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 (40%)
• Errors (38%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Lyon	Errors	1 day ago
Paris	Sign in	3 days ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	3 days ago
Tlaquepaque	Errors	5 days ago
Massy	Website Down	5 days ago
Montlouis-sur-Loire	Sign in	7 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Åsk Dabitch Wäppling オスク・ダビッチ - オスクさん Дабитч (@dabitch) reported 49 seconds ago

  @bashildy Do you remember when Katrina happened and they raised money and Paypal shut their fundraiser down? 2005 was a helluva year.

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  DeathByFitz (@deathbyfitz) reported 3 minutes ago

  @PayPal Can't add or remove cards in the app order site. Known issue?

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  Wez G (@WezG) reported 8 minutes ago

  I've just had major problems with @paypal with them thieving 400 quid and terminating my account.

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  open for readings: Ash 🐈 (@Hadescerbeus) reported 10 minutes ago

  - you or someone around is twisting their ankle - trying out new hairstyles (you’ll hate them but love one in particular) - no, that trip won’t solve your problems but it will clear your head - your bank/paypal glitching and holding your money - your clientele is increasing!

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  Billings (@BillingsCat) reported 12 minutes ago

  @SoniaSikka42 @shabanamir1 It used to work as of June, but I know many in Gaza are having issues with PayPal. @Sulalasociety please update the bio for donation method when you can. Thank you

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  Rajat Garg (@rajat_garg25) reported 13 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I’m unable to login into my account, the Indian phone number that was registered is no longer in use. What can be done here?

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  Luz (@leftyluz22) reported 15 minutes ago

  @liifesupports It took so long but when I got to checkout I did express checkout w PayPal it gave me an error message initially but I got the confirmation email and it showed up in my orders a few mins later.

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  Monica Jasuja (@jasuja) reported 17 minutes ago

  9/ My read after twenty years across PayPal, Mastercard, and Gojek: a table like Bernstein's tells you whether a rail is broken or just underpriced for its next stage. UPI's own numbers, including the ones already working quietly inside it, say underpriced, not broken.

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  The Right Rationale (@Right_Rationale) reported 18 minutes ago

  @jvkenya Yes, you could read the article, where I go through the myth of that story: The “emerald mine heir” story is equally false. Musk left South Africa at 17 with roughly $2,000 Canadian dollars. He worked in a lumber mill. He lived in a youth hostel and later with relatives. After college he was more than $100,000 in debt. His first company, Zip2, began with a single computer he had built himself. Because he could not afford a second machine, he coded at night so the same computer could run the company’s server during the day. He wrote the initial platform himself. His father’s brief involvement with emeralds in the early 1980s produced no lasting wealth; by 2000 Errol Musk was bankrupt and later became financially dependent on his son. The capital that later funded Tesla and SpaceX came from the sale of Zip2 and then PayPal - companies Musk built from near-zero.

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  Alex Berman® 👑 Galadon (@alxberman) reported 21 minutes ago

  I remember sitting with these lawyers in New York, and they were lecturing me about how they can't use cold email to grow their business. And for a while, I believed them. But then I looked it up. In New York, lawyers can email anybody in business they believe might be "in the market for legal services." And if someone owns a business, they're in the market. So yeah, they were wrong. Cold email is totally fine. They just never checked. And I've made that same mistake - plenty of times. When I was starting out, I'd block myself on things like: "How do I take payments?" "Do I need a business license?" "Am I even allowed to sell this?" And the key part is - I never searched. Because it wasn't really a question. It was an excuse. The moment someone says "just use PayPal," you're at a fork. Either you go, "Oh, yeah, I could." Or you get mad. You reject it. You invent a new reason. I had a friend who went all the way. Built the funnel. Wrote the copy. Recorded all the videos. Set up payments. Everything was done. And he never launched. All the blockers were gone. But the mindset that stopped him at the beginning? Still there. That voice that says "I'm not ready" doesn't leave just because you did the work. What actually slows you down isn't risk. It's assumption. And the fact that you never checked. That's exactly what we break inside Galadon Gold. This is not a course. It's my actual outbound system - tools, flows, and frameworks that generate real leads and sales. 4 coaching calls a week. Courses. Private community. Cancel anytime. You just plug in and move. Join now. Talk soon, -Alex

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  CMG (@gn_calmg_7) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Venmo @PayPal I am totally in a quandary with Venmo. I have been suspended and I don’t know why. I sent my photo ID to them as they requested but it has still been months and no word. I can find no answers to what probably is an easy fix

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  Life Code (@69LifeCode) reported 29 minutes ago

  E get one method I was using to create PayPal accounts last year. Link bank to it and use it without issues. Let me try it again and see, if it works, I will share how to do it. Instead of selling your hard earned survey funds to dealers at a low rate, you will learn how to create your own PayPal account and withdraw your money at official rate to your Nigerian bank account. Small small, I will give you everything you need to be self sufficient online. It will take time, but you will definitely get it from me. P.S: image is not mine. Random screenshot from Twitter here.

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  AFRICA IS HOME GLOBAL (@AfricaisHOME2) reported 31 minutes ago

  PayPal is putting explicit revenue targets on its three core units as new CEO Enrique Lores reviews the company’s strategy and pushes for faster execution. In April the payments firm reorganized around Checkout Solutions and PayPal, Consumer Financial Services and Venmo, and Payment Services and Crypto, with a single leader for each business to cut duplication and speed decisions. Lores said the goal is to sharpen focus, simplify operations and get closer to consumers after years of slower growth and margin pressure. The company has also set a cost savings target of at least 1.5 billion dollars over the next two to three years through AI, process redesign and structural realignment, with the savings reinvested into growth initiatives. For 2026 management is guiding to transaction margin dollars roughly flat to slightly down excluding interest, 3 percent growth in non transaction operating expenses, and non GAAP EPS in a range between slightly negative and slightly positive. The reset comes as PayPal tries to diversify beyond its traditional checkout business and rebuild momentum in higher margin areas. In Q1 2026 revenue rose 7 percent to 8.35 billion dollars and total payment volume grew 11 percent to 464 billion dollars, with Venmo and Braintree both delivering mid teens TPV growth and buy now pay later and pay with Venmo volumes up 23 percent and 34 percent. Q2 showed continued strength in those same units, with transaction margin dollars up 1 percent and up 3 percent excluding interest on customer balances, prompting the company to raise its full year outlook for TM dollars and EPS. Lores is emphasizing financial services as the largest driver of future TM dollar growth, expanding Venmo into a fuller financial platform, scaling PYUSD stablecoin which is now the largest federally regulated stablecoin, and partnering in AI commerce with Microsoft and others. At the same time the company returned 1.5 billion dollars to shareholders in the quarter and started a 14 cent quarterly dividend, while warning that macro pressure in Europe and competition from Big Tech and fintechs will keep the near term environment tough. - World Business News.

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  P1T Pen (@William03635638) reported 35 minutes ago

  @PayPal Terrible customer service experience. Took 23 minutes to get to a human, who then recommended that I call a phone number that led right back to the same automated operator services. Please have a dispute department human employee contact me. Sending DM with details.

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  Aishwarya Raghavan (@ashragh95) reported 38 minutes ago

  Depends on tax compliance as well Opt for an MOR like paddle or lemon squeezy etc if you don't want to handle tax compliance or have global clients that tax compliance becomes complicated If tax compliance is not an issue, then opt for payment gateways like stripe if you have integration knowledge otherwise paypal

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  Miss_Nancy (@Godfearingbadie) reported 38 minutes ago

  I am a user in Nigeria with a fully linked Paga account. A US sender is trying to send a Goods & Services payment to my email, but your automated filter is blocking it with a 'payment no longer available' error. Please help me manually open a support ticket." @AskPayPal

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  Super Hawa 🐟💜⁷ ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ (@Hawa__Sahar) reported 38 minutes ago

  WTS - 1 ticket ( sec A1 row 18 near ramps where members stand) BTS World Tour ARIRANG in Foxborough on August 5th. Purchased for $611.40 during presale & wts for lower! Can provide proof of purchase and video chat. Can no longer attend due to medical issues. Must use PayPal Goods & Services.

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  Pasco Sheriff (@PascoSheriff) reported 39 minutes ago

  Pasco Sheriff’s Office is aware of several jury duty scams that occur across Pasco County. Oftentimes, the scammer claims to be an official, sometimes using PSO and/or a PSO member’s name, to inform the potential victim that they’ve missed jury duty and must pay a fee. These payments are made via PayPal, Bitcoin, Zelle, and similar services. Scammers may use a blocked number or spoof a PSO number, such as our general information line. PSO does not manage jury duty notifications, and we stress that these messages are not legitimate. PSO will never contact individuals for any form of payment to resolve issues, criminal or otherwise.

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  RINE 🧡💙✈️ SEMI IA ❤️‍🩹 (@calebgirl1306) reported 41 minutes ago

  @navvyia UID: 81001217079 Server: Asia Game: LnDs Can I exchange to PayPal if I lucky? Tysm for GA 🩷

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  Abul Hasanat Manik (@ahmanikdu47) reported 42 minutes ago

  Privacy tools in crypto have become a compliance problem. Mixers co-mingle funds with unknown counterparties. You can't verify who you're transacting with. Zcash works, but only for one token on one chain. Institutions don't want mixers. They want a decentralized PayPal. Non-interactive cryptographic proofs can auto-generate a unique stealth address for every transaction. Counterparty verified. Nothing hits the public ledger. Works across every major chain @Americanfort_io

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  Nova 🐊🦊 | Vgen and Ko-fi Open (@Novalligator) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Kosaki_rose Content PayPal support, they SHOULD be able to help since it was a genuine issue -Coming from someone who had the same thing happen

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 45 minutes ago

  In 2003 a thirty-two-year-old Elon Musk gave the Stanford talk founders still pass around twenty years later. He was invited to speak at Stanford's Graduate School of Business by a class of MBA students who wanted to hear from someone actually building companies instead of teaching cases about them. He walked in, sat down, and talked for forty-five minutes without a single slide. By that point he had already sold Zip2 to Compaq for three hundred and seven million dollars and had cleared roughly one hundred and eighty million from the PayPal sale to eBay the year before. He had used most of that money to start SpaceX in the spring of 2002. In the fall of 2003, SpaceX had zero launches, roughly thirty employees, and a runway that was going to run out inside two years. He talked about how to start a company when nobody believes in the market. How to cut costs when the cash pile is shrinking every week. How to think from first principles instead of from analogy. How to stay alive long enough for luck to matter. The most striking part of the tape is not the advice. It is the tone. He is calm. He is quiet. He is thirty-two years old and running a company that is trying to build rockets, and he speaks about it the way a project manager describes a Kanban board. Twenty years later that same man owns SpaceX, Tesla, xAI and X. His net worth crossed four hundred billion dollars at the end of 2024. The rocket company he was running on empty in 2003 now launches more mass into orbit than the rest of the world combined. The talk is on YouTube. It has been posted, taken down, reposted, and re-uploaded dozens of times. It never breaks a hundred thousand views on any single upload because it does not have a thumbnail hook or a title that promises secrets. It is just forty-five minutes of a man who had not yet become anything explaining, in flat prose, how to survive when nobody has backed you yet. I watched it for the first time in 2019 during a stretch of my own company where I was three months from running out of cash. Nothing in the talk was tactical enough to save me. What it did do was give me permission to keep going for another quarter, which turned out to be all I needed. The Musk who gave that talk did not know what he would become. Neither did the students in the room. That is the actual value of the tape. You watch him before he was Elon Musk.

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  Nick Berardi (@nberardi) reported 45 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I am encountering an issue where your “Pay With PayPal” button is providing addresses for my billing information that aren’t in my account. Can you help?

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  Frrost (@Frrost5) reported 45 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Im sorry but thats the issue i can't contact the support on the website since i can't create an account

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  Inki (@inki_tea) reported 51 minutes ago

  @LeeandLie Unsure if this applies but if you guys used PayPal, I know they are great for getting a refund if you have proof of bankruptcy? They instantly refunded me for 3 purchases from an major anime figure site that closed down suddenly a few years ago. Can't guarantee it'll work though

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  Luna⁷ (@glamtopjm) reported 52 minutes ago

  WHY IS MY PAYPAL NOT WORKING BRO???? ITS JUST 3 EUROS I NEED TO SEND TO GET THAT DAMN APP 😭😭

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  Dani Diaz (@danidiaz) reported 55 minutes ago

  @nberardi @AskPayPal I closed my account the the whole “misinformation” overreach went down. Have not needed them at all.

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  Synergy 🌙🩵 (@Syniichu) reported 57 minutes ago

  @004Nubi I had to file a dispute on PayPal for a commission from a popular artist for not doing it, so she decided to try to revoke my rights to a concept art she made for free reworking my elements 🤨 Crazy bc she has this problem too

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  Ariel Cajar (@ArielCajar) reported 57 minutes ago

  @PokemonRestocks jic it was the way PayPal works while only having it linked to an account rather than having funds in it, so if you can get your card to work directly or if you already have funds in your PayPal acc, it should be a non-issue. It's just a very personal L. Hope it helps, tho!

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  Tejas (@stejas809) reported 60 minutes ago

  PayPal handles billions of transactions using Node.js. LinkedIn serves millions of concurrent members using Node.js Netflix manages their entire TV UI layer using Node.js But, Javascript runs on a single thread. And your Node.js server is handling 50,000 concurrent transactions right now. Tell me how?