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 (33%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Beaufort	Sign in	1 day ago
Lyon	Website Down	1 day ago
Hildesheim	Sign in	1 day ago
Châteauroux	Website Down	3 days ago
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	5 days ago
Athis-Mons	Errors	5 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Glerf (@real_oriox) reported 8 minutes ago

  @OpieRadio I suppose you will take down all the paypal links from your streams?

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  Bill (@Billisthebooqy) reported 10 minutes ago

  @MattZylbert Zylbert my bank cards not working and the only way to add money is PayPal help a brother out

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  بايونيك مان (@ZiaDElqadY) reported 10 minutes ago

  @yagizozbilen @AskPayPal Have you tried talking to @Jonas_Nerd about this issues,?

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  Meiya✨🍉 (@exqired_) reported 15 minutes ago

  @BreazyBash Tryin to snatch one but PayPal is giving me so many issues it says it blocked my bank from some bullshit, all I did was try linking my bank 💔💔 I just want my gem💔💔

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  WISECP (@wisecpcom) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Zarkos85 Hi @Zarkos85 — thanks for letting us know, and sorry for the trouble. It was a short-lived issue on the checkout page and it's fixed now; card and PayPal are both going through again. Please give it another try, and if anything is still off, open a ticket and we'll get on it.

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  Jonas Gruber (@jonasgruber_) reported 17 minutes ago

  52 followers 7 days ago. 1,100+ today. Wild. Thanks to every single one of you. let me quickly introduce myself: In 2019 I was bored out of my mind at university. Took me about one semester to realize the degree I was working towards would never get me where I actually wanted to be. Then YouTube recommended me a video: "How to make money with dropshipping" Boom. That was the opportunity I was looking for (I thought). So I went all in. Grinding day and night. 30k first month, tripled that the month after. I thought I cracked the code. Until > PayPal cases started rolling in lol. > Refunds left and right. > Problems with the supplier as well. Turns out I sucked at running the store. But heres the thing: While I was bad at every part of that business, there was one part I was actually good at. The ad account. Reading the data and making decisions other people didn't see were an option. So I asked around in my network whether I could run ads for them. Took some time but one guy finally said yes (forever thankful for you if you read this). And guess what: IT WORKED! Certainly not at today's level, but more than enough to establish a profitable marketing channel for him. In fact: He was so happy, he recommended me to another guy and one thing led to another. FAST FORWARD TO TODAY: I run a multi 7-figure full funnel Google Ads agency. We scale brands like Sodastream, Riedel and Music Store, plenty of stores starting from scratch on Google and everything in between. And after a few hundred accounts, the same pattern keeps showing up: ALMOST NOBODY IS LOSING MONEY BC THEIR ADS ARE BAD. But bc they're not doing the basics right at scale. After spending €50mio+ on Google I thought, "why not share all the lessons and insights about how to scale tf out of people's Google Ads." I share every single detail and not gate keep anything. Before, I thought this stuff was way too niche for X. But based on the DMs I've received, apparently not. So welcome on my X account brother. Follow along for more ecom nerd stuff that makes you more money. 🫶🏼

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 21 minutes ago

  THE THREE PRICE TARGETS PUT ON PAYPAL $PYPL SINCE FRIDAY WERE $50, $51 AND $70: The Quality-Value Len5 is watching PayPal at $53.18, -$0.48 / -0.90% today. The San Jose company runs the PayPal checkout button, Venmo, and Braintree, which handles card payments behind other companies' checkout pages. The bottom line: on Friday PayPal lost its buyer, and the shares gave back $7.81 in a single session. Nothing about the business changed that day. What ended was somebody else's offer to pay more than the market would. WHAT HAPPENED ON FRIDAY Since July there had been a bid on the table. Stripe, the privately held payments company, and Advent International, a private-equity firm, had jointly offered $60.50 a share - about $53B for the whole company. PayPal's board considered it too low. On Friday, August 28, Bloomberg reported the pair had walked away. Reuters put the sticking points at price and at how hard a deal that size would be to get past regulators. The shares went from $61.47 on Thursday to $53.66 on Friday: -$7.81 / -12.7% in one session, on 36.3M shares against a 30-day average near 11.5M - more than three times an ordinary day's trading. Today they have traded as low as $51.92, under Friday's own low of $52.62. Roughly seven dollars of that price was one buyer's opinion, and it is gone. Bloomberg noted the two could return later. Nobody is obliged to. THE THREE TARGETS Within two business days, three firms published a view on the same company and the same facts. - Loop Capital, Friday morning: target cut to $50 from $62, rating Hold. - Mizuho, Friday morning: cut to $51 from $60, rating Neutral. - RBC, this morning: RAISED to $70 from $65, rating Outperform. A price target is one firm's estimate of where a share should trade in about a year. It is an opinion, not a measurement. Across everyone who follows the stock the average target is $56.32 and the average rating is hold. So one firm believes these shares are worth a third less than another firm does, three days after the same news. That spread is the story, and the June quarter is where it comes from. WHAT THE COMPANY REPORTED ON JULY 28 Two numbers sit at the heart of it, and they point opposite ways. Total payment volume - the dollars moving across PayPal's systems - was $486.4B, +10% from a year earlier. Busy. Transaction margin dollars - what PayPal keeps out of those payments after paying the cost of moving them - was $3.9B, +1%. Leave out interest earned on customer cash and it was $3.6B, +3%. Ten percent more money went through. One percent more stuck. The rest of the quarter reads the same way: - Net revenue $8.68B, +5% - Profit per share $1.25 on the standard accounting measure, -3%; $1.38 with certain one-off items stripped out, -1% - Operating margin - what the business keeps out of each sales dollar before interest and tax - 16.4%, down 1.71 points - Active accounts 439M, +0.3% over the year, and DOWN 0.2M from three months earlier - Free cash flow - the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment - $1.78B - Cash and investments $15.3B against $13.4B of debt Then the buyback, which is the largest single thing PayPal does with its money. A buyback is a company purchasing its own shares and cancelling them, so every remaining owner holds a slightly bigger slice. It spent $1.5B on that in the quarter and $6.0B across twelve months, retiring about 111M shares against the 855M that exist today. Management raised its full-year forecast: adjusted profit near $5.38 a share against $5.31 last year. On the standard measure it still expects a mid-single-digit decline from $5.41. Put the price against that. $53.18 divided by $5.38 is about 9.9 times what the company itself expects to earn this year. ONE NAME, SIX LEN5ES - QUALITY-VALUE - STRONG, and the only one of the six carrying it. This style hunts a durable business at a fair price, and PayPal is sixth on that watch. The fair-price half is not arguable at roughly 10 times earnings with 111M shares retired in a year. Durability is where the fight is. A checkout button 439M people already have is a real moat - the thing that stops a competitor simply taking your customers - and volume growing 10% while the money kept from that volume grows 1% is what pressure on a moat looks like from the inside. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: transaction margin growing anywhere near the pace of payment volume. WHAT WOULD BREAK IT: active accounts falling a second straight quarter, because a button nobody reaches for is not durable at any price. - DEEP-VALUE AND SPECIAL-SITUATIONS - NOT A FIT, and the most interesting no here. That style wants a business priced under what it looks worth, or one carrying a dated event still to play out. Cheap is present. The event is what failed: an unsigned offer that has now been withdrawn is not something anyone can plan around. Friday is the proof - the event resolved, and it resolved by vanishing. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: a signed agreement with a real closing date, or a markdown deep enough that the business by itself, with no buyer anywhere in the picture, is the entire reason to look. - GROWTH - NOT A FIT, and the price is not the problem. Growth you are not overpaying for needs both halves, and the second one is missing. Adjusted profit guided to $5.38 against $5.31 is roughly a 1% year, and on the standard measure the company expects earnings to fall. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: transaction margin dollars speeding up so profit rises with volume instead of trailing it by nine percentage points. - MOMENTUM - NOT A FIT, on the plainest evidence available. That style watches a company already climbing on news of its own. This one fell 12.7% in a session on somebody else's decision, sits 32.9% below the $79.22 it reached on October 28 last year, and traded lower again today. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: the shares climbing back on PayPal's own quarterly figures rather than on talk of a buyer. - HYPERGROWTH - NOT A FIT, on age and size rather than judgment. Early and fast-growing is the brief. PayPal is 27 years old, serves 439M accounts, books $8.68B in a quarter and grows it 5%. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: honestly, almost nothing available to it - a business this size cannot become early again, and Venmo or the financial-services push would have to compound for years at a rate the whole company has not managed in a decade. - INCOME - NOT A FIT, and the reason is which pocket the cash comes from. That style watches cash genuinely reaching owners and genuinely funded by the business. The dividend is $0.14 a quarter, declared for payment on September 25 to holders on the books September 4 - $0.56 a year, about 1.1% of the share price. The $6.0B of buybacks is the real cash return, near 13% of the company's $45.5B market value, and it came out of money the business earned rather than borrowed. But a buyback is a decision, not a promise: it can be halved next quarter with no announcement and nobody calls it a cut. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: the declared dividend growing into a meaningful share of the price, so the cash return is something owners can count on instead of something they hope continues. THE MIRROR IMAGE, TWO PLACES DOWN THE SAME WATCH Visa at $381.01, -$0.59 / -0.15% today. The San Francisco company runs the network that moves money between shoppers, shops and banks every time a card is tapped, and it sits eighth on that same Quality-Value watch - for exactly the opposite reason. Visa trades near 33 times its last year of earnings, $4.56 / 1.2% under the $385.57 high it set on August 26. PayPal trades near 10 times, a third below its own high. One has the durable half settled and no discount to show for it. The other has the discount and an argument about the durability. What would open the Visa read is a real markdown with earnings unchanged; what would break it is regulation cutting what the network is allowed to charge on each transaction. WHAT TO KEEP AN EYE ON Not whether a buyer comes back. The gap between those two June-quarter figures. PayPal reports the September quarter in late October - treat the date as unset until the company names it - and the line to find is transaction margin dollars against total payment volume. If volume keeps growing near 10% while the margin grows near 1%, then 10 times earnings is cheap for a reason. If they converge, a $70 target stops looking eccentric. One smaller dated item: from September 4 the shares trade without that $0.14 payment, which lands September 25. THE RISK, SAID WITHOUT DECORATION Nothing here is a forecast. The bear case is written into the company's own report: payment volume growing ten times faster than the money kept from it, with the number of people using the service flat over a year and slightly lower than three months ago. A stock can sit at 10 times earnings for years when the earnings are going nowhere, and this company's own guidance has profit falling this year on the standard measure. Push the other way and it breaks just as fast: two buyers examined these numbers up close and were willing to pay $60.50, and a board that said no is either right or expensive. For six weeks this stock had a price somebody else was willing to pay. Since Friday it has only had the one the business can justify - and Friday put $7.81 between them. Not investment advice.

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  Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) reported 22 minutes ago

  Advent and Stripe just walked away from a $50B takeover of PayPal. The board called the offer inadequate. The stock fell 13% anyway. Takeover hope was the floor under this stock. Pull it out and PayPal trades on what it actually is: a payments giant losing share and searching for growth. No buyer means fix it yourself. $PYPL

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 22 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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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 23 minutes ago

  And Bridgett has to drive down to Santa Fe on Thursday for an appointment, and needs $150 to cover gas/food/related costs: Venmo: @ bridgetttru17 PayPal: @ bridgett190

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  mel (@popodysseytour) reported 24 minutes ago

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

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  sail_on_a_surfboard (@CNCKeith) reported 26 minutes ago

  @PayPal account locked up, we are american company been doing business with paypal for 24 years, we call every day, we submitted all requested documents to prove that we are a real company, "paypal help" is no help, they are withholding 100K+ , we are going to have trouble making payroll, treating a US small business in business since 1979 like some sort of scammer. this is beyond ludicrous, i'm convinced now someone at paypal is trying to steal our hard earned money, PP-L-836499913052

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  ✍️孤独な象 (=◕ᆽ◕ฺ=) COMMS OPEN (@k0dokunazou) reported 28 minutes ago

  @yanqr2ct I hope problem with PayPal will be solved soon

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  Kantala fc (@ifOnlyKantala) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Mugiwara1103 Switch to wise, paypal is terrible

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  Edward The Loudmouth (@EDMaumbauer) reported 33 minutes ago

  @GretchenPSmith Gretchen, yeah, you do... that is how Paypal operates, same with X, FB, Insta, Visa, Mastercard, Your bank... we used to simply call them server farms. Data Centers are as necessary for the world to operate today as is oil. Get rid of them, the world STOPS DEAD

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 34 minutes ago

  @ifwewerenothing they're trying to shut down the donations system (attempting to report to paypal and other portals that AO3 accepts donations from about the "depraved works" hosted by the website)

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  M Heilner (@mjh2008) reported 34 minutes ago

  @CharliePawsUp Ok, folks - time to rally the troops and support our pal @CharliePawsUp and his mama! They have until Monday to get the rent money together and are behind on other bills, too, due to slow summer store months. Links in bio for PayPal and turkey sammiches!

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  JerseyTFs (@Jersey_TFs) reported 36 minutes ago

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

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  ArtRed Venus (@ArtredV) reported 39 minutes ago

  @astro_greek There is a backdoor problem with Paypal and hackers where using paypal to bleed my paypal account dry and charge me all these facebook advertising fees taking anything from $300-$500. I no longer use paypal.

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  Aydın Nasuh (@aydinasuh) reported 42 minutes ago

  @ZidaneZ08902030 @ShubHQcom Neither, from what I can see, and that is the part that surprised me. My scoring tags sentiment per mention, not the reason, so I cannot give you a clean split. But I can check whether payments show up as a problem theme at all, and they do not. This week's e-commerce themes are unfair reviews, Meta Ads instability, account suspensions, dropshipping quality, margin pressure. Cumulatively it is shipping, inventory, ad costs, tax, account holds, chargebacks. No payments theme anywhere. Meanwhile Stripe has 130 mentions and PayPal 143. So payment tools never become the subject of a post. They get mentioned inside a post about something else, usually when a payout is held or a chargeback lands. That is what 65 percent neutral and zero percent positive actually looks like. Nobody writes about their processor. They write about the thing that went wrong around it. Your question exposed a real gap though. Reason tagging is going on the list.

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  MUGOBA RUI (@Xx0MUGOBAxXRUI) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Brx98847 There was PayPal but it got taken down by PayPal itself.

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  roark's fat dragon spouse (@drag0ngemz) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Washen_D A business PayPal is how I see a lot of people do it. If you're willing to go through the trouble of getting an artist code, you can try getting a VGen code as well to manage requests better.

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  Tamay (@tamay_idk) reported 48 minutes ago

  One of these was an NCR CX7 POS system but turns out the seller was a scammer. He had me get the money back by PayPal because they wouldn’t release it to him and when I asked for more pictures of the device to make sure he wasn’t a scammer he sent me terrible AI images LMFAO

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  Solemn Bhoi (@waseemm09) reported 52 minutes ago

  Hey @PayPal @AskPayPal @PayPal_Open plz Check Dispute: PP-R-RQN-642414527. You didn't solve after giving proffs & you just skip solution date 31 Aug. To 09 sep. Why bro? Plz solve the issue ASAP from your side.

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  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Mutualaidboost_ I haven't been able to work for about 2 years now due to sudden health complications needing surgery. This one illness has destroyed my husband and I financially. The injection I need isn't covered by my insurance and costs $500 month. Now my husband gets paid and after bills there like $100 left for food for 2 weeks. We have been living on cereal, cheap frozen pizzas and hot dogs. Sometimes I dont eat for a few days so the food lasts longer. If we could any donation to help out, We would be so thankful! Hopefully these gas and grocery prices go down and I get healthy enough to work again. I dont even know how much to ask for...$500 or $1000? Here is my PayPal QR code.

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  Tratte Buzun 👻 (@Faheem_xxii) reported 54 minutes ago

  Most owners still use Claude like a polite intern who rewrites emails. That is the least useful thing it can do. Claude for Small Business now sits in Cowork with QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. It can reconcile, chase, draft, and package work. You approve before anything sends, posts, or pays. Many never flipped the toggle. They kept pasting into chat and wondering why it sounded generic. Stop asking it for sentences. Give it a job. 1. Build a business brain. One Project: offer, pricing, voice samples, FAQ, three winning proposals, two that lost, who you sell to, what you refuse. Skip this and you keep editing sludge. 2. Monday pulse. One page: cash, uncleared settlements, pipeline, this week's commitments, three things that hurt if ignored. Ends the twelve-tab morning. 3. Chase invoices. It reads open invoices, checks settlements, drafts the follow-up, queues it. You approve. Overdue cash stops rotting in a Friday spreadsheet. 4. Close the month for your accountant. Reconcile, flag mismatches, plain-English P&L, export a packet. They want fewer surprises, not a novel. 5. Forecast the ugly week. Thirty days out. Payroll vs incoming cash. Name the week you run out if two invoices slip. 6. Find busy work that loses money. Job costs, SKUs, clients. What looks healthy on revenue and thin on contribution. 7. First-pass contracts. MSA, vendor deal, lease. Flag odd indemnity, auto-renew traps, deviations from your terms. Not your lawyer. The highlighter before the lawyer. 8. Proposal factory. Load three that closed. New draft from a discovery call, same scope style, disclaimers already in. If first drafts still take half a day, the Project is empty. 9. Discovery call to next moves. Transcript in. HubSpot brief, follow-up, open questions, scope outline out. 10. Triage inbound. Sort by fit, budget signal, time-to-close. Draft the yes, the not-now, and the no. Stop answering in arrival order. 11. Support voice from real tickets. Paste twenty replies you were proud of. New complaints get that register, not helpdesk English. 12. Campaign from the slow stretch. Where revenue dipped. Which send moved pipeline. Then Canva assets against that brief, not "we should post more." 13. Repurpose one real offer. Workshop, drop, case study. Sales email, reminder, landing section, three posts that do not sound cloned. One source. Many surfaces. 14. Lead magnet that does work. ROI calculator, quiz, scope estimator as an Artifact. If it answers a question your sales call always answers, keep it. 15. Hire with a scorecard. Role brief, first-week plan, candidate emails. Same standard every time someone quits. 16. Handbook answers the team. Policies, PTO, invoicing, refunds. Staff ask Claude instead of you at 7pm. 17. Tax folder while it is boring. Missing docs, categories, questions your accountant asks in March. October is a gift. April is a tax. 18. Vendor quotes on one page. Price, term, lock-in, exit, the thing buried on page nine. 19. Turn the Monday task you hate into a Skill. Weekly report, recap, SOW format. If it repeats and the bar is specific, stop re-prompting it. 20. Cowork the sites with no connector. Portal report, form, the CSV a vendor still emails. Messy. Cheaper than a VA on the same six screens. Do not let it send, post, or pay in week one. Watch drafts. Fix the voice. Then widen the leash. Owners getting time back are not better prompters. They gave Claude a filing cabinet, a few tools, and one job with a human checkpoint. Start with the Project, the Monday pulse, and invoice chase. The rest can wait until those feel boring. Which of these replaced a real hour, and which still produced a draft you rewrote?

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  尾籠 誇り 💎✨️ (@HokoriOogomori) reported 54 minutes ago

  @MikaM0r0n i'd be interested!! though the issue is i can only pay via vgen or kofi since i don't have a paypal account set up 💔

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  Nigel J Bevans Photo (@NJBDP) reported 1 hour ago

  @hmefsww Hi, unfortunately I closed my website store down as they were charging a ridiculous amount to sell things. To keep prices reasonably I had to find an alternative and only have eBay at moment. I could do it via paypal cutting out ebay if you would like?

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  Star⁷💜 — ⟭⟬E ARE B⟬⟭CK 💜 (@heartbeatsnsync) reported 1 hour ago

  I recall a moot telling me how someone called them a scalper because they would only use PayPal g&s and wanted them to just e-transfer. Don’t do it. Anyone trust worthy won’t have any issue with PayPal g&s.

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  Dhark (@traceytina16) reported 1 hour ago

  @Safaricom_Care @SafaricomPLC we need to understand where our money is disappearing to since you don’t want to clarify what the problem is. It has now been over a week and nothing. On @PayPal money was transferred but it is only your app that says it’s pending ffs