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
Benfeld	Sign in	1 day ago
Gérardmer	Sign in	2 days ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	3 days ago
Lodève	Errors	3 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	4 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	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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  Kevin (@Kevincreates77) reported 5 minutes ago

  The review system is gamed, and the star rating is lying to you. You see 4.6 stars and 12,000 reviews. You trust it. You shouldn't at least not at face value . Amazon has a massive fake review problem, and it goes deeper than most shoppers realize. Sellers pay for fake 5-star reviews through private Facebook groups and Telegram channels. They offer full refunds via PayPal in exchange for glowing write-ups. Some use "review clubs" where hundreds of fake buyers purchase the product, leave 5 stars, and get reimbursed. The product gets thousands of reviews in weeks, ranks higher in search, and looks legitimate to every future shopper who lands on the page. But it gets worse. Some sellers use a tactic called "review hijacking" they take an existing listing with thousands of strong reviews and swap out the product entirely. The reviews stay. The product changes. You're reading reviews for a completely different item. One former analyst described the scale: "We estimated that 30-40% of reviews in certain product categories supplements, electronics accessories, beauty had some level of manipulation. Not all outright fake, but incentivized, recycled, or merged from different product listings. The star rating was a marketing asset, not a quality metric." The counter-move: Install a browser extension like Fakespot or ReviewMeta. These tools analyze review patterns timing, language, reviewer history and give you an adjusted rating based on how many reviews appear genuine. Also, filter by "Verified Purchase" and sort by most recent. If the recent reviews are dramatically worse than the overall rating, the product has likely declined in quality while riding the coattails of old reviews.

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  Tiffany Kristen (@TiffanyKri99602) reported 12 minutes ago

  @soupgal1 Dm me with your cash app tag 🏷 or PayPal if you have any financial issues to get paid and say(PAY ME)

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  Andre Compounds (@andrecompounds) reported 14 minutes ago

  I had to pay a business today that did not accept BTC, had never even heard of ETH or XRP, and required payment by PayPal. I spent over 500 dollars on fees. What a broken and archaic system. Future generations will laugh at how inefficient we were… we are so early, even earlier than I thought.

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  Compaytence | Your Payment Processing Team💰 (@Compaytence) reported 16 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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  Gabriel (@Gabriels42w) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Mutualaidboost2 I ask humble to help me I have problems with my anxiety and severe depression and fot the moment I can't work If someone can help me with on dollar or 2 how much you want this is my PayPal @CiucaGabriel1991 thank you a lot for help . I have also a 4fund but no one helps 😔😔

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 18 minutes ago

  open for trades & transfer load to cash (regular & load card) paypal to cash binance to cash gcash to binance gcash to paypal paypal permanent limit withdraw balance (180 days needed) gcash & maya with issue transfer balance (facescan, authentication failed, can’t send or open)

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  cRow🕯️ (@crowplush) reported 20 minutes ago

  @luvsickdreaming THANKYIU MEL CHAN 🥹 it's mostly a problem with the paypal I'm using so I need to fix it...other than that is more stuff regarding TOS e request form that I'm struggling with uueehheueh 🥹🥹🥹

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  Christina Lee (@_Rina__Lee) reported 22 minutes ago

  you can pre-sell a product that doesn't exist yet, use the money to build it, and deliver it 2 weeks later. this sounds like a scam. it's how every software company, every course creator, and every successful launch in history actually works step 1: post about the problem you're going to solve. for 5-7 days. "here's what most people get wrong about X." "here's what i'd include if i built the ultimate guide to X." "who would want a step-by-step breakdown of exactly how i did X" step 2: count the replies. the DMs. the "me" comments. that's your pre-sale audience. they just told you they want it before it exists step 3: post "i'm building this. it'll be ready in 2 weeks. first 20 people get it at $27 instead of $47. DM me to lock in the early price" step 4: collect payment. through gumroad, stripe, paypal. whatever. the money arrives. now you have a funded deadline. the product isn't built yet. the motivation isn't an idea anymore. it's money sitting in your account from people who are waiting step 5: build it. in 2 weeks. the deadline is real because people paid. the pressure produces better work than 6 months of "getting it perfect" because perfection has no deadline and deadlines have no room for perfection step 6: deliver it. collect testimonials. screenshot the reactions. those screenshots sell the next batch at $47 without you having to convince anyone because the proof already exists from round one you just launched a product with zero inventory. zero risk. zero upfront cost. funded entirely by the people who bought it before it existed. the "scam" is actually the lowest-risk business model available because the market validated the idea with money before you spent a single hour building it

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  Þunchii (@Tunechii33) reported 22 minutes ago

  I am $24,000 in debt at 18 years old and I need help. This isn’t any gimmick, i’ve made some big poor choices at a young age and I have and am still learning through but the monetary number itself is a mountain for me to get rid of in my current situation as i’m heading into college with this on my shoulders. I already know I need to work my *** off and this is my own problem that will take a long time, but truthfully this **** is hard. Im putting this out there for anyone who has the ability/want, to help me out a little no matter what the ammount is, aswell as if you want it returned to you, we can connect and talk about a casual repayment plan. Cashapp: $Sstonuttt For zelle,venmo, paypal, crpyto, or any other option dm me please

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  Draxx Artz (@art7draxx) reported 26 minutes ago

  PayPal is acting up for me; have they been having issues lately? although I think it might be my phone too

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  RadEmpanada (@RadEmpenada) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Flurshus1417 @unfamericatour Yes. It's is a-ok. The same way that donating to a streamer is ok. I have no problem with people fundraising through ActBlue, WinRed, or PayPal

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  🎀 𝐵𝑒𝓉𝒽 🎀 (@Bethsparepat) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Parker17Luna @PayPal It’s just an error. Try updating your PayPal app so this issue can hopefully be resolved.

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  Wojak (@WojakBoi) reported 36 minutes ago

  @TradingWarz -$380 in my bank currently (issues with paypal).. how do i start? age 26, last 6 years of my life has been disaster, grew up poor. $30K of debt, bad credit, living a hotel (evicted last summer) How can a man get out of this hellhole

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  Hasan Aboul Hasan (@hasan_ab_hasan) reported 37 minutes ago

  You're building an app with Claude Code. a button that places an order. Claude builds it, you test it, it works! then one day someone taps it and the spinner just spins... nothing. so they tap it again. the first tap actually worked, the answer just never made it back. and no, this isn't about one slow checkout. it's about what your app does when a request succeeds and nobody hears about it. it's anything where one tap changes something on your side: → a checkout or a payment → a signup that creates an account → a "send" on a message, an email, an invite → any write your retry code might run a second time reading is safe. ask for the same page twice, you get the same page. writing isn't. run the same create twice and you've got two rows, two orders, two emails. 🧾 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁. your code calls the API. the work goes through, the server starts writing the answer back... and your 10 second timeout fires first. your app sees an error. so does the user. but nothing got undone. the order is real, sitting in your database. nobody on your side knows it. so now three things want to try again: the user tapping the button, your retry logic, the browser resending the form. none of them know the first one landed. block 19 said only retry calls that are safe to run twice. this is how you make them safe. it has a name: 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. long word, boring idea. an operation is idempotent when running it twice leaves things exactly the way running it once did. and if that sounds like an edge case, look at who already solved it. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗲 built the fix into their API. you send a header with the request, 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆-𝗞𝗲𝘆: 𝟰𝗳𝟬𝗰𝟵𝗯𝟮𝗲-..., and if Stripe sees that same key again it doesn't run the charge a second time. it hands you back the saved response from the first one, status code and all. the key is good for 𝟮𝟰 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨. 𝗔𝗱𝘆𝗲𝗻 uses the same header name. 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗣𝗮𝗹 calls it PayPal-Request-Id. 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗲 does the same when you create a payment. none of them built that for careful developers. they built it because they assume your request is going to show up twice. 🔑 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗱, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁 you do the same thing inside your own app. the client makes up one id when the user commits to the action, and sends that same id with every attempt. same id on the retry, same id when they tap again. your server keeps a short list of keys it has already handled, and the answer it gave back for each one. → a key it hasn't seen: do the work, save the key with the response. → a key it has seen: don't do the work. hand back the same response. so the second request never creates a second order. it merges into the first one and walks away with the original receipt. the thing people get wrong: generate that key once, up front, and reuse it. make a fresh one on every attempt and every attempt looks brand new to the server. you're right back where you started. Here's the part that matters if you build with AI. You don't have to write this code yourself. You just have to know idempotency exists, so you ask for it from day one. That's the real skill. Knowing the block is there to ask for. This is one block from the Vibe Engineering Blocks series I started recently. One post, one block. This is block number 27. This is the skill that matters today, and it's what separates dummy vibe coders from vibe engineers. And it's what lets you build real, scalable, production-ready apps with AI.

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  CrunchyFoamy (@WhiskeyBiscuit) reported 37 minutes ago

  Hey @Safeway could you please fix your app? Most recent issue…won’t let you select a payment type. Clicking on a payment type displays $0.00 rather than the last four digits of the payment. Advancing sends you back to the select payment type page. Selecting PayPal and…

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  Gatto (@Gatto4k) reported 37 minutes ago

  @robertoblake Yeah absolutely man! (Long reply fyi) Basically Jestr runs paid campaigns for games, mostly indie titles and more. You apply for the campaigns you actually want to make content for, then create short-form content around the game based on the brief. A lot of them only require around 25 to 30 seconds of content, and depending on the campaign you might be playing the game, reacting to a trailer, or using footage they provide. The part I really like is that they combine your views across YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram for the campaign payout rather than judging each platform separately. I was on there for months before I really gave it a proper chance, but once I started only choosing games that actually suited my content and audience, I realised how useful it could be. When it comes to the promotional side, some studios have required tags, talking points, disclosure wording or specific guidelines they want followed. Those are a must. Outside of that, Jestr essentially asks you to follow your own country’s laws around sponsored content and whatever extra requirements the studio sets. The briefs are usually very clear about what is and isn’t required. Each campaign usually has its own budget and a maximum guaranteed payout available. Some campaigns might allow one submission, while others allow several. Those submissions all contribute towards your total performance for that campaign, rather than each one being treated completely separately. The views are pretty simple too. Your qualifying views are tallied across the submitted content and platforms. Some campaigns do require a minimum number of views before earnings kick in, usually around 1K to 2K combined views depending on the campaign, but that minimum is tallied across all your approved submissions and platforms. Once you hit the minimum requirement on those campaigns, your qualifying views start contributing towards the payout until you reach the campaign cap. Payouts can be made directly to your home country’s bank account or through PayPal. I personally prefer the bank option because PayPal can potentially hit you with extra fees or conversion costs. The biggest thing for me is that I don’t think you need to spam every campaign available to make it worthwhile. I’ve had a much better experience just picking games I actually like, or ones I think fit my audience, and making content around those. Happy to break down the payout side or show some examples of campaigns I’ve personally done too if people are interested.

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  Bruce in Iloilo (@BruceinIloilo) reported 42 minutes ago

  PayPal is such a pain. So many hoops. High charges. Every time I went to use it, there was some issue or glitch or something didn't work right. And now they closed my account because I did not respond to some scam. PayPal sucks

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  AC from Chicago (@_AC_1972) reported 47 minutes ago

  @shesforRussy Hey, I was coming to talk to you about Russ, then I saw this. I’m sorry you are having a difficult time. I tried donating twice but PayPal is giving me trouble.

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  TriumphAnt LY Crypto (@TriumphAntGo) reported 48 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @PayPal Did you decide The users do not need a history of their Crypto purchases? I believe it bought more than my balance-loss BTC Yet there is no way for me to verify this on the app Trust a financial entity is NOT recommended! Always verify trx Yet it is not possible Is this your reason for THIS APP ALLOWS NO SCREENSHOTS? You have been around for quite some time now, WHY IS THIS AN ISSUE!?!

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  ContractorKeith (@contractorkeith) reported 50 minutes ago

  • accept online $ through stripe/paypal/square • automatic bank feeds via SimpleFIN • mac and windows verified installers • linux or docker install also available • completely local you own the data • server edition for multi user • bring your own ai

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  Jack D Ripper (@d16b0lical) reported 51 minutes ago

  @RepJayapal There shouldn’t be anybody named Jamala Paypal on an American Judiciary Committee. Any other problems at hand exist downstream of this and are inherently caused by this.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 53 minutes ago

  Bench shut down in December and customers lost access to their own books. Quillfox is the alternative: a 24/7 AI bookkeeping agent that watches bank, Stripe, and PayPal, chases invoices, flags duplicates, and closes a clean P&L each month. Live soon.

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  Crisbuca (@Crisbuca) reported 55 minutes ago

  @CoachNassimm @coachmaxenfn I mean maybe give him time to fix paypal and then resolve problem u didn’t even try understand that his paypal wasn’t working

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  Lin 💜🖤🐈‍⬛ 🇭🇰🇨🇳🇬🇧 | 🔞 | Job searching! (@LinnychuVT) reported 55 minutes ago

  Before today, I only had Stripe payments only which meant that it only allowed credit/debit cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay, etc. But now, I've also added a PayPal option as well so hopefully there won't be as many issues with payments 🫡

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  Heather Peter | Tangem CS (@TheHeatherPeter) reported 55 minutes ago

  Hello 👋🏻 @jeffleonard000, this is UX/confirmation issue with PayPal Express checkout flow but since you got a confirmation email, good. Is your Tangem updated to the latest version?

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  VC Intern (@the_vc_intern) reported 57 minutes ago

  PayPal paid approximately $4 billion for Honey in 2020. The browser extension had 17 million monthly users, worked across roughly 30,000 retailers and gave PayPal something it normally reached only at the end of a purchase: influence over what happened before checkout. That position created Honey’s value. Shoppers installed it for discounts, merchants supplied offers to reach those shoppers, and Honey earned money through affiliate attribution when a purchase occurred. Then MegaLag alleged that Honey sometimes replaced creators’ affiliate tracking with its own. PayPal said Honey followed industry practices including last-click attribution, but the explanation did little to stop the reaction. Honey has reportedly fallen from more than 20 million Chrome users to 12 million. Merchant relationships declined from roughly 35,000 to just over 28,000, while its coupon database fell from about 90,000 codes to 50,000. This is what happens when a marketplace flywheel reverses. Fewer users make the product less valuable to merchants. Fewer merchants mean fewer working offers. A weaker product gives the remaining users another reason to uninstall it. Affiliate networks added pressure. Rakuten removed Honey before later reinstating it with new protections, while Impact and Awin also took action. A creator lawsuit has survived PayPal’s attempt to dismiss it, although that is not a finding that PayPal is liable. PayPal bought Honey because it occupied a valuable point between product discovery and payment. The same position became dangerous once shoppers and creators began questioning whose interests the extension served. A $4 billion distribution advantage turned into a trust problem sitting inside 12 million browsers.

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  Context OS (@context_os_) reported 57 minutes ago

  @ilyanovohatskyi @webflow Had to same issue with NameCheap, fortunately I paid with PayPal and they refunded me

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  Sɪɴʙᴀᴅ Sᴛᴀʀᴅᴜsᴛ☢️🎨『V-Artist』 (@Sinbadstardust) reported 58 minutes ago

  @BubblePuppyVT It is a paypal issue and I'm not US, Not a lot of other routes for me but I wont bore everyone with all the details of whats going on behind the scenes, its a waiting game currently but worst comes to worst I just have to close comms and thats sort of it.

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  Porter Pierce jr (@Porterpiercejr) reported 1 hour ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Only PayPal for those. Always solved my problems

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  Michael Brantner (@BrantnerMi27024) reported 1 hour ago

  @princexsol I really need 225.00 for the last part of my rent, @brantmike37 is my PayPal, I owe 2225, I'm down 225 this would be a blessing