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 (40%)
• Errors (38%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Paris	Sign in	20 hours ago
Benfeld	Sign in	3 days ago
Gérardmer	Sign in	4 days ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	5 days ago
Lodève	Errors	5 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	6 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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  Zinc G. ZDraco (@LegendofZinc) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PayPal @Mastercard Would instantly lock you out of buying anything cause that's how PayPal works, first use would lock you out and then close your account out even if it's LEGIT cause PayPal uses AI for everything and there's number 1 major issue there, PayPay was good before AI.

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  Kuroh ⨉ ｡° Drunk Eldritch Nee-san⊹｡˚ |✖️🍶 (@KurohKujou) reported 10 minutes ago

  @jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal PayPal fix your ****, people rely on you.

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  AC from Chicago (@_AC_1972) reported 13 minutes ago

  @shesforRussy Hey, I was coming to talk to you about Russ, then I saw this. I’m sorry you are having a difficult time. I tried donating twice but PayPal is giving me trouble.

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  Rawrskis! (@2017_nonsense) reported 16 minutes ago

  @PayPal @Mastercard Paypal shut down my account that I had used since 2015, mainly to purchase software and claimed I had used the account in some nefarious way, but provided zero documentation.

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  Enzeyi Siema (@EnzeyiSiema) reported 17 minutes ago

  @EnriqueJLores @PayPal Congratulations, I however have an issue with how your team handles account limitation issues. My business account got limited, I asked for 2 reviews, they don't respond clearly via email. First review, email says partial restoration, and nothing changes at all. I need an ear.

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  James T. Gordon (@jamestgordon) reported 18 minutes ago

  Facebook market place reselling flip this week: $1500 - buy price $2700 - sell price $1200 - net profit Dell Poweredge Server R730xd w/ 768GB RAM (24x32GB) When I saw this post to fb I had to get the exact RAM config right away. Seller was fast and once I had the exact specs I shot a pic to my memory buyer. He came back with a $100 per module. Right away I knew I could spend $1500 and get $2400 on the RAM. I offer $1200 on the server. Saw that the seller had seen the message but no response. Waited two hours but didn't want to loose the sale. Offered asking price and arranged to meet that evening. Ate a little on paypal fees for the $2400 but the buyer covers the minimal shipping charge. Will sell the server on fb marketplace for around $300. Quick flip. Electronics aren't the easiest resell but if you know what you're looking at then there can be a lot of upside. Definitely not a resale asset class to sleep on.

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  Dut (@Dut83) reported 19 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Had same problem. My item didn’t show up. I used PayPal for the purchase and they did all the heavy lifting once I knew it was a scam. They contacted the seller and got no response. Couple weeks later I had my funds back in my account.

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  Texas lady (@latebird1) reported 20 minutes ago

  What’s up with PayPal? It’s not working…

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  TaegiBoraverse⁷ IS SEEING BTS ⊙⊝⊜ (@soumii05) reported 22 minutes ago

  There is a "loyal customer" am saying it in inverted commas coz u will know soon why So she saw i hv a digital shop and was like she wanted to supposely support my digital shop and buy smthing for her friend i told her okay and gave her my website I can do take her order manually and send via email no issue but since she said it was her bestfrnd birthday n wanted to give them a digital planner i gave her option of my website since i was busy and website they would hv got it within second after ordering it while manually i would hv been able to take her order on weekend since i had work and didnt have time to login my laptop and all I told her i had paypal option which she said she didnt have and then i said i have credit card And she was like she dont trust using credit card on my shop coz she think she get scam😭 like she been ordering frm me for like 2 ys once a while and knws hw my shop function yet she was like she may get scam😭 Like i do my best to make people happy and in return i get called scammer and being manipulative when all i do is help army when i can and rn i feel so close to closing all my shops coz with how these people are and how im no longer getting any sale 😭😭 Sorry for the rant at 3am im unable to sleep and started to cry again and thinking abt my ****** life and flop shops that i have worked so hard on for 2ys yet its a huge flop😭

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  No Gimmicks (@NoGmicks) reported 23 minutes ago

  Every now and then I forget just how terrible an investor I am. Two of my greatest hits: 1. Let’s open a COVID-testing booths at the airport. $XSPA 2. Let’s try to put PayPal out of business. $HMBL 3. Still not even sure what $OPTI did. My track record speaks volumes.

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  ✧Concept of Stars✧ COMMS OPEN (@ConceptOfStars) reported 25 minutes ago

  I have a little problems with PayPal, an agreement on this position of timely delays. This does not affect the already accepted agreement, due to insolvency!

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  Jack D Ripper (@d16b0lical) reported 26 minutes ago

  @RepJayapal There shouldn’t be anybody named Jamala Paypal on an American Judiciary Committee. Any other problems at hand exist downstream of this and are inherently caused by this.

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  Tiffany Kristen (@TiffanyKri99602) reported 27 minutes ago

  @soupgal1 Dm me with your cash app tag 🏷 or PayPal if you have any financial issues to get paid and say(PAY ME)

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  cRow🕯️ (@crowplush) reported 29 minutes ago

  @luvsickdreaming THANKYIU MEL CHAN 🥹 it's mostly a problem with the paypal I'm using so I need to fix it...other than that is more stuff regarding TOS e request form that I'm struggling with uueehheueh 🥹🥹🥹

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 33 minutes ago

  open for transfer • not verify ewallet/bank balance transfer to verify (gcash, maya, grab pay, shopee, lazada) • gcash/maya with issue transfer balance (face recognition, authentication failed, can’t send/open) • paypal permanent limited withdrawal (need lagpas 180 days)

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  patrick hooke (@HookePatri60071) reported 33 minutes ago

  My PayPal account is still not working. I was told to wait 72 hours before trying to send money but still it doesn't work. However, I was able to pay for something I purchased from eBay without any problems. @AskPayPal

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 34 minutes ago

  Jack Dorsey on why Square lends to businesses banks won't even look at: "We actually see their business." Asked what data justifies extending credit to a merchant a traditional bank would reject outright, Dorsey doesn't describe a better model. He describes a better position. "They use our register. They use our payments. They enter all their employees into our system. We see all their customers. We see their competition. We have a very deep understanding of how they're doing and who they are, and we don't make a judgment until we have a pretty strong understanding to make that risk assessment." A bank sees a business through the narrow aperture of a bank statement. Square sees the register, the payroll, the customer base, and the competition. The merchant runs the whole operation on Square's rails. Dorsey states the advantage plainly: "We've built our platform in such a way that we are the tool that's being used to run the entire business. So we have an advantage that others mostly do not." Outside data exists, but it's secondary: "Outside of our walls, we look at how sellers are engaging with Yelp or Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, or all these signals that people are sending around the world." And he immediately demotes it: "A lot of our assessment comes from our own understanding, our own data itself." The same instinct, own the surface where the activity actually happens shows up in Square Cash. "It's consistently broken into the top 20 free apps in the iOS App Store, which is a huge feat for a finance app. It's consistently been the number one above our competitors, Venmo and PayPal, over the past few months." Dorsey's explanation is that they refused to accept the category they were placed in: "We haven't seen it just as peer-to-peer. We've evolved past peer-to-peer and we've observed that people are using it as a spending device. And the more ability we add and the more capabilities we add to spend it in more places, the more adoption we see and the more retention we see." The sequencing was deliberate: "We started with the most critical thing, which is sending money between two people, and then we moved on to issuing a card that could be used online and offline." Sending money between two people is a feature. It is not, on its own, a business. The card is what converts a transfer utility into something people spend from and spending is where the surface widens. Square doesn't underwrite from a credit file, because it owns the register. Cash doesn't retain users through transfers, because it moved to own the spend. Worth noting what Dorsey doesn't say. Asked directly how Square makes money on peer-to-peer transfers, he answers with rankings, adoption, and retention never revenue. Read it as a tell either way: the monetisation is the card, or it hadn't been settled yet.

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  R.Louis (@RLouis1397) reported 34 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay I absolutely hate buying from eBay. Slow shipping and customer support. Always pay with PayPal when using eBay and have a credit card as the primary payment method for two layers of protection. Always DYOR on seller. If a price seems too good to be true, it probably is.

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  Robin Reynolds (@RobinvReynolds) reported 37 minutes ago

  @chelleyourself . What applies here are no less than 50 long-form investigative journalism articles of around 4,000 words each, at least most of which are reflected on my timeline right here and then over at my Substack spot. If you click on the link in my Bio it takes you right there. I had all those artkcles on my timeline in full but no one was supporting my efforts so I took them all off and moved them over to Substack behind a paywall. Whoever critiqued them said they were great but that was just a handful of people along the way. The engagement they got was demoralizing so I basically stopped leaving them on here. I still make them available for free here, usually for 24 hours before removing them but I might just stop doing that too, because it's all just steadily gone downhill to nothing. The critical turn came when I produced a series of articles targeting the Paypal Mafia and Elon Musk directly, and was also focusing on what amounts to organized crime activities being carried out in the White House, such as, "The Doge Scam" and "The Pardons Racket". After that I found myself locked in a vault, with my posts getting like 30-120 impressions max and close to zero engagement. They've been pulling all kinds of other ***** tricks too... I wrote a lot about it... some articles, mostly just smaller pieces, just about all of which I've dumped off my timeline since then. At one point I was just going to abandon this enterprise completely, whwereupon I went on a jag and dumped like 2,000 posts -- or more -- off the timeline. My goal was to just have a neat column of article ads redirecting interested parties over to Substack, but at the end of all that I just kept going, but definitely throttled down considerably. I don't know if you remember me... We crossed paths when I first got on here, and you and Subi-Doo gave me my first little leg up... I think at that point I had 0, then 5, then 40, then 100 followers. Then I joined SmokeFleet, as Gina Lola Brigida, -- that was good for 1,000 followers -- but eventually I reverted back to my own identity for what should be obvious reasons, considering I am in fact an author, and a journalist, and my name is basically my brand. Things went downhill drastically when I did, though, and have never really been the same since then. It's basically just gone downhill to nothing, it's just been awful. A lot of people have made me aware over time that the platform's been actively rigging the game against me, and I've seen -- and documented -- a lot of underhanded stuff myself. I don't know really what to do about any of that. I don't see that there's much you can do. I've seen what they can do if they want to amplify your voice. And I've seen what they can do if they determine they don't want you getting your message out. The difference between the two is breathtaking. Good to see you again, it's been awhile. What's going on with you? .

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  Miwu (@NekomizuVT) reported 39 minutes ago

  @_VGen_ @AskPayPal I’m reaching out regarding this issue because I was unable to get a refund through PayPal after discovering the artist was a broker.

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  CatMuto (@CatMuto) reported 39 minutes ago

  Dang it, #PayPal, I am trying to report an accidental double-charge, and your resolution center is not working, so I can't report the problem.

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  AT&T Help (@ATTHelp) reported 40 minutes ago

  @TellonTue Hi there, we apologize that you’re running into this issue! AT&T Prepaid customers can also make payments through the Vesta Payment Center using Visa, Mastercard, Discover, AmEx, checking accounts, PayPal, and more. If you’re trying to pay by phone (IVR), note that postpaid-to-prepaid customers can’t complete payments through IVR, and those with an alphanumeric passcode get transferred instead. Please reach out to us in DM, we’ll help figure out what’s causing the issue and get it fixed for you. -ValentinaF

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  Lotus ★ (@anyileh) reported 41 minutes ago

  Basic Info: - Payment can be made via PayPal or Binance, BUT I prefer Binance - I Will not begin the commissions until I receive full payment - I'm a little slow when it comes to drawing, so please be patient. - I don't make elaborate backgrounds—just simple ones.

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  robert peachey (@RPeachey86) reported 43 minutes ago

  @KatrinaHelle Been in PayPal since 2023. Fortunate enough to have been able to average down. $80 is a good price, $40 off the low. Surely PayPal will reach $100 again on its own but CEO said turnaround would not begin till 2028. Rather go ahead and cash out at $80 then redeploy.

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  ContractorKeith (@contractorkeith) reported 43 minutes ago

  • accept online $ through stripe/paypal/square • automatic bank feeds via SimpleFIN • mac and windows verified installers • linux or docker install also available • completely local you own the data • server edition for multi user • bring your own ai

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  A. Ego (@CobAltEgo) reported 45 minutes ago

  @PhilipJohnston @XMoney This is exactly how he spiked Paypal. When it's below a certain size, the cost of the interest is lower than customer acquisition (e.g. marketing) and then you dial down that spend as network effects take over and the word is out.

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  Ale✘ (@Xvinhi) reported 48 minutes ago

  @burned_biscuitt @Rocketyyyy @HYPEX There was actually a PayPal payment glitch when Arknights: Endfield launched back in January. Some players were charged for purchases they didn’t make because PayPal transactions were incorrectly matched, and around 1,800 players were affected.

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  VC Intern (@the_vc_intern) reported 49 minutes ago

  PayPal paid approximately $4 billion for Honey in 2020. The browser extension had 17 million monthly users, worked across roughly 30,000 retailers and gave PayPal something it normally reached only at the end of a purchase: influence over what happened before checkout. That position created Honey’s value. Shoppers installed it for discounts, merchants supplied offers to reach those shoppers, and Honey earned money through affiliate attribution when a purchase occurred. Then MegaLag alleged that Honey sometimes replaced creators’ affiliate tracking with its own. PayPal said Honey followed industry practices including last-click attribution, but the explanation did little to stop the reaction. Honey has reportedly fallen from more than 20 million Chrome users to 12 million. Merchant relationships declined from roughly 35,000 to just over 28,000, while its coupon database fell from about 90,000 codes to 50,000. This is what happens when a marketplace flywheel reverses. Fewer users make the product less valuable to merchants. Fewer merchants mean fewer working offers. A weaker product gives the remaining users another reason to uninstall it. Affiliate networks added pressure. Rakuten removed Honey before later reinstating it with new protections, while Impact and Awin also took action. A creator lawsuit has survived PayPal’s attempt to dismiss it, although that is not a finding that PayPal is liable. PayPal bought Honey because it occupied a valuable point between product discovery and payment. The same position became dangerous once shoppers and creators began questioning whose interests the extension served. A $4 billion distribution advantage turned into a trust problem sitting inside 12 million browsers.

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  ****** (@wankingpaypig) reported 50 minutes ago

  @marytazzzz I sent something via PayPal but some error occurred.

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  ✧Concept of Stars✧ COMMS OPEN (@ConceptOfStars) reported 57 minutes ago

  I have a little problems with PayPal, an agreement on Adam YCH of timely delays. This does not affect the already accepted agreement, due to insolvency!