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
Schmallenberg	Errors	7 hours ago
Berlin	Sign in	5 days ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	5 days ago
Nantes	Errors	5 days ago
Vícar	Errors	5 days ago
Étauliers	Errors	5 days ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  GimbalLock (@TheGimbalLock) reported 38 seconds ago

  @Vampyrgaming I hope Bandai gets a new e-commerce partner. Global-e has terrible servers. I got my set, but was charged twice. Now gotta deal with an annoying refund process with paypal. Kuma worth it tho.

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  ⠅⠥⠃⠗⠁ (@ananimuser) reported 5 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I AM NOT GERMAN I'M FROM TURKEY AND PAYPAL ISNT ACTIVE IN MY COUNTRY. SO A FEW YEARS AGO I HAD TO CREATE A GERMAN ACCOUNT WITH SINGLE USE GERMAN NUMBER BUT I COULDNT DO THE PAYMENT SO THE ACC IS USELESS SINCE BUT I FORGOT MY PASSWORD I CANT LOGIN I CANT CONTACT YOU

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  Tam_ZEN⁷ I stayed for SEVEN🥢 🔍💜🔎 (@Tam_Z_7) reported 6 minutes ago

  @BTSMamaFan1 @PayPal Agreed. Why did it make me sign in with an actual password when I was already logged in with my face! 😠

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  ollej⁷ ㉣㉣㉧ MIWS (@jksyoongss) reported 9 minutes ago

  @weverseshop @namkook99 So angry! Sold out in minutes😡 couldn’t get anything. Anyone else PayPal messed up?? It made me login and confirm by phone and email 🙄

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  Aiman (@aimanthaufyq) reported 11 minutes ago

  @seefromthesky Isnt this showing that the problem is with small payments rather than paypal as a whole? For larger transactions, the effective fee is close to what many international processors charge.

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  My Secret ARIRANG Stan Account (@Mybtsstanacct1) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Katarinna Well it happened to people using PayPal as well, so that didn’t seem to be the problem.

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  lovelace (@lovieelace) reported 17 minutes ago

  @eloisemyi_ @AskPayPal I had this issue with my PayPal too, but thankfully support helped me restore my account limit. It was probably caused by a transaction. PayPal is strict with payments, so make sure clients use F&F for personal accounts and G&S for business accounts.

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  Omaru (@OmarChoudhury92) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Pirat_Nation Why is it youre not reporting its because amazon web services was down? Affected many companies including PayPal? And it was back up between 1-2hrs? And yet here you are spreading misinformation about people not able to play their digitally installed games 💀

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  Malware Kittens (@MalwareKittens) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Devon_Eriksen_ @artwithinpod He has the capital & the clout - that's what matters. He doesn't engineer anything anymore. I think he was good w PayPal - One problem with today- Tech bros get successful in one specific area- they get an ego & think they're extremely special geniuses in all other areas.

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  World of Bills 💸 (@World_Of_Bills) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care , more than 6 hrs gone and my paypal withdrawal says still pending? Why is taking so long. Address my issues please

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  Long (@damthanlong) reported 21 minutes ago

  In December 2008, Elon Musk gave Tesla the last of the money he had left. The wire transfer cleared at 6:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Had it been delayed by just a few more hours, Tesla's payroll checks would have bounced due to insufficient funds. Musk had sold PayPal in 2002 and walked away with roughly $180 million. Instead of doing what most people with $180 million would do, he poured nearly all of it into a rocket company and an electric car company—two industries where history had almost never seen outsiders succeed. Then came 2008, and the financial crisis began to consume what remained. By the end of that year, he reportedly had only a few hundred thousand dollars left and had to borrow money from friends to pay his rent. His marriage also fell apart that same year. Two companies. Both on the brink of running out of cash. In the very same month. The rockets had already failed. At the time, SpaceX had only one product: a small rocket called Falcon 1, and enough funding for just three launches. That was all the money they had. The first launch caught fire and crashed back toward the launch site. The second made it into the sky but lost control before reaching orbit. The third achieved perfect stage separation, but the spent first stage drifted back and lightly collided with the second stage—a timing issue with a newly developed engine—and the rocket was lost. Three launches. Three failures. Not a dollar left. Musk assembled a fourth rocket from the remaining spare parts and bet the last of his money on it. It launched on September 28, 2008, from a small island in the Pacific and successfully reached orbit. It became the first privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to achieve that milestone. Musk later said those were literally the last funds the company had, and had the fourth launch failed, SpaceX would have shut down that very night. But that still wasn't enough to save Tesla. Tesla had been close to completing a $100 million funding round earlier that summer, but the banking system collapsed and credit markets froze. A tiny automotive startup trying to raise capital while even General Motors was nearing bankruptcy had almost no chance. The company was burning through cash, had not yet put a production vehicle into full-scale manufacturing, and was only days away from missing payroll. So Musk took over as CEO. He invested the last of his own money into Tesla. He persuaded existing investors to restructure the financing round into debt in order to get around an investor who was blocking the deal. The agreement closed at 6:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Musk gave Tesla the last dollars he had, and later said that at the time he "didn't even own a house or anything else that could be sold." Just one day earlier, NASA had awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. Musk later said he was so overwhelmed that he could barely hold his phone. Within 48 hours, both companies had been pulled back from the edge of collapse, during what was arguably the darkest period of his life. Today, people look at Musk and debate whether he's a genius. That genius was already there through all three failed launches, and it still wasn't enough to save him. What ultimately saved him was a decision he had made months earlier, when the money first started running out. He could have poured everything he had left into one company and let the other die. That would have been the rational move. Instead, he split his last dollars between both companies, knowing full well that doing so could cause him to lose them both. He later admitted that the experience nearly broke him mentally, and it could very easily have destroyed both companies at the same time. Most people would have given up after failing three times in a row. He paid for a fourth attempt. And this time... it worked.

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  …senator2031 (@biggest_bango) reported 21 minutes ago

  @webdesignerng My first contract was through a dm and I told him the problem that needs to be solved and he bought into it. PayPal, Apple did a lot of pitches and got a lot of NO and when the YES came , it covered the NO. Don’t stop pushing, dont stop pitching.

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  lo⁷ loves tae and jimin (@taexjm95) reported 22 minutes ago

  the paypal verfication login **** literally messed me up but at least i was still able to secure 2/3 of the items for LA pickup so i’m grateful

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  Djevans (@Djevans703) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TheLongInvest The all time POC is down at $50 area. Looks like it’s gonna do the same as PayPal. I would be interested down there. Otherwise I’ll just miss it

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  Ian Mutuli (@ianmutuli) reported 28 minutes ago

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

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  John-Jacob-Jinglehiemer-Smith (@dustsucker9000) reported 30 minutes ago

  @VegHand Imma get back to you.. I haven’t used PayPal in forever.. I’ll figure out my login!

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  🦋🏹 epiphany ⁷🦋🏹 (@Memoirsepiphany) reported 31 minutes ago

  I can't login in my PayPal account and it's pissing me ******** off

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  Magicattos | Comissions OPEN | 18+ ONLY (@Magicattos) reported 32 minutes ago

  @Maestraaah Damn :( I haven't seen if I have issues with PayPal today, hope it gets fixed soon :3

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  Mrpark.eth (@muhammadakored2) reported 33 minutes ago

  How i wish all AI platform introduce crytpo payment to their platform for easy crossboarder payment. I faced an issue with an AI Creative partner platform that only uses Paypal. My payment was slashed into two before i received them.

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  Duarte ✠ (@jao_duarte3) reported 35 minutes ago

  Morgan Wallen: Still The Problem Tour Lincoln Financial Field-Philadelphia, PA August 1, 2026 5:30 PM 2x Standard Tickets Mobile transfer. Payment via PayPal G&S accepted. DM if interested!

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  Elizabeth Charnay (@charnayelizabet) reported 36 minutes ago

  Practices. @PayPal makes no sense how terrible your customer service is the inability to provide good information to your clients that you obviously don’t give a **** about.

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  Matt Hunter (@MattHunterCoach) reported 37 minutes ago

  The best decision PayPal ever made came out of a fierce disagreement between its two top leaders. Max Levchin wanted to send money between Palm Pilots.  Peter Thiel saw limited market potential and said so, clearly and directly. Neither backed down easily. Neither softened the message for the sake of harmony. Out of that clash came a pivot to email money transfers that eventually led to a $1.5 billion acquisition by eBay. When talented people argue honestly toward the truth, great things happen.

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  K-Dope⁷💜 아포방포 🐘 ㉧㉣㉣ (@kdope85) reported 40 minutes ago

  @BTSMamaFan1 @PayPal same! I'm still having problems 😭

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  Ryan Innes (@stw1423) reported 46 minutes ago

  @FanDuel_Support is there still an outage for PayPal from FanDuel DFS in Alberta? Been trying to withdraw my money and have been ignored. Any help would be appreciated.

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  B (@brobertson2010) reported 48 minutes ago

  Are banks in the UK experiencing issues? Friends are struggling to transfer (business and personal accounts) @BBCNews @SkyNews Down Detector is showing dozens of reports for Revolut, Monzo, Barclays, Nationwide, NatWest, PayPal etc.

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  Duarte ✠ (@jao_duarte3) reported 49 minutes ago

  Morgan Wallen: Still The Problem Tour Lincoln Financial Field-Philadelphia, PA August 1, 2026 5:30 PM 2x Standard Tickets Mobile transfer. Payment via PayPal G&S accepted. DM if interested!

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  K-Dope⁷💜 아포방포 🐘 ㉧㉣㉣ (@kdope85) reported 50 minutes ago

  Wtf weverse and PayPal error!??!!

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  sandy (@pinky_xandylee) reported 52 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I am having problem logging to my account , I can’t reach h out to customer care unless I login I don’t have access to my phone number to confirm my otp and I also changed my device. How do o contact customer support without logging in. I have tried every means but can’t

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  MuraNasa (@nasa_mura) reported 52 minutes ago

  Last week Wise shut down Peter McCormack's account and kept nearly £12,000. His "crime"? A Bitcoin company had paid one of his invoices. Account frozen. Funds locked. No explanation. And it's not a one-off — it's how the apps we all use every day actually work. That money isn't yours. It's theirs. ❌ The famous ones, and why they can lock you out: • PayPal → balances with no deposit guarantee, freezes & held funds are routine • Revolut → crypto isn't self-custody, KYC account blocks reported constantly • Coinbase → custodial card & balances, account freezes for "verification" • Crypto-com → to earn cashback you must lock CRO in staking for up to 180 days ✅ 4 alternatives where the money stays actually yours ↓

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  Oka Wolfy🐺LADS (@Oka_Wolfy) reported 56 minutes ago

  @HungryAthena I'm having trouble with paypal please lemme know when its fixed <3 <3