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 (46%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Collinsville	Sign in	8 hours ago
Newnan	Website Down	14 hours ago
Créteil	Sign in	2 days ago
Tacoma	Sign in	2 days ago
Chicago	Errors	2 days ago
Eugene	Errors	2 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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  Brain Master (@Brainmaster) reported 5 minutes ago

  From nearly bankrupt to the world first trillionaire Elon Musk journey is the most insane real life success story ever Let me break it down > Born in 1971 in South Africa Elon was a shy kid who got bullied hard > He loved reading coded his first game at 12 and dreamed of leaving Earth for Mars > In the 1990s dot com boom he left Stanford to launch Zip2 with his brother > They slept on office floors, got robbed, and nearly quit but sold it to Chicago Tribune for $307 million > Then he founded X com an online banking startup It merged with Confinity and became PayPal > EBay bought PayPal in 2002 for $1.5 billion Elon walked away with around $180 million > Most people would retired he bet it all on space and electric cars > In 2002 he founded SpaceX with the dream of making rockets reusable and colonizing Mars > Everyone called him crazy rockets exploded He lost millions > Three failed launches from 2006 to 2008 nearly bankrupted SpaceX > He was sleeping on factory floors borrowing money for rent and on the verge of having zero dollars > Same year tesla was dying the roadster wasn’t ready production was a nightmare and the 2008 financial crisis hit > Tesla needed $40 million just to survive > Elon invested his last money begged investors and personally saved it from bankruptcy > In 2008 he had no cash two companies almost dead, and a divorce he called it his worst year > But then everything changed spaceX finally launched a rocket to orbit in late 2008 > NASA gave them a $1.6 billion contract Tesla launched the Model S proved electric cars could be amazing, and went public in 2010 > From 2010 onward Tesla became the world’s most valuable car company > SpaceX launched satellites won NASA contracts invented reusable rockets and slashed space costs by 10 times > Elon launched Neuralink brain chips The Boring Company tunnels bought Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it to X > By 2021 he was a billionaire By 2023 the richest person on Earth > But the real trillionaire moment hit this week SpaceX just went public in the biggest IPO ever > SpaceX priced at $135 per share, raising $75 billion the largest IPO in history > The company got valued at $1.77 trillion, making it the world's most valuable private company before going public > Elon stake in SpaceX alone is worth over $400 billion after this IPO > This single event cemented him as the first human trillionaire in history He's the first human trillionaire in history

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  Jada Mclean (@JadaMcLean_) reported 6 minutes ago

  A creator I work with paid 45 contractors last year across Zelle, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Cash App. The rails work fine. The problem is the 1099 tracking lands entirely on her, so by tax season half of it is lost. Higher thresholds don't fix that. It's an admin gap, not a tax rule

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  Rizwan Virk (@Rizstanford) reported 6 minutes ago

  Sorry to every self help account on X giving the cliched startup advice "never give up" today because Elon became the world's first trillionaire. Short version: not everyone is Elon Musk after PayPal, and not everyone should stick with a failing startup/product/model no matter what! Long version:The real lesson is more complicated than the cliche "never give up", which is terrible advice. Sometimes, taking feedback and advice from others is important. At other times, you should ignore the advice of others. The key is to know when to listen and when to be stubborn. Often, giving up on a startup that's failing is the best thing you can do for your mental and financial health. I know founders who suffered both mental and financial problems by "not giving up" when it was clear that their idea wasn't going to work, and they simply delayed their failure (making it worse!. Other times, when you are clear minded about the reasons why things are failing, you can make adjustments and get past the failures to success, like Elon did. But I hate to be the one to break it to you: not everyone is Elon musk and not everyone has made hundreds of million of dollars from their previous startups that they can keep going when things aren't working. Question 1: is the market fundamentally sound (I.e. if you eventually build it right, will people buy i?t). Or are there structural reasons why the market is early and it will catch up to you? Question 2: are there sound science/engineering reasons why the product can work if you keep going? If answer to both is yes, keep going. If not, pivot to something else or give up. For more on why cliches don't work in startups, read my book Startup Myths and Models: What You Won't Learn Business School 🔗 👇🏽

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  Emotional Investor (@LeveragedFun) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Kabuhl @WillBiddy_ the remarkable thing is, both Adobe and Paypal have net cash positions too! usually you'd need a mountain of debt like $CHTR to get down here

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  Joseph Lee | PRIME Framework (@JLP_Prime) reported 14 minutes ago

  @jmt5050 @OC_Scanner He took his PayPal money and bet on himself and you sit here and *****. You are the problem.

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  comicranch (@comicranch99430) reported 14 minutes ago

  @PayPal The fact that you have a link for help but the WORST Customer Service is beyond comical, your service blocks and restricts accounts on simple transcribe but allows 1000's of purchases with no limitations, trying to resolve issues is useless with this service

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  Hrutik Kumthekar (@bushido_hk) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Rasmic Most billionaires started with boring businesses that solved real problems. SpaceX exists because PayPal worked.

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  🔞𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 (6/10) (@Maniac_Sinner00) reported 18 minutes ago

  I don't like telling my personal problems in the internet but today is pushing me to the edge yet again. For the past 2 weeks, I see my folks fighting back n forth and I try to distract on myself with labor work but I couldn't take it anymore. I crashed out for the 4th or 5th time this week. All I wanna do is commissions but I was always pulled over things that doesn't serve me than BUT FOR THEM. I had a huge *** argument and it was very verbal then it became physical. Honestly, Who the hell can function like this? I'm done pretending that everything in home is okay, plus I'm planning to run off temporarily. I want to have peace of mind. As much as I don't wanna beg in Twitter, I feel ashamed and embarrassed... So if you're kind enough, Please donate on my PayPal or Gcash, Anything helps.. I can't stop crying while I'm typing this, I feel utterly pathetic

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  Kai Kippling (@KaiKippling) reported 19 minutes ago

  @PayPal I need to contact support via chat or email, but my only option is calling since I’m not allowed to login to my account. What do I do to get written support?

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  Spike el Monstruo 🦇 (@spikermonster) reported 22 minutes ago

  i think i might have to give up on the lydia pinup fashion zine because even though it’d be entirely sfw im scared its gonna get me in trouble with paypal if i sell it 🫠

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  Ab (@thatguy_zwe) reported 23 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal i have a problem i have been sending emails and no response its three weeks now i cant log into my account im not in use with my old number anymore and i cant even login to my account

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  States (@statesminds) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Hollow_Knighter I did & they told me “its still coming we promise” i am going to reach out again once i order this & say i was able to get elsewhere & to refund me. Only issue is if i used debit card that was 2022 my card is different. I cant even remember if was that or paypal. Hopefully paypal

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  bojake horseman 🐴🐎 (@Bojake_Horseman) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Yugolek id love one idk what you take cuz my paypal is broken and locked out

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  Kim devito (@patriot532) reported 26 minutes ago

  @PayPal no Americans could fill these jobs? Shut it down!

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  RetiredLife (@RetiredLifeNC) reported 26 minutes ago

  @QualCompounders @ironted21 Netflix, Adobe, PayPal; that’s that rookie hate. Soft hate; people aren’t protesting and threatening to kill the ceo, it’s not that top tier “buy all you ******* can” hate even down here.

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  🅱️ete oaks (@b0newalljackson) reported 27 minutes ago

  @_GrandExchange_ @kingbtc i got on ebay and paypal in 01 and boa gave me trouble with that so by the time i got into crypto they stopped bothering me. i hear horror stories about them but knock on wood never had any issues with either them or cb

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  🤎BadMan | Collab Manager🤎 (@BadManCollabs) reported 30 minutes ago

  @jojocve bro add paypal lol if you get login you don’t even need him anymore

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  comicranch (@comicranch99430) reported 31 minutes ago

  @PayPal The fact that you have a link for help but the WORST Customer Service is beyond comical, your service blocks and restricts accounts on simple transcribe but allows 1000's of purchases with no limitations, trying to resolve issues is useless with this service

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  Victor Bigham 🇺🇸 (@Ravious101) reported 33 minutes ago

  Facebook sold our data for years and years made billions of dollars and then they got caught. So now we the people got robbed will get a measly 29 dollars for the first payment and maybe 4 bucks for the second payment. 😡 Meanwhile lots of strangers have all our private information our photos our private conversations to friends and family while the law firms get 181 million dollars or our money. These lawyers tried to settle quick so they could get the million dollar payout that goes directly into their pockets. Heck they all are probably working with FB buddies with them this is all just part of their way to keep us all poor and keep themselves rich. What kind of world do we live in that lets this happen? Check your bank account, Venmo, PayPal and email: A surprise second round of payments is starting in the $725 million class action settlement over Facebook users' privacy issues.

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  Robin | Agentic Governance (@AptlyDone) reported 34 minutes ago

  @grok The PayPal founders solved fraud detection for human payments 25 years ago and it built an empire. Who is solving the authorization problem for AI agent payments, and why is everyone building rails but nobody building the authority layer?

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  KHAN'✨ (@khanofkhans11_) reported 36 minutes ago

  In August 2008, Elon Musk was squatting in the wreckage of SpaceX’s failed 3rd Falcon 1 rocket. Both Tesla and SpaceX were on the verge of collapse. The global financial crisis was in full swing. This wasn’t a billionaire playing startup. He was effectively broke. After selling PayPal, Elon walked away with $176 million. He poured $100 million into founding SpaceX and tens of millions more into Tesla which he joined in 2004 and became CEO of in 2008. By mid-2008, he had burned through almost all of it. He was down to his last $35 million. He split that final $35M between the two companies instead of saving himself. He took loans from friends, slept on factory floors, and at one point said he ran out of cash entirely. Forbes wasn’t calling him a billionaire. Most people had never heard of him. Then came the turning point: • SpaceX’s 4th Falcon 1 launch succeeded on Sept 28, 2008 (first privately-funded rocket to reach orbit). • Tesla closed a desperate funding round days before bankruptcy. He bet everything when almost no one believed it would work. Today he’s the first Trillionaire while effectively making a lot of factory workers rich. Insane stuff.

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  Joshua Almeida (@Josh_Almeida) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Heccles94 You should create PayPal, sell it. Than invest/ create other companies which the value is determined my the free market. Than sell all your ownership/holdings to than give all your money away that you worked for, to solve problems that governments take trillions in tax dont solve

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  Abderrazak Ajmamki (@ajmamki) reported 39 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal "Hello @AskPayPal, I am contacting you for urgent assistance regarding an unresolved issue since April 16, 2026. I am missing $50 from a transaction. PayPal support claims my bank blocked the funds, but my bank has explicitly stated they need an ARN (Acquirer Reference Number)

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  greg fury𓍊 (@eeyoregregore) reported 39 minutes ago

  messages are down, I'll be back! plz feel free to throw cashmoney at the birthday whöre😝 (me) ($paywacket on ca/vnmo) (ask about paypal)

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  Silas Sheek (@sheek_silas) reported 48 minutes ago

  Fortunately I found a work around to the issue with Hasbro pulse. For whatever reason, it won't let it go through with a credit card, only with PayPal. I got the Red Alert minicon pack on pre-order, finally

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  Keri Dugan (@keridugan1) reported 49 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hi, You have now left me on hold for 20 minutes and I get you are trying to wear me down so I will hang up, but I will not. Is there anyone actually working there who can help? I will not chat with a bot again. I need a live person to fix this. please advise.

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  TheFlipen🇧🇴 (@theflipen) reported 49 minutes ago

  @brave @Pirat_Nation yo brave when i make pays using brave and paypal sometimes i got issues about it also using webs like upwork or linkedin sometimes take me as a bot o have to resolve a lot of captchas ... can u see this plz ?,ty brave!

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  axolotl is going to vibecamp (@calxolotl) reported 50 minutes ago

  @PayPal I tried to contact them and got an AI chatbot that is broken and could only output "I'm sorry, I'm not able to help with that right now. Let me connect you with the right support to assist you further." but cannot actually connect me with anything. (2/3)

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  Miriam Sallon (@ToBeRead_UK) reported 51 minutes ago

  @Love2shop_UK I’ve been charged twice on PayPal for an e-gift card but the transaction hasn’t gone through on your website, and your ‘contact’ options are also not working- online chat button does nothing and the ‘email’ option says to ‘try again later’.

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  Harry Barot (@N144926465) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Dollartree_1 Please bro please help me and rise my issue i don't have single dollar left if i lost money then there is no problem but not giving deposit is crazy bro here I share some proofs i know you don't know much about this payment method but still it's crystal you can check UPI id which where i made payment is direpay's and i made video because when payment got completed it automatically received most of time but total 12 deposits more than 1200$ is not received and here you can pay with any app to UPI id and that got credited to their account like paypal so please check names and everything on video i have made video so you can check it's not edited