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 (43%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Kassel	Sign in	2 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	2 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	3 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	4 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	5 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	6 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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  ApoNattawinSG (Having kitkat) (@ApoNattawinSg) reported 2 minutes ago

  @zxcvvnm15 Even for NordVpn? Hmm I used PayPal no issue.

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  Joel Dalais (@JoelDalais) reported 4 minutes ago

  @369bsv @BitcoinSVCOL @PayPal Some other notes you (or readers might find interesting) - there is no central wallet to be hacked, no central bank to be closed down or forced closed - users use their own wallets and their own paypal. Also - its impossible for the system to inflate the BSV available, traders can only post up to what they have, the system (nor myself, or anyone) can't create extra BSV to put in the market for price manipulation, as your 'account balance' is whatever you have in your handcash.

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  Ownership (@ownershipfm) reported 5 minutes ago

  Epicentral founder Tony on the roadmap to mainnet, and what has to happen first "I anticipate we'll go live on mainnet this year for sure. I couldn't tell you a specific time frame, but more than a couple of months out from now" "We need legal clarity and we need proper audits, and we can't do that unless we have money. That's the ultimate truth. We can't have this exist on Solana until we have those checks, because we're building a non custodial platform. We want to make sure all the audits are in check, the program is working fine, there's no back door" "On legal clarity, we're already seeing it with the CFTC and the SEC and the crypto roundtables they host, their leniency and open mindedness to innovative financial technology. If I had the opportunity to sit down with them today I'd say, how do we do this with your support, because it needs to exist" "We're already seeing Visa, PayPal and Western Union use Solana's architecture to settle payments. The same thing is going to happen with derivatives. On devnet we already have 120 users as of today, 2 million in options volume across 500 different trades. It's private access right now, but it'll go public beta within the next month or so" FT @TheLazySol @epicentral_ @8bitpenis

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  kix (@kixouri) reported 8 minutes ago

  @dysphoricatgirl i remember at one point trying to solve an issue and i asked the bank first and they went "ask paypal we dont know much" and i ask paypal only for them to say "ask your bank" ????

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  Sam Kovacs (@SamKovX) reported 8 minutes ago

  I bought $PYPL on Monday. PayPal received got a 60.50 takeover bid from Stripe and Advent. Management called it inadequate. The stock is down more than 80% from its 2021 peak, retiring 12% of its stock a year at 11x earnings. And now, maybe, a bidding war. I only looked because I was recently asked to pay someone by PayPal. I thought: PayPal?? Then I pulled up the chart. Edison said that to have a great idea, you have to have a lot of them. You can't wake up and stumble onto your best stock pick. So I audition a lot of stocks, kill most of them cheaply, and press the few that work by giving myself a way to add to my winning positions. The edge in investing is not so much in finding the idea. It's what you do with it once it starts working, and how fast you cut it when it doesn't. PayPal came off exactly that process. There is a good narrative, a good chart, a good valuation, and I made an entry. It's one of seven oddball positions I added to the portfolio this week, which don't really fit neatly into any of the portfolio's themes. I share the report, and place the Paypal pick for free. Find alpha or die tryin'. You can read it below

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  GeneralChaos (@GeneralChaos42) reported 11 minutes ago

  @KonstantinKisin Most of the time people get very wealthy by doing something better, faster, or cheaper than how it’s currently being done. Elon for example got started with PayPal, then running a company that makes the best EV, then by driving down the cost of rocket launches.

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  Sammy G (@GinoPfc) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Kooks12onX @PlayStation Same issue, my account randomly suspended for a chargeback - of about £52. Didn’t even know that was a thing! Bank and PayPal both confirmed no chargeback raised so no idea how to Unsuspend it - even if I wanted to pay the £52 to get my stuff back I physically can’t!

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  Tobi (@To_bi_Bakare) reported 13 minutes ago

  Option 3: Namecheap Namecheap accepts PayPal as well as cards if you already have or can set up a PayPal account funded another way, that sidesteps the naira-card issue too.

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  zero 🎷 (@space0dddity) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Marcothecoolest @XitterUser_69 tbf there is a report system iirc, however ao3 will not take works down unless they are incorrectly tagged OR they have links to websites like paypal... ao3 is like famous for letting basically anything slide idk why they think the fics are getting taken down by mods

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  who’s asking (@sugarfooters) reported 22 minutes ago

  @annbauerwriter Oh this finally explains the video I saw of someone taking down a perfectly good staircase and deck. Yeah I would go with cashier’s check or money order, not comfortable with even PayPal anymore.

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  ◟sillypixiepie 𑜷 (@sillypixiepie) reported 26 minutes ago

  @fyuewi blegh what's the issue with paypal..?

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 27 minutes ago

  $17,500. Average sitting in freelancers' unpaid invoices. The problem isn't getting paid — it's nobody watching the money. Duebird is a 24/7 AI billing agent that watches Stripe, PayPal, and bank feeds, sends invoices, follows up on late payers, and reports cash flow.

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  𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔟𝔦𝔡𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔭 (@morbidtrip) reported 30 minutes ago

  Also my PayPal is broken so I'm not gonna take commissions currently until I fix the issue :')

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  palazzetto delle aste (@PalazzettoA) reported 30 minutes ago

  @mayemusk @boringcompany Vision: a PayPal and X merger as a global hub The starting point is the current situation with Stripe trying to acquire PayPal, a deal that creates strong concentration in the payments industry regardless of whether Musk is involved. The alternative vision is that Musk himself, one of PayPal’s original co-founders, should instead pursue a merger between PayPal and X, avoiding the need to route his own products through Stripe, which today feels like a contradiction. The structural advantage is that Revolut already proves you can offer instant credit, like loans issued in minutes, without being a traditional bank, operating instead under electronic money licenses. This allows you to bypass part of the classic regulatory rigidity, while still remaining subject to antitrust and compliance oversight. Direct experience with both payment systems matters here: PayPal settles funds immediately, while Stripe holds them for weeks despite lower fees, a real problem for anyone who needs to move cash quickly and pay suppliers on time. The core of the vision is building a fully vertical ecosystem: X becomes the platform, PayPal the payment and financing engine, and Musk’s products, Tesla, Starlink, the future Optimus robots, robotaxis, get sold directly with one click, financed through monthly installments charged to the PayPal card, without ever leaving the platform. In this scenario, X should not compete with TikTok on mass, low-price sales, but position itself for a high-spending audience, selling high-value goods like watches, used cars with built-in financing, premium products that justify real advertising investment, leaving low-margin mass sales to other platforms. The revenue model becomes multi-layered: income from advertising that sellers must buy to gain visibility on the platform, income from interest and fees on financing extended through the card, and lower credit risk because the system already knows users’ spending behavior thanks to artificial intelligence.

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  Kade 💜❤ (@Pumpk1nSpoice) reported 30 minutes ago

  I will probably sell it on ACGGOODS whoever, along with my other merch works! (i already have a shop and everything, the only problem is the paypal q_q)

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  Micktheskinz (@Mickskinz) reported 31 minutes ago

  @wood_bespoke 🤦 If I could login I wouldn't be asking. If I could cancel my card it wouldn't be a problem. But the details on the PayPal account are completely unknown and use an old phone number so I can't login and they won't talk to me on the phone because I can't answer the questions, the direct debit is not a card payment it's a bank payment straight from my account. I will find the time and do an hour on the phone to the bank but that's the thing I wanted to avoid. It's the only way to sort it.

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  mau (@fuckingeats) reported 32 minutes ago

  i’m selling a ticket (sec 412) for ariana grande in london 24th august.🫶🏻 i have no problem to do paypal g&s! dm! #arianagrande

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  VYANACE 🐉 (@vyaroos) reported 34 minutes ago

  update: I spoke with Paypal about an inconvenience I had. They deleted my old business account and verified my new one. Turns out you can have problems with any online service! PayPal is just the most well-known one, therefore more possibilities. I am thankful though!

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  Chris Shipley (@shipleycgm) reported 34 minutes ago

  This is an awful experience, and why the convenience of payment processors like PayPal are not in your favor if you experience trouble like this. American Express credit card? Easy chargeback. Also be wary of debit cards, they don't operate the same way as credit cards.

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  Kmiller (@fade2rt) reported 48 minutes ago

  @annbauerwriter @intrnlcmbstn If you gave them cash would you be concerned about a tax dodge? Really- the tax problem is theirs. Security of your account is your problem. Set up a separate account for PayPal/venmo and only keep a minimal amount in it.

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  Wutangflan (@Wutangflan23) reported 48 minutes ago

  Like everything that use to be good @PayPal is another. Yes i am aware they have been going down hill for a while. But i still used them as I didn’t have an issue till now. Bought dodge items and because they didn’t break within 30 days, even though Australian law gives consumers 12 months, i can’t get my money back through paypal. I am forced to lodge a complaint to fair trading

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  A Hil Galib (@galibgfx) reported 52 minutes ago

  Hi @AskPayPal, I'm facing an issue adding my bank account to my PayPal account ,it says the bank account is already linked to another PayPal account, but I don't have access to that account. Need help unlinking it so I can use it on my current verified account.

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  Eliana (@eliana_jordan) reported 52 minutes ago

  I took my first real vacation after 2 years as an indie hacker. And somehow my vacation turned into a full-time job of filing complaints and chasing refunds: • Delayed + damaged luggage • A liveaboard trip in Egypt that turned into a complete disaster (will share soon) • Paypal disputes that keep getting closed by bots • Customer support bots that refuse to let me talk to a human • Hours spent explaining the same problems over and over The worst part isn’t even the money. It’s the energy this takes away from building my business. Some people would tell me to just give up and move on. but it’s a significant amount of money, and more importantly, it’s mine. I don’t think customers should have to accept terrible service just because companies make it exhausting to complain. Sometimes you have to fight for what’s yours. Now working late trying to sort everything out and keep my apps running. At least I got a brand new villa in Bali and yesterday my new landlady brought me the best nasi goreng

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  Scott S (@scottslabio) reported 53 minutes ago

  Deleting the commit does not remove the secret. *** keeps history. The blob is still reachable by hash, still in every clone and fork, likely in a mirror you have never heard of. Rotate the credential. A team that spends the first hour rewriting *** history instead of revoking the key has spent the hour the attacker needed. Public repos are scraped continuously. A committed cloud key is found and used in minutes, not days. Push protection blocks the credential before it leaves your machine, which beats detection after the fact. The supply chain side is worse. Event-stream 2018: maintainer handed the package over, new owner added code targeting a bitcoin wallet. No bug. The maintainer changed. Dependency confusion 2021: public packages matching internal names at higher versions, builds fetched the attacker's copy. Worked against Apple, Microsoft, PayPal. No vulnerability. Just resolution order. xz-utils 2024: multi-year effort to gain maintainer trust and reach sshd. Found by an engineer investigating a half second login slowdown. Dependency review cannot be a one time check. The package that was safe when you chose it can change hands afterwards. Wrote up the full breakdown of repo security, credential rotation, and three supply chain attacks that worked without exploiting a single bug.

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  William Short (@WilliamShortss) reported 53 minutes ago

  @bsvdrip @BitcoinSVCOL @coinbase What’s the problem? You send them a token, they sell it and give the end user the dollars. As long as PayPal know what assets they are selling (they do) there is no problem.

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  sourcery (@sourceryy) reported 55 minutes ago

  .@Rabois says "99% of everything that matters" for a company is the CEO.⁣ ⁣ "If you have the right CEO, things that people believe to be impossible are very possible and sometimes probable."⁣ ⁣ "If you have the wrong CEO—almost nothing else matters."⁣ ⁣ "@vkhosla taught me this lesson in a pithy way, which is, 'The team you build is the company you build.'" "It's really easy to get distracted with everything else, like the product, the market, technology, but ultimately it comes down to the people." ⁣ "If you can marshal a critical density of talent—you have a shot at winning. That's what we did at PayPal. We had an unusual density of talent, were able to sustain that density of talent—and we were able to accomplish things that other people wouldn't have been able to."

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  Multi (@Multi_mike01) reported 57 minutes ago

  The agentic economy didn't arrive gradually. It arrived all at once. NVIDIA sized the agentic AI opportunity at $1 trillion. Google launched AP2 with over 60 partners including Mastercard, PayPal, and Visa. OpenAI and Stripe shipped an Agentic Commerce Protocol directly inside ChatGPT checkout. All of that happened within the last eighteen months. The capability side of this equation has scaled faster than anyone predicted. Agents are already booking flights, managing portfolios, signing agreements, and initiating payments without a human approving each step. The trust infrastructure hasn't moved at anywhere near the same pace. Society spent over twenty years handing data to applications through the internet. Now agents are being handed the keys to money and decisions, and the accountability layer that should have been built first is still being assembled after the fact. @Concordium's MCP server allows an agent to check, before interacting, whether its counterparty carries a verified identity and what that verification guarantees. Machine-readable accountability for machine-speed transactions. Capability scaling without trust infrastructure isn't a technical gap. It's a liability that compounds every time a new agent goes live without a verified human behind it. #Concordium #ConcordiumAmbassador

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  Paopugisesonic (@gisesonic20) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Emistations Oh, I'm having problems with PayPal, too. Now I can't make any more commissions because I have to report the pittance I earn so they can start taxing me,and Im also unemployed... I'm so tired🥀🥀🥀

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  Penny Wise (@wise145485) reported 58 minutes ago

  @annbauerwriter I've never run into that problem but I can see how it would happen. A lot of people are moving away from cash or checks. I do some digital money such as Zelle and PayPal but only with trusted vendors. For you it sounds like it now needs to be an up front question.

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  RipStudios (@RiptideRipp) reported 58 minutes ago

  I paid for everything even the thumbnails that didn’t pass moderation because he said he would fix them which he ended up saying later that it’s not his problem after we agreed he would do it. After the PayPal cases are concluded if I end up winning them, I’m letting him keep the thumbnails that did work, which is less than half of them.