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
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	2 days ago
Athis-Mons	Errors	2 days ago
Perth	Sign in	3 days ago
Courbevoie	Sign in	3 days ago
Kassel	Sign in	8 days ago
Stuttgart	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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  Harry🇰🇪 (@Harry_kb007) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care Hi , The M-PESA app threw a 'not working currently ' error during PayPal top-up. The money left my account, but I never got the Thunes confirmation text. The transaction code is UHROP40V3C. Kindly assist.

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  XDCypher22 (@Mr_Blockchain22) reported 6 minutes ago

  Great article @XinfinUSA. You touch on a lot of points that stand true. Each crypto cycle brings a new piece of the puzzle that will enhance the use of blockchain. Blockchains immutability and AI capabilities go hand in hand. It is also notable to point out that most people don’t care how an app works, they just care that it works and serves the function that solves their problem. PayPal for example, moving money around while keeping the buyer’s credit card or banking info private. Or Venmo allowing merchants to receive payment for goods. Most people don’t know how the money is moved, they just care that they get paid as a vendor or pay a merchant as a user while keeping your data safe. Similarly with blockchain, we need AI to facilitate how a user will interact with it and nothing else. In years time, 98% of the planet wont care if your payment happened on XDC, Solana, XRP or BTC. They will care the cost of the transaction and that it didn’t fail in the process. The integration of AI will definitely close the gap between blockchain and the users. Most companies developing on AI care about the nest phase, and that is compliance and identity of those agents. Can I trust this agent to move $$$ to pay for goods and services. Can your AI agent talk to my agent to complete this transaction without falling victim of a scam, etc. We’re seeing the shift with all the companies we are meeting regarding AI and the major part of that is compliance. To move money around the world, institutions want to know if the other person on the other side of the screen or phone are who they say they are. That they will do what they say they will do, and that you’ll get either your $ or the goods you ordered. IA agents wont be any different. Then blockchain will be the immutable layer for accountability and trustworthiness. Excellent article.

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  Wee Stocks (@WeeStocks) reported 7 minutes ago

  PayPal $PYPL is down ~13% premarket after Stripe and Advent reportedly walked away from their $60.50 a share takeover bid. Interesting bit: PYPL had gained nearly 30% after the bid first surfaced. A month of takeover premium, gone in a morning. Good reminder that a rumour can move a stock a long way, but it isn’t a thesis.

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  Paras_ (@paras_vyas_) reported 11 minutes ago

  I think we're about to have a strange new version of SEO. Your next customer might not be the one reading your website. It might be their AI agent. Stripe's leadership is already talking about a future where traditional checkout pages become less important as AI agents handle purchases. Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are building the payment rails for this. That made me think about something else. Today we optimise websites for humans: Good copy. Good design. Fast pages. Clear CTAs But an AI agent may approach your business very differently. It may ask: - What exactly do you sell? - How much does it cost? - Is it available? - Can I trust this company? - What are the alternatives? - What happens if something goes wrong? And then make the recommendation for its human. So perhaps the next website optimisation question isn't only: “Will a visitor convert?” It may become: “Can a machine understand why this business is the right choice?” That's a very different problem. And I think there's a lot of room for small businesses and solo founders to get ahead of it. When I started my AI journey and designed my first landing page, I predicted a similar trend would emerge and become a major challenge for SaaS founders, digital marketers and agencies. This prediction eventually became a core insight about my website CRO audit tool, SiteRoast (link in bio). To share with you, this was one of the top 5 recommendations when I asked AI during my product research, and when it got ready, I did a self-audit of my page numerous times with AI, understood their findings and reasons behind them, thanked them for improvements and then made it better for my ICPs. Today, after 500+ hours of coding and fixing work, SiteRoast does CRO-level audits at a fraction of the cost, suggesting step-by-step, priority-wise fixes with a ready-to-share PDF for your internal team in 60 Seconds. It's also available as a white-label product for agencies. SiteRoast is the only product in the market that does that.

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  Acr37 (@aleccring) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak PayPal is ******* garbage and useless when trying to track down fraudulent transactions. Switch to Chase. Anytime I call, I speak to American women who are so kind, helpful and personable. Seemed too good to be true but they haven’t fumbled it yet.

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  James Wester (@jameswester) reported 14 minutes ago

  Retweeting a retweet of @regulatorynerd from July re: Stripe/PayPal and pointing to this: "And the fact they need to involve Advent to fund it illustrates why they should have gone public already. A public company could do this without PE." It wasn't just PayPal's issue.

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  0xMM (@0xmintmee) reported 15 minutes ago

  pyusd is down from a $4b peak in march to about $2.7b. paypal has folded it into a broader payments unit.

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  Pistil (@Pistilinbloom) reported 16 minutes ago

  @LibertyUkraineF @TonyaLevchuk I’ve donated, but your payment methods don’t all work in the UK. PayPal and Apple Pay both require a phone number, but there is nowhere to enter one. Google says a fix is required from your end?

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  Zen (@itZen00) reported 18 minutes ago

  visa just tightened the number that can freeze your store. most sellers have no idea it moved. the numbers: 1. visa's threshold dropped to 1.5% this year 2. stripe caps around 0.5% 3. shopify payments and paypal sit closer to 1% your real danger line is probably tighter than whatever you've been told. cross it and you're not getting a warning. you're getting: - a reserve hold on 20% of payouts - or a full shutdown while the money you already made sits frozen. the fix isn't clever, it's boring: 1. respond to every support ticket inside 12 hours 2. run every ad claim through one test — would this survive your own mother reading it most flags trace back to one of those two. not the product.

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  Blue (@blueshopping24) reported 19 minutes ago

  93% of people chasing passive income in 2026 will make less than $200 total. Not because the opportunities don't exist. Because they're being sold a fantasy instead of a system. Here's the uncomfortable truth nobody in this space wants to say out loud: Passive income is not passive at the start. Ever. Every YouTuber, every course seller, every 'laptop lifestyle' account is showing you month 36 of their journey. Not month one. Not the 14-hour days, the failed products, the $0 PayPal dashboards they stared at for six straight months. The 2026 version of this conversation is even more dangerous. AI tools have lowered the barrier to entry so much that everyone is flooding the same channels simultaneously. Digital products. Faceless YouTube. Print on demand. Notion templates. The market isn't dead, but it is deafeningly loud. So what actually works right now? The people winning are not finding secret niches. They are building small, boring, systematic operations in overlooked corners of existing platforms. One person I know nets $4,100 a month selling licensed music loops to content creators. Another clears $2,800 monthly licensing Excel templates to small accounting firms. Neither of them went viral. Neither has a personal brand. They solved a specific problem for a specific person and automated the delivery. That is the real definition of passive income. Solve once. Deliver forever. The side hustle culture of 2026 is obsessed with the aesthetic of freedom. The people actually achieving it are obsessed with the mechanics of it. There is a massive difference between those two groups.

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  BRAIXEN 🔜 FURUM’26 (@BraixenRX) reported 20 minutes ago

  @applieio I gotta fix my paypal soon…

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  The Arcane Verse⚕️ (@Telephantix) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak @PayPal All foreign call centers too lol, i specifically asked for an american support agent, did not get. I say we have issues with banking and alot of it stems from people saying they control someones life... because they're unrighteous or something

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  Earthinsightnews (@EarthInNews) reported 22 minutes ago

  JUST IN: PayPal is down more than 10% after Stripe and Advent reportedly “dropped their pursuit” of a potential acquisition.

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  Abdulrahman (@Aldahhas_) reported 27 minutes ago

  🚨 PAYPAL $PYPL IS GETTING CRUSHED: Shares are down ~13% after reports that Stripe and Advent abandoned their pursuit of PayPal. • Proposed offer: $60.50/share • Implied valuation: ~$53B • PayPal reportedly viewed the offer as too low The key now: the M&A premium is disappearing, forcing investors to value PayPal on its standalone turnaround. $PYPL

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  CHItrader (@CHItrader) reported 27 minutes ago

  PAYPAL LOSES THE BIDDER $PYPL is getting the deal premium ripped out after Advent and Stripe walked from a $60.50 / ~$53B tilt. Stock closed $61.47. Premarket is sitting around $53, down ~13–15%. 🔹 Board already called the bid light 🔹 Rally this quarter was the rumor. Now it’s the business

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  CaptTriage (@CaptTriage) reported 29 minutes ago

  OK, hear me out. The next directional Moderna esque arbitrage play will be Musk throwing down the gauntlet and putting in an offer for PayPal. Chances are this won’t happen but wouldn’t that be something.

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  BRAIXEN 🔜 FURUM’26 (@BraixenRX) reported 31 minutes ago

  @MochiMunchkinz I really, REALLY, gotta fix my paypal

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  Moodtrack Diary (@MoodtrackDiary) reported 32 minutes ago

  @drewwash @braintree @PayPal I asked support and they recommended holding off on refunds for now as a recovery effort is underway and should include refunding or crediting incorrect charges. They also said it's a P1 issue and they are targeting resolution for end of day today.

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  QuantScraper (@QuantScraper) reported 33 minutes ago

  "Where the noise fades and the signal speaks—your daily market pulse starts here" Market Brief — August 28 (Generated by GPT 5.6): Wall Street ended the week modestly lower as Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole message forced markets to price a substantially greater probability of another Fed hike. The S&P 500 fell 0.25% to 7,711.76, the Nasdaq dropped 0.52% to 26,402.42, the Dow slipped just 9.45 points, or 0.02%, to 53,559.99, and the Russell 2000 declined 1.39% to 2,972.37. The disproportionate damage in small caps was consistent with the session’s central theme: higher expected short-term rates hurt the most rate-sensitive parts of the market. For the week, the S&P 500 and Dow still gained about 0.5%, while the Nasdaq added 0.8%. Warsh’s first Jackson Hole address as Fed Chair was distinctly more hawkish than investors had expected. He described the Fed’s 2% PCE inflation objective as a “firm, fixed target,” stressed that price stability is not automatic, and reiterated that short-term interest rates are the Fed’s predominant policy tool. He also argued that broad financial conditions are difficult to characterize as restrictive and said inflation remains the side of the dual mandate requiring the Fed’s predominant attention. Warsh deliberately avoided promising a September move, preferring a rules-based “discipline” to explicit forward guidance. The Treasury market delivered the clearest reaction. The 2-year yield surged 11.8 basis points to 4.348%, while the 10-year climbed roughly 5 basis points to 4.721% and the 30-year finished around 5.207%. Fed-funds futures moved the probability of a September quarter-point increase to roughly 58% from about 35% the previous day. The much larger move in the 2-year than in the long end produced a bear-flattening signal: investors increased expectations for near-term Fed tightening without dramatically increasing long-run inflation compensation. Consumer sentiment simultaneously weakened, highlighting the tension between the Fed’s inflation problem and household purchasing power. The University of Michigan’s final August sentiment index fell to 51.7 from 55.2, with current conditions declining to 51.9 and expectations to 51.5. Year-ahead inflation expectations eased to 4.0% from 4.2%, while long-run expectations stayed at 3.3%. Consumers therefore see some moderation in inflation ahead, but confidence remains deeply depressed because prices are still expected to rise faster than households would like. Marvell became the session’s clearest demonstration that excellent AI fundamentals can still be insufficient when expectations are extreme. $MRVL reported quarterly revenue of about $2.74 billion, up 37%, adjusted EPS of $0.94, and Data Center revenue growth of 46%. Management guided the following quarter to approximately $3.15 billion of revenue and $1.10 EPS and raised longer-term revenue expectations. Yet the shares fell sharply because investors wanted the Google custom-chip opportunity to contribute materially sooner than management indicated. The market was not questioning AI demand; it was questioning how much future success was already embedded in Marvell’s valuation. Nvidia was pulled into the same valuation reset only one day after its spectacular post-earnings rally. $NVDA fell 4.57% on Friday after surging 8.7% Thursday following its blockbuster results. No material deterioration in Nvidia’s operating outlook emerged during the session; rather, the combination of higher Treasury yields and Marvell’s negative reaction encouraged investors to take profits across expensive AI infrastructure names. The episode reinforces an increasingly important distinction: AI demand remains extraordinary, but the required earnings surprise is becoming extraordinary too. Workday delivered the opposite verdict and strengthened the case that enterprise software can monetize agentic AI directly. $WDAY rose about 5.8% after reporting $2.649 billion of revenue, up 12.8%, and subscription revenue of $2.471 billion, up 13.9%. AI contributed more than 25% of new annual contract value, while more than 5,500 customers were using at least one Workday AI agent. Management lifted fiscal-2027 subscription-revenue guidance to $9.94–$9.95 billion and raised its non-GAAP operating-margin outlook to 31%. Gap produced one of the strongest consumer-stock reactions of the day despite highly uneven performance across its portfolio. $GAP finished roughly 13% higher after earnings exceeded expectations and management raised its annual profit outlook. Total company revenue fell 2%, but comparable sales at the Gap brand surged 10%, while Old Navy comps fell 4% and Athleta dropped 12%. The stock’s reaction showed investors focusing on improving profitability, the strength of the core Gap turnaround and management’s decision to install Michael Francis as Old Navy’s next CEO rather than on the weak consolidated top line. PayPal suffered the session’s largest event-driven corporate collapse. $PYPL fell 12.71% to $53.66 after reports that Stripe and Advent International abandoned acquisition discussions. The proposed consortium had reportedly considered a transaction valuing PayPal at more than $53 billion, but the talks failed to produce an acceptable bid. The stock immediately lost the takeover premium that had accumulated around the speculation and returned investors’ attention to the more difficult question of PayPal’s standalone competitive position. Elastic delivered one of the cleanest software earnings wins of the session. $ESTC surged roughly 17% after fiscal-Q1 revenue increased 15% to $478 million, adjusted EPS reached $0.70, current remaining performance obligations rose 21% to $1.153 billion, and adjusted free cash flow reached $143 million. Elastic also improved its outlook. Combined with the strong recent results from Salesforce, Workday, Okta and CrowdStrike, the report weakens the narrative that generative AI will simply destroy incumbent enterprise-software economics. In several areas, AI is instead increasing search, observability, security and data-management demand. Affirm provided a second important corporate growth signal, although its intraday rally largely evaporated by the closing bell. Fiscal-Q4 revenue increased 33% to $1.17 billion and gross merchandise volume surged 36% to $14.1 billion, while fiscal-2027 GMV guidance exceeded $64 billion. The stock traded sharply higher during the session but ultimately closed only 0.35% higher at $77.76, a useful reminder that even powerful earnings momentum is being subjected to aggressive profit-taking in the current valuation environment. Oil, gold and volatility together showed that Friday was a monetary-policy repricing rather than a broad flight from risk. WTI slipped 0.2% to $83.40, while October Brent declined 0.4% to $89.31; for the week they fell 4.2% and 5.4%, respectively, as alternative Gulf export routes reduced fears of an immediate supply squeeze. December COMEX gold settled at $4,529.90, down $134.10, or about 2.9%, on the day as the jump in Treasury yields punished non-yielding assets. Meanwhile, the official Cboe VIX actually fell 0.55% to 14.43, confirming that investors were repricing rates and individual stocks rather than buying broad equity crash protection. The signal: Friday’s market was fundamentally about the price of money, not the disappearance of growth. Warsh materially changed the near-term policy distribution. A jump in September hike odds from roughly 35% to around 58% is economically more important than the S&P 500’s quarter-percent decline. The 2-year yield’s 12-basis-point surge confirms that investors now see a substantially greater chance of another policy tightening move. At the same time, the long end moved much less aggressively. That matters. The curve’s bear flattening suggests that Warsh’s credibility on inflation may actually have reduced some long-run uncertainty even as it increased the expected near-term policy rate. The immediate valuation problem for equities is therefore higher-for-longer short-term financing costs, not an uncontrolled long-term inflation spiral. Corporate results remain far more constructive than the index close implies. Workday, Elastic and Gap delivered strong positive reactions, while Marvell and Nvidia fell despite powerful underlying AI fundamentals. The distinction is increasingly about expectations versus delivery: investors are rewarding incremental upside that was not already priced and punishing companies where extraordinary future growth has already become the base case. The consumer remains divided rather than collapsed. Michigan sentiment is weak and inflation anxiety remains elevated, yet Gap’s turnaround and Affirm’s transaction growth show that households are still spending selectively. That is a harder environment for companies because broad consumption growth can no longer hide weak execution. The next decisive test is labor. July JOLTS arrives Tuesday, September 1, and the August Employment Situation arrives Friday, September 4 at 8:30 a.m. ET. A firm payroll and wage report would reinforce Warsh’s case for another hike; a material downside surprise would reopen the argument that the Fed should tolerate inflation somewhat longer rather than risk overtightening into a weakening labor market.

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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 38 minutes ago

  Last I knew, Maija's dad [the gentleman from last night's thread], is down to needing $300 to cover his deposit on his new housing. 10 ppl, $30 each: PayPal Xomaij Cash App Maijxo Venmo xomaij

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  Simon Moz (@SimonSoundz) reported 41 minutes ago

  @adelahub Another pre-sale won't fix anything. I've tried the album pre-order pre-sale, Telekom pre-sale, PayPal pre-sale, all for nothing. 🙃 Something needs to change in the system.

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  NuffxSaid (@NuffxSaid) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak Had a close friend lose his business visa over @PayPal. They thought he was selling drugs. He was selling mattresses and decor to hotels and hospitals. They should be shut down imo, this kind of thing happens way too often with them.

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  Dani_ (@masteredirony) reported 44 minutes ago

  @_drew_p_weiner paypal me 5 dollars if you want to be unhidden since clearly 5 is alreasy enough to have your terrible opinion "boosted"

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  ari 🫧 (@pinkeomii) reported 46 minutes ago

  came to the conclusion that it is my cards and not my paypal cuz it wouldn’t let me use another app either so if it’s still not working by the time i wake up ill contact my bank AGAIN

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  King Poot-Poot (@KingPootPoot) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak Paypal is reliable in the way they will ignore you for weeks, spike your cortisol for a few days, then actually fix your problem perfectly

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  Niko Hernandez (@nikohernandez23) reported 49 minutes ago

  Just look up the history of PayPal and you'll quickly realize why it's so terrible

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  Finance Spot (@financespotnews) reported 56 minutes ago

  Michael Burry went public on PayPal 134 days ago. The stock is still +9% from that call. On July 15, $PYPL jumped 17% on buyout rumors. That same day Burry called the offer “simply too low.” Last night, Stripe and Advent International walked away from the takeover. $PYPL is down ~11–12% today — and Burry is still ahead.

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  The Apex Wire (@ApexWireApp) reported 1 hour ago

  @BullTheoryio PayPal took the deal-break hit after Stripe and Advent walked. Same sector, Klarna's CEO bought 692,506 shares on the open market at $14.37, a $9,949,164 filing. One is a broken bid. The other is a disclosed purchase. Plan status is not in the file.

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  Percdye 👉😐👈 (@Percdye) reported 1 hour ago

  @Adiofreak I understand your situation but some of the paypal hate is so forced. Like my coworker had issues because he didn't pay the whole bill and after some time (like 2 years idk) they closed his account and this clown is still crying about it today. Like bruh you made the mistake

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  Mike Zero (@iMikeZero) reported 1 hour ago

  @Adiofreak PayPal is terrible. I’m so happy that Apple Pay has started to become available almost everywhere online.