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
Berlin	Sign in	3 days ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	3 days ago
Nantes	Errors	3 days ago
Vícar	Errors	3 days ago
Étauliers	Errors	3 days ago
Onnion	Website Down	4 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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  Lara🐶 (@ynhpuppy) reported 1 minute ago

  and she normally does pay over her dads paypal when this happens. So i told her i can pay those 2 dicons for her if it get it back the next few days. As i said we are really close and shes the most honest and nicest person ever so i had no problem with this.

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  Alex (@Its_Crusha) reported 3 minutes ago

  @gamzappau What's going on with PayPal payment on your site guys? Has been down all year.

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  Adam Cooper (@AJ_Cooper95) reported 5 minutes ago

  @YouWhat112 @pokemondealsuk Yep still won’t let me order even normal things. Even PayPal brings up the error. Quite possibly the worst time for this to happen as I think it’ll mean we miss every 30th drop until something happens. 😔

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  Mo Shaikh 🇺🇸 (@Moshaikh) reported 10 minutes ago

  @neilhar more sophisticated version of PayPal since it’s Musk ;) More social than Venmo Can easily go to 24 seven and incorporate stable coins and self custodial wallets if people actually want it. Most folks just want to be able to move money easily and actually don’t want to have to worry about custodial. People on the Hill saying that self custodial is an elegant solution designed for avoiding regulation- rather than actually solving a problem

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  Ian Mutuli (@ianmutuli) reported 11 minutes ago

  Having issues with PayPal mpesa withdrawals. Please check DM. Thanks. @Safaricom_Care

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Yuki_io_1 @Stable chain has the backing (PayPal, Tether) but only ~25 weekly contract deployers across 7 months. $FEFER was the main show, hit $16M then dropped under $5M with RPC issues. TVL sub-$300K now. ecosystem isn't there yet

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  Upside (@upside) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Ranked_Props Hi there! We recently made updates to our cashout options to make them faster, more reliable, and more flexible for our users. While PayPal was previously available, it only represented about 17% of all cash-outs last year. At the same time, we were seeing increasing issues wi...

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  Wahome Thuku (@wahome_thuku) reported 16 minutes ago

  @SafaricomPLC I am on call with paypal and they say you sre the problem its you refunding the money

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  Rolf Skeldon (@RolfSkeldon) reported 16 minutes ago

  Is Vitabiotics the worst of the most chaotic businesses in the UK? I am unable to log into my subscription account so I try a phone call, after 40 minutes ringing a man answers "Which business are you trying to reach?" I explain the issue and he says "This line is for business callers, goodbye!" Thankfully PayPal makes it easy to cancel Pre-approved payments 🤨

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  ᚷᚱᚨᚱ ᚢᛚᚠᚱ (@NotJoshGeyer) reported 17 minutes ago

  **MOLD SAGA UPDATE** Waiting on tools to be dropped off and parts to be delivered so I can fix this pulley and belt and coil packs. Could REALLY use $50 for gas, I’ve only got a half a tank and I need to get to Atlanta and drive around a little bit before I’ll make any money so if anyone wanted to throw me even a couple bucks it would help tremendously. Cashapp $primetime1313 PayPal JoshGeyer1313

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  Ritesh Roushan (@devXritesh) reported 17 minutes ago

  Everyone has used UPI, Stripe, or Razorpay Very few developers know what happens after you click " Pay Now " Here's a production-scale Payment Processing System. 👇 1. Client → API Gateway • Authenticate the user. • Apply rate limiting. • Generate an idempotency key to prevent duplicate payments. 2. Payment Service Before charging: • Validate the amount. • Verify the order exists. • Check payment status. • Create a payment record as `PENDING`. Never charge first. 3. Payment Gateway The request is forwarded to: • Stripe • Razorpay • PayPal • Bank APIs The gateway returns a success/failure response. 4. Webhooks Never trust the client response. The payment provider sends a webhook confirming: • SUCCESS • FAILED • REFUNDED • CHARGEBACK Webhooks become the source of truth. 5. Event Queue (Kafka) After confirmation: Publish: PaymentCompleted Consumers process it independently. 6. Downstream Services Different services consume the same event. • Order Service → Mark order as PAID • Inventory Service → Reduce stock • Notification Service → Send Email/SMS • Analytics Service → Update dashboards No service calls another directly. 7. Database Store: • Payment ID • Order ID • Status • Transaction ID • Provider • Timestamp PostgreSQL is commonly used for transactional consistency. 8. Failure Handling What if payment succeeds but the API crashes? No problem. The webhook retries. The idempotency key ensures the payment is processed only once. 9. Monitoring Track: • Failed payments • Success rate • Gateway latency • Webhook failures • Retry count Alert immediately when failure rates spike. Tech Stack • API Gateway • PostgreSQL • Kafka • Redis • Stripe/Razorpay • Kubernetes • Prometheus + Grafana • OpenTelemetry This is why production payment systems are event-driven not just a single API call. Which system should I break down next?

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  BIG MAMA (@RevFranklinBigM) reported 18 minutes ago

  INTO THINKING THIS IS A GREAT THING TO DO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HOLDUP IS WHAT'S THE PROBLEM WHAT DO YOU WANT CAN'T BE ABOUT MONEY AIN'T THAT MUCH MONEY IN THE WORLD I LIVE OFF OF CASH APP AND PAYPAL NOW AND I'M TELLING YOU I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT BECAUSE THE BIBLE TEACHES

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  West Lord (@MyWestLord) reported 19 minutes ago

  Elon Musk got 5 minutes at USC in 2014 and packed 4 rules into them that still outwork every $200 MBA book. Rule 1: came with a scene instead of a slide 2 brothers skipping the apartment to sleep on a couch in a rented office, showering at the YMCA, sharing 1 computer so the website ran by day while Elon coded through the night, 7 days a week, and his girlfriend had to sleep in the office just to see him. His math was brutal: when someone works 50 hours and you work 100, you ship 2 years of progress in 1. Rule 2: a company is nothing but people, so gather great ones or join great ones, because talent and direction decide everything else. Rule 3: signal over noise, which is why Tesla spent $0 on advertising and poured every dollar into R&D, manufacturing and design, killing any effort that didn’t make the car better. Rule 4: reason from first principles the way physicists cracked quantum mechanics, boiling things down to fundamental truths and building up from there instead of copying whatever the crowd does. Then the closer, aimed straight at 22-year-olds with no mortgage and no kids: risk gets expensive with age, and every added obligation turns bold moves into careful ones. He built PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX on those 4 rules. The couch came before the rockets.

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  ThanksForTheMemeries (@The_Memeries) reported 19 minutes ago

  @LibertarianG0th Its sort of like paypal and cashapp and such. Its banking built into X. Is it good? Dunno. I have issues with tying finances to something where they can nuke my account if I'm unpopular with enough people.

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  G-Zone (@The_G_Zone) reported 20 minutes ago

  Salvage comms have slowed down, and that's fine–I expect they'll pick back up once the 2.0 update drops and you can finally put them into the game. It just means my PayPal was almost empty when the scammer struck, and now it's in the red... Comms are still open, of course! Heh...

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  Upside (@upside) reported 20 minutes ago

  @thatcoolguyjosh Hi there! We recently made updates to our cashout options to make them faster, more reliable, and more flexible for our users. While PayPal was previously available, it only represented about 17% of all cash-outs last year. At the same time, we were seeing increasing issues wi...

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  SATANYAHU (@Outli3rThe) reported 22 minutes ago

  Nick Fuentes is a piece of **** he wasnt cancelled and debanked that happened to me long before him i couldnt have a paypal account, an amazon account, a ebay account, couldn’t open a tradtional bank account, fraud happened to me with credit and it was shot all of my 20’s horrible credit couldn’t build it because fraud kept happening to me I was on a no fly list during Obama I couldn’t travel i had FBI and CIA vans around me outside all the time. My twenties was a very dark period I had a lot of fun but underneath when I wasn’t I was constantly being harassed and stalked i still am to this day i just had to learn things to ease it up a bit constantly had fake women who were most likely men trying to blackmail me it would happen a lot. I had a brain aneurysm in 2011 I know they tried to kill me I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ALIVE I AM A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX I AM SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. They threw the kitchen sink at me and I survived through it all and came back I don’t know how. Yama tallies my karma and I hope to lead the life of the Eightfold path and no longer give into the 3 poisons I want out of the matrix and I will leave and not come back I just hope I can stay on this path and get off the wheel of life.

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  ValerianDevis (@ValerianDevisx) reported 23 minutes ago

  fix price 35$ any characters ok! payment via Lavatop (PayPal) deadline 2 weeks please send me message if you interested ! telegram: darkangelspaceeeee discord: valerian_devis

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  cailey ⁷ IS SEEING BTS x2 (@dontworryimyw) reported 27 minutes ago

  guys for the pickup merch, if you’ve never previously had issues with paying with Apple Pay, then just use Apple Pay. I didn’t get anything I wanted because I tried to use PayPal and it took 5 mins to get me logged in when if I just used Apple Pay I could’ve got all I wanted

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  Ebin Memes22 (@EbinMemes22) reported 30 minutes ago

  @ItsLulu_7 you can talk to anyone on earth in as near to real time as physics can currently take us, obesity and laziness are magnitudes more of a problem than starvation , with paypal you can pay for things in a couple of clicks and with amazon they can arrive at your home the next day.

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  Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) reported 35 minutes ago

  Max Levchin explains why B-players hire C-players The co-founder of PayPal and Affirm reflects on the famous Steve Jobs insight that A-players hire A-players, and B-players hire C-players: “It’s profoundly true. But there should be an asterisk explaining why this is true. And the reason for this is fear.” A-players love working with other A-players because they know it will make them better. They want other A-players who challenge them and will tell them when their work isn’t good. Most B-players are net positive too, but as Max argues, some are fearful and will say: “If I have too many B-players or A-players around, I will look terrible and it’ll be very obvious that I’m just not that good. So the way to fix this is for me to become a manager and hire a bunch of people who aren’t very good at all so that I’ll look like the tallest mushroom.” Max continues: “That is the real danger of B-players. Having people who are perfectly willing to do good work day-in and day-out is not the worst thing in the world. There’s plenty of things that A-players will turn their nose from because it’s just not that challenging. B-players are very good for that [type of work]. And a lot of B-players will over time grind their way to being A-players, so you’re investing in their future and they know it, and that’s also positive. But B-players who have fear of being found out are the ones you have to watch out for.” Source: @HarryStebbings @20vcFund (Feb 2025)

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  Edgar Gumstein (@Gumclaw) reported 36 minutes ago

  @olliehorncomedy @olliehorncomedy Sorry for the slow reply. One-time card purchases in GBP are charged in GBP at checkout; memberships/subscriptions and PayPal payments still process in USD — likely what your customers hit. Share the product link and I'll check which path yours takes.

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  hoovelessmoose (@hoovelessmoose) reported 39 minutes ago

  @purplehaze422 @ShiHendrixxx I'm a fan of Jake's generally, and this wasn't intended as a slight. Public appearances are a bad idea. It'd be an unnecessary risk, and an avoidable error that we'd rather not be looking back at with regret. Just listen to the lawyers. They know best, and this looks like a layup appeal. Best not **** it up. Plus, let's be real here. The chances this is actually Shiloh are pretty slim. At best its a 50/50 chance. It's much more likely a scammed with the PayPal link going up and the reuploaded jpeg profile pic.

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  BAPen 🇺🇸 🦅 (@dornepab) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Strava I’m having a hell of a time renewing my subscription (originally through Apple subscriptions, expired July 8), possibly because I’m having an iPhone & debit card issue?? But it won’t let me add Apple Card, Amex, PayPal or other pymts either… can you help?

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  Omaru (@OmarChoudhury92) reported 44 minutes ago

  @conkerax Xbox was down the day before, steam was down earlier the same morning, have you seen apologies from them? Also it wasnt PSN that was down it was AWS that was down which affects an insane amount of companies including banks and PayPal...

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  JoMama (@JoMamaHoeppner) reported 45 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Your AI Assistant is worthless. How about providing a phone number for a real person that has the ability to understand the issue?

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  Eva Fo𝕏 🦊 Claudius Nero's Legion (@EvaFox) reported 46 minutes ago

  Elon Musk makes the impossible possible. Having earned $250 million from the sale of PayPal, he put his money on the line once again. One of his projects was a $70 million investment in Tesla. He also sought additional funding from Michael Moritz, one of the world's largest venture capitalists, who turned him down, explaining, "we're not going to compete against Toyota," and the entire Tesla concept was "mission impossible." Currently, Tesla's market capitalization is $1.4 trillion, while Toyota's is only $213 billion. What Elon does often seems impossible, but many overlook the fact that he almost always delivers what was once considered impossible. Tesla's example illustrates the most important thing to know about Elon: the scale of achievements is always incredible when he sets his mind to it.

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  Vince Visuals (@vince19visuals) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Taylor167670099 @LobanjicaCS Man that‘s so sad I can‘t imagine how you are feeling damn :/ I‘ve send them a couple of paypal transaction and also 2/3 game keys which I‘ve used to redeen into my steam accounts and that sold my problem within a week

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  Craig Green (@GreenVelvet001) reported 57 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal guys ive been using pay in 3 for years now. I pay early and no issues no missed payments but all of a sudden it says it is unavailable to me. Yet I can pick a new option of pay in 30. Is this replacing pay in 3?

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  Dami O. Mogaji (@daminister14) reported 58 minutes ago

  I have no issues with closing customers account - it's their prerogative. However if you close an account, you should return the funds to the customer. It's not your money! Same for PayPal too