Paypal status: access issues and outage reports
Some problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: sign in, errors and website down.
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.
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.
August 17: Problems at Paypal
Paypal is having issues since 06:00 AM EST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!
Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.
- Sign in (39%)
- Errors (38%)
- Website Down (22%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 2 hours ago |
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Errors | 16 hours ago |
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Sign in | 4 days ago |
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Sign in | 5 days ago |
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Sign in | 6 days ago |
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Paypal Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Þunchii (@Tunechii33) reportedI am $24,000 in debt at 18 years old and I need help. This isn’t any gimmick, i’ve made some big poor choices at a young age and I have and am still learning through but the monetary number itself is a mountain for me to get rid of in my current situation as i’m heading into college with this on my shoulders. I already know I need to work my *** off and this is my own problem that will take a long time, but truthfully this **** is hard. Im putting this out there for anyone who has the ability/want, to help me out a little no matter what the ammount is, aswell as if you want it returned to you, we can connect and talk about a casual repayment plan. Cashapp: $Sstonuttt For zelle,venmo, paypal, crpyto, or any other option dm me please
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Mr Pardo🐐 (@Pardoisback) reported@dartboikvnzy @PayPal fix up
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auli (@corpupse) reported@meowabri REALLY🙁 i'm so sorry to hear that, i'm here for you. With what did you pay? You could ask for a refund to the site if you commissioned them through Paypal for example. I haven't seen Tiktok take the account down sadly... i'm really sorry this happended to you
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darko! |-/ COMISSÕES ABERTAS!!! (@_puppyllenhaal) reported@isachoerris but my paypal is ****** so i can't receive anything RIGHT NOW i will try to fix it tomorrow and see if i will have my account back so if ur interested it would be like 5-10$ no more than that :3
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Karma’s Suppository (@realPhantomFuck) reported@benwegmann I’ve sold nine phones on Swappa and probably a dozen things on OfferUp and Craigslist over the years, I’ve never once had a problem. I’ve tried selling things on eBay TWICE and both times the seller attempted to scam me. eBay and PayPal are a cesspit
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✧Concept of Stars✧ COMMS OPEN (@ConceptOfStars) reportedI have a little problems with PayPal, an agreement on this position of timely delays. This does not affect the already accepted agreement, due to insolvency!
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patrick hooke (@HookePatri60071) reportedMy PayPal account is still not working. I was told to wait 72 hours before trying to send money but still it doesn't work. However, I was able to pay for something I purchased from eBay without any problems. @AskPayPal
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TheGoldenBo (@therealalexbear) reportedI completely forgot how ******* broken my Paypal account is for some reason until today
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Nelson Rangel (@nelsonrangel) reportedPaypal shareholders have ZERO economic incentive to engage in buyout discussions with Stripe/Advent below $110/ share. Rejecting them would in fact open the door for the most bullish case: the acceleration of $PYPL . Intrinsic Value growth over the next 12 months. Here is the math: •Paypal rejects Stripe/Advent offer below shareholder maximizing value of $110 per share. Stock drops back down to $50. •Paypal continues to execute buybacks at current pace of $6 billion per annum. Takes out roughly 120 million shares. The lower the stock goes the more powerful buybacks become. Since the company is a cashflow machine that creates a flywheel by which market pessimism increases Intrinsic Value per share. This is not theoretical, management has already demonstrated they are willing to do this, buying back 67MM shares at $44.99 in 1H 2026. •Management’s turnaround plan continues at current pace, no heroics just plain boring. Continue executing shift into financial services, begin realizing already earmarked cost savings. They deliver $6.20 EPS, continue generating $6 billion in FCF. At 13x that puts the company share price at $80.6 in 12 months. •Add a $25 control premium to that for any buyer that appears then and Paypal shareholders are at $105/ share. And this does not take into account any additional buybacks or business growth after year 1. •$110 is the fair buyout price for Stripe/Advent to pay now for Paypal shareholders to relinquish a bright future. •We know Advent cannot pay that because their PE math begins to fall apart. Stripe needs to go solo or find better financing if it does not want to miss this strategic opportunity. Paypal Shareholders do not support selling the company below intrinsic value and Paypal shareholders should not be asked to subsidize Advent’s return requirements.
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Matt Hunter (@MattHunterCoach) reportedThe best decision PayPal ever made came out of a clash between its leaders. Max Levchin wanted to build security software for Palm Pilots. Peter Thiel saw limited market potential and pushed back hard. Neither softened the message. Neither backed down easily. Out of that collision came a pivot to sending money over email that led to a $1.5 billion acquisition by eBay. Reid Hoffman described the culture simply: "We had a culture of arguing to improve the idea. It wasn't personal. It was about making the best product possible." That's the model. Fight for your position, stay open to being wrong, and let the best idea win. When talented people argue honestly toward the truth, great things get built.
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Mark C. Massey (@MarkCMassey) reportedSince they have now crashed our currency on world stage with egregious decisions, trying to NOW make it sound like a "plus" ... and ... 'Garchs want to take down the dollar ANYWAY! JD = Thiel PayPal Mafia want to control currency.
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vince is in Argentina (@LESBIANSBL) reportedAt what point can we call someone stupid bc I just saw a mother of two get scammed bc she thought the federal government was calling her over missing jury duty and sent like 11k USD to a personal PayPal account all bc “she’s terrified of getting in trouble”
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SJ (@1000spices) reported@woolworths Is there an issue with paying through the app right now? Am trying to place an order and 4 different types of payments have been declined. Apple Pay, entering details and also PayPal.
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Heather Peter | Tangem CS (@TheHeatherPeter) reportedHello 👋🏻 @jeffleonard000, this is UX/confirmation issue with PayPal Express checkout flow but since you got a confirmation email, good. Is your Tangem updated to the latest version?
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CurseDeReaper ✖️🍶/❤️🩹💉 (@curse_de) reported@jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal I hope the issue is fixed soon. Freaking insane that they pull auch a sh1t and screw with the livelyhood of independent creators like that...
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King Arthi (@K1ngArthi) reported@coinbureau PayPal stock is down almost 90% from its 2021 peak and they just turned down $53B to hold out for $70/share. That's not leverage, that's betting the turnaround works before Stripe walks. We'll know within a year.
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Royal Crypto ree (@royal69671) reported@CryptoTweets PayPal turning down $53B feels like a big flex or a big mistake.
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Mel Melatonin (@MelMelatonin07) reported@stupid2moons You should contact PayPal because it might be issues on the app
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DividendBoomer (@BoomerDivvies) reported@darrelltalksfi I sold PayPal after it recovered from a long down cycle. I wish I only picked winners lol.
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sev (@d1zko) reported@paccanuqq Im a little Worried cuz people say their paypal accounts get like limited or theres an issue with like business licenses relating to that
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Vox (@Voxyz_ai) reportedYesterday, I moved part of my Hermes setup into 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸 𝗕𝗼𝘁 and started treating it as a work environment. I used 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘅 to package the profile and related directories I wanted to move into a zip, then added an import prompt. Grok Bot unpacked the zip and read all of it. Most of the Markdown docs, memory files, skills, and scheduled tasks migrated in one go. Smoother than I expected. Every Bot is connected to a 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘅 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿. I can open its desktop and see the files, browser, and running tasks. Watching a Bot’s desktop slowly turn into its own workspace is weirdly fun. Bot-to-Bot interaction is smooth too. In a 1:1 chat, one Bot can contact another in the background, hand off the task, then bring the result back. From the UI, it looks like they’re messaging each other behind the scenes. You can also pull several Bots into one group and talk to them like people. I tried running Werewolf a few times. Every game failed lol, so I’m still tuning the rules and skills. Watching their inner monologues and private messages to each other is hilarious. The group chat works, though the discussion itself is still rough. I’ve tested this many times with Hermes and OpenClaw in Telegram and never got it working well. The agents often take turns giving answers and rarely follow up on the previous point. Sometimes they do resolve a disagreement well, but it isn’t consistent. The rules matter a lot. I still don’t know whether this is a problem worth obsessing over. Whoever gets 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗕𝗼𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁 right first might win more users. Or maybe users don’t need to watch Bots hold meetings at all. Background handoffs and result-sharing may be enough. Grok Bot is still much easier to live with than the open-source setups I’ve tried. Hermes and OpenClaw can do many of the same things, but I have to manage the servers, processes, updates, keys, and connections between Bots myself. Grok Bot puts all of that into one hosted interface and removes a lot of maintenance. The machine isn’t mine, so I’m not comfortable putting raw API keys for Wise or PayPal on it. I keep a self-hosted MCP on the cloud server I was already using. The raw PayPal and Wise API keys stay there; Grok Bot gets a separate connection token. When no connector exists, I have AI write the MCP, package it, and connect it to Grok as a set of tools the Bot can call. I still haven’t figured out how Grok Bot handles short-term and long-term memory, or how much of it I can configure. It looks like the platform manages some of the files itself. I copied the Hermes directories because it was easy. I don’t know if it’s the best migration method, but it works for now. This thing is expensive, and I still really like it. I moved the nightly review over too, then cut it down to something much simpler. Every night it only reads each Bot’s checkpoint and updates one rolling TEAM_ALIGNMENT.md. Conflicts come back to me. Any proposed file changes stay pending until I review them during the day. Full prompt below 👇
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Rawrskis! (@2017_nonsense) reported@PayPal @Mastercard Paypal shut down my account that I had used since 2015, mainly to purchase software and claimed I had used the account in some nefarious way, but provided zero documentation.
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Polly St. George (@FringeViews) reported@SecretsofMaine It was seen all over the world. I had 10 boxes of physical mail in my closet from every country you can name. Even one from China. Then they just shut me down. BOOM. In 24 hours I lost paypal and youtube. That's how they do it when you're not in the club.
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Kevin Rockcock (@LordRockcock) reported@jerri_macleod Hey Jerri, sorry to hear this. I knew you’d been ill, but didn’t realise it had caused all sorts of other problems. I can send you something to help out till you get paid - would hate to think of you and Higgins struggling 🙁 Do you have a PayPal or something (DM?)
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Shizuka Okutsuka (Commission Open) (@ShizuOkutsuka) reportedPaypal down.
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TaegiBoraverse⁷ IS SEEING BTS ⊙⊝⊜ (@soumii05) reportedThere is a "loyal customer" am saying it in inverted commas coz u will know soon why So she saw i hv a digital shop and was like she wanted to supposely support my digital shop and buy smthing for her friend i told her okay and gave her my website I can do take her order manually and send via email no issue but since she said it was her bestfrnd birthday n wanted to give them a digital planner i gave her option of my website since i was busy and website they would hv got it within second after ordering it while manually i would hv been able to take her order on weekend since i had work and didnt have time to login my laptop and all I told her i had paypal option which she said she didnt have and then i said i have credit card And she was like she dont trust using credit card on my shop coz she think she get scam😭 like she been ordering frm me for like 2 ys once a while and knws hw my shop function yet she was like she may get scam😭 Like i do my best to make people happy and in return i get called scammer and being manipulative when all i do is help army when i can and rn i feel so close to closing all my shops coz with how these people are and how im no longer getting any sale 😭😭 Sorry for the rant at 3am im unable to sleep and started to cry again and thinking abt my ****** life and flop shops that i have worked so hard on for 2ys yet its a huge flop😭
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detective **** ❤︎s goldlewis! 🦇⚰️ (@spacenautica) reportedCHAT IM PACKING ORDERS RN BUT PAYPAL JUST SHAT ITSELF SO SOME OF YALL ARENT GETTING PACKING SLIPS. IM SO SORRY BUT I CAN'T WAIT ON IT TO COME BACK ANY MORE ITS BEEN HAVING ISSUES FOR 3 HOURS. IF YOUR ORDER ARRIVES W/O ONE AND YOU NEED YOUR SLIP JUST LMK
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sam .ᐟ ₊˚。 ❆ (mimir comms 10/10 ‼️) (@cremezayniee) reported@dawnbreaker_joy i don't use kofi atm! im facing some issues within paypal itself 😞
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jj (@Divopanel) reported@NamecheapCEO I lost $50.88; I’m going to open a PayPal dispute if they don't resolve the issue. I contacted support, but they didn't help—even though they charged $50.88 to my PayPal! All my sites are down! (Over 22 sites with Namecheap).
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Chimp Out (@Chimpnouts) reportedInterested in a IPTV service that doesn't lag? Tired of Xbmc bs and broken links and laggy iptv that only takes crypto? I would offer xmoney, but they'd take that down so fast when the nigs report me. So i will do paypal until they limit the account. Premier League/Cups start today, interested? DM me. ill do first 10 people today who do a month $10 each You can decide to extend later if you choose. paypal, we all got paypal. No crypto needed today. Dm's open.