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 (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
Sevilla	Errors	2 hours ago
Rome	Errors	4 hours ago
Isola Maggiore	Errors	19 hours ago
Schmallenberg	Errors	2 days ago
Berlin	Sign in	6 days ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	7 days ago

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Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  JaBrony (@jdubbins74) reported 2 minutes ago

  @JustExoticss And I signed in using my Google account but won't let me sign in anymore..then when I got the payment Id# from PayPal it says that payment doesn't exist and I can't log . Until a day or 2 ago I had no problems getting in.

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  Philip Peake (@PhilipPeake) reported 3 minutes ago

  I have a website for CHL training for Oregon. A couple of weeks ago I had problems with the payment system (PayPal) and so rapidly added Stripe payments. The PayPal problem was resolved, and I left both systems live. Most people seem to prefer Stripe, and the CC fees are lower with Stripe. I don't think I want to maintain two payment systems long term, and am leaning towards going with Stripe only. Any comments/comments?

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  Colt (@FluffyBlitzy) reported 7 minutes ago

  @goatcel Yeah you can with gcash but you're still gonna end up with the same problem cause it's also like PayPal. They should've just put the money in a physical bank or at the very least an online one

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  niko ⚡️ (@soraflopp) reported 8 minutes ago

  @dearpetangel i’ve been using paypal for like 8 years because i’ve been around adoptables and commissions forEVER and never had any issues idk wtf these people are doing

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  ♱ AshiiiBoo ♱ 【Health Hiatus】 (@AshiiiBoo_VT) reported 10 minutes ago

  Not only is this against VGens TOS, but I'm amazed how many people don't realise that illegitimate charge backs on paypal are legitimately and fraud that can get you in serious legal trouble ;o;

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  Tara St. Michel ♪ (@TaraStMichel) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Elidyss Taxes and business license are separate things. You can file taxes as a freelance professional operating under your own name legally without a license. Problem is will PayPal accept your documentation & if you’re in your first year what do you do if you won’t get that until 2027

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  Alexander_Draws - Commissions Are OPEN! ✏️ (@Alexander_Draws) reported 12 minutes ago

  @KrimaDraws DUDE! You got laid off, too!? I lost my job of six years about three weeks ago. The fact that PayPal is implementing this change is just terrible timing. I recommend using Cash App, Zelle, Buy-Stripe and possibly Wise.

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  Flesh Forge (@Flesh_Forge) reported 14 minutes ago

  @bruhshark @hafuma Problem is, Many clients pay only to paypal and nothing else.

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  GaryLaserFren (@GaryLaserFren) reported 17 minutes ago

  @socialepidopta @unvarnishedvoid Oh, its totally plausible. My issue stems from that shouldn't be on the payment processor to enforce, investigate or handle. If they are tax evading, that's on his government to investigate, get warrants and get court orders to shut down his PayPal / accounts.

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  The stock broker investor (@teechongyen) reported 24 minutes ago

  Here is the possibility how private equity plan to make money off $PYPL Private equity usually holds for 4–7 years. Year 0 (close): Put in ~$17 billion equity + ~$36–50 billion debt. Years 1–5: PayPal’s free cash flow (~$5.5–6+ billion per year) pays interest and pays down debt. Operational fixes, cost cuts, and Stripe synergies grow earnings/cash flow. Debt balance shrinks → equity ownership of the company rises automatically. Exit (Year 5): Sell the company (or take public again) at a similar or higher multiple of earnings/cash flow. Debt is much lower. Equity value has grown. All these is possible because they are confident Paypal has steady FCF for the next 4-7 years.

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  Mike Emerson (@emerson0123) reported 27 minutes ago

  @PastAssistant @AskPayPal Is there an specific error message?

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  😑alyshia⁷ seen skz ₈ ࣪🐺 (@alyshia_2001) reported 27 minutes ago

  @dimpledormlover I had the issue with PayPal so I just use my card instead and it worked

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  Colby Hill (@Chill_Investing) reported 28 minutes ago

  ello world test Here's a full recap: 1. Boeing $BA posted Q2 revenue of $24.56 billion, up 8% year over year and above the $24.25 billion estimate. The company still swung to a GAAP net loss of $428 million, or 67 cents a share, as a $280 million charge tied to the Air Force One program pushed the adjusted loss to 76 cents a share versus the 30-cent loss analysts expected. Commercial deliveries climbed 14% to 171 planes, and free cash flow turned positive at $631 million versus a $200 million burn a year ago. Shares jumped 4.7% to $221.53. 2. Sherwin-Williams $SHW grew Q2 sales 7.5% to $6.79 billion and posted adjusted EPS of $3.70, topping estimates of $3.50 on $6.61 billion. The paint maker raised full-year adjusted EPS guidance to $11.80-$12.20, up from $11.43 in 2025. The stock surged 8.2% to $354.24. 3. PayPal $PYPL delivered Q2 revenue of $8.68 billion, up 5% year over year and ahead of the $8.47 billion estimate, with non-GAAP EPS of $1.38 versus $1.28 expected. Total payment volume rose 10% to $486.4 billion and transactions climbed 8% to 6.8 billion. Management raised full-year EPS guidance to $5.30-$5.40 from $5.15-$5.30. Shares gained 4.0% to $58.32. 4. Ford $F beat with adjusted EPS of $0.42 versus $0.35 expected on revenue of $48.3 billion, ahead of the $47.51 billion estimate even as revenue fell 4% year over year. Adjusted EBIT rose 17% to $2.5 billion, and Ford raised full-year adjusted EBIT guidance to $10-$11 billion and free cash flow guidance to $6-$7 billion. Shares gained nearly 2% in the regular session and jumped another 5% after hours to $15.71. 5. UPS hello world test of $1.76 versus $1.66 expected, and raised full-year revenue guidance to $91.2 billion. Shares still sank about 6.5% to $105.62 after management guided US Domestic average daily volume down mid-single digits and third-quarter operating margin to just 7%, with $891 million in transformation charges tied to the Driver Choice program weighing on the outlook.

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  LAB✖️RAT - 🔞 Artist (COMMS PAUSED) (@labXrat) reported 29 minutes ago

  @balkanxian_rss @dearpetangel Yes, the content of a note can potentially trigger PayPal to crack down on an artist if they believe there is any "forbidden NSFW activity" going on lol. So to be safe, I like to either just ask them not to leave any, or keep it vague: like "order #210" or smth

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  Scythe | Commissions Closed link Bio (@NamesakeGeodite) reported 31 minutes ago

  Now that I posted that edited screenshot. business owners with permits, artists who use PayPal, and people with over 20k in their PayPal balances have started sharing that they've experienced the same thing. This proves that this was never just a "tax fraud" issue.

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  BooNeko (@BooNekoVT) reported 35 minutes ago

  @NamesakeGeodite so your problem isnt paypal so much as you're running a business but not providing information on your business

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  Yukari 🍞🏳️‍⚧️ (@yukari_bun) reported 36 minutes ago

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

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  Donald J. Narukami (@cl0udsea) reported 38 minutes ago

  Leaving your money in PayPal is a terrible choice

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  Saint John: Evernode 1:1 Freedom (@AverageJohnEVR) reported 39 minutes ago

  @PaulWavelength You are right in many ways, however... What we see in the industry right now is something called a "cluster economy". A cluster economy is when you have all of an industry gathered at the same place, even direct competitors. They eat lunch together and they mingle together (think of those old silicon valley cocktail parties during the IT boom) What makes such economy powerful is because shared knowledge between professionals happen casually. That empowers the productivity and innovation for the parties, which allow them to outcompete the rest of the world and sell products to the rest of the world. The cryptocurrency industry today is a cluster economy, those that are originated in the same location know what to do and how to do it. The problem with that is that cryptocurrencies are not products, they are economies. And you can't create an economy where the product cost nothing and the business is everyone else. Bitcoin grew big and resilience because it was global, it had a purpose and it was in demand from a user point of view (Paypal had started to freeze user funds in 2008 for trading virtual goods) When crypto clusters have bad market cycles, it takes down the whole market because the whole market is in the same cluster. But since Bitcoin is global that doesn't happen as easy. The resilience comes from being globally widespread. This is why currencies fail today, most of them come from the same cluster, those that aren't in that cluster are tired of maintaining it. So for that reason I rather be in limbo that under the clarity act. Because the current state of crypto isn't global enough, it's clustered and that is long-term unhealthy. The only successful currency today is a grass-root based one (btc), without a founding team. The only other gras-root based ones that were given an honest chance were PoW forks (meaning just copy-cats). New grass-root projects never received the attention they deserved because the noise of the cluster economy was already too loud and too desperate. (Hastily written response, I would have to spend a day writing it more properly :))

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 41 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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  feiv (@feivlol) reported 44 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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  Hakumonji🎋 (@hakumonji) reported 46 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal ​"Hello, I am completely locked out of my account and getting an identity error ('trouble making sure it's you') on both web and the mobile app. I cannot initiate a password reset. Please help me manually verify my account so I can regain access."

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  Financial Freedom (@Fin_FreeInv) reported 47 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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  LuigiFan45 (@luigiten1) reported 48 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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  WeirdPopeArts (@PopeWeird) reported 52 minutes ago

  @bubblegum711971 The PayPal algorithm will look for keywords like 'commission' or 'artwork' because they're trying to crack down on people using the app for NSFW commissions So long as you make it look like the payments are all for regular stuff, you should be safe

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  kevinmonitor 🦋 social 🔮 (@kevinminh_alt) reported 54 minutes ago

  @RuV_2nd from my research, it looks like this issue can only happen if you have too much money in your PayPal account. so make sure to transfer to your bank account regularly!

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  nikhil (@uninsightful) reported 55 minutes ago

  @pchopra28 I think that is a fairly consensus take tbh the classic trope is that mafias get formed from companies with some success but not too much and some catalyzing event to churn people out, and people classically cite Paypal as having these conditions I wouldn’t call Stripe a slow burn. going from zero to $200B valuation in 17 years is insane RE your google/fb examples: the reason people haven’t held “ex-google” in high regard since the early 2010s is not because all the great people stayed (plenty of them left), it’s because the hiring bar decayed and the culture itself at google became soft and no longer deeply shaped people

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  Mike Bergmann (@mrbergmann) reported 55 minutes ago

  The Visa trend check: payments volume accelerated 9% to 10%, cross-border +13% in World Cup summer. Flag it: that's borrowed demand, the same comp problem Coke, Hilton and PayPal flagged for Q3/Q4. The aggregate holds. The tournament comp decides what's real.

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  Minx (@iamJMinx) reported 59 minutes ago

  Key Points Summary Nasdaq futures lower: September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures are down 1.07% as investors continue selling semiconductor and AI-related stocks. AI/chip sector under pressure: Concerns are growing about the sustainability of AI spending, increased competition from China, and potential "circular financing" in AI infrastructure. Global markets decline: Japan's Nikkei: -3.95% South Korea's Kospi: over -10% China's Shanghai Composite: -1.16% Oil prices fall: WTI crude dropped more than 2%, extending a three-day decline as Middle East tensions ease and markets watch talks on the Strait of Hormuz. Fed in focus: Markets expect the Fed to hold rates steady this week, though officials may signal a hawkish stance. Futures imply about a 79% chance of a September rate hike. Recent U.S. data: June durable goods orders rose 0.3%, below expectations, while core orders also missed forecasts. Earnings season: Major reports due today include Visa, Coca-Cola, Boeing, UPS, Ford, PayPal, KLA, Seagate, Corning, and NXP. Premarket movers: Higher: Coca-Cola (+3%), Johnson & Johnson (+2%), Cadence (+2%). Lower: Corning (-15%), Sandisk (-5%), Micron (-5%). Europe: Euro Stoxx 50 is modestly higher, helped by consumer stocks, while technology and energy shares lag. Key data today: Consumer Confidence, Case-Shiller Home Price Index, Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index, and Wholesale Inventories. Market Themes 🔴 Bearish: Semiconductors, AI infrastructure, technology. 🟢 Supportive: Consumer staples, select software, airlines/travel (benefiting from lower oil). 👀 Main catalysts: Fed meeting, major earnings, AI spending outlook, and China semiconductor developments.

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  J0e_Le || COMMS OPEN(0/2) (@j0e_le) reported 59 minutes ago

  issue are always the one to bring this statement down. It kinda comes of as priviliged considering some people's actually genuine livelihoods rely on that money in paypal, it's just that it either gets flagged before people can even move it to their banks / local e-commerce apps