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 (48%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Stockton	Sign in	2 days ago
Brighton	Errors	3 days ago
Génelard	Website Down	3 days ago
Paris	Sign in	3 days ago
Overland Park	Errors	7 days ago
Lausanne	Errors	7 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Rushen Samodya (@RushenSamodya) reported 46 seconds ago

  Why PayPal in Sri Lanka Actually Matters (And What it Means for You) 1/ The Old Problem Before today, Sri Lankan devs had three options: Use fake overseas addresses (illegal, risky) Keep money in foreign accounts (forex leakage, tax issues) Rely on shady remittance channels (high fees, no protection) We were essentially locked out of the global economy. Meanwhile, Indian and Filipino devs were cashing in directly.

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  Mindful (@DeeperExistence) reported 2 minutes ago

  @xoxofromlia You saying that to me as if that’s a problem lmao only thing is I don’t have Cash App no more so PayPal or Zelle

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  Esco Obong (@escobyte) reported 8 minutes ago

  What do Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Twitter, Shopify, Slack, and PayPal have in common? They all started as monoliths and relied heavily on monoliths for years after becoming unicorns. Do you actually have enough load on the system such that you need to scale the users service independently from the orders service? Can you not fit tens of millions of users, payments, products and orders in the same database cluster? Is your team so large that development velocity is an issue and you need seperately deployable services even when there’s no load scaling benefit just to alleviate operational scaling issues? The biggest benefit of a monolith is dead simple transactions. If your app does things like charging cards, updating inventory, or reserving cars/rooms, those actions need to succeed or fail all together. In a monolith, that’s easy: wrap them in a single database transaction. With microservices, you need distributed transactions or eventual consistency 💀. A saga pattern to coordinate failures and rollbacks across a chain of services. This is error prone, expensive infra, runs slower and takes months longer to develop/test. It also requires way more maintenance as the system evolves. It limits your velocity when introducing new concepts and flows which startups often need to do quickly. Start with a monolith. Get speed and correctness by default. For special needs like real-time streams or heavy compute loads, you can justify adding another service if it actually needs different composition of CPU, memory or storage that can scale independently from everything else. Each microservice is supposed to exist to solve a specific scaling or operational pain point. Let the real bottlenecks shape your architecture.

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  Halfcat_Here (@HalfcatH) reported 11 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @PayPal I can't log in to my account, but I have all the proof of incoming transfers in my email. Please help me.When I try to contact customer service, it always directs me to the login page.

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  John Carletto (@jcarletto27) reported 12 minutes ago

  @PayPal My paypal account of 18 years was permanently blocked this morning, with no reason given. Your support staff has been less than helpful. I use paypal every week for automated payments, Apple, Google play, and Ebay purchases. I have not broken your TOS.

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  rnewton (@rnewton7777) reported 14 minutes ago

  I asked last week, How do you price this? (eBay + GameStop) There are a lot of models you can try to build but ultimately I think it only really matters for me if I capture Wallstreet's sentiment. Because as I wrote in some longwinded post a few weeks back, they will have an algo parse the filing on deal close and "price" the deal by selling it to that level in the extended market when we can't trade. We have seen this repeatedly lately, that's how this whole thing works. So my model will essentially be wrong automatically because I don't know how the street models these things precisely. And they will absolutely pin the price immediately to what they think is "fair value," via sell action. Then as new details emerge and quarterly progress on optimization and such happens, they'll evaluate the balance sheet and price it again. And again. And again. For anybody that watched my videos, they must laugh, because in 2022 I was so optimistic all the time. Then I watched them price it to $10 and I was humbled. I simply didn't know how aggressively they could price a target down. And so I learned a measure of respect. But then I got excited again and bought in the 30s when Roaring Kitty came back and was re-humbled when we got priced back to the teens. And even with all our balance sheet improvements, our fortress of cash, our operational profit, and our collectibles pivot, I was re-humbled again in late November and December twice. Again, back to the teens. Does it mean we are destined to always price back to the teens? No, it simply means somebody felt compelled to price the stock down for whatever reason. Maybe they sensed weakness. Maybe there was sell side pressure post warrant issuance. Maybe options interest collapsed post Q3 earnings. I don't exactly know why we mark down so badly sometimes or mark up so much other times. So I don't know the model to even use today on GameStop even though I recently said I like knowns and feel I know current dog-form version GameStop. So how can I model a totally new thing? I know I'll mess it up just like I messed up cash per floor several times and still don't feel super confident in it today. So for the time being I'm not settled on any particular model. I see the word accretive thrown around a ton. This deal could work out to be accretive in the sense that per share value could go up over the long term, yes. eBay has value that can be unlocked at scale, so the shareholder value would spill over to us as GME holders post deal optimization period. Does that mean it moves in a straight line? No. Could we compress back to some mark down that represents paying for eBay at premium + cash drag on 20b in loans + unoptimized eBay? Seems likely to me. What's the mark down look like? How fast could Cohen unlock value, deleverage, etc? Well a very simple model would be something like this, Imagine he does de-leverage the 20b loan very quickly. If the combined company has 1.6b shares (even that is unknown), simple division shows: $20,000,000,000 / 1,600,000,000 = $12.50 dollars per share That means if Ryan Cohen and leadership can cost cut super fast, pour operation profit into the loan and pay the balance down, liabilities drop off by $12.50 a share. That's what he means by "not running it hot." That's what I personally mean by paying off your mortgage as fast as possible. Leverage and margin are terrible. That's why eBay leadership doesn't want this deal right now. $20 billion financed at 7 or 8% corporate rate is enormous drag on profitability that they don't currently have. But again, if he can work magic and pay it off very quickly, Assets - Liabilities = Shareholder Equity. Drop liabilities by $20 billion and you immediately increase shareholder equity by $20 billion or $12.50 a share. So while I don't know the immediate post deal compression price, I see a post leverage price as +$12.50. Because that's just basic mathematics. And that is certainly accretive. Because increasing share price on GameStop by $12.50 for leadership is significantly harder right now. That would take something like 5-10 years at current rate using a fundamentals analysis. There just isn't any fat left to cut and while we are making $600m a year or whatever, 600/488 = $1.23 a year. But post deal, to me, looks ugly. People want to do models like: GME $11b Market Cap + EBAY $55b = $66b Doesn't work like that. or, GME $23 a share + EBAY = X Doesn't work like that. You have to do it how the street is doing it and they'll use some formula based on revenue, earnings, assets, liabilities, etc. And the deal burns our assets. The deal burns our earnings (loan coupon). The deal burns our shareholder equity. The deal likely adds something like $25 billion or more in Goodwill to the balance sheet because otherwise shareholder equity would actually be negative. And I am not a fan of goodwill. It is why GameStop was overvalued when it was recklessly acquiring bad companies in 2014 and why it got marked down so badly when they dropped all the goodwill in 2019 or so. Goodwill is, imho, nonsense financial wizardly meant to make assets - liabilities = shareholder equity still make sense on paper when it simply doesn't because of destructive acquisitions. Not to say this is a bad deal, not at all. It is a fine deal if and only if Ryan Cohen can land it at the stated price or better and immediately extract at least $20 billion in savings to de-leverage. Because that right sizes the balance sheet, makes the phantom $12+ in goodwill share value real and protects our downside. I watch tickers all day where stocks trade at 100 PE or 10 PE. Sure, the street could love this deal, ignore the goodwill, and send this thing (up). But I don't know how to model that either. I don't know the rationale for why they send some stocks and not others. For example, Best Buy is trading in the gutter but the balance sheet is fine. Shareholder equity is fine. It isn't in any sort of fiscal distress. But it is out of favor, so it trades at a very low multiple. Meanwhile, name any other stock right now and it might have negative EPS, negative shareholder equity, and be weeks from insolvency, but trading at 40 PE. Why? No clue. So on this one, I have to assume for the immediate term, as much as GameStop would now be 75% eBay 25% GameStop, it would trade post deal a bit out of favor still. Because for whatever reason, we trade as an underdog. How badly do they compress it? Do they respect goodwill or simply ignore it? Do we trade at 30b market cap or 40? Or 50? You can build 20 different models and they will all sound great on paper. Then you'll wake up in the pre market and be trading at 16.50 or 21.50 or 32.50 and be like, Oh obviously. But it really isn't obvious at all, it is totally subjective. And the player with all the ability to price it, all the economic leverage in the world, is going to apply some model to it that is totally different than Best Buy or PayPal or whatever and they'll have all the logical reasoning for whatever it is they do. And we'll just be a leaf on a river wondering why we couldn't see where we were going. So it isn't that I can't price the post deal. I can. 20 different ways. And all of them will be wrong. So do your own modeling however you want, read others' models, and be skeptical of them all. Because at this point we don't even know the final terms. Assuming the deal closes, and I honestly believe it will, just in a long while, because closing on a house takes a long time let alone a 55b company, Is $125 per eBay share the final accepted offer? 50% cash still? 20b in debt? At what coupon (interest rate)? 50% stock still? At what conversion? And is there any other angle we're missing here? Suppose, just for the sake of pure hopium, Cohen has outside backing in the form of a large institutional presence that wants to do a block equity finance deal where they take something like a $20b interest in the new company via common or preferred stock. Well that changes everything immediately. And that isn't altogether that unrealistic. So it is very hard to model this right now. Be careful but have fun with it. Will it immediately send the stock? Very hard to say. But it certainly gives room for immediate upside improvement via debt paydown. And I do like that along with the other things Ryan Cohen is talking about. Because right now upside movement from a fundamentals perspective, on GameStop's balance sheet, is not bad, it is just slow. This could be fast and people want fast. But it could be volatile... I just hope people understand why.

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  Maina Kiromo (@mpkiromo) reported 17 minutes ago

  @MrKimmKE Expound please. I have seen @PayPal remit $1,000 and more to users in Kenya. If you have personal issues with them, stop spoiling their good name.

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  BigErn (@BiggiePerms) reported 18 minutes ago

  @realroseceline Worth nothing pretty much all fintech and payment companies are down near lows. Look at Adyen, Nu, Meli, Paypal, Fiserv, and so on. Nu straight up said Q1 is seasonally Brazil's weakest quarter. I think it's a good opportunity to initiate or avg down in some of these names.

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  Serenity Solo Studios (@SerenitySoloDev) reported 20 minutes ago

  @TiggerStan01 I get the verification message now and again. I have no problem with those. I also have no problem making big purchases on Amazon or in a doing monthly shops. It's always PayPal it happens for. Not even every purchase I paid using them. It seems to happen at random. It's not as bad as what you've been through, though. At least I made the purchases. The money wasn't stolen. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I can only imagine the amount of stress that causes. The closest I got to it was when someone got my partners bank card details and started spending the money, leaving them broke within a week of my partner being paid. Of course, I got the blame for not pulling my weight financially for months. That was a stressful time.

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  A (@BasicAshBitch) reported 20 minutes ago

  @gravey4rdkid Fix your PayPal, and we can do a tarot reading at some point 💪

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  oceanturn (@oceanturnmusic) reported 25 minutes ago

  Guys… PayPal doubled down with a consumer wording. They tried to play human without soul. So I gave them the soul they needed and pressed “send feedback.” Good luck with the FTC.

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  センディ (@MarioDontol) reported 25 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I am 19 years old (born 2007). I've sent my ID but got banned for being under 18. This is a technical error, please review it manually.

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  JustAWuWaGuy (@JustAGuy1610) reported 26 minutes ago

  @_Aemeath_ Or at least fix it like AKE fixed their paypal issue.... Just delete it.

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  Pipio🪶🎱 【IRIAM Pre-Debut】 (@PipioHato) reported 29 minutes ago

  @pwupcakie My biggest issue if streamelements goes down is that almost everything else uses PayPal for payouts of tips and I can't use PayPal so I dont know what alternative to use 🙃

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  Daedalus (@Haydendeathera2) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Dylanxjl14 @SkaavArt It's most likely due to payment processors (mastercard/VISA). It's been a recurring problem with EVERYTHING recently. Subscribestar, steam, PayPal, etc. So so so many platforms are changing up their rules regarding NSFW content because of pressure from payment processors.

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  madi (@madighoul) reported 39 minutes ago

  anyone want to help me get some cleaning stuff for my apartment? I've been down and not feeling too well mentally & I really want to deep clean it and get a new feeling in here. & I could really use some help 😭 $madighoul paypal: MadisonBonnewell venmo: ghostwithbones

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  Ben Valentin (@TheBenValentin) reported 39 minutes ago

  Anthropic just went after 30 million small businesses. Claude for Small Business dropped this week. 15 pre-built workflows. Connectors to QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Docusign, Google Workspace. Invoice chasing, payroll planning, lead triage, contract review, cash-flow monitoring. All baked in. No extra charge beyond the Claude license. Here's what most people will miss about this: The biggest AI lab on the planet just told small business owners they're worth building for. Not enterprise. Not Fortune 500. The 10-person company that's been duct-taping tools together for years. That's a market signal. When Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all start shipping SMB-first products in the same quarter, it means the enterprise-only era of AI is over. But pre-built workflows are the floor, not the ceiling. They solve the generic problems every business has. The real unlock is when a business deploys an agent trained on their specific operations, their specific data, their specific customer patterns. That's where the ROI compounds. Generic workflows get you started. Custom agents get you ahead. 10-city live tour starting yesterday. Free half-day workshops for small business owners. Anthropic is doing field sales now. Let that sink in. What's the first workflow you'd hand off to an agent tomorrow morning?

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  Vasja (@VasjaBocko) reported 40 minutes ago

  @PayPal , on top of being by far the most expensive payment provider (topped only by @Klarna), you also do not offer the option to withdraw foreign currencies in anything other than our local currency (EUR). If I do want to withdraw, you force a conversion in which for about 4.000 EUR you take 150 EUR fee. Your web app being completely broken and your support useless is then the final slap in the face. Shameful.

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  Walik Goshorn (@waliik1) reported 40 minutes ago

  My @PayPal account was hacked. The evidence that they have clearly shows that it was not me. Theu continue to give me problems. They denied my claim amd now want to re-open it so that I jave to wait again. Its always a PROBLEM !!

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  Linas | true.eth (@LinasLekavicius) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Muthannaa_ @alexoakdev @squadletics Yeah Stripe doesn't allow paying for stuff like this. But even if they did, there's more problems - for example, I don't know how it's possible to do payouts to users through Stripe? I think technically you could use paypal etc., but you literally become a bank. Smart contracts and stablecoins is the only real solution for this model, probably

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  Kalan Miizure // VArtist (@KalanMiizure) reported 45 minutes ago

  @exisbread I have the fees built into my prices because you are losing 10% with those fees. I always offer my friends either Vgen commissions or direct Paypal/Cashapp payment to save money. If they want the Vgen protection that is not a problem, but I am not losing money over it.

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  💜ANNE JAMIESON 💜 (@AnneDesignz) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Ratwassilly I am interested in working for you Also budget isn't any issue and I am having PayPal

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  Nisal | නිසල් (@NisalRenuja) reported 49 minutes ago

  People are struggling with the cost of living. At the same time the whole country is celebrating PayPal finally arriving in Sri Lanka. Freelancers and Small and Medium sized Enterprises are excited and honestly this is a genuinely positive step for Sri Lanka’s digital economy. But while everyone is celebrating… What happened to the millions lost in the recent cyber hack? Reports say Around USD 2.5 million meant for a debt payment was redirected through a cyber attack. Another USD 625,000 payment also went missing just days later. Total public money lost more than USD 3 million. Several officials were suspended. Investigations have begun but the public still does not know whether the money has been recovered. And then there is the Norochcholai “Coalgate” issue Auditor General reports highlighted low quality coal tender irregularities and major procedural failures. Billions in public losses were flagged. Senior officials resigned only after intense public pressure. People voted for change and stronger accountability. It is therefore fair to ask these questions when similar issues continue to occur even under a new government. PayPal’s arrival in Sri Lanka is good news. The country desperately needs digital growth, foreign income and better payment systems. But progress should never mean ignoring corruption, cyber security failures or missing public money. Sri Lankans deserve both economic progress and full transparency and accountability.

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  Jim Cannon (@JPRCannon1701) reported 51 minutes ago

  @santanderukhelp trying to make a purchase online via PayPal and apple play and saying bank has declined it. App says no issues so is something down?

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  Primrose ﴾V-Gorbs﴿ (@Primrose_115_) reported 51 minutes ago

  Anyways! Half of my grocery order didn’t arrive, I ****** up PayPal and might’ve lost $ because I sent the wrong person the adopt money (got it the second time and now I gotta wait on PayPal to fix it) But more FFXIV tomorrow (Warrior yay!) *internal screaming*

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  Mushy (@RocksonYeah) reported 54 minutes ago

  Hey @AskPayPal what ******** is this I thought its ******* instant transfer that takes 30 Minutes or more why ******** IS IT BEEN 2 DAYS AND MY MONEY IS STILL NO THERE I ALREADY CONTACTED MY BANK AND ITS SAYS THERE'S NO ******* ISSUE ON THEIR SIDE WHY ******** IS YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE WHEN ITS MOST NEEDED? ******** IS THIS A SCAM OR WHAT GIVE ME MY ******* MONEY

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  @PokeCorsair (@PokeCorsair329) reported 55 minutes ago

  @KieranH79849146 @potofgreedd The seller said they would give me 9% bc i can pay someone to fix it not true at all I got quotes everyone said not guaranteed to be fixable. Paypal gave me 0 options just denied bc its a trading card they dont handle that anymore i was told

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  Meg’s Meal Ideas (@mat0915) reported 57 minutes ago

  Had a heavy accent and answered by just saying “support” I asked what company he was “support” for and he said PayPal. I said that the company I was calling about was not PayPal. He asked what my problem was and I told him that I was charged for something I did not order…

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  마랑 (@vhopekookerz) reported 58 minutes ago

  @SORTE613 Hi Sorte-nim, I think Paypal is having an issue my payment is not proceeding 🥺 is there any other payment option please?

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  Shari 🌸 (@sharduncan5050) reported 59 minutes ago

  @CarolineDPham @moonpay I’m having lots of trouble with MoonPay! I have a balance that I’m trying to Withdraw. The app only gives me two options, my bank account or my PayPal. I’ve tried both, repeatedly, and MoonPay will not finish the transaction. So frustrating!