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 (45%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume	Website Down	11 hours ago
Colonia los Sauces	Sign in	20 hours ago
Brisbane	Sign in	2 days ago
Northwich	Sign in	2 days ago
Castleford	Sign in	2 days ago
Olie Rivier	Sign in	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  James Inman (@_james_inman) reported 1 second ago

  @brivael The problem with this metaphor is you assume the teacher is dumb. She's the teacher. She's older, wiser, and knows what she's talking about. The kids on the playground are playing with Pokémon. PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX are only Pokémon. We could easily live life without them.

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  🌟Lilo🌟 Vgen Commissions Open (@Dreamin_lilo) reported 2 minutes ago

  @decoplum18 @PayPal I had something like this happen to me not long ago! Try to talk to a repressentative to tell you what the problem is, i had to talk to like 3 people before they told me they just needed an updated ID lol

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  Sonik (@Sonik0t) reported 3 minutes ago

  @TTVdaws__ Yeah, junk. I’ll paypal you $20 for it, you down?

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  OMF (@exolon) reported 6 minutes ago

  @lzsthw Me: "Hey Firefox, open a private window" Firefox: "Ok, restoring your last closed window which is somehow always a PayPal login window. Did you yet again use the Chrome key combo (ctrl-shift-n) instead of the weird Firefox one (ctrl-shift-p)" Me: "Yes."

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  Gavin 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Gaviam98) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Lucys_Views Yeah I don’t think they’re overly secure. I can’t work out how they got over the 2 step process, as it sends me a sms code to sign in. I changed my password, removed most of my linked cards. Although Tbf once I reported to PayPal, they refunded me every transaction within hours.

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  TraderTV Research (@ttvresearch) reported 8 minutes ago

  $PYPL PUMP! PayPal is pushing SHARPLY higher on a CNBC report suggesting that new CEO Enrique Lores plans on separating Venmo into its own business unit! This could make the Venmo business easier to sell later down the line. @tradertvlive $SPY $QQQ @paypal @EnriqueJLores

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  Omnia Talks (@OmniaTalks) reported 8 minutes ago

  @bluelephant5 @Sydusm I knew it. You're just googling down the things that I'm mentioning. I talked about his book during the PayPal days. And also another book that I've mentioned which you ignored completely. You seem to be an aspirant to many things and that's why you're talking such irrelevant things.

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  Ƀ (@CryptoChrisG) reported 9 minutes ago

  Poached this tweet: “Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???”

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  Kiwee (@ItsKiweer) reported 12 minutes ago

  @nisabayon can you drop your paypal? codashop is not working for me for some reason

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  ✧ (@wifisweetheart) reported 14 minutes ago

  @yuerivt business paypal was shut down in méxico iirc atleast it doesn't even let me use it anymore

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  𝐂𝐈𝐑𝐈_𝐕𝐓🐾🪶 (@Ciri_VT) reported 15 minutes ago

  @AranTheLichKing That sounds fine if you are using the account for actual business/creator purposes: streaming income, tips, commissions, invoices, merch, services, etc. The issue is not “having a PayPal Business account.” The issue is treating it like a name privacy shield while using it however you want. So yes, using a creator/business name like “Aran The Lich King” may be fine for branding. But when tax season comes, the income still needs to be properly tracked and reported to the correct tax authority. If you are audited and you have been hiding income, mixing personal and business activity badly, or withholding information from tax authorities, that can become a serious problem fast.

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  STAN ENHYPEN (@i_land_u2) reported 23 minutes ago

  @dimple0209 My Paypal has a problem right now :(

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  AliceAlfie (@alice_alfie) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Paypalsupportte Hello, I have a question. My Paypal login email has been cyber hacked and I can't use it to log in to Paypal. What are my options? Thank you so much

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  Kameda_かめだ (@Kameda_JP_B2) reported 25 minutes ago

  @f0ns1ne If there’s smth you want, I’d love to send it to you, but I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out how to send money via PayPal right now sadge

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  djcows (@djcows) reported 26 minutes ago

  i quickly realized stripe and paypal simply cannot work for payments on opendojo due to regulations, fees, and processing times that's why i chose the stablecoin USDC as the default payment method, which seems retarded and prohibitive to user onboarding, but actually here is what i discovered: - crypto is borderless, naturally increasing dataset diversity, scale, and simplifying legal - crypto is somewhat anonymous, preserving the anonymity of AI labs who don't want to reveal their next moves - crypto is faster and cheaper than any bank, meaning more money goes directly to the people so far i've processed 1000s of dollars without any issues, and i'm really looking forward to seeing how the system performs with scale

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  科技立委葛如鈞 Ko Ju-Chun (@dAAAb) reported 26 minutes ago

  Every payment protocol just got a passport office. Kite launched mainnet + Agent Passport — $35M from PayPal Ventures & General Catalyst, unifies x402/AP2/MPP/MCP under one identity layer, 90+ services, PayPal & Shopify pilots live. Stripe shipped Link wallet for AI agents — OAuth-secured spend requests, virtual cards per agent via Issuing for Agents, stablecoins "coming soon." Mac Minis sold out because of always-on AI agents. Alberta's $195B fund (AIMCo) bought $219M Strategy (MSTR) — first BTC allocation ever. National Bank of Canada holds $273M. Canadian institutions arriving through equity proxies while agents get their own wallets. AllUnity EURAU euro stablecoin → Solana. MiCA-compliant. DWS + Flow Traders + Galaxy. Euro stablecoin market doubled since early 2025. Payment protocols shipped for 6 months (x402 100M+ txns, MPP $5B+). Now the identity layer is consolidating them into one passport. The agent infrastructure stack is completing itself — from the top down. Consensus 2026 starts Monday in Miami. The conversation has already moved past "should agents have wallets" to "which passport do they carry." #AIAgents #Web3 #Stablecoin

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  bianca 🪽shop live (@biancalattei) reported 26 minutes ago

  @daz_ai_ hi! ive been having paypal problems since last week and hasnt been resolved so im currently waiting for paypal's end to solve the problem so its been taking a while. ill post an update soon.

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  APEXnow (@_APEXnow_) reported 28 minutes ago

  @thinkmoney I do not know what you guys have done, but the recent system update, has broken my ability to add money to any service such as PayPal or pay my credit card. Both trying to use my debit card. This is extenely upsetting because it basically means that I will need to find a different way to add money to these accounts. The problem stems from payment authorisation. Before, it used to show the authorise notification in the Thinkmoney app. It never gets this far now because the Mastercard ID authorisation never completes. Can you please tell me why this system is now broken, and when you plan to resolve it?

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  Rob Chappell (@taffygeek) reported 34 minutes ago

  @MateuszKaczysk9 @Acyn France is developing alternatives for its civil service. The EU is already trying to build alternative to Visa/MasterCard and PayPal. With the USA cloud act - reliance on USA platforms is now seen as a security issue

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  Leader Alpha (@LeaderAlphaNews) reported 36 minutes ago

  🚨 ELON JUST FLIPPED THE SWITCH: X is about to become THE NEW GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM Insiders are leaking that X Money launches ANY WEEK NOW. No more banks. No more PayPal. No more slow, greedy middlemen. Send, spend, invest, borrow, ALL inside X. Elon is building the everything app that replaces Wall Street itself. The old financial system is FINISHED. Are you still sleeping on this or are you already all-in? #XMoney #ElonTakeover #FinancialRevolution

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  Soju Berry (@soju_berry_) reported 39 minutes ago

  Been rejected for Paypal pay in 3 AGAIN, I have never had issues before! So annoyed as I want to buy 2 albums but can't afford to pay in full til the 7th! #Paypal

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  Wobbliestbear (@wobbliestbear) reported 39 minutes ago

  @ghhughes It really is. I think cost & availability are two big issues for a lot of people with masks. The masks I do but are creeping up in price so I can buy fewer & need to use PayPal in 3 to spread the cost. I am worried that they'll become unmanageable to buy at some point. There are

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  Smart (@Cavysmart) reported 43 minutes ago

  @paga Dear Paga Support, I have been trying to link my Paga account to PayPal, but it is not working. Account Name: Daniel Stephen Phone Number: 07055042567 I have tried multiple times, but the process keeps failing. Please help resolve this issue Thank you.

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  Maki❣ও (Slow posting) (@makilvsu) reported 45 minutes ago

  @D4RKST4R1ZMS OMG TY SWOOMF I hooe my paypal problem gets sorted out so I can open Commissions again,,

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  Fiona@PLAY BOTH PARANORMASIGHTS (@ThornheartCat) reported 47 minutes ago

  FedEx won’t let me pay a duty… it keeps saying error when I try to use PayPal and when I put my card info in it says it’s wrong… is it because it’s a debit card and not a credit card? I don’t have a credit card, what do I look like, a functioning member of society???

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  NASH 🥀🔞 (@peachinash) reported 52 minutes ago

  Did that girl actually scam a proshipper? No, 100% she didnt. If she did, we would hear from the person who got scammed. Not only that, but if she did scam them, and is bragging about it on the internet, it’d be soooooo easy to get their paypal account taken down

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  Abhishek Soni (@Abhishek800360) reported 53 minutes ago from Bayāna, Rajasthan

  Meet Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim - Founders of YouTube - Ex-employees at PayPal - Left PayPal to build something of their own - Faced a simple problem that Sharing videos online was hard - Built YouTube in 2005 - Grew insanely fast - Hit millions of users within months - Servers struggled to keep up - Literally burning cash just to stay alive - Videos went viral.. before “viral” was even a thing - Google tried to compete.. and failed - Then acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion In just 18 months - became One of the fastest and smartest exits in tech history - started era of content creators - Turned normal people into global stars - Changed entertainment, education, and media forever Legends 🔥

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  Ryan O'Hanlon (@RyanROHanlon) reported 53 minutes ago

  @karomancer That's the current problem with social media. Hard to tell if a person is an actual person, a scammer or a bot. That's why more people are reliant on middleman services because scammers want to do business directly through services like paypal compared to gumroad or shopify.

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  👑𝐊 𝐈 𝐍 𝐆 𝐍 𝐈 𝐂 𝐊 (@kingniixk) reported 55 minutes ago

  @SampsonObi52361 @General_Somto He also told Nigerians not to use his app until he Vdm comes out to say so….can he say such if it was PayPal & they had a glitch

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  Yueri 月璃 🐈🌙 (@yuerivt) reported 55 minutes ago

  Yall don't use business paypal? You shouldn't be even taking commission when you are not using a business paypal, your paypal gonna get limit and shut down for having goods and services payment going into your personal account.