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 (35%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Berlin	Sign in	21 hours ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	1 day ago
Ciudad López Mateos	Errors	3 days ago
Anglet	Sign in	4 days ago
Hamburg	Sign in	4 days ago
Medina	Website Down	5 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Sam Parr (@thesamparr) reported 1 minute ago

  Former CEO of PayPal + Inuit Bill Harris on Moneywise today. He broke down his portfolio and expenses (and what it was like working w/ Elon + thiel. - Net worth: ~$100m. Divorce cut it roughly in half - ~$50m in operating companies he's starting, ~$25m diversified securities, ~$25m bonds. No PE/hedge/alts - "absurd fees" - PayPal/eBay exit: personally "more than 20 million, less than 50" - Personal Capital: sold to Empower for $825m with $23b AUM; his take was north of $100m post-tax - New venture: ~$10m of his own money in - Total annual burn: ~$70-80k all in, property tax included ("well less than a hundred thousand bucks") - No mortgage (cottage paid off), no car, bikes to work - Owned a ton of stuff (houses, cars, planes). Sold it all because it took too much time to maintain.

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  Derek Ashauer (@DerekAshauer) reported 7 minutes ago

  Claude just paid for itself today... Found a bug in my store. A "30% off your first year" code was taking 30% off every year, forever. Claude found 2 other codes had the same problem. Gave Claude read access to my WP install over SSH plus temporary Stripe and PayPal keys. It found all affected subscriptions across both processors, cross-checked what the gateways were actually billing against what my database thought, and fixed each one. $1,782/year recovered. About 30 minutes once I knew something was wrong. Doing that by hand across two payment processors would have eaten my week.

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  Robert Wylde (@Real_Wylde) reported 11 minutes ago

  @divoraartstudio If you call me the name you see on the PayPal it’s over. I will use my finite resources to hunt you down and slap you silly until you stop.

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 13 minutes ago

  PayPal's real product in its early years wasn't payments. It was survival. The company was building something that regulators, banks and its own biggest platform had no category for. Stefan Heck: "It was a true disruption of a very established, very regulated industry, right? Payments, banking… and they were doing things that didn't fit an existing category." Not fitting a category meant almost everyone with power over PayPal had a reason to switch it off. Reid Hoffman, who became Peter Thiel's firefighter chief, describes the job he was handed: "Make sure eBay doesn't drive us off the service. Make sure Visa doesn't shut us down. Persuade the federal government that it's okay that we're not a bank." Nancy Lublin on the person they sent to handle it: "He was the wolf. I mean, he was the fixer." John Lilly remembers how routine the existential threats became: "I remember we had breakfast one time. He said, 'I have to leave at 8:30 because I got to get on the plane to New York to go talk to Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, who's suing PayPal for basically anti-money laundering type things.' And he's like, 'I just got to go fix this and here's how I'm going to fix it because New York was convinced that PayPal is being used for gambling, all sorts of other things at the time.'" There was no playbook, because the category didn't exist yet. So the company argued from first principles: "It was fun because part of what ends up happening is you say, 'All right, well, what's a bank? Like, what defines a bank? How do I persuade them? I've never talked to a regulator before. All right, let me go figure out how this looks.'" While all this was happening, PayPal was outgrowing its own ability to operate. June Cohen: "Their customer numbers had grown so exponentially that they could not keep up with customer service and they actually just made the decision that that was a fire they weren't going to fight at that moment." That was a decision, not a failure. The company sorted its problems by one test: "There was a whole set of fires at PayPal where if you didn't solve them, value of the company zero, out of business." John Lilly on how that worked in practice: "Here's the one, two, three top priorities. Everything else I'm not going to worry about right now because if I get these three things right, everything else will be okay." The fire that passed the test was eBay: "If eBay had turned us off, if we were no longer to operate on eBay, no initial users, no traction, no network effect, no ability to grow." And eBay had every incentive to do exactly that. John Lilly: "eBay had its own payment system that was competing with PayPal. PayPal was winning. And so I think those got very complicated and eBay very much didn't want to have to buy PayPal and eventually they felt like they had to." That's the ending. PayPal survived on someone else's platform long enough to become the thing that platform had no choice but to acquire. A reporter at the time: "We know these guys very well obviously because so much of their business is in fact on eBay. The synergies of putting these two companies together were incredibly outstanding and it just seemed like the right time to get this deal done." PayPal didn't win by solving its problems. It won by correctly ranking them and letting the rest burn.

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  Kyle Harrison (@kwharrison13) reported 14 minutes ago

  Maybe. Maybe you'd be fine without data centers. But let me ask you this. Do you use credit cards, debit cards, tap-to-pay, gas pumps, vending machines, parking meters, parking apps, ATMs, online banking, mobile banking, mobile check deposit, Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, splitting a dinner bill, autopay on your bills, payroll that isn't a paper check, direct deposit, digital 401(k), Robinhood, Coinbase, credit score checks, loan applications, mortgage applications, car loan approval at the dealership, insurance quotes, filing an insurance claim, e-filing your taxes, gift cards, store loyalty accounts, digital coupons, rebates, buy-now-pay-later, tipping on a screen, email, text messages, iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, group chats, voicemail transcription, spam call blocking, FaceTime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, Slack, video calls with grandparents, phone number lookups, checking your data usage, paying your phone bill, two-factor codes, push approvals to log in, password managers that sync, "sign in with Google," resetting a forgotten password, digital IDs in your wallet app, gym check-in apps, apartment smart locks, hotel keys on your phone, office badge apps, patient portals, seeing your test results, booking a doctor's appointment, telehealth visits, prescription refill requests, the pharmacy knowing what you're on, insurance verification at the front desk, prior authorization, continuous glucose monitors, insulin pump apps, remote pacemaker checks, CPAP data reports, hearing aid apps, therapy apps, period trackers, fertility trackers, medical alert buttons for elderly parents, symptom checkers, finding an in-network doctor, the weather app, radar, hurricane warnings, tornado warnings, flood alerts, earthquake early warning on your phone, wildfire maps, smoke maps, air quality, pollen counts, Amber alerts, emergency alerts, road closure info, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, live traffic, rerouting around a crash, transit apps, real-time bus and train arrivals, tapping your phone to ride the subway, Uber, Lyft, rental car reservations, Turo, bike share, scooter share, EV charging networks, paying for a charge, phone-as-car-key, remote start, finding your parked car, over-the-air car updates, in-car navigation, in-car voice assistants, stolen vehicle tracking, road trip planning, booking flights, checking in for a flight, mobile boarding passes, seat selection, flight status, rebooking after a cancellation, bag tracking, TSA PreCheck lookups, airport wifi, booking hotels, Airbnb, Vrbo, checking into a hotel, cruise bookings, theme park tickets, ride reservations, airline miles, hotel points, currency conversion, Amazon, all online shopping, order tracking, delivery notifications, returns and exchanges, price checks in-store, self-checkout, store apps, curbside pickup, Instacart, DoorDash, Uber Eats, ordering ahead at a restaurant, OpenTable, Resy, waitlist texts, QR code menus, tipping on delivery, subscription boxes, eBay, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Poshmark, StockX, Ticketmaster, StubHub, getting into a concert with a phone ticket, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, smart thermostats, video doorbells, security cameras, alarm monitoring, smart locks, smart lights, robot vacuums, garage door openers, baby monitors, pet cameras, automatic pet feeders, GPS pet collars, smart sprinklers, smart fridges, app-connected air fryers, cloud printing, printer ink subscriptions, routers you manage from an app, checking if you left the stove on, iCloud, Google Photos, every photo you've taken in ten years, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, shared albums, phone backups, setting up a new phone, notes apps, calendars, contact syncing, reminders, to-do apps, document scanning, e-signing a lease, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Twitch, cloud DVR, on-demand cable, Spotify, Apple Music, podcasts, audiobooks, Kindle books, library ebook borrowing, online multiplayer games, matchmaking, cloud saves, game downloads, game patches, single-player games that phone home for a license check, Steam, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Nintendo Online, Roblox, Minecraft servers, fantasy football, sports scores, sports betting apps, movie tickets, Google search, Wikipedia, ChatGPT, Claude, every other AI app, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, dating apps, Yelp reviews, Google reviews, news sites, Substack newsletters, blogs, forums, checking if a business is open, looking up a phone number, recipes, translation apps, Duolingo, Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams, Notion, Figma, Canva, shared calendars, scheduling links, VPNs into work, remote desktop, timeclock apps, shift scheduling apps, requesting time off, expense reports, job applications, LinkedIn recruiters, video interviews, Canvas, Blackboard, checking your kid's grades, school lunch accounts, attendance notifications, online homework, Khan Academy, Coursera, FAFSA, student loan portals, tutoring apps, Fitbit, Apple Watch health data, Strava, Peloton, sleep tracking, smart scales, calorie tracking, meditation apps, workout apps, DMV appointments, renewing your license online, paying a parking ticket, jury duty portals, checking your property tax bill, utility accounts, outage maps, paying rent through an app, HOA portals, storage unit access codes, wedding registries, baby registries, funeral arrangements, Ancestry, 23andMe results, church livestreams, volunteer signups, or GoFundMe? If you said yes to ANY of those then you do, in fact, NEED data centers.

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  NoCreaturesWereHarmed (@NoCWereHarmed) reported 14 minutes ago

  Apparently PayPal was having some issues so I added stripe in the meantime. PayPal should be straightened out by Tuesday as they need those test deposits to clear in my new business account. You can buy via Stripe now.

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  Jedda Cohen (@c22204) reported 15 minutes ago

  @robertromano @JonMalin 1. Go to PayPal Resolution Center, select the transaction, choose Report a Problem, then choose "Significantly Not as Described." Don't select "Unauthorized Activity," as PayPal will instantly deny the claim once they verify you authorized initial payment. Upload evidence. 1/2

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  Briteworx👻👽 (@briteworx_arts) reported 17 minutes ago

  not to mention that 5-7$ gets immediately eaten by Ko-fi and PayPal fees on top of taxes and stuff I'm not working for pennies so you can still act ungrateful as hell

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  WELLIKAT (@LightOutAfterIt) reported 18 minutes ago

  @FatherAltman Hi Father, Paypal throws an error saying your webmaster needs do/fix something. I used CC instead, but normally always use Paypal for online purchases. Looking forward to the book!

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  daily hamefura (@HAMEFUR4) reported 19 minutes ago

  Hi everyone! unfortunately I’m going through some financial difficulties due to personal issues and am struggling to make ends meet. bc of this I’m reaching out to ask for your help. If you have some spare cash and would like to assist me, I’m leaving my PayPal and Pix details 👇

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  Pokettino (@pokettino) reported 19 minutes ago

  @PokemonRestocks I am having hard time adding the payment method. Yesterday I don't understand why would not let me enter the drawing and was asking for a payment method. I always used PayPal. I tried to cancel all amd add a new CC but does not work. Anyone had this issue?

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  srwhite (COMMS OPEN) (@Srwhiteoficial) reported 22 minutes ago

  okkk i have some problems with my paypal soo...

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  Derek Ashauer (@DerekAshauer) reported 24 minutes ago

  Found a bug in my store today. A "30% off your first year" code was taking 30% off every year, forever. Claude found 2 other codes had the same problem. Gave Claude read access to my WP install over SSH plus temporary Stripe and PayPal keys. It found all affected subscriptions across both processors, cross-checked what the gateways were actually billing against what my database thought, and fixed each one. $1,782/year recovered. About 30 minutes once I knew something was wrong. Doing that by hand across two payment processors would have eaten my week.

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  Steven Hughes Transport Videos (@StevenHughes129) reported 25 minutes ago

  @bran_di98 @DavidJa51216245 @OrevaZSN A lot of it is down to the processor. Your bank is only one part of the chain. Visa/Mastercard/PayPal/Square etc all form part of the transaction chain. While money moves from your available balance instantly when you process a transaction, it usually shows as "pending". 1/2

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  Bill |-/ semi hiatus era (@hyxnbi) reported 27 minutes ago

  my new paypal account got blocked again omggggg what’s their problem

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  the don of hockey (@don_allain) reported 32 minutes ago

  @Watchdog_MP Here’s a compiled thread list of people named Singh (plus a few immediately adjacent names that appeared on the same boards) and the alleged offences as they were reported in this conversation. This is not an official police roster. Many are charges/allegations, some are convictions, a few were later acquitted or are victims. Duplicates across posts are merged. Drug importation / trucking (Blue Water Bridge & related) •Ranjit Singh — alleged ******* importation, Blue Water Bridge •Charanpreet Singh — convicted of importing 55 kg ******* + 5 kg ******; cut ankle monitor and fled before sentencing •Harinder Singh — charged with importing ******* / possession for trafficking, Blue Water Bridge •Ravinderbir Singh — charged over large ******* seizure; later acquitted •Ravinder Singh Dhanda — alleged U.S.–Canada *******/**** pipeline (Operation Hard Ball); fighting extradition •Gurtej Singh Smagh — same Hard Ball drug-smuggling indictment •Gurpreet Singh (multiple files in the thread) — alleged narcotics / Ryan Wedding network / later FBI wanted in Bhagwanpuria case Extortion / gang violence (Peel, Calgary, Edmonton) •Safaldeep Singh — alleged For Brothers extortion, firearms, drugs; conspiracy to commit murder warrants •Sandeep Singh — For Brothers-related drug/firearm charges •Germanjeet Singh — Calgary extortion series; wanted on firearms warrant •Jaskaran Singh — Calgary extortion / shooting-related charges •Karanbir Singh — Calgary extortion series •Amandeep Singh — Calgary extortion series •Anurag Singh — Calgary extortion series •Sandeep Singh (Calgary board) — attempted extortion charges •Akashdeep Singh — Calgary kidnapping/firearms-related charges •Gagandeep Singh — Calgary extortion series •Pardeep Singh — Calgary kidnapping/firearms-related charges •Taranveer Singh — Calgary kidnapping/firearms-related charges •Ravinder Singh (Surrey/Peel board) — Peel extortion gang •Dilawarpreet Singh — Peel extortion gang •Ajaydeep Singh — Peel extortion gang •Rajan Singh — Peel extortion gang •Jashanbir Singh — Peel extortion gang •Navroop Singh — Peel extortion gang •Mohinder Singh — Peel extortion gang •Mandeep Singh — Peel extortion / also appeared in separate Uber-assault post •Amritjot Singh — Peel extortion gang •Jashanpreet Singh — Peel extortion gang •Sukhwinder Singh — Peel extortion gang •Iqbal Singh Bhagria — Peel extortion gang •Sahibjot Singh — alleged Bishnoi links; deportation order •Karamveer Singh — alleged Bishnoi associate; held in immigration custody Firearms / street crime •Navjot Singh — loaded illegal handgun, Brampton traffic stop; Alberta warrant •Harkomal Singh — same Brampton firearms stop •Jobanpreet Singh — auto-theft toolkit charges; student visa / CBSA warrant •Atish Singh — auto theft, flight from police, assault with weapon •Harwinder Singh — alleged dating-app extortion / confinement / robbery, Brampton •Japinderjeet Singh — Red Deer fentanyl/******* trafficking charges •Ravinder Singh Gosal — same Red Deer drug file; wanted after missing court Fraud / other •Pawanjeet Singh Mann — alleged $4.3M mortgage/cheque fraud; former Brampton lawyer •Balwant Singh — alleged $180,000 elder gold/PayPal scam (New York) •Manjeet Singh — repeat theft case; deportation issues •Jagpreet Singh — convicted of murdering his wife (older case posted in-thread) •Jaskirat Singh Sidhu — Humboldt Broncos crash; dangerous driving causing death FBI / transnational wanted •Gurpreet Singh — FBI wanted, Jaggu Bhagwanpuria group (narcotics / racketeering) •Major Singh — FBI wanted, same Bhagwanpuria group •Amritpal Singh — FBI wanted (Dhanda-linked file in thread) •Harmanveer Singh — FBI wanted •Simranpal Singh — FBI fugitive, later arrested in Moncton •Satinderjeet Singh (Goldy Brar) — alleged Bishnoi lieutenant; U.S. charges including ordering Nijjar killing

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  Rajat_Bhogrey (@Rajatbhogrey009) reported 34 minutes ago

  why is paypal so slow

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  Potat0 (@PoPaP0) reported 35 minutes ago

  RANT Why must PayPal hate new accounts. I just created a business account confirm if my account is good, costumer support said yes. Proceeds to hammer me with money stuck there for days. Doesn't even tell you what's the main problem. Man this sht sucks.

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  Dada Goober (@goobertstan) reported 36 minutes ago

  @jiwoolover6091 I’m sorry jay, I tried logging in through my old PayPal acc AND making a new account😔😔😔 I think it’s a country issue

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  glo霞★ 🌽⚡️🌙 (@chiweis) reported 37 minutes ago

  I mean I did click the link but it required me to login to my PayPal but I didn’t so that shouldn’t be a problem right? I changed my password anyway just in case

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  AMOS BLACKFIRE (@amoblackfire) reported 37 minutes ago

  @GOAT72573384663 @PayPal I have the same issue, since date 21 august, still pending

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  ULTRAZINE (@UltraKillZine) reported 38 minutes ago

  ❗WE ARE CURRENTLY HAVING ISSUES PROCESSING PAYPAL PAYMENTS! THIS WILL BE FIXED SHORTLY. WE WILL PROVIDE A STATUS UPDATE ON ALL PLATFORMS ONCE IT IS WORKING AGAIN.

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  DingusCola SLOTS CLEARED (@fackinbuddy) reported 38 minutes ago

  @___EEF_ There are apparently people on Reddit as recent as 4 days ago having the exact same issue on me and the working theory that it’s due to paypal’s ai security. This could validate for a genuine law suit

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  Aquila (@LeoAquila_) reported 40 minutes ago

  @TheRealCalvin19 @WhisperMute First I gotta fix my paypal, which is hard because paypal sucks 🙃

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  mel (@popodysseytour) reported 45 minutes ago

  @cccatalina_ dw i figured once i got the whole spiel about their paypal not working lol

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  JerseyTFs (@Jersey_TFs) reported 45 minutes ago

  Cause if its an issue with paypal and stuff I will more then gladly open up more options

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  The Arcane Verse⚕️ (@Telephantix) reported 50 minutes ago

  So you're saying this dude got 50 mil in venture capitalistism funds, and says we can't own money, the companies like cash app venmo and paypal in my point of view are scrubbing data to make customers look like they lost nothing... thats a breach of trust and is punishable and those in decision positions will be held liable. I don't want the see Xmoney go down the same path.!!

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  Detarame (@Detarame247) reported 52 minutes ago

  @_ChokoMami In my case, I didn't even get to do comms, people barely so my stuff, and when I finally started to get more, I had to shut down the whole thing because PayPal doesn't work in my country anymore, I can never get money from the outside anymore.

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  ً (@hirakodaily) reported 57 minutes ago

  Hi everyone! unfortunately I’m going through some financial difficulties due to personal issues and am struggling to make ends meet. bc of this I’m reaching out to ask for your help. If you have some spare cash and would like to assist me, I’m leaving my PayPal and Pix details 👇

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  jinowns (@Jinowns87) reported 59 minutes ago

  Here's another neat trick I do every year. If you have paypal, you can break down the entire cost into 4 payments. Meaning you pay 25% percent now while PayPal pays the merchant the entire amount and then you can make payments every 2 weeks. Doooo iiiittttt!!