Paypal

Is Paypal down?

Problems detected

Users are reporting problems related to: sign in, errors and website down.

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.

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.

Paypal Outage Chart 03/21/2026 12:20

March 21: Problems at Paypal

Paypal is having issues since 09:20 PM AEST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

  1. Sign in (45%)

    Sign in (45%)

  2. Errors (37%)

    Errors (37%)

  3. Website Down (19%)

    Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

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City Problem Type Report Time
United StatesSan Juan Capistrano Errors
United KingdomCoventry Errors
AustraliaSydney Website Down
GermanyHeek Sign in
United StatesChicago Sign in
United StatesColchester Errors
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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • trapjesuslives The Nomad Oracle✨ (@trapjesuslives) reported

    People aren’t using PayPal, Cashap, Venmo etc. because they’re being unprofessional lol it’s because they don’t want to risk their website being taken down or any other issues that may arise from not following the terms and conditions.

  • parkscoobin 🧺 (@parkscoobin) reported

    was like girl..... u asking me to bury a fuckibg dead body with u i should be asking for MORE especially since i was going to buy the toys he wanted but then i went down to 80 bc i’m a people pleaser and she’s like i only have 1.31$ in my paypal and i’m like okay... write a check

  • spring_help Spring Creator Support (@spring_help) reported

    The issue with PayPal payout requests has now been resolved and everything is operational. Thanks again for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience caused!

  • AltFawkes real Guy Fawkes (@AltFawkes) reported

    @AskPayPal I was trying to make a purchase but I could not scroll down far enough to hit the button. What gives?

  • haruthesergal HaruTheSergal #kidneyforminty (@haruthesergal) reported

    @MoM6258 My PWYW commissions are charity commissions for Minty, I asked people to send directly to him so I wouldn’t get charge ridiculous PayPal fees for transferring to him. How her he couldn’t accept anything due to issues, so I’m closing these down for now!

  • ZachRoros Zach Roros (@ZachRoros) reported

    @jchatterleyCNN @Neloangelo314 @LaMonicaBuzz Elon Musk irresponsible? I think not!!! He was a co-founder of PayPal and to think that Elon doesn’t understand payment systems and what will be needed for a successful cross border payment system is irresponsible. He knows that BTC is too slow, and too expensive for this!

  • sunmoo13 sunmoo (@sunmoo13) reported

    @sneakersnstuff you charged me twice today for the same article via Paypal. I just sent you an email with the details. How can we fix this? Order 2886492. Thank you

  • miamurreletty ✨Mia Letty 🤍✨READ📌 (@miamurreletty) reported

    PLEASE NOTE: onlyfans payment not always available!! i prioritise paypal buyers unless i’m having paypal issues xx

  • baldoruk1 baldoruk (@baldoruk1) reported

    @NathanNLG @AskPayPal Sorry to here about your problems mate thete ******* ******** its a shame you dont have trading standards there as im shore un there small print there liabel to some existent

  • DrClawMD Dave Trumbore (@DrClawMD) reported

    @PNCBank_Help All good, thank you. The acct was previously linked with no problems. Paypal's site just seemed to have a momentary hiccup.

  • krus_chiki krus (@krus_chiki) reported

    @Olaf1911 Sure that’s no problem, but i need 1000$ to open up a western union account, can you paypal that to me?

  • MjTheHunter Morten Jaeger (@MjTheHunter) reported

    Can't express the burning hate I have for PayPal. Their services for enterprises are designed to make you want to hurt yourself. We're experiencing issues getting access to their payout API and now we have to request business support through a form that doesn't exist

  • matthewcashmore Fr. Matthew Cashmore (@matthewcashmore) reported

    @StaplesUK @AnselmHayes It shows that whilst acquiring a regular customer can be hard, losing one is rather easier. I hope you can feed this back into your process, I suspect I'm not the only small business user who will find the dropping of PayPal and a 7-10 day window on account set up an issue.

  • lisa_kimmel lisa kimmel (@lisa_kimmel) reported

    @SavannahGuthrie @onekingslane Horrible customer service. I bet you’re going to get a refund and then some now. Why not have someone do a segment about how easy it is to order but impossible to return. Using PayPal gives you more help in solving issues too.

  • GayBirdHere Night 💜 5.5 SPOILERS 💜 (@GayBirdHere) reported

    So I just bought the Digital Collection on the SE site and it went through like normal but I didn't get any confirmation email nor did my PayPal get charged? Anyone got this problem? What do? #ffxiv #SquareEnix

  • russellfl_ . (@russellfl_) reported

    i’ll never use @PayPal again hands down worst experience ever tryna get my own damn money into my bank. the ghetto.

  • MoM6258 MoM#6258 (@MoM6258) reported from County of Two Hills No. 21, Alberta

    @haruthesergal May I ask what sort of pay pal issues your having I know. When I first started commissions my PayPal wouldn't give me my money right away they would hold it after I got it for a month before I could use it

  • DrClawMD Dave Trumbore (@DrClawMD) reported

    @TheTilldays @PNCBank @PayPal Haven't had any issues with Twitch/direct deposit, but Paypal's goofy website first said PNC doesn't do standard transfers, then said that it did a second later 🤷

  • simonrjenner Simon Jenner (@simonrjenner) reported

    @TennisTV Trying to subscribe but your site keeps throwing up 401 errors on both Paypal and credit card and 2 computers. Help!

  • TheTilldays Tilldays 🦀 (@TheTilldays) reported

    @DrClawMD @PNCBank @PayPal I've been meaning to switch my twitch payments to direct deposit. 👀I imagine it might be more of a problem eventually with other banks

  • ghostb18 Anthony Vazquez 🇵🇷 (@ghostb18) reported

    @TheKnicksWall It won’t let me order one. Im using paypal and im in Puerto Rico. Don’t know if that’s a problem.

  • goddessxhalima Goddess Halima (@goddessxhalima) reported

    My cashapp is down today. Accepting PayPal only. Get sending for your hijabi goddess piggy’s. Link in my bio. Don’t approach without a tribute.

  • GayBirdHere Night 💜 5.5 SPOILERS 💜 (@GayBirdHere) reported

    @riley_versace I see! I clicked the debit now option and input my PayPal email buy the it said an error occured and to contact the support team. I reloaded the page and now the debit now option is gone??

  • DrClawMD Dave Trumbore (@DrClawMD) reported

    Interesting that @PNCBank no longer allows standard transfers from @PayPal but are more than happy to take a cut for instant transfers. I've been with that bank for 20+ years and it's been nothing but problems lately. Might be time for a switch.

  • MoM6258 MoM#6258 (Commissions Open) (@MoM6258) reported from County of Two Hills No. 21, Alberta

    @haruthesergal The customer is having paypal issues or your useing a friend's paypal?

  • ovaettrart vaxxed orion ovaettr 🍃 💗💜💙@ MAKING ART (@ovaettrart) reported

    Is Kofis version of patreon better than patreon itself???? I have read issues with patreon before. Especially regarding running a NSFW section or is that cuz its linked to paypal ? Hhhhhhh

  • ayogyeomgyeom ♧ 𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕒𝕙 ♧ (@ayogyeomgyeom) reported

    Bro PayPal credit is DANGEROUS... I didn't need to buy sik and Subin pcs but I still did 😗 its paypal's problem now

  • MakeaLttlBetter Makeitbetter (@MakeaLttlBetter) reported

    @avirgoworld I ******* way I would take it back DISPUTE, DISPUTE and send a pic to the credit card company. Someone told me yesterday she received an item it was broken PAYPAL told her she has to send it back and she had to pay postage now she will keep it just wanted to let me know🤬🤬🤬

  • trickster_lark Lark Weaver (@trickster_lark) reported

    @Frainyxo Maybe its an issue with paypal?

  • A_AlSanaa Abdullah (@A_AlSanaa) reported

    @AskPayPal you guys didn’t resolve my problem it has been almost 24 hours since I wired the payment and it is on hold and nothing is happening