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 (44%)
• 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	20 hours 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

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Dhark (@traceytina16) reported 36 seconds ago

  My paypal mpesa issue was resolved finally. Thank God!

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  Elprez365 👽 (@elprez365) reported 3 minutes ago

  @BestBallJunkie @Underdog I used paypal this morning no issues

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  CaptTriage (@CaptTriage) reported 4 minutes ago

  OK, hear me out. The next directional Moderna esque arbitrage play will be Musk throwing down the gauntlet and putting in an offer for PayPal. Chances are this won’t happen but wouldn’t that be something.

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  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Mutualaidboost_ URGENT!!! PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN. EVEN $1-2 ADDS UP!! WE ARE SO DESPERATE AND AT THE MERCY OF KIND GENEROUS PEOPLE! PLEASE HELP US GET SOME GOOD FOOD AND TOILETRIES! 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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  Detarame (@Detarame247) reported 8 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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  Edward The Loudmouth (@EDMaumbauer) reported 8 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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  Tim's Wealth Letter (@timswealth) reported 9 minutes ago

  In our portfolio, PayPal fell 12.7% on Friday to $53.66 after Advent and Stripe walked away. The board had rejected their $60.50 a share as too low. The shares are now 11.3% below the offer it turned down. Generac fell 6.8%.

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  Tech Stox (@techstox) reported 9 minutes ago

  Chips gave it all back. Here's what went down on the Nasdaq today 👇 🟢 Workday +5.76%, Amazon +3.97%, Intuit +2.89%, Airbnb +2.73% Software and the big consumer names had a solid day. Apple, Microsoft and Google all finished green too. 🔴 PayPal −12.71% — a $50B takeover bid fell apart 🔴 Marvell −10.28% — beat on earnings and still got sold 🔴 Nvidia −4.57% — giving back the post-earnings pop Chips got hit across the board, not just Nvidia. ARM, Lam Research, Applied Materials all down hard. Kevin Warsh talked at Jackson Hole and made it clear the inflation fight isn't over, which usually hurts the expensive names first. Two days ago Nvidia was up almost 9%. Today it's down 4.5% and the whole chip trade came with it.

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  紅葉MOMICHI 🔜VeXpo (@momichiword) reported 9 minutes ago

  @cloverclubcos If it’s not too much trouble!!! I’d really appreciate it if you could help me with this. I can pay for the item and shipping via PayPal, and I also have a forwarding warehouse that can ship it to Taiwan for me, which should be a little cheaper than shipping it directly🥹

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  Aydın Nasuh (@aydinasuh) reported 13 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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  Tarra 🇵🇸 (@freesickdepravd) reported 15 minutes ago

  Since eBay is still refusing to do anything I reported the issue to PayPal to at least get my money back hopefully

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  尾籠 誇り 💎✨️ (@HokoriOogomori) reported 18 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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  Surmount (@SurmountInvest) reported 21 minutes ago

  A $50 BILLION deal to buy PayPal just fell apart. Its stock COMPLETELY crashed in hours. Retail investors who bet on the deal got wiped out. But the twist is who actually killed it… Here is what actually happened: For months, a rumor had been lifting PayPal's stock. The talk first surfaced back in February. A group of investors wanted to buy the whole company. The buyers were Stripe and a firm called Advent. Their offer was 60.50 dollars per share. That added up to more than 50 billion dollars. It would have been one of the biggest buyouts ever. So investors piled in, betting the deal would close. The stock climbed and climbed on that hope alone. By then, PayPal was worth about the same as the offer. The stock and the deal had basically become one thing. Then on Friday, the buyers simply walked away. There was no deal, no premium, and no rescue. And the gains built on that hope vanished with it. In a few hours, billions in value were gone. Here is the twist that stings the most: PayPal's board had already turned the offer down. They felt the price was still too low. They held out, hoping for a better deal. Instead, the buyers walked away for good. Shareholders did not get a bigger payday. They got a sharp loss instead. And this was not the only one. The day before, Wendy's dropped about 13 percent. An investor group had planned to take it private. Then that plan was quietly shelved too. Its stock had been riding on that plan too. Two well-known companies, crushed in 48 hours. Both were floating on the same fragile thing. Not real profits, only the hope of a buyout. This is a trap retail investors keep falling into. They treat struggling stocks like lottery tickets. They buy the rumor and pray a buyer appears. It feels like easy money while it works. When no buyer comes, the story dies fast. And the people who chased it become the exit. A stock held up by hope has no floor. When the hope leaves, so does your money. The investors who avoid this are not chasing rumors. They follow rules based on what a business actually earns. Rules that ignore the noise and the wishful thinking. That is exactly what Surmount was built for. Automated, rules-based strategies that run on logic, not hope. So when the next rumor collapses, you are not trapped. You are already positioned, with a plan set in advance.

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  Ben Po (@bens_report) reported 21 minutes ago

  @LindaRaschke PayPal 4 days pf3 down. Will it at least get a low to high day today? Hahaha

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  Scarlett (@AItechscarlett) reported 23 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  Theo Morgan (@curious_theo) reported 24 minutes ago

  🚨 A $50B PayPal deal just became a shareholder haircut 🧾 M&A checkpoint: • Proposed takeover value: about $50B • Buyers: Advent and Stripe consortium • Status on Friday, August 28: talks abandoned • $PYPL reaction: down roughly 12% 💰 The market did not price in "maybe." It priced in a payday. When the buyers walked, the premium walked with them. Retail holders do not get a breakup fee. They get the chart. I love how Wall Street calls this "deal uncertainty" after bidding up the rumor like it was guaranteed cash. 📉 Buyout rumor investors: holding the bag 📈 Deal buyers: walking away Ahead of the M&A trap, or already holding the bag?

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 26 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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  Josh (@JoshTradeOption) reported 26 minutes ago

  $PYPL just fell off a cliff. Here is why. On Friday, PayPal closed at 53.66. That is down about 12.7 percent on the day. It was down as much as 16 percent before the open. What happened? Advent and Stripe walked away. They had been chasing PayPal for months. Reports put their offer near 60.50 a share, worth more than 50 billion dollars. The PayPal board thought it was too low. Then the buyers left the table. So the deal premium left the stock. Here is the part to understand. A big chunk of that price was buyout hope, not business news. When the hope goes away, the price falls back to what the business is worth on its own. Now the market has to price PayPal as just PayPal again. Levels I am watching: Failure level: if it cannot hold near 53, sellers are still in charge. Confirmation level: back above 60.50 would say buyers see value with no deal at all. Risk here is real. Catching a knife like this is hard. The story is not over either. A new bidder could show up. Or the stock could just keep sliding for weeks. I do not own it. I am watching. Big drops on deal news often chop around a long time before they pick a side. Not financial advice. Do your own research. Do you all think 60.50 was too low?

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  Arcane | Artificial Intelligence (@Arcane_Aii) reported 27 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  rinky ✦ COMMS OPEN (@rinkilly) reported 27 minutes ago

  SB: $45 MI: $10 AB: $250 + any changes • Comment or DM to claim • Payment via Lavatop(PayPal or credit card) • Payment plans and holds are available with a down payment and for AB only • Auction ends 48 hours after last bid

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  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 31 minutes ago

  @ooyanggy 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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  Rekomendasi Belanjaan 💸 (@RekomenBelanjak) reported 31 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal My PayPal account won't log in and it says: "We're having trouble making sure it's you." What should I do?

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  sail_on_a_surfboard (@CNCKeith) reported 32 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal 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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  Potat0 (@PoPaP0) reported 36 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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  Take It Isi! 💖 (@ItsSoIsi) reported 37 minutes ago

  @2wintails hi! sorry for asking directly, i'm having trouble purchasing your model. i've been taking commissions and saving money on my paypal balance, but since our currencies don't match paypal doesn't allow me to pay with my balance and is locking me into paying with credit card instead+

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  Leroy Washington (@washington82841) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Abhayaitech Yes I need the money to pay fix my stage 4 prostrate cancer treatment and I do have PayPal

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  ericthepoet (@ericbundipoet) reported 45 minutes ago

  @PayPal I transfered money from PayPal to Mpesa on Thursday 27th August, the money was deducted from PayPal but never hit my Mpesa. The status of the transaction is marked as complete. I need some assistance and escalation of that issue.

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  Pokettino (@pokettino) reported 48 minutes ago

  @PokemonTCGIntel I get an error as no payment method :( 1 hr trying. i had paypal as default. :(

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  NoCreaturesWereHarmed (@NoCWereHarmed) reported 52 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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  E (@dopeboyE43) reported 59 minutes ago

  Fix your ******* app @PayPal