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 (40%)
• Errors (38%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Hochfelden	Website Down	2 hours ago
Lyon	Errors	3 days ago
Paris	Sign in	5 days ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	5 days ago
Tlaquepaque	Errors	7 days ago
Massy	Website Down	7 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  The Grand Teuton 🇺🇸 (@flulrich) reported 5 minutes ago

  @BowTiedKong I think banking regulations mandate the involvement of some physical clearing houses for an "online" transfer Why not just use ravens to transfer the funds? Another issue is PayPal holding people's funds hostage whenever they feel like it, apparently

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  Denistratos (@Denistratos) reported 5 minutes ago

  @SumPoorSlob Let’s take this point by point. First, it is simply impossible that you sent a request to the Stratosphere bot on Telegram and received no response. Support works 7 days a week, from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM New York time, and responds within an hour. Where exactly did you write? The only link to the Stratosphere bot is always in my bio. Please be careful. Scammers took over the Stratosphere X page back in May and used it for fraudulent activities. I posted two warnings about it. As far as I know, they have been inactive for more than a month now – Canadian law enforcement is dealing with them. Second, we accept payments in USDC and USDT – three supported networks for each – and in BTC. This is not a matter of personal preference on my part – it is a matter of US and UAE financial regulations. Payment by card is something bloggers on X, YouTube, Substack, etc. can accept. We cannot. Third, there is no need to pay twice as much. I assume you probably went down some unnecessarily complicated route involving intrusive KYC through centralized exchanges or non-custodial wallets such as MetaMask or Trust Wallet. As far as I know, buying and sending crypto is quite straightforward through Cash App, Coinbase, PayPal / Venmo. Unfortunately, we cannot accept payment in any other way. Before deciding whether to try it or not, you can simply use the 24-hour free trial – it has been available since August 1.

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  Awesomesaucette (@LittleSlav) reported 6 minutes ago

  anyone else having issues logging into @PayPal on web?

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  Nova 🐊🦊 | Vgen and Ko-fi Open (@Novalligator) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Kosaki_rose Content PayPal support, they SHOULD be able to help since it was a genuine issue -Coming from someone who had the same thing happen

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  Kasper🔜Bday countdown (@KasperGalactica) reported 11 minutes ago

  UPDATE ON THE BUYEE ISSUE THEY JUST HATE MY PAYPAL I HAVE SHIPPED HIM OUT

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  Prafull Billore (@_prafullbillore) reported 12 minutes ago

  The money system you use every day is getting rebuilt, and the biggest players are leading it. Last year, $33 trillion moved on blockchains through stablecoins — more than Visa and Mastercard combined. That’s not a theory anymore. It’s happening. Stripe bought a stablecoin company for $1 billion and built its own blockchain, Tempo, with Visa validating on it. Mastercard is acquiring BVNK. PayPal already issues PYUSD, and Circle went public at a $33 billion valuation. Think of it like WhatsApp for money. Traditional payments pass through four or five banks, take two days to settle, and charge fees at every step. Stablecoins use the internet instead, making transfers faster and cheaper. The rails underneath global commerce are changing right now. Your bank won’t tell you because it doesn’t benefit them. But the shift is already underway.

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  charles 🌿 𝕽𝖊𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖙 𝕭𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖗𝖆 (@thehorsecharles) reported 12 minutes ago

  @hasmagoria anyways I think atp I have to assume you just get off on lolis and being talked down to by horses online so if you’d like to continue this conversation i’ll give you my PayPal bc why anyone would continue to talk to you without being properly compensated for it

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  دکتر مهندس فتحی (@i_sundog) reported 13 minutes ago

  @DrMichaelBonner will try to secure a copy for you through friends visiting if all else doesn't work? following explains how to directly purchase Farsi translation of the book- sorry a bit lengthy, eh: sanctions heavily affect ability to purchase the Farsi translation directly from Iranian platforms if you are located in the United States. US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control enforces strict comprehensive sanctions on Iran's banking n financial sectors. This creates significant practical barriers, even though the law technically makes exceptions for books. 1. The Informational Exception (The Legality): under the Berman Amendment to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act importation n exportation of "informational materials" -including books, films, n music - are exempt fr US sanctions. •its completely legal for you to own, read, or import a physical or digital copy of this Farsi translation into the US. •You are not violating US federal law simply by buying a piece of literature. 2. Banking Blockade is a Practical Problem while buying the book is perfectly legal, paying for it fr US is nearly impossible through normal channels. •Iranian online stores like Digikala, Taaghche, or IranKetab only accept Iranian bank cards connected to the local Shatab (شتاب) network. •no International Processors: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, n PayPal operate in Iran n will block any transaction attempted on an Iranian website. •IP Blocks: many Iranian e-commerce networks completely block incoming web traffic or payment requests originating fr US IP addresses due to cybersecurity defenses. Workarounds to Purchase the Book Fr the US includes 3 choices: •Diaspora Persian Bookstores: Specialist physical n online bookstores based in the US, Canada, or Europe regularly import shipments of legal info materials fr Tehran. Check retailers like Ketab Corp (Los Angeles - aka Tehrangeles, they may have it, or find out if online Persian book importers can order a copy of آخرین امپراتوری ایران fr Mehrandish Publications for you. •Family or Friends in Iran: is easiest method is to have a contact inside Iran buy the physical book locally or purchase the digital version on Taaghche using an Iranian bank card, n then send you the login details or ship the physical copy via international mail networks. if other methods didn't work for you, let me know i will pursue this option •Third-Party Proxy Services: some international diaspora agencies specialize in paying for Iranian digital services on behalf of expats, though these often incur high service fees n operate in a legal gray area regarding money transfers.

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  that bookstore downtown (@maconsbookstore) reported 15 minutes ago

  @PayPal your site is down. 429 too many requests.

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  kerosene (@alexsentolop) reported 15 minutes ago

  @BTC77810 @AskPayPal I'm also facing the same problem. My account is permanently banned without any reasonable reason. Please help me paypal

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  Zely (@0xZely) reported 15 minutes ago

  Elon Musk had already made $200 million and was burning through it to keep three companies alive. He explained exactly how in a 45-minute closed-door talk at Stanford in 2003. The recording is on YouTube. Almost no founder has watched it in a decade. Today Musk is worth roughly $400 billion. That is a 2,000x personal net worth increase in twenty-two years. The talk in this video is Musk explaining, from age 32, exactly how he intended to survive the next few years long enough to make it happen. At the time he had three companies. Zip2 had already been sold to Compaq for $307 million. PayPal had just been sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. SpaceX was one year old and burning cash. He was worth roughly $200 million and had just committed the majority of it to keeping SpaceX alive. The 2003 Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner recording is 45 minutes. Musk covers his framework in four parts. Find direction. Do not build what you think other people want. Build what you would use yourself. Everything else is a market research problem, and market research is almost never how new markets are found. Control costs. Do the physics. Every SpaceX component was priced against the raw material cost of its inputs. If the ratio was more than three, he built it in-house instead of buying it. Stay alive. In a war of attrition the last money left in the account wins. When PayPal was near zero he stopped taking a salary, refused strategic investors who wanted control, and cut every discretionary line item to zero. Break down problems with first principles. Do not reason by analogy. Do not defer to what an industry currently believes. Rebuild the problem from the physical constraints and see what falls out. "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." That is Musk in a 2013 interview repeating a line he first used in the Stanford talk ten years earlier. It has been quoted in almost every founder biography since. Every top-selling startup book of the last two decades borrows from this framework. The recording is free. The books are not. Almost every founder on X quotes Musk while running their company on the opposite of what he taught in this room. The talk is free. The four rules fit on a napkin. The willingness to actually do the physics on a business you are running instead of another pitch deck is a much rarer commodity than the framework itself.

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  Northern Woman (@woman_northern) reported 16 minutes ago

  @arleneseesit @AskPayPal I had same problem with @PayPal last year, they kept moving the resolution date, in the end I emailed CEO of Company (Birkenstock) and received refund same day after months of hassle.

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  402 Research Lab .fun (@solanareseach) reported 18 minutes ago

  Hi @AskPayPal, I need help recovering my PayPal account. I still have access to my registered email, but I no longer have access to the phone number used for WhatsApp verification, so I can't receive the login code. I also can't log in to contact support via chat.

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  CMG (@gn_calmg_7) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Venmo @PayPal I am totally in a quandary with Venmo. I have been suspended and I don’t know why. I sent my photo ID to them as they requested but it has still been months and no word. I can find no answers to what probably is an easy fix

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  Lepus Ab Urbe (@coineagan) reported 23 minutes ago

  I really gotta fix the connection between my PayPal and go fundme. My damn dead name keeps showing up lol

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  Shelley Ollivier (@Shellfire04) reported 24 minutes ago

  I am disgusted with Google! Account is compromised can’t login, Paypal has an account under the gmail in question. I try to stop it and I get a BOT. Done With @google.com

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  Ryan (@Gelassoldat) reported 29 minutes ago

  I've been putting off writing this. Asking for help in public is not something I ever wanted to do. But I have a two year old and a four month old, and pride doesn't pay rent. Yesterday we got an eviction notice. We were two days late. Ten days to pay or we're out. Rent is just under $1,700. The apartment manager will work with us if we can put something toward it. My contract pay comes in weekly and I'm putting what I can spare from it straight into rent. Every dollar paid reduces what's owed, and whatever's left gets added on top of September and October rent, which we already can't cover, so paying it down now is the only thing that keeps this from getting worse. Here's how we got here. Our baby was born in April. My wife has had health complications since the birth and hasn't been able to return to work. Her maternity leave and short term disability have both run out. She's seeing a doctor this month, because right now she physically can't do her job, and we have no family in this city to help with the kids. Childcare costs more than we're bringing in. I lost my mom at the end of February. I still haven't had a real chance to sit with that. I've been job hunting since January. Locally I keep hearing I'm overqualified, and I get it, they assume I'll leave the moment something better shows up. I've applied for customer service roles I've done before and gotten nowhere. I've made it to final rounds more times than I want to count and walked away with nothing. I had another interview yesterday and gave it everything I had. On top of that, her company had payroll problems for months. We eventually got everything she was owed, but it came weeks and months late, and I took out loans to keep us afloat in the meantime. Those payments are still hitting every month. I did find contract work. It doesn't cover our bills, but I'm working extended hours and taking what I can get. Before posting this I called the community action agency, RIFA, Area Relief Ministries, the Red Cross, and 211. The rent assistance funding here ran dry back in March. There is nothing left in the local pipeline to catch us. We're going to have to move, either somewhere much cheaper or in with family in another state. What I need right now is to get through this month without my kids losing their home. I've asked family. Now I'm asking here. If you're able to help with rent, you can send it straight through X Money, Cash App, Venmo, or PayPal in the first reply Any amount helps, and it goes directly toward keeping my kids in this apartment. If you can't, that's alright. Sharing this so it reaches someone who can would mean just as much. And if all you did was read this far into a stranger's worst month, that mattered too. Thank you.

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  Brett Wilkins (@BrettWilkinsSF) reported 37 minutes ago

  @TomasCorax @hearnimator I will pay you $100 for every factual error in the article. So you can get an unlimited amount. You pay me $100 if there are no errors. PayPal or Venmo, your choice. Sounds like easy money to me!

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  Luna⁷ (@glamtopjm) reported 37 minutes ago

  Hii, is there any indian moot of mine that uses paypal? I need to make a small payment but my paypal is not working 😭😭 please help me out. I will gpay or phonepay you the money if you have paypal and can make it for me? I really need it please 🥹😭

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  Soren⁴²⁰ (Fokin Graduado💀) (@Soren_cio) reported 38 minutes ago

  @tartagliagita But if it’s something digital like a commission, then there’s no problem only the PayPal-style intermediary or smthn like that

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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 41 minutes ago

  Cindy's been through hell the last 2 years, disabled by injury, nightmare LL, took on 4- & 6-y/o niblings as guardian, at great personal cost. Her car needs a new thermostat, among other issues. Total $910; 18 ppl, $50 each: PayPal: @ cindysalazar435 Venmo: @ tiocindy42

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  Juan (@Juanitology) reported 44 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal EMERGENCY: Case ID PP-R-MCW-635878992 is auto-closing in 30 minutes. The buyer committed return tracking fraud by uploading the original outbound tracking number instead of returning the item. Phone support is down. PLEASE PAUSE CASE CLOSURE FOR HUMAN REVIEW.

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  SpeZ (@SpeZcia1) reported 44 minutes ago

  @EvilPetaceta You're selling merch now!!!?! Fuuuuh I need to fix my PayPal RIGHT ******* NOW BRO 💔💔

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  Uncle Link⭐ (@UncleLinx) reported 45 minutes ago

  the market runs 1,440 minutes a day. you run about 40. that's the entire problem. everything else you argue about on this app is downstream of that one number. so people build crutches. price alerts. a hundred goddamn price alerts. and a price alert is the dumbest possible version of your thesis, because it only knows one number. it can't tell a breakout from a wick that got bought back in nine seconds. the other camp sells you a bot. black box, a backtest curve going up and to the right, no way to ask it what the hell it's doing. most of it is a ******* screenshot business, not a trading business. TradeOS took the boring road instead. you type a sentence. plain English, no Pine Script, no repo to clone: "analyze QQQ 1D chart with trend analysis using moving average, MACD, squeeze momentum, ATR" that sentence becomes an agent: > it runs 24/7 > it watches the assets you named while you're asleep > it drops the verdict in your feed. "detected 3 trends." or nothing, which is also an answer. 13,000+ assets in reach. the agent doesn't get bored at minute 41. there's a second piece on there I think is underrated. an indicator market. one premarket S&P model has 19,347 subscribers on it. you can rent someone else's edge instead of rebuilding it from scratch, or publish yours and let other people pay for it. that's a real market, not a Discord with a paywall. now the part almost nobody clicks on. @TradeOS_ai is built on @verona_dev. Verona doesn't rent them blockspace. Verona earns a share of what the app earns. read that twice, because it inverts the usual deal. every other chain wants your gas and a logo in their ecosystem deck. Verona only gets paid when the app on top of it gets paid. that changes who they let build. a landlord takes any tenant. a partner does diligence. and look at who picked those rails. teams that moved money at eBay, PayPal, ByteDance, American Express. those people shipped payment infrastructure at a scale where a bad rail costs real money and somebody's job. they don't pick rails for the vibes. that's the signal I'd weigh, honestly. not the roadmap. the choice.

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  Alessandro Ottaviani (@AlexOttaBTC) reported 47 minutes ago

  There are issues with the lightning network and some Bitcoin maxis are afraid and scared of it This is another proof that many are in Bitcoin only for sovereign reason and they are deeply uneducated in economics. Reality: Bitcoin as MoE is trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist, as humanity is having a savings problem, but not a MoE problem, as we have paypal, mastercard+visa, apple pay, each of them working perfectly. Hence, a part of some Bitcoiners, there is no demand for Bitcoin as MoE, therefore any toold developed is for sure unstable. Basic Austrian Economics, and, unfortunately, many in Bitcoin are not even capable to understand it. Bitcoin as a reliable MoE is at least 10 or even 20 years away, till then, Fiat as MoE will always be the safer choice

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  Tony Njoroge (@NjorogeWambugu) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Kumarmanojk5 @PayPal @amazon Did they fix your problem?

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  Crimson Mercury (@Crims0nMercury) reported 52 minutes ago

  @neiko1201 I hope they resolve the problem for you soon, if the appeals are taking too long, try calling them, when I had issues with PayPal, they resolved the problem faster over the phone 🫂

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  Chaminda Delpagodage (@chams_builds) reported 57 minutes ago

  at PayPal we had a rule: systems must fail safe, not fail open. when something breaks, it locks down, it doesn't fling the doors open. same rule for AI agents: when unsure, it should stop and ask, not confidently guess. design for the bad day.

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  Qynève (@qyneve) reported 58 minutes ago

  @PsypupKo you can issue a chargeback on paypal directly, you'll get refunded, paypal always sides with the client!

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  Marsanne Golsby (@marsannegolsby) reported 60 minutes ago

  Follow up on my problems with Meta. The azzwipe who hacked my FB account also tried to steal $260 something, according to PayPal. Working it out with PayPal, I think. But I’m furious. IF I ever rejoin FB I’ll change my passwords once a month. Changing others this weekend as I have time. 😡