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 (43%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bayeux	Website Down	12 hours ago
Franconville	Errors	2 days ago
Fréjus	Website Down	3 days ago
Feira de Santana	Errors	3 days ago
Berlin	Sign in	4 days ago
Palermo	Errors	5 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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  ᴅɪᴠɪɴᴇ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ™️ ⟁ (@DivineThoughtTM) reported 2 minutes ago

  I'm in a real bad spot. I hate trauma dumping.. I've been taking care of elderly family member while I've been dealing with my own health issues. I can't seem to get ahead before another crisis. Any help is more than appreciated and sorry for putting this on your feed 🙏🏻 Venomo: @geekay1 I have a PayPal too

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  marie (@funkybootz) reported 5 minutes ago

  Had a email about payment.. but I use @PayPal So there shouldnt be a issue ??? @netflix

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  Detarame (@Detarame247) reported 8 minutes ago

  @_ChokoMami In my case, I didn't even get to do comms, people barely so my stuff, and when I finally started to get more, I had to shut down the whole thing because PayPal doesn't work in my country anymore, I can never get money from the outside anymore.

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  SOFTDRINKTV (@softdrinktv) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Stillmatic24 True I'll add that, have it run on my home server, MTX go straight to my PayPal

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  Radim Hernych (@hernych) reported 10 minutes ago

  Is it just me having this problem with @PayPal ? Historically, Ybug has been accepting EUR payments via PayPal. Back then, it seemed like a great idea with "free" withdrawals to a bank account, right? Big mistake. Turns out PayPal refuses to withdraw funds in any currency other than your company's local currency (CZK for a Czech-based company). And of course, they charge a massive currency conversion fee to do so. Since I don't want or need these funds in CZK, my money is effectively trapped. Anyone else in the same boat?

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  Ben (@BanZiNi) reported 12 minutes ago

  @James_Jordan @bet365 Oops can’t * (not can in my previous tweet). Yeah the withdrawal likely has to go back to the manual card entered. Fix = deposit with Apple Pay again then withdraw (will force it back to Apple pay). Or just use PayPal for $5 and then you can withdraw back to PayPal.

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  TheOriginalKhutso🇿🇦 (@OriginalKhutso5) reported 15 minutes ago

  @youraveragejeet @CaptainArinze Uber is with Bolt in many countries around the world and they not leaving, Nigerians need to introspect. Shoprite, PayPal or tiktok had problems with Nigerians

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  Edward The Loudmouth (@EDMaumbauer) reported 17 minutes ago

  @GretchenPSmith Gretchen, yeah, you do... that is how Paypal operates, same with X, FB, Insta, Visa, Mastercard, Your bank... we used to simply call them server farms. Data Centers are as necessary for the world to operate today as is oil. Get rid of them, the world STOPS DEAD

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  cukinia (@wetfatrat) reported 18 minutes ago

  @0KULTRA__ unfortunately these are closed for now because of paypal issues </3

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  glo霞★ 🌽⚡️🌙 (@chiweis) reported 18 minutes ago

  I mean I did click the link but it required me to login to my PayPal but I didn’t so that shouldn’t be a problem right? I changed my password anyway just in case

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  JerseyTFs (@Jersey_TFs) reported 19 minutes ago

  Cause if its an issue with paypal and stuff I will more then gladly open up more options

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  jinowns (@Jinowns87) reported 19 minutes ago

  Here's another neat trick I do every year. If you have paypal, you can break down the entire cost into 4 payments. Meaning you pay 25% percent now while PayPal pays the merchant the entire amount and then you can make payments every 2 weeks. Doooo iiiittttt!!

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  Tim's Wealth Letter (@timswealth) reported 20 minutes ago

  In our portfolio, PayPal fell 12.7% on Friday to $53.66 after Advent and Stripe walked away. The board had rejected their $60.50 a share as too low. The shares are now 11.3% below the offer it turned down. Generac fell 6.8%.

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  Chris M. Walker (@cmwalker) reported 21 minutes ago

  I DELETED 90% OF THE SERVICES ON LEGIIT Ok not deleted... but made invisible. Around 2 years ago we made a risky decision at Legiit @legiitcom You see one of the major pieces of feedback we got from people was that "there are so many services on the site I don't know which one to pick or who to buy it from" We called it the Netflix problem... so much stuff you end up overwhelmed and choose nothing. Further many of them listed their service and when the site didn't automatically reign money down on them they never checked it again. At that time we would pause those every 90 days, then reduced it to 30... but it didn't help the Netflix problem because more, mostly reptitive services would fill in from the other end. Further, around that time we made some decisions about who we wanted to be and how we wanted the marketplace portion to function and what we decided was... ...we don't want a lot of freelancers to succeed, we want the best freelancers to succeed and the rest to go elsewhere. So less quantity, higher quality. However we didn't want to shut them out completely either because we could end up missing out on new talent. So we decided to do something radical. Something risky. Something no other marketplace had done before... ...we made 90% of the services on the site invisible. They already had to meet a 55 point checklist to even get listed,, but after this change that still wasn't enough to get them into the marketplace, categories, or search. Their services would show up on their profile, but not anywhere else. It was up to them to prove to us that they deserved access to our customers by either bringing in their own customers, investing with us, using some of the tools we give them, or meeting some other criteria. The logic was basically "The ones that just want to do commodity level work won't bother to do the work, and we will be left with only the ones that are serious about running freelance buiness and doing well by our customers." I didn't want my marketplace overwhelmed with services most people won't buy, and I didn't want newer freelancers getting to practice on our customers' businesses. This was a gamble of course, and the response from freelancers was... not positive to say the least. We have at least 2 1 star Trustpilot reviews from freelancers complaining aobut it and got a lot of support tickets, usually from brand new freelancers who listed a service, immidiately searched their own services, asked or complained, then never visited the site again... so people we don't want anyway. So it's bee around 2 years now and despite the risk and the challenges I can say with certainty... ...it was a success and the right decision. The problem it set out to solve was the Netflix problem, and that largely worked. We have the same amount of customers buying more services from less freelancers... for more money. That was the goal and it worked... but there have been a lot of other side effects I didn't anticipate: > Support tickets and chats have dropped significantly (Over 50%... don't have the exact number in front of me) > The number of orders with a 5 star reivew has increased > The number of orders with a 1 star review decreased > Late deliveries dropped by 4% > Approved dipsutes... meaning disputes where we sided with the customer (on site disputes) are down to .16% of orders > Less new freelancers are signing up which may sound bad but is actually good > Less burden on our support team so it freed them up to help our customers more instead of babysitting freelancers > More on site advertising sales > More Legiit Seller+ sales (dramitcally more) > Chargeback and PayPal disputes are basically zero after being rampant before ...and our sales are up 20% YOY. So this was a gamble, and one that came with some pain, but it turned out that it was the right decision. The lesson to me from this is... decide who you want to be, and who you want your business to be... then figure out how oyu want to get there and just go for it. It might be risky. It might be painful. ...and you will second guess oyurself. But if you are operating from a place of good faith and execute relelntlessly the results will follow on a long enough time horizon as long as you... ...Think Big. Thanks everyone.

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  Adel (@adelpheee69) reported 24 minutes ago

  @ichi_dokusha Hello! I can't DM you but I missed first payment bc my PayPal got hacked and I've been trying to fix it. I'm happy to pay through kofi tho if fatson is still available 😭

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  Mimi (@mimicomments) reported 25 minutes ago

  @DrewPavlou Perhaps you could set up something simple like a buy me a coffee or paypal me link so people can support you directly. The Flynn issue seems hopeless for now. I hope that can eventually get resolves but seems you need to have a way for people to support you in general:

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 29 minutes ago

  PayPal's real product in its early years wasn't payments. It was survival. The company was building something that regulators, banks and its own biggest platform had no category for. Stefan Heck: "It was a true disruption of a very established, very regulated industry, right? Payments, banking… and they were doing things that didn't fit an existing category." Not fitting a category meant almost everyone with power over PayPal had a reason to switch it off. Reid Hoffman, who became Peter Thiel's firefighter chief, describes the job he was handed: "Make sure eBay doesn't drive us off the service. Make sure Visa doesn't shut us down. Persuade the federal government that it's okay that we're not a bank." Nancy Lublin on the person they sent to handle it: "He was the wolf. I mean, he was the fixer." John Lilly remembers how routine the existential threats became: "I remember we had breakfast one time. He said, 'I have to leave at 8:30 because I got to get on the plane to New York to go talk to Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, who's suing PayPal for basically anti-money laundering type things.' And he's like, 'I just got to go fix this and here's how I'm going to fix it because New York was convinced that PayPal is being used for gambling, all sorts of other things at the time.'" There was no playbook, because the category didn't exist yet. So the company argued from first principles: "It was fun because part of what ends up happening is you say, 'All right, well, what's a bank? Like, what defines a bank? How do I persuade them? I've never talked to a regulator before. All right, let me go figure out how this looks.'" While all this was happening, PayPal was outgrowing its own ability to operate. June Cohen: "Their customer numbers had grown so exponentially that they could not keep up with customer service and they actually just made the decision that that was a fire they weren't going to fight at that moment." That was a decision, not a failure. The company sorted its problems by one test: "There was a whole set of fires at PayPal where if you didn't solve them, value of the company zero, out of business." John Lilly on how that worked in practice: "Here's the one, two, three top priorities. Everything else I'm not going to worry about right now because if I get these three things right, everything else will be okay." The fire that passed the test was eBay: "If eBay had turned us off, if we were no longer to operate on eBay, no initial users, no traction, no network effect, no ability to grow." And eBay had every incentive to do exactly that. John Lilly: "eBay had its own payment system that was competing with PayPal. PayPal was winning. And so I think those got very complicated and eBay very much didn't want to have to buy PayPal and eventually they felt like they had to." That's the ending. PayPal survived on someone else's platform long enough to become the thing that platform had no choice but to acquire. A reporter at the time: "We know these guys very well obviously because so much of their business is in fact on eBay. The synergies of putting these two companies together were incredibly outstanding and it just seemed like the right time to get this deal done." PayPal didn't win by solving its problems. It won by correctly ranking them and letting the rest burn.

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  Mike Boysen (JTBD/acc) (@mikeboysen) reported 33 minutes ago

  Most people never see the inversion coming. They see the crash. The coup. The empty bank account. The factory that will not ship. Then they analogize: more staff, more robots, more of last year’s stack. Innovators do the opposite. They stay in the problem until the cost curve breaks. PayPal ousted Musk in 2000 for pushing a rebrand and a Unix-to-Windows NT migration. He did not wage a public war. He stayed a shareholder. eBay paid $1.5 billion in 2002. His ~11.7% stake — about $180 million — funded SpaceX and Tesla. By late 2008 both companies were days from death. Three Falcon 1 failures. Tesla about to miss payroll. One last rocket. Flight 4 worked on September 28. NASA signed $1.6 billion in December. He put his remaining cash into a $20 million Tesla bridge that closed Christmas Eve. Analogical thinking said “stop.” Physics said “one more launch.” Reusable first stages. Manual labor where the robots jammed. 5,000 Model 3s a week after he ripped out the over-automated line and slept on the floor. 75% of Twitter’s headcount gone so the cost of running the network inverted. That is not grit as a slogan. That is inverting labor, capital, and infrastructure until unit economics work. Follow people who have innovated at least once. Not the ones narrating the next analog. I built a platform to help average people think like that before you commit the capital. More on that soon. This is 100% a real interview LOL

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  Roxfan (@Roxfan_13) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Genki_JPN Anyone else having issues pre-ordering? Paypal refuses to use my Mastercard, direct payment redirects to PayPal

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  Ben Po (@bens_report) reported 45 minutes ago

  @LindaRaschke PayPal 4 days pf3 down. Will it at least get a low to high day today? Hahaha

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  Argonaut Games (@ArgonautGames_) reported 45 minutes ago

  @SpanishEchidna @RockitGamesNOW So this is a technical issue with paying via PayPal on Rock It's Shopify site? If so, have you tried a different payment method?

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  Optus (@Optus) reported 46 minutes ago

  @enngees Hi there, customers can recharge their service or purchase add-ons online using a credit/debit card (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, or JCB) and PayPal. An Optus service needs to connect to the Optus network for activation, so we generally recommend setting up and activating the SIM once they've arrived in Australia. If you're still having trouble recharging, please send us a DM, and we'll take a closer look into this for you. -Talia

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  Pokettino (@pokettino) reported 47 minutes ago

  @PokemonRestocks I am having hard time adding the payment method. Yesterday I don't understand why would not let me enter the drawing and was asking for a payment method. I always used PayPal. I tried to cancel all amd add a new CC but does not work. Anyone had this issue?

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  🔞🦇𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐳𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐳🐈‍⬛🔞 Hiatus (@batz_catz) reported 47 minutes ago

  Ok I’m a little calmed down now I’ve gotten reassurance that it’s alright if I propose the idea of taking donations. No one should feel pressured to help at all, but my cashapp and PayPal are in my bio. I am going to try all the advice you guys are giving. I’m not sure if this is even the full bill though 🥀

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  Clover 🍀 (@fourleaaff) reported 50 minutes ago

  down paypal?

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  AMOS BLACKFIRE (@amoblackfire) reported 53 minutes ago

  @GOAT72573384663 @PayPal I have the same issue, since date 21 august, still pending

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  Potat0 (@PoPaP0) reported 53 minutes ago

  RANT Why must PayPal hate new accounts. I just created a business account confirm if my account is good, costumer support said yes. Proceeds to hammer me with money stuck there for days. Doesn't even tell you what's the main problem. Man this sht sucks.

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  Glorious God (@GloriousGod01) reported 57 minutes ago

  HOW TO CREATE AND SELL AN EBOOK IN NIGERIA You do not need to be a professional writer to create an ebook. You just need to know something useful that other people want to learn. Here is the full process from idea to income: - Step 1: Pick a topic that solves a specific problem: The more specific your topic, the better it sells. "How to Register a Business Name with CAC in 2026" will outsell "How to Start a Business in Nigeria" every time. Think about what people ask you frequently, what you know well, or what you spent time learning that others would pay to skip. - Step 2: Write it: Use Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Write in simple, clear language. It does not need to be long. A 20 to 50 page ebook that solves one specific problem is more valuable than a 200 page ebook that rambles. Write like you are explaining to a friend. - Step 3: Design the cover: Go to Canva (canva. com) and search for ebook cover templates. Pick one, add your title and name, and download it. Free and takes less than 10 minutes. - Step 4: Convert to PDF: Once your ebook is ready in Word or Google Docs, export it as a PDF. That is the format you will sell. Go to File, then Download, then PDF Document. - Step 5: Upload and sell on Selar Go to selar. co and create a free seller account. Click Add Product, choose Digital Product, upload your PDF, write a clear description, set your price in naira or dollars, and publish. Selar handles payment collection and delivers the ebook automatically to your buyer. Payouts land in your Nigerian bank account the next business day for naira sales. You can also sell on Gumroad (gumroad. com) which takes a flat 10 percent per sale and pays via PayPal. Most Nigerian sellers access their Gumroad earnings through Payoneer. - Step 6: Promote it Share your Selar link on your WhatsApp status, X, Instagram, and any group you belong to. Your first sale almost always comes from people who already know and trust you. Offer a launch discount to create urgency and ask a few people to share your link as affiliates. Selar has a built-in affiliate feature you can activate for free. You do not need a large following. Nigerian creators with 500 engaged WhatsApp contacts consistently earn more than those with 50,000 cold social media followers. Create once. Sell forever. Start today. Above all, love God.

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  ***** Indy 🟥🟧🟨 (@cobracommanduhr) reported 57 minutes ago

  There seems to be a database issue inside @PayPal users see there first name being different than their own when an order purchase attempt is made on 3rd party website and a shopper selected PayPal to pay method C O N T R A \ L S research 🇺🇸

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  iX (@JimManahan) reported 1 hour ago

  @Euphoria_LiVT wdym paypal doesnt work, all my international purchases are via paypal and not a single one of them ever failed or had issues.