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 (41%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Benfeld	Sign in	8 hours ago
Gérardmer	Sign in	1 day ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	2 days ago
Lodève	Errors	2 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	3 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐳𝐚 | Networking Guy (@Hamzaonchain) reported 5 minutes ago

  In 2012, Honey launched as a browser extension that promised to find coupon codes automatically and save you money while shopping online. It blew up. Millions of people installed it. Thousands of merchants partnered with it. Some of the biggest YouTubers on the internet promoted it. Then MegaLag started digging. What he found made Honey look very different from the innocent coupon extension everyone thought they were using. Honey could allegedly replace a creator's affiliate cookie at checkout, taking the commission for itself even when that creator had originally sent the customer to the store. And sometimes, Honey didn't even have to find you a better deal. MegaLag also found evidence that Honey's “best coupon” system wasn't necessarily searching the entire internet for the best price. Merchants could control which discounts Honey showed. Then things got worse. His later investigations uncovered Honey's alleged use of “stand-down” workarounds, allowing it to continue receiving affiliate attribution despite agreements telling it not to overwrite another affiliate's referral. By 2026, this wasn't just a YouTube controversy anymore. Affiliate networks started cutting ties with Honey, and the extension had lost more than 7 million Chrome users and thousands of merchant relationships. Then came the lawsuit. PayPal tried to get the case dismissed. It didn't work. On June 22, 2026, a federal judge denied PayPal's motion to dismiss the amended lawsuit, allowing the claims to move forward. And that's why I call Honey a scam. Not because it sometimes failed to find a coupon. But because something marketed as a tool for saving you money allegedly became very good at making money from the transaction itself. Honey wasn't looking for the best deal. It was looking for its cut.

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  Worth Wells (@WWWIII) reported 6 minutes ago

  @CaptBob_Nomadic @ros577 @AmericanAir tagging a business on X or other socials seems like the best way to get a response these days, I went round and round with PayPal over an issue for a month, one post on X and all of a sudden they were eager to resolve the issue.

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  Matthew Sheets (@MattyMattSheets) reported 13 minutes ago

  @SorenPetro @VenmoSupport @Venmo I just got one for my daughter but only for small transactions like food & drinks or if she needs cash for something I can just send it to her. I have had Venmo,PayPal & cash app for years for receiving payments & only ran into a issue once with Venmo & I got my $ back from scam

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 14 minutes ago

  Bench shut down in December and customers lost access to their own books. Quillfox is the alternative: a 24/7 AI bookkeeping agent that watches bank, Stripe, and PayPal, chases invoices, flags duplicates, and closes a clean P&L each month. Live soon.

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  Kpl (@Fujoshi_50_kpl) reported 16 minutes ago

  The Singapore concert, last minute had some Western Union issue with the TS account . I had already paid a small amount for my queue with no problem but while paying a bigger amount something went wrong. TS did not have PayPal. So I thought will try for WE FM in Taipei but again KKTIX platform my mobile could not be verified inspite of multiple mails coz for The top tier tickets it needed to be verified 😭😭😭. Here also I paid about 4USD to Queue :( My badluck. I'm just hoping my luck won't be the same for WE concert coz I really really need it for so many reasons will tell you when and if we meet 🥹

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 17 minutes ago

  The eBay check that bought PayPal in 2002 funded the founders of Tesla, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Palantir. The deal was announced on July 8, 2002, on the front page of the New York Times business section. The article you are looking at is that story. It was written by Matt Richtel. It ran 900 words and treated the transaction as a routine consolidation between two internet companies that had been circling each other for years. The purchase price was one and a half billion dollars in eBay stock. Negotiated and closed in a week. eBay had spent the previous two years trying to build its own competing payment product called Billpoint, had put thirty five million dollars into it as recently as March 2002, and gave up. On the day the acquisition closed, eBay announced Billpoint was being shut down. This is what losing to a better product looks like written into an acquisition announcement. The details in the article are the boring version of the story. The interesting version happened in the six months after. PayPal had about a hundred and fifty employees at the time of the sale. Fewer than thirty of them held meaningful equity. When the eBay stock cleared, most of those thirty people had between five and one hundred and eighty million dollars in liquid capital. They were mostly under thirty five years old. Almost none of them wanted to stay at eBay. Peter Thiel walked out with about fifty five million dollars and used it to co-found Palantir the following year and to start Founders Fund two years after that. Elon Musk walked out with about one hundred and eighty million and put most of it into SpaceX, which he had founded three months earlier, and into Tesla, where he led the Series A in 2004. Reid Hoffman took his exit money and started LinkedIn in December 2002. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim were engineers at PayPal who left with smaller checks and used them to start YouTube in 2005. Max Levchin took his money and eventually founded Affirm. Jeremy Stoppelman left and started Yelp. David Sacks left and started Yammer. Roelof Botha left PayPal's CFO seat and joined Sequoia, where he became one of the most successful venture investors of his generation. That group started to get called the PayPal Mafia around 2007 when Fortune ran a cover story on them, all standing around in Godfather suits. The combined value of the companies they founded, seeded, or ran after PayPal is over three trillion dollars. The eBay check that made all of that possible was a footnote in the 2002 New York Times business section. The reason the pattern is worth studying is that it is not really about the money. Twenty five people getting rich on the same day is a common story. It has happened a hundred times at other IPOs and acquisitions. The unusual thing is that this specific twenty five went on to found the next generation of the industry that had just paid them. Most exits produce quiet millionaires who buy houses in Palo Alto and take a decade off. PayPal's exit produced a wave of founders who started their next company within eighteen months. The best guess for why is not the capital. It is the confidence and the network. When you have built one thing that worked and cashed out at thirty two, and everyone in your closest circle also built one thing that worked and cashed out at thirty two, the psychological cost of starting the next one drops to almost zero. You do not need to raise from strangers. Your first ten investors are your former colleagues. Your first hire is somebody who used to sit two desks away. I keep this article printed on my wall as a reminder that the deals that look small in the moment are the ones that seed the next twenty years. The check was one and a half billion dollars. The return, measured across the next two decades of companies, was closer to three trillion.

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  Ft $20 till both nut 💦 (@Krackin_Bigass) reported 19 minutes ago

  if you are not money ready do not dm me, if u are “scared” of being scammed do not dm me cus idgaf and won’t give u anything first or free because of it. MY OPTIONS ARE PAYPAL , CHIME , and second link thru bio ( PayPal at all time) pay to play no trust issues #buyingcontent

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  MUSSE (@Musse1969) reported 20 minutes ago

  And if people are donation from an Apple device, they want money too, so the final revenue can come down to 50% and thats why he has cashapp and paypal too.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 20 minutes ago

  Every complaint thread is a billable workflow nobody was claiming. Built Pinchloom to claim it. It scrapes public posts, drafts the n8n fix, pitches the prospect with a checkout link, and routes PayPal or card payments straight to the operator. Live soon.

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  Z Domainer (@ZDomainer) reported 22 minutes ago

  Hi how can I contact @PayPal support. I couldn't solve the problem through help center

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  Numan (@Numan_Ai12) reported 24 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  Johnny Pisshead (@JohnnyP9446) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Google you also have my paypal account info witch should be the same as using a "f"ing credit card so fix it or i sue

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  DI (@DI_3) reported 25 minutes ago

  @clerpatriot Women have G’zintas and Men have G’zoutas. Problem solved! Send cash, checks, or money orders direct to me. I also accept PayPal, Mastercard and Visa.

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  Aaditya Aanand (@biased_human) reported 26 minutes ago

  Shiprocket has no promoter. Nobody owns this company. 94.03% of the company is held by public and 5.97% is ESOP. Then who is the majority shareholder? Bertelsmann, German book publisher (Penguin), owns 21% of the company. Zomato also holds 7%. PayPal also holds above 1%. Founders of Shiprocket are selling shares worth ₹142 crore in this IPO. Not just founders, 45% of the IPO money is being used to give an exit to existing investors. They did over 20 crore transactions in FY26. But just 4.7% merchants of Shiprocket generates 89% of all the revenue. They call them power merchants. Shiprocket acquired Pickrr for 1000 cr and booked 800 cr in goodwill (extra payment they made to Pickrr for their brand value). They have paid goodwill before as well (Omuni), but all of them were loss making. 14 years into the business, Shiprocket is still loss making. They posted a loss of ₹600 cr in FY24. Magic happened and FY26 loss came down to ₹80 cr. That said, their core business is profitable.

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  ♡ 𝓡𝓾𝓫𝔂 ♡ (@mommyrubitron) reported 27 minutes ago

  Caught a “PayPal only” “I love sending to new goddesses” “Account based in Nigeria” mf just now🙃 Someone fix my irritation >.<

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  Crunchman61 🐺🪽 (@crunchman61) reported 31 minutes ago

  Called Paypal and my bank today since I was in the group affected by the Novel Horizons shut down. Sadly the transaction was too far outside of their windows of dispute for them to be able to do anything for me so I'm out 280 for a Sinder figure I never got. Yay...

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  Central do Lyanco (@lelfelipersrs) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Moiduran2 Hi, I'm from Brazil and I want to buy your "Individual Model Pack for PES 2021 (Over 50 models)" mod via PayPal, but I'm having trouble doing so. Is there another payment method available? I really want to purchase it.

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  Yuyu 夢クズかわ ❤️‍🩹💉 2.0 DEBUT 8/15 (@YumeKuzukawa) reported 39 minutes ago

  @jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal they want to cut down cost and replace workers bc they are greedy and ofc to avoid accountability

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  Kaloyan Mitev (@KaloyanMitev00) reported 40 minutes ago

  Every big company is the second version of something that already worked. PayPal → Stripe. Adobe → Figma. The original product usually wasn't broken. The infrastructure around it was. Poker is the same. The game isn't broken. The cards are good. The strategy is good. The competition is good. People have been playing it for decades. What’s broken is everything around the game. You win money, and someone else holds it. You want to withdraw, and you wait. Your balance exists because a company says it does. Your money is sitting in an account that can be frozen, restricted, or confiscated. And we've somehow accepted that as part of playing poker. I don't think poker needs to be reinvented. I think it needs a second version. Same game. Different foundation. The room deals the cards. The contract holds the money. You play, you stand up, you take your stack with you. That's what we're building with Stacked. Poker 2.0 doesn't need to change poker. It just needs to stop treating custody as part of the game.

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  Porter Pierce jr (@Porterpiercejr) reported 42 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Only PayPal for those. Always solved my problems

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  . (@DatMLBro) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Fosudo The issue isn’t just Nigeria’s reputation. India has its own fraud and financial crime problems, yet PayPal serves them. The difference is leverage: India can push back. Nigeria’s weak institutions often leave us begging for access instead of demanding fair treatment.

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  Heather Peter | Tangem CS (@TheHeatherPeter) reported 44 minutes ago

  Hello 👋🏻 @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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  Richard Ieuan Davies (@TheRavingRich) reported 46 minutes ago

  @HelpSupercard @WWE2KSupport My web store checkout has been broken since Thursday. Filed a ticket, got ZERO responses, and you just sent me a satisfaction survey for a ticket you silently closed. PayPal works fine everywhere else. Please have a human look at my account.

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  Omoding (@omo_ding) reported 46 minutes ago

  @airtelmoneyug Your card cannot link with paypal. Fix that

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  Vex 🇷🇸 🧝🏼👨‍⚖️| Elf Judge Vtuber (@VexVextor124) reported 47 minutes ago

  @jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal Doubt. I am from Serbia. Before my only way of contact was Facebook and they shut it down. I cant call unless I want astronomic phone bills

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  Mr Pardo🐐 (@Pardoisback) reported 50 minutes ago

  @dartboikvnzy @PayPal fix up

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  LATE NIGHT LOBBIES TV🌃 (@healy_major) reported 54 minutes ago

  I always use the PayPal pay later option, where they break down your payments into 4 payments of like $18 per payment. It's convenient AF and it doesn't hurt as much as dropping a lump sum of $70 on a game.🤷👊🫡

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  conor!! (@playdeadpool) reported 54 minutes ago

  willing to go down to £950 + the paypal fee if anyone is still interested 🥹

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  Luo 👽🌷🏹 (@luonarvt) reported 56 minutes ago

  @KillerS43140 Paypal also turned me down

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  hamza abaoui (@abaoui_ham64421) reported 57 minutes ago

  @QudsNen @Au10tix's biometric processing for @PayPal raises major digital rights issues. Their links to Israeli intelligence and past data breaches threaten Palestinian privacy and data sovereignty.