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	2 days ago
Gérardmer	Sign in	3 days ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	4 days ago
Lodève	Errors	4 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	5 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	5 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Miwu (@NekomizuVT) reported 39 seconds ago

  @_VGen_ @AskPayPal I’m reaching out regarding this issue because I was unable to get a refund through PayPal after discovering the artist was a broker.

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  Mike P (@mikepat711) reported 3 minutes ago

  The Cursor SpaceXAI overlap is giving Venmo PayPal vibes. Are Cursor and Grok going to stay separate things? This is called Grok Bot but I'm getting routed to a Cursor login portal when I try to launch the Mac client? What we doin here fam? I'm confused as ****

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  Heather Peter | Tangem CS (@TheHeatherPeter) reported 5 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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  Robin Reynolds (@RobinvReynolds) reported 6 minutes ago

  @chelleyourself . What applies here are no less than 50 long-form investigative journalism articles of around 4,000 words each, at least most of which are reflected on my timeline right here and then over at my Substack spot. If you click on the link in my Bio it takes you right there. I had all those artkcles on my timeline in full but no one was supporting my efforts so I took them all off and moved them over to Substack behind a paywall. Whoever critiqued them said they were great but that was just a handful of people along the way. The engagement they got was demoralizing so I basically stopped leaving them on here. I still make them available for free here, usually for 24 hours before removing them but I might just stop doing that too, because it's all just steadily gone downhill to nothing. The critical turn came when I produced a series of articles targeting the Paypal Mafia and Elon Musk directly, and was also focusing on what amounts to organized crime activities being carried out in the White House, such as, "The Doge Scam" and "The Pardons Racket". After that I found myself locked in a vault, with my posts getting like 30-120 impressions max and close to zero engagement. They've been pulling all kinds of other ***** tricks too... I wrote a lot about it... some articles, mostly just smaller pieces, just about all of which I've dumped off my timeline since then. At one point I was just going to abandon this enterprise completely, whwereupon I went on a jag and dumped like 2,000 posts -- or more -- off the timeline. My goal was to just have a neat column of article ads redirecting interested parties over to Substack, but at the end of all that I just kept going, but definitely throttled down considerably. I don't know if you remember me... We crossed paths when I first got on here, and you and Subi-Doo gave me my first little leg up... I think at that point I had 0, then 5, then 40, then 100 followers. Then I joined SmokeFleet, as Gina Lola Brigida, -- that was good for 1,000 followers -- but eventually I reverted back to my own identity for what should be obvious reasons, considering I am in fact an author, and a journalist, and my name is basically my brand. Things went downhill drastically when I did, though, and have never really been the same since then. It's basically just gone downhill to nothing, it's just been awful. A lot of people have made me aware over time that the platform's been actively rigging the game against me, and I've seen -- and documented -- a lot of underhanded stuff myself. I don't know really what to do about any of that. I don't see that there's much you can do. I've seen what they can do if they want to amplify your voice. And I've seen what they can do if they determine they don't want you getting your message out. The difference between the two is breathtaking. Good to see you again, it's been awhile. What's going on with you? .

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  Tevin Macharia Mukabana (@TevinMacharia) reported 8 minutes ago

  You know, since PayPal blocked my account with money in it and there is nothing I can do about it, I have been wondering how we are victims of the systems of this world and sometimes there is nothing we can do. Imagine how one simple block can take you back to finding a way to eat and finding a way to restart your business again !! And this is a sign one day ,Your money won't be safe in the bank .. You will need a chip to use banks . This thing called money. You cannot appeal. You cannot withdraw your money. You cannot access what belongs to you. And eventually, they can use the money to pay their charges and fees. It is unfortunate that even as children of God, we are still living within these systems. And experiences like this make me think deeply: How many people will survive when the mark of the beast is introduced? Today, it may be a financial platform blocking your account. Tomorrow, it could be a law. A rule. A digital system. A currency. A condition attached to your ability to buy or sell. Think about it. When laws and rules are established, what happens when you cannot follow them? What happens when a new digital currency comes with instructions and conditions? What happens when the system says, “If you don't accept this, you cannot buy. You cannot sell. You cannot transact. You cannot live normally.” And what happens when obedience to that system means disobedience to God? This is why the issue of the mark of the beast should not be treated as a joke or something we only talk about in church. Revelation 13:17 says that no one will be able to buy or sell unless they have the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name. I don't know exactly how everything will unfold. But I know this: The world is becoming increasingly dependent on systems. And when systems control access to money, businesses, food, transactions, and even basic necessities, we need to understand the times we are living in. As Christians, we cannot put our ultimate trust in money, banks, governments, companies, digital platforms, or financial systems. Our ultimate trust must be in God. Because there may come a time when choosing God will cost you something. It may cost you access. It may cost you comfort. It may cost you money. It may cost you opportunities. And ultimately, it may cost you your life. The question is not only, “Will I survive financially?” The deeper question is: “Will I remain faithful to God when obedience becomes costly?” May God prepare us spiritually. May He give us discernment. May He give us courage. May He give us the grace to stand when the systems of this world turn against those who refuse to compromise. Because at the end of everything, our hope is not in money. Our hope is in God.

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  세이브더칠드런 (@stckorea) reported 8 minutes ago

  We are currently experiencing a PayPal payment issue. Due to the public holiday in Korea, we expect to resolve it after Aug 18. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

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  SJ (@1000spices) reported 11 minutes ago

  @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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  🤖⚙️ROBOFAGhead worm 🪲🦐 (@hammerhead_worm) reported 14 minutes ago

  trying to fix my paypal and its RAGEBAITING ME **** YOU I HATE YOU PAYPAL

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  Dut (@Dut83) reported 16 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Had same problem. My item didn’t show up. I used PayPal for the purchase and they did all the heavy lifting once I knew it was a scam. They contacted the seller and got no response. Couple weeks later I had my funds back in my account.

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  Tiffany Kristen (@TiffanyKri99602) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Avrotelia Dm me with your cash app tag 🏷 or PayPal if you have any financial issues to get paid and say(PAY ME)

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  JasensCustoms.com - Panzer Fight Stick (@JasensCustoms) reported 20 minutes ago

  Well @PayPal it’s been 5 days for PP-L-857921601544 - and my account isn’t restored. It’s been over 60 for a fraudulent claim of no-refund when you can see I provided one - so I’ve effectively lost $600. If I can’t use my account to move money, I guess I can’t use it to make the payments on the working capital. Fix this.

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  VC Intern (@the_vc_intern) reported 24 minutes ago

  PayPal paid approximately $4 billion for Honey in 2020. The browser extension had 17 million monthly users, worked across roughly 30,000 retailers and gave PayPal something it normally reached only at the end of a purchase: influence over what happened before checkout. That position created Honey’s value. Shoppers installed it for discounts, merchants supplied offers to reach those shoppers, and Honey earned money through affiliate attribution when a purchase occurred. Then MegaLag alleged that Honey sometimes replaced creators’ affiliate tracking with its own. PayPal said Honey followed industry practices including last-click attribution, but the explanation did little to stop the reaction. Honey has reportedly fallen from more than 20 million Chrome users to 12 million. Merchant relationships declined from roughly 35,000 to just over 28,000, while its coupon database fell from about 90,000 codes to 50,000. This is what happens when a marketplace flywheel reverses. Fewer users make the product less valuable to merchants. Fewer merchants mean fewer working offers. A weaker product gives the remaining users another reason to uninstall it. Affiliate networks added pressure. Rakuten removed Honey before later reinstating it with new protections, while Impact and Awin also took action. A creator lawsuit has survived PayPal’s attempt to dismiss it, although that is not a finding that PayPal is liable. PayPal bought Honey because it occupied a valuable point between product discovery and payment. The same position became dangerous once shoppers and creators began questioning whose interests the extension served. A $4 billion distribution advantage turned into a trust problem sitting inside 12 million browsers.

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  Peter (@PeterILNL2) reported 25 minutes ago

  @414magyarbirds Folks, will you fix your donation channels? PayPal and the donation page on your website aren't working for me.

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  TriumphAnt LY Crypto (@TriumphAntGo) reported 28 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @PayPal Did you decide The users do not need a history of their Crypto purchases? I believe it bought more than my balance-loss BTC Yet there is no way for me to verify this on the app Trust a financial entity is NOT recommended! Always verify trx Yet it is not possible Is this your reason for THIS APP ALLOWS NO SCREENSHOTS? You have been around for quite some time now, WHY IS THIS AN ISSUE!?!

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  Hasan Aboul Hasan (@hasan_ab_hasan) reported 34 minutes ago

  You're building an app with Claude Code. a button that places an order. Claude builds it, you test it, it works! then one day someone taps it and the spinner just spins... nothing. so they tap it again. the first tap actually worked, the answer just never made it back. and no, this isn't about one slow checkout. it's about what your app does when a request succeeds and nobody hears about it. it's anything where one tap changes something on your side: → a checkout or a payment → a signup that creates an account → a "send" on a message, an email, an invite → any write your retry code might run a second time reading is safe. ask for the same page twice, you get the same page. writing isn't. run the same create twice and you've got two rows, two orders, two emails. 🧾 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁. your code calls the API. the work goes through, the server starts writing the answer back... and your 10 second timeout fires first. your app sees an error. so does the user. but nothing got undone. the order is real, sitting in your database. nobody on your side knows it. so now three things want to try again: the user tapping the button, your retry logic, the browser resending the form. none of them know the first one landed. block 19 said only retry calls that are safe to run twice. this is how you make them safe. it has a name: 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. long word, boring idea. an operation is idempotent when running it twice leaves things exactly the way running it once did. and if that sounds like an edge case, look at who already solved it. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗲 built the fix into their API. you send a header with the request, 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆-𝗞𝗲𝘆: 𝟰𝗳𝟬𝗰𝟵𝗯𝟮𝗲-..., and if Stripe sees that same key again it doesn't run the charge a second time. it hands you back the saved response from the first one, status code and all. the key is good for 𝟮𝟰 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨. 𝗔𝗱𝘆𝗲𝗻 uses the same header name. 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗣𝗮𝗹 calls it PayPal-Request-Id. 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗲 does the same when you create a payment. none of them built that for careful developers. they built it because they assume your request is going to show up twice. 🔑 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗱, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁 you do the same thing inside your own app. the client makes up one id when the user commits to the action, and sends that same id with every attempt. same id on the retry, same id when they tap again. your server keeps a short list of keys it has already handled, and the answer it gave back for each one. → a key it hasn't seen: do the work, save the key with the response. → a key it has seen: don't do the work. hand back the same response. so the second request never creates a second order. it merges into the first one and walks away with the original receipt. the thing people get wrong: generate that key once, up front, and reuse it. make a fresh one on every attempt and every attempt looks brand new to the server. you're right back where you started. Here's the part that matters if you build with AI. You don't have to write this code yourself. You just have to know idempotency exists, so you ask for it from day one. That's the real skill. Knowing the block is there to ask for. This is one block from the Vibe Engineering Blocks series I started recently. One post, one block. This is block number 27. This is the skill that matters today, and it's what separates dummy vibe coders from vibe engineers. And it's what lets you build real, scalable, production-ready apps with AI.

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  ✧Concept of Stars✧ COMMS OPEN (@ConceptOfStars) reported 36 minutes ago

  I have a little problems with PayPal, an agreement on Adam YCH of timely delays. This does not affect the already accepted agreement, due to insolvency!

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  Erika (@ErikaMD25) reported 39 minutes ago

  @NEXZ_GLOBAL @ujuyuuu My paypal is not working so i cannot donate. I have already change the password but it still not working

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  𝕆𝕞𝕒𝕣 (@o_w7jj) reported 43 minutes ago

  I have $199 currently being held in my PayPal account. I’ve contacted support several times, but the issue has not been resolved yet. I’d really appreciate your help in reviewing my case and resolving it as soon as possible. Thank you @AskPayPal

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  Yuyu 夢クズかわ ❤️‍🩹💉 2.0 DEBUT 8/15 (@YumeKuzukawa) reported 43 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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  John Wu (@topjohnwu) reported 45 minutes ago

  @dbrand @robot I can't seem to be able to purchase your products with PayPal. Website broken, or payment backend changed?

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  Jack (@Hammers6021) reported 48 minutes ago

  @OaklabsAlerts I tried to order something (a build and battle box for brilliant stars) and I got the same payment error that I had during the 30th booster bundle drop. Tried mobile and laptop with Apple Pay, credit card and PayPal.

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  Mel Melatonin (@MelMelatonin07) reported 48 minutes ago

  @stupid2moons You should contact PayPal because it might be issues on the app

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  Legit Sleeper (@legitsleeper) reported 50 minutes ago

  @The_SecretShow One problem Bryan made like $800m selling Braintree and Venmo to paypal... What have you done, anon?

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  Hashir khan (@Hashirkhanmwrt) reported 51 minutes ago

  Freelancing in Pakistan isn't easy money - PayPal still doesn't officially operate here - Frequent internet outages & slow speeds - Unstable electricity disrupting deadlines - Currency devaluation shrinking real income Talent isn't the problem. Infrastructure is. #Freelancing

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  Tiffany Kristen (@TiffanyKri99602) reported 52 minutes ago

  @soupgal1 Dm me with your cash app tag 🏷 or PayPal if you have any financial issues to get paid and say(PAY ME)

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  Michael Richey (@ComRicheyweb) reported 54 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay This happened to me in the early 2000s. I filed a report with paypal (part of ebay at that time) and they dismissed it because "the seller said he shipped it" even though he could not provide tracking. $649 Eventually he shut down his account after a series of complaints.

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  Draxx Artz (@art7draxx) reported 54 minutes ago

  PayPal is acting up for me; have they been having issues lately? although I think it might be my phone too

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  DFIR Radar (@DFIR_Radar) reported 55 minutes ago

  JWR, an undocumented PhaaS framework linked to Chinese-speaking actors, uses AES-CTR encrypted WebSockets to give operators live keystroke-by-keystroke control over victims across 44 fake Shopify, PayPal, Apple, and Klarna pages. - The client engine runs in two modes controlled by window.__HOST_MODE: Host Bridge (parent page relays commands into a phishing iframe via WebSocket at path webSocket/QT/{sessionId}/khkjsahfjkwhakjlsdwdddddd88) and Content Mode (Vue.js app rendering 44 phishing pages). Operators issue 40+ named commands (to_card, to_2fa, tip_change_card, to_success, etc.) to steer each victim session live. Final exfiltration POSTs the entire cvvform object to api/open/the_final_interface. - Data harvested goes far beyond card numbers: SSN, passport and driver license images, up to three sets of website credentials, PayPal login, card PIN, browser fingerprint (IP, language, timezone, geolocation, cookies), and OTP codes intercepted in real time before the victim even hits submit. - The active smishing campaign delivers JWR via SMS lures impersonating toll authorities and postal services targeting Singapore 🇸🇬 and UAE 🇦🇪 victims. Operator-facing dashboard messages are hardcoded in Simplified Chinese 🇨🇳, consistent with the broader Chinese-speaking PhaaS ecosystem. Talos assesses with medium confidence JWR is a variant of The Outsider, a PhaaS platform disrupted by FBI Operation Ghost Hook in June 2026. #DFIR_Radar

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  Project Orange Garden (@pr_orangegarden) reported 60 minutes ago

  If the "PayPal" button to purchase does not show up on your end: 🔵 First, make sure you've filled in all the fields (name, email, phone, etc) because the PayPal button won't show up unless all fields have been completed 🔵 Clear your cache and cookies 🔵 Try a different browser So far, those methods work on our end. Please let us know if there are still issues. 🙏