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 (48%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Stockton	Sign in	2 days ago
Brighton	Errors	3 days ago
Génelard	Website Down	3 days ago
Paris	Sign in	3 days ago
Overland Park	Errors	6 days ago
Lausanne	Errors	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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  センディ (@MarioDontol) reported 3 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I am 19 years old (born 2007). I've sent my ID but got banned for being under 18. This is a technical error, please review it manually.

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  ZMER_LS🇵🇭 (@merlz_zen) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Hemomal @PayPal @AskPayPal There's a lot of people having this problem, but calling this out is a good thing.

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  kelvin (@kelvin20566282) reported 4 minutes ago

  @PayPal @AskPayPal Why is it that when an African receives money, it suddenly becomes a problem for PayPal? If you don’t support us fairly, then just block the service completely instead of targeting legitimate users. My account got permanently limited after receiving only $20.

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  AmicuNoa🧜‍♀️🌊 Vtuber | Emote Comms OPEN (@AmicuNoa) reported 4 minutes ago

  @StreamlabsHelp @zachbussey Paypal is well known to lock accounts and balances. Ever since I was a kid i had paypal issues and I don't trust it. I don't feel safe, connecting paypal business to anything related to where I actually live. Are you guys willing to try and imitate SEPay? It was an amazing feature. Not to mention the sponsorships from stream elements. I went back to streamlabs today. And the sponsorship page didn't work.

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  🔮 (@scisetshimmer) reported 6 minutes ago

  for some reason my paypal got permanantly taken down?? ahh??

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  SKGODY (@skgody) reported 8 minutes ago

  @bizzie_bee555 @njedwards19651 It’s a ****** program and hardly works Are these the people who stole credit card payment software from a porn server and sold it as PayPal?

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  Nomatic (@Nomaticcap) reported 11 minutes ago

  HL is a special ecosystem, but I imagine this opens the door to negotiations by other chains/apps that have traction (yes, I'm aware how few there are). However, I guess things have been sort of trending this way with issuers. PayPal and Agora were/are getting very aggressive on pass through yield to users, which is another way to win distribution. Circle/Coinbase locked down $5B in distribution with one negotiation that has arguably the most upside of anything in crypto. Better to have 10% of distribution on the house of all of finance than the possibility of 100% of nothing. Interesting.

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  Simon 🍉 (@MINTLEFLOWER) reported 12 minutes ago

  Just barely set up my paypal on vgen and i'm already having issues... I'll try to figure this stuff out but be warned I might have to abandon paypal once again

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  Kiyr (@Kiyreth) reported 13 minutes ago

  @SOU_BTC This is the shift from chat to execution. Claude for Small Business plugs directly into QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Google Workspace. Payroll. Invoicing. Monthly close. Ad creation. Automated. But the adoption question is harder than the technology question. A small business owner isn’t an IT department. Someone still has to connect the integrations, configure the workflows, and trust the output. And AI still makes mistakes on ambiguous tasks - a misread invoice or a wrongly categorized expense isn’t a minor bug when it’s your balance sheet. The enterprise layer solved this with dedicated implementation teams. The SMB layer doesn’t have that luxury. And there’s a harder constraint underneath the implementation problem. AI can prepare the payroll. It cannot certify it. AI can draft the invoice. It cannot legally sign it. In most jurisdictions, financial documents, tax filings, and audit reports require a certified human signature - a professional who engages their legal liability. Claude can do 80% of the work. The last 20% - the part that counts legally - still needs a human with credentials and accountability. Until AI has legal standing to certify, it’s a very powerful assistant. Not a replacement. How long before regulation catches up to the technology - and should it?

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  Lewis, William... William (@WillLewis_1976) reported 14 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser this is my opinion, and would like to see if others feel the same. Ever since Venmo started offering the immediate transfer option on accounts for the extra fee like Paypal has, Venmo then slowed down their free regular transfer method to try and push people into using it. It's bad customer service, just to make extra money. I never in the past had to wait more than 24-48 hours for my free transfers to go through despite it saying it could take 1-3 business days.

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  Nova ★ Open VGEN 💚 (@Sushi_212) reported 16 minutes ago

  Just put my commissions on holding since paypal just decided to **** with me and rn Im trying to fix it 💔

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  Primrose ﴾V-Gorbs﴿ (@Primrose_115_) reported 17 minutes ago

  Anyways! Half of my grocery order didn’t arrive, I ****** up PayPal and might’ve lost $ because I sent the wrong person the adopt money (got it the second time and now I gotta wait on PayPal to fix it) But more FFXIV tomorrow (Warrior yay!) *internal screaming*

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  ` (@Huncho_meelan1) reported 22 minutes ago

  @jiggystranger @starboyridex Na there issue dey buh I get who get personal PayPal (Uk)

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  Big Brain Business (@BigBrainBizness) reported 24 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and early Facebook investor, explains how to tell a good monopoly apart from a bad one: Thiel starts with an honest admission about how monopolies are perceived: "From the inside, monopoly is always a good idea. From the outside, that's it's much more debatable." The way to tell them apart, he argues, depends entirely on whether the world is static or dynamic. In a static world, a monopoly earns its bad reputation: "Monopolies deserve the bad reputation they have in a static world where nothing changes because that's where the monopoly is just a rent collector or a tax collector of one sort or another artificially restrict supply. And that's sort of a bad monopoly." A good monopoly, he explains, is something entirely different: "It is one that actually has invented something new." His example is Apple and the iPhone: "When Apple came up with the iPhone, it was the first smartphone that worked. And so it for many years had a monopoly on smartphones. I would argue it still actually has it with the brand and with, you know, a lot of the network effect that's built up around it." The test, according to @peterthiel, comes down to what the monopoly does to supply and value: "In a dynamic context, that's a monopoly that actually doesn't create scarcity, but creates a whole new thing. So it's, you know, people are lining up to get iPhones because they didn't even exist before. That's a good one."

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  Esco Obong (@escobyte) reported 24 minutes ago

  What do Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Twitter, Shopify, Slack, and PayPal have in common? They all started as monoliths and relied heavily on monoliths for years after becoming unicorns. Do you actually have enough load on the system such that you need to scale the users service independently from the orders service? Can you not fit tens of millions of users, payments, products and orders in the same database cluster? Is your team so large that development velocity is an issue and you need seperately deployable services even when there’s no load scaling benefit just to alleviate operational scaling issues? The biggest benefit of a monolith is dead simple transactions. If your app does things like charging cards, updating inventory, or reserving cars/rooms, those actions need to succeed or fail all together. In a monolith, that’s easy: wrap them in a single database transaction. With microservices, you need distributed transactions or eventual consistency 💀. A saga pattern to coordinate failures and rollbacks across a chain of services. This is error prone, expensive infra, runs slower and takes months longer to develop/test. It also requires way more maintenance as the system evolves. It limits your velocity when introducing new concepts and flows which startups often need to do quickly. Start with a monolith. Get speed and correctness by default. For special needs like real-time streams or heavy compute loads, you can justify adding another service if it actually needs different composition of CPU, memory or storage that can scale independently from everything else. Each microservice is supposed to exist to solve a specific scaling or operational pain point. Let the real bottlenecks shape your architecture.

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  Fintech Takes (@FintechTakes) reported 25 minutes ago

  The DOJ just settled a fair lending case against PayPal. There's one problem: no loans were ever made. PayPal's Economic Opportunity Fund, launched in 2020, directed capital to minority depository institutions, CDFIs, and minority-led VC funds. It issued grants to Black-owned small businesses. It funded nonprofit partners. None of it was lending. And yet the DOJ opened a fair lending investigation under ECOA, a law that governs credit discrimination. PayPal settled anyway. The terms aren't punitive - the company agreed to launch a small business initiative focused on veteran-owned businesses and those in farming, manufacturing, and technology. The original fund had already been wound down. Alex's read: PayPal probably made a calculated decision. The company has an ILC charter application pending with the FDIC, and staying in the administration's good graces has real business value. But the legal logic here is paper-thin, and the precedent it sets is worth paying attention to.

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  AmicuNoa🧜‍♀️🌊 Vtuber | Emote Comms OPEN (@AmicuNoa) reported 27 minutes ago

  @StarlightAkari_ @zachbussey I am aware of that. I have had nothing but issues over the years with the paypal website. I have had no issues with Venmo as of right now.

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  Raj Nagulapalle (@rajnagulapalle) reported 30 minutes ago

  @vikrambuilds worst weekend **** issues i have seen were from delayed webhooks, retries, and almost no clear info while reaching partner teams... debugging **** logs in that state is painful. went through that in my PayPal days and other teams too. thats part of why i am building FetchSandbox MCP now... so devs can run API workflows closer to production from the IDE, instead of only testing one request with Postman/curl.

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  Javi (@Javiidnmv) reported 30 minutes ago

  Any sellers active and down for a session? Venmo/paypal/giftcard #buyingcontent #sellingcontent

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  Feat-feet (@DargonPhil) reported 32 minutes ago

  @SamuelVieiraMe1 Mmm, I' not sure, what's the issue? Is Paypal the problem?

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  Termites (@TermitesRGood) reported 33 minutes ago

  @N1HawkLive @zachbussey So let me get this straight people that have their checking account attached to Twitch. It’s $100 now. But PayPal who charges 3% fee is 50. If that’s the case, a lot of streamers will never get paid maybe two or three months down the road

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  Maricarmen (@flaiss87) reported 33 minutes ago

  @PayPal PayPal won't let me re-add the bank accounts they deleted without my permission, and I want to cancel my account because all they've given me are problems

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  madi (@madighoul) reported 36 minutes ago

  anyone want to help me get some cleaning stuff for my apartment? I've been down and not feeling too well mentally & I really want to deep clean it and get a new feeling in here. & I could really use some help 😭 $madighoul paypal: MadisonBonnewell venmo: ghostwithbones

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  Lou Andreas Salome (@LaPetiteUmlaut) reported 41 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hey Thieves! I am awaiting a large refund for you that was ALREADY REFUNDED by the seller. I gave you the refund code and you keep leading me in senseless circles saying that the case was closed and no error or refund made. You are better than this--or so I thought!

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  Rhyme 🐩💜 (COMM 3/5 SLOTS) (@TheNewRhyme) reported 42 minutes ago

  KOFI IS GIVING ME SO MANY ISSUES ALL MY PAGES IMPOSSIBLE TO DONATE TO, Please help me through paypal if anyone could. i'm so stressed if anyone can help i would insanely appreciate it 😭😭

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  Panditha44 (@Panditha44) reported 47 minutes ago

  @stopvaccinating Why credit cards from middle east are not working on the website. Tried 2 credit cards and after typing in the details, it just revolves. Same with paypal. Kindly check.

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  Enzo (@enzo_tcg) reported 53 minutes ago

  @PayPal fix this ****.

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  Serenity Solo Studios (@SerenitySoloDev) reported 55 minutes ago

  @TiggerStan01 I get the verification message now and again. I have no problem with those. I also have no problem making big purchases on Amazon or in a doing monthly shops. It's always PayPal it happens for. Not even every purchase I paid using them. It seems to happen at random. It's not as bad as what you've been through, though. At least I made the purchases. The money wasn't stolen. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I can only imagine the amount of stress that causes. The closest I got to it was when someone got my partners bank card details and started spending the money, leaving them broke within a week of my partner being paid. Of course, I got the blame for not pulling my weight financially for months. That was a stressful time.

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  Adam Graf (@amgoblue) reported 60 minutes ago

  @buythefukndip @ryancohen @Comedyorwat Ive been thinking this is a step towards getting the float monster part of the play in a paypal, venmo or insurance co. He will get as much cash out of ebay as possible no doubt, but much will go towards paying down debt early on. As we say these days, we will see what happens.

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  Julian Köser (@HonourM4xAI) reported 1 hour ago

  @kabu_nyan0214 @Capito_Nihongo Problem is I don’t have an account which accepts foreign transfers only from my country and Paypal unfortunately blocks everything and supports my bank net. But if I could open a Japanese account that accepts foreign payments, that would be perfect for me.