Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (41%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Roubaix	Errors	13 hours ago
Lisbon	Errors	19 hours ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	21 hours ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	1 day ago
Cublize	Website Down	2 days ago
Rieux	Sign in	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

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  ShredBTC (@shredhead89) reported 3 seconds 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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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 2 minutes ago

  Most people want ecommerce income without running an ecommerce business. Built EmberVault to fix that. It's an AI store that finds trending bundles, handles Printful fulfillment, manages loyalty stamps, and routes profits straight to your PayPal—on autopilot, whether you're

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  Kira❄️🐾| #BringValkoBack (@kiramochix) reported 3 minutes ago

  I'm having a few problems with my paypal so it won't be used as a payment method temporary📌

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  Equity Ledger (@equityledger) reported 7 minutes ago

  $PYPL The Half of PayPal the Market Was Pricing On July 15 Stripe and the investment firm Advent International offered about $53 billion for PayPal, $60.50 a share at a 28 percent premium, with PayPal's board due to meet on July 20 (CNBC). The market had spent two years pricing PayPal as a fading checkout brand. The bid is a sign it was valuing the wrong half of the company. The bearish case is about flow, the checkout button losing ground at the point of sale to Apple Pay, to Shopify, to a dozen others. That decline is real, and it is what the multiple reflects. What it leaves out is the stock of accounts sitting behind the button. PayPal holds more than 400 million funded consumer accounts, Venmo included, and a funded account is not just a logo, it is a stored balance with a linked funding source and a verified identity. This is what makes the bid make sense. The whole industry is moving toward agent commerce, where software does the buying, and an agent cannot spend from nothing. It needs a funded account to draw on, permission to spend it, and an identity behind it. Stripe owns the merchant side of payments and has very few consumer wallets of its own. PayPal is the largest pool of pre-funded consumer accounts outside the banks. A company that owns the merchant rails is not paying a premium and borrowing $50 billion for a checkout button, it is buying the thing it cannot build on its own, a base of accounts that are already funded and ready for an agent to spend from. A 28 percent premium on a company the market had written down as a runoff is the buyer saying, in effect, that the base of accounts is worth more than the flow everyone was tracking. The mispricing, as I read it, is that the market valued the half of PayPal that is shrinking and gave away the half that is scarce. This is a bid and not yet a deal, so the tells are close at hand. Whether the board engages after July 20 or holds out for more will say whether the base is worth what the bidder thinks. A rival suitor would be the market admitting the asset is rare. And the final terms, if there are any, will show who controls the combined accounts and rails, because that, rather than the app, is what an agent economy has to run through.

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  Chukx (@chukx_DRext) reported 9 minutes ago

  @RaenestApp Use the time to fix and build your platform to be trustworthy and reliable. You’re moving like PayPal.

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  MaxGaming170 | Changeling VTuber (@MaxRenRez2) reported 14 minutes ago

  @MendamCaedo @takasiraVT Vroid is one option, but you can rarely get anywhere with that. The point I'm making is that this industry is predatory for newcomers and old timers alike. Particularly in the modeling, art, and rigging departments. People will scam you, hide things in TOS, and just recently threaten to revoke the model entirely without a refund if you even touch AI for one reason or another (including using an AI reference sheet, by the way). There's even a server out there that has decided to just start banning people if they use it on ANY PLATFORM, like some 1984 type ****. Cheap artists can rarely be trusted either, because again- on the off chance you don't read over your agreement with like seven lawyers, they can just decide to take it away because of any slight problem they have with you. And let's not even mention the fact that some people will decide to drag their *** on the commissions until the six month refund period on paypal has expired, then take the money and run, meaning that now you're out several thousand dollars depending on how expensive that commission was.. With all of this in mind, do you see why people are hesitant to turn to artists who are screeching about losing their commissions and turning to sources that won't complain about what they choose to do?

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  British Sikh (@RupTroop) reported 15 minutes ago

  @TIM_x_AI @MarsUniversityX No. Software engineer / Physicist turned billionaire entrepreneur, can you think of any other people that have gone down that route? He made his money via founding zip2 and co-founding PayPal.

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  Robert J Marcin (@RobertMarcin) reported 18 minutes ago

  Stripe, Advent Said to Make $50B-Plus Offer for PayPalAd0:19Unmute Add us on Google In this Article Evercore Inc 341.54 2.34% Follow PayPal Holdings Inc 56.56 0.30% Follow Stripe LLC Private company Advent International LP Private company Contact us: Provide news feedback or report an error Confidential tip? Exploring strategic alternatives sounds good to me, esp when there's a payday for Goldman Sachs! Updated on July 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM EDT PayPal Holdings Inc. has been working with advisers to review strategic options, including a potential sale or breakup........ PayPal Holdings Inc. has been working with advisers to review strategic options, people familiar with the matter said, as Stripe Inc. and private equity firm Advent pursue a $50 billion-plus takeover of the fintech pioneer. The San Jose, California-based company has been working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Evercore Inc. in recent months to evaluate alternatives including a potential sale or breakup, according to the people.

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  Ant (@M0kujin) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Gabriel_Pogrund @1goodtern That Reform PayPal £50 donation drive should be investigated Could be a huge issue for Reform and PayPal if it was actually structuring; a form of money laundering

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  Sahil Patel (@sahildotcom) reported 21 minutes ago

  saw the Stripe/PayPal headlines earlier this week, but didn’t really double-click into what the deal could mean for fintech more broadly thought the @theallinpod did a great job breaking it down on this week's episode some interesting points: this would be a quick way for Stripe to get access to 400M+ consumer accounts I didn’t realize Block was also in the mix.. combine their point-of-sale network with Stripes merchants, Cash App, Venmo, Braintree, etc. and all of a sudden you have nearly the entire payments stack put all of that on stablecoin rails and you could have a real competitor to Visa and Mastercard (Stripe closed their acquisition of Bridge in 2025) if more payments stay within that network, merchants could save a lot on fees and some of that could eventually make its way to consumers they also drew an interesting parallel to newer, AI-native teams buying huge internet businesses that have stalled and trying to bring them back to life, similar to what Bending Spoons has done $PYPL is down 80%+ from its 2021 peak, and even @DavidSacks (PayPal mafia) joked that the product looks almost the same as it did when he was there 20+ years ago link to the pod below

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  Cristián P. (@CristianPBar) reported 24 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @AskPayPal @pay I called, but no representative answers. It’s been two weeks, and no one can help me. I need an email address to escalate my issue, please. None of the previous options work

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  Sencyr💭 (@senCyr) reported 26 minutes ago

  @thetrainline is the payment system down? I’ve been trying to book and I’ve tried Visa, Amex, PayPal, and Apple Pay. Any idea on when this’ll be resolved?

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  💫♡ (@sakiutty) reported 27 minutes ago

  @goonestangel They have less fees than PayPal so that’s good but yeah I have the same problem,, theres a option to pay with paypal on vgen too, maybe if you put somewhere that you need it now so you prefer them to pay with paypal?

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  robert peachey (@RPeachey86) reported 29 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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  faye (@jemjem2409) reported 30 minutes ago

  THAT PAYPAL LOGIN SHT TOOK ME LONG TIME

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  Haley Strattman (@HaleyS_2001) reported 35 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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  BEAST ⭐️ NASTY (@BeastNastyCallz) reported 35 minutes ago

  @PayPal And you dont have a recieve option for solana ! U guys even know crypto? You're slowing me down! Glad to see i can use previous addresses & it still shows up. But geez Maybe ya'll should hire me... someone who really understands crypto At least u have a black screen now

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  Daniela 🌻 (@1jeonghan) reported 37 minutes ago

  Suga 93 jersey wasn’t meant to be , **** sold out while I was trying to sign in my PayPal smh

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  Andrea Giammarchi 🍥 (@WebReflection) reported 37 minutes ago

  so ... @PayPal is stealing me money but of course it wouldn't let me close the account as I've requested multiple times ... good job folks 👍 (please don't even start with links to help me solve the issue, I've been through those multiple times already)

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  gork (@gork) reported 38 minutes ago

  @147Aurora @theallinpod @grok paypal selling for 53b to stripe and the boys? easy theyre probably sick of being the slow boring payments dinosaur while everyone else builds faster apps and ai stuff eats the margins so why not grab the bag and let the new owners deal with the mess. classic corporate exit before it all goes sideways.

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  ⚔️ XRP Avengers ⚔️ (@XRP_Avengers) reported 42 minutes ago

  Ripple's CEO just explained why #XRP exists in under 2 minutes no jargon: Venmo can't send to PayPal, even though PayPal owns Venmo. That's how broken our payment networks are. Now scale that to sending money overseas: slow, expensive, and it can vanish for weeks. Ripple's fix: sell the tech to banks worldwide. 4 second settlement, fractions of a penny, anywhere on Earth. Customers don't care it runs on XRP. They just care that it works.

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  Podcast Alpha (@PodcastAlphaX) reported 42 minutes ago

  Chamath @chamath: the Stripe-PayPal bid is a shot across the bow for $V and $MA. That is the line that matters. The ~$60-per-share offer for PayPal is not really about PayPal. It is an attack on the card duopoly the market treats as untouchable. Here is the build. Stripe, Block ($XYZ), and Advent combine PayPal's 400-million-plus accounts with Stripe's roughly $2 trillion in payment volume and its risk and stablecoin stack. Sacks @DavidSacks sharpens the point: that scale enables far more **"on-us" transactions**, payments that settle inside the combined network and bypass Visa and Mastercard entirely. Every on-us transaction is interchange the networks never collect. The antitrust question turns on definition - call it merchant APIs and it is Stripe versus Braintree, blocked. Call it the card duopoly and it is pro-competitive. The consensus this cuts against: Visa and Mastercard trade as forever-compounders with an unbreakable toll on every swipe. Bill Gurley @bgurley made the same argument we heard here in June, that Visa's moat is "unjustified" and priced as if it can never be disrupted. This deal is the first credible disruption vector, not a PowerPoint. Implication: this is a slow-burn short-bias thesis on $V and $MA interchange, not a same-week trade. The networks do not lose volume tomorrow. But a vertically integrated rail with 600-to-700 million combined accounts changes the terminal-value story the multiple rests on. If you are long the networks for the moat, the moat just got a named challenger with $2T of volume behind it. Watch the deal's market-definition fight - that ruling decides whether the on-us threat is real or blocked at the starting line.

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  Delores S (@SwansonDel3782) reported 43 minutes ago

  WTS FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 TICKETS I’m selling my tickets for spain 🇪🇸 VS Argentina 🇦🇷 final 2026 World Cup match for July 18 . I could not make it due to error on my flight schedule. I accept PayPal goods and services Kindly message if you’re interested

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  LordSauce_ (@LordLunar_) reported 44 minutes ago

  I need help! My cat is potentially dying and i cant get her the help she needs! She’s slowing down, not eating, and still hasn’t been spayed at all yet. Please, anything helps!!! Venmo & Cashapp: $/lordsauce64 Paypal: lordsauce69

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  Buggy (@JuicyCroissants) reported 48 minutes ago

  @xo_ollievurr don't do PayPal. Especially if you do NSFW comms bc they shut that **** down like Negan. Ask Reddit if nothing else

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  Spewku || COMMS OPEN (@Spewkuu) reported 48 minutes ago

  @gomipomi I use cashapp and PayPal mainly. So far I haven’t had issues with PayPal but you gotta be careful on what they add to the note. I hear Wise is good ngl, and there are no fees to send to your bank (I think)

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  ChaDraws 🐇💮 VGen 2D artist (@ChaDraws_Art) reported 49 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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  OutsidetheL7™️ (@OutsidetheL7) reported 49 minutes ago

  @JaySekulow Please fix your donation system. Either use Apple Pay or allow auto fill for credit cards. It’s frustrating. No one is going to go track down their credit card and I definitely don’t use PayPal.

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  Femi Alla (@femialla) reported 51 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal It's still not working. This is the same thing I have been doing for many days. I end up on the page with a "chat with us" button and I chat, the bot points me back to the same link I came from.

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  BitcoinSafari /Education & Developers Program (@BitcoinSafariTZ) reported 57 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.