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 (41%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Gérardmer	Sign in	24 hours ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	2 days ago
Lodève	Errors	2 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	3 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	3 days ago
Hochfelden	Website Down	4 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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  Jack (@Hammers6021) reported 3 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk I tried to order something just now (a build and battle box for brilliant stars) and I got the same payment error that I had during the 30th booster bundle drop. Tried mobile and laptop with Apple Pay, credit card and PayPal.

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  ZK (@zk_afc2) reported 3 minutes ago

  I don’t use PayPal Goods & Services because funds can be held for a long time and I’ve had issues with chargebacks in the past I prefer payment methods that don’t put either side through lengthy disputes

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  shurii 💫 🎈🍅💎🐥🏴‍☠️⭐️ (@NOIROMANTIC) reported 5 minutes ago

  Got all three days and learned some HORRIBLE lessons about yes24… Just use PayPal and login ahead of time to save time. I lost so much time on the credit card page and it kept rejecting my card 😭

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  conor!! (@playdeadpool) reported 6 minutes ago

  willing to go down to £950 + the paypal fee if anyone is still interested 🥹

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 11 minutes ago

  Bench shut down in December and customers lost access to their own books. Quillfox is the alternative: a 24/7 AI bookkeeping agent that watches bank, Stripe, and PayPal, chases invoices, flags duplicates, and closes a clean P&L each month. Live soon.

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  UNDY247K (@UNDY24K) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Sevens_October let me know if the payment went thru bro. Idk y paypal sometimes give me issues with my cashapp card🤩 but I'm re excited now to finish it and prep for volume 3

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  Tiffany Kristen (@TiffanyKri99602) reported 15 minutes ago

  @dahyooper7588 Dm me with your cash app tag 🏷 or PayPal if you have any financial issues to get paid and say(PAY ME)

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  Arez (@MageArez) reported 22 minutes ago

  @JermainePercins I've been dealing with unbearable payment processing issues. My name is blacklisted on all major payment processors like @stripe @PayPal and so on. I was working for a while with having a having a strawman for my new companies but it's a recipe for a disaster long term.

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  hamza abaoui (@abaoui_ham64421) reported 23 minutes ago

  @QudsNen @Au10tix's biometric processing for @PayPal raises major digital rights issues. Their links to Israeli intelligence and past data breaches threaten Palestinian privacy and data sovereignty.

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  Compaytence | Your Payment Processing Team💰 (@Compaytence) reported 24 minutes ago

  PayPal's Braintree API went down for roughly two hours. Every merchant routing through it saw HTTP 500s. Checkout. Withdrawals. Venmo transfers. All at once. No second rail to switch to. Here's the part most sellers miss: An outage is the version you can't predict. The other version is deliberate. Stripe, PayPal and Shopify Payments approve you instantly and underwrite later. A volume spike or a chargeback cluster triggers a hold with no warning. Rolling reserve: 10 to 25% of revenue, locked for 90 to 180 days. Terminated instead of paused? MATCH can block approvals for five years. An outage costs you hours. A shutdown costs you months. To the customer, both look identical: your store isn't working. 97% of merchants over $500M run multiple acquirers. That isn't paranoia. That's the job. Full breakdown in the reply 👇

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  Robin Reynolds (@RobinvReynolds) reported 25 minutes ago

  . Scummy tricks the platform sticks up my *** every day... a) A guy reposted one of my actual articles this morning, and I went over there to check on it about an hour later and found it 72 posts back on the timeline. b) I made a little post just about that. It has a few comments on it, but no one would ever know. Because the comment counter is blank. Comments to my post don't register. So no one would ever think of clicking to view them. They've been concealed by the platform. The scumbags that run this platform have pulled every ***** trick in the book on me from the very beginning, but have really put the hammer down since my series of articles targeting the PayPal Mafia directly, as well as the organized crime cartel occupying the Oval Office with articles such as "The Doge Scam", and "The Pardons Racket". Since then, my account's basically been dead. I've been locked in a vault for a month. .

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  Porter Pierce jr (@Porterpiercejr) reported 27 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Only PayPal for those. Always solved my problems

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  Jaybird Walker (@Jaybird_Walker) reported 28 minutes ago

  My car is unsafe to drive; I need funds to fix it. Venmo: jaybirdewalker; PayPal: jaybirdwalker

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  Blake Hendrix 🚀 (@ProtonShark75) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Dannieshanice If you're in the US call 8445697700 and they'll fix Netflix. They were fantastic. They needed my Paypal transaction number to verify.

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  Omoding (@omo_ding) reported 31 minutes ago

  @airtelmoneyug Your card cannot link with paypal. Fix that

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  Legit Sleeper (@legitsleeper) reported 33 minutes ago

  @The_SecretShow One problem Bryan made like $800m selling Braintree and Venmo to paypal... What have you done, anon?

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  Timofei from adenslab.com (@timopowerz) reported 33 minutes ago

  @mdniamul0 the off-site paypal point is real, but don't assume every client-side setup misses the purchase..... many flows return to a confirmation page and fire correctly i'd compare paypal completed orders against browser purchase events first. if the gap is real, webhook/capi is the fix..... with a stable event_id so browser + server don't double count

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  Dut (@Dut83) reported 35 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Had same problem. My item didn’t show up. I used PayPal for the purchase and they did all the heavy lifting once I knew it was a scam. They contacted the seller and got no response. Couple weeks later I had my funds back in my account.

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  💉 star ཐི ₍^.ˬˬ.^₎ ཋྀ (@umbreneon1) reported 35 minutes ago

  I only got wise and paypal for payment methods and oaypal lowkey tweaking out i think so im scared to open commissions🤔+motivation issue

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  Kim (@kimberyy_2004) reported 38 minutes ago

  @PayPal @AskPayPal I’m honestly so frustrated right now. I’ve been trying to use my PayPal account normally, but I’m suddenly having issues with my account and I can’t figure out what’s going on. I’ve tried contacting customer service and I’m still not getting a clear solution.

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  Kevin (@Kevincreates77) reported 42 minutes ago

  The review system is gamed, and the star rating is lying to you. You see 4.6 stars and 12,000 reviews. You trust it. You shouldn't at least not at face value . Amazon has a massive fake review problem, and it goes deeper than most shoppers realize. Sellers pay for fake 5-star reviews through private Facebook groups and Telegram channels. They offer full refunds via PayPal in exchange for glowing write-ups. Some use "review clubs" where hundreds of fake buyers purchase the product, leave 5 stars, and get reimbursed. The product gets thousands of reviews in weeks, ranks higher in search, and looks legitimate to every future shopper who lands on the page. But it gets worse. Some sellers use a tactic called "review hijacking" they take an existing listing with thousands of strong reviews and swap out the product entirely. The reviews stay. The product changes. You're reading reviews for a completely different item. One former analyst described the scale: "We estimated that 30-40% of reviews in certain product categories supplements, electronics accessories, beauty had some level of manipulation. Not all outright fake, but incentivized, recycled, or merged from different product listings. The star rating was a marketing asset, not a quality metric." The counter-move: Install a browser extension like Fakespot or ReviewMeta. These tools analyze review patterns timing, language, reviewer history and give you an adjusted rating based on how many reviews appear genuine. Also, filter by "Verified Purchase" and sort by most recent. If the recent reviews are dramatically worse than the overall rating, the product has likely declined in quality while riding the coattails of old reviews.

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  xwallstx (@xwallstx) reported 42 minutes ago

  @mattbird55 Agree I’ve been waiting for the PayPal loyalty plus rollout this summer and it appears to be pushed back. I’m guessing the slow execution in so many areas may be tied to upgrading the tech stack. They may want this fixed more first before a big new marketing push with PayPal loyalty plus. Lores wants the sequencing done correctly.

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  𓋹 骏月𓂀 (@vladswolfie) reported 45 minutes ago

  helloooo im tryna determine if wise or paypal is better... so far im leaning towards wise due to better rates and less issues...

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  CatMuto (@CatMuto) reported 45 minutes ago

  Dang it, #PayPal, I am trying to report an accidental double-charge, and your resolution center is not working, so I can't report the problem.

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  Cai Co (@CaiCo87) reported 48 minutes ago

  @PayPal @Mastercard PayPal is literally the worst company with nonexistent customer service. It continues to facilitate fraud and makes it impossible to resolve issues. Why would anyone sign up for this credit card?

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  Ondrei (@lowstakesdre) reported 53 minutes ago

  @ShaneSchleger Nope. It’s 100% true. I called their customer care three times reporting the issue. Each time they told me they would correct the issue. I left the money in my PayPal account for months. I finally decided I wanted to earn interest on it so I moved it to my high yield savings account earmarked for PayPal.

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  DapsyPay (@dapsypay) reported 53 minutes ago

  African merchants just got a bigger door to the global market. PayPal is now at checkout on thousands of African stores. This week, SeerBit, a pan-African payments company, integrated PayPal. Merchants on its platform can now accept payments from PayPal's hundreds of millions of users, alongside cards and mobile money. What happened? African businesses can now sell to the world with a checkout global buyers already trust. Why it matters: fewer abandoned carts, higher conversion, and easier cross-border e-commerce for small sellers. Who it affects: every African SME that sells online and every importer dealing with international customers. The lesson: the world's biggest payment brands are now plugging into African infrastructure. Collecting from global customers is becoming easier. But that is only half of trade. The other half is paying your own suppliers abroad, and that half still crawls through slow, costly bank routes. The businesses that win will pair easy collection with reliable payment. That is where DapsyPay comes in. Same-day delivery, transparent fees, no surprises. Follow for news that affects your money. The world can now pay you. Make sure you can pay the world back.

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  Muffy / Closed comms (@AbsoluteMuffy) reported 53 minutes ago

  @ZapotX @PayPal Maybe, maybe not, I have friends who do the same thing and haven't had any problems, and besides, paypal won't tell me why

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  XRP Insider (@xrpinsider2017) reported 56 minutes ago

  Ripple's CEO just explained why #XRP exists in under 2 minutes no jargon: Venmo can't send to PayPal, even though PayPal owns Venmo. That's how broken our payment networks are. Now scale that to sending money overseas: slow, expensive, and it can vanish for weeks. Ripple's fix: sell the tech to banks worldwide. 4 second settlement, fractions of a penny, anywhere on Earth. Customers don't care it runs on XRP. They just care that it works.

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  Alan XZ 🔞(COMMIS PAUSE) (@ALANExtraZone) reported 57 minutes ago

  Hey everyone, I’m going to have to put my commis on hold since PayPal and my bank are giving me some trouble. 🫠