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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.
- Sign in (46%)
- Errors (34%)
- Website Down (20%)
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The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Perth
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Website Down | 3 hours ago |
 Manta
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Sign in | 4 hours ago |
 Madrid
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Sign in | 6 hours ago |
 Chesterfield County
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Errors | 12 hours ago |
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Wake Forest
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Sign in | 14 hours ago |
 Frechen
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Errors | 17 hours ago |
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Paypal Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Hannah | Spirit connoisseur (@Micrxraptor) reportedI tried out PayPal pay later option and idk how people can do that regularly, I am so stressed out (I have the amount... I had the amount when I bought the ticket that's not the problem.)
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Önder (@Chess_Trainer_) reported@HenryCrochemore İt's hard to process transactions without delivery-to-door option. Yes true it's a good market with big population but people are more aware to online sites also there is no paypal option. So payments processing and logistic is big issue if you are operating from outside Turkey.
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Freddie Jones (@FreddieTwit2021) reported@maxrushden A gasp of 'Oh No' going into the break there. Have the authorities already clamped down on your paypal ruse chaps?!
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Vitto (@LaSpadix) reported99 problems and 1 solution: a 300€ gift on PayPal
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AcidburnOne (@VermilionSL) reported@AskPayPal assistance is not working! says phone number doesnt exist
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karanchauhan.eth (@0xkaranchauhan) reported@sandeepnailwal Can relate! We’re from a village near Bagwan, Uttarakhand — my grandfather faced similar issues. Been sending money to a friend’s wife back home in Peru 🇵🇪 for months now. Her husband was fed up with hefty fees on PayPal etc. On-chain is way cheaper and faster.
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Nerina 🫧🌊 (@nerinavt) reportedIf you’re worried that you’re gonna get scammed and need plenty of reassurance then ask for an invoice from PayPal to dispute it later - I have been scammed many times and I always request an invoice just incase. It’s down to both parties to make sure the service is fulfilled
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Jason Sanderson (@Jason_idk_what) reported@AskPayPal Hi. My PayPal account needs a text to WhatsApp or my normal phone but I don't have the sim. I also don't have ID and I can't voice call since I'm shy. If I try texting on the website I get told I need to login but when I try to login it asks for a text. There's no logged in devi
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Violet (@VioletsPatella) reportedUni assignments have been swamping me and i want to make sure everything goes right and is secure since ive had issues with paypal and scam commissions in the past.
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Christina (@forestofcake) reported@anna_gcrf Yeah there's an interest free thing on PayPal atm so i'll probably get that, the issue is I get disqualified for a lot of things because I can technically stand and get to the bathroom even though I functionally can't do anything else. Which is really frustrating.
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KonamiCodeGames🕹 (@EugeneGilland) reportedOh speaking of research, I just had issues with PayPal blocking my sign in from Firefox. 🤔 Seems like they broke something in a site update?
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Maisie ✨🐉 (@maisiemomo_) reported@yonasverse I have decided to go this route! Paypal still won't lift the deactivation so screw them. I don't want to deal with a company anyways that has AI handle their customers issues.
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Favour Oluwaferanmi Ojeniyi (@feranmioje) reported@mypagacare Good afternoon. I've been trying to connect my PayPal and Paga account. It's not working. Please provide a solution to this.
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JESSICA 🌺 (@DeFiJesss) reported@_meetjenie This is a general issue, try PayPal
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GenZ Investor (@investingbyGenZ) reported$PYPL has quietly climbed back into the 50s, and the PayPal Beyond 2026 event last week in San Francisco is a big reason sentiment has stabilized. - Earlier this year, PayPal got hit hard: weak 2026 guide, CEO exit, and the previous 2027 growth targets (8–10% branded checkout TPV, 7–9% TM$) were scrapped after a sharp Q4 miss. At the lows around $40, the stock was pricing in something close to a broken business. - At Beyond 2026, new CEO Enrique Lores used his first big stage to reset the story: focus on operational efficiency, AI‑driven innovation, deeper partnerships, and doubling down on commerce infrastructure that keeps merchants in control while opening them up to the full PayPal + Venmo consumer base. - The recent product moves fit neatly into that narrative: - Canva integration – PayPal Payment Links embedded directly into Canva, plugging PayPal, Venmo and Pay Later into the fast‑growing social/creator commerce layer. - Venmo going global – Venmo users can now transact with PayPal accounts across 90 markets, with international fees waived for a launch period, plus more push on debit, checkout and rewards. My view: the move back into the 50s feels more like a rerating from “doomsday” levels than a reaction to some explosive new growth story. PayPal hasn’t shown anything at Beyond or in the recent news that would make me believe in a sudden growth acceleration – no new flashy multi‑year targets, just a more disciplined, execution‑focused message. At the same time, between Beyond 2026, the Canva partnership and the Venmo globalization, it’s increasingly clear that their core position is stable and they have real levers to pull beyond 2026 if Lores executes. So I read this as the market moving from “priced for disaster” to “priced for a solid, mature payments franchise with some optionality,” rather than the start of a new hyper‑growth chapter.
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Stanford Austen (@RealFintechVibe) reportedPayPal is the OG fintech that somehow made sending money feel harder over time. Random holds, surprise fees and a UI that feels like it survived every redesign since 2006. It’s inertia but with a login screen.
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Red Again.. (@RedAgainAgain) reported@StealthQE4 Killed PayPal and slowed down nvdia for starts
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StarchaserCollin🔞 (@StargazerCake23) reported@ApzApuru That's odd,it says permanent so i really hope you can transfer all the money you have to another PayPal account,this is just terrible and scumbag behavior to pull on someone whos TOS is clearly stated for commissions
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Jordan Pivato (@pivatoinvesting) reportedDown $150K+ in crypto since Q4 2025. Loaded up on PayPal $PYPL the past few years for it to go nowhere. Plenty of other losers too. But I also made $300K+ in crypto in 2024. And scooped up Palantir $PLTR under $10. Sold most between $150-$200 for roughly a 20x. Point is, losses are part of the process. You don't win big without losing sometimes.
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Tyrsenus (@Tyrsenus) reported@ShadirHS @Maalcrom @Wowhead But like I said, Blizzard can impede them in other ways. They may have already sent a C&D to Paypal, explaining why the donation page is down.
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Callisto (@lizardfolkyaoi) reported@geneclez You made this appeal to Paypal knowing they'd take his paypal account down over this dude being stingy about how many times you asked for changes. I don't even know what to say man, this is just pathetic behavior lmfao
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Maya Aurora (@MayaAur0ra) reportedLike I said I wanted to be left alone. You have my PayPal and bank account details. Pay me back for what you or your reckless exes did . The fire did not started alone. My son did not fell down by accident after the message of the dead small fish.
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Chirag (@ChiragLathiya) reportedI used to think Stripe won because they built a better payments infrastructure. That’s not what actually happened. When Stripe started, payments were already “solved” in the traditional sense. - PayPal existed - Banks had their own systems - Payment gateways were widely available If you were a business, you could accept payments. But if you were a developer trying to integrate them, it was a different story. The process was frustrating. Documentation was unclear. APIs were inconsistent. Setting up even a basic flow could take days, sometimes weeks. Every integration felt like stitching together systems that were never designed to work smoothly. The problem was not availability. It was usability. Stripe focused on something that looked small from the outside but was fundamental in practice. They made the API clean and predictable. Accepting payments took a few lines of code. The documentation was structured. The developer experience was consistent. They did not change the underlying financial system. They changed how developers interacted with it. This had a compounding effect. Developers started choosing Stripe not because it had more features, but because it was easier to start with. That initial decision shaped everything that followed. - easier integration → faster adoption - faster adoption → more businesses onboarded - more businesses → more volume and feedback - more volume → better product over time What looked like a small improvement at the entry point became a long-term advantage. Stripe did not win by introducing something entirely new. They won by removing friction at the first step and making the default choice obvious. In many markets, the product that is easiest to start with is the one that scales the fastest. The entry experience is not a detail. It is often the decision point that determines the winner.
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Scott (Human) (@Dorizzdt) reported@AffinityPlay pft.. it looks terrible.. i won't pay anymore than $3000 for it...do you accept paypal? crypto?... and i need a dumpster fire but my budget is only $80k.
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Position Journal (@PositionJournal) reported@arbel_amir The thing with Pinterest is, the product is fantastic, the user growth is consistent (10 straight quarters) and they have a meaningful differentiator with their 80B monthly queries across images. The issue is management, I did not expect Bill, who came as COO of PayPal and founder of Venmo, to be so reactive. The issues he laid out in the call are all rudimentary issues (losing big advertisers) and his reaction of hiring more sales team and upping the GTM strategy is something that could have been done months prior and not just in Q1'26.
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Rajith Attapattu (@rajith_a) reported@ashoKumar89 I don't get the kubernetes hate. The decision to use k8s has nothing to do with the number of users, traffic or complexity of your application architecture. YouTube ran fine on VMs, so did PayPal, Google and other planet scale apps. Kubernetes evolve to solve the complexity of managing a pool of VMs and the associated operational overhead and it solves that problem elegantly.
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Usagii - Comms OPEN (@usagiiart) reportedIf Vgen keeps going down the drain, I will start taking comms only via Paypal and kofi.
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jshua (@sp00k1j1m) reported@hyxnbi paypal genuinely needs to fix their ****. the constant errors and deactivations and when it can’t verify for some reason??? nothing is more frustrating i’m so sorry
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DemrodDigitals || SEO EXPERT (@_iamDAM) reportedMistakes. I’ve helped people go from zero to having a fully registered US business they can use for Stripe, PayPal, Shopify, and global payments all without ever leaving their country. The key isn’t just doing it, it’s doing it right so you don’t run into issues later with
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youtube.com/@ezhdking (@StarR80733) reportedNo one gives a **** about ur **** life loser u dont even deserve ur fame u have no talent no skill and now u CRY because paypal blocks ur pennies? Real men DO NOT complain but sit down and grind. Ur a manchild. Grow. The. ****. Up.