  Stanlee 🎩🟥🟩 (@Stan_lee14) reported 23 minutes ago

  @TheMysti Exactly. The PayPal Mafia didn’t wake up one day and decide to become legends. They were just a group of sharp people obsessed with solving a real problem in the same room.

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  Wakhungila (@_Wakhoo_) reported 23 minutes ago

  So, PayPal has become a major headache for so many African freelancers, developers, bug bounty hunters, and remote workers. People do legitimate work, get paid, then suddenly find their accounts limited or their money held for months in the name of “verification.” In Kenya, some people are even asked to provide a home address in a format that simply doesn’t exist for many neighborhoods. Meanwhile, their money sits locked away for up to 180 days. This is so frustrating. We honestly do need a payment infrastructure that’s built with African realities in mind…. fairer reviews, transparent decisions, and systems that don’t assume every cross-border payment is suspicious. The talent to build it already exists. What’s missing is more people willing to solve the problem.

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  ֆusan ɮradley (@2thinkout) reported 23 minutes ago

  @BullrunnersHQ I refuse to get a Venmo acct. and will shut my Paypal down on a second. Hackers get into those accts all the time. I DO NOT trust Venmo and question Paypal for unsolicited monthly payments that I did not agree. My bank had to fight to get $486 back from Venmo that I never had. It's quiet alarming. They need to be forced to use a secure ledger.

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  Vortex | BIP448 (@theonevortex) reported 23 minutes ago

  @CedYoungelman @aoeui21 The anti-110 side is not pro spam, learn this. We just don't want terrible vibe coded software that breaks miniscript, vaults, future upgrade paths for LN and the destruction of neutrality and censorship resistance on bitcoin. You however want to turn it into paypal, no thanks.

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  Keith Gentry (@TheKeithGentry) reported 26 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @snowmantambo Hey #PayPal If #Fraud happens to be a 'frequently asked question' doesn't that suggest that you have a serious security issue? I look forward to your reply. In the meantime, I shall refrain from using your service until the 'frequently experienced problem' is resolved.

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  PolyBender (@p0lybender) reported 28 minutes ago

  ELON MUSK’S #1 REGRET: HE TOOK 70 SECONDS TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION He reflected on his carrer and revealed the biggest mistake he’s made across his companies, including his first startup and PayPal. The error? Prioritizing raw talent over personality. Musk admitted he made this mistake multiple times, wrongly believing that "it's just about the brain". He eventually realized that while intelligence is important, it actually matters significantly whether a person has a good heart.

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  diane seven deadly (@dianesd7game) reported 28 minutes ago

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

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  Lloyd (@Lloydcommotion) reported 33 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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  MPH (@0x_MPH) reported 33 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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  Sou Chi (@Sou__chi) reported 33 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @PayPal I need urgent help. A US-based company is trying to send me a payment, but it was blocked with Error Code 14764. My card is fully confirmed, but I am located in Algeria, which might be triggering this compliance block. I cannot DM you. Could you please help me

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  Mew (@crosswithyou) reported 34 minutes ago

  Anyone else getting a "payment gateway is unreachable at the moment" error when selecting PayPal (the only option)?

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  RAVENYER (@theravenyer) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Motherspride101 I am not available; I am having problems with my PayPal account.

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  LearnInvest (@LearnInvest2026) reported 35 minutes ago

  PayPal is down nearly 90%, and payments have changed rules This chart puts three payments companies on the same market-cap timeline: PayPal, Adyen, and Block. Since the 2021 peak, PayPal’s market cap is down about 88.6%, while Adyen and Block are also down sharply, but closer to the 60% range. The whole sector has been repriced, but PayPal has been hit harder. That is usually not explained by “growth multiples fell” alone. ■ Payments are no longer just a checkout button PayPal’s challenge is that it used to be a default online payment option, but the next competitive cycle is not only about who can process checkout. Apple Pay embeds payment into the phone operating system. Adyen is closer to large merchants’ omnichannel acquiring stack. Block extends into small-business tools and financial services. The payment interface has become a bundle of operating systems, merchant back office, and financial products. That is one reason PayPal’s drawdown is so large. The market is not only punishing slower growth. It is asking a deeper question: if checkout becomes a commoditized function, what layer can PayPal still charge for? The chart also carries a useful warning. Payments demand has not disappeared. Online commerce, mobile payments, and cross-border transactions are still growing. What changed is the value split. Traffic control, merchant relationships, data, and financial services matter more than a standalone payment brand. So this is not just a PayPal stock story. It is a miniature version of the payments industry moving from brand trust to embedded infrastructure. When the rules change, the once-dominant interface can become the company that most needs to re-prove its value. Source: Quartr, company filings, public market data (Image: @glocalinvestor)

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  🔆 (@Investorsam00) reported 37 minutes ago

  @MULLER100cpt @Blac_nels Abeg when you Dey say PayPal get issues , wetin be the main problem??

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  Sumaya 💚💚✨ (@ahmad7813261392) reported 42 minutes ago

  Dear at PayPal I am asking urgently to help me solve my problem in my account at your bank please , you holding my funds just not too much money but you still hold it every time I get transfer with you , your policies are very difficult I thought you were good @PayPal @AskPayPal

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  trey🏝️ (@treygreenwood_) reported 43 minutes ago

  also. if you want to donate and it immediately get to me since gofundme takes what seems like a century I have PayPal which is on my Linktree :) my cashapp is down because of all the mess of the people thinking I made it up and reported me for scam. Apple Pay dm me!

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  Obi Marsh Kenobi (@chrismarsh1983) reported 45 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal having trouble sending money even though its in my bank account and is within the limits set. Help

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  Funa Ch. | 🦋🐧| ARTFIGHT Arc (@funa_vt) reported 48 minutes ago

  @leafumn problems: artist need to modify prices to fit currency (some places like dont like custom prices) But yeah, being unbanked is soooo real. tiktok ppls want you to pay you in pennies and unlike vgen or paypal it doesnt have any strucutre. :c

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   Ahmad  (@ARM_04) reported 50 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Why have you stopped replying to messages on PayPal and only send an automated reply that doesn’t solve the problems?

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  delta 🎲 (@deltaranged) reported 52 minutes ago

  no stake in the discourse but insane how the one year in smash i didn't bring enough cash and resorted to paying by card is the one year this kind of **** became a problem @_@ luckily i only bought from 1 artist via paypal and they used AUD

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  MinContrast (@PastAssistant) reported 54 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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  SP (@0xSpresearch) reported 54 minutes ago

  I bet your mom has never used a crypto app. Mine hasn’t either. But she already uses: WhatsApp✅ Banking apps✅ GPay✅ PayPal✅ So the problem isn't that moms can't use financial apps. Crypto apps simply weren’t designed for them. Now imagine you work thousands of miles away and send money home every month. An app helps you send it. Your mom receives it. And the app’s job is done. But your family’s financial needs aren’t. What if the same app stayed useful after the money arrived? That’s the startup: a financial home for families living across borders. Remittance is just the beginning. Here’s what @SumiroStudio should build on Solana 🧵👇