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 (42%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Châteauroux	Website Down	7 hours ago
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	2 days ago
Athis-Mons	Errors	2 days ago
Perth	Sign in	3 days ago
Courbevoie	Sign in	4 days ago
Kassel	Sign in	8 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Ryan Clandening (@Ryan_AZRealtor) reported 4 minutes ago

  @AdamoMancino Sure, there’s companies that could buy PayPal. The problem is the incompetence of leadership. Management would rather fund a DEI department rather than actually improve margins. Management is all in on AI, yet payroll is at record levels with margins/sales collapsing. G&A expenses are forecasted at 3% growth, slightly below sales growth.

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  MojoTrick (@MojoTricks) reported 4 minutes ago

  PayPal just lost its bid premium in one headline. $PYPL down 14% Bloomberg reported Stripe and Advent International dropped a pursuit valued at about $53 billion. The consortium had offered $60.50 a share in July, a roughly 28% premium. The board called that inadequate, citing regulation, financing and the turnaround under new CEO Enrique Lores. The stock fell more than 14% to around $52. That is near 10 times forward earnings versus a long-run average closer to 27 times. The market is pricing two things at once. The deal is off. And Apple Pay and the rest of digital payments still sit on the same field. A take-private that cannot clear the board does not fix either problem.

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  ArtRed Venus (@ArtredV) reported 5 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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  The Apex Wire (@ApexWireApp) reported 9 minutes ago

  @BullTheoryio PayPal took the deal-break hit after Stripe and Advent walked. Same sector, Klarna's CEO bought 692,506 shares on the open market at $14.37, a $9,949,164 filing. One is a broken bid. The other is a disclosed purchase. Plan status is not in the file.

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  Ryan Hutton (@ryanhutton_96) reported 10 minutes ago

  I had exactly the same issue and reported paypal to the police who just laughed. I had someone send me money then they asked for a refund. I refused as they had not met refund requirements and paypal took their side, locked my account and billed me for the full amount…

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  James Wester (@jameswester) reported 12 minutes ago

  Retweeting a retweet of @regulatorynerd from July re: Stripe/PayPal and pointing to this: "And the fact they need to involve Advent to fund it illustrates why they should have gone public already. A public company could do this without PE." It wasn't just PayPal's issue.

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  Value Investor (@ValueInvestShow) reported 13 minutes ago

  $PYPL down as much as 12% Because the largest buyout attempt in fintech history just fell apart. Advent and Stripe had offered $60.50/share, valuing PayPal above $53B. PayPal's board called it inadequate and flagged regulatory and financing hurdles. The stock had run up for weeks purely on takeover odds and now? That premium is now unwinding in real time. Should $PYPL 's management accepted the offer? What's your take Paypal shareholders?

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  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Mutualaidboost2 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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  Investing Without Pain (@NoPainInvesting) reported 20 minutes ago

  $PYPL everyone is going crazy that PayPal is down a lot. It’s only down ~$8 which is like 2 gallons of gas.

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  Deeman trades (@deemancpa) reported 22 minutes ago

  $PYPL part 2 Business is fine — rev +8%, FCF +179%, 10x earnings, 12% FCF yield. What vanished overnight was the $60.50 buyer. Now the market has to value PayPal on its own: a slow-growth, shrinking-take-rate payments co with a 5-month-old CEO and Apple/Stripe/Visa eating share. Bulls: ~7x FCF for Venmo + PayPal brands is Business is fine — rev +8%, FCF +179%, 10x earnings, 12% FCF yield. What vanished overnight was the $60.50 buyer. Now the market has to value PayPal on its own: a slow-growth, shrinking-take-rate payments co with a 5-month-old CEO and Apple/Stripe/Visa eating share. Bulls: ~7x FCF for Venmo + PayPal brands is cheap. Board said no because they think it’s worth more. Bears: 3-month rally was pure deal premium. Pre-bid price was mid-$40s. $47 support, then $38. Translation: no floor from a buyer anymore. The turnaround has to prove it. Not financial advice. . Board said no because they think it’s worth more. Bears: 3-month rally was pure deal premium. Pre-bid price was mid-$40s. $47 support, then $38. Translation: no floor from a buyer anymore. The turnaround has to prove it. Not financial advice.

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  @Steelers Nasty (@SteelersNasty) reported 23 minutes ago

  Made a pretty large deposit into @VENMO 5 days ago. Still waiting for access even though it cleared my bank 2 days ago. This is the answer I received when I asked what the issue was. Now how many millions do they have ******* in this alleged issue? @USTreasury #VENMO @PAYPAL #PAYPAL #FANDUEL

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  Alice Kanja (@alicewmuhoro) reported 24 minutes ago

  @GathukuBernard @MwarimuKamau @Safaricom_Care Referred me to Paypal. They said the problem is not on their side

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  Paras_ (@paras_vyas_) reported 27 minutes ago

  I think we're about to have a strange new version of SEO. Your next customer might not be the one reading your website. It might be their AI agent. Stripe's leadership is already talking about a future where traditional checkout pages become less important as AI agents handle purchases. Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are building the payment rails for this. That made me think about something else. Today we optimise websites for humans: Good copy. Good design. Fast pages. Clear CTAs But an AI agent may approach your business very differently. It may ask: - What exactly do you sell? - How much does it cost? - Is it available? - Can I trust this company? - What are the alternatives? - What happens if something goes wrong? And then make the recommendation for its human. So perhaps the next website optimisation question isn't only: “Will a visitor convert?” It may become: “Can a machine understand why this business is the right choice?” That's a very different problem. And I think there's a lot of room for small businesses and solo founders to get ahead of it. When I started my AI journey and designed my first landing page, I predicted a similar trend would emerge and become a major challenge for SaaS founders, digital marketers and agencies. This prediction eventually became a core insight about my website CRO audit tool, SiteRoast (link in bio). To share with you, this was one of the top 5 recommendations when I asked AI during my product research, and when it got ready, I did a self-audit of my page numerous times with AI, understood their findings and reasons behind them, thanked them for improvements and then made it better for my ICPs. Today, after 500+ hours of coding and fixing work, SiteRoast does CRO-level audits at a fraction of the cost, suggesting step-by-step, priority-wise fixes with a ready-to-share PDF for your internal team in 60 Seconds. It's also available as a white-label product for agencies. SiteRoast is the only product in the market that does that.

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  David R (@rvderman) reported 27 minutes ago

  99% of people have never heard of Paxos most people in crypto and fintech have a big portion still cannot tell you what we actually do for starters, Paxos became the first regulated blockchain company in 2015 ethereum launched right after the point was never crypto price go up it was (still is) that this technology could rebuild how money and assets move two jobs • wallet infrastructure - the hidden engine when you tap buy/sell/hold crypto inside Paypal or Schwab • tokenization - take dollars in a bank or gold in a vault and issue a digital version Paxos legally stands behind. PYUSD for Paypal USDG for the global dollar network the real mission sits under both replatform the financial system not a a new everything app / exchange not the next coin cycle $900 trillion of assets are illiquid, high-enry-cost bring it all on chain any asset any time any place in a trustworthy way that is the goal

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  Ashley Nichole (@JanessaEvane) reported 27 minutes ago

  @JeffTeters @PayPal @AskPayPal They’re always so slow I’m done using that.

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  Mert Ocal (@MertOnMarkets) reported 31 minutes ago

  $PYPL — PayPal Holdings Stripe + Advent's ~$50B buyout bid has collapsed (Bloomberg). Shares down 12-15% premarket — a takeover-premium unwind, not an earnings problem. P/E: ~10x, back near the sub-8.5x all-time floor (hit Q1 2026). Business is unchanged — the acquirer walked.

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  Pro Buyer (@Naan424495) reported 31 minutes ago

  Hii. I’m broke but would anyone be down to do a makeup selfie for 5$? I use PayPal! And my telegram is Capkrunch Also can do Apple Pay or throne Last post of today:) #buyingcontent

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  BRAIXEN 🔜 FURUM’26 (@BraixenRX) reported 31 minutes ago

  @MochiMunchkinz I really, REALLY, gotta fix my paypal

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  Bananafunky🍌Alt (@Bananasharkkkk) reported 36 minutes ago

  @briarsuniverse WHATTFUCK W CASHAPP, u dont have any paypal acc from a friend who might be able to lend it to you, or some other similar option?💔💔im feel so terrible that this is happening to you Let us know if there are any other ways we can help u

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  David R (@rvderman) reported 37 minutes ago

  99% of people have never heard of Paxos most people in crypto and fintech have a big portion still cannot tell you what it actually does Worth noting , Paxos became a regulated trust company before ethereum launched the point was never crypto price go up it was (still is) that this technology could rebuild how money and assets move two jobs • wallet infrastructure - the hidden engine when you tap buy/sell/hold crypto inside Paypal or Schwab • tokenization - take dollars in a bank or gold in a vault and issue a digital version Paxos legally stands behind. PYUSD for Paypal USDG for the global dollar network the real mission sits under both replatform the financial system not a a new everything app / exchange not the next coin cycle $900 trillion of assets are illiquid, high-enry-cost bring it all on chain any asset any time any place in a trustworthy way that is the goal

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  Mert Ocal (@MertOnMarkets) reported 41 minutes ago

  $PYPL — PayPal Holdings Digital payments — PayPal, Venmo, Braintree, Xoom. Mkt cap: ~$45B | P/E: ~9.9x (fwd ~9.3x) — just above the all-time floor (~7.5-8.4x, hit Q1 2026) News: Stripe + Advent's ~$50B buyout bid has collapsed. Shares down ~15% premarket to $52.20 — takeover premium unwind, not a business breakdown. Technicals: price is sitting on the exact same 0.236 Fib + channel support that marked the 2016-17 accumulation zone — the one that preceded the multi-year run to $310 by 2021. My read: this is accumulation, not a floor to rally from yet. Expect 20-30% swings both ways inside this zone through the next couple years — my target year for PayPal is 2028, not now. Building a position on weakness, not chasing strength. NFA. Chart below

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  Zyphor (@Zyphorrl) reported 43 minutes ago

  Einstein never made a dollar from relativity. The Wright brothers flew the first plane and died broke. Every railroad baron who connected a continent went bankrupt. They created everything. They captured nothing. Google made $50,000,000,000 in one year selling search. Airlines moved 800,000,000 passengers and made approximately zero profit across their entire 100-year history. One is more important to civilization. The other is worth four times more. Peter Thiel spent one Stanford lecture explaining why - and why most people have it completely backwards. This is Stanford, How to Start a Startup. He called it Competition is for Losers. He opens with one formula: value created times percent captured. X times Y. The mistake everyone makes is thinking X and Y move together. Then the lies. Monopolies pretend they are not monopolies - Google calls itself an advertising company. 3.5% of a $500,000,000,000 market. Not a monopoly - just a minnow in an ocean. Startups with nothing unique do the opposite. They call themselves the only British restaurant in Palo Alto. Then the small market rule. Amazon started as a bookstore. PayPal started with 20,000 eBay power sellers. Facebook started with 10,000 people at Harvard - 0 to 60% market share in 10 days. Everyone called these markets too small to matter. That was the point. Then last mover. 75% of a tech company's value comes from cash flows after year 10. First mover gets a one-third **** advantage. Last mover wins the game. The question is never who got there first. The question is who stays. Then the personal story. Thiel graduated Stanford, got a job at a top New York firm everyone wanted to enter and everyone wanted to leave. Left after 7 months and 3 days. A colleague told him: it's reassuring to see you leave. I had no idea it was possible to escape from Alcatraz. All you had to do was walk out the front door. Watch the moment he redefines loser. We think losers are people who can't compete. He argues the real losers are the ones who compete hardest - in markets so crowded that winning means capturing nothing. A founder I know replayed this before turning down a Series A that wanted him to go after a larger market. Said it was the first time saying no to money felt like strategy rather than fear. Free on YouTube, Stanford. bookmark this and watch later - after this lecture every crowded market you see will feel like a sign someone already lost

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  King Poot-Poot (@KingPootPoot) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak Paypal is reliable in the way they will ignore you for weeks, spike your cortisol for a few days, then actually fix your problem perfectly

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  Blue (@blueshopping24) reported 46 minutes ago

  93% of people chasing passive income in 2026 will make less than $200 total. Not because the opportunities don't exist. Because they're being sold a fantasy instead of a system. Here's the uncomfortable truth nobody in this space wants to say out loud: Passive income is not passive at the start. Ever. Every YouTuber, every course seller, every 'laptop lifestyle' account is showing you month 36 of their journey. Not month one. Not the 14-hour days, the failed products, the $0 PayPal dashboards they stared at for six straight months. The 2026 version of this conversation is even more dangerous. AI tools have lowered the barrier to entry so much that everyone is flooding the same channels simultaneously. Digital products. Faceless YouTube. Print on demand. Notion templates. The market isn't dead, but it is deafeningly loud. So what actually works right now? The people winning are not finding secret niches. They are building small, boring, systematic operations in overlooked corners of existing platforms. One person I know nets $4,100 a month selling licensed music loops to content creators. Another clears $2,800 monthly licensing Excel templates to small accounting firms. Neither of them went viral. Neither has a personal brand. They solved a specific problem for a specific person and automated the delivery. That is the real definition of passive income. Solve once. Deliver forever. The side hustle culture of 2026 is obsessed with the aesthetic of freedom. The people actually achieving it are obsessed with the mechanics of it. There is a massive difference between those two groups.

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  ari 🫧 (@pinkeomii) reported 47 minutes ago

  came to the conclusion that it is my cards and not my paypal cuz it wouldn’t let me use another app either so if it’s still not working by the time i wake up ill contact my bank AGAIN

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  Michael Burry Stock Tracker ♟ (@burrytracker) reported 52 minutes ago

  Update: It's been 134 days since Michael Burry publicly went bullish on PayPal $PYPL It's up 9% since On July 15th, PayPal spiked 17% after rumors of a buyout Later that day, Michael Burry said this about the buyout, "simply too low" in regards to the offer Last night, Stripe and private equity firm Advent International abandoned PayPal takeover plans $PYPL is down 11% today but Burry is still up

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  MC (@mccdmatthew) reported 55 minutes ago

  @mauerstrasse I think app could be a good shopping destination, if there was a way to add item to basket and immediately pay with PayPal button. Unfortunately lots of friction. Home page looks terrible, but the backend works very well. Would like to think I could design better homepage.

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  Theodore (@Theodore_stock) reported 58 minutes ago

  $PYPL down 12%+ after the Stripe/Advent takeover story fell apart. Personally, I think this makes the setup MORE interesting. No acquisition premium. No easy catalyst. Now PayPal has to prove the business is worth more on its own. 👀 That’s the story I’m watching.

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  Abdulrahman (@Aldahhas_) reported 1 hour ago

  🚨 PAYPAL $PYPL IS GETTING CRUSHED: Shares are down ~13% after reports that Stripe and Advent abandoned their pursuit of PayPal. • Proposed offer: $60.50/share • Implied valuation: ~$53B • PayPal reportedly viewed the offer as too low The key now: the M&A premium is disappearing, forcing investors to value PayPal on its standalone turnaround. $PYPL

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  David Svendsen (@DavidSvendsen) reported 1 hour ago

  I envision each outgoing CEO of @PayPal leaving a note to their successor that goes something like this: “Dear [next guy], Pretty easy gig. Grab onto some new tech buzz and make the engineers incorporate it in a cheap way that draws in more users but doesn’t add any real value. You don’t want to add any significant operational load. IMPORTANT: Keep the customer service offshore, minimum wage, and with zero authority to fix real problems or escalate issues. Sit back, relax, and extract some wealth from the working class for the next 2-3 years. You’ll be all set for your another board seat and CEO role. Should go without saying, but we all have to as a formality: Make sure your replacement is a man. See you at the **** this weekend. Sincerely, [outgoing CEO]”