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 (47%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Paris	Sign in	5 hours ago
Paris	Errors	6 hours ago
Texcoco de Mora	Errors	9 hours ago
Concord	Errors	22 hours ago
Lyon	Errors	2 days ago
Brest	Sign in	2 days ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Crucifixx (@crucifixx042) reported 3 minutes ago

  @iamTimijah @AskPayPal How did you solve the problem?

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  ZombieMagnate🍊🧟‍♀️🔱🍓😈❤🦊🦼🐱 (@MagnateZombie) reported 8 minutes ago

  @personhater3000 @ManBlinded @SoulTwiLum The issue is Paypal will target anything THEY consider NSFW, not what the artists and the people commissioning know is actually SFW

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  Kevin Balázs (@BalazsKevin) reported 14 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I managed to lock myself out of my account like a year ago I texted the support here on x Yet nothing happended I dont have my old phone number to login cause i have 2FA enabled and cant even change password may i have some assist here? Thank you

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  States (@statesminds) reported 16 minutes ago

  @StarqueenSonea Oh weird. I feel i had issues with mine before but set up paypal maybe. Im not paying for it rn so don’t recall. But i gotchu

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  PG 2022 (@JonGree10628880) reported 16 minutes ago

  @250_Revolution But they’ll track me down for not reporting $15k in PayPal transactions

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  delta41 (@Delta68w) reported 16 minutes ago

  @mikuryne I didnt have this problem, however im checking paypal now, and usually there is an option for paypal balance

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  玄米茶葉 (@g_tyaba) reported 17 minutes ago

  @KarneraMythos I’m sorry. I’d like to open commissions, but I’m busier than I expected, and since there were some issues with PayPal recently, I’m not sure what to do.+

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  Lightning McGoon ⚡ (@LightningMiscr1) reported 18 minutes ago

  @gothiclysweet PayPal is also just cracking down "Adult" stuff across the board - Even NSFW artists are getting kicked and can't take commissions because of it

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  Blended Perspective (@harper_dyl66271) reported 21 minutes ago

  @MattMillard2 @RealDannyTommo Who ******** am I? Someone who can actually read figures. Net migration crashed to 171k in 2025... lowest since 2012. Small boat arrivals are also down 41% YTD in 2026. I’m British. You’re just a Danny simp raging at facts while defending a convicted kidnapper’s PayPal grift. How much money have you donated towards his boat?

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  Peter Hephzibah | Brand designer (@godof_design) reported 21 minutes ago

  All these social media apps are really hard on designers for real. I need PayPal or stripe to connect to behance, stripe isnt available to Nigerians and PayPal... Well PayPal is PayPal. Tried cold dming on insta. All meta accounts, gone. Y'all should tune it down a notch please.

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  Mimi (@MimiUzume) reported 22 minutes ago

  @ZanizaniTsu Paypal bots are cracking down on personal accounts being used for business, and they will freeze ur money Also, always write ''Digital Art'' on the invoice so bots don't flag you c:

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  Ghana Artists Club 🇬🇭 (@ghanartistsclub) reported 25 minutes ago

  @mistameister @mistameister I had this same issue until I came here & registered for PayPal & stripe . Now if Facebook sends their payout it’s hits my acc in no time. Ghana has to do better Chale . I thought Sam George said he was engaging the US payment platforms to resolve this issue ? hmm

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  Bo (@wuerfelkrieger1) reported 26 minutes ago

  Wow, setting up @deepseek_ai is freaking easssy. Legit, within 2 minutes you set up an account, API key, AND can pay with PayPal instead of having to give your credit card details and have trouble removing it... like for safety and comfort reasons. That's how to do it!

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  Man | Research (@ManOnChainX) reported 29 minutes ago

  @tomosman $GITBANK ? Because of they also working on Github users for if any user has error and solve by other person and give bounty then need to go centralized or paypal.. so Gitbank is building wallet in github so the escrow will send automatically when task complete...

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  adelvafa (@iran0pessimist) reported 30 minutes ago

  So it seems the issue is that PayPal likes to hold onto payments to collect interest; this is a very ****** practice but payment processors can do whatever ******** they like if there are only like five big ones and they elbow everyone else out.

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  Nicholas Gregory (@gregory_nico) reported 33 minutes ago

  Sounds like a PayPal type issue…

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  venus (@RitOnchain) reported 33 minutes ago

  if you're building agents that spend money, you need to understand four protocols launched in the last 12 months. Bookmark it! they solve different problems. picking wrong wastes months. x402 (coinbase) — SETTLEMENT what it does: HTTP 402 payment required. agent hits API, server quotes price in USDC, agent signs authorization, resource delivered. best for: sub-dollar API micropayments. pay-per-request data, LLM calls, analytics queries. cost: ~$0.0001 per tx on base. limitation: crypto-native today. USDC default. fiat integration in progress. volume: ~176M txs, $73M total. sustained $11 to 15M/week Q1 2026. quote: "your wallet becomes the universal API key" - erik reppel MPP (stripe/tempo) — PROTOCOL LAYER what it does: payment-method agnostic checkout for machines. same HTTP 402 signal but accepts cards, stablecoins, lightning, bank transfers. best for: if you need multi-rail from day one. sessions for streaming micropayments (pay-per-token LLM billing). cost: stablecoin txs as low as $0.001. card txs $5-10 where economics work. limitation: launched march 2026. first week: 34,000 txs but only ~$3,730 volume. experimentation phase. quote: "MPP is the checkout form for machines" - brendan ryan, tempo AP2 (google) — AUTHORIZATION what it does: cryptographic mandates. user delegates spending authority to agent with price limits, timing, conditions. best for: consumer-facing agent commerce where a human pre-approves spend boundaries. cost: no settlement fees (doesn't move money). limitation: doesn't solve "how does payment settle" - pairs with x402 or MPP. partners: 60+ including mastercard, paypal, coinbase, shopify, walmart. visa intelligent commerce — CARD RAILS EXTENSION what it does: tokenized virtual card numbers for agents. programmable spend controls. standard card-not-present checkout. best for: transactions above $5 where consumer protections, rewards, and credit matter. cost: ~$0.30 fixed fee per transaction. kills economics below $0.30. limitation: can't serve 76% of current agent tx volume. hedging via MPP plugin instead of competing. wildcard: visa CLI beta - card payments from developer terminal with touch ID per purchase. how to choose: building a headless API for agents at $0.01/call → x402 or MPP with stablecoin settlement building pay-per-token LLM billing → MPP sessions building consumer agent that shops on user's behalf → AP2 + settlement layer underneath building for existing visa merchant network above $5 → visa tokenized credentials building for liability coverage on agent errors → amex ACE (agent purchase protection) what failed: openAI shelved chatgpt instant checkout march 2026. ~30 shopify merchants after 5 months. no sales tax, no fraud prevention, no multi-item cart. lesson: consumer checkout UI for agents isn't the market. protocol endpoints are. the stack assembles, not competes: AP2 → authorizes x402 or MPP → settles visa → hedges on high-value consumer flows google cloud's pay[dot]sh uses x402 AND MPP together. coinbase is both AP2 partner and x402 creator. don't pick a protocol. pick the layer you're building and wire the others in.

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  Your Average F1 Fan // MV01, FA14, CL16 (@UnbiasedFIA) reported 34 minutes ago

  I don't know what susprises me more -The fact I forgot about this -The fact PayPal has helped in fixing anything within 16 months of the issue happening

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  PetitePrincess (@PetiteNativee) reported 37 minutes ago

  Where's all the horny men that want ***? Paypal me and get me high daddy I'm down to be your piece of *** on here.

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  Vafarien (@Vafarien) reported 38 minutes ago

  @AKEndfield You tricked me 😢 I was happy to see the PayPal option back, while I was playing on GeForceNOW, but when I wanted to use it, it said blocked... Pls fix

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  engi 🆖 (@KathalBiryani) reported 42 minutes ago

  UK people I need your assistance regarding PayPal issues help me pleeeassseeeeeeee

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  BigBro (@RsousaEd) reported 42 minutes ago

  @musclemanlyai not working, the paypal

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  Blended Perspective (@harper_dyl66271) reported 44 minutes ago

  @MattMillard2 @RealDannyTommo Who ******** am I? Someone who can actually read figures. Net migration crashed to 171k in 2025... lowest since 2012. Small boat arrivals are also down 41% YTD in 2026. I’m British. You’re just a Danny simp raging at facts while defending a convicted kidnapper’s PayPal grift. How much money have you donated towards his boat?

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  jemini×2 💾 (@jeminix2) reported 46 minutes ago

  Reason why I would advise putting that specifically in there is in case of charge backs and scammers- if you out nothing and they decided to charge you back, PayPal will look at your invoice and see that there was no good or service written down and you'll have a harder time getting your $ back!

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  Philman (@AdemilolaO35697) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Ogene78 @MichaelAdesiya4 @MrCharlesky No problem... You meant PayPal USA

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  Kiro (@ExcluKiro) reported 49 minutes ago

  8/ I changed my information as fast as I could. Changed my Google, PayPal, Discord passwords. Anything connected to money, work, clients, or accounts got locked down immediately. I think that speed is what saved me from losing even more.

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  wafflesnow5 (@wafflesnow19) reported 51 minutes ago

  @KRAE_USA @PramilaJayapal Dems run on emotion and paint bleak pictures to rally visceral responses and sew division. PayPal has not a fact in her head, as Dems ruined health insurance with ObamaCare. So many chances to fix, but Obama wants to tank institutions not fix them. He’s Soros funded.

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  ✨NightOwl✨ (@NightOwlArtX) reported 56 minutes ago

  I literally just managed to finally open a new paypal account last week. And was excited to have it as an available payment method for comms when I reopen.. This is what locked my account for multiple years so unfortunately, I will not be using it if this is still an ongoing problem. I don't even know how I got flagged last time as I only listed invoices as "digital commission" or "art commission". Some things are just out of my hands, sorry to say :(

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  piggy (@piggy5810) reported 59 minutes ago

  Paying through PayPal Who’s down got free $700 to send?

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  Huntai (@HuntaiSama) reported 60 minutes ago

  @wersman2 @yinerajto @otjareniy2 Apparently, PayPal has begun cracking down on nsfw transactions as well. That might have contributed to the suspension if that is the main way Patreon pays creatots.