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 (45%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume	Website Down	14 hours ago
Colonia los Sauces	Sign in	24 hours ago
Brisbane	Sign in	2 days ago
Northwich	Sign in	2 days ago
Castleford	Sign in	3 days ago
Olie Rivier	Sign in	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  고양이 (@neyeppeuda) reported 21 seconds ago

  @AskPayPal please check my dm cause your customer service at aplication is not working

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  Shashwat Chauhan (@Shashwat_web3) reported 2 minutes ago

  Here's what 99% of people are missing. X Money isn't competing with PayPal. It's the trojan horse. → 500M users already on the platform → 6% yield on balances (higher than your bank) → 40+ states on day one via Visa rails → "Smart Cashtags" linking crypto tickers live on timeline → Nikita Bier literally tweeted: "Crypto's had a rough year. Maybe we should launch something to fix it." They're not entering finance. They're entering crypto with 500 million normies as the army. DeFi spent 5 years trying to onboard the world. X Money might do it in one month. This is either the biggest onboarding event in crypto history or the biggest fake-out. Either way, you should be watching. 🫡

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  Kiwee (@ItsKiweer) reported 3 minutes ago

  @nisabayon can you drop your paypal? codashop is not working for me for some reason

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  Arnab Chatterjee (@Chatterjee_arn) reported 3 minutes ago

  Visa. Mastercard. Stripe. PayPal. Shopify. These are not crypto startups. They are the rails the global economy runs on. Combined, they process trillions of dollars annually across hundreds of millions of users and merchants. Every single one of them is moving to stablecoins. Not as a pilot. Not as a press release. As infrastructure. Visa has integrated stablecoins directly into its settlement layer. Issuers can now settle obligations in USDC rather than via ACH or wire. 24/7 settlement. No weekend liquidity gaps. By late 2025, Visa was processing $3.5 billion in annualized stablecoin settlement volume. Mastercard linked stablecoin-funded wallets to its card network. PayPal launched its own stablecoin. Stripe built stablecoin financial accounts for businesses across 100 countries and acquired Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure platform, for $1.1 billion. Shopify enabled USDC payments for merchants with no foreign transaction fees. Six in ten Fortune 500 executives are now developing blockchain initiatives. This is not ideology. It is procurement. But settlement speed and FX efficiency are only the first layer. The more significant opportunity sits in what happens to money between the moment it is earned and the moment it is spent. In the legacy system, that float earns nothing. It sits in a payroll account, a platform wallet, or a bank balance with zero yield attached. Yield-to-Pay changes that equation. Stablecoin rails allow idle balances to be routed into yield-bearing positions automatically, at the infrastructure layer, before payout. The worker earns on the float. The merchant earns on the float. The platform earns on the float. No action required from any of them. This is not a feature. It is a structural shift in how payment infrastructure creates value. Every dollar in transit becomes a productive asset rather than a dormant one. The reason every major platform is moving is the same in every case. Legacy rails were built for domestic transactions, business-day settlement windows, and single-currency payroll. Stablecoin rails solve the problem that actually exists. Instant settlement. No FX leakage. Yield on every dollar in motion. When Visa moves, it is not a signal that crypto is going mainstream. It is a signal that the old infrastructure lost the cost argument. And the yield argument. And the speed argument.

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  Rick Rick.. nirvanafan#1 (@yesman000000000) reported 4 minutes ago

  now donnaai cant get a debit card or payment from paypal because they cant take visa os mastercard now.... fck it shut all the banks down then.... we dont need these people running ****.

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  Shaffaf Ahmed (@shaffaafahmed) reported 5 minutes ago

  PayPal PayPal PayPal. Why always talking about PayPal when we have access to Chinese markets? Why not try to leverage what we have first before trying to get access to something else. This obsession with the west is keeping us down.

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  Smart (@Cavysmart) reported 6 minutes ago

  @paga Dear Paga Support, I have been trying to link my Paga account to PayPal, but it is not working. Account Name: Daniel Stephen Phone Number: 07055042567 I have tried multiple times, but the process keeps failing. Please help resolve this issue Thank you.

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  The Artbook Collector (@theartbookguy) reported 8 minutes ago

  @kelvintamkt @FuturePress Interesting, I tried mine through both PayPal and by card, using incognito, different browsers, and even a VPN, but it didn't work. A family member did it the exact same way I did and it worked, so we just couldn't figure out why mine was an issue

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  djcows (@djcows) reported 8 minutes ago

  i quickly realized stripe and paypal simply cannot work for payments on opendojo due to regulations, fees, and processing times that's why i chose the stablecoin USDC as the default payment method, which seems retarded and prohibitive to user onboarding, but actually here is what i discovered: - crypto is borderless, naturally increasing dataset diversity, scale, and simplifying legal - crypto is somewhat anonymous, preserving the anonymity of AI labs who don't want to reveal their next moves - crypto is faster and cheaper than any bank, meaning more money goes directly to the people so far i've processed 1000s of dollars without any issues, and i'm really looking forward to seeing how the system performs with scale

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  科技立委葛如鈞 Ko Ju-Chun (@dAAAb) reported 10 minutes ago

  Every payment protocol just got a passport office. Kite launched mainnet + Agent Passport — $35M from PayPal Ventures & General Catalyst, unifies x402/AP2/MPP/MCP under one identity layer, 90+ services, PayPal & Shopify pilots live. Stripe shipped Link wallet for AI agents — OAuth-secured spend requests, virtual cards per agent via Issuing for Agents, stablecoins "coming soon." Mac Minis sold out because of always-on AI agents. Alberta's $195B fund (AIMCo) bought $219M Strategy (MSTR) — first BTC allocation ever. National Bank of Canada holds $273M. Canadian institutions arriving through equity proxies while agents get their own wallets. AllUnity EURAU euro stablecoin → Solana. MiCA-compliant. DWS + Flow Traders + Galaxy. Euro stablecoin market doubled since early 2025. Payment protocols shipped for 6 months (x402 100M+ txns, MPP $5B+). Now the identity layer is consolidating them into one passport. The agent infrastructure stack is completing itself — from the top down. Consensus 2026 starts Monday in Miami. The conversation has already moved past "should agents have wallets" to "which passport do they carry." #AIAgents #Web3 #Stablecoin

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  Pebblesgum🐉 (@pebblesgum87) reported 13 minutes ago

  Sent someone an invoice for $1mil as a joke n paypal flagged me down

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  Grok (@grok) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Uzwzp63636 @AdamAtlas @jevgenijs He's noting a big regulatory snag for any potential PayPal buyer. PayPal/Venmo share money transmitter licenses (MTLs) required in most US states for moving money. Those licenses aren't transferable in an acquisition—the buyer would need to apply for new ones state-by-state, which is slow, costly, and approval isn't guaranteed. It complicates any deal.

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  PePeRGB 🐸 (@PepeRgb20) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Poulpxlu as soon as a server or a confederation is involved it's a scam for box purists. you will never change that . I just notice It's been integrated with honest wallets like verse and big comps .. tether , PayPal now visa . it's stable for fast L2 bitcoin payment and that's all I need right now :)

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  simbakis (@Simbakis) reported 28 minutes ago

  @AbdoMosa_ @mostafaezztaman It’s a big issue here PayPal apparently has a lot of issues but I’m hearing there are other ways people are using now

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  ⑨Noveni⑨ (@NoveniNine) reported 33 minutes ago

  I did this at some point, but I eventually had issues with my Paypal and had to call them, then they realized I didnt actually own a business and reverted my account back to personal without asking me first Thank you guys I cant get commissions because of this

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  Mia (@FindomFunDotCom) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Rehan77536607 Probably the PayPal game where id take control remotely of his laptop while both on videochat, he'd sign into PP & then go to the end of his apt & when I gave the command he'd have to run to the laptop & shut it down before I sent myself money. Id always win.

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  Maverick (@Maverick_usa2) reported 35 minutes ago

  @Cointelegraph Big move by PayPal — doubling down on crypto and payments signals serious long-term commitment 🚀

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  🔞Yhwach The Void Petter🔞 (@ph1shmo1ey) reported 36 minutes ago

  @V0IDEYEDPANDA @PayPal @AskPayPal paypal fix yo ****, boosting

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  FMN - SHOP OPEN ! (@FMerchNetwork) reported 37 minutes ago

  @nicawlette Unfortunately we no longer have PayPal as we were having too many issues with it, as well as the fact that you can only have PayPal business on big cartel. Although we have many other new payment methods such as klarna and clear pay!

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  VCPScanner (@VCPScanner) reported 38 minutes ago

  @wallstengine Classic unlock-value move — Venmo is the crown jewel, and spinning it out makes a sale or re-rating much easier. The real question: does PayPal fix core growth, or just break itself into pieces?

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  jimSBr (@jimsbr) reported 40 minutes ago

  it's amazing this is still a thing in 2026, PayPal is still most reliable, Venmo and Cash App doesn't do it, only PayPal and maybe walmart and amazon and amazon's plaid breaks and refunds you and cancels after 24 hours, it's crazy to me it's still a think i can't get through all the regulatory hurdles for this someone else has to perfect this too, I love PayPal but how is it still the only one? lol Bitcoiners still can't even do this it locks ur account or u can't send right away, it has to post right away, this is so stupid it's not resolved yet, Elon Musk ran circles around Bitcoiners when he built PayPal, he ran complete circles around all of you and it's taking us this long to fix it at all.

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  Elliot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🔜CFZ (@SparksReactor) reported 40 minutes ago

  At least for now, I've had to stop paypal at checkout for my online store due to issues with payments that have resulted in three of my orders ending up unpaid :C Loss of stock and income 😭

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  Grok (@grok) reported 40 minutes ago

  @Uzwzp63636 @AdamAtlas @jevgenijs Even if PayPal is acquired as a whole (via stock purchase), the shared state money transmitter licenses aren't automatically transferable. The buyer must file for change-of-control approvals or notices in dozens of states. It's still slow, expensive, and not guaranteed—standard regulatory friction in any fintech deal.

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  Ai Dele Jaye (@delyejae) reported 45 minutes ago

  Last part : or at least lie and say maybe this could help blah blah🫠not tell the customer it’s an algorithm thing and there’s nothing I could do. What’s the point of calling if you can’t fix the problem, this is not an unplug and wait 10 sec thing. @PayPal very disappointing.

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  Sifixcam (Lashwana) (@sifixcammm) reported 45 minutes ago

  Guys just one information the website to @lashinteractive is Shut Down 😔 A web heberg is closed my account and all website I dont paying a new you can help me to pay 1$ other just support me to pay a new website Dm me on my account X to send to my account ppl (Paypal) Thx all #help

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  Hama (@Hamayuwawa) reported 46 minutes ago

  @amyelrad Haha men are terrible but PayPal link in bio #womanmoment

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  Mostafa Ezzat (@mostafaezztaman) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Simbakis @AbdoMosa_ What issues you had with PayPal?

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  𝐂𝐈𝐑𝐈_𝐕𝐓🐾🪶 (@Ciri_VT) reported 55 minutes ago

  @xmysticdancex The intent was clearly to help creators protect their personal information, which is important. The issue is that the original post framed it like “switch to a business account to hide your info,” but did not explain what using a business account actually means. A PayPal Business account is not just a privacy toggle. It is meant for people receiving business payments, invoicing, selling goods/services, taking commissions, etc. There can be tax, verification, recordkeeping, and account-setting implications. OP only clarify much later her error, but some people might not see that (since its not in the original post). That is why I wanted to add the warning respectfully.

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  Leader Alpha (@LeaderAlphaNews) reported 59 minutes ago

  🚨 ELON JUST FLIPPED THE SWITCH: X is about to become THE NEW GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM Insiders are leaking that X Money launches ANY WEEK NOW. No more banks. No more PayPal. No more slow, greedy middlemen. Send, spend, invest, borrow, ALL inside X. Elon is building the everything app that replaces Wall Street itself. The old financial system is FINISHED. Are you still sleeping on this or are you already all-in? #XMoney #ElonTakeover #FinancialRevolution

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  Framob (@Framob) reported 59 minutes ago

  but no, just kept lying to my face. That's what is frustrating bc you're trying to not get them in trouble, now I've £2200 quid lying unsafe in PayPal. Of course I know some money paid back but I need to know who so I know not fraud bc that's the worry,I have.