Paypal status: access issues and outage reports
No problems detected
If you are having issues, please submit a report below.
Full Outage Map
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.
At the moment, we haven't detected any problems at Paypal. Are you experiencing issues or an outage? Leave a message in the comments section!
Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.
- Sign in (42%)
- Errors (36%)
- Website Down (22%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
|---|---|---|
 Berlin
|
Sign in | 2 days ago |
|
Kirchberg
|
Sign in | 2 days ago |
 Nantes
|
Errors | 2 days ago |
 Vícar
|
Errors | 2 days ago |
|
Étauliers
|
Errors | 2 days ago |
|
Onnion
|
Website Down | 2 days ago |
Full Outage Map
Community Discussion
Tips? Frustrations? Share them here. Useful comments include a description of the problem, city and postal code.
Beware of "support numbers" or "recovery" accounts that might be posted below. Make sure to report and downvote those comments. Avoid posting your personal information.
Paypal Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
-
Wearysoles (@wearysoles1776) reported@Ambrosfox Yeah I saw this randomly in my feed one day, felt bad for all the people who got burned. There is more to the story also from reading the comments. They went around PayPal refund rules by having them mark family transaction. So it's all bank scam issues now.
-
LinIsCrazy (@LinIsCrazy) reported@SPIDER_SPINES Really? I've never heard of issues with PayPal before and I know people that use PayPal exclusively for purchasing their vbucks so I find this odd
-
Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reportedThat night, he sat at his laptop and looked at his PayPal account as if for the first time. Two-factor authentication was on. The mystery $2.49 subscription was cancelled and disputed. The unauthorized login session was terminated. His old bank accounts were removed. His data was no longer being shared with advertisers. His primary payment method was now a credit card with fraud protection. And he finally understood the one rule that would've saved him $180 never pay a stranger with Friends and Family. Same PayPal account. Same platform he'd used since college. But for 9 years, he'd been running the financial equivalent of an unlocked house with the windows open. PayPal is one of the most powerful payment tools on the planet. But it's also one of the most abused not because the platform is unsafe, but because 90% of users never open Settings, never audit their automatic payments, and never learn the one rule that separates a protected transaction from an unrecoverable loss. 9 settings. 12 minutes. And an account that finally works for you instead of against you. Save this thread. Share it with someone who hasn't opened their PayPal Settings since the day they signed up.
-
CyrusSaladinMing (@CyrusSMing) reported@Divine_Sass I like what chamath said on all in concerning stripe and paypal, maybe that combination can be the first crack in Visa's armor so transaction fees can go down
-
Scythe | Commissions Closed link Bio (@NamesakeGeodite) reportedWhat other payment method can I use that isn’t PayPal or Kofi? I’m still having issues with those two
-
Magenta Qin🇨🇳🇩🇪 (@magentaqin) reportedI finally understand why so many friends recommend Wise. It wasn’t just the fees. It’s about transparency and timely customer support. Half a year ago, PayPal kept charging me for a subscription I’d already canceled. I disputed it multiple times. PayPal told me to contact my bank. My bank told me to contact PayPal and the merchant. The merchant blamed a system issue. My mood be like: 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪?????? Everyone pointed fingers, and nobody actually solved the problem.
-
Elizabeta Eremieva (@ElizabetaEliza2) reportedtell me not now that there are any problems with the PayPal deal.
-
بادجات تويتش 💜 (@twitchksa) reportedI have a big problem with my Paypal account please contact me @PayPal
-
Matthew Holman 💊 (@subscriptiondoc) reportedA brand was losing subscribers it had already won. The product was fine, the payment link was wrong. Every failed-payment email pointed to the same place: update your card here. One link for everyone. But not everyone pays with a card. A PayPal customer sent to a Shopify card form cannot fix a thing. Shop Pay is a wallet, so a card update in Shopify does not touch it. Those people got emails they could not act on. The fix we gave them was not more reminders. It was routing each failure correctly. Card to the platform, PayPal into PayPal, Shop Pay to Shop Pay. On 10,000 subs at 91% success, that is 900 failures a month. Recover one point and you save 100 orders. At $50 each that is $5,000 a month. Dunning is not about more retries. It is about letting the customer who wants to pay you actually do it.
-
Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) reportedWhitney Webb just exposed the real reason why Palantir was created: To privatize mass surveillance. “This is admitted in mainstream media.” “So don’t tell me this is a conspiracy theory.” “Alex Karp admitted that the CIA was always the intended client of Palantir.” Webb and Mark Goodwin just broke down the truth about Palantir’s origins: After 9/11, DARPA launched the Information Awareness Office to develop a government mass surveillance apparatus. Reagan-era National Security Advisor John Poindexter led the new IAO. After massive public scrutiny and backlash, Congress defunded it. But the program never really shut down. It was moved into the private sector with the help of Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. Webb: “Peter Thiel comes, fresh off of selling PayPal … he’s got all this money, and he’s like: I’m gonna make this company called Palantir.” “Palantir … had really started off as the anti-fraud algorithm at PayPal.” “When PayPal was being created, Max Levchin sort of gave it away.” Goodwin revealed that Max Levchin essentially admitted in an interview at the time: “When I was developing all the anti-fraud stuff at PayPal, I was working with every three and four letter agency that I could.” “Meaning the CIA, and the DOD, and DARPA.” “They form PayPal in the late ‘90s.” “They make a bunch of money, and it’s Thiel and Levchin, admittedly working with the CIA and NSA, while developing this anti-fraud stuff.” “He takes that anti-fraud algorithm, which was built with the CIA in the private sector, and then rebrands it as Palantir.” Webb: “As they’re setting it up, they go through Richard Perle, who was involved with the Bush-era Department of Defense, and I believe the Office of Special Plans.” “He’s approached by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp.” “They’re basically like: we want to talk to John Poindexter, because what he was trying to do is what we want to do.” “They go and meet with Poindexter, who becomes named basically the godfather of modern surveillance because of this.” “He advises them on how to create Palantir.” “And then Palantir gets in bed pretty much right away with the CIA.” “They were their first and only client for their first six years.” @_whitneywebb @markgoodw_in
-
「𝗞𝗮𝗸𝘂𝗿𝗼」 (@KakuroWasTaken) reportedᅠ „I am putting in Dragonballs into the Conton-pedestal to make Shenron paypal me 200 TP medals into my account.“ He responds — straightfaced and slightly hunched with his eyes fixed down at the altar in question. ᅠ
-
Carl Weische (@CarlWeische) reportedYou're currently losing 70-75% of purchases to abandoned carts (70-75% is the avg in ecom) & taking that rate down to 65% or even 60% is something you can do in literally a few hours. So here's every reason people leave the cart & how you can fix it: 1. 48% leave because of surprise costs This is by far the biggest one. They get to the payment step with their card in their hand, & suddenly there's $20 shipping or some handling fee they didn’t see coming. So communicate every cost (shipping, handling, taxes) on the PDP & in the cart, before they hit the checkout. Something like "free shipping over $50, taxes included" right next to the price. Same deal with delivery times. If you're dropshipping & delivery takes 5-10 days, do NOT save that for the end of the buyer journey. Say on the product page that you dispatch within 1-2 days (which is true), so the shipping time isn't a nasty surprise when they're about to pay. 2. 25% leave because you made them create an account I straight up don't buy from stores that force me to register, & apparently neither does a quarter of your lost traffic. So have guest checkout, always. & remove that pre-ticked newsletter box as well, that one makes people drop off too. 3. & a big chunk leave because they don't trust you, or can't pay the way they want to pay So put your payment logos (PayPal, Klarna, Amex, Visa, whatever you take) on the PDP, in the cart, AND inside the checkout itself, basically just put it everywhere. & answer all the questions that could be running through their head at checkout, like: - what happens if I don't like it? - is sending it back gonna cost me? - when does it show up? 4. Then a few smaller things that make a big difference when you add them up - Hide your discount code field behind a "more options" dropdown. An empty coupon box in front of someone with no coupon is basically an invitation to go google "[your brand] discount code", & a lot of them never come back - Use ONE name field instead of first + last (people type their full name into the first box, get an error, & get annoyed) - Give them a progress bar (address → shipping → payment) with little green checkmarks as they fill each field in. Gamifying the checkout like this is a very simple way to dopamine hack some incentive into it - Then try to avoid all pre-purchase upsells. It's just unnecessary friction when you can upsell them post-purchase (which has higher take rate as well) 5. Final (but very important) note Everything I’ve gone through here are points of friction & anxiety. But there’s another part to this as well: Motivation. & increasing the motivation people have to get your product is by far the most impactful way to increase CVR. This is done through good pre-sell conversion (good pre-sell & product pages), so I’m gonna link a few articles in the comments under this post on how to increase motivation if you want to really understand this & thereby make a **** ton more money. Now, you of course can't get abandoned carts to 0% since a large portion of them are just people looking around & saving products, but you can decrease it significantly. If you implement all of this I guarantee you will see a very significant decrease in abandoned carts & a big increase CVR & in profit per visitor. Avoidable abandoned carts are very expensive in the grand scheme of things.
-
Wahome Thuku (@wahome_thuku) reported@SafaricomPLC I am on call with paypal and they say you sre the problem its you refunding the money
-
Ron LaPedis (@RLaPedis) reported@AskPayPal - I am trying to send from USD to CNY and get this error: "Sorry, you can’t send or receive payments in that currency." Help pages don't have any suggestions.
-
gwen⁴⁴ 🧛🦖 (@capybarajnk) reportedanyone that needs fund to buy LTAL on itunes u guys can hit a dm or reply with proof of u streaming. i’ll give someee as a gift coz jennie did the same for us too. can do paynow and qris ig. will try to fix my paypal if i can. if u are US/PR citizen pls do ask @Jennie_Union
-
Godknowz (@Ohauche1) reported@raycrypto_1 Yeah am on it , just that getting PayPal has been an issue for me.
-
🪻 HarineChuu•COMMS OPEN🪻 (@HarineChuu) reportedUpdate on my Paypal issue, I won at the legal hearing and got the person's mom to pay the negative balance, I am still trying to communicate with ppal customer service, my account got limitations and I cant pay using my bank T.T
-
Jennifer, English-German Translator (@InfoRosebrock) reportedI run everything through PayPal because I don’t have a bank account, and now PayPal is refusing to let me issue invoices or receive money because I don’t have a bank account. It’s ridiculous... They could've told me 3 months ago that this only works for a while!!!! #frustrated #freelancer #paypal
-
🦘🇺🇦Dan On Land With Treaty (@wewatchu2) reported@ChrisLancasterX Content of the DMs are exactly to script. Bot replies, then taken over by a human if they get a bite. As reports are broken, play harder. Engage. get the PayPal. Then report with a full case. Use id number to trace name changing. if you get enough info report to the $ transfer.
-
Papa Diesel 🦥 (@1PapaDiesel) reportedPayPal been slacking so bad lately, i hate to put em down after 12 years but damn
-
amani ༊*·˚ (@gonnaendintears) reported@liestogirls i’ve ordered a vinyl from discogs!! i didn’t have any issues with it or anything and i used paypal g&s for security and stuff
-
stan (@tsumugibait) reported@tsumugied paypal wataru to fix his horrendous split ends instead
-
angelo zurolo (@zurolo_angelo) reportedHello, I am asking for everyone's help, please. I am in serious trouble; I have lost my job and need to pay rent and buy food. I need 500 euros or dollars. I am appealing to kind-hearted people all over the world—please help me with your donations. Here is my PayPal account.
-
Daywish (@SSSupershow) reportedCan anyone send me $1 on X to help activate my X Money account? I’ll send you $5 back via Cash App/Venmo/PayPal right away! DM me or drop a reply if you’re down to help out.
-
ᚷᚱᚨᚱ ᚢᛚᚠᚱ (@NotJoshGeyer) reported**MOLD SAGA UPDATE** Car is in the bay, waiting on tools to be dropped off and parts to be delivered so I can fix this pulley and belt and coil packs. Could REALLY use $50 for gas, I’ve only got a half a tank and I need to get to Atlanta and drive around a little bit before I’ll make any money so if anyone wanted to throw me even a couple bucks it would help tremendously. Cashapp $primetime1313 PayPal JoshGeyer1313
-
StrawHatJoey 🏴☠️ (@Renegade_Joey) reported@pokesliders @AndyCollectz Fun fact it used to be PayPal only lmao Probably why it’s broken
-
ᚷᚱᚨᚱ ᚢᛚᚠᚱ (@NotJoshGeyer) reported**MOLD SAGA UPDATE** Waiting on tools to be dropped off and parts to be delivered so I can fix this pulley and belt and coil packs. Could REALLY use $50 for gas, I’ve only got a half a tank and I need to get to Atlanta and drive around a little bit before I’ll make any money so if anyone wanted to throw me even a couple bucks it would help tremendously. Cashapp $primetime1313 PayPal JoshGeyer1313
-
Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) reportedWhitney Webb just exposed the truth about Palantir’s origins. It was created to privatize mass surveillance. “Don’t tell me this is a conspiracy theory.” “Alex Karp admitted that the CIA was always the intended client of Palantir.” Webb and Mark Goodwin just broke down the truth about Palantir’s origins: After 9/11, DARPA launched the Information Awareness Office to develop a government mass surveillance apparatus. Reagan-era National Security Advisor John Poindexter led the new IAO. After massive public scrutiny and backlash, Congress defunded it. But the program never really shut down. It was moved into the private sector with the help of Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. Webb: “Peter Thiel comes, fresh off of selling PayPal … he’s got all this money, and he’s like: I’m gonna make this company called Palantir.” “Palantir … had really started off as the anti-fraud algorithm at PayPal.” “When PayPal was being created, Max Levchin sort of gave it away.” Goodwin revealed that Max Levchin essentially admitted in an interview at the time: “When I was developing all the anti-fraud stuff at PayPal, I was working with every three and four letter agency that I could.” “Meaning the CIA, and the DOD, and DARPA.” “They form PayPal in the late ‘90s.” “They make a bunch of money, and it’s Thiel and Levchin, admittedly working with the CIA and NSA, while developing this anti-fraud stuff.” “He takes that anti-fraud algorithm, which was built with the CIA in the private sector, and then rebrands it as Palantir.” Webb: “As they’re setting it up, they go through Richard Perle, who was involved with the Bush-era Department of Defense, and I believe the Office of Special Plans.” “He’s approached by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp.” “They’re basically like: we want to talk to John Poindexter, because what he was trying to do is what we want to do.” “They go and meet with Poindexter, who becomes named basically the godfather of modern surveillance because of this.” “He advises them on how to create Palantir.” “And then Palantir gets in bed pretty much right away with the CIA.” “They were their first and only client for their first six years.” @_whitneywebb @markgoodw_in
-
St. Monoimus 🖕 (@SanctVomitoris) reported@saIamand3r Best buy wouldnt allow paypal for some inscrutable ******* reason but transfering the money to my card and paying with it did the trick. terrible website. thanks brah.
-
Jorden Lee (@eelnedroj) reported@AskPayPal Trying to sign in, but you won't text me a code, the call doesn't work either, I don't have WhatsApp for a code, and I'm not showing my photo ID just to sign in...so how can I cancel my account instead cuz this is annoying.