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 (42%)
• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Châteauroux	Website Down	4 hours ago
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	2 days ago
Athis-Mons	Errors	2 days ago
Perth	Sign in	3 days ago
Courbevoie	Sign in	3 days ago
Kassel	Sign in	8 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  rys || vgen comms open!!! || (@rysorchid_) reported 1 minute ago

  @chadopts ( ´-｀)my PayPal asked to verify some infos too. I did still haven't heard back. I hope the issue gets fixed soon

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  Michael Burry Stock Tracker ♟ (@burrytracker) reported 3 minutes ago

  Update: It's been 134 days since Michael Burry publicly went bullish on PayPal $PYPL It's up 9% since On July 15th, PayPal spiked 17% after rumors of a buyout Later that day, Michael Burry said this about the buyout, "simply too low" in regards to the offer Last night, Stripe and private equity firm Advent International abandoned PayPal takeover plans $PYPL is down 11% today but Burry is still up

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  Polymarket Money (@PolymarketMoney) reported 8 minutes ago

  JUST IN: PayPal is down more than 10% after Stripe and Advent reportedly “dropped their pursuit” of a potential acquisition.

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  Retail Options Trader (@RetailOptTrader) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak Use Stripe. I had many issues with PayPal, truly terrible company.

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  @Steelers Nasty (@SteelersNasty) reported 12 minutes ago

  Made a pretty large deposit into @VENMO 5 days ago. Still waiting for access even though it cleared my bank 2 days ago. This is the answer I received when I asked what the issue was. Now how many millions do they have ******* in this alleged issue? @USTreasury #VENMO @PAYPAL #PAYPAL #FANDUEL

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  Moby 🐳 (@MobyInvest) reported 13 minutes ago

  PayPal shares are sinking after a Bloomberg report says Advent and Stripe have walked away from their takeover bid. The pair had offered $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B. $PYPL is down more than 11% today.

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  Niko Hernandez (@nikohernandez23) reported 14 minutes ago

  Just look up the history of PayPal and you'll quickly realize why it's so terrible

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  Boston Avionics (@bostonavionics) reported 16 minutes ago

  PayPal is down more than 10% after Stripe and Advent reportedly “dropped their pursuit” of a potential acquisition.

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  Lloyd (@lloydvvegas) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak Venmo a PayPal company closed my account recently. Which wouldn’t have been a big deal since I only had a $5 balance. My bad actually I had just parked my bluebird money there because bluebird was shutting down. Now I’m stuck checking the website so I can reclaim the funds.

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  Paras_ (@paras_vyas_) reported 16 minutes ago

  I think we're about to have a strange new version of SEO. Your next customer might not be the one reading your website. It might be their AI agent. Stripe's leadership is already talking about a future where traditional checkout pages become less important as AI agents handle purchases. Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are building the payment rails for this. That made me think about something else. Today we optimise websites for humans: Good copy. Good design. Fast pages. Clear CTAs But an AI agent may approach your business very differently. It may ask: - What exactly do you sell? - How much does it cost? - Is it available? - Can I trust this company? - What are the alternatives? - What happens if something goes wrong? And then make the recommendation for its human. So perhaps the next website optimisation question isn't only: “Will a visitor convert?” It may become: “Can a machine understand why this business is the right choice?” That's a very different problem. And I think there's a lot of room for small businesses and solo founders to get ahead of it. When I started my AI journey and designed my first landing page, I predicted a similar trend would emerge and become a major challenge for SaaS founders, digital marketers and agencies. This prediction eventually became a core insight about my website CRO audit tool, SiteRoast (link in bio). To share with you, this was one of the top 5 recommendations when I asked AI during my product research, and when it got ready, I did a self-audit of my page numerous times with AI, understood their findings and reasons behind them, thanked them for improvements and then made it better for my ICPs. Today, after 500+ hours of coding and fixing work, SiteRoast does CRO-level audits at a fraction of the cost, suggesting step-by-step, priority-wise fixes with a ready-to-share PDF for your internal team in 60 Seconds. It's also available as a white-label product for agencies. SiteRoast is the only product in the market that does that.

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  Simon Moz (@SimonSoundz) reported 25 minutes ago

  @adelahub Another pre-sale won't fix anything. I've tried the album pre-order pre-sale, Telekom pre-sale, PayPal pre-sale, all for nothing. 🙃 Something needs to change in the system.

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  Ringside (@Ringside_Daily) reported 26 minutes ago

  PayPal is down 11.60% to $54.34 after Advent and Stripe abandoned their pursuit. The group had offered $60.50 a share in mid-July, valuing PayPal north of $50 billion. The board considered that price inadequate. The stock now trades about 10% below the bid it turned down.

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  Tech In Twi (@tech_twi) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak A similar thing happened to me. It was about $19k. I called them to investigate the situation when it was only $1.4k, and they told me they were aware of the issue and that I shouldn’t worry. About 2 months later, they placed a negative balance of over $19k on my account, claiming that I owed them. They then sent the account to collections. When the collection agent called me, I explained that PayPal allowed the situation to happen and told them to listen to the recorded call between me and their agent before all of this happened. Less than 2 weeks later, they reduced the negative balance to around $8k. Since then, I don’t even remember the last time I logged in. Maybe they took the loss, but I don’t care because I don’t plan on using PayPal again.

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  Cristiano Augusto Tofani (@AugustoTofani) reported 32 minutes ago

  @Barchart @VladTheInflator The tape says something sharper than the headline. The board turned down $60.50 as too low. Yesterday the stock closed at $61.47, above the price it had refused. That is not merger arbitrage, that is the market pricing a bump nobody had agreed to pay. When the option expires, so does the premium. $53.97 after hours is roughly where the standalone case already was. The interesting part is why the buyers walked. Not price alone: the board flagged regulatory and financing obstacles. Stripe plus PayPal would have been around 63% of online checkout. That deal had an antitrust problem before it had a price problem. The part worth keeping: a $53bn take-private of a business guiding to about $5.38 of adjusted EPS, with $486bn of quarterly payment volume growing 10%, could not get financed in the same month AI infrastructure raised more than that at coupons under 1%. Capital is not scarce. It is directional. At roughly 10x 2027 estimates, PayPal is a turnaround again, and now priced as one.

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  Kantala fc (@ifOnlyKantala) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Mugiwara1103 Switch to wise, paypal is terrible

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  cla6 (@the6isloose) reported 34 minutes ago

  if i took commissions specifically for robuxs would anyone be interested (cant take normal ones because my paypal is down and im done trying to make it work)

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  0xMM (@0xmintmee) reported 35 minutes ago

  pyusd is down from a $4b peak in march to about $2.7b. paypal has folded it into a broader payments unit.

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  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 36 minutes ago

  @inkofnightfall I haven't been able to work for about 2 years now due to sudden health complications needing surgery. This one illness has destroyed my husband and I financially. The injection I need isn't covered by my insurance and costs $500 month. Now my husband gets paid and after bills there like $100 left for food for 2 weeks. We have been living on cereal, cheap frozen pizzas and hot dogs. Sometimes I dont eat for a few days so the food lasts longer. If we could any donation to help out, We would be so thankful! Hopefully these gas and grocery prices go down and I get healthy enough to work again. I dont even know how much to ask for...$500 or $1000? Here is my PayPal QR code.

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  Alpha🐺 (@Market_Alpha_) reported 39 minutes ago

  PayPal is down about 13% premarket after the Advent/Stripe consortium reportedly walked away. Their rejected bid was $60.50. $PYPL closed yesterday at $61.47 and now trades near $53.39. The part the headline misses: that is still about 13% above the roughly $47.27 price before the bid surfaced in July. Since then PayPal raised 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.38 and outlined $400M of savings this year. The deal premium disappeared. The entire rerating did not.

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  David R (@rvderman) reported 42 minutes ago

  99% of people have never heard of Paxos most people in crypto and fintech have a big portion still cannot tell you what we actually do for starters, Paxos became the first regulated blockchain company in 2015 ethereum launched right after the point was never crypto price go up it was (still is) that this technology could rebuild how money and assets move two jobs • wallet infrastructure - the hidden engine when you tap buy/sell/hold crypto inside Paypal or Schwab • tokenization - take dollars in a bank or gold in a vault and issue a digital version Paxos legally stands behind. PYUSD for Paypal USDG for the global dollar network the real mission sits under both replatform the financial system not a a new everything app / exchange not the next coin cycle $900 trillion of assets are illiquid, high-enry-cost bring it all on chain any asset any time any place in a trustworthy way that is the goal

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  James Wester (@jameswester) reported 44 minutes ago

  Retweeting a retweet of @regulatorynerd from July re: Stripe/PayPal and pointing to this: "And the fact they need to involve Advent to fund it illustrates why they should have gone public already. A public company could do this without PE." It wasn't just PayPal's issue.

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  Matt Fanning (@fanvestments) reported 50 minutes ago

  $PYPL Stripe & Advent have backed out of potential paypal takeover. Yet again, proving the current structure is not working. .@paypal mgmt should have to explain why the following is wrong. Paypal needs to become Venmo, and put the paypal brand to bed. The brand is a dinosaur and to most people, already does not exist. What are you holding on to ?? Venmo is the verb, and at least from my own experience, is the #1 payment app. From experience, Venmo business is what clients use, barely ever using cashapp, apple pay or zelle - DEFINITELY NOT PAYPAL. Become Venmo, become the Verb in the payment industry. Become one business with zero overlap, overlap is only expensive, not beneficial. If i'm wrong, explain to your shareholders why, because whatever it is you're doing or thinking, IT'S NOT WORKING. (no position). At the least, spin off Venmo to the public market.

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  Wee Stocks (@WeeStocks) reported 52 minutes ago

  PayPal $PYPL is down ~13% premarket after Stripe and Advent reportedly walked away from their $60.50 a share takeover bid. Interesting bit: PYPL had gained nearly 30% after the bid first surfaced. A month of takeover premium, gone in a morning. Good reminder that a rumour can move a stock a long way, but it isn’t a thesis.

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  TradingRuppe | Investing (@TradingRuppe) reported 53 minutes ago

  🚨 10 WILD THINGS THAT JUST HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY (FRIDAY, AUG 28, 2026) 🚨 1. PayPal Collapses -12.7% ($PYPL): Shares of $PYPL plummeted on 31M+ heavy sell volume following reports that private equity firm Advent and payments giant Stripe officially abandoned their rumored $50 Billion takeover acquisition.  2. Marvell Tech Dumps -10.3% Post-Earnings ($MRVL): Despite reporting a top-line Q2 beat, chipmaker $MRVL sank on massive 43M share volume as institutional investors expressed disappointment that its Google AI partnership didn't raise Q3 margin guidance.  3. Elastic NV Explodes +19.3% ($ESTC): AI search & enterprise software leader $ESTC staged the day's largest mega-cap squeeze, rocketing +19.30% to $99.95 on 9M shares after blowing away earnings estimates and hiking full-year guidance.  4. Nvidia Surrenders Gains (-4.5% to $217): Following yesterday’s 435B market cap expansion, profit-takers took over asNVDA surrendered -4.50% to $217.55 on heavy institutional volume of 159 million shares traded.   5. Affirm Soars +12.0% ($AFRM): Fintech player $AFRM spiked +12.0% on heavy buy-side flow after printing a surprise quarterly profit and issuing above-consensus Q1 gross merchandise volume guidance. 6. The Gap Rallies +12.9% ($GAP): Retail giant $GAP surged +12.95% to $23.51 on 21M shares traded after reporting margin expansion, raising FY26 guidance, and naming a new brand CEO for Old Navy.  7. Rubrik Inc. Drops -13.2% ($RBRK): Cloud security platform $RBRK took a heavy hit, plunging -13.18% to $93.02 as software profit-taking triggered institutional de-risking despite solid top-line revenue metrics.  8. Jackson Hole Hawkish Pause Shift: Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s inaugural Jackson Hole address highlighted persistent structural inflation risks, locking 10-Year Treasury yields at 4.70% and keeping September rate cut odds anchored at 36%.  9. WTI Crude Slides to $82.68/bbl: Oil futures dropped another -1.0%, bringing WTI Crude down to $82.68/bbl as energy equities ($XLE) gave up recent risk premiums tied to Middle East supply lines. 10. Broad Market Mixed Into August Close: Diverging tech and retail flows left major indexes mixed to cap off the week, with the S&P 500 up +0.72% (7,730.99), the Dow up +0.20% (53,569.44), and the Nasdaq gaining +1.57% to 26,541.35.

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  TheCultureofDeath (@TheCultureDeath) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak (((TLDR: I report issue to PayPal, they fix nothing, they ban my account))) stfu snitch

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  Ryan Hutton (@ryanhutton_96) reported 55 minutes ago

  I had exactly the same issue and reported paypal to the police who just laughed. I had someone send me money then they asked for a refund. I refused as they had not met refund requirements and paypal took their side, locked my account and billed me for the full amount…

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  ♡ mari/cohe ♡ (@noinconsistency) reported 55 minutes ago

  @QLiu1808 @nicewhen i assume it's a phishing scam where the email in question has a link that leads to a website with a UI similar to paypal where the person has to log in and then their login info gets forwarded to the scammers

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  M Heilner (@mjh2008) reported 56 minutes ago

  @CharliePawsUp Ok, folks - time to rally the troops and support our pal @CharliePawsUp and his mama! They have until Monday to get the rent money together and are behind on other bills, too, due to slow summer store months. Links in bio for PayPal and turkey sammiches!

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  Dee (@diranoteg) reported 56 minutes ago

  PayPal was literally killing small businesses, holding their funds endlessly without any explanation. Now they've become a total failure. Wise @Wise your time is coming. Your company stock has been stagnant for 5 years. Eventually, short sellers will pile up on your garbage stock and push the price down.

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  John Davis (@JohnDav42688049) reported 1 hour ago

  @Adiofreak They are gigantic phaggots. I remember selling my WoW account long ago when I was 13. Made 200 bucks, next day it charged back because it was apparently a ‘stolen’ paypal account. Why is it my ******* problem some retarded boomer gave his account details away to a 75 iq pajeet.