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
Brisbane	Sign in	15 hours ago
Sydney	Sign in	1 day ago
Hochfelden	Website Down	2 days ago
Lyon	Errors	5 days ago
Paris	Sign in	7 days ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	7 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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  Weaponized Incontinence (@GrindrReject) reported 7 minutes ago

  Hi, I am having issues logging into my account. I am not able to reach the help section on your website as it automatically sends me to the login page. @AskPayPal

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  hamza abaoui (@abaoui_ham64421) reported 9 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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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 11 minutes ago

  @meetedzenebubu honestly the bigger issue isn't paypal specifically, it's betting everything on one platform at all, stripe has its own version of these problems too. we route across a couple processors using paymentkit instead of picking one "winner," keeps things running regardless of which one has a bad week.

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  Wide-Load Wolf 🔞 (@FireDad_Alpha) reported 14 minutes ago

  He robbed 155 dollars from me, my call out went nowhere, I’ll never see my money back. It’s too late to issue a refund from PayPal. He was giving a friend of mine a hard time on his commission. I don’t have the pull on here some do. But please. Just don’t waste your time

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  Froglet 🐸 (@froglet80) reported 19 minutes ago

  @AgnostikGnostik dont worry about it as long as its clear on your profile on both paypal and ko-fi that its donations - it wont be an issue. at first you may have to wait a bit for funds to clear unfortunately. and it also has a option to say its digital delivery.

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  L0c0 (@L0c002539318) reported 21 minutes ago

  keep building, slow cook $Agentlayer Project real Paypal for AI Agents

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  Karys (@IrishMyCase) reported 22 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I have been locked out of my account for 2 years, I have tried emailing many times with no reply, I can't access the message centre to resolve the issue and I can't call due to anxiety issues, can you please message me to help unlock my account?

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  0verKill404🇻🇪 ☕ (@0verKill404) reported 23 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello! I just need to fix a single error regarding my birthdate, which I entered incorrectly when I created my account, and I haven't been able to resolve it for a long time. Please, I need help Fix it so that everything is up to date 🙏🙏

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  XRP Insider (@xrpinsider2017) reported 23 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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  Reaction Buffet (@reactionbuffet) reported 26 minutes ago

  Of course I have no proof other than my guy lol PayPal is strict but ...Yes and no, the no isn't in the sense where they are doing something wrong. However, they only issue income tax papers IF they have a business number for her. They don't require this at least from Ontario Canadians BC there is an income earned threshold where we HAVE TO have a buness number. PayPal can and does ask but again it's not required until they ask for it. I've a business account for 2 decades. They asked me for a business number only 6-7 months ago.

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  Maaz (@maaz_ullah_) reported 26 minutes ago

  @PrimeArchetype @HoussamDesigner It's a problem of client. And 4$ are nothing then the PayPal fee

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  milo (@chaidorov) reported 27 minutes ago

  hi non-fs related but is anyone of my indo moots familiar w using paypal? 😭 i have some problems w withdrawing but my bank isnt helping ****

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  Michellekirby625 (@MichelleVault) reported 29 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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  Compaytence | Your Payment Processing Team💰 (@Compaytence) reported 37 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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  Rudolfs (@ecomrudolfs) reported 38 minutes ago

  Had about 50+ people reach out to me a couple of days ago on insta about private processing So let me break down some common questions Nr1: legal structure If you sell in the US, have a US llc setup This will increase your auth rates and opens a lot of new doors (Same goes for other markets - have a local setup) Nr2: what is “private processing” It is not some payfac Its having processing directly from an acquiring bank You go to an ISO and they talk to the bank and do the whole underwriting process In the end you have your own MIDs (merchant IDs) And you are the only store processing on it Way less wrongful shutdowns than on payfacs cause your data is not mixed with others Nr3: the checkout Its very simple… All you need is a CRM It will high jack the shopify checkout process You build a custom checkout or use pre made templates and connect your MIDs to the CRM Usually will need the MIDs to either be able to issue a VAR sheet or have the NMI gateway But its very common so no worries on that Nr4: the benefits I dont even know where to start lol - full control over your checkout (split test and run what ever you want) - unrestricted upsell flows - if you do mrr then you can own your subscription tokens - apple/google pay wallets + paypal - way less wrongful shutdowns - next day payouts - almost a 0% chance at losing access to all processing - smart rebill logic - built in tracking (sent directly to your ad platform) - no more headaches from SP bs I could go on but you get the point If you are still on SP in the big 2026 its time to rethink your backend Q4 is coming up and volume spikes cause a ton of volatility with SP shutdowns (Not the case on MIDs as you have a HUMAN to talk to) Don’t end up not being able to process payments during November Set this up even as a backup if you don’t want to fully switch Either way if you have any questions or want to get in touch with the right people… Send me a dm

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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 39 minutes ago

  Cindy's been through hell the last 2 years, disabled by injury, nightmare LL, took on 4- & 6-y/o niblings as guardian, at great personal cost. Her car needs a new thermostat, among other issues. Total $910; 18 ppl, $50 each: PayPal: @ cindysalazar435 Venmo: @ tiocindy42

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  Cai Co (@CaiCo87) reported 39 minutes ago

  @PayPal PayPal is a terrible service that facilitates fraud and does nothing about it. They’ll give the company who commits fraud until the end of the year to respond, by which point nothing will be done even when there is clear evidence of fraud. They profit off of it.

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  Chaminda Delpagodage (@chams_builds) reported 40 minutes ago

  at PayPal we had a rule: systems must fail safe, not fail open. when something breaks, it locks down, it doesn't fling the doors open. same rule for AI agents: when unsure, it should stop and ask, not confidently guess. design for the bad day.

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  𓋹 骏月𓂀 (@vladswolfie) reported 47 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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  TheRealNegz (@no1nohow420) reported 48 minutes ago

  ***** acting like he was slandered over an opinion. Let me break it down for him. You goto court with your frivolous lawsuit. Discovery demands full disclosure of your financial records. SSDI, Cash App, PayPal, and any other benefits. Your dropped suits are entered with evidence of your literal harassment. Witnesses are deposed and entered to testify at trial. During this time the STATE will see that yiur SSDI was not effected as well as your housing and any other benefits. The legal waiver is exposed, you get implicated in defaming your attorney. Your atty then shows proof of your claim being true or false. If true, that's a whole other problem. If false, you lose your councel, on top of the alleged fraud committed against the state for not reporting your income. You are then forced to payback a prorated amount, this is now an unavoidable debt. You lose SSDI, housing, and other benefits. Then the defendant can countersue, or pursue coercion and intimidation charges. This isn't a threat, its the reality of what you are doing and have done. A lawsuit filed would expose your entire scheme of getting settlements and dropping suits to attack 1 person. Enjoy

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  BEAST ⭐️ NASTY (@BeastNastyCallz) reported 49 minutes ago

  @PayPal Geez? Its already been 3 years?! I know its the stablecoin I prefer most. Mainly because you don't charge to buy and sell. But hey, why is the app so bogged down & glitch? Love the black screen (finally) & I have seen a few problems since the change.

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  Nick Berardi (@nberardi) reported 49 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I am encountering an issue where your “Pay With PayPal” button is providing addresses for my billing information that aren’t in my account. Can you help?

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  Nikki A Art (Commissions Open) (@NikkiAArt2) reported 49 minutes ago

  @PayPal I need help with receiving the money in my account from a kofi donation but your Ai chatbots don’t help and whenever I try adding tracking info, i get an error message. This is very frustrating and I need help immediately.

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  mcgibbykins (@mcgibbykins) reported 50 minutes ago

  @valkyrieinpink Just got it! I tried the other way first but it was declined as a high-risk transaction. 🙄 Went through PayPal no issue.

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  Eljuan Swanepoel (@Eljuan5056) reported 58 minutes ago

  @KatherineR5lth The cash app and PayPal not working in my country South Africa

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  Dave Gambrill (@gambrill) reported 59 minutes ago

  I’ve had a business idea running through my head for a couple of years. It’s a short-term SMS marketing concept targeted at a VERY specific group of people with a very specific need. I was thinking about it again this morning and realized something: The idea hasn’t really changed. My ability to actually build the damn thing has. A few years ago, testing this would have been a giant pain in the ***. I would have needed some combination of a web developer, designer, copywriter, database, landing page, SMS platform, payment processor, automation software, and probably somebody technical enough to make all of those things talk to each other. Suddenly, a little experiment becomes a PROJECT. And that’s before I even know if anybody wants the thing. Today, I can sit down with ChatGPT Work, Codex, Claude Code, CoWork, or another capable AI tool and say: “Here’s an idea I’ve had for a couple of years. There was too much friction to build it before. What would it take to create an MVP (minimum viable product), basically the simplest version I could put in front of real people and test?” Then we can start building. I’ll probably still need something like Twilio for SMS and Stripe or PayPal for payments. That’s fine. The difference is that the AI can quarterback the whole thing. It can help build the landing page or lightweight app, handle the database, write the copy, connect APIs and MCPs, set up automations, and stitch the specialized tools together. That changes the economics of experimenting with a business idea. You can vibe code a workable version, put it in front of actual humans, see what happens, learn, and iterate. If people actually want it, THEN you can decide how much you want to invest in making it better and scaling it. Which got me thinking… How many good ideas are sitting in our mental graveyards because they were too expensive, too technical, or just too much of a pain in the *** to build when we first had them? Maybe it’s worth digging a few of those back up. Grab one and tell your favorite AI tool: “I had this idea a few years ago, but there was too much friction to build it. Given what’s available today, how could we create a simple version and test it?” Some of those old ideas might make a hell of a lot more sense in 2026. 👊🏻

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  Ryan (@Gelassoldat) reported 1 hour ago

  I've been putting off writing this. Asking for help in public is not something I ever wanted to do. But I have a two year old and a four month old, and pride doesn't pay rent. Yesterday we got an eviction notice. We were two days late. Ten days to pay or we're out. Rent is just under $1,700. The apartment manager will work with us if we can put something toward it. My contract pay comes in weekly and I'm putting what I can spare from it straight into rent. Every dollar paid reduces what's owed, and whatever's left gets added on top of September and October rent, which we already can't cover, so paying it down now is the only thing that keeps this from getting worse. Here's how we got here. Our baby was born in April. My wife has had health complications since the birth and hasn't been able to return to work. Her maternity leave and short term disability have both run out. She's seeing a doctor this month, because right now she physically can't do her job, and we have no family in this city to help with the kids. Childcare costs more than we're bringing in. I lost my mom at the end of February. I still haven't had a real chance to sit with that. I've been job hunting since January. Locally I keep hearing I'm overqualified, and I get it, they assume I'll leave the moment something better shows up. I've applied for customer service roles I've done before and gotten nowhere. I've made it to final rounds more times than I want to count and walked away with nothing. I had another interview yesterday and gave it everything I had. On top of that, her company had payroll problems for months. We eventually got everything she was owed, but it came weeks and months late, and I took out loans to keep us afloat in the meantime. Those payments are still hitting every month. I did find contract work. It doesn't cover our bills, but I'm working extended hours and taking what I can get. Before posting this I called the community action agency, RIFA, Area Relief Ministries, the Red Cross, and 211. The rent assistance funding here ran dry back in March. There is nothing left in the local pipeline to catch us. We're going to have to move, either somewhere much cheaper or in with family in another state. What I need right now is to get through this month without my kids losing their home. I've asked family. Now I'm asking here. If you're able to help with rent, you can send it straight through X Money, Cash App, Venmo, or PayPal in the first reply Any amount helps, and it goes directly toward keeping my kids in this apartment. If you can't, that's alright. Sharing this so it reaches someone who can would mean just as much. And if all you did was read this far into a stranger's worst month, that mattered too. Thank you.

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  Denistratos (@Denistratos) reported 1 hour ago

  @SumPoorSlob Let’s take this point by point. First, it is simply impossible that you sent a request to the Stratosphere bot on Telegram and received no response. Support works 7 days a week, from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM New York time, and responds within an hour. Where exactly did you write? The only link to the Stratosphere bot is always in my bio. Please be careful. Scammers took over the Stratosphere X page back in May and used it for fraudulent activities. I posted two warnings about it. As far as I know, they have been inactive for more than a month now – Canadian law enforcement is dealing with them. Second, we accept payments in USDC and USDT – three supported networks for each – and in BTC. This is not a matter of personal preference on my part – it is a matter of US and UAE financial regulations. Payment by card is something bloggers on X, YouTube, Substack, etc. can accept. We cannot. Third, there is no need to pay twice as much. I assume you probably went down some unnecessarily complicated route involving intrusive KYC through centralized exchanges or non-custodial wallets such as MetaMask or Trust Wallet. As far as I know, buying and sending crypto is quite straightforward through Cash App, Coinbase, PayPal / Venmo. Unfortunately, we cannot accept payment in any other way. Before deciding whether to try it or not, you can simply use the 24-hour free trial – it has been available since August 1.

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  Froglet 🐸 (@froglet80) reported 1 hour ago

  @AgnostikGnostik ko-fi sends it as payment for goods and services. you just need to create a business paypal account. you can donit right in your existing account and you'll have 2 profiles with one login. no extra id verification required.

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  Melissa For Truth (@MrsMAGA24) reported 1 hour ago

  @Farmville I’ve tried ALL the workarounds and have contacted support SEVERAL times since the issue. I even tried contacting my VIP manager and got crickets. At this point I’m ready to file a complaint with PayPal to get the money back that I spent on that farm unless someone can help me!