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 (37%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Sydney	Sign in	1 day ago
Adelaide	Sign in	2 days ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Sign in	2 days ago
Ciudad Jardín	Errors	3 days ago
Paris	Sign in	4 days ago
Benfeld	Sign in	6 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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  valine ꕤ Vkusno i Tochka Glider. @ after dm! (@valereeyn) reported 3 minutes ago

  well for some reason, i am holding the paypal payment due to an issue. I hope everything will be fix it tomorrow🤍 tysm for today!

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  auli (@corpupse) reported 3 minutes ago

  @meowabri REALLY🙁 i'm so sorry to hear that, i'm here for you. With what did you pay? You could ask for a refund to the site if you commissioned them through Paypal for example. I haven't seen Tiktok take the account down sadly... i'm really sorry this happended to you

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  Ifiok Ambrose (@ifiokambrosee) reported 6 minutes ago

  @bernarditoro_ You can fix product perception by building a product to global standards. Why should I target Nigerians for a SaaS aimed at solving a global problem when I can use Flutterwave for USD checkout or recurring plans? It even has a Pay with PayPal feature bro.

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  Crompton Shnuggers (@Shnuggers) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PayPal @AskPayPal why does your face scan suck so damn much. I've done it a million times, either make it work or don't make me deal with it to get my money. Fix your ****.

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  mia 🎣 (@lenospaced) reported 9 minutes ago

  i have to finish adding the metal universe pulls and then add these extended series and allures. kinda shocked i didn’t get thaaat many duplicates as always dm or reply if u want to trade or buy (paypal) and ask me what teams i have im always down

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  Marie Devine (@MarieKDevine44) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ElonMinnovateUS A. Yes, but I am being scammed by a person claiming His voice, his Telegram handle 《CEO EL●N MUSK》, and helped me "buy bitcoin" through Cash App sent to tesl-invhub .çom and can't draw out. tried to get new sign in password to PayPal, etc., coinbank withdrew $650 my bank w/c

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 15 minutes ago

  Elon Musk's best friend staged an intervention to stop him from starting SpaceX. Adeo Ressi had known him since college. When Elon said he was going to spend his PayPal fortune building rockets, Ressi did what any good friend would do. He compiled a video montage of rockets exploding. Every famous launch failure in history, cut together into one film of fireballs, and he sat Elon down and made him watch it. The message was simple. This is what happens to rockets. This is what will happen to your money. Nations with unlimited budgets fail at this. You are one man. Friends flew in. They took turns explaining why this was insane. The aerospace industry agreed with them. Everyone who loved him and everyone who understood rockets said the same word. Don't. Elon watched the entire video. Thanked his best friend. And started SpaceX anyway. Here's the part nobody talks about. Ressi wasn't wrong. The first rocket exploded. The second exploded. The third exploded, exactly like the montage predicted. Elon lost almost everything, exactly as warned. Then the fourth one reached orbit and everything the video predicted became the reason the story is legendary. The people who love you will always show you the explosion reel. They're not lying. The explosions are real. What they can't show you is the launch after the last explosion, because that footage doesn't exist yet. You have to film it yourself.

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  evannie 🎀💌 (@evanniestash) reported 17 minutes ago

  I'm holding my status as a former video editor and YouTuber for the time being because of another PayPal email confirming the permanent deactivation of my account after I contacted support about resolving disputes and negative balances. I can't use another payment system to refund my VGen clients and resolve the disputes from PayPal as it's locked on the payment platform, and sadly Wise, Payoneer and Stripe - the alternatives for client payments - isn't accessible in my country. It is potential that I'm requesting @_VGen_ support to ban my account permanently due to this mess - and I can't open my comms any longer - due to both my broken reputation and my PayPal account being banned. I'll update you when there's more info.

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Jason______A @PayPal @AskPayPal nobody has a rep, thats the whole problem. theres no named human to escalate to at consumer tier, which is why 39 people here have the same story and none of them end differently

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  TheGoldenBo (@therealalexbear) reported 22 minutes ago

  I completely forgot how ******* broken my Paypal account is for some reason until today

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  Saint James Hartline (@JamesHartline) reported 26 minutes ago

  @unhealthytruth Erin, I'm looking into this. Perhaps you can too. The mother is running this foundation in her son's name, The Jansen Rane Panettiere Art Foundation. But it doesn't have a 501c3 non-profit chairty status. So where is the money going, how is the money accounted for and how much is the mother paying herself? And how much in taxes has she paid on the revenue. The donation icon on the website connects to Paypal, but it is currently not working on the site.

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  smoothsimulator (@DickTrout) reported 27 minutes ago

  @dustindoner @BR1INFINITE let me pitch you my enternet monetization model and you let me know if it sounds scummy or otherwise stupid to you. I'm open to criticism. First of all we gamify the internet. Think VR chat on a fancy topographical model. 3d internet. We solve some unknown unknowns and a lot of discovery problems. it's cool stuff. To make money I facilitate transactions at like 0.01%. Yes hosting a market for user made cosmetics, mods, etc. But also international commerce. Say you are shopping jp but spending usd. on the internet you see .jp and have to figure it out, maybe they ship to US but you need to have money in a foreign bank or some other complication. Hope they have a service that you can use. paypal fees, stripe fees, whatever. On the Enternet you would just see your native currency. If they ship to you you can buy with your native currency at a fraction of the remittance cost because we use XRPL to near instantly change the money at about the cost of a couple emails and again take ~0.01% of the trade to fund our efforts greatly undercutting the existing market and giving people more reason to use the service. The thinking is that the best crypto back end is one the users don't ever have to think about crypto in.

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  Krishnan Srinivasan (@Sastha93883062) reported 29 minutes ago

  @TheOfficialSBI Xoom, a PayPal Service xxxxx. 00 INR Transaction details Transaction number: XT92ZQY5 For: Krishnan Srinivasan Sender: xyz Date sent: Aug 12, 2026, 6:44 AM PDT Recipient receives: xxxxx.00 INR Money sent to: State Bank of India x-9101 @SHMBA09 Issue not resolved Please act/respond. Urgent.

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  Peter (@pettsleek) reported 33 minutes ago

  Hi @Safaricom_Care, is there any update on the issue affecting Paypal-MPESA transactions?

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  🍄 Leafu_Sketches 🍄 (Comms Open) (@LeafuDibujis) reported 34 minutes ago

  @jamilahnicoley Hi, unfortunately I'm having problems with PayPal. If you have any other payment methods, we can look into it!!

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  Greg N (@FreeFallCBWY) reported 34 minutes ago

  @puncturewounds_ You’re still getting charged from Lime wire? All jokes aside I had the same issue with PayPal. Stopped using them.

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 34 minutes ago

  @InfarisVelsina @PayPal 72 hours isnt the problem. a whole drive sitting on one account nobody in it controls is. thats the part i work on at vaultleap

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  Vox (@Voxyz_ai) reported 35 minutes ago

  If you're building a Grok Bot team, I'd start with these six roles. I moved some work from other agent tools into Grok Bot and reassigned ownership. A Bot needs recurring work, its own memory and task list, and regular handoffs. One-off capabilities stay as Skills or routines. 1. Nexus (Coordination) This is the Bot I use most. It reads today's tasks and each Bot's checkpoint, sets priorities, then hands the work to the right role. It also runs the nightly review, but only updates one TEAM_ALIGNMENT.md file. Conflicts, external messages, spending, and changes to important files come back to me. 2. Scout (Research and Leads) Scout reads X, GitHub, documentation, papers, and videos, and runs the daily content radar. Every result needs a source, a reason it is worth following, and a clear next owner. Content signals go to Quill, customer leads go to Guide, and technical issues go to Forge. 3. Quill (Content) Quill reads my writing rules, previous work, and approved phrasing, then turns research into posts, articles, and replies. When facts are missing, it asks Scout. For code or product details, it asks Forge. It prepares drafts but never publishes on its own. 4. Forge (Engineering and Automation) Forge writes code, builds automations and MCPs, deploys, and verifies the result. Guide can call it when a customer asks a technical question. Nexus can hand it repetitive work to turn into a tool. Every delivery needs test results, screenshots, or files I can inspect. A delivery does not count as complete without that evidence. 5. Guide (Customers and Delivery) Guide manages customers, prospects, briefs, feedback, delivery, and follow-up. Each important customer gets a separate context packet containing recent conversations, current goals, promises made, and open problems. Guide asks Scout to research a company or contact, and asks Forge for technical answers. Customer emails and messages remain drafts. 6. Ledger (Finance and Reconciliation) Ledger reads Wise, PayPal, invoices, and subscription data through my self-hosted MCP, then handles reconciliation, revenue records, and anomaly alerts. The real API keys stay on my own server. Ledger can prepare payment or refund recommendations, but every financial write still needs my approval. Once the roles are set, give each Bot the Plugins it needs. For example, Nexus can use Gmail, Calendar, Slack, and Granola. Quill can read Drive and Notion. Guide can use Gmail, Slack, and meeting notes. Forge can connect to code repositories and cloud services. Ledger continues to use my self-hosted MCP. Repeated methods become Skills. Work that needs to run on a schedule becomes a routine. That creates a basic loop: Plugins provide data and tools → a Skill defines the method → a routine triggers on schedule → the Bot completes the task or hands it to another Bot → I approve external messages, publishing, and financial actions For example, Guide's heartbeat checks the customer inbox on a schedule. When a new email arrives, the Gmail Plugin reads the full thread. Guide then opens that customer's context packet to see what was discussed before and what is currently blocked. If the email contains a technical question, Guide asks Forge to verify the answer. Once Forge replies, Guide writes the email draft and labels it: BOT DRAFT · NOT SENT · HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED Nexus adds the email to my pending report and reminds me that a customer reply needs review. The email is sent only after I approve it. I wouldn't create separate Bots for meeting prep, 1:1 reviews, data analysis, revenue forecasting, slides, or call reviews. Meeting prep and 1:1 reviews are Nexus routines. Ledger or Guide can run forecasting and data analysis when needed. Slides are a Skill called by Quill or Forge. Scout finds prospects, and Guide handles the follow-up. Bot = owns an ongoing work queue and needs its own memory Skill = a reusable method Routine = a task triggered on a schedule Packet = context for one customer or project Connector / MCP = access to external data and tools I start new capabilities as Skills. Once something has recurring work, its own state, and frequent handoffs with other Bots, then I create a Bot for it. This takes me back to the OpenClaw setup I built six months ago. I used almost the same roles then, but had to wire the whole thing together myself across a VPS, Vercel, and Supabase. The part I wanted most was smooth coordination: Bots messaging each other in the background, handing off tasks, and talking in a group. I spent way too many hours trying to make that work and probably lost some hair over it lol. The UX was still clunky. Six months later, bigger companies are moving into this space. They’re treating coordination as part of the product, which is a very different route from the DIY agent stacks I was building. Grok Bot’s group chats still aren’t perfect, but the handoffs and background messaging already feel much more natural.

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  TheBitcoinBaby (@bitcoinbabyswfl) reported 41 minutes ago

  Brother… you’re melting down on the timeline over a declined payment.Nobody “begged” you for anything your bank flagged your own transaction, we offered solutions, you blocked every number, and now you’re performing tough-guy karaoke on X.If you’re going to talk like a villain, at least make sure the screenshots don’t show you panicking over Apple Pay, PayPal, CashApp, and a card decline in the same hour.I run a company. You ran from a conversation.Stay safe out there, keyboard warrior.

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  Mirage (@dontstopmirage) reported 43 minutes ago

  CBS filmed a 27-year-old Elon Musk sleeping in his office in 1998 and 18 months later he sold the company for $307M Rita Braver brings a Sunday Morning crew to Palo Alto. Bad haircut. Cheap suit. He shows them the couch he sleeps on and the YMCA down the street where he showers. The company is Zip2. Maps, directions, yellow pages, white pages - the first versions of all of it on the internet, sold to newspapers that still print on paper. He wrote the code himself in 1995, at 23, weeks after walking out of a Stanford PhD. No web server, because a web server burns CPU he doesn't have. He reads port 8080 directly. No money for a Cisco T1 router. He pulls the spec sheet and writes his own emulator. Braver asks him about the internet. He calls it the superset of all media. Says television, print and radio all collapse into one pipe. Two-way. On demand. Whatever you want, whenever you want it. In 1998, that sounds like a kid who read too many magazines. The segment airs. The tape goes in a box. 1999: Compaq buys Zip2 for $307M . His cut is about $22M . He doesn't buy a house. He puts it into Xcom. Xcom becomes PayPal. PayPal becomes the money that starts SpaceX and Tesla. 26 years later somebody uploads the tape to YouTube. 23,000 views. The odd part isn't that he was right about the internet. It's that nobody in that room believed him, and it cost him 0 seconds. He wasn't predicting the future. He was describing his own desk.

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  Artur | Long-term investing & FIRE (@MoneyHacks16) reported 46 minutes ago

  @DividendDrip How many times do you think Nike or PayPal holders averaged down?

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  Zinc G. ZDraco (@LegendofZinc) reported 47 minutes ago

  @PayPal @Mastercard Would instantly lock you out of buying anything cause that's how PayPal works, first use would lock you out and then close your account out even if it's LEGIT cause PayPal uses AI for everything and there's number 1 major issue there, PayPay was good before AI.

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  Janes (@JanesUK89) reported 51 minutes ago

  @wearehappydoggo Is anyone else having problems donating using Niall's link? I've tried PayPal, debit card but it keeps saying unknown error. Help please!

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@aureayutrades) reported 52 minutes ago

  🍓 - open for transferring > paypal permanent limit withdrawal (180 days) > gcash & may with issue transfer balance (authentication failed, face recognition, can't send/open) > not verify balance transfer (gcash, maya, grab, shopee, lazada)

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  Dani. (@Danizeh) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Jason______A @PayPal @AskPayPal Avoid apps like PayPal and Revolut at all times I've had so many problems with both, they'll lock your account, have you contact some DEI hire that knows nothing, and your money will just be gone.

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  Karma’s Suppository (@realPhantomFuck) reported 52 minutes ago

  @benwegmann I’ve sold nine phones on Swappa and probably a dozen things on OfferUp and Craigslist over the years, I’ve never once had a problem. I’ve tried selling things on eBay TWICE and both times the seller attempted to scam me. eBay and PayPal are a cesspit

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  MotherDuckie (@Mother_Duckie) reported 53 minutes ago

  IMPORTANT PSA: Tipping Through Streamelements can get you doxed if the person you are tipping has their Setting toggled off (which I think it is by default) which says Tippers may edit their username. If they have it where tippers may not edit their username and then must use only their paypal credentials, then the streamer being tipped will see your full name. Thankfully, I have trustworthy friendos and I found this out after tipping. We didn't know it was a streamer setting issue, we thought it was on the tippers end. Thought I'd get the info out to all the peeps taking tips through streamelements. Below is an image of where to find that setting.

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  ʟɪxɪᴇʙᴇʟʟᴇ & ᴛʜᴀᴛ . ִ𐀔٠ (@lixiibelle) reported 53 minutes ago

  @skz_usa admin, i had trouble buying on 7Digital last week bc they said their PayPal was down, and I couldn’t check out without my linked PayPal account. do you know if we’re getting the singles on stationhead?

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  Covey (@CoveyNetwork) reported 58 minutes ago

  Dogecoin has always had something most tokens spend years trying to buy, actual cultural distribution. Everyone knows the name, that was never the problem. The problem was always the same one @RobinhoodCrypto is solving from the other direction. Distribution without real infrastructure underneath it just sits there. House of Doge just partnered with Paxos to plug DOGE into the rails already running PayPal, Venmo, and Interactive Brokers. That’s hundreds of millions of existing users one integration away from being able to actually use it, not just recognize it. Distribution has always been the hard problem in crypto. DOGE solved that part a decade ago by accident. Whether the infrastructure catches up is the more interesting question now, same one we’re watching everywhere else.

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  Zinc G. ZDraco (@LegendofZinc) reported 59 minutes ago

  @PayPal can shut down for all I care, PayPal has been nothing but a pain in my rear for LEGIT use. Shut down my old account cause I linked (MY OWN ACTION) a LEGIT service up to it and now is giving me HECK on my new account. About ready to say SCREW IT and go to Vemno. DO BETTER!