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 (34%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Beaufort	Sign in	7 hours ago
Lyon	Website Down	11 hours ago
Hildesheim	Sign in	12 hours ago
Châteauroux	Website Down	2 days ago
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	4 days ago
Athis-Mons	Errors	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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  Patrick ⚓️🇺🇸 (@lowtide1985) reported 53 seconds ago

  @stphnmaher It’s gonna be a little more involved than you think- If Canada’s goal is true technological independence from the United States, a Canadian sovereign cloud is only the first piece of an enormous puzzle: Canada would have to replace or become independent of Amazon/AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle for cloud; NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Marvell, Micron, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices and GlobalFoundries for processors, AI accelerators, memory, networking, communications and other semiconductors; Dell, HPE, Supermicro, IBM, Western Digital and Seagate for servers, storage and enterprise hardware; Cisco, Arista, Juniper/HPE, F5 and Ciena for networking and communications infrastructure; Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Oracle, Workday, Intuit and Broadcom/VMware for operating systems, productivity, mobile platforms, databases, CRM, ERP, virtualization and enterprise applications; Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Zscaler, Okta, Cloudflare, Cisco and Microsoft for cybersecurity, identity and internet protection; OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft and NVIDIA for frontier AI models, development platforms and AI infrastructure; GitHub/Microsoft, IBM/Red Hat, Docker, Datadog, Snowflake, MongoDB, Confluent, Elastic and HashiCorp/IBM for software development, containers, databases, data management and infrastructure automation; Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe, Apple and Google for major payment and digital-wallet infrastructure; Apple, Google and Qualcomm for smartphones and mobile ecosystems; Akamai and Cloudflare for content delivery and internet infrastructure; and, critically, Cadence and Synopsys for semiconductor-design software plus Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA for the equipment needed to manufacture advanced chips. Even that doesn’t completely solve the problem, because Canadian, European, Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean products frequently incorporate American chips, software, patents, design tools or manufacturing equipment somewhere in their supply chains.

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  Max Ross Linden (@MaxMayHemer) reported 1 minute ago

  Everything loose unless noted. Prices do NOT include shipping, add $5 to $10 per figure depending on size. Buying more than one? I'll quote you combined shipping, US Only. PayPal Goods and Services only. - SS86-12 Coronation Starscream (Leader) - $45. Complete with cape, crown, shoulder pauldrons, both sets of null rays, instructions. No throne/backdrop. - ER Voyager Thundercracker - $28. Complete, instructions included. - ER Voyager Skywarp - $28. Complete, instructions included. - All three Seekers together - $95 - Buzzworthy Bumblebee SS86 Ironhide & Prowl 2-pack - $35. Both figures, all weapons, instructions. No blast effects. - Netflix WFC Bumblebee - $32. Complete with instructions. - Netflix WFC Bumblebee - $32. Complete with instructions. - TLK Voyager Optimus Prime - $25. Complete with sword and shield, plus a custom head. One antenna on the custom head is broken, pictured. - TR Deluxe Sky-Byte - $22. Complete, no manual. - TR Legends Cosmos - $14. Figure and instructions. - CW Legends Groove - $10. Figure, collector card, manual. - SS B-127 - $10. Door panel is detached. Repair or parts, priced accordingly. - TR Legends Seaspray - $8. Figure and gun. Entire lot: $200 plus actual shipping.

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  HarbingerWolf 🔞 (@PhazonHarbinger) reported 2 minutes ago

  @_SaltySerpent I'd kill for one of my raptor oc but i can't fix my PayPal in time ;_;

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  Kigonyi Wa Nduthi 🏍 (@rex_maina) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care why did you remove talking to an agent on Call 100? How do we handle issues that aren't highlighted on the main menu? Like PayPal payments?

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  Paras_ (@paras_vyas_) reported 5 minutes ago

  I think we're about to have a strange new version of SEO. Your next customer might not be the one reading your website. It might be their AI agent. Stripe's leadership is already talking about a future where traditional checkout pages become less important as AI agents handle purchases. Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are building the payment rails for this. That made me think about something else. Today we optimise websites for humans: Good copy. Good design. Fast pages. Clear CTAs But an AI agent may approach your business very differently. It may ask: - What exactly do you sell? - How much does it cost? - Is it available? - Can I trust this company? - What are the alternatives? - What happens if something goes wrong? And then make the recommendation for its human. So perhaps the next website optimisation question isn't only: “Will a visitor convert?” It may become: “Can a machine understand why this business is the right choice?” That's a very different problem. And I think there's a lot of room for small businesses and solo founders to get ahead of it. When I started my AI journey and designed my first landing page, I predicted a similar trend would emerge and become a major challenge for SaaS founders, digital marketers and agencies. This prediction eventually became a core insight about my website CRO audit tool, SiteRoast (link in bio). To share with you, this was one of the top 5 recommendations when I asked AI during my product research, and when it got ready, I did a self-audit of my page numerous times with AI, understood their findings and reasons behind them, thanked them for improvements and then made it better for my ICPs. Today, after 500+ hours of coding and fixing work, SiteRoast does CRO-level audits at a fraction of the cost, suggesting step-by-step, priority-wise fixes with a ready-to-share PDF for your internal team in 60 Seconds. It's also available as a white-label product for agencies. SiteRoast is the only product in the market that does that.

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  Cadbury Capital Investments (@cadburycapital) reported 7 minutes ago

  Daily Brief (28 August) 1. PayPal ($PYPL ): reports that the Advent/Stripe consortium walked away from takeover talks sent shares plunging as much as 14%. Although some analysts flagged factors that could support a rebound, I am always going to call it the beautiful PainPal. 2. Marvell ($MRVL ) posted a strong quarter but shares fell as much as 8% and headed for their worst day in a month, with investors fixated on delayed timing of the Google AI deal revenue. 3. Fed rate-path uncertainty spiked after Kevin Warsh's hawkish comments pushed hike odds higher, turning the September decision into a coin flip. Market went green regardless but it did not sustain that long and we saw a delayed reaction to Fed’s comments. 4. Retail earnings were mixed but skewed positive: Gap/Old Navy parent $GAP jumped as much as 15% on an 11th straight quarter of comp-sales growth, while Walmart ($WMT ) quietly settled a federal opioid lawsuit without disclosing terms. Good news for $GAP is good news for $ZETA 5. Software seems officially back. Autodesk ($ADSK) raised guidance on strong Q2 revenue growth and Salesforce ($CRM) jumped on a Q2 beat, while Rubrik ($RBRK) sold off as investors questioned its results. 6. Amazon ($AMZN) gained about 4% after Evercore argued agentic AI could boost its retail growth outlook. 7. Eli Lilly ($LLY) got an FDA nod expanding Mounjaro's use for heart risk reduction. 8. Take-Two ($TTWO) landed a Netflix tie-in ahead of GTA VI. Netflix servers went down briefly as gamers flooded to watch the trailer. RATE HIKE and VIX SPIKE MIGHT BE COMING FOR US THIS SEPTEMBER.

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  Uthman Abdulmugni (@crimsonmarketer) reported 8 minutes ago

  @alexlay88 That 9% is an easy fix most stores skip, Shop Pay, PayPal, and a BNPL option covers nearly every preference bucket. The harder chunk to solve is the abandonment that isn't payment related at all, unexpected costs revealed at the final step. Both are checkout problems, but only one gets fixed by adding a button.

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  Aydın Nasuh (@aydinasuh) reported 9 minutes ago

  @ZidaneZ08902030 @ShubHQcom Neither, from what I can see, and that is the part that surprised me. My scoring tags sentiment per mention, not the reason, so I cannot give you a clean split. But I can check whether payments show up as a problem theme at all, and they do not. This week's e-commerce themes are unfair reviews, Meta Ads instability, account suspensions, dropshipping quality, margin pressure. Cumulatively it is shipping, inventory, ad costs, tax, account holds, chargebacks. No payments theme anywhere. Meanwhile Stripe has 130 mentions and PayPal 143. So payment tools never become the subject of a post. They get mentioned inside a post about something else, usually when a payout is held or a chargeback lands. That is what 65 percent neutral and zero percent positive actually looks like. Nobody writes about their processor. They write about the thing that went wrong around it. Your question exposed a real gap though. Reason tagging is going on the list.

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  Nandkishor (@devops_nk) reported 9 minutes ago

  @lalitgrateful I did not use wise but paypal work so well only problem is that they are charging so much fees suppose we are receiving 100$ they will deduct 7-8$ as a fees 🥲

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  Zen (@itZen00) reported 10 minutes ago

  visa just tightened the number that can freeze your store. most sellers have no idea it moved. the numbers: 1. visa's threshold dropped to 1.5% this year 2. stripe caps around 0.5% 3. shopify payments and paypal sit closer to 1% your real danger line is probably tighter than whatever you've been told. cross it and you're not getting a warning. you're getting: - a reserve hold on 20% of payouts - or a full shutdown while the money you already made sits frozen. the fix isn't clever, it's boring: 1. respond to every support ticket inside 12 hours 2. run every ad claim through one test — would this survive your own mother reading it most flags trace back to one of those two. not the product.

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  Nana Poku (@asaberekwame) reported 14 minutes ago

  @KobinaMensahUTD @ike_milan I am serious oo, didn't know 35gb wouldn't be able to last me 3weeks and I spend my money finish Would have done the unlimited if I knew Unless you and @ike_milan send me £3/5 each on PayPal so I can top up oo na i am stuck in Cornwall with a break down

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  E (@dopeboyE43) reported 21 minutes ago

  Fix your ******* app @PayPal

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  𖤐jae𖤐 (@CRYPTICL0SER) reported 23 minutes ago

  So I got the job the only issue is that I need clothes they said they'll be giving me the shirts but I don't have any black jeans and we need too wear all black If anyone will help me my PayPal is jae020604 thanks

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  Solemn Bhoi (@waseemm09) reported 24 minutes ago

  Hey @PayPal @AskPayPal @PayPal_Open plz Check Dispute: PP-R-RQN-642414527. You didn't solve after giving proffs & you just skip solution date 31 Aug. To 09 sep. Why bro? Plz solve the issue ASAP from your side.

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  紅葉MOMICHI 🔜VeXpo (@momichiword) reported 26 minutes ago

  @cloverclubcos If it’s not too much trouble!!! I’d really appreciate it if you could help me with this. I can pay for the item and shipping via PayPal, and I also have a forwarding warehouse that can ship it to Taiwan for me, which should be a little cheaper than shipping it directly🥹

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  Diagnosis:Woman (@The_Great_Null) reported 26 minutes ago

  I owe ca$ $400 in loans, trying to get any help paying those down, if you can and want to help, my paypal/venmo/ca$ are all nullthegreat

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  Adel (@adelpheee69) reported 28 minutes ago

  @ichi_dokusha Hello! I can't DM you but I missed first payment bc my PayPal got hacked and I've been trying to fix it. I'm happy to pay through kofi tho if fatson is still available 😭

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  Senb0n22a (@senb0n22a) reported 33 minutes ago

  @mattlovesjenni i only hate them when they intercept your normal login and try to apply one every goddamn time you try to login. e.g. paypal & microsoft, leave me tf alone, i login with password and that's all I want to do.

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  Finance Spot (@financespotnews) reported 35 minutes ago

  Michael Burry went public on PayPal 134 days ago. The stock is still +9% from that call. On July 15, $PYPL jumped 17% on buyout rumors. That same day Burry called the offer “simply too low.” Last night, Stripe and Advent International walked away from the takeover. $PYPL is down ~11–12% today — and Burry is still ahead.

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  🔍⍤⃝🔎✩‧₊*:･⟭⟬ꪑꫀᧁꪖ ᦓꪻ᥅꠸ꪀᧁ᥇ꫀꪖꪀ⁷⟬⟭･:*₊‧✩🔍⍤⃝🔎 (@MegaStringbean) reported 38 minutes ago

  @timetobe_brave Just use PayPal... if someone refuses to use it that's your #1 sign its a scam. And if they use PayPal but scam you, PayPal will fix it.

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  Potat0 (@PoPaP0) reported 42 minutes ago

  RANT Why must PayPal hate new accounts. I just created a business account confirm if my account is good, costumer support said yes. Proceeds to hammer me with money stuck there for days. Doesn't even tell you what's the main problem. Man this sht sucks.

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  Matt | The Value Way (@TheValueWay) reported 43 minutes ago

  I find it interesting PayPal fell ~13% this week after Stripe & Advent walked away from their $60.50/share takeover bid. At ~$54, $PYPL now trades at roughly: ~10x 2026 adjusted earnings ~8x adjusted FCF I think that is interesting because PayPal doesn’t need to return to high growth for the maths to work. Management is guiding to ~$5.38 of adjusted EPS and $6bn+ of adjusted FCF, while also planning roughly $6bn of buybacks this year. They’ve already reduced shares outstanding from ~920m to ~862m in six months. So even if total earnings barely grow, continued buybacks can still drive EPS higher. On current EPS alone: 10x = ~$54 12x = ~$65 15x = ~$81 If earnings hold up, buybacks continue and the market eventually decides PayPal deserves something closer to 15x earnings, you don’t need heroic growth assumptions to get a good return. Michael Burry has also argued the $60.50 offer was too low, putting his own lower-end intrinsic value estimate around $75–80, with a takeover value potentially closer to $100. So my thesis is: “Can PayPal protect its moat, keep generating ~$6bn of FCF, aggressively retire shares and eventually earn a less pessimistic multiple?” If yes, management's decision to turn down ~$60.50 could look like a great move!

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  Josh (@JoshTradeOption) reported 46 minutes ago

  $PYPL just fell off a cliff. Here is why. On Friday, PayPal closed at 53.66. That is down about 12.7 percent on the day. It was down as much as 16 percent before the open. What happened? Advent and Stripe walked away. They had been chasing PayPal for months. Reports put their offer near 60.50 a share, worth more than 50 billion dollars. The PayPal board thought it was too low. Then the buyers left the table. So the deal premium left the stock. Here is the part to understand. A big chunk of that price was buyout hope, not business news. When the hope goes away, the price falls back to what the business is worth on its own. Now the market has to price PayPal as just PayPal again. Levels I am watching: Failure level: if it cannot hold near 53, sellers are still in charge. Confirmation level: back above 60.50 would say buyers see value with no deal at all. Risk here is real. Catching a knife like this is hard. The story is not over either. A new bidder could show up. Or the stock could just keep sliding for weeks. I do not own it. I am watching. Big drops on deal news often chop around a long time before they pick a side. Not financial advice. Do your own research. Do you all think 60.50 was too low?

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  thereal_rok (@thereal_rok) reported 47 minutes ago

  $PYPL: $53 billion acquisition talks collapse The immediate cause of today’s sharp drop in PayPal shares is reports that a consortium comprising Advent International and Stripe has abandoned plans to acquire the company. Previous offer: $60.50 per share; total valuation: approximately $53 billion. Latest development: The buyers have withdrawn from negotiations. $PYPL shares fell by roughly 15%–16% in pre-market trading and were down about 12%–14% during the trading session. 📈 Driven by acquisition speculation, $PYPL had previously risen over 40% this quarter; consequently, the news triggered a significant sell-off as market expectations failed to materialize.

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  jinowns (@Jinowns87) reported 47 minutes ago

  Here's another neat trick I do every year. If you have paypal, you can break down the entire cost into 4 payments. Meaning you pay 25% percent now while PayPal pays the merchant the entire amount and then you can make payments every 2 weeks. Doooo iiiittttt!!

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  ari 🫧 (@pinkeomii) reported 48 minutes ago

  came to the conclusion that it is my cards and not my paypal cuz it wouldn’t let me use another app either so if it’s still not working by the time i wake up ill contact my bank AGAIN

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  Mike Boysen (JTBD/acc) (@mikeboysen) reported 50 minutes ago

  Most people never see the inversion coming. They see the crash. The coup. The empty bank account. The factory that will not ship. Then they analogize: more staff, more robots, more of last year’s stack. Innovators do the opposite. They stay in the problem until the cost curve breaks. PayPal ousted Musk in 2000 for pushing a rebrand and a Unix-to-Windows NT migration. He did not wage a public war. He stayed a shareholder. eBay paid $1.5 billion in 2002. His ~11.7% stake — about $180 million — funded SpaceX and Tesla. By late 2008 both companies were days from death. Three Falcon 1 failures. Tesla about to miss payroll. One last rocket. Flight 4 worked on September 28. NASA signed $1.6 billion in December. He put his remaining cash into a $20 million Tesla bridge that closed Christmas Eve. Analogical thinking said “stop.” Physics said “one more launch.” Reusable first stages. Manual labor where the robots jammed. 5,000 Model 3s a week after he ripped out the over-automated line and slept on the floor. 75% of Twitter’s headcount gone so the cost of running the network inverted. That is not grit as a slogan. That is inverting labor, capital, and infrastructure until unit economics work. Follow people who have innovated at least once. Not the ones narrating the next analog. I built a platform to help average people think like that before you commit the capital. More on that soon. This is 100% a real interview LOL

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  💚🍃~Ivern Wife~ 🍂 💚 (@Ivernnator) reported 52 minutes ago

  A couple of days ago, my PayPal app was updated, and I find it incredibly slow, tedious, and unintuitive. Does anyone else feel the same way? :(

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  Ringside (@Ringside_Daily) reported 55 minutes ago

  PayPal is down 11.60% to $54.34 after Advent and Stripe abandoned their pursuit. The group had offered $60.50 a share in mid-July, valuing PayPal north of $50 billion. The board considered that price inadequate. The stock now trades about 10% below the bid it turned down.

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  K Reinhard 2.Account (@KReinhar3) reported 1 hour ago

  @MonsterPockets7 PayPal is down 😱😭