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
Kassel	Sign in	1 day ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	1 day ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	2 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	2 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	4 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	4 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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  TheBitcoinBaby (@bitcoinbabyswfl) reported 2 minutes ago

  Brother… you’re melting down on the timeline over a declined payment.Nobody “begged” you for anything your bank flagged your own transaction, we offered solutions, you blocked every number, and now you’re performing tough-guy karaoke on X.If you’re going to talk like a villain, at least make sure the screenshots don’t show you panicking over Apple Pay, PayPal, CashApp, and a card decline in the same hour.I run a company. You ran from a conversation.Stay safe out there, keyboard warrior.

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  Sylvester Toochukwu (@SylvesterToc) reported 2 minutes ago

  @BSCNews @PayPal Imagination wan kill this project yet they haven't solved 1/3 of the issues ravaging their pioneers.

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  Big Baby (@BigBabyvirgin) reported 3 minutes ago

  When Reynolds logged into PayPal to check his balance, it showed $0. PayPal later acknowledged that the massive figure was an error and corrected it.

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  G McAdam (@McAdam146810) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Mickskinz Web: Microsoft sign-in helper - has the option that you’ve forgotten all your sign in details. I had a nightmare with a fraudulent DD on PayPal. I complained, they did FA. Contacted my bank, NatWest, which cancelled DD and refunded me the money that had been taken. Good luck!

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  jfcistfgltm (@BowieIsWorried) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Berri_shawol I selected "Report a problem" on the transaction in PayPal and just explained what happened in the form

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  PW (@PenfoldWay) reported 7 minutes ago

  @godd3s_tx You wanna reply on instagram or am i gonna report a problem to paypal and ill make this a problem all over your x account

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  Danny Trunk (@dtrunk90) reported 7 minutes ago

  @PlayGreak That looks awesome. I will buy it once PayPal lets me do so. I'm facing errors right now via Steam.

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  Black Beret (@BlackBeret3) reported 8 minutes ago

  This is actually pretty good for China travel. When I was in China, the only QR code payment processors were Alipay and Weixin Pay. If the vendor accepts Alipay, there’s almost never a problem, but if the vendor only accepted Weixin Pay, there was a lot of problems getting my US financial institution to approve the transaction. So I would either have to use cash or switch to a credit card if Weixin Pay wasn’t working. So PayPal being allowed to be used in China will reduce a lot of headache for foreign travelers. Though you absolutely should set up a WeChat account prior to travel for more efficient communication with Chinese contacts.

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  Ridark (@ridark_eth) reported 11 minutes ago

  The entire world launch market was about $4 billion a year. He stood in front of Stanford students and said his rocket would fly for about $6 million a flight, against a competitor charging many times that this is Elon Musk in October 2003 – introduced as the guy from PayPal, because that is all he was SpaceX is one year old in this room. No Falcon has flown. Tesla does not exist yet as anything you would recognise he divides the whole market by the number of flights and reads the number out loud, the way you would check a bill on why the price had never come down: he says nobody had tried to build the vehicle and the engine and the avionics in one building, so every rocket carried four companies' margins no slides worth the name – a room of maybe a hundred students – a man in a black shirt who has not yet been photographed a million times this recording exists because Stanford filmed its entrepreneurship course for a teaching archive and put it out free bookmark & watch today ↓

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  Akshat Gupta (@akshat_do) reported 13 minutes ago

  Nearly 400 orders in my first month of ecom. Then @AskPayPal permanently deactivated the account and froze the money for 180 days. Every document they asked for was submitted. The docs were extremely compliant (more than 99% of the PayPal stores out there for sure). Is growing quickly the problem? Ref PP-L-859777751864 @AskPayPal @PayPal can you help be fair and look into this?

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  AK (@EarningsB4Hugs) reported 14 minutes ago

  For those wondering, TPV for Paypal is broken into Branded Checkouts (The money maker) which includes paypal checkout, venmo for merchants. They also call out P2P (sending money to a friend) which does not make a lot of money. Issue is Venmo does a bit of both. Knowing Venmo TPV won't tell you how much of Venmo TPV is for merchants vs P2P. They do say vague stuff like 45% of growth is from Venmo merchants. That does not help triangulate the figures

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  Marty (@_martydunlop) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Shopify FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! Disconnect Paypal from new stores by default. @PayPal is the world's worst. You're literally giving new stores an issue to deal with straight out the gate with this default integration and payment acceptance.

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  Sarah Jackson (@sarah2981958) reported 22 minutes ago

  @LNER trying to do delay repay through PayPal and it’s not working. It transfers you to the PayPal login then it’s just a blank white screen. If you go back it says having problems connecting. Any help?

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  Multi (@Multi_mike01) reported 24 minutes ago

  The agentic economy didn't arrive gradually. It arrived all at once. NVIDIA sized the agentic AI opportunity at $1 trillion. Google launched AP2 with over 60 partners including Mastercard, PayPal, and Visa. OpenAI and Stripe shipped an Agentic Commerce Protocol directly inside ChatGPT checkout. All of that happened within the last eighteen months. The capability side of this equation has scaled faster than anyone predicted. Agents are already booking flights, managing portfolios, signing agreements, and initiating payments without a human approving each step. The trust infrastructure hasn't moved at anywhere near the same pace. Society spent over twenty years handing data to applications through the internet. Now agents are being handed the keys to money and decisions, and the accountability layer that should have been built first is still being assembled after the fact. @Concordium's MCP server allows an agent to check, before interacting, whether its counterparty carries a verified identity and what that verification guarantees. Machine-readable accountability for machine-speed transactions. Capability scaling without trust infrastructure isn't a technical gap. It's a liability that compounds every time a new agent goes live without a verified human behind it. #Concordium #ConcordiumAmbassador

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  justnoseyingaround (@Mary28590250) reported 27 minutes ago

  @GuardioSecurity I sent screen shots to your support line I contacted the contact guardio on the PayPal report a problem That's how I spoke with whoever

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  Penny Wise (@wise145485) reported 33 minutes ago

  @annbauerwriter I've never run into that problem but I can see how it would happen. A lot of people are moving away from cash or checks. I do some digital money such as Zelle and PayPal but only with trusted vendors. For you it sounds like it now needs to be an up front question.

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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 33 minutes ago

  It’s ridiculous; I’m having a serious problem with a client who filed a series of PayPal disputes. It’s absurd because the complaints stem from the fact that some thumbnails didn't pass the UEFN similarity check—something we all know is normal and happens with 90% of thumbnails. Even so, I made sure they passed the check; I even enlisted @MalakiDZN help to ensure they did. Yet, days later, the client disputed every single thumbnail I created—even the ones that had passed the check. On top of that, he defended his claim on PayPal by alleging I had plagiarized existing work. That’s ridiculous, considering I basically took Roblox concepts he sent me and adapted them for Fortnite. It’s absurd. I hope no other designer works with him, because this could happen to them. I don’t know why @PayPal hasn’t resolved this yet; having more than six disputes filed at once doesn't even make sense—it’s just a desperate attempt to get his money back 🫩🫩

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  BoredHuskyPack🇦🇷🇨🇦🇨🇷🇭🇷🇮🇱🇯🇵🇵🇱🇹🇼🇺🇸 (@BoredHuskyPack) reported 34 minutes ago

  @libsoftiktok Indian nationals Prashant Gajera and Dharaben Davadiya were just convicted of carrying out a PayPal fraud scheme? They are terrible people.

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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 35 minutes ago

  The version being told isn't the whole story; little is said about his bad practices regarding the conditions he attached to my payment for these thumbnails. Initially, he hired me simply to adapt thumbnails from Roblox to Fortnite—a task I accepted because we had worked together previously without issues. He never mentioned that making them "work" (pass the game's automated checks) would be a condition for getting paid for work already completed. The issue isn't whether I could make them work or not—even though he repeatedly claimed they didn't, filing over a dozen disputes on PayPal (every single payment was disputed), which is already suspicious. In reality, @MalakiDZN himself helped me get them working; furthermore, I could see for myself that some versions *did* work, yet he would simply ask for extra changes, arguing they failed even after I’d tested them all. That’s when I tested them myself and—yes—saw that some versions worked fine. So, the problem wasn't that they failed; I even attached proof of them working to the PayPal dispute. Another important point is that, as I said, he hired me to adapt concepts from Roblox to Fortnite without mentioning the conditions he kept adding later—conditions I never agreed to. We even made a deal where he would pay if I modified just one more thumbnail, but when I did, instead of honoring the agreement and paying, he added yet another request. The mere fact that he disputed *every* payment contradicts his narrative; he even disputed a "remaining" balance payment. Usually, if you aren't satisfied, you just stop working with someone—you don't keep asking for more thumbnails. (It’s worth noting he even disputed a payment for a Fortnite background—which is bizarre, since backgrounds don't even go through the similarity-check process, yet it was still disputed.) Finally, on PayPal, he argued that I had likely just plagiarized work and made minor tweaks, claiming that was why the game flagged it. Any creator knows that isn't how it works; the system relies on colors, shapes, composition, and other subjective visual elements—and sometimes it doesn't even let... ...creators using their own previously used thumbnails—plus, the whole thing would have been impossible given that he had me adapt Roblox concepts that didn't exist in Fortnite. I even provided all the PSD files, so I fulfilled the job requirements—and even went beyond what was required, doing things we hadn't originally agreed upon. As I’ve stated here, there is proof for everything, and it is all attached as evidence to resolve this matter. One thing has become clear to me since I posted my tweet yesterday—even though I didn't explicitly mention it at the time—is that there are other people who have gone through this same situation with him, and they can back me up on this.

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  DJ (@RedrumCashew2) reported 39 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk Has anyone had issues paying with PayPal?

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  mau (@fuckingeats) reported 41 minutes ago

  i’m selling a ticket (sec 412) for ariana grande in london 24th august.🫶🏻 i have no problem to do paypal g&s! dm! #arianagrande

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  Chimp Out (@Chimpnouts) reported 42 minutes ago

  @mattballew @RealUncleTesla shhh they will fix it, i withdraw 1k, and then deposited it back from paypal lol.

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  NEON RACCOON (COMMS OPEN) (@NTRaccoonART) reported 46 minutes ago

  UPDATE: THIS DUDE DID IT AGAIN. He "pretended" to pay me back the negative balance. Which did cover the issue. Blamed his "mom" then proceeded to DO IT AGAIN. I cannot exactly give money back when it covers a negative balance. He used my donation link. I could very much lose my paypal over this. He paid for the **** he caused me, said his "mommy" wanted to negotiate. This dude claims hes 18. Calls me an AI artist, and asks for the money he robbed me of back. This dude is actually trying to ruin my life. Most malicious thing I have ever dealt with as an artist. Wtf man.

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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 46 minutes ago

  @thecanozer The payment access part is underrated. Getting Stripe + PayPal solves the first problem, but as the business grows I'd still avoid making either one the only payment rail. Access is step one, redundancy comes next.

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  SheSaidWhat (@orangehelicop) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Mickskinz @Spanishape29 Just log into your banking app, go to payments, then choose scheduled payments, scroll down the DD list and click cancel on the Paypal one.

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  Tobi (@To_bi_Bakare) reported 51 minutes ago

  Option 3: Namecheap Namecheap accepts PayPal as well as cards if you already have or can set up a PayPal account funded another way, that sidesteps the naira-card issue too.

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  Belvis Otieno Zion (@BelvisZion) reported 53 minutes ago

  @SafaricomPLC Why all this Safaricom. All pending PayPal withdrawal payments are never solved. You issue ticket number for cases and tend to not help . When I call customer care, all the agents claim they don't understand the problem but I wait. Is it deliberate that I won't get any help?

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  Scott S (@scottslabio) reported 59 minutes ago

  Deleting the commit does not remove the secret. *** keeps history. The blob is still reachable by hash, still in every clone and fork, likely in a mirror you have never heard of. Rotate the credential. A team that spends the first hour rewriting *** history instead of revoking the key has spent the hour the attacker needed. Public repos are scraped continuously. A committed cloud key is found and used in minutes, not days. Push protection blocks the credential before it leaves your machine, which beats detection after the fact. The supply chain side is worse. Event-stream 2018: maintainer handed the package over, new owner added code targeting a bitcoin wallet. No bug. The maintainer changed. Dependency confusion 2021: public packages matching internal names at higher versions, builds fetched the attacker's copy. Worked against Apple, Microsoft, PayPal. No vulnerability. Just resolution order. xz-utils 2024: multi-year effort to gain maintainer trust and reach sshd. Found by an engineer investigating a half second login slowdown. Dependency review cannot be a one time check. The package that was safe when you chose it can change hands afterwards. Wrote up the full breakdown of repo security, credential rotation, and three supply chain attacks that worked without exploiting a single bug.

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  Denise Wildfortune (@Wildfortune1) reported 1 hour ago

  @J0hnADouglas @Adobe I had a problem with Avast. I successfully canceled the previous year, only to be billed the following year. Then I discovered that PayPal has a tab for sites allowed to use auto-renewal. I deleted Avast and many others. Now all my subscriptions are via PayPal.

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  xochi (@xoc_hi) reported 1 hour ago

  @isooballin Ran up some bands off that paypal glitch IFYKYK