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 (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
Isola Maggiore	Errors	6 hours ago
Schmallenberg	Errors	1 day ago
Berlin	Sign in	6 days ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	6 days ago
Nantes	Errors	6 days ago
Vícar	Errors	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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  Malware Kittens (@MalwareKittens) reported 59 seconds ago

  @Devon_Eriksen_ @artwithinpod He has the capital & the clout - that's what matters. He doesn't engineer anything anymore. I think he was good w PayPal - One problem with today- Tech bros get successful in one specific area- they get an ego & think they're extremely special geniuses in all other areas.

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  FPL KXJ (@FPL_KXJ) reported 2 minutes ago

  @ALB3D0000 Brother do you need me to PayPal you some bread 😭 surely can't be that down bad

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  🇵🇪 Andino Skb 🎉 COMMS OPEN (3/10) 🎊 (@Andino_SKB) reported 2 minutes ago

  @fsonic3 I've been using PayPal for 10 years, and I pay every tax and transaction they require. The common problem or pattern I see in every post, Reddit thread, etc., is the indiscriminate use of AI moderation.

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  CHARTILLECT (@chartillect) reported 4 minutes ago

  Every headline this morning: "PayPal raises full-year guidance." Here's what's underneath it. Payment volume +10%
Net revenue +5%
Transaction margin dollars +1%
Non-GAAP EPS −1%
GAAP EPS −3% Now the part nobody runs. Diluted shares went 977M → 882M — down 9.7%. Apply that to a 1% EPS decline and the actual profit pool fell about 11%. PayPal raised guidance to ~$5.38. EPS is a fraction. They spent $6.0B in twelve months retiring 111 million shares — shrinking the denominator. GAAP guidance still says down. To be fair, two things genuinely improved: transactions per account rose 3% to 60.0 after falling last quarter, and free cash flow doubled to $1.8B. Branded checkout, in their words, "has further stabilized." But volume grew ten times faster than the gross profit it produced. That's the business. $PYPL $V $MA

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  el niñopis 🧉 (luis) COMMS OPEN (@silylittleguy) reported 6 minutes ago

  I'm so desperate to fix this PayPal thing I really needed the money and now I'm not sure if I'll even be able to make a new account 😢 I've been trying to find information on it but everything seems so difficult and I can't understand anything pls be patient with me

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  SkullSmashed (@SkullSmashed) reported 6 minutes ago

  This isn't a paypal issue. This is a your country sucks issue.

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  Michelle Murr (@Michellexoxoxos) reported 6 minutes ago

  @ElonVisioniX Yes anyone with a heart wld and if they didn’t their one cold hearted self absorbed person bc I don’t care if it’s a elderly person or young person or who it is if i have the extra money and all I had was the exact amount they needed and it break me I’d still do it but one day I was at Walmart and there was this Mexican family there van had broken down at Walmart parking lot..They had nothing to drink eat it was 94* outside and they had small kids with them..Well anyway they were desperate you could tell but prideful as well and didn’t want to ask for help..However I stopped and asked them if everything was ok and they said they were trying to get back to Texas that they gave someone a ride and he was supposed to paid them like $3800 for the ride bc this person was stuck in Texas and had nobody and homeless an said his family was in Knox and if someone wld bring him to Knox that his family would reimburse them very good..Well they spoke to the guy mom supposedly and she verified everything and he said he was using his paycheck for bills for the trip there and they promised him they’d pay him $3800 once they arrived..Well they get to Knox van started overheating bc a hose busted and the guy said go Walmart my mom is going to meet us there a pay you and take you to advance to buy another hose..Well they arrived the guy had them wait in the car while he ran in to find his mom he never came back out they waited over 2 hours and knew he wasn’t coming back after this man with wife kids told him he’d be broke once they got to Knox and he supplied all the food gas motel bills..Well the guy left them with 3 small kids under the age of 6 youngest 3 stranded like that..The family was very giving didn’t want anyone stuck outside in a unfamiliar place so they brought this stranger all the way to Knox based off his word and his so called mom’s words and trusted him and ended up in the very same situation that they got into by helping someone out..Anyways all I had was my grocery money for the week that’s it but I knew I couldn’t in no way drive off and just leave them in a parking lot with no food or anything to drink in the heat..Well I went into Walmart spent over $378 in groceries came out and put it in there van and took the last $300 left and got them a motel room for 3 nights and gave them my number and my guy friend bought a hose etc and picked the dad up and they went and put a hose on it got it running and abt 5 months later they called me and thanked me for everything said I was a angel and saved them bc without my help and generosity that day they’d been stuck and don’t know what would’ve happened to the kids in the heat and she was so grateful she was crying anyways they ask my PayPal info and said in a few days they’d send me money and I told them don’t worry about it I did it bc they didn’t deserve to be done like that nobody does and God put me there that day bc I shop at Kroger always but that day I went to Walmart no reason why just did and spotted them in the parking lot and something told me they were in trouble they didn’t ask or hold signs I just knew..Well exactly 8 days after talking to them I get a notification on PayPal that he sent me $1300 and at that time I was needing it bad..What point I’m making is that it doesn’t matter what color race someone is if you sense someone is in need help them it’s the Godly thing to do and what God wld want bc you never know when that cld be you on the other side and even though it was all my grocery money for the week I didn’t have young kids mine grown so I’d manage somehow but they have kids who have to eat and don’t know anyone here an need it more than I do so I gave them all my grocery money for the next 2 week knowing I had two weeks before I got paid again but at the time all I cared about was those kids eating an being out the heat and I even borrowed some to help pay motel from my friends and paid them back just don’t judge ppl for needing help it cld be you one day

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  Techmeme (@Techmeme) reported 6 minutes ago

  PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, above $8.47B est., transaction margin dollars up 1% YoY to $3.9B, and a $1.1B profit, down from $1.26B in Q2 2025 (@eschisgall / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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  Rubyfabstore🆑 (@beauty_rubby) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Onlgig If you don't have PayPal How can I get a paypal account I have tried but is not working

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  Ermagire 🌺🔪 (@Ermagire) reported 10 minutes ago

  I have a business permit and I have no issues with PayPal so far 🤔 Also, artists need to have business permits to not get in trouble legally

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  Simon Robineau (@BloodWenchLN) reported 14 minutes ago

  Government bootlicker and AI shill endorsing PayPal’s asinine practices because it happened to an artist. PayPal has had this issue for years and has never once done anything to fix it. Just process the transaction and STFU, that’s all payment processor should do.

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  🩷 love 🩷 (@Love_u3o) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Zmeinir Exactly and correct. I've used paypal for ages now and I never got an issue, and I tried my best to adapt to it over the years. I have no idea how people manage to ban their accounts and then complain paypal is the problem and not the way they're using it.

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 22 minutes ago

  You spent $2,000 on a MacBook Pro for a new hire. Then $180 a year on the Microsoft 365 seat, $60 on Adobe, $144 on Slack, $240 on Zoom. All assigned to one laptop, one employee, one desk. Then your CFO asked how many of the 400 laptops in this company are actually being used, and by whom. You opened the Google Sheet. Half the rows were blank. Employees who left six months ago still had assets assigned. So IT called ServiceNow. ITAM Standard is $100 per user per month. Professional $150. Enterprise $200+. The median ServiceNow contract on Vendr is $124,364 a year. Implementation runs three to five times the license fee. Then IT called Lansweeper. $239 a month for 2,000 assets. Then IT called Freshservice. $19 per agent, then metered on every asset over 500. You are paying six figures a year to answer "who has laptop DELL-4471" in 2026. Now meet Snipe-IT. A free and open source IT asset management platform that runs on your own server and tracks every laptop, phone, license, and cable your company owns. No cloud. No agents. No per-seat fee. Built in 2013 by a developer named Alison Gianotto who was the CTO of a New York City ad agency when the office had to move. Her team was tracking hundreds of laptops in a Google Doc. She tried every commercial and open source tool. None of them worked. So she wrote her own. When she finished the first full inventory, she discovered the agency was missing $25,000 in assets. Her husband nagged her for months to add a PayPal button. She finally did it. Two days later she had a paying customer. Snipe-IT itself stayed free. 14,113 stars. 3,886 forks. AGPL-3.0. Pushed to the repo today. Here is what Snipe-IT gives you: - Track every laptop, phone, monitor, cable, and accessory in one place - Assign assets to users, departments, or locations with full history - Software license management with seat tracking and expiration alerts - Barcode and QR code generation for physical labels - Custom fields, statuses, and categories - LDAP, SAML, and Google Workspace SSO - REST API for every endpoint - Runs on any Linux box, Docker, or a $5 VPS Here is what Snipe-IT costs: Zero. Forever. No per-user fee. No asset cap. ServiceNow charges $100 per user per month. Snipe-IT doesn't. Lansweeper charges $239 a month for 2,000 assets. Snipe-IT doesn't. Freshservice meters every asset over 500. Snipe-IT doesn't. Ivanti and Flexera hide their pricing behind a sales call. Snipe-IT doesn't. Here's the wildest part: Snipe-IT is used by Sony, Yale University, Fujitsu, and thousands of school districts, hospitals, and government agencies that couldn't stomach a $124,000 ServiceNow bill. Alison's official title at Grokability is Chief Mohawk Officer. For a 50-person IT team, you save $60,000 a year. For a 500-person company, you save $600,000 a year. Your assets. Your database. Your server. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

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  DragonKnight15 (@DragonKnight_15) reported 22 minutes ago

  @hikariviny I hate to disappoint you but this also affects your bank account. Someone else told me they had this problem so badly that Paypal was able to BLOCK his bank account. He had to fix that problem and that's a nightmare. Don't defend Paypal.

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  🩸 🍇 Cambion Kami 🍇🩸 (@CambionKami) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Nogardtist @NamesakeGeodite I mean this in the most respectful way possible but as someone who has used paypal since 2018 dealing with many international laws & clients, you dont know what you're talking about. idk where you are from but im from australia. the only times ive seen that warning on peoples paypal accounts over here is when theyve failed to deliver a refund or have earnt over the 15k thresh hold. if its for the business register then they have ignored multiple account warnings and emails. if its sudden then its for a major TOS violation. If paypal doesnt act, any government will fine paypal for every violation. Paypal shouldnt have to cover because this guy doesnt want to register as a legal business whilst functioning as one. The issue here isnt paypal its the account holder, paypal is holding the money so if the clients want to charge back, then its there waiting for them. thats why the money is in holding and not gone. paypal for this person is currently holding their account in "potential scammer" mode rn.

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  Helltaker (@BB_Helltaker) reported 29 minutes ago

  @NamesakeGeodite Its probably more about not using paypals business account. I have been using paypal to write invoices for about 6-7 years now, no issues. But I am sure if I had used a "personal" account there instead of using their business one they´d eventually have complained.

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  MUG🌺BA🩸RUI (@Xx0MUGOBAxXRUI) reported 30 minutes ago

  @NamesakeGeodite This is why I prefer cashapp but the main problem for me is… WHY IS THERE NO ART COMMISSION WEBSITE THAT SUPPORTS CASHAPP I tried so many times to link my PayPal to my commissions but it never works at all and I’m like “they gotta add cashapp bro 😭”

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  Finger of Fudge (@moustache_rides) reported 30 minutes ago

  @ElementGames_ just tried to place an order on your online site using PayPal checkout and got and error preventing me from finalising the order.

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  Club ***** (@TheClubVixen) reported 31 minutes ago

  @NamesakeGeodite 99% of people's issues with paypal is just them not knowing the law. Like you would need to to choose not to be a sole proprietor, and instead be another business type. If you choose that then yes you need the legal info regarding it.

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  F-Sonic (@fsonic3) reported 32 minutes ago

  @Andino_SKB I meant keeping it in there like it's a bank account, if you use PayPal it's common Knowledge that you move what's in there into your bank asap because of these issues.

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  Edgex (@SahilExec) reported 33 minutes ago

  Need help from creators. 👇@paypal I'm creating a PayPal account. The problem is that all my government IDs have only my first name (no surname), but PayPal requires a last name. If you've faced this before, what did you enter, and did verification go through?

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  feiv (@feivlol) reported 35 minutes ago

  @MightBeACat_ @hea_10_ @pnkplasticfangs realized this about 20 minutes after i posted my reply mb, even then it's stupid to keep more than 100$ standing there in a paypal account lol. that's enough money to get by in the Philippines why the hell would he keep it in his paypal account, hes slow

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  🌨⚡️Azoth🔞⚡️🌧 (@DarkWaterBeach) reported 40 minutes ago

  @PupEspresso_ @dtnols Yeah paypal does this. My dad added his own money to his PayPal to pay for soemthing and they **** his account down We had to seek legal action to make them give the money back

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  Yukari 🍞🏳️‍⚧️ (@yukari_bun) reported 43 minutes ago

  @helloitsvira Hello, you had a problem with PayPal with sending money, how did it fix?

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  Financial Freedom (@Fin_FreeInv) reported 45 minutes ago

  PayPal $PYPL Q2 2026 earnings: Q2 Non-GAAP EPS of $1.38 beats by $0.10. Revenue of $8.7B (+4.8% Y/Y) beats by $230M. Shares DIP 1.5% in PM trading. Stock is down 4% on the YTD.

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  Light Artist - COMM CLOSE (@Light_artist) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Zmeinir @ScruffyTurtles That said, I’ve never sent artwork via PayPal (out of pure ignorance); I send it by email or via a temporary link, especially if it involves N5FW or saucy illustration, since Google can be triggered just like PayPal and shut down your email account.

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  Ashely Hutd (comic on hiatus) (@Tremmer10) reported 51 minutes ago

  **** paypal bro i hated this site because the website itself is so broke I cant delete my first account because it is detecting a unpay invoice that doesn't exist and alway has problems with debit card is so *** and the text chat support is not helpful, I hate this site

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  LuigiFan45 (@luigiten1) reported 51 minutes ago

  @frozenwhitehawk It's more of a problem for social media digital artists since PayPal is seemingly run by prudes that hate the idea of their service being used to send money for drawn porn and look for any reason to screw them over and steal their money

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  Cliff Ogega (@HacksawX0) reported 52 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Why do you think I'm reaching out via X. I hate social media but this is what push comes to shove means. I have already provided details for many days and yet the issue remains unresolved

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  BananaHater (@BananaShagnus) reported 56 minutes ago

  I have been using paypal for almost 10 years and not once did I have these issues. Inform yourself on your country's laws and the TOS