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
Berlin	Sign in	20 hours ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	24 hours ago
Nantes	Errors	1 day ago
Vícar	Errors	1 day ago
Étauliers	Errors	1 day ago
Onnion	Website Down	2 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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  Rick | Founder & Engineer (@debugbounty) reported 16 seconds ago

  Constructive criticism is part of building good software, especially when it’s handling people’s money.From using the new app, I’ve run into multiple issues myself:Card and PayPal withdrawals have been unreliable.Requiring an active data just to access core functionality ….

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  West Lord (@MyWestLord) reported 27 seconds 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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  Daniel - Budai Media 📧 (@thedanielbudai) reported 3 minutes ago

  One of our peptide clients woke up last week to a dead checkout and funds on hold. No warning or email the night before. Just a Stripe shutdown that hit overnight and froze everything. This wasn't bad luck or a compliance mistake on their end. Stripe's own policy FAQ now states they are not accepting RUO peptide merchants. New applications get declined. Existing accounts get reviewed and terminated when the underwriting team catches what's being sold. Stripe, PayPal, and Square all have the same structural problem for this category. They approve accounts fast and underwrite them later. The moment a review catches the product type, the account dies. And industry reports on Mastercard's 2026 BRAM update indicate research peptides are specifically flagged, with fund holds that can run 90 to 180 days after shutdown. Three months of revenue frozen while you're rebuilding from zero. The brands that survive this aren't the ones it doesn't happen to. They're the ones who built the infrastructure knowing it would. The survival setup looks like this: A dedicated high-risk merchant account with an underwriter who explicitly approves peptide merchants, not an aggregator that approves first and asks questions later. A backup gateway already live and tested before the primary goes down. A shutdown becomes a bad day instead of a dead business. A billing descriptor that matches your store name. Chargebacks kept under 1%. Research-only language everywhere on the site. The June 28 Stripe policy change is one wave. There will be more. Build the fallback while your current processor still works. I put together a full payment processing guide specifically for peptide stores covering everything above in detail. Comment "PAYMENTS" and I’ll send it over.

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  Bobby Lansing (@dataguybobby) reported 5 minutes ago

  Wow, @PayPal your generative AI system is absolutely terrible. It could not understand anything I said in chat or voice multiple times and tried to end the conversation when in fact I was asking for a customer service rep...

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  faye (@jemjem2409) reported 7 minutes ago

  THAT PAYPAL LOGIN SHT TOOK ME LONG TIME

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  Kiri (@_Kirichu_) reported 14 minutes ago

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

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  bubblehead_ripz_cardz (@BubbleheadRipz) reported 16 minutes ago

  Would anyone be interested in a Fortnite $30 vbucks code I have a gift card that I got but I can’t remember my epic login that is tied to my account to redeem it!!! PayPal cashapp Venmo #fortnite

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  🦘🇺🇦Dan On Land With Treaty (@wewatchu2) reported 16 minutes ago

  @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.

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  marqix ☆ (@fwmarqix) reported 17 minutes ago

  My son confessed to me that he's been catfishing his boss for the past eight months, and the whole thing has spiraled completely out of control. According to him, his boss is an awful manager that everyone at work hates. Hoping to expose him, my son created a fake Instagram account posing as an attractive woman, believing it wouldn't take much to get his boss to say something that could get him fired. It worked almost immediately. For months, his boss messaged the fake account constantly. He complained about work, trashed his wife, and revealed what my son described as his true personality. Everything seemed to be going according to plan until last month, when the fake woman mentioned she was struggling financially. Without hesitation, his boss sent her $5,000. A week later, he sent another $3,000. By now, my son says the total has reached $12,000. The situation became even worse when my son discovered that the money wasn't coming from his boss's personal funds. After seeing company expense reports, he realized his boss had allegedly been disguising the payments as "consulting fees," effectively embezzling money from the company to send to someone who doesn't even exist. Now my son is trapped in a mess of his own making. If he reports his boss, he'll have to admit that he was the person behind the fake Instagram account, which could land him in serious legal or professional trouble. If he stays quiet, his boss continues stealing from the company unchecked. To make matters worse, my son says the money is sitting in a PayPal account linked to the fake identity. He can't access or return it without exposing himself, and he feels guilty because, even though his original goal was to expose a terrible boss, he believes he's now played a role in taking $12,000. What started as an attempt to play vigilante has turned into a complicated situation with legal, ethical, and professional consequences that he never saw coming.

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  Jav (@dapzsz) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Onlgig My guy couldn't remove his money Paypal issues

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  Beyres (@Beyrestt) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care why is PayPal to mpesa still not working on my side

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 19 minutes ago

  File disputes within 180 days (and know what's actually covered) He didn't know PayPal has a Resolution Center or that it has a 180-day window to file a dispute on eligible transactions. His friend said: "If you paid with Goods and Services and the item never arrived, or it arrived and it's significantly different from the description, you have 180 days to open a dispute through PayPal's Resolution Center. Go to Resolution Center on the PayPal website. Select 'Report a problem.' Choose the transaction. Follow the steps." "PayPal will review the case. If the seller can't prove delivery or the item matches the description, you get a full refund." He also warned: "But remember this only works for Goods and Services. Friends and Family payments are not eligible. That's why scammers insist on Friends and Family. And disputes don't cover things like buyer's remorse, services that were delivered but didn't meet your expectations, or items you picked up in person. Know the rules before you need them."

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  Maggie Mae (@lenapelady333) reported 22 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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  Matthew Holman 💊 (@subscriptiondoc) reported 23 minutes ago

  A 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.

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  Daywish (@SSSupershow) reported 27 minutes ago

  Can 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.

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  Elizabeth Farrell (@ElizabethF6116) reported 28 minutes ago

  Aah the same bloody sandals Snowy.. Demanded my money back but got nowhere..wrote a review..Bloody Rubbish.. I used PayPal for 8 years..no problem They got taken over a few years ago.. My account got hacked..so I do not use it now.. Fraud Squad was on the ball..so lost no money Thank you Snowy

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  ASHT0N (@ashkmeow) reported 31 minutes ago

  @drainddog hii, i’m tryna fix my paypal situation atm so i’m HOPEFULLY going to be switching back to paypal/kofi payments v soon 🤞

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  Support Kids with ASD🥰💞😍😘🤗 (@Quote_me_on_it) reported 32 minutes ago

  @CopperAmerican Most flee with cash and now load in accounts like Netspend/Cash App/PayPal at any Walmart. While reloadable Prepaid cards have banks attached, many others sold in stores can be purchased by anyone . It's a error filled policy idea. Money orders too.

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  OlaIfeVA Services (@olaifeva) reported 32 minutes ago

  @OlatunjiAyokan2 The only problem I have with it is PayPal, I no get

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  Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial (@TruthTrumpPost) reported 33 minutes ago

  A company that came within hours of missing payroll became one of the most valuable in the world. 👏 As SpaceX stock hits its lows, let's look back at Tesla's journey. One thing history teaches us is never to bet against Elon Musk. On December 24th, 2008, Tesla's bank account was about to hit zero. Payroll was two days away. If the financing didn't close that exact afternoon, the company was finished. Then the global financial crisis hit. Musk's other company, SpaceX, was in just as much trouble, its rocket had failed to reach orbit three times in a row. 😯 Musk had already poured nearly all his money from selling PayPal into both companies. In September 2008, on its fourth attempt, SpaceX's rocket finally reached orbit.🚀 But Tesla still needed its own miracle, and time was almost out. Musk put in the last twenty million dollars he had to his name, matched by other investors, and called in every favor he had.

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  Adam Cooper (@AJ_Cooper95) reported 36 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk Did you ever manage to find a fix for the red banner error on PKC when trying to pay? Even now when trying to buy the Mew binder I’m having the issue, even when trying to use PayPal

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  Dami O. Mogaji (@daminister14) reported 42 minutes ago

  I have no issues with closing customers account - it's their prerogative. However if you close an account, you should return the funds to the customer. It's not your money! Same for PayPal too

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  Goldfish 🟠 (@Gold_Phishy) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Vintuitive @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Thanks for sharing that. Another bank I know not to use now. Disappointing to hear they've gone down the 'protect you' route. I use revolut for PayPal, and haven't ever had any issues.

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  🪻 HarineChuu•COMMS OPEN🪻 (@HarineChuu) reported 46 minutes ago

  Update 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

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  Ric (@r_ric000) reported 47 minutes ago

  it is extremely difficult to reverse a proven losing battle. think how pathetic Adobe and Paypal have been! they are all great companies and make great profits. but the stocks keep going down anyway. The same is happening to Netflix! In a sustained downtrend while all others are going up, there are simply less motivated buyers and just more sellers who want to cut loss or keep some hard earned profit. It is a very unfortunate death spiral unless a miracle in business occurs to reverse. I would not stay with proven losers at all, knowing that my ammo is limited and my money is more likely to make money somewhere else.

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  ᚷᚱᚨᚱ ᚢᛚᚠᚱ (@NotJoshGeyer) reported 51 minutes ago

  **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

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  CLERK | INSIGHTS 😎 (@Saint_Clerk) reported 52 minutes ago

  If you're in need of some extra cash on the side, get a PayPal account and verify, it's open to africa so not an issue. Register on; User. io Usertesting Gotranscript I personally use all, so just some friendly advice. And Dm if you need guidance.

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  Katash Sierrette (@KatashSierrette) reported 52 minutes ago

  @berubeswagos If your usa. Just a fyi. File a BBC report and a account commerce complaint against paypal about how you got hacked and they didnt fix the dispute. That's what got the ball moving when this happened to me. It won't be quick but it got a real person to look at my dispute.

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  ᚷᚱᚨᚱ ᚢᛚᚠᚱ (@NotJoshGeyer) reported 55 minutes ago

  **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, but 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

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  Trey Taylor (@TreyTaylorCEO) reported 59 minutes ago

  @GrageDustin @XMoney Ugh, is it a slow rollout? I need this. Without PayPal, who will turn over my data to the feds, and charge me to access my own money per transaction?