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 (43%)
• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Thurins	Sign in	22 hours ago
Roubaix	Errors	2 days ago
Lisbon	Errors	2 days ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	2 days ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	3 days ago
Cublize	Website Down	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Wayne Jones (@forestknights) reported 1 minute ago

  @PayPal your business customer service is terrible. Another failed transaction through your payment system. £300 lost and you couldn’t give a fig.

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  Ahmad (@ismxilahmad) reported 4 minutes ago

  Stripe is planning to buy PayPal, please do it and fix the broken platform

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  Kiri (@_Kirichu_) reported 7 minutes ago

  @talim_stuff Omgg terrible time to only have access to PayPal... 😭 This is SO cute

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  BitcoinSafari /Education & Developers Program (@BitcoinSafariTZ) reported 7 minutes ago

  Earning Bitcoin Through Freelance Work: Why It Matters And Why Platforms Like Bitlance Are Building The Future Of Work The internet promised us borderless work. For a long time it only delivered half the promise. You could find a client in Berlin, Lagos, or Buenos Aires from your laptop in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania 🇹🇿. But when it came time to get paid, borders came back with a vengeance. Bank wires that take 5 days. PayPal accounts that get frozen. 8% platform fees. Currency conversion losses. Minimum withdrawal thresholds that make small gigs pointless. That is why earning Bitcoin through freelance work matters. And it is why platforms built specifically for it, like Bitlance, are not just another crypto app. They are infrastructure. Here is the full picture briefly 1. Freelance work has already won, but the payment rails lost In 2026, over 40% of the global workforce does some form of freelance, contract, or gig work. Companies stopped hiring for every role full time. Creators, designers, developers, writers, marketers, editors, translators, data annotators... everyone is unbundling their skills and selling them directly. The problem is that the money still moves like it is 1998. If you are a freelancer outside the US and EU, you know the friction: High fees: Upwork takes 10%. PayPal takes 4% plus a currency spread. Wise is better but still 1-3%. For a $200 job, you can easily lose $20-$30 before the money lands. Slow settlement: 2-7 business days is normal. If your rent is due Friday, that is a problem. Account risk: Platforms ban accounts with little explanation. Payment processors freeze funds for "review" for 180 days. Currency volatility: If you invoice in USD but your local currency drops 10% this month, your purchasing power evaporates. Access barriers: Millions of skilled people cannot even get a PayPal account, or cannot receive international wires without a US bank. So we have this weird situation. The work is global and instant. The payment is local, slow, and expensive. 2. Why Bitcoin specifically, not just "crypto" People hear "crypto" and think of trading and memes. For freelancers, Bitcoin solves three very concrete problems that no other payment method solves well together. A. It is borderless by design A Bitcoin payment does not care what country you are in. It does not need a correspondent bank. It does not need you to have a US LLC. If you have an internet connection and a wallet, you can receive value from anyone, anywhere. For a freelancer in Tanzania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Venezuela, or rural Philippines, that is the difference between being able to work globally or not. B. It is final and censorship-resistant Once a Bitcoin transaction confirms, it cannot be reversed. No chargebacks. No platform can freeze your balance because of an automated risk flag. No government can block a payment because it is "unauthorized". For freelancers who have had $1,200 disappear for 6 months during a dispute, finality matters. C. It is programmable savings Getting paid in Bitcoin is not just about spending. It is about opting out of local inflation. In many economies, holding local currency for 30 days means losing 2-5% of value. Bitcoin is volatile week to week, but over 4year cycles it has been the best performing asset for preserving and growing purchasing power. When you get paid in BTC, you are getting paid and saving at the same time. Other stablecoins solve the volatility problem, and that is useful too. But Bitcoin solves the sovereignty problem. You do not need permission from a bank, a platform, or a government to hold it. 3. The freelance + Bitcoin combination creates new economic behavior When you put these two together, things change in ways that are not obvious at first.

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  Kai - Briefing Block (@briefing_block_) reported 8 minutes ago

  $PYPL ’s $53 Billion Bid Is a Premium to Distress, Not Full Value The reported Stripe-Advent offer is $60.50 a share, valuing PayPal above $53 billion at roughly a 28% premium to its pre-bid close. At first glance, shareholders should take the money. But the offer values PayPal at roughly 9x expected 2026 free cash flow, versus about 16x for Fiserv and Block. That looks less like a turnaround premium than a distressed entry point. The case for cashing out PayPal has earned its discount. The shares remain more than 80% below their 2021 peak, branded checkout slowed to 1% growth in late 2025, and competing wallets have steadily weakened the old checkout-button moat. Enrique Lores is also asking investors to underwrite another reset after two CEOs failed to convert ambitious product plans into durable growth. His plan is clean on paper: reorganize PayPal into three operating units, place Venmo inside a dedicated consumer-finance division, and generate at least $1.5 billion of savings over two to three years for reinvestment. The timing is the problem. Separately, PayPal’s existing technology overhaul carries an 18-to-42-month execution window, with infrastructure work expected to run into 2028. A cash offer removes the risk that savings arrive late, competition keeps moving, or better margins fail to produce better products. Where the bid gets cheap The underlying business is damaged, not dead. First-quarter revenue rose 7%, transaction-margin dollars increased 3%, branded checkout growth improved by one point from the prior quarter, and Venmo posted a sixth straight quarter of double-digit volume growth. Stripe would not be buying only current earnings. It would gain PayPal’s consumer distribution, Venmo, checkout relationships and the operating leverage created by Lores’s restructuring, while Advent gets a mature cash generator before the savings are visible. The asymmetry is obvious: public shareholders surrender the recovery upside, while the buyers assume execution risk at a depressed multiple. PayPal’s board reportedly sees the offer as inadequate, and that looks rational. Bottom line My read: reject $60.50, but keep the sale process alive. At roughly 9x forward free cash flow, the bid compensates shareholders for waiting, but not for handing over the upside if the restructuring works. PayPal should force a materially higher price or remain independent long enough to prove the plan. A premium to a broken stock is not the same as fair value.

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  TanukiBoogie (@KazooieTanuki) reported 8 minutes ago

  @elicitie I bought the daki and comic on the website, it said there was an error with my PayPal, but it was bought anyways? I'd hope it went through lol

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  Dan Farfan (@DanFarfan) reported 14 minutes ago

  Stripe + Block + Paypal (SBP) is a HUGE problem for Visa and Mastercard (V+M) because suddenly zillions of dollars of xactions become local only to SBP and off V+M networks (and pocketbooks). V, M or both must find something ginormous (now or potential) to buy... (e.g. what I'm building $-))

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  Tony Jacob | FindaClip.com (@tonjkb) reported 17 minutes ago

  David Sacks Reveals How the PayPal Mafia Got Started —"They saw the founding generation at PayPal as just a problem—just a bunch of cowboys they couldn't control." David: "To be honest, that's why PayPal has stagnated. As soon as it was acquired back in 2002, they basically blew out all the founders, all the founding DNA, and it was just kind of run by consulting types. You got to remember at that time it was acquired by eBay, and Meg Whitman had worked at Proctor and Gamble and Disney, and she spent like eight years at Bain. It was a very corporate mindset. Among all the internet companies of that era, it was definitely the most corporatist, and they saw the founding generation at PayPal as just a problem—just a bunch of cowboys they couldn't control. They made no effort to retain them, and I think they were kind of relieved when they all left. That's what created the PayPal mafia; normally in an acquisition, you'd lock up all the talent, but in this case, they locked them out. Jason: "They were like, 'These guys are hard to manage, change the keys.'" David: "I've said for a long time it's a misnomer to call it the PayPal mafia. It's really the PayPal diaspora." "Our homeland was taken over and they burned our temple and then kicked everybody out." "And that's why the whole PayPal mafia got started with all those companies."

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 21 minutes ago

  wts wtr nct 127 membership for the redline in Seoul ✨ 100k idr | 6 usd 🌷 accept: paypal, wise, qris, Ina bank ✨ weverse login access available: ✅✅❌❌ 💌 DM me if you're interested! t. wts wtb rent membership nct 127 seoul the redline

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  Daniela 🌻 (@1jeonghan) reported 21 minutes ago

  Suga 93 jersey wasn’t meant to be , **** sold out while I was trying to sign in my PayPal smh

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  BILLIONAIRE UNIVERSITY® (@TheBillionaireU) reported 27 minutes ago

  27-year-old Elon Musk paid $200 a month for a leaky roof office and slept in it because it was cheaper than an apartment. Summer of 1995, no money, no income, so he showered at the YMCA for 4 months and worked out of the nastiest place you can imagine. The office had 1 hidden advantage an internet provider sat on the floor below, so he drilled a hole in the concrete and plugged straight into their server for near-free bandwidth. He couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router either, so he read a white paper and wrote an emulator, skipped the web server entirely to save CPU cycles, read port 8080 directly, and coded the first national maps, directions and yellow pages on the internet that summer in C with a little C++. The company was Zip2 online city guides, where to eat, how to get around. By 1998 CBS came to film the vintage Jaguar, the 6-figure salary, the dog, the house, the girlfriend, and a market Microsoft had tried to enter and failed. Then the reporter asked the standard 1998 question where is the internet going? The 27-year-old answered like he’d already seen the ending: “The internet is the superset of all media. Print, radio, broadcast all of it folds into the internet. It’s the first two-way medium that’s intelligent, where consumers choose what they see and when they see it.” That was 28 years ago and he was describing a feed. A year later Zip2 sold for $307M, the money became X com, X com became PayPal, and PayPal became rockets. It all started with a drill and the server downstairs.

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  Memo (@mthblk56) reported 27 minutes ago

  Paid €25 for a German number on and it’s completely useless! 🚫 SMS verification codes arrive 2+ hours late, it doesn't work for WhatsApp or PayPal, and support is ignoring my tickets while my subscription expires in 2 days. Fix this or issue a refund! 💸 #Quackr @quackrio

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  DokuroVT💜💀 (@Dokurowo) reported 29 minutes ago

  Anyone else with throne having problems with Throne Masspay?? I have never used it before but it was the only option available to withdraw but I gen will not let me withdraw with paypal or wo my bank acc..... send help ......

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  nav || vgen commission !! (@whackatoaster) reported 34 minutes ago

  counting down days until september so paypal can unban my account and give me back my money..

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 34 minutes ago

  wts wtr nct 127 membership for the redline in Seoul ✨ 100k idr | 6 usd 🌷 accept: paypal, wise, qris, Ina bank ✨ weverse login access available: ✅❌❌❌ 💌 DM me if you're interested! t. wts wtb rent membership nct 127 seoul the redline

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  faye (@jemjem2409) reported 35 minutes ago

  THAT PAYPAL LOGIN SHT TOOK ME LONG TIME

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  bosskiller196723 (@Bosskiller1967) reported 36 minutes ago

  @StubHub I need help with a payout issue. StubHub International keeps saying my PayPal payment was rejected, but PayPal has confirmed my account is in good standing and can receive payments. Can someone at the team please look into my case and DM me? #StubHub

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  Mr BONI base.eth 🐂🀄️ (@Mr_BONI_) reported 36 minutes ago

  Infrastructure meets real money: how Arbitrum + WalletConnect change payments forever! In a world where money must move 24/7, with deep liquidity and lightning speed, Arbitrum becomes a real backbon for payments. Why @arbitrum ? • $17+ billion secured value - the largest among all Ethereum L2 • $4+ billion in stablecoin liquidity • Median commission ~$0.0035 (less than half a cent!) • Block time - only 250 milliseconds This means that tipping a content creator for $0.50, paying for coffee for $3 or micropayments for streaming are now really profitable. And stablecoins (USDC, USDT, PYUSD, MXNB, MYRC, EURe) work on the same network with the same speed and cost. @WalletConnect is the most convenient connection layer. One integration, and the business gets access to 900 million users through the largest wallet network. Accept crypt and stablecoins, make top-up accounts, make payments - from wallet to wallet, from institute to bank. Everything is compliant and without the need to build custom integrations for each network and stable. Who is already building on this foundation: • Bleap, RedotPay, Rise, Peanut, Fiat24 • Mastercard, Visa Direct, Cash App, Venmo & PayPal (PYUSD), Shopify, Stripe, Transak This is not a roadmap, but already working products. Thousands of applications have chosen Arbitrum as a production infrastructure for real payments. WalletConnect Pay solves the main problem of the crypt - fragmentation. Checkout, Acceptance, Account Top-ups - all through one integration. Users can pay with any asset, and you get what you need (stable or fiat). Plus cashback in base:0xef4461891dfb3ac8572ccf7c794664a8dd927945 , which motivates users. For business, this means: easier onboarding, lower costs, higher speed of calculations and coverage of a huge audience. The future of payments is on-chain. Arbitrum gives reliable rails, WalletConnect provides convenient access to them.

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  MaxGaming170 | Changeling VTuber (@MaxRenRez2) reported 39 minutes ago

  @MendamCaedo @takasiraVT Vroid is one option, but you can rarely get anywhere with that. The point I'm making is that this industry is predatory for newcomers and old timers alike. Particularly in the modeling, art, and rigging departments. People will scam you, hide things in TOS, and just recently threaten to revoke the model entirely without a refund if you even touch AI for one reason or another (including using an AI reference sheet, by the way). There's even a server out there that has decided to just start banning people if they use it on ANY PLATFORM, like some 1984 type ****. Cheap artists can rarely be trusted either, because again- on the off chance you don't read over your agreement with like seven lawyers, they can just decide to take it away because of any slight problem they have with you. And let's not even mention the fact that some people will decide to drag their *** on the commissions until the six month refund period on paypal has expired, then take the money and run, meaning that now you're out several thousand dollars depending on how expensive that commission was.. With all of this in mind, do you see why people are hesitant to turn to artists who are screeching about losing their commissions and turning to sources that won't complain about what they choose to do?

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  ⋆˚࿔ Amberly 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ (@all4amberly) reported 40 minutes ago

  @jen91xox reallyyyy i hate paypal 😭 i feel like they always give me problems

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  Anwar (@anwarbaksh) reported 41 minutes ago

  I helped a client grow from $250K to $2M ARR by transitioning their store from PayPal Buy Now buttons to a full WooCommerce store. Here's the active plugin stack running the site today: Admin Columns Payment Fee Admin Columns Pro Block Emails & Addresses for WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce Code Snippets Duplicate Page Error Log Viewer GTM4WP Invoice Payment Option LiteSpeed Cache ShipStation for WooCommerce WooCommerce WooCommerce PayPal Payments WooCommerce Ship Discounts — custom plugin I built WooCommerce Stripe Gateway WooPayments Wordfence Security WP Mail Logging Code Snippets handles the smaller customizations that don't need dedicated plugin. Maintenance costs less than $200/month. The client has control, flexibility, scalability, and portability. You don't always need an expensive "enterprise" stack to run a serious eCommerce business. Sometimes you just need to build the right stack, and maintain it properly.

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  Adex Specialist (@AdexSpecialist) reported 41 minutes ago

  Hello @PayPal Am having issue logging to my Paypal account Am no longer using the phone number connected to it And it keeps sending code to the lost number Please help me figure this out

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  🗡️COPAN🔱@🇯🇵🇺🇦⭐️🇺🇦🇲🇩🇹🇼🇳🇷🇬🇱🤘 (@nankaufufucopan) reported 41 minutes ago

  @unnuovoinizio1 @antoninaodesssa @tatyanaodesssa I attempted to send money via PayPal. However, as I mentioned before, transfers from Japan result in an error. This has been happening for some time. It is a problem unique to Japan and serves as one of the barriers to support for Ukraine from the Japanese people. Are there any other ways to send money?

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  Maggie Mae (@lenapelady333) reported 44 minutes ago

  Lovely bracelet. If I had my PayPal acct that ni g erian scammers hacked n cleaned out my everything....id get one for my bestie down in SC n one for my Amber n 1 for me. Thanks obombuh for bringing them over here to hack i kniw alit of people who lost much more than I did

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  𝐂𝐇𝐘𝐍𝐄 (@realchyne) reported 45 minutes ago

  ~ Account just got de-activated in the middle of tasking.... ~ UK accounts suspended ~ Had issues with previous payment method as @airtminc has refused to verify clients details (got last weeks payout on pending till now) so we decided to change Payment method to PayPal for this week payment not to get stuck, only for outlier to deactivate the account even after the client verified. boyyy, it's tuff...

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  Nauman Ali (@NaumanBalochDM) reported 45 minutes ago

  Broken GA4 sessions? Check referral exclusions. Payment gateways like Stripe/PayPal redirect users back to your site — GA4 counts it as a new session and wipes your source. Fix: add payment domains to your unwanted referrals list. 4 minutes. #GA4 #Ecommerce

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  RESCUE HOME ANIMAL SANCTUARY (@rescuehomea) reported 47 minutes ago

  These two sick kittens are really sick and they have terrible eye injuries It's going to be a hard recovery journey for both of them but we do everything we can to save their lives We are in desperate need of your support to pay their treatment PayPal Donate Link in bio 🐈

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  ᴋ🩵 (@mrskennedyxo) reported 48 minutes ago

  Where do people get the confidence to add paypal or a throne? I want to do some stupid **** like that but I’m scared someone will actually send me money that they got illegally and I’ll be in big trouble😭

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  kevinliu (@KevinLiuPutra) reported 55 minutes ago

  @valquxxn @PayPal Call customer support from ur region , ive called US hq and they will redicret you to your paypal region office anyway so its pointless and a waste of phone bill, ive had this issue in the early days , just talk to them about it , mine was because it went over 1k and they want to know what i do so i just called them tell them what i do and provide them with my id and bank statement, + documents of work , screenshots of requests and results, they have the best customer service hands down cause they fix every documents for me that was messed up and you can send them an email here executiveoffice@paypal . com too to get extra help, its insane but i love their cs i thanked them after the agent fixed it for me, it doesnt take that long too

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 56 minutes ago

  An early PayPal employee described the moment the team realized Elon Musk was different from every other founder in Silicon Valley. It was something dark. The team was in a meeting discussing a product setback. Everyone was frustrated. Someone made a comment about maybe pivoting the product or considering alternative approaches. Normal startup conversation. Rational. Measured. Elon's response was physical. He stood up. His jaw tightened. He said something close to "if we pivot we die. We don't pivot. We fix it." Not loudly. Almost whispered. But the energy in the room changed completely. The employee said what was different wasn't the words. Every founder says "we don't give up." What was different was the look in his eyes. He said it was the look of someone who literally cannot conceive of the possibility that this doesn't work. Not "won't accept" failure. Cannot process it. As if the neural pathway that handles the concept of quitting doesn't exist in his brain. He said in that moment he understood that Elon doesn't choose persistence the way other people choose it. Other people weigh the options and decide to keep going. Elon doesn't see other options. The path forward is the only path his brain can map. Everything else is a dead pixel on his screen. That's not a learned skill. That's an architecture. And it explains both his extraordinary success and the trail of broken relationships, burned-out employees, and personal damage he leaves behind. The same wiring that makes failure invisible also makes other people's pain invisible.