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 (45%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Berlin	Sign in	1 day ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	2 days ago
Ciudad López Mateos	Errors	4 days ago
Anglet	Sign in	4 days ago
Hamburg	Sign in	4 days ago
Medina	Website Down	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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  ˚ʚ♡ Euphoria Li ♡ɞ˚ 🦋🌙🏮 (@Euphoria_LiVT) reported 44 seconds ago

  @JimManahan Receiving payments restricts your account. If you use PayPal for purchases meaning money going out from your linked cards, then there's no problem. Receiving payments from clients is a different discussion, especially when your account is new.

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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 6 minutes ago

  Cindy is out of the hospital and has wound-care treatment tomorrow. No idea yet on the medical bills, but thanks to y'all, she's down to needing $430 to repair her car: PayPal: @ cindysalazar435 Venmo: @ tiocindy42

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  Moshe Klein (@KleinMoshe) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PayPal I have a problem with my account where payments I send get reversed every couple of days for absolutely zero reason. Frustrating isn’t the word. And speaking to overseas CSR is getting absolutely nowhere.

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  Michael Klusman (@Candmremodeling) reported 9 minutes ago

  I bet he wishes he didn’t have to sell the ones he did. However I think he did that on purpose to drive the price down to buy more. Based on math the supply should be just about gobbled up. With what you can do with bitcoin it is clearly a utility and not going away. Who in there right mind would sell with all the major brokers now selling bitcoin ??? Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo, Venmo, PayPal Morgan Stanley it’s only a matter of time keep buying and stacking

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  Rahasya (@sw_rahasya) reported 12 minutes ago

  @goddek @RepThomasMassie @mandyarthur A bit of a bummer for me that paypal locked me out of my account because I cant produce 3 month-old documentation for services on land that gets absolutely no services … not sure how to fix that 🤔

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  GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) reported 13 minutes ago

  @TechX1320 @linuxuser1996 PayPal works on GrapheneOS with the per-app compatibility mode. It recently started requiring disabling secure spawning but works fine with the other defaults. It's a bug in PayPal's anti-tampering code and they'll likely fix it soon. It's unrelated to it not working elsewhere.

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  AD Sleazo AKA AD. (@adsleazo) reported 17 minutes ago

  @UDSupport when yall gone fix paypal withdrawals bro it’s been almost a week

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  Optus (@Optus) reported 17 minutes ago

  @enngees Hi there, customers can recharge their service or purchase add-ons online using a credit/debit card (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, or JCB) and PayPal. An Optus service needs to connect to the Optus network for activation, so we generally recommend setting up and activating the SIM once they've arrived in Australia. If you're still having trouble recharging, please send us a DM, and we'll take a closer look into this for you. -Talia

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  Hydrangea 【LVLY】 (@LadyHydrangeaVT) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Immorta1Monarch This is why i use vgen and vgen payments at least i can click ‘theres a problem’ before the funds are released to them. Yes it may mean theres less artists for me to com but at least theres a fallback unlike paypal.

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  Unc (@UncSupply) reported 22 minutes ago

  @phantasyftw @phantasyftw I'll paypal you 20 bucks if you tell Joe someone's at the front door and go push the GREEN button on the server rack for us right now.

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 24 minutes ago

  @verstarppens 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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  roark's fat dragon spouse (@drag0ngemz) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Washen_D A business PayPal is how I see a lot of people do it. If you're willing to go through the trouble of getting an artist code, you can try getting a VGen code as well to manage requests better.

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  Chaos🔞Comms Open (@ChaosReverb) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Aerea_caeles No, actually I don't have that message, but I know who it is because of the comms. The biggest problem that theme from the PayPal and socialmedia theft (which I never got back my PayPal, because according to PayPal I am not me) is that person blocked many people on my social media and deleted entire chats, in addition to changing the passwords and emails. So I didn't even get the full conversations and when I recovered my accounts, I could never contact them again on Twitter because I never found them to explain what happened, and they never responded to me on Instagram either. Obviously, I contacted as many people as I could.

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  Suyash Verma (@suyashverma) reported 31 minutes ago

  @PeterDiamandis Very few people know that Elon had funded SpaceX largely with his own money from the PayPal sale. He invested about 100 million dollars of personal fortune into the company. After three Falcon 1 failures cash was nearly gone. The team assembled one last rocket from leftover parts. That fourth flight on September 28, 2008 had to succeed or SpaceX would have shut down.

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  Unseen Damage (@D_Pineda85) reported 31 minutes ago

  @CardsJakes I called both PayPal and Venmo because I noticed the recipients for opposite platform were not being found anymore. They submitted a ticket to IT because there was no know issue.

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 33 minutes ago

  @m4xlesbian 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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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 35 minutes ago

  @leccverst 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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  Mike Boysen (JTBD/acc) (@mikeboysen) reported 36 minutes ago

  Most people never see the inversion coming. They see the crash. The coup. The empty bank account. The factory that will not ship. Then they analogize: more staff, more robots, more of last year’s stack. Innovators do the opposite. They stay in the problem until the cost curve breaks. PayPal ousted Musk in 2000 for pushing a rebrand and a Unix-to-Windows NT migration. He did not wage a public war. He stayed a shareholder. eBay paid $1.5 billion in 2002. His ~11.7% stake — about $180 million — funded SpaceX and Tesla. By late 2008 both companies were days from death. Three Falcon 1 failures. Tesla about to miss payroll. One last rocket. Flight 4 worked on September 28. NASA signed $1.6 billion in December. He put his remaining cash into a $20 million Tesla bridge that closed Christmas Eve. Analogical thinking said “stop.” Physics said “one more launch.” Reusable first stages. Manual labor where the robots jammed. 5,000 Model 3s a week after he ripped out the over-automated line and slept on the floor. 75% of Twitter’s headcount gone so the cost of running the network inverted. That is not grit as a slogan. That is inverting labor, capital, and infrastructure until unit economics work. Follow people who have innovated at least once. Not the ones narrating the next analog. I built a platform to help average people think like that before you commit the capital. More on that soon. This is 100% a real interview LOL

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  Ryan Kagels (@rykegs) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Venmo is the worst, most useless digital wallet It blocks payments, no explanation, useless for non-profits unless linked to a volunteers personal account. Business use - a joke. All you have to do is move money. Why wouldn’t @PayPal shut it down

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  Rajat_Bhogrey (@Rajatbhogrey009) reported 40 minutes ago

  why is paypal so slow

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  the don of hockey (@don_allain) reported 40 minutes ago

  @Watchdog_MP Here’s a compiled thread list of people named Singh (plus a few immediately adjacent names that appeared on the same boards) and the alleged offences as they were reported in this conversation. This is not an official police roster. Many are charges/allegations, some are convictions, a few were later acquitted or are victims. Duplicates across posts are merged. Drug importation / trucking (Blue Water Bridge & related) •Ranjit Singh — alleged ******* importation, Blue Water Bridge •Charanpreet Singh — convicted of importing 55 kg ******* + 5 kg ******; cut ankle monitor and fled before sentencing •Harinder Singh — charged with importing ******* / possession for trafficking, Blue Water Bridge •Ravinderbir Singh — charged over large ******* seizure; later acquitted •Ravinder Singh Dhanda — alleged U.S.–Canada *******/**** pipeline (Operation Hard Ball); fighting extradition •Gurtej Singh Smagh — same Hard Ball drug-smuggling indictment •Gurpreet Singh (multiple files in the thread) — alleged narcotics / Ryan Wedding network / later FBI wanted in Bhagwanpuria case Extortion / gang violence (Peel, Calgary, Edmonton) •Safaldeep Singh — alleged For Brothers extortion, firearms, drugs; conspiracy to commit murder warrants •Sandeep Singh — For Brothers-related drug/firearm charges •Germanjeet Singh — Calgary extortion series; wanted on firearms warrant •Jaskaran Singh — Calgary extortion / shooting-related charges •Karanbir Singh — Calgary extortion series •Amandeep Singh — Calgary extortion series •Anurag Singh — Calgary extortion series •Sandeep Singh (Calgary board) — attempted extortion charges •Akashdeep Singh — Calgary kidnapping/firearms-related charges •Gagandeep Singh — Calgary extortion series •Pardeep Singh — Calgary kidnapping/firearms-related charges •Taranveer Singh — Calgary kidnapping/firearms-related charges •Ravinder Singh (Surrey/Peel board) — Peel extortion gang •Dilawarpreet Singh — Peel extortion gang •Ajaydeep Singh — Peel extortion gang •Rajan Singh — Peel extortion gang •Jashanbir Singh — Peel extortion gang •Navroop Singh — Peel extortion gang •Mohinder Singh — Peel extortion gang •Mandeep Singh — Peel extortion / also appeared in separate Uber-assault post •Amritjot Singh — Peel extortion gang •Jashanpreet Singh — Peel extortion gang •Sukhwinder Singh — Peel extortion gang •Iqbal Singh Bhagria — Peel extortion gang •Sahibjot Singh — alleged Bishnoi links; deportation order •Karamveer Singh — alleged Bishnoi associate; held in immigration custody Firearms / street crime •Navjot Singh — loaded illegal handgun, Brampton traffic stop; Alberta warrant •Harkomal Singh — same Brampton firearms stop •Jobanpreet Singh — auto-theft toolkit charges; student visa / CBSA warrant •Atish Singh — auto theft, flight from police, assault with weapon •Harwinder Singh — alleged dating-app extortion / confinement / robbery, Brampton •Japinderjeet Singh — Red Deer fentanyl/******* trafficking charges •Ravinder Singh Gosal — same Red Deer drug file; wanted after missing court Fraud / other •Pawanjeet Singh Mann — alleged $4.3M mortgage/cheque fraud; former Brampton lawyer •Balwant Singh — alleged $180,000 elder gold/PayPal scam (New York) •Manjeet Singh — repeat theft case; deportation issues •Jagpreet Singh — convicted of murdering his wife (older case posted in-thread) •Jaskirat Singh Sidhu — Humboldt Broncos crash; dangerous driving causing death FBI / transnational wanted •Gurpreet Singh — FBI wanted, Jaggu Bhagwanpuria group (narcotics / racketeering) •Major Singh — FBI wanted, same Bhagwanpuria group •Amritpal Singh — FBI wanted (Dhanda-linked file in thread) •Harmanveer Singh — FBI wanted •Simranpal Singh — FBI fugitive, later arrested in Moncton •Satinderjeet Singh (Goldy Brar) — alleged Bishnoi lieutenant; U.S. charges including ordering Nijjar killing

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  TheOriginalKhutso🇿🇦 (@OriginalKhutso5) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Dhavidote You the only Nigerian making sense, Shoprite, PayPal or tiktok had problems in Nigeria and it had nothing to do with competition but criminality or infrastructure. Nigerians need to introspect and develop a sense of accountability

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  Aditya Warman (@warmanadit_) reported 45 minutes ago

  Night, Everyone!🚇 stable-2:native I've been digging into Stable's team and honestly? I'm conflicted. The CTO is Sam Kazemian who built Frax Finance to $1.4B. Huge credibility. Tether's CEO is advising. PayPal invested. But here's what nobody's talking about: the founder Joshua Harding quietly stepped down as CEO with zero public announcement. Brian Mehler took over silently. And apparently whales deposited USDT before the official window opened. That's insider-trading territory. They have a grant program but zero named dApps. I'm watching closely but not trusting blindly yet. Tag a friend who researches teams before investing.

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 45 minutes ago

  PayPal's real product in its early years wasn't payments. It was survival. The company was building something that regulators, banks and its own biggest platform had no category for. Stefan Heck: "It was a true disruption of a very established, very regulated industry, right? Payments, banking… and they were doing things that didn't fit an existing category." Not fitting a category meant almost everyone with power over PayPal had a reason to switch it off. Reid Hoffman, who became Peter Thiel's firefighter chief, describes the job he was handed: "Make sure eBay doesn't drive us off the service. Make sure Visa doesn't shut us down. Persuade the federal government that it's okay that we're not a bank." Nancy Lublin on the person they sent to handle it: "He was the wolf. I mean, he was the fixer." John Lilly remembers how routine the existential threats became: "I remember we had breakfast one time. He said, 'I have to leave at 8:30 because I got to get on the plane to New York to go talk to Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, who's suing PayPal for basically anti-money laundering type things.' And he's like, 'I just got to go fix this and here's how I'm going to fix it because New York was convinced that PayPal is being used for gambling, all sorts of other things at the time.'" There was no playbook, because the category didn't exist yet. So the company argued from first principles: "It was fun because part of what ends up happening is you say, 'All right, well, what's a bank? Like, what defines a bank? How do I persuade them? I've never talked to a regulator before. All right, let me go figure out how this looks.'" While all this was happening, PayPal was outgrowing its own ability to operate. June Cohen: "Their customer numbers had grown so exponentially that they could not keep up with customer service and they actually just made the decision that that was a fire they weren't going to fight at that moment." That was a decision, not a failure. The company sorted its problems by one test: "There was a whole set of fires at PayPal where if you didn't solve them, value of the company zero, out of business." John Lilly on how that worked in practice: "Here's the one, two, three top priorities. Everything else I'm not going to worry about right now because if I get these three things right, everything else will be okay." The fire that passed the test was eBay: "If eBay had turned us off, if we were no longer to operate on eBay, no initial users, no traction, no network effect, no ability to grow." And eBay had every incentive to do exactly that. John Lilly: "eBay had its own payment system that was competing with PayPal. PayPal was winning. And so I think those got very complicated and eBay very much didn't want to have to buy PayPal and eventually they felt like they had to." That's the ending. PayPal survived on someone else's platform long enough to become the thing that platform had no choice but to acquire. A reporter at the time: "We know these guys very well obviously because so much of their business is in fact on eBay. The synergies of putting these two companies together were incredibly outstanding and it just seemed like the right time to get this deal done." PayPal didn't win by solving its problems. It won by correctly ranking them and letting the rest burn.

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  J∆Y (@JayJayasuriya) reported 49 minutes ago

  @PayPal @AskPayPal PayPal permanently shut down our small business account—and won't tell us why... 🤔 #paypalfail

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  iX (@JimManahan) reported 51 minutes ago

  @Euphoria_LiVT wdym paypal doesnt work, all my international purchases are via paypal and not a single one of them ever failed or had issues.

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  Chaos🔞Comms Open (@ChaosReverb) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Aerea_caeles If you're referring to what happened to what happens around February when my PayPal account was stolen by my ex-bestfriend, I asked the clients to please request refunds from PayPal immediately several times because I never had access to that account again. I explained the topic in detail here and on Instagram. Some people completed the process and received their money back without any problems. There were 2 people who had problems with their banks, one ghosted me when I tried to explain to the that they should insist with PayPal, another commission never responded to my progress reports, and another asked me to do their commission because I think the bank didn't want to give them their money back and I did it without any problem ª In fact, I still have the records.

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  RINGO🔞 (@ringo6678) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Saviourofman1 I'm not very comfortable using PayPal because there are several issues on my end.😥

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  🌾 (@hm07999z) reported 58 minutes ago

  I finally solve the problem with PayPal 🙏 if you are interested and were afraid to ask, feel free to do so

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  Clover 🍀 (@fourleaaff) reported 60 minutes ago

  down paypal?