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
Gérardmer	Sign in	3 hours ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	1 day ago
Lodève	Errors	1 day ago
Brisbane	Sign in	2 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	2 days ago
Hochfelden	Website Down	3 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  John Rush (@johnrush) reported 6 minutes ago

  I pay for 116 products, $730k a year. It’s insane 😵‍💫 Are there cheaper alternatives? 1. HOSTING & CLOUD DigitalOcean - $101.94 AWS - $2,938.64 Hetzner - $1,190.10 Heroku - $25 MonoVM - $10 Google Cloud - $4,125.34 Vercel - $46.29 Supabase - $25 MongoDB Atlas - $3,286.55 Azure - $1,462.31 Fly . io - $22.14 Hostinger - $9.99 Clerk - $25 Docker - $11 Cloudflare - $233.24 2. WEB, DESIGN & DEVELOPER TOOLS Apify - $39 Notion - $91.20 Figma - $258.71 Canva - $15 Excalidraw - $10 BunnyCDN - $10 Twilio - $358.70 SendGrid - $20 Sensorpro - $20 Float UI - $0 Imgix - $500 ScreenshotOne - $79 Uploadcare - $25 ScrapingBee - $99.99 Firecrawl - $599 3tsoftware - $998 Atlassian - $938.72 Cursor - $20 Gamma - $10 JetBrains - $63 Lordicon - $16 Webflow - $26.50 Zapier - $33.11 Zoho - $46.24 3. AI & LLMS Google AI - $3,000 OpenAI - $10,000 Codex - $200 Anthropic - $20,000 Claude Code - $200 Azure OpenAI - $50 Pinecone - $70.05 Exa . ai - $1,000 Groq - $0.53 Higgsfield - $49 OpenRouter - $105.50 Perplexity AI - $552 xAI - $20 4. TESTING & MONITORING Sentry - $232.56 StatusCake - $20 UptimeRobot - $7 Ghost Inspector - $49 LambdaTest - $35 Qase - $90 5. COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION Zoom - $18.75 Loom - $15 Mailjet - $22.45 Skype - $3 Slack - $176.96 Teams - $6 Google Workspace - $151.79 1Password - $21.73 Hubstaff - $700.69 360dialog - $57.39 Cake . com - $335.16 Google One - $26.62 Manychat - $25 StreamYard - $88.99 Typefully - $16 6. MARKETING, SALES & PAYMENTS Gumroad - $100 FirstPromoter - $84.15 Crisp - $400 Intercom - $78 Mailtrap - $15 Stripe - $0.30+ per transaction Paddle - $0.30+ per transaction Ahrefs - $249 DataForSEO - $100 Meta Ads - $25 Google Ads - $50 Mailgun - $27.62 PayPal - $316.85 Seo Gets - $29 Tolt - $3,044.29 TrustMRR - $50 TwitterAPI . io - $20 Vidalytics - $28.50 Webshare - $59.03 Devuap LLC - $19.99 KRAKEN - $ 7. LEGAL, ACCOUNTING, BANKING PandaDoc - $70 QuickBooks - $75 Mercury - $0 Carta - $100 Apple - $99 eSIM . net - $6 Metapay - $0 8. OTHER ProxySell - $50 TLDR - $5 Veed - $108 Grammarly - $12 X - $84 GoDaddy - $69.57 Namecheap - $10 iPostal - $10 Appliku - $10 AWS SES - $0.10+ per 1,000 emails Loops - $49 Google Play - $2.08 Apple Developer Account - $8.25 Black Magic - $5 Zenvoice - $10 Fibery - $10 ChatGPT - $50 Serper - $50 Indie Hackers - $10 Startups .com - $100 9. MY PRODUCTS Unicorn Platform - $19/mo SEObot - $99/mo ListingBott - $99/mo IndexRusher - $199 once AdBot & Tinyadz - $49/mo * the list is made with ai from my last 90 days of bank transactions. may miss yearly payments and include small errors.

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  Guest 4722 (@LumpyFriend4722) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Kitakit343731 @usernaaming @EeeV2l actually probably not paypal cause i think they're cracking down on comms or something i'm not too sure, correct me if i'm wrong.

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  F*ck Capitalism✊🏼🏳️‍🌈♿☂️ (@emmanuelmousse1) reported 8 minutes ago

  @quizzicalsystem Oh for sure, this is in no way meant as a critique of you. It's paypal & Peter Thiel that are the problem, taking advantage of ppl. Honestly, if I had the werewithal to put up w the BS I'd probably have all the links to all the crowdfunding sites

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  "مَـــدمُوزِيلْ👒 (@Mademoisele89) reported 15 minutes ago

  @PayPal We need to speed up and resolve cases and conflicts and not slow down the rights of customers who trusted you …

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  XRP Insider (@xrpinsider2017) reported 17 minutes ago

  Ripple's CEO just explained why #XRP exists in under 2 minutes no jargon: Venmo can't send to PayPal, even though PayPal owns Venmo. That's how broken our payment networks are. Now scale that to sending money overseas: slow, expensive, and it can vanish for weeks. Ripple's fix: sell the tech to banks worldwide. 4 second settlement, fractions of a penny, anywhere on Earth. Customers don't care it runs on XRP. They just care that it works.

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  Timofei from adenslab.com (@timopowerz) reported 17 minutes ago

  @mdniamul0 the off-site paypal point is real, but don't assume every client-side setup misses the purchase..... many flows return to a confirmation page and fire correctly i'd compare paypal completed orders against browser purchase events first. if the gap is real, webhook/capi is the fix..... with a stable event_id so browser + server don't double count

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  Mekdes Andarge (@andarge96093) reported 18 minutes ago

  @XEthanai Today I was login to my PayPal account and it was staying long and my airtime finished so I had to out and buy airtime but I will enter and I will wait until it finished setting up okey sorry , I mean it but I need one option I have book not card and asked to link my card .

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  Chaminda Delpagodage (@chams_builds) reported 20 minutes ago

  at PayPal we had a rule: systems must fail safe, not fail open. when something breaks, it locks down, it doesn't fling the doors open. same rule for AI agents: when unsure, it should stop and ask, not confidently guess. design for the bad day.

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  Richard Ieuan Davies (@TheRavingRich) reported 22 minutes ago

  @HelpSupercard @2KSupport 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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  Kevin (@Kevincreates77) reported 23 minutes ago

  The review system is gamed, and the star rating is lying to you. You see 4.6 stars and 12,000 reviews. You trust it. You shouldn't at least not at face value . Amazon has a massive fake review problem, and it goes deeper than most shoppers realize. Sellers pay for fake 5-star reviews through private Facebook groups and Telegram channels. They offer full refunds via PayPal in exchange for glowing write-ups. Some use "review clubs" where hundreds of fake buyers purchase the product, leave 5 stars, and get reimbursed. The product gets thousands of reviews in weeks, ranks higher in search, and looks legitimate to every future shopper who lands on the page. But it gets worse. Some sellers use a tactic called "review hijacking" they take an existing listing with thousands of strong reviews and swap out the product entirely. The reviews stay. The product changes. You're reading reviews for a completely different item. One former analyst described the scale: "We estimated that 30-40% of reviews in certain product categories supplements, electronics accessories, beauty had some level of manipulation. Not all outright fake, but incentivized, recycled, or merged from different product listings. The star rating was a marketing asset, not a quality metric." The counter-move: Install a browser extension like Fakespot or ReviewMeta. These tools analyze review patterns timing, language, reviewer history and give you an adjusted rating based on how many reviews appear genuine. Also, filter by "Verified Purchase" and sort by most recent. If the recent reviews are dramatically worse than the overall rating, the product has likely declined in quality while riding the coattails of old reviews.

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  conor!! (@playdeadpool) reported 23 minutes ago

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

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  Christy⁷🌸 (@Christycrispy1) reported 25 minutes ago

  @miwosbein Btw paid with Paypal it was smooth and no problems at all !!

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  mamí (@r0sequartzmami) reported 27 minutes ago

  hey my loves, i no longer will be using PayPal as a method to receive payments because paypal keeps holding my money & giving me problems with my card. I will update you guys on the new forms of payment so you guys can have a swift booking experience 💖

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  Luo 👽🌷🏹 (@luonarvt) reported 29 minutes ago

  @KillerS43140 Paypal also turned me down

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  proxy for korea japan online & offline kpop anime (@wendyproxy) reported 30 minutes ago

  proxy 2026 CORTIS TOUR <PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN> BIRTHDAY PARTY POP-UP 📅 ~08/17 🛒proxy fee 5000 won ea 💳 wise and paypal only 📦domestic shipping and ww 📍korea offline #wendyproxy 양도 wts wtb

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  Crisbuca (@Crisbuca) reported 33 minutes ago

  @CoachNassimm @coachmaxenfn I mean maybe give him time to fix paypal and then resolve problem u didn’t even try understand that his paypal wasn’t working

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  ZK (@zk_afc2) reported 33 minutes ago

  I don’t use PayPal Goods & Services because funds can be held for a long time and I’ve had issues with chargebacks in the past I prefer payment methods that don’t put either side through lengthy disputes

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  proxy for korea japan online & offline kpop anime (@wendyproxy) reported 35 minutes ago

  proxy 2026 CORTIS TOUR <PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN> BIRTHDAY PARTY POP-UP 📅 ~08/17 🛒proxy fee 5000 won ea 💳 wise and paypal only 📦domestic shipping and ww 📍korea offline #wendyproxy 양도 wts wtb

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  divyansh tiwari (@DivyanshT91162) reported 44 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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  seren ♡ (@sereniteaxb) reported 45 minutes ago

  @unyu_poppo apparently there’s an integrated international shipping option now and you can use paypal as well. easy peasy… my only issue was that my groggy brain didn’t compute. AND ALSO i didn’t even realise the 9,000 yen was the full standee set so i bought more random ones 😭😭😭

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  Mbaziira Ronald (@MbaziiraRonn) reported 45 minutes ago

  There’s PayPal. Then there’s Stripe. And there’s Wise. They overlap in some areas, but each solves a different problem for a different customer base. Which one do you use, and for what?

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  CrunchyFoamy (@WhiskeyBiscuit) reported 47 minutes ago

  Hey @Safeway could you please fix your app? Most recent issue…won’t let you select a payment type. Clicking on a payment type displays $0.00 rather than the last four digits of the payment. Advancing sends you back to the select payment type page. Selecting PayPal and…

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  💛🩵Sphinx / Sufi🩵💛 (@Hunni_bunnies) reported 50 minutes ago

  @SpoopyElvis @MoonFoxToys I had the same exact issue!! I had to add the money to my PayPal balance and then use that to pay for the toys….

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  Agnostica Gnostica (@AgnostikGnostik) reported 50 minutes ago

  @froglet80 Thanks! I was hoping to avoid the fees and had linked it to my personal PayPal, but I guess that causes issues. Will try to sort it out as spoons allow 🥄

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  leafs (@dannysleafs) reported 57 minutes ago

  @lql_00 Gosh that sucks, really sorry to hear that. This is seriously not okay at all, so many I heard having this issue unfortunately. I hope you can get it resolved asap. If you paid with PayPal under 6 months, try filing a refund through PayPal!!

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  Context OS (@context_os_) reported 57 minutes ago

  @ilyanovohatskyi @webflow Had to same issue with NameCheap, fortunately I paid with PayPal and they refunded me

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  Frank LaCroix (Frank is my pen name) (@lylemurphy18389) reported 60 minutes ago

  Banks used to be heavyweight investments. Not so much anymore. Look at the last 138 days: XLF (Financials) is now behaving almost like XLU (Utilities) — slow, low-growth, defensive. Meanwhile fintech and crypto keep taking share: • Payment apps (PayPal, Venmo, Chime, X Money…) • Digital banking • DeFi / crypto rails • Even newer players moving into underwriting Traditional banks are losing the energy that used to make them cyclical leaders. Capital and growth are flowing elsewhere. The sector chart makes it pretty clear. Anyone else seeing this shift?

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  mac (@kambinkskena) reported 1 hour ago

  Update, i got limitation problem w paypal. I'll only use Wise for international payment until the problem solved😓

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  Intes (@itsIntes) reported 1 hour ago

  𝟮𝟳-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 $𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘆-𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁, 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. Summer of 1995. Musk had just dropped out of a Stanford physics PhD program to start a company with his brother Kimbal. No money, no income, and for three or four months, he showered at the YMCA and worked out of what he later called the nastiest office you could imagine. The office had one hidden advantage. An internet service provider sat on the floor below, so Musk drilled a hole straight through the floor and ran a cable directly to their server, cutting his own bandwidth costs to almost nothing. He couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router either. “I personally wrote the first national maps, directions, yellow pages and white pages on the internet in the summer of 1995 in C with a little C++. Didn’t use a web server to save CPU cycles, just read port 8080 directly. Couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router, so wrote an emulator based on a white paper.” The company was Zip2, online city guides for newspapers, restaurant listings, directions, the basics of local search before local search existed. By 1998, CBS came to film him for a segment on his new life: the vintage Jaguar, six-figure salary, a market Microsoft had already tried and failed to enter. Then the reporter asked the standard question of the era. Where is the internet going? “The internet is the superset of all media. Print, radio, broadcast, all of it folds into the internet. It’s the first two-way medium that’s intelligent, where consumers choose what they see and when they see it.” That was 1998. He was describing a feed before anyone called it one. In February 1999, Compaq bought Zip2 for $307M .Musk’s cut was roughly $22M .That money became X. com, X. combecame PayPal, and PayPal became the seed money for everything after it.

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  Ondrei (@lowstakesdre) reported 1 hour ago

  @ShaneSchleger Nope. It’s 100% true. I called their customer care three times reporting the issue. Each time they told me they would correct the issue. I left the money in my PayPal account for months. I finally decided I wanted to earn interest on it so I moved it to my high yield savings account earmarked for PayPal.