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 (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Berlin	Sign in	4 days ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	4 days ago
Nantes	Errors	4 days ago
Vícar	Errors	4 days ago
Étauliers	Errors	4 days ago
Onnion	Website Down	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Greg Grn (@GregGrn3) reported 54 seconds ago

  @artwithinpod Doesn't have intelligence?? this man is responsible for Neuralink, Tesla, Paypal,SpaceX. To name a few, saying he doesn't have intelligence is a sign of your lack of intelligence. Sit ******** down. He made that woman look like a ******* moron.

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  Magicattos | Comissions OPEN | 18+ ONLY (@Magicattos) reported 1 minute ago

  @Maestraaah Damn :( I haven't seen if I have issues with PayPal today, hope it gets fixed soon :3

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  Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) reported 2 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel on what he doesn’t like about the Lean Startup Thiel believes there are merits to the Lean Startup, but he thinks founders today may have over-indexed on it: “I do think we tend to be dominated by a somewhat nihilistic bias where we claim not to know anything. And when you don’t know anything, you end up defaulting too much to the experimental search, A/B testing approach of ‘Let’s ask the customers.’ And I would say the problem with that is that the search space is simply way too big.” In practice, Thiel argues for a more definite view of the future: “This is an important problem that needs to be solved, and this is the set of things we have to combine in just this way to do it.” To be fair, Steve Blank—who pioneered the Lean Startup methodology—isn’t necessarily against this approach. Blank just recommends treating your assumptions as “a series of untested hypotheses.” But there’s clearly a balance between having a definite view of the future and rigorously trying to disprove your assumptions. As Thiel explains, many of the PayPal founding team’s initial assumptions were wrong: “At PayPal, our original business plan was to have payments on Palm Pilots, then it was wireless payments, then it was payments linked to email. So we had a few fairly big pivots in the first year. I’m not sure there’s anything especially virtuous about that — if you have a dumb idea, it’s important to change it — but it’s not virtuous to have a really bad idea in the first place.” Source: @OxfordSBS (May 2015)

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  PSN Deals (@deals_psn) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Kieranmcc17 I also sometimes had the issue that the purchase wasn’t successful and the transaction, also on PayPal, was cancelled later. Don’t really know what situation your in rn

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  Jennifer, English-German Translator (@InfoRosebrock) reported 4 minutes ago

  I run everything through PayPal because I don’t have a bank account, and now PayPal is refusing to let me issue invoices or receive money because I don’t have a bank account. It’s ridiculous... They could've told me 3 months ago that this only works for a while!!!! #frustrated #freelancer #paypal

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  Brown Thunder (@Brown_Thunder76) reported 5 minutes ago

  Now this makes a lot more sense. A few days ago we found a group of fiat tokens quietly sitting on Keeta mainnet. At the time they didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Today they do. Keeta just announced its partnership with LayerZero to bring tokenized commercial bank money to major blockchains. So what does that actually mean? Think of Keeta as the place where regulated bank deposits become tokenized digital dollars, euros, pounds, yen, etc. Those are the fiat tokens we found on-chain. They’re backed 1:1 by commercial bank deposits through Bivo and are built for institutions, not retail. LayerZero is the interoperability protocol that connects many of the largest blockchains together. It’s already used by companies and protocols like PayPal and Ondo. Instead of Keeta building connections to every blockchain individually, LayerZero lets those regulated assets move across Ethereum, Solana, Base, and many other chains through a single interoperability layer. Here’s an example. Imagine a business deposits $10 million with a participating bank. Keeta tokenizes that deposit into regulated digital dollars. Using LayerZero, those dollars can move to Ethereum for settlement, Solana for payments, Base for another application, and then be redeemed back into bank deposits when needed. The institution doesn’t have to care which blockchain the other side is using. That’s why this announcement is a big deal. The fiat assets we found on-chain now have a clear purpose. The GitHub updates we’ve been seeing suddenly make a lot more sense. And if institutions choose Keeta to issue and settle tokenized commercial bank money, LayerZero gives those assets access to one of the largest cross-chain ecosystems in crypto. That has the potential to bring significantly more institutional activity and value onto the Keeta network than if it operated in isolation. This is exactly why I spend so much time watching GitHub and on-chain activity. Sometimes the blockchain tells the story before the press release does. @KeetaNetwork $KTA @LayerZero_Core

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  MuraNasa (@nasa_mura) reported 5 minutes ago

  Last week Wise shut down Peter McCormack's account and kept nearly £12,000. His "crime"? A Bitcoin company had paid one of his invoices. Account frozen. Funds locked. No explanation. And it's not a one-off — it's how the apps we all use every day actually work. That money isn't yours. It's theirs. ❌ The famous ones, and why they can lock you out: • PayPal → balances with no deposit guarantee, freezes & held funds are routine • Revolut → crypto isn't self-custody, KYC account blocks reported constantly • Coinbase → custodial card & balances, account freezes for "verification" • Crypto-com → to earn cashback you must lock CRO in staking for up to 180 days ✅ 4 alternatives where the money stays actually yours ↓

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  stan (@tsumugibait) reported 6 minutes ago

  @tsumugied paypal wataru to fix his horrendous split ends instead

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  Hukam Design (@hukamdesign) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SignalLay It's not issue of international client. All the methods like paypal, Payooner, bank transfer does not work due restrictions imposed on them. There are some other ways but it's too risky , payment can be hold or some legal matter. So it's better to pass.

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  Ian Mutuli (@ianmutuli) reported 11 minutes ago

  Having issues with PayPal mpesa withdrawals. Please check DM. Thanks. @Safaricom_Care

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  𐡀 (@Xyleniqq) reported 11 minutes ago

  I’ve been running a fake charity out of my garage for three years. It started as a joke because my neighbor kept asking me to buy Girl Scout cookies and I wanted to see if I could sell something stupid. I made up "Save the Left-Handed Ferrets." Made a basic website, printed some flyers. I actually sold $4,000 worth of merch. I felt so guilty I donated $4,000 of my own money to a real animal shelter. But then people kept donating. Now I have $18,000 in a PayPal account. I can’t spend it, but I also can’t give it back because I don’t know who gave it. I tried to shut it down but the website got hacked and now it’s asking for crypto. I’m 53 and I’m accidentally running a money laundering front for a fake animal charity. My wife thinks I’m just really into ferrets now.

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  ken⁷ ♡︎'s kay | is seeing bts!! (@mingisleftfoot) reported 11 minutes ago

  no because im genuinely so ******* mad. first it was ONLY LETTING ME USE PAYPAL to pay, and then PAYPALL FLAGGED IT AS FRAUD???? and then i was finally able to fix it and get back in and everything was still available but ******* weverse said there were no pickup times available

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  Nthn8 (@8nthan8) reported 11 minutes ago

  @AlbicelesteTalk I can PayPal them £10 now to save them the trouble. Tramps

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  Calamarei 🩸💀 2.0 Debut SEPT 18 (@CalamareiVT) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Twitch I am actually appalled at how my situation has been handled. My account was HACKED. My 2-Factor Authentication did NOT stop someone from bypassing my login and bypassing the 2-FA again to view my financial payout information. Not only did I recieve no notice this happened, I receieved no email of my account payout information being changed from ACH Direct Deposit into my bank account (details that were now also exposed to the hacker) to Paypal with an unknown email but also no notice of the new payout information being changed. I found this out ONLY because I hadnt received my payout and went in to check for any holds or tax issues. AFTER checking through my emails from Twitch to make sure nothing was sent. I have emails ON I have 2-FA ON and all I have recieved from Twitch is notice that I should make sure these things are enabled (which that are and have been) and that I won’t be recieving my payout since it was sent out to the hacker email. THERE IS A HUGE SECURITY ISSUE AT TWITCH. If someone can by pass my 2-FA and access AND change my payout information. Exposing my banking and personal address, etc. there is an issue. And it is Twitch’s responsibility to ensure our data and financial details are protected. When bringing this up Twitch support let me know they are investigating and will get back to me. For the second time. Don’t worry, I did report the email to Paypal as well… But am I suppose to check my account details every day or every hour to make sure someone hasnt changed my information without my knowledge? How is this being prevented down the road? Will this happen to me again in a month? Will I still fail to recieve the information my information is exposed? This is not okay. And everyone on Twitch should be aware this can happen to them. Twitch’s security for your banking and personal information is a joke. And I guarantee I’m not the only one. I contacted Twitch support, sending screenshot of the information and explaining, yet I am only receiving automated emails of how to protect my information. With systems that FAILED and did not protect it this time. I cannot enable 2-FA and email notification any harder/more/better than I already have. This is not on me Twitch. This is on you.

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  BAPen 🇺🇸 🦅 (@dornepab) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Strava I’m having a hell of a time renewing my subscription (originally through Apple subscriptions, expired July 8), possibly because I’m having an iPhone & debit card issue?? But it won’t let me add Apple Card, Amex, PayPal or other pymts either… can you help?

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  Djevans (@Djevans703) reported 26 minutes ago

  @TheLongInvest The all time POC is down at $50 area. Looks like it’s gonna do the same as PayPal. I would be interested down there. Otherwise I’ll just miss it

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  🦋monarch🦋 (@starvingmonarch) reported 30 minutes ago

  me when i try to buy something on the best buy website with paypal pay in 4 but the website is broken so i can’t do it but paypal took a temporary hold (the first payment) until the transaction is completed but i can’t complete it and it took it every time i tried so now im out

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  Dmitry Ive (@V12TwinTurbo) reported 30 minutes ago

  There is a very well known rule in business and marketing - make the buying experience as frictionless and straightforward as possible (one-click checkouts, PayPal/Apple Pay payments, buy first and create an account later, etc.) Meta Verified subscription breaks that rule completely - it is not advertised on the main page, buried four levels down in the menu, and a pain to find and arrange. Meanwhile, X Premium is clearly shown on the Home page and very straightforward to join.

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  Oka Wolfy🐺LADS (@Oka_Wolfy) reported 31 minutes ago

  @HungryAthena I'm having trouble with paypal please lemme know when its fixed <3 <3

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  Dji ⦿ ☰ ☲ (@Dji_aRMy) reported 32 minutes ago

  @sas10f I had so many issues with PayPal trying to Baltimore pick up… Apple Pay was the only one that worked well.

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  Upside (@upside) reported 34 minutes ago

  @thatcoolguyjosh Hi there! We recently made updates to our cashout options to make them faster, more reliable, and more flexible for our users. While PayPal was previously available, it only represented about 17% of all cash-outs last year. At the same time, we were seeing increasing issues wi...

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  Ebin Memes22 (@EbinMemes22) reported 35 minutes ago

  @ItsLulu_7 you can talk to anyone on earth in as near to real time as physics can currently take us, obesity and laziness are magnitudes more of a problem than starvation , with paypal you can pay for things in a couple of clicks and with amazon they can arrive at your home the next day.

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  West Lord (@MyWestLord) reported 36 minutes ago

  Elon Musk got 5 minutes at USC in 2014 and packed 4 rules into them that still outwork every $200 MBA book. Rule 1: came with a scene instead of a slide 2 brothers skipping the apartment to sleep on a couch in a rented office, showering at the YMCA, sharing 1 computer so the website ran by day while Elon coded through the night, 7 days a week, and his girlfriend had to sleep in the office just to see him. His math was brutal: when someone works 50 hours and you work 100, you ship 2 years of progress in 1. Rule 2: a company is nothing but people, so gather great ones or join great ones, because talent and direction decide everything else. Rule 3: signal over noise, which is why Tesla spent $0 on advertising and poured every dollar into R&D, manufacturing and design, killing any effort that didn’t make the car better. Rule 4: reason from first principles the way physicists cracked quantum mechanics, boiling things down to fundamental truths and building up from there instead of copying whatever the crowd does. Then the closer, aimed straight at 22-year-olds with no mortgage and no kids: risk gets expensive with age, and every added obligation turns bold moves into careful ones. He built PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX on those 4 rules. The couch came before the rockets.

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  Colby Hill (@Chill_Investing) reported 37 minutes ago

  5 Stocks to Watch - Week of July 27 1. $META - Meta Platforms: Reports earnings right alongside Wednesday's FOMC decision. Stock is down 13% from its July 15 high. Support at $595.00. 2. $PYPL - PayPal: Reports Tuesday before the open after a 25% gap-up breakout on July 15. This print confirms or breaks the move. Support at $55.00. 3. $BA - Boeing: Reports Tuesday. Still cash-negative but delivery ramp momentum is real. Support at $204.80. 4. $MU - Micron: Caught in a violent memory-chip selloff, down 27% from its June 25 high. Bellwether for whether this is a shakeout or something worse. Support at $900.00. 5. $SNDK - SanDisk, this week's speculative pick: Down nearly 39% from its June high in the same memory-sector storm hitting MU. No earnings catalyst, pure momentum risk. Support at $1400.00. Not financial advice.

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  tigerlilygguk⁷ 💜 (@tigerlilygguk) reported 45 minutes ago

  @taekooksbag Apparently there were a lot of issues this morning with the other cities. Weverse and PayPal crashing, orders being cancelled.

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  Dub (@Doubleoo4ever) reported 45 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal 7 days, $656.37 held (Txn 36V06866NJ357773R). Your “Get Verified” step to accept it is broken, dead ends every time (on video). Chat gave zero case numbers. CFPB Complaint 260723-35953948 filed. Respond with a resolution timeline in 24hrs or I escalate.

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  Scythe | Commissions Closed link Bio (@NamesakeGeodite) reported 48 minutes ago

  What other payment method can I use that isn’t PayPal or Kofi? I’m still having issues with those two

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  vee ᛪ༙ (@veeviscera) reported 50 minutes ago

  @clownbraa you can reach out to vgen in the server VIA ticket and they can help! 6 months is the chargeback deadline for paypal but pls do reach out to vgen first :)

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  JG (I have no more shoes) (@DonJuan1285) reported 56 minutes ago

  @SneakerVisionz One account payment error on three separate types, (Apple Pay, PayPal, Direct card). Log into other account say payment method goes through instantly.

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  Long (@damthanlong) reported 59 minutes ago

  In December 2008, Elon Musk gave Tesla the last of the money he had left. The wire transfer cleared at 6:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Had it been delayed by just a few more hours, Tesla's payroll checks would have bounced due to insufficient funds. Musk had sold PayPal in 2002 and walked away with roughly $180 million. Instead of doing what most people with $180 million would do, he poured nearly all of it into a rocket company and an electric car company—two industries where history had almost never seen outsiders succeed. Then came 2008, and the financial crisis began to consume what remained. By the end of that year, he reportedly had only a few hundred thousand dollars left and had to borrow money from friends to pay his rent. His marriage also fell apart that same year. Two companies. Both on the brink of running out of cash. In the very same month. The rockets had already failed. At the time, SpaceX had only one product: a small rocket called Falcon 1, and enough funding for just three launches. That was all the money they had. The first launch caught fire and crashed back toward the launch site. The second made it into the sky but lost control before reaching orbit. The third achieved perfect stage separation, but the spent first stage drifted back and lightly collided with the second stage—a timing issue with a newly developed engine—and the rocket was lost. Three launches. Three failures. Not a dollar left. Musk assembled a fourth rocket from the remaining spare parts and bet the last of his money on it. It launched on September 28, 2008, from a small island in the Pacific and successfully reached orbit. It became the first privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to achieve that milestone. Musk later said those were literally the last funds the company had, and had the fourth launch failed, SpaceX would have shut down that very night. But that still wasn't enough to save Tesla. Tesla had been close to completing a $100 million funding round earlier that summer, but the banking system collapsed and credit markets froze. A tiny automotive startup trying to raise capital while even General Motors was nearing bankruptcy had almost no chance. The company was burning through cash, had not yet put a production vehicle into full-scale manufacturing, and was only days away from missing payroll. So Musk took over as CEO. He invested the last of his own money into Tesla. He persuaded existing investors to restructure the financing round into debt in order to get around an investor who was blocking the deal. The agreement closed at 6:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Musk gave Tesla the last dollars he had, and later said that at the time he "didn't even own a house or anything else that could be sold." Just one day earlier, NASA had awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. Musk later said he was so overwhelmed that he could barely hold his phone. Within 48 hours, both companies had been pulled back from the edge of collapse, during what was arguably the darkest period of his life. Today, people look at Musk and debate whether he's a genius. That genius was already there through all three failed launches, and it still wasn't enough to save him. What ultimately saved him was a decision he had made months earlier, when the money first started running out. He could have poured everything he had left into one company and let the other die. That would have been the rational move. Instead, he split his last dollars between both companies, knowing full well that doing so could cause him to lose them both. He later admitted that the experience nearly broke him mentally, and it could very easily have destroyed both companies at the same time. Most people would have given up after failing three times in a row. He paid for a fourth attempt. And this time... it worked.