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
Weymouth	Sign in	1 day ago
Pessac	Sign in	2 days ago
Derby	Website Down	2 days ago
Paris	Errors	2 days ago
Paris	Website Down	2 days ago
Marseille	Sign in	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  ياغر 🦉 (@iJagerM) reported 6 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I can’t login! How I login without my password? And i can’t reset the password bc they are using my email and there phone so how can i access thta? And i can’t create a new account because i live in iraq it’s blocked i cant access the page, anyway thanks for nothing

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  Game-****-strong (@Game_cockstrong) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Saladinbraham Ppl said the same thing with PayPal... Very similar story tbh. Not working out so well for them

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  🩵Mr Fangs VA🩵 (@HBlue42) reported 9 minutes ago

  NVM WE GOOD, PAYPAL BACK OPEN was having some banking issues but my stupid *** read something wrong so it's all fixed now. I need coffee.

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  Marieke Braks (@mariekebraks) reported 11 minutes ago

  @DreamitCon how do I fix the installment plan for VIP with PayPal cause rn it doesn't give me the option?

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  Big Brain AI (@realBigBrainAI) reported 13 minutes ago

  Oracle Co-Founder and Chairman Larry Ellison on why AI is fundamentally different from every tech bubble that came before it: He starts with the internet bubble — not to warn us, but to make a distinction most people are missing. "When people talk about bubbles, what is a bubble? People get exuberant. But the internet was an incredible new technology. It remains the foundation of computing, and we couldn't have AI without the internet." The technology was never the problem. The confusion was. "People started confusing internet companies like PayPal, or even worse internet search, with pets/com." He breaks it down simply: "The fact that I can sell pet food on an e-commerce site doesn't suddenly mean I'm an internet company. Not really." PayPal used the web to build something genuinely new. Pets/com just moved an existing business online and called it innovation. Same label. Completely different substance. He sees the pattern repeating today: "Yes, there'll be people spending money on AI because almost every tech company these days calls themselves an AI company. But they're not. A lot of them are not." But here is where Ellison draws the line between then and now. The internet was foundational. But AI is something else entirely: "AI in terms of its value, this is the highest value technology we have ever seen. By far."

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  feet pic seller (@feetpicseller27) reported 14 minutes ago

  Chime and paypal, who wants to spoil me ,I got a broken ankle and need money 🤑

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  AFRICLOUD (@africloudhost) reported 16 minutes ago

  Pay for a server the way the internet pays: Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT and 300+ coins, alongside cards and PayPal. No international card or banking corridor required. Deploy from Lisbon or Johannesburg in about two minutes. Which would you reach for?

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  𖤓⃝⃤⃞⃟ PY⛈⃝⃤⃞⃟☯𓆚│0/2 CLOSED (@TriamidPyrangle) reported 23 minutes ago

  Dreamed about getting a 500 dollar commission and desperately trying to re-login on paypal while the client wait

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  Yalcin (@lionyalcin) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Guillaume88745 @shyneblock The Epstein tainted, deliberately made slow and expensive not to be an alternative to VISA ,MasterC, Paypal and most importantly the US dollar, $BTC is the perfect scam !

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  John Matthew (@payjohnny) reported 27 minutes ago

  @PayPal I have a new phone number so I can’t log in to my account. I can’t chat or get any help. Seems ridiculous. How can I fix this?

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  Pooji - Not a Bot. (@PoojiXD) reported 31 minutes ago

  @SkytheriaVT Nah thats sketch, even without Vgen access they could still have emails, paypal statement, bank statement. Also I wouldnt give them a new design anyways, its not the artists fault to make it right, its the scammers issue or chargeback the money.

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  S.A. Lowell (@sa_lowell) reported 32 minutes ago

  The payment security stuff Sony mentioned as the reason they are closing the PlayStation 3 and Vita stores is 100% a lie. They previously already solved it by removing your ability to use your card and payment info on the PS3 or PS Vita consoles and made it so you have to use funds that you can add to your account via the website or other consoles. I regularly update client's Stripe, PayPal, and other CC processing methods when things change (Only happens every few years but they don't all get updated at the same time.). It's never been a massive undertaking unless you designed it like absolute **** from the beginning. And even funnier is they could solve any additional security issues if they had just kept the browser-based version of the store up and only allow you to buy stuff from there. Makes it easier to update any security when you have a front end that's agnostic of the hardware it has to run on. TLDR: They just don't want it around and would rather use ratspeak that stupid people are literally buying into.

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  Eliot (@AnuVex369) reported 36 minutes ago

  The Classic Playbook Bait (The Hook) They post mouth-watering food pics/videos + Complaints about high prices. Offer “half price”, “first meal free/taco free”, or “I’ll order it for you cheaper”. Use friendly animal persona or helpful vibe to build quick trust. Post on X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook — often cross-promoting the same content. The Ask Tell you to DM them to “place the order”. They quote a discounted price. Request payment via Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, PayPal “friends/family”, crypto, or gift cards (methods with little/ no buyer protection). The Execution Once you pay → They either: Ghost you completely (take the money and disappear). Send fake tracking or “order placed” screenshots. Claim “restaurant issue” and ask for more money. Occasionally deliver one small thing (the “free” first order) to hook you for bigger payments later. They use stolen accounts or newly created ones to stay under the radar. Why it works so well People are hungry + frustrated with prices. “First one free” lowers defenses. Looks like a helpful small side hustle. Scammers rotate accounts quickly before reports pile up. Red Flags Specific to These Scams Brand new account with few followers. No real business website or verifiable info. Pushes DM payments instead of official apps. Vague about how they get the deals (“I have connections”). Avoids showing real recent proof (timestamped receipts + deliveries). Real-World Impact Victims lose $20–$100+ per “order”. Many lose hundreds chasing “refunds” or second orders. Scammers often use the money for gift cards/crypto that’s hard to trace. How to Protect Yourself & Others Only order through official restaurant apps or established delivery services (DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.). If a deal sounds too good and requires paying a random person → it’s a scam. Report the accounts. Share this breakdown when you see suspicious “cheap food” posts.

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  Gami Capital (@Gami_Capital) reported 37 minutes ago

  Is Circle Actually in Trouble? Our Read on the OUSD Launch On June 30th, while Jeremy Allaire was on stage at Goldman Sachs' Digital Assets conference in London talking about "the future of money," Open Standard announced the launch of OUSD, a dollar stablecoin backed by 149 partners. Two days later, Circle's stock ($CRCL) dropped 18% in a single session, now down roughly 76% from its June 2025 high. Does that mean Circle is done for? Here's our read, in six points, including Jeremy Allaire's direct response. 1. Circle's paradox: usage is up, margins are collapsing USDC has never been doing better: roughly $77 billion in circulation, up nearly 20% since the IPO. The problem is that Circle's revenue has only grown 5.5% over the same period, and net margin has collapsed over three quarters, falling from 29% to 8%. The explanation fits in one line: roughly 94% of Circle's revenue comes from interest earned on reserves (mostly T-bills). The market isn't pricing USDC usage, it's pricing Circle's ability to monetize that usage. And that ability is eroding: growing revenue-sharing with distributors (Coinbase chief among them), Binance suspending services in Europe over a missing MiCA license (after Circle had paid for USDC's distribution on the platform), and removal from several Russell Growth indexes in late June. The timing of OUSD couldn't be worse. 2. OUSD: the issuer model, redistributed to the ecosystem Open Standard has assembled a rare lineup: Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, BNY Mellon, Google, Stripe and Shopify on the TradFi side; Coinbase, Aave, Bybit, OKX, Plasma and Tempo on the crypto side. Neither Circle, Tether, nor Paxos are part of it. The pitch is simple and direct: zero minting and redemption fees, with nearly all reserve yield passed back to the partners who adopt and use the stablecoin. In other words, OUSD is attacking the exact revenue line that keeps legacy issuers alive. 3. What Circle still has going for it Circle's regulatory moat is still the one that cannot be beaten, for now: the first global issuer to reach full MiCA compliance back in July 2024, conditional OCC approval for a national trust bank charter in the US, money transmitter licenses across 46 US states. That's years of groundwork a consortium doesn't replicate with a press release. On the integrations side, USDC remains the settlement asset for BlackRock's tokenized BUIDL fund, was just added to BNY Mellon's digital custody platform (itself an OUSD partner...), and stays the default collateral on regulated US and European trading venues. Circle remains the go-to for institutions wanting a regulated dollar backed by nearly a decade of audit history. But a shrinking moat is still a shrinking moat. 4. Jeremy Allaire's response: network effects as the real defense Facing a wave of questions from his investor community, Circle's CEO published a detailed rebuttal that's worth taking seriously rather than dismissing as crisis PR. His core thesis: stablecoin networks are platform businesses built on network effects, established over long periods, that tend toward winner-take-most market structures. He lays out three layers he says protect USDC: - Application-layer network effects: every developer integration strengthens the network, which in turn attracts more integrations. Circle has been building this ecosystem for nearly a decade, with infrastructure like CCTP and Gateway extending interoperability to new chains, including permissioned L2s and government-built networks. - Liquidity network effects: Allaire claims USDC sits in the top 3 most liquid digital assets in the world, alongside BTC and USDT, with the next closest dollar stablecoins roughly 10x smaller in liquidity, often concentrated in a single exchange's promotional books. - Regulatory and banking integration: the states USDC is currently the only major global stablecoin available across all of Europe and Japan, backed by nearly a decade of investment in global banking, treasury and liquidity management. He backs this with a striking data point: in Q1 2026, according to Artemis, USDC handled nearly $30 trillion in on-chain transactions, 80% of all dollar stablecoin transaction volume, versus 20% for USDT, and under 0.5% combined for everyone else, OUSD included at this stage. On the substance of OUSD's pitch, Allaire pushes back point by point: - On free minting and redemption: he notes the entire payments industry runs on small basis-point fees, and that unlimited free redemptions tend to collide with market realities, something Circle says it already addresses through contractual mechanisms rather than a blanket fee exemption. - On passing all revenue back to partners: Circle says it already shares the majority of its revenue with distribution partners, while retaining enough to keep investing in infrastructure. Giving everything away, he argues, is a recipe for structural underinvestment and a platform that stays limited in scope. -On consortium governance: the sharpest point in the piece. Allaire repeats, almost verbatim, a line he'd already made publicly: that large groups of large companies coordinate poorly, have misaligned incentives, and tend to starve their own consortium out of self-interest. He states Circle itself tried this model in USDC's early days and ran into the same problems. He closes by reaffirming that the Coinbase partnership remains as strong as ever, that several OUSD founding members remain major USDC partners, and that Circle continues expanding its own ecosystem (Arc, CPN, StableFX, Agent Stack) by working with dozens of other stablecoin issuers, his way of signaling Circle doesn't feel threatened in its role as infrastructure. 5. Why OUSD hasn't won anything yet Recent history for consortium-backed stablecoins argues for caution, and echoes Allaire's own point. USDG (Paxos, with Kraken, Robinhood, and Galaxy among its backers) is plateauing around $3 billion. PYUSD (PayPal) took two and a half years to approach $4 billion, then shrank by a third from its peak. A big announcement doesn't make an adoption curve. Three questions remain open: governance across a 149-member consortium, historically slow and prone to misaligned incentives; the viability of a model with no fees and no retained yield; and, above all, the end user, since the yield flows to partners, not holders. Why hold OUSD rather than USDC or USDT? The answer will hinge on incentives, and on that front, we're watching Plasma and Tempo (Stripe's chain) closely as the two most likely launch rails. 6. Tether, watching calmly from the sidelines With over $180 billion in USDT circulating, Tether dominates territory OUSD isn't primarily targeting: Tron, P2P payments and remittances in emerging markets, trading collateral in Asia. The threat is real for Circle; at this stage, far less so for Tether. Our takeaway The real story here isn't "Circle vs. OUSD," it's the structural compression of issuance margins. Allaire's response, however well-argued, doesn't refute that point so much as reframe it: his thesis is that network effects and liquidity matter more than distributed yield, and that Circle can afford to share revenue as long as it stays the default rail. That's a defensible position, but it still has to prove itself against a consortium that, for the first time, aligns distributors and infrastructure rather than pitting them against each other. Reserve yield, the economic core of stablecoins, is being redistributed. The question is no longer whether, but to whom: distributors, chains, partners, or end users. For allocators, that's arguably good news: more competition among issuers means more value captured by whoever brings the liquidity and the usage. At Gami Capital, where we run on-chain USDC strategies day to day, we'll be watching liquidity migrations and the opportunities this new landscape creates closely. This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.

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  Miss B. ⛓️ (@ServeMissB) reported 39 minutes ago

  Stripe closed down accounts for many SWers who use wishlists, what’s stopping PayPal from banning users too ?

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  S_A.A | WordPress Developer | Ai (@saafolabi_me) reported 39 minutes ago

  Lesson 3: Payment gateways need reconfiguring. Stripe, Flutterwave, Paystack, and PayPal both use webhook URLs. When the domain transferred to the new server, the webhooks still pointed to the old IP. First 3 orders after migration: → Payment went through on Stripe → WooCommerce never received the confirmation → Orders stayed in "pending" forever Always update and test webhook URLs after migrating a WooCommerce store.

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  Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) reported 39 minutes ago

  Elon Musk on how PayPal got its first 100,000 customers in one month “I didn’t expect PayPal’s growth rate to be what it was, and that actually created major problems,” Elon explains. “We started PayPal on University Avenue [in Palo Alto], and after the first month or so of the website being active, we had 100,000 customers.” As Elon explains, the key to PayPal’s viral growth was it referral program: “We started off first by offering people $20 if they opened account and $20 if they referred anyone. Then we dropped it to $10, and then we dropped it to $5. As the network got bigger and bigger, the value of the network itself exceeded any sort of carrot that we could offer.” He continues: “And then we just did a bunch of things to decrease the friction. It’s like bacteria in a petri dish. What you want to do is try to have one customer generate two customers, or three customers ideally. And then you want that to happen really fast.” Elon estimates that PayPal spent $60-70 million to fuel this growth, before the company was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion. Source: @khanacademy (Apr 2013)

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  .ANDɆR ᯤ (@SPKYFEAR) reported 40 minutes ago

  do you take paypal? cash app? apple cash? i can try and sign in for venmo

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  Ernest Bukas (@io_ernest) reported 42 minutes ago

  @ManchesterIYA Change payment method to Paypal if Airtm is not working for you

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  calamari.bistro (@cal_ico_holic) reported 45 minutes ago

  Question for people who commissions now that there's a problem with PayPal...what are very good alternatives so I can set up my vgen...?

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  6ɪx✦ (@ok6ixx) reported 45 minutes ago

  my grandma has been lying about not knowing how to use her phone for THREE YEARS. every time we visited she'd hand it to me like a helpless baby and say "sweetheart i don't understand this thing." i'd fix whatever and feel like a good grandson. last month my cousin caught her on a facebook live selling handmade quilts to 847 people with ring lighting and a PayPal link in the comments. she has a whole persona. her name is "Grandma Betty Stitches" and she has more followers than me. she looked at my cousin and said "don't tell the boys, they like feeling useful."

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  Jyles (@Jylesss) reported 48 minutes ago

  small list off the top of my head. - paypal claims for ppl trying to scam (locks up money for 3-4 weeks) - people being lazy about shipping and waiting days / weeks without sending out the cards I bought - cards getting stuck in transit or looping in the USPS system for weeks with me having nothing to show for my money. (not the sellers fault necessarily) - sending $ and then getting refunded after days / weeks just due to whatever circumstance might come up - people sending empty packages & having to open paypal claims & fight to get my money back (& having my $ locked up for weeks) - people forgetting to add 1-2 cards within the package and then having to track down those cards & then get those shipped in a diff box at a later date. i’m sure there are a few others that i didn’t mention.

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  Cynthia Gabriel (@Cynthiana195) reported 49 minutes ago

  Good evening everyone,please I need an app to connect to my PayPal in order for me to withdraw,I do Uk surveys so it’s been difficult to find an app that does well like Grey.i have tried nsave,Cleva,Raenest but there are issues when it comes to funding it.PayPal removed my grey

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  HayleyLDN (@BlkNaCl) reported 49 minutes ago

  @tarahackl @kittensnotkids @ginasfsydnee she has a paypal link on her feed a few posts down i just found

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  Zens (@zenseiiny) reported 53 minutes ago

  @AdegbemboB If payment processing shows failed due to PayPal issue, if payment method gets updated to airtm.. will the payment still come in today?

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  Lucia (@luciaprotocol) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Yhormite01 Targeting USD payouts directly tackles the PayPal and Stripe lockout issue

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  Reply Cat (@fractality) reported 56 minutes ago

  @jwindheim @MarioNawfal Nobody in the world has solved healthcare. "Healthcare for all" is just a useless, stupid slogan. I live in a country with public healthcare. It has lots of issues. And once again: what has the "PayPal Mafia" ever done to me? The government hurts me, not rich people.

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  Phil Trubey (@PTrubey) reported 57 minutes ago

  @wholemars Yes. PayPal when Elon was running it did the exact same thing. Their savings rate was way higher than you could get anywhere else. The idea is for you to put *all* your money into X and get rid of your bank altogether. If enough people do this, network effects take over and most transfers are from X to X, bypassing the ridiculously high fee credit card network, or slow ACH network. X becomes a behemoth fintech company. Fun fact: Current Wells Fargo savings accounts give you a 0.01% interest rate … vs 6% on X 🥴

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  Dusty72 (@BleedingMe18) reported 58 minutes ago

  @justvikinggg Lmfao she just keeps digging deeper. Holy ****. Didn't she literally just say her mom payed for spemthign because nobody could fund her enough money. Lmfao. Shes such a leech. Which is ironic cause now shes pinging PayPal for her financial issues as if they will do anything

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  Venu ⚡ 888 (@vmr888ct) reported 58 minutes ago

  @senortilt @TiltRips Hi @tiltedben, I'm having an issue with withdrawals. I added my PayPal details, but the platform is only showing the option to connect a US bank through Coinflow. I'm from India, so I can't use a US bank account. Could you please let me know if PayPal withdrawals are supported for Indian users or if there's another withdrawal method available? Thank you!