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
Lyon	Errors	1 day ago
Paris	Sign in	4 days ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	4 days ago
Tlaquepaque	Errors	5 days ago
Massy	Website Down	6 days ago
Montlouis-sur-Loire	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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  open for readings: Ash 🐈 (@Hadescerbeus) reported 5 minutes ago

  - you or someone around is twisting their ankle - trying out new hairstyles (you’ll hate them but love one in particular) - no, that trip won’t solve your problems but it will clear your head - your bank/paypal glitching and holding your money - your clientele is increasing!

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  William Jones (@WilliamJon93414) reported 7 minutes ago

  @PayPal **** you paypal..I have spent thousands and thousands of dollars with you and now you make me sign in and send me codes...ILL NEVER USE YOU AGAIN.🖕

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  WeirdDeplorableScumbagGarbageMAGAt (@jsaultz) reported 8 minutes ago

  @AskCiti She finally got answered after 3½ hours. Then the representative was useless. The rep basically said it's a PayPal problem, even though the charge doesn't exist in her PayPal. She's reported the card as stolen now. She can't dispute the PayPal charge because it doesn't show.

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  Victoria 💫 COMMS CLOSED (@Victoria9ax6) reported 12 minutes ago

  I will reopen comms in about a week, I’ve been having problems with paypal so my bad for that. I’ll try to get it fixed soon 🫶💞 thanks for being patient

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  Murugi (@its_murugi) reported 13 minutes ago

  Wishing everyone at @PayPal a terrible day today 🙏

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  Hopeful N7 (@HopefulN7) reported 14 minutes ago

  @PayPal Placed an international @Etsy order that took 28 days to arrive damaged & missing items. To keep buyer protection, I should've escalated to PayPal day 1 to freeze seller funds. Giving them time to send a replacement exceeded that window. 30 days is wild with how slow Etsy can be.

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  AFRICA IS HOME GLOBAL (@AfricaisHOME2) reported 19 minutes ago

  PayPal is putting explicit revenue targets on its three core units as new CEO Enrique Lores reviews the company’s strategy and pushes for faster execution. In April the payments firm reorganized around Checkout Solutions and PayPal, Consumer Financial Services and Venmo, and Payment Services and Crypto, with a single leader for each business to cut duplication and speed decisions. Lores said the goal is to sharpen focus, simplify operations and get closer to consumers after years of slower growth and margin pressure. The company has also set a cost savings target of at least 1.5 billion dollars over the next two to three years through AI, process redesign and structural realignment, with the savings reinvested into growth initiatives. For 2026 management is guiding to transaction margin dollars roughly flat to slightly down excluding interest, 3 percent growth in non transaction operating expenses, and non GAAP EPS in a range between slightly negative and slightly positive. The reset comes as PayPal tries to diversify beyond its traditional checkout business and rebuild momentum in higher margin areas. In Q1 2026 revenue rose 7 percent to 8.35 billion dollars and total payment volume grew 11 percent to 464 billion dollars, with Venmo and Braintree both delivering mid teens TPV growth and buy now pay later and pay with Venmo volumes up 23 percent and 34 percent. Q2 showed continued strength in those same units, with transaction margin dollars up 1 percent and up 3 percent excluding interest on customer balances, prompting the company to raise its full year outlook for TM dollars and EPS. Lores is emphasizing financial services as the largest driver of future TM dollar growth, expanding Venmo into a fuller financial platform, scaling PYUSD stablecoin which is now the largest federally regulated stablecoin, and partnering in AI commerce with Microsoft and others. At the same time the company returned 1.5 billion dollars to shareholders in the quarter and started a 14 cent quarterly dividend, while warning that macro pressure in Europe and competition from Big Tech and fintechs will keep the near term environment tough. - World Business News.

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  0xAI42.exe (@0xAI42exe) reported 22 minutes ago

  A $500,000 check written in 2004 turned into more than a billion dollars by 2012. The same man watched his own hedge fund fall from $7 billion to about $350 million. His name is Peter Thiel. He is 58. He co-founded PayPal in 1998 and sold it to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Two years later he became the first outside investor in Facebook, taking 10.2 percent for half a million dollars. Then Clarium Capital, his global macro fund, peaked above $8 billion in 2008 and posted three straight losing years. Investors who stayed lost 65 percent from the peak. By 2011 the fund held roughly $350 million. So the man teaching you how to think about competition has been on both sides of being wrong in public. The framework fits on a napkin. Perfect competition destroys profit, so build the thing nobody else can offer. Start with a market small enough to dominate, then widen. Look for proprietary technology ten times better than the alternative, network effects, scale economics, and a brand people ask for by name. Value the last mover, not the first. "Competition is for losers." That is the title he put on a Wall Street Journal essay in September 2014, adapted from the book he wrote out of a Stanford class he taught in 2012. A student named Blake Masters posted his notes from that class online for free, and the notes went viral before the book existed. at the board it's simple. one company sold for $1.5 billion, one check compounded two thousand times, one fund down ninety-five percent from peak assets. the same brain produced all three. no magic. concentration into an idea almost nobody shares, held long enough to be measured. here is where it lines up with every founder reading this. you already know your product is a slightly better version of something people already buy. you will still call the crowded market validation, raise on comparables, and describe five competitors as proof of demand in the same deck where you claim to be different. the class notes are free. the essay is free. this talk is free. what nobody can sell you is the willingness to answer his actual question in writing: what important truth do very few people agree with you on. That willingness is the edge, and it costs an honest page, not another pitch deck.

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  Ryan (@ryanprompt) reported 23 minutes ago

  4. It was the exact same question people asked me a few years ago, before I made my ecommerce business successful and moved to Dubai; when I started testing payment platforms that actually offered real individual attention to the merchants who signed up. Believe me, the big payment companies and the scammers ones do not want any real proximity with businesses that simply appear out of nowhere. Frustrated after having thousands of dollars frozen across multiple platforms like Paddle, Commas, Lemon Squeezy, PayPal, Braintree, Square and several smaller ones, I decided to build my own payment gateway. I wanted to understand 100% how this market works and how to establish myself in it. After a few months, a group of developers and I created Arkus, a platform that until recently only served as a payment processor for a close group around me and my companies. Now it is being launched to the public for the first time, and it is specifically looking for legitimate merchants who want to scale but who, just like us, have suffered far too many problems with traditional payment gateways. If you want to be one of the first to receive special attention for your business, before we grow to a level where it becomes almost impossible not to use AI to manage risk for every account, comment “ARKUS” to get personal attention from me, not just from our team.

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  Super Hawa 🐟💜⁷ ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ (@Hawa__Sahar) reported 24 minutes ago

  WTS - 1 level 132 row 3 ticket for BTS World Tour ARIRANG in Foxborough on Thursday, August 6th. Amazing idol parade view! Purchased during production sale for $731.40 & willing to sell for lower! Can provide proof of purchase/video chat. Can no longer attend due to medical issues. Must use PayPal G & S!

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  Northern Woman (@woman_northern) reported 26 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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  Gundam Fandom (@FandomGundam) reported 26 minutes ago

  a problem! You can donate to my PayPal any amount you want. A few cents, $1, $10, $100, it's all up to you. Your support goes a long way & is always very appreciated. And please remember, you don't have to give me money, it's just there as an option. Weither you just don't want

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  Synergy 🌙🩵 (@Syniichu) reported 27 minutes ago

  @004Nubi I had to file a dispute on PayPal for a commission from a popular artist for not doing it, so she decided to try to revoke my rights to a concept art she made for free reworking my elements 🤨 Crazy bc she has this problem too

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  Calamarei 💀 Kraken🩸2.0 Debut SEPT 18 (@CalamareiVT) reported 33 minutes ago

  @IllusionaryOne @PreePonee @SassinatorSteph My account was hacked. 2 FA bypassed to change my payout to paypal and an unknown email, and recieved no update notice. Payout gets sent to them. I find out this is why I wasnt getting paid last month. However they have stated I wont get a refund since it was sent to the hackers paypal. And Twitch isnt liqbke despite their security failing. When I asked how to prevent or what to do I was told to turn on 2FA and change password. I did this, on top of disconnecting all accounts. Yet I had 2FA on and changed my password a few months back. I wont get my payout back. Yet asking what is being done I told we care about your issue and are investigating. But how is my 2FA still being enabled going to prevent this from happening in the future if i didnt even get notice my stuff was changed AND it bypassed the 2FA. How do I know I’m not going to lose my payout each month? It wasnt my fault and if Twitch isnt able to be held responsible…then how am I suppose to rely on Twitch’s security with my personal information and income to pay bills? 1 months pay gone and im paying for the security issue of Twitch with late fees, past due bills, and etc. I would like my payout and some sort of way to know I wont have to check my payout settings everyday,

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  Yuuj (@Yuujers) reported 35 minutes ago

  @housesarebig @CTCG_DZiden Not disagreeing on last minute travel being more expensive, just something that is an option if you want to play in it. It isn't more difficult for a foreigner, its just.. more expensive. Which could be drastically alleviated by lottery starting earlier and results coming out earlier. At that point, you really aren't really locked out. But its the same for CN players trying to play other regionals. Lets only take PayPal, and not credit cards. Paypal CN/Global is different, it doesn't work for Chinese. Oh too bad tickets gone. hehe xD. Not to mention we don't have skirmishes so we have to play round 1. (good change btw). Not defending anything. There are issues with the systems being used, but playing in China is perfectly doable and not difficult. Many players have done so, and I've walked plenty of people through the process.

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  Pasco Sheriff (@PascoSheriff) reported 37 minutes ago

  Pasco Sheriff’s Office is aware of several jury duty scams that occur across Pasco County. Oftentimes, the scammer claims to be an official, sometimes using PSO and/or a PSO member’s name, to inform the potential victim that they’ve missed jury duty and must pay a fee. These payments are made via PayPal, Bitcoin, Zelle, and similar services. Scammers may use a blocked number or spoof a PSO number, such as our general information line. PSO does not manage jury duty notifications, and we stress that these messages are not legitimate. PSO will never contact individuals for any form of payment to resolve issues, criminal or otherwise.

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  Richardson Dackam (@RichardsonDx) reported 39 minutes ago

  Money becomes useless to an autonomous agent when it gets trapped in the wrong financial system An agent might: earn $500 through a checkout provider hold $200 in USDC have a card issued by another provider need to pay a SaaS merchant that only accepts cards Those are all "money" but operationally they are different islands Customer pays → money sits in Provider A Agent needs to spend → purchasing power exists in Provider B So WE (Humans) have to move/reconfigure/fund things for our AI agents And their autonomy collapses the moment money gets stuck The hard problem isn't giving an agent money It's making sure money earned in one system can become purchasing power in another without a human moving it Earn here → hold there → spend somewhere else → keep going An agent should be able to earn through one provider, hold value somewhere else, move that value when needed, spend through another rail, and keep reinvesting what it earns without a human stepping in to bridge the gaps My goal with Mandate is to give autonomous AI agents that economic freedom I want anyone to be able to have an intelligence that can create value, earn from that value, reinvest what it earns, and compound it into something bigger over time That's why Mandate had to be open source and provider agnostic No single financial provider covers every way an agent might earn, hold, move, or spend money One agent might receive revenue through Stripe, hold USDC in Coinbase, spend through Lithic, and use a bridge in between. Another might use entirely different providers Receive: Stripe / PayPal / stablecoins / marketplace payouts Hold: bank / financial account / wallet / stablecoin treasury Move: ACH / wire / bridge / onchain transfer Spend: card / bank transfer / stablecoin / x402 Mandate financial stack is composable: providers provide the financial building blocks. Mandate turns them into one economic system the agent can use. You can connects whichever providers you choose into one continuous economic account Because autonomous agents won't operate in a crypto-only or fiat-only world. Crypto alone can't solve economic autonomy when most of the world an agent needs to operate in still runs on fiat, cards, and banks Fiat alone can't solve it either, because agents will increasingly use payment systems built for machine-to-machine commerce. The future is hybrid. The infrastructure has to be composable. I built Mandate so that an agent can operate across both as one continuous economy

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  Reaction Buffet (@reactionbuffet) reported 44 minutes ago

  Of course I have no proof other than my guy lol PayPal is strict but ...Yes and no, the no isn't in the sense where they are doing something wrong. However, they only issue income tax papers IF they have a business number for her. They don't require this at least from Ontario Canadians BC there is an income earned threshold where we HAVE TO have a buness number. PayPal can and does ask but again it's not required until they ask for it. I've a business account for 2 decades. They asked me for a business number only 6-7 months ago.

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  Rajat Garg (@rajat_garg25) reported 44 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I’m unable to login into my account, the Indian phone number that was registered is no longer in use. What can be done here?

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  Wez G (@WezG) reported 45 minutes ago

  I've just had major problems with @paypal with them thieving 400 quid and terminating my account.

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  Prashenjit Roy (@PrashenjitRoy1) reported 45 minutes ago

  @PayPal am unable to process with my account as it’s showing “ we’re permanently limiting your account “ . Please help me resolve this issue .

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  haim | 해임 @ BND CHICAGO!!! (@yaoirapture) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Ieehanies hmm i've never had a problem with using PayPal, but if you're using paypal, use friends & family, cause on goods and services they can like dispute it

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  Money Bunny (@MoneyCrptBunny) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Xfinancebull sacks was paypal coo, he knows broken payment rails firsthand

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  ore (@lanalovesbooks0) reported 49 minutes ago

  after my problems with paypal last year, i no longer submit to magazines like chestnut who will only pay you if you have a paypal account

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  koolkidazzi (@koolkidazzi) reported 50 minutes ago

  @BtbJesse still not working , can you add a apple pay option or a option where i can just add my card info on the site? it might be something with my paypal

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  sandy (@pinky_xandylee) reported 54 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I still can’t contact or call customer support, I’m currently in Nigeria how do I reach them to be able to gain access to my account. It’s almost impossible, I have been on this for weeks. Ii can’t login because my device was stolen and I need access

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  Rudolfs (@ecomrudolfs) reported 56 minutes ago

  Had about 50+ people reach out to me a couple of days ago on insta about private processing So let me break down some common questions Nr1: legal structure If you sell in the US, have a US llc setup This will increase your auth rates and opens a lot of new doors (Same goes for other markets - have a local setup) Nr2: what is “private processing” It is not some payfac Its having processing directly from an acquiring bank You go to an ISO and they talk to the bank and do the whole underwriting process In the end you have your own MIDs (merchant IDs) And you are the only store processing on it Way less wrongful shutdowns than on payfacs cause your data is not mixed with others Nr3: the checkout Its very simple… All you need is a CRM It will high jack the shopify checkout process You build a custom checkout or use pre made templates and connect your MIDs to the CRM Usually will need the MIDs to either be able to issue a VAR sheet or have the NMI gateway But its very common so no worries on that Nr4: the benefits I dont even know where to start lol - full control over your checkout (split test and run what ever you want) - unrestricted upsell flows - if you do mrr then you can own your subscription tokens - apple/google pay wallets + paypal - way less wrongful shutdowns - next day payouts - almost a 0% chance at losing access to all processing - smart rebill logic - built in tracking (sent directly to your ad platform) - no more headaches from SP bs I could go on but you get the point If you are still on SP in the big 2026 its time to rethink your backend Q4 is coming up and volume spikes cause a ton of volatility with SP shutdowns (Not the case on MIDs as you have a HUMAN to talk to) Don’t end up not being able to process payments during November Set this up even as a backup if you don’t want to fully switch Either way if you have any questions or want to get in touch with the right people… Send me a dm

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  Dayjia Meatball Blackwell Satire/Parody (@NaanBeenAri) reported 58 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I need help with a closed case from an ongoing issue. I have timestamped proof of an on-time cancellation, but your resolution center closed it unfairly and charged me after all. It was a trial from Adobe and cancelled it right on time! You both ghosted me! @grok help

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  Fang Heiwa (@FangHeiwa) reported 59 minutes ago

  @PyroPupCenter @ZillaVader The best thing that anyone can do at this point is if you’ve already purchased any of the figures, challenge the purchase with your bank, PayPal, etc.. Novel Horizons cannot issue refunds for anyone.

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  Shelley Ollivier (@Shellfire04) reported 1 hour 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