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
Thurins	Sign in	13 hours ago
Roubaix	Errors	1 day ago
Lisbon	Errors	2 days ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	2 days ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	2 days ago
Cublize	Website Down	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Priye Ruby Johnson (@PriyerubyJ) reported 1 minute ago

  Hello @AskPayPal. My PayPal account was recently permanently limited because it was reportedly linked to another account with unresolved issues. I believe this may relate to an old account I created years ago but never really used. I respectfully request a manual review of my cas

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  Mr BONI base.eth 🐂🀄️ (@Mr_BONI_) reported 3 minutes ago

  Infrastructure meets real money: how Arbitrum + WalletConnect change payments forever! In a world where money must move 24/7, with deep liquidity and lightning speed, Arbitrum becomes a real backbon for payments. Why @arbitrum ? • $17+ billion secured value - the largest among all Ethereum L2 • $4+ billion in stablecoin liquidity • Median commission ~$0.0035 (less than half a cent!) • Block time - only 250 milliseconds This means that tipping a content creator for $0.50, paying for coffee for $3 or micropayments for streaming are now really profitable. And stablecoins (USDC, USDT, PYUSD, MXNB, MYRC, EURe) work on the same network with the same speed and cost. @WalletConnect is the most convenient connection layer. One integration, and the business gets access to 900 million users through the largest wallet network. Accept crypt and stablecoins, make top-up accounts, make payments - from wallet to wallet, from institute to bank. Everything is compliant and without the need to build custom integrations for each network and stable. Who is already building on this foundation: • Bleap, RedotPay, Rise, Peanut, Fiat24 • Mastercard, Visa Direct, Cash App, Venmo & PayPal (PYUSD), Shopify, Stripe, Transak This is not a roadmap, but already working products. Thousands of applications have chosen Arbitrum as a production infrastructure for real payments. WalletConnect Pay solves the main problem of the crypt - fragmentation. Checkout, Acceptance, Account Top-ups - all through one integration. Users can pay with any asset, and you get what you need (stable or fiat). Plus cashback in base:0xef4461891dfb3ac8572ccf7c794664a8dd927945 , which motivates users. For business, this means: easier onboarding, lower costs, higher speed of calculations and coverage of a huge audience. The future of payments is on-chain. Arbitrum gives reliable rails, WalletConnect provides convenient access to them.

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  ShredBTC (@shredhead89) reported 5 minutes ago

  The real 🐻 is going to hit you when your not ready and it’s gunna be a slow bleed - 5 months in you won’t even know he’s got you by the ankles - go ask the Netflix people or the Wendy’s people or the unh people go ask PayPal go ask game stop - your in it and big tech will fall

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  Haley Strattman (@HaleyS_2001) reported 6 minutes ago

  Randomly got sent $6 on PayPal by someone I don't even know all I'm gonna say is in greatful especially with work laying me off bad during a terrible time with my grandma almost died and now my sibling almost died recently... CA: $Haleystrattman01 PayPal: Haleystrattman01

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  ᴋ🩵 (@mrskennedyxo) reported 11 minutes ago

  Where do people get the confidence to add paypal or a throne? I want to do some stupid **** like that but I’m scared someone will actually send me money that they got illegally and I’ll be in big trouble😭

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  Alex Agut (@apagut) reported 13 minutes ago

  A personal confession about HandCash... I hated web 3.0 gaming with all my soul. And I felt like I had to give in... I couldn't talk about it with confidence. My last public presentation was in NY for the event Unbounded held there. I barely could speak... I looked like an idiot. I had zero confidence. We were pivoting out of desperation, not because we had solid grounds to do so. The little traction we got by the end of BSV, was because our top 3-4 clients were doing web3 gaming, and my team eventually convinced me to go all in with it, but again... Mostly because we saw no other way out. They (investors) would rather see the company die than let us use another blockchain other than BSV... I didn't know I had the power to change things until a year later, though... I'm a very loyal person and I honored our investors' money and agendas a little too much, perhaps. In part because I felt I had no choice, after all our revenue was nowhere near our expenses. Which is fine, this was very experimental and you needed funding, and I was really honored they supported our vision. But now I see things very differently. I could have been more firm about what needed to be done, or else... We only used the "or else" at the end, when I told the team we were shutting down by the end of the month and to find a new job, BEFORE investors knew about it. The alarm was raised and we got convinced to keep the lights on because HandCash was essential to BSV's ecosystem. We on average were handling through our infrastructure 30 to 60% of all BSVs transactions. We agreed to it and we all knew it was coming to an end. Eventually that led into an acquisition from their side and the very minute my contract was up, I quit. Thing is, it was all going nowhere at that point. We were running out of money and I couldn't raise one single cent despite us having really strong KPIs... No investor wanted to explain why they had the "scammy" BSV on their portfolio. Sometimes it's just that simple. My baby, our baby... I am still convinced, on any other blockchain, we could have become bigger than PayPal. To this day no other payment infrastructure I've seen is capable to replicate what we built on many levels... Still, didn't matter. I never wanted to share what I think about Craig or Calvin, but people keep asking. So here we go... About Calvin Ayre... Honestly, despite how everything unfolded, I have nothing bad to say about the man. He was a true believer in BSV and HandCash. Super fan. But Calvin, you had a few opportunities to savage BSV in terms of PR, but chose to double down on Craig's narrative... Idk maybe you felt a big loyalty towards him and that was stronger than any reputational damages Craig was causing. I wish we had talked more often though. I called you once just to let you know that I wanted to help you. Not asking for more from you, but to offer you my collaboration. Anyway... Thank you, sir. Really appreciated for what you did and how you supported us. About Craig... Oh boy. The funny thing is, I always had a good relationship with THE MAN in person. And his wife and son. Do I believe he's Satoshi? Well, I do believe he was involved. He taught us things privately in their London offices that lead to some of the coolest UI/UX innovations we had for HandCash. The man was talking about things that were really contrarian to what all the Antonopoulos and such were talking about. And he was right. Craig has one of that kind of deeeeeeeep knowledge on the essence of Bitcoin that you only see in founders. But here's the thing... It doesn't matter one bit if you always make the wrong decision PR wise. PERCEPTION IS REALITY. I told you that I don't know how many times, sir. Remember when I took you to lunch before the fork and told you how things would unfold if you embraced this Satoshi Vision path? Exactly how they did. But "Bitcoin is my baby" We all have babies. And sometimes, our poor judgement kills them. Good night.

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 13 minutes ago

  Elon Musk's brother Kimbal once described the phone call where Elon told him he was putting his entire PayPal fortune into rockets and electric cars. And it reveals the moment Kimbal realized his brother was operating on a different frequency than everyone else. Kimbal said he tried to talk him out of it. Not because the ideas were bad. Because the risk was insane. $180 million split between two industries with the highest failure rate in existence. No safety net. No diversification. Everything on two bets that every expert said would fail. He said Elon listened patiently to every argument. The way he always does when someone tells him something is impossible. Then he said something Kimbal has never forgotten. He said "what's the point of money you don't use for something that matters." Kimbal said that was the moment he stopped trying to talk his brother out of things. Not because the logic was sound. Because he realized Elon wasn't making a financial decision. He was making a moral one. In his mind keeping $180 million in a bank while humanity had no backup plan for extinction was the risky move. Spending it all on Mars and electric cars was the safe move. The entire world saw a billionaire making a reckless gamble. His brother saw a man who couldn't live with the guilt of having resources and not deploying them on the biggest problems he could find. The difference between reckless and visionary is always obvious in retrospect. In real time it looks exactly the same. The only thing that separates them is whether the person turns out to be right.

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  The Rhino (@Schweino68) reported 15 minutes ago

  @stripe Customer Support is legit terrible. CS: Please verify your bank. Me: I can't - you never sent me microdeposits and you dont support my bank via instant verification. CS: I understand this is frustrating. Please verify your bank. Thisclose to just going to @PayPal

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  Kinsuke Tenko　天狐きんすけ (@kanegitsuneZero) reported 18 minutes ago

  @belladonaboo @TinyCritterRika Part of the issue is Paypal will sometimes just ban you if they arbitrarily decide they don't approve of the hentai you are drawing.

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  Steve Schramm (@swschramm) reported 23 minutes ago

  A customer told us they couldn't pay an invoice yesterday. The account looked fine and the invoice was marked sent, so this would've been easy to chalk up to user error. Exa opened the actual customer portal. The invoice was there with Print and Download buttons… and no way to pay. Then it pulled a previous paid invoice from the same account and compared the payment options. The older one had PayPal, Stripe, and Zoho Payments attached. The new one had an empty gateway list. They never reached checkout because the invoice didn't offer one. We stopped there and routed the exact fix back for approval: attach the existing gateways and resend the corrected link. No test charge, no “try again” email, no guessing. I would've probably sent them a fresh copy of the same broken link. Seeing the portal exactly as the customer saw it changed the whole diagnosis.

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  Jacked Catman (@jackedcatman) reported 25 minutes ago

  @taobanker I’ve been watching Tap for years, in the PayPal, INGR, MTCH bucket of “why does this only go down?”

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  Vee Brown (@Vizzle14rud) reported 25 minutes ago

  @PayPal please what is going on .. Your website is down or is it just me ? ..

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  Ahmed Almakhzanji (@a_makhzanji) reported 25 minutes ago

  @alihadad90 @PayPal @AnthropicAI Anthropic AI supports Libya and accepts payments from Libyan cards (at least my ATIB mastercard). Paypal is a different issue. But I speculate that they need a well-regulated environment and strong judicial system to operate. Today, both are shaky.

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  Redwood (@AddulamCave) reported 27 minutes ago

  @MargoinWNC PayPal always had an issue with innovating.

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  🪷 aya (@tskatsukii) reported 33 minutes ago

  hello everyone! i just wanted to announce that i need to close down my kofi account 🥹 a kind reader had donated 50$ to it and paypal has suspended the account due to the “large amount” if u ever wish to tip me i fear i’ll only take gcash now 💔 so upset but what can we do 😭

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  Nicola (@nicolakaye85) reported 34 minutes ago

  @MartinSLewis ...make X Y & Z transactions - exact same script as previous (genuine) call - no I did not. "There's also been an attempted login to PayPal, we will send a code to your email, please read it out to us" - alarm bells, I hung up but on a different day I might have fallen for it.

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  Anwar (@anwarbaksh) reported 34 minutes ago

  I helped a client grow from $250K to $2M ARR by transitioning their store from PayPal Buy Now buttons to a full WooCommerce store. Here's the active plugin stack running the site today: Admin Columns Payment Fee Admin Columns Pro Block Emails & Addresses for WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce Code Snippets Duplicate Page Error Log Viewer GTM4WP Invoice Payment Option LiteSpeed Cache ShipStation for WooCommerce WooCommerce WooCommerce PayPal Payments WooCommerce Ship Discounts — custom plugin I built WooCommerce Stripe Gateway WooPayments Wordfence Security WP Mail Logging Code Snippets handles the smaller customizations that don't need dedicated plugin. Maintenance costs less than $200/month. The client has control, flexibility, scalability, and portability. You don't always need an expensive "enterprise" stack to run a serious eCommerce business. Sometimes you just need to build the right stack, and maintain it properly.

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  Galapagos aluminum sun chalices. Richat vimana (@Aacaragea1) reported 35 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal The script does turn off repair mode because I deemed it to be a stupid gimmick that probably creates a security problem so I had to factory reset

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  Abi (@AbiHS1995) reported 38 minutes ago

  @ilbomberazzurro @UberEats @ubereats_uk I’ve just had this same exact issue as you. I’ve filed a dispute through PayPal and cancelled my uber one account. I’ve never known such awful customer service. Being looped round in a chat with an AI bot. Shocking when my issue involves their driver potentially stealing my order

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  BitcoinSafari /Education & Developers Program (@BitcoinSafariTZ) reported 39 minutes ago

  @bitlancework D. Tools that make sense to normal businesses Invoices in USD or EUR that settle in BTC. Automatic receipts. Project milestones. Time tracking. Fiat off-ramps so a freelancer can cash out to M-Pesa, bank transfer, or stablecoins if they want. The client never has to touch Bitcoin if they do not want to. They pay with card, Bitlance converts, freelancer receives BTC. The complexity is abstracted away. This is the key. Bitlance is not asking the world to become Bitcoiners overnight. It is meeting both sides where they are, and using Bitcoin to remove the expensive middlemen in the middle. 6. Real impact: who this helps most Let us get specific, because "financial inclusion" is an abstract phrase. The designer in East Africa She is world-class. Her portfolio is on Behance. But 80% of clients ghost her when they see she cannot take PayPal. On Bitlance, she can take a $300 branding project, get paid in BTC in 10 minutes, and convert half to shillings for rent and keep half in BTC as savings. Her income goes up and her costs go down. The US startup founder He needs a dev for 20 hours this month. He does not want to deal with contractors in 3 countries and 3 payment systems. He posts on Bitlance, pays with his company card, and knows the dev will get paid immediately when the milestone is approved. No wire forms. No FX fees. The writer in Argentina Local inflation is 50% a year. Getting paid in pesos means losing value while the client processes payment. Getting paid in USD is hard because of capital controls. Getting paid in Bitcoin means she is paid in a global asset she can hold or convert when she chooses. It is a hedge and a paycheck. The agency They have 12 freelancers across 8 countries. Managing payroll used to take a full day and $200 in fees. Now they fund one Bitlance wallet and pay everyone out of it. Reconciliation is one export. Everyone gets paid faster. 7. The objections, and the answers "But Bitcoin is volatile" True. That is why platforms like Bitlance offer instant conversion to stablecoins or local currency at withdrawal. You can choose to be paid in BTC and hold, or be paid in BTC and convert in 1 click. The point is you have the choice. The rails are Bitcoin even if the unit you spend is stable. "What about taxes?" Bitlance provides exportable reports with date, amount in BTC, and USD value at time of payment. It does not solve your local tax law, but it makes reporting 10x easier than trying to track wallet addresses manually. "What about scams?" Escrow and reputation. Same as any marketplace. The difference is that because the money is in escrow, not in a company bank account, even if Bitlance went down tomorrow, funds could still be released by 2 of the 3 keys. That is a safety net traditional platforms cannot offer. "Will clients actually use this?" They already do when it is easier and cheaper. Most clients do not care what the backend is. They care: can I post a job, find good people, pay with a card, and know the work will get done. Bitlance delivers that, and the backend just happens to be Bitcoin. 8. The bigger picture: this is about economic sovereignty When you get paid through a traditional platform, you are a tenant. The platform sets the rules, takes the cut, and can evict you. When you get paid in Bitcoin through a platform like Bitlance, you are a participant in an open network. Think of it like email. Gmail is a great email client, but no one owns email. If Gmail bans you, you can move to Proton and keep your address and contacts. We need that for work. Bitcoin is the open protocol for value. Bitlance is trying to be the open protocol for freelance work on top of it. Portfolios, reviews, and escrow history could eventually be portable. You would not be locked into one marketplace. That matters because the next 10 years of work will be more freelance, more remote, and more global. The payment infrastructure has to match.

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  Maggie Mae (@lenapelady333) reported 45 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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  ChaDraws 🐇💮 VGen 2D artist (@ChaDraws_Art) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Toast6634 Oh I had a very fast similar talk with Leaflit about this I prefer saying first that I'm against AI, because I think most people are using it so badly they're actively dumbing themselves, and now, young people coming out of high school don't even know how to write 'cause they've trusted their entire lives with ChatGPT or whatever, making them genuinely low IQ, and I say this in the nicest way possible, but they are very, very difficult to interact with. And you might think I'm only talking about text prompts, but visually creativity is a skill and a form of intelligence that is very very heavily underestimated, and that is factually helpful in real life... These young people can't even concentrate on one task for more than a minute, it's alarming But as we say, hate the game, not the player, if someone used AI as a reference and still choses to work with an artist after, I think they should be treated like any other commissioners, because they still chose to come to you ! It's always an honor when people think of me for their characters Though I do understand the fear of being scammed (I'm not sure if it's known outside, but there are a lot of scammers that ask an artist for a comm, take the sketch, don't pay (cause generally artists allow not paying until the sketch) and run it through AI to have a "better result") (there are also bot commissioners, that uses AI made characters to scam artists by executing a chargeback on PayPal) , so I understand if people don't want to go through this and refuse the commission Though I will say, as an artist, you have to stay professional if you want to make money out of it, making it public is in my opinion lacking maturity and professionalism Either way I think Pro AI people and Anti AI people should make love and bring peace to the world right now cause we have bigger issues at hand

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  Abul (@abuli313) reported 49 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I can’t do that I need to Login to my Account an then im allowed to talk to customer service

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  robert peachey (@RPeachey86) reported 49 minutes ago

  @George_Dubs_ That’s a good point. That was kinda my thesis for averaging down heavy below $45. Twitter was losing a lot of money and still I believe sold for 40B. I remember when PayPal market cap was below 40B I was thinking no way musk doesn’t at least take a stab at it.

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  Beyres (@Beyrestt) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care paypal to mpesa is still not working, please solve it

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 51 minutes ago

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  faye (@jemjem2409) reported 54 minutes ago

  THAT PAYPAL LOGIN SHT TOOK ME LONG TIME

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  Femi Alla (@femialla) reported 55 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal The issue never gets resolved. I've already uploaded all of the documents PayPal requested for both myself and my business. One thing I noticed is that my business name appears in the top-left corner of the dashboard, while my personal name appears in the top-right.

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  Littlewing (@sar62863) reported 55 minutes ago

  @ValerieAnne1970 They ALL came out of DARPA. Every damn one of them. Staring with PayPal where 24 yr old Musk was inserted as CEO. He said his seed money came from a program for newspapers to track deliveries. Problem was they already had that themselves. It's all built on deception and lies and still is today.

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 58 minutes ago

  An early PayPal employee described the moment the team realized Elon Musk was different from every other founder in Silicon Valley. It was something dark. The team was in a meeting discussing a product setback. Everyone was frustrated. Someone made a comment about maybe pivoting the product or considering alternative approaches. Normal startup conversation. Rational. Measured. Elon's response was physical. He stood up. His jaw tightened. He said something close to "if we pivot we die. We don't pivot. We fix it." Not loudly. Almost whispered. But the energy in the room changed completely. The employee said what was different wasn't the words. Every founder says "we don't give up." What was different was the look in his eyes. He said it was the look of someone who literally cannot conceive of the possibility that this doesn't work. Not "won't accept" failure. Cannot process it. As if the neural pathway that handles the concept of quitting doesn't exist in his brain. He said in that moment he understood that Elon doesn't choose persistence the way other people choose it. Other people weigh the options and decide to keep going. Elon doesn't see other options. The path forward is the only path his brain can map. Everything else is a dead pixel on his screen. That's not a learned skill. That's an architecture. And it explains both his extraordinary success and the trail of broken relationships, burned-out employees, and personal damage he leaves behind. The same wiring that makes failure invisible also makes other people's pain invisible.