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PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

  • 43% Sign in (43%)
  • 34% Errors (34%)
  • 22% Website Down (22%)

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

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Fréjus Website Down 20 hours ago
Feira de Santana Errors 1 day ago
Berlin Sign in 2 days ago
Palermo Errors 3 days ago
Dole Website Down 3 days ago
Guayaquil Sign in 4 days ago
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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • copywriterfaiz
    Syed Faiz (@copywriterfaiz) reported

    Paypal is threatening close my account although I regularly login by saying that I don't login at all!!! What the hell @PayPal @AskPayPal

  • fackinbuddy
    DingusCola SLOTS CLEARED (@fackinbuddy) reported

    @___EEF_ There are apparently people on Reddit as recent as 4 days ago having the exact same issue on me and the working theory that it’s due to paypal’s ai security. This could validate for a genuine law suit

  • SerlyFilya
    Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported

    @Mutualaidboost_ URGENT!!! PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN. EVEN $1-2 ADDS UP!! WE ARE SO DESPERATE AND AT THE MERCY OF KIND GENEROUS PEOPLE! PLEASE HELP US GET SOME GOOD FOOD AND TOILETRIES! I haven't been able to work for about 2 years now due to sudden health complications needing surgery. This one illness has destroyed my husband and I financially. The injection I need isn't covered by my insurance and costs $500 month. Now my husband gets paid and after bills there like $100 left for food for 2 weeks. We have been living on cereal, cheap frozen pizzas and hot dogs. Sometimes I dont eat for a few days so the food lasts longer. If we could any donation to help out, We would be so thankful! Hopefully these gas and grocery prices go down and I get healthy enough to work again. I dont even know how much to ask for...$500 or $1000? Here is my PayPal QR code.

  • wasokposter
    wasok (@wasokposter) reported

    @ottomodels hello, checkout by paypal does not make the yellow button appear. please fix asap i must make this financial decision!!!!!

  • HeathCastor
    Heath Castor (@HeathCastor) reported

    Dear @PayPal I changed my street address two years ago (almost) and tha ks to your system not working properly I’m out $40+ shipping for a purchase I made from a friend’s shop as your system went back to my old address and I also haven’t gotten my replacement debit card…

  • NoPonySpecial
    Mr. NoPony (@NoPonySpecial) reported

    @Mokona_VT I got a notification from PayPal that they were delivered I didn't even know they were shipped at all. But now I have a problem with mine watching me sleep after eating on my Gumbies just normal gumbies.

  • Tsunamiaou
    tsun ! (@Tsunamiaou) reported

    @bunnidemvt I could pay next week via paypal if u want ( i need to fix something with my paypal )

  • cinemya
    mya, occasionally 🪩🃏 (@cinemya) reported

    update i did not get because she was being iffy on paypal g&s so i shut that down

  • WingsNDNSilver
    NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported

    And Bridgett has to drive down to Santa Fe on Thursday for an appointment, and needs $150 to cover gas/food/related costs: Venmo: @ bridgetttru17 PayPal: @ bridgett190

  • NickCrum111
    Charles Steiner (@NickCrum111) reported

    @solari_the They say cash is king, and it does grant you more freedom than a credit card or a PayPal account. Trouble is . . . products are not always available locally to buy with cash . . and online purchasing betrays your privacy.

  • dailylovecom
    otani x risa (@dailylovecom) reported

    Hi everyone! unfortunately I’m going through some financial difficulties due to personal issues and am struggling to make ends meet. bc of this I’m reaching out to ask for your help. If you have some spare cash and would like to assist me, I’m leaving my PayPal and Pix details 👇

  • domocup7eleven
    Kali 🔞 (@domocup7eleven) reported

    PayPal ******* shutting down my account cuz it’s been inactive apparently (it hasnt been, AT ALL)

  • GeekInSneaks23
    seenkoe_23 (@GeekInSneaks23) reported

    @snkr_twitr Anyone else have any weird issues checking out using PayPal on NFL shop?

  • lelouchbot
    daily lelouch (@lelouchbot) reported

    Hi everyone! unfortunately I’m going through some financial difficulties due to personal issues and am struggling to make ends meet. bc of this I’m reaching out to ask for your help. If you have some spare cash and would like to assist me, I’m leaving my PayPal and Pix details 👇

  • HypaValley
    HypaValley | Algorithmic Trading (@HypaValley) reported

    PYPL -14% over two sessions as Stripe/Advent walk away from $53B bid PayPal fell 12.71% on Friday, Aug. 28, when the walkaway news broke, then another 1.85% on Monday, Aug. 31. Cumulatively, that’s roughly 14.3% from Thursday’s close through Monday’s close as Bloomberg News reported that payment processor Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have abandoned their planned $53 billion acquisition of the fintech giant. Stripe and Advent had previously offered $60.50 per share; talks broke down after the bidders and PayPal's board failed to agree on a higher valuation. The collapse leaves PayPal to pursue an independent turnaround under new CEO Enrique Lores amid intensifying competition from digital payment platforms and slower organic growth. The drop erases months of deal-related gains and forces investors to reassess PayPal's standalone operational progress and profitability outlook. Two investment banks have slashed price targets in response, with Mizuho cutting its target to $51 and Loop Capital to $50, both citing competitive pressures and execution risk. Investors should monitor whether PayPal management explores alternative strategic options or accelerates its cost restructuring to restore investor confidence. #PYPL

  • DerekAshauer
    Derek Ashauer (@DerekAshauer) reported

    Found a bug in my store today. A "30% off your first year" code was taking 30% off every year, forever. Claude found 2 other codes had the same problem. Gave Claude read access to my WP install over SSH plus temporary Stripe and PayPal keys. It found all affected subscriptions across both processors, cross-checked what the gateways were actually billing against what my database thought, and fixed each one. $1,782/year recovered. About 30 minutes once I knew something was wrong. Doing that by hand across two payment processors would have eaten my week.

  • NoCWereHarmed
    NoCreaturesWereHarmed (@NoCWereHarmed) reported

    Apparently PayPal was having some issues so I added stripe in the meantime. PayPal should be straightened out by Tuesday as they need those test deposits to clear in my new business account. You can buy via Stripe now.

  • ArgonautGames_
    Argonaut Games (@ArgonautGames_) reported

    @SpanishEchidna @RockitGamesNOW So this is a technical issue with paying via PayPal on Rock It's Shopify site? If so, have you tried a different payment method?

  • Benjamincfc22
    Benjamin (@Benjamincfc22) reported

    @_crtt10 @mftopboy @grok what happened to the PayPal glitch

  • wisecpcom
    WISECP (@wisecpcom) reported

    @Zarkos85 Hi @Zarkos85 — thanks for letting us know, and sorry for the trouble. It was a short-lived issue on the checkout page and it's fixed now; card and PayPal are both going through again. Please give it another try, and if anything is still off, open a ticket and we'll get on it.

  • Alfredo32419283
    Alfredo Garza (@Alfredo32419283) reported

    @joeroganhq So Elon created PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, purchased Twitter and became the world's first trillionaire... ...only to be called a "really broken person" by a crack fiend. **** is WILD in 2026!

  • bens_report
    Ben Po (@bens_report) reported

    @LindaRaschke PayPal 4 days pf3 down. Will it at least get a low to high day today? Hahaha

  • nikolasspyr
    Nikolas Spiridakis (@nikolasspyr) reported

    @linuxuser1996 Paypal app is just terrible, nothing to do with Graphene OS

  • GeniusBusiness_
    Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported

    PayPal's real product in its early years wasn't payments. It was survival. The company was building something that regulators, banks and its own biggest platform had no category for. Stefan Heck: "It was a true disruption of a very established, very regulated industry, right? Payments, banking… and they were doing things that didn't fit an existing category." Not fitting a category meant almost everyone with power over PayPal had a reason to switch it off. Reid Hoffman, who became Peter Thiel's firefighter chief, describes the job he was handed: "Make sure eBay doesn't drive us off the service. Make sure Visa doesn't shut us down. Persuade the federal government that it's okay that we're not a bank." Nancy Lublin on the person they sent to handle it: "He was the wolf. I mean, he was the fixer." John Lilly remembers how routine the existential threats became: "I remember we had breakfast one time. He said, 'I have to leave at 8:30 because I got to get on the plane to New York to go talk to Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, who's suing PayPal for basically anti-money laundering type things.' And he's like, 'I just got to go fix this and here's how I'm going to fix it because New York was convinced that PayPal is being used for gambling, all sorts of other things at the time.'" There was no playbook, because the category didn't exist yet. So the company argued from first principles: "It was fun because part of what ends up happening is you say, 'All right, well, what's a bank? Like, what defines a bank? How do I persuade them? I've never talked to a regulator before. All right, let me go figure out how this looks.'" While all this was happening, PayPal was outgrowing its own ability to operate. June Cohen: "Their customer numbers had grown so exponentially that they could not keep up with customer service and they actually just made the decision that that was a fire they weren't going to fight at that moment." That was a decision, not a failure. The company sorted its problems by one test: "There was a whole set of fires at PayPal where if you didn't solve them, value of the company zero, out of business." John Lilly on how that worked in practice: "Here's the one, two, three top priorities. Everything else I'm not going to worry about right now because if I get these three things right, everything else will be okay." The fire that passed the test was eBay: "If eBay had turned us off, if we were no longer to operate on eBay, no initial users, no traction, no network effect, no ability to grow." And eBay had every incentive to do exactly that. John Lilly: "eBay had its own payment system that was competing with PayPal. PayPal was winning. And so I think those got very complicated and eBay very much didn't want to have to buy PayPal and eventually they felt like they had to." That's the ending. PayPal survived on someone else's platform long enough to become the thing that platform had no choice but to acquire. A reporter at the time: "We know these guys very well obviously because so much of their business is in fact on eBay. The synergies of putting these two companies together were incredibly outstanding and it just seemed like the right time to get this deal done." PayPal didn't win by solving its problems. It won by correctly ranking them and letting the rest burn.

  • OntarioFrugal
    Ontario Frugal | Faith & Strategy (@OntarioFrugal) reported

    @losinghopein @PayPal @AskPayPal I had a crazy problem a bit like this when I tested the Bree app.They weren't supposed to take their payment until my pension came in - the crazy app took it 2 weeks early!

  • axiatechie
    Axia (@axiatechie) reported

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  • stevestappen
    saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported

    @darksainzrising they're trying to shut down the donations system (attempting to report to paypal and other portals that AO3 accepts donations from about the "depraved works" hosted by the website)

  • warmanadit_
    Aditya Warman (@warmanadit_) reported

    Night, Everyone!🚇 stable-2:native I've been digging into Stable's team and honestly? I'm conflicted. The CTO is Sam Kazemian who built Frax Finance to $1.4B. Huge credibility. Tether's CEO is advising. PayPal invested. But here's what nobody's talking about: the founder Joshua Harding quietly stepped down as CEO with zero public announcement. Brian Mehler took over silently. And apparently whales deposited USDT before the official window opened. That's insider-trading territory. They have a grant program but zero named dApps. I'm watching closely but not trusting blindly yet. Tag a friend who researches teams before investing.

  • DanStrover
    Daniel Pacheco (@DanStrover) reported

    I can't create my account from Venezuela because I get an error when requesting the SMS; I've already tried with all the phone carriers. @AskPayPal

  • MarsRecitinBars
    MarsSpittingBars (0/4) (@MarsRecitinBars) reported

    Question: If people who do commissions and use PayPal as a pay method, how do y'all die around the whole issue that came from it? Wasn't it closing it down ppls account cause if it?