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	2 days ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	2 days ago
Nantes	Errors	2 days ago
Vícar	Errors	2 days ago
Étauliers	Errors	3 days ago
Onnion	Website Down	3 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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  Sai (@HSsai) reported 2 minutes ago

  @ArcadeValentine problem is that you can't do business at all. like, say you want to draw IoIi lewds for money. well, paypal, mastercard, visa, they all hate you, so what do you do? ****** lie that you're not doing what you're doing. why are death threats a requirement for oppression?

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  Elizabeth Farrell (@ElizabethF6116) reported 9 minutes ago

  Aah the same bloody sandals Snowy.. Demanded my money back but got nowhere..wrote a review..Bloody Rubbish.. I used PayPal for 8 years..no problem They got taken over a few years ago.. My account got hacked..so I do not use it now.. Fraud Squad was on the ball..so lost no money Thank you Snowy

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  Omaru (@OmarChoudhury92) reported 10 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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  Wearysoles (@wearysoles1776) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Ambrosfox Yeah I saw this randomly in my feed one day, felt bad for all the people who got burned. There is more to the story also from reading the comments. They went around PayPal refund rules by having them mark family transaction. So it's all bank scam issues now.

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  meropun (@yuganecchi) reported 13 minutes ago

  i use personal paypal account and was recommended to do comms through VGen to not get doxxed but on paypal i can still see all my clients names so it seems like VGen doesn’t really solve the problem… why…

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  Harry Stebbings (@HarryStebbings) reported 15 minutes ago

  1.⁠ ⁠Should Chinese open models be banned? 2.⁠ ⁠⁠Will Anthropic and OpenAI hit their targets in 2027? These are honestly the two biggest questions right now that we discuss in the only show you need to listen to every week with @jasonlk and @rodriscoll My notes below: 1. Why the 10x Price Cut of Chinese Open Models Is an Enterprise Security Trap Chinese open models like Kimi and Qwen are driving the search for cheaper intelligence. A 10x cost cut has pushed regulated enterprises to run more error-catching supervisor models, increasing token usage by 2.5x. But it also creates unprovable data export and leakage risks, leaving CIOs with a painful tradeoff between cost and security. 2. Why the Low-Cost, Open-Weight LLM Layer Is a Brutal Margin Trap for US Startups Massive valuations for Chinese open-weight models raise a hard question: is low-cost AI a good standalone business? US giants have left a vacuum for much cheaper intelligence, but much of the advantage comes from distillation, which faces legal hurdles in the US. That leaves providers exposed to brutal margin compression. 3. Why Turning Down a $6BN Acquisition Offer Is a Sucker Bet for Most Founders OpenRouter leaking sale talks at a $5 billion to $6 billion valuation is savvy as Ramp, Databricks, and others launch competing routing features. Private liquidity windows are rare, and exiting before a feature becomes commoditized is often optimal. Turning down life-changing cash only makes sense if a founder is certain they can build a 10x larger company. 4. Why Hypergrowth Inference Providers Must Vertically Integrate to Survive the CapEx Wars Fireworks hitting a $17.5 billion valuation shows the best AI investments are still in infrastructure. Massive developer demand has turned low-margin compute brokering into a strong business with mid-30s gross margins. To avoid commodification, hypergrowth inference providers must vertically integrate into their own data centers. 5. Why the Entire US Stock Market Is Held Hostage by the 2026 AI Growth Rate The tech ecosystem and hyperscaler CapEx trajectory depend on OpenAI and Anthropic’s growth rates into 2026. Frontier models face pricing pressure from cheap open-weight alternatives but remain trapped by real inference costs and massive training investments. If growth slows or forced price cuts erode margins, the market dislocation could be severe. 6. Why Stripe Swallowing PayPal Is a High-Stakes Bet on Legacy Tech Rationalization Stripe partnering with Advent to take PayPal private would show how attractive late-stage scale has become for capital deployment. While absorbing a legacy giant growing at 7% could slow Stripe’s standalone growth, it would instantly expand its processing footprint. The deal would mark a historic passing of the torch from legacy payments to the modern upstart.

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  Sandip Pal (@Blue_boy_Sandip) reported 15 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal my account permanently limiting, it's my main number where bank account added kindly solve this problem, my mobile number 8346027039

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  JoMama (@JoMamaHoeppner) reported 19 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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  John Epple (@SeclusionStudio) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Misterdpriley @DonalTDeLay It’s always the incredibly odd problems I’ll have with PayPal too. Like not being able to jump through enough hoops to prove who I am and access my own account. To each their own.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 25 minutes ago

  That night, he sat at his laptop and looked at his PayPal account as if for the first time. Two-factor authentication was on. The mystery $2.49 subscription was cancelled and disputed. The unauthorized login session was terminated. His old bank accounts were removed. His data was no longer being shared with advertisers. His primary payment method was now a credit card with fraud protection. And he finally understood the one rule that would've saved him $180 never pay a stranger with Friends and Family. Same PayPal account. Same platform he'd used since college. But for 9 years, he'd been running the financial equivalent of an unlocked house with the windows open. PayPal is one of the most powerful payment tools on the planet. But it's also one of the most abused not because the platform is unsafe, but because 90% of users never open Settings, never audit their automatic payments, and never learn the one rule that separates a protected transaction from an unrecoverable loss. 9 settings. 12 minutes. And an account that finally works for you instead of against you. Save this thread. Share it with someone who hasn't opened their PayPal Settings since the day they signed up.

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  BAPen 🇺🇸 🦅 (@dornepab) reported 28 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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  Johnny Efthimiopoulos (@JohnnyEfthimio2) reported 30 minutes ago

  @GreekTrader777 Don’t worry. It’s just slow showing the info. Call PayPal Support. Demand to speak with their Tier 2 Limitations or Wire Transfers Department. the wait is really just bullshit dead time so that they can make fractions of a penny extra interest off of every transfer.

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  Vince Visuals (@vince19visuals) reported 31 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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  Alex (@Its_Crusha) reported 36 minutes ago

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

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  44🎐’ (@JS44UTD_) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Cian_UTD @Theirishladdd no worries mate this is fine just use your PIP and monthly payments of 1543 to fix this since you don’t need paypal anymore👊

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  Ebin Memes22 (@EbinMemes22) reported 41 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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  Magenta Qin🇨🇳🇩🇪 (@magentaqin) reported 41 minutes ago

  I finally understand why so many friends recommend Wise. It wasn’t just the fees. It’s about transparency and timely customer support. Half a year ago, PayPal kept charging me for a subscription I’d already canceled. I disputed it multiple times. PayPal told me to contact my bank. My bank told me to contact PayPal and the merchant. The merchant blamed a system issue. My mood be like: 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪?????? Everyone pointed fingers, and nobody actually solved the problem.

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  moshruum (@mxshruum) reported 41 minutes ago

  are there no alternatives for paypal..?? ive heard sm ppl coming across errors its scaring me lowk..

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  Clam Yossarian 🦘 (@Cpt_J_Yossarian) reported 43 minutes ago

  I will also be making a short film where I sit down and eat hotdogs til the money runs out with a budget of about €50, if anybody wants to contribute n tribute to that, my PayPal is in my bio. Once finished, it will be available to all

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  Hukam Design (@hukamdesign) reported 44 minutes ago

  @SignalLay It's not issue of international client. All the methods like paypal, Payooner, bank transfer does not work due restrictions imposed on them. There are some other ways but it's too risky , payment can be hold or some legal matter. So it's better to pass.

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  𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮 (@angelfir_e) reported 48 minutes ago

  niche problem but does anyone know wtf is going on with check out on bandcamp? have tried 3 diff cards and none work. and no paypal option. ughhh

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  🇺🇸 Fearless Patriot 🇺🇸 (@patriotomar1) reported 49 minutes ago

  @4finewine I'm working on a new website that offers many payment options like PayPal, Google pay & Amazon pay. I'll let you know when it's ready. I remember you had issues ordering from the old website.

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  kiyah (@coshamballa) reported 50 minutes ago

  Vgen does a lot on their part and are typically pretty responsive when it comes to issues like these,,, Its 100% on paypal. For the others out there, It might be best to set up vgen payments as any chargebacks that may occur will have to go through them and its easier to dispute with a team that understands artists

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  Bobby Lansing (@dataguybobby) reported 51 minutes ago

  Wow, @PayPal your generative AI system is absolutely terrible. It could not understand anything I said in chat or voice multiple times and tried to end the conversation when in fact I was asking for a customer service rep...

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  Liliya |VGen Commissions Open| (@Liliyalili_art) reported 52 minutes ago

  @ApolloArt_png Ya. That could be But I think VGen can handle it. Good luck! Also use vgen payments instead of PayPal cuz it heard it's easier to issue a charge back on PayPal. Don't know how true that is tho.

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  Ron LaPedis (@RLaPedis) reported 53 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal - I am trying to send from USD to CNY and get this error: "Sorry, you can’t send or receive payments in that currency." Help pages don't have any suggestions.

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  …senator2031 (@biggest_bango) reported 54 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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  Daywish (@SSSupershow) reported 56 minutes ago

  Can anyone send me $1 on X to help activate my X Money account? I’ll send you $5 back via Cash App/Venmo/PayPal right away! DM me or drop a reply if you’re down to help out.

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  BoyeFran (@HugoBoyefran) reported 56 minutes ago

  @LynxiTwitch @official_throne I crowd funded a new audio interface through Throne for my birthday stream early on in my streaming and it was the first time and last time I used this method to fund anything due to this very issue. They take so much in fees it can really add up. especially if it is many small donations. You are much better off using ko-fi and attaching you paypal account.

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  Macro Alpha (@MacroAlphaHQ) reported 1 hour ago

  Stripe and Advent just tabled $53 billion for PayPal and the board is already calling it light. Fair case first: $60.50 a share is a 28% premium to the July 14 close, market cap sits at $50.12 billion, and the stock is up 31% in a month on the rumor alone. You can see why a buyer shows up. Then you look at what they would actually own. TPV grew 11% to $463.96 billion last quarter. Active accounts crawled 1% to 439 million. Revenue hit $8.35 billion, up 7%. Non-GAAP operating income still fell 5% to $1.54 billion. Guidance points to non-GAAP EPS flat to down low single digits this year. Board wants more than $53 billion. They are negotiating from a 52-week drop of 25.6% and a forward P/E of 10.7 that only looks cheap until you price the slow bleed to Apple, Shopify, Affirm, Klarna, Cash App, Zelle. New CEO talking AI cost cuts while the core barely compounds. My read: the bid is the high-water mark, not the opening offer. If nothing firm prints by fall, that 31% squeeze unwinds faster than it built. Funny how undervalued always means someone else should pay up.