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 (44%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Derby	Errors	20 hours ago
New York City	Sign in	20 hours ago
Rennes	Sign in	24 hours ago
Bayeux	Website Down	2 days ago
Franconville	Errors	3 days ago
Fréjus	Website Down	4 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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  ULTRAZINE (@UltraKillZine) reported 6 minutes ago

  ❗WE ARE CURRENTLY HAVING ISSUES PROCESSING PAYPAL PAYMENTS! THIS WILL BE FIXED SHORTLY. WE WILL PROVIDE A STATUS UPDATE ON ALL PLATFORMS ONCE IT IS WORKING AGAIN.

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  Optus (@Optus) reported 6 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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  blackbox 3D (@privacy_issues_) reported 7 minutes ago

  @rasmus1610 @bot The PayPal login being the one manual step is actually the right shape for this — checkout is where you want a human in the loop anyway. Curious whether it handled the cart/shipping choices itself or just followed the exact product link you gave it.

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  Suyash Verma (@suyashverma) reported 7 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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  Clover 🍀 (@fourleaaff) reported 8 minutes ago

  down paypal?

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  🔞🦇𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐳𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐳🐈‍⬛🔞 Hiatus (@batz_catz) reported 13 minutes ago

  Ok I’m a little calmed down now I’ve gotten reassurance that it’s alright if I propose the idea of taking donations. No one should feel pressured to help at all, but my cashapp and PayPal are in my bio. I am going to try all the advice you guys are giving. I’m not sure if this is even the full bill though 🥀

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  Ronald Britton (@Ronaldp38dy) reported 13 minutes ago

  @JayJayasuriya Permanent shutdown with zero explanation is such a hard place to be, no reason means no way to even fix whatever triggered it. Hope @AskPayPal actually gives you something concrete soon.

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  Uriel (@urielokahu) reported 13 minutes ago

  A client wanted paid roles in their discord. Here's the whole flow. User visit site, discord login, checkout in crypto or PayPal, payment webhook hits my backend, verify, bot assigns the role, cron watches expiry. Sounds clean. It wasn't. The webhook fired twice on one payment. Same user, two events, milliseconds apart. Without idempotency keys that's a double charge or a corrupted subscription record. Fix: every payment event gets a unique key written to the database before anything is processed. The second event sees the key and exits. Boring code. Saves you a refund and a very annoyed customer.

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  sham ISO HARRYWEEN N2 PIT (@suffering_sam) reported 15 minutes ago

  down to ft and pay extra w paypal g&s! not selling!

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  Riley (@Riley_McKenna1) reported 15 minutes ago

  @ShoeQueen0318 @ThatsAllAreanna Sadly wokesky isn't doing ****. Been doing the same. We need to hit her where it matters the most, either her linktree or her PayPal/venmo. Won't they shut PayPal down if there's too many charge backs?

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  the don of hockey (@don_allain) reported 16 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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  Radim Hernych (@hernych) reported 16 minutes ago

  Is it just me having this problem with @PayPal ? Historically, Ybug has been accepting EUR payments via PayPal. Back then, it seemed like a great idea with "free" withdrawals to a bank account, right? Big mistake. Turns out PayPal refuses to withdraw funds in any currency other than your company's local currency (CZK for a Czech-based company). And of course, they charge a massive currency conversion fee to do so. Since I don't want or need these funds in CZK, my money is effectively trapped. Anyone else in the same boat?

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  Bill |-/ semi hiatus era (@hyxnbi) reported 17 minutes ago

  my new paypal account got blocked again omggggg what’s their problem

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  Chaos🔞Comms Open (@ChaosReverb) reported 18 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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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 22 minutes ago

  THE THREE PRICE TARGETS PUT ON PAYPAL $PYPL SINCE FRIDAY WERE $50, $51 AND $70: The Quality-Value Len5 is watching PayPal at $53.18, -$0.48 / -0.90% today. The San Jose company runs the PayPal checkout button, Venmo, and Braintree, which handles card payments behind other companies' checkout pages. The bottom line: on Friday PayPal lost its buyer, and the shares gave back $7.81 in a single session. Nothing about the business changed that day. What ended was somebody else's offer to pay more than the market would. WHAT HAPPENED ON FRIDAY Since July there had been a bid on the table. Stripe, the privately held payments company, and Advent International, a private-equity firm, had jointly offered $60.50 a share - about $53B for the whole company. PayPal's board considered it too low. On Friday, August 28, Bloomberg reported the pair had walked away. Reuters put the sticking points at price and at how hard a deal that size would be to get past regulators. The shares went from $61.47 on Thursday to $53.66 on Friday: -$7.81 / -12.7% in one session, on 36.3M shares against a 30-day average near 11.5M - more than three times an ordinary day's trading. Today they have traded as low as $51.92, under Friday's own low of $52.62. Roughly seven dollars of that price was one buyer's opinion, and it is gone. Bloomberg noted the two could return later. Nobody is obliged to. THE THREE TARGETS Within two business days, three firms published a view on the same company and the same facts. - Loop Capital, Friday morning: target cut to $50 from $62, rating Hold. - Mizuho, Friday morning: cut to $51 from $60, rating Neutral. - RBC, this morning: RAISED to $70 from $65, rating Outperform. A price target is one firm's estimate of where a share should trade in about a year. It is an opinion, not a measurement. Across everyone who follows the stock the average target is $56.32 and the average rating is hold. So one firm believes these shares are worth a third less than another firm does, three days after the same news. That spread is the story, and the June quarter is where it comes from. WHAT THE COMPANY REPORTED ON JULY 28 Two numbers sit at the heart of it, and they point opposite ways. Total payment volume - the dollars moving across PayPal's systems - was $486.4B, +10% from a year earlier. Busy. Transaction margin dollars - what PayPal keeps out of those payments after paying the cost of moving them - was $3.9B, +1%. Leave out interest earned on customer cash and it was $3.6B, +3%. Ten percent more money went through. One percent more stuck. The rest of the quarter reads the same way: - Net revenue $8.68B, +5% - Profit per share $1.25 on the standard accounting measure, -3%; $1.38 with certain one-off items stripped out, -1% - Operating margin - what the business keeps out of each sales dollar before interest and tax - 16.4%, down 1.71 points - Active accounts 439M, +0.3% over the year, and DOWN 0.2M from three months earlier - Free cash flow - the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment - $1.78B - Cash and investments $15.3B against $13.4B of debt Then the buyback, which is the largest single thing PayPal does with its money. A buyback is a company purchasing its own shares and cancelling them, so every remaining owner holds a slightly bigger slice. It spent $1.5B on that in the quarter and $6.0B across twelve months, retiring about 111M shares against the 855M that exist today. Management raised its full-year forecast: adjusted profit near $5.38 a share against $5.31 last year. On the standard measure it still expects a mid-single-digit decline from $5.41. Put the price against that. $53.18 divided by $5.38 is about 9.9 times what the company itself expects to earn this year. ONE NAME, SIX LEN5ES - QUALITY-VALUE - STRONG, and the only one of the six carrying it. This style hunts a durable business at a fair price, and PayPal is sixth on that watch. The fair-price half is not arguable at roughly 10 times earnings with 111M shares retired in a year. Durability is where the fight is. A checkout button 439M people already have is a real moat - the thing that stops a competitor simply taking your customers - and volume growing 10% while the money kept from that volume grows 1% is what pressure on a moat looks like from the inside. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: transaction margin growing anywhere near the pace of payment volume. WHAT WOULD BREAK IT: active accounts falling a second straight quarter, because a button nobody reaches for is not durable at any price. - DEEP-VALUE AND SPECIAL-SITUATIONS - NOT A FIT, and the most interesting no here. That style wants a business priced under what it looks worth, or one carrying a dated event still to play out. Cheap is present. The event is what failed: an unsigned offer that has now been withdrawn is not something anyone can plan around. Friday is the proof - the event resolved, and it resolved by vanishing. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: a signed agreement with a real closing date, or a markdown deep enough that the business by itself, with no buyer anywhere in the picture, is the entire reason to look. - GROWTH - NOT A FIT, and the price is not the problem. Growth you are not overpaying for needs both halves, and the second one is missing. Adjusted profit guided to $5.38 against $5.31 is roughly a 1% year, and on the standard measure the company expects earnings to fall. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: transaction margin dollars speeding up so profit rises with volume instead of trailing it by nine percentage points. - MOMENTUM - NOT A FIT, on the plainest evidence available. That style watches a company already climbing on news of its own. This one fell 12.7% in a session on somebody else's decision, sits 32.9% below the $79.22 it reached on October 28 last year, and traded lower again today. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: the shares climbing back on PayPal's own quarterly figures rather than on talk of a buyer. - HYPERGROWTH - NOT A FIT, on age and size rather than judgment. Early and fast-growing is the brief. PayPal is 27 years old, serves 439M accounts, books $8.68B in a quarter and grows it 5%. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: honestly, almost nothing available to it - a business this size cannot become early again, and Venmo or the financial-services push would have to compound for years at a rate the whole company has not managed in a decade. - INCOME - NOT A FIT, and the reason is which pocket the cash comes from. That style watches cash genuinely reaching owners and genuinely funded by the business. The dividend is $0.14 a quarter, declared for payment on September 25 to holders on the books September 4 - $0.56 a year, about 1.1% of the share price. The $6.0B of buybacks is the real cash return, near 13% of the company's $45.5B market value, and it came out of money the business earned rather than borrowed. But a buyback is a decision, not a promise: it can be halved next quarter with no announcement and nobody calls it a cut. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: the declared dividend growing into a meaningful share of the price, so the cash return is something owners can count on instead of something they hope continues. THE MIRROR IMAGE, TWO PLACES DOWN THE SAME WATCH Visa at $381.01, -$0.59 / -0.15% today. The San Francisco company runs the network that moves money between shoppers, shops and banks every time a card is tapped, and it sits eighth on that same Quality-Value watch - for exactly the opposite reason. Visa trades near 33 times its last year of earnings, $4.56 / 1.2% under the $385.57 high it set on August 26. PayPal trades near 10 times, a third below its own high. One has the durable half settled and no discount to show for it. The other has the discount and an argument about the durability. What would open the Visa read is a real markdown with earnings unchanged; what would break it is regulation cutting what the network is allowed to charge on each transaction. WHAT TO KEEP AN EYE ON Not whether a buyer comes back. The gap between those two June-quarter figures. PayPal reports the September quarter in late October - treat the date as unset until the company names it - and the line to find is transaction margin dollars against total payment volume. If volume keeps growing near 10% while the margin grows near 1%, then 10 times earnings is cheap for a reason. If they converge, a $70 target stops looking eccentric. One smaller dated item: from September 4 the shares trade without that $0.14 payment, which lands September 25. THE RISK, SAID WITHOUT DECORATION Nothing here is a forecast. The bear case is written into the company's own report: payment volume growing ten times faster than the money kept from it, with the number of people using the service flat over a year and slightly lower than three months ago. A stock can sit at 10 times earnings for years when the earnings are going nowhere, and this company's own guidance has profit falling this year on the standard measure. Push the other way and it breaks just as fast: two buyers examined these numbers up close and were willing to pay $60.50, and a board that said no is either right or expensive. For six weeks this stock had a price somebody else was willing to pay. Since Friday it has only had the one the business can justify - and Friday put $7.81 between them. Not investment advice.

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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 25 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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  J∆Y (@JayJayasuriya) reported 28 minutes ago

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

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  Ivixor B (@Rambu3000) reported 31 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 I am using Revolut on GrapheneOS. No issues here. I do not use Paypal.

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  Aditya Warman (@warmanadit_) reported 35 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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  WISECP (@wisecpcom) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Zarkos85 Hi @Zarkos85 — thanks for letting us know, and sorry for the trouble. It was a short-lived issue on the checkout page and it's fixed now; card and PayPal are both going through again. Please give it another try, and if anything is still off, open a ticket and we'll get on it.

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  Aquila (@LeoAquila_) reported 37 minutes ago

  @TheRealCalvin19 @WhisperMute First I gotta fix my paypal, which is hard because paypal sucks 🙃

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  Pokettino (@pokettino) reported 39 minutes ago

  @PokemonTCGIntel I get an error as no payment method :( 1 hr trying. i had paypal as default. :(

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  Syed Faiz (@copywriterfaiz) reported 40 minutes ago

  Paypal is threatening close my account although I regularly login by saying that I don't login at all!!! What the hell @PayPal @AskPayPal

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  Earl Ray Mudflap (@EarlRayMudflap) reported 47 minutes ago

  @PayPal fix your ******* app. Trying to Venmo people and it doesn’t work anymore. Get your **** together

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  iX (@JimManahan) reported 54 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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  Edward The Loudmouth (@EDMaumbauer) reported 54 minutes ago

  @GretchenPSmith Gretchen, yeah, you do... that is how Paypal operates, same with X, FB, Insta, Visa, Mastercard, Your bank... we used to simply call them server farms. Data Centers are as necessary for the world to operate today as is oil. Get rid of them, the world STOPS DEAD

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 58 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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  ᴅɪᴠɪɴᴇ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ™️ ⟁ (@DivineThoughtTM) reported 1 hour ago

  I'm in a real bad spot. I hate trauma dumping.. I've been taking care of elderly family member while I've been dealing with my own health issues. I can't seem to get ahead before another crisis. Any help is more than appreciated and sorry for putting this on your feed 🙏🏻 Venomo: @geekay1 I have a PayPal too

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  Dada Goober (@goobertstan) reported 1 hour ago

  @jiwoolover6091 I’m sorry jay, I tried logging in through my old PayPal acc AND making a new account😔😔😔 I think it’s a country issue

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  Dhark (@traceytina16) reported 1 hour ago

  @Safaricom_Care @SafaricomPLC we need to understand where our money is disappearing to since you don’t want to clarify what the problem is. It has now been over a week and nothing. On @PayPal money was transferred but it is only your app that says it’s pending ffs