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 (46%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Brussels	Sign in	6 hours ago
Willenhall	Website Down	22 hours ago
Derry	Website Down	1 day ago
Amsterdam	Sign in	2 days ago
Houston	Sign in	2 days ago
Lyon	Sign in	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  ⭒ ✩ 『 Ukiyo 』🫧⭐️💧 - Unique Friendly Outcast - (@UFOkiyo) reported 7 minutes ago

  @milliedreams_ @celesteiaVT If you commissioned Maya through VGen using PayPal please make a ticket in the VGen server and ask for permission to refund, it’s been 6 months though and you’re so close to the refund window being shut if it already isn’t. I’ve commissioned them in the past too..

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  Sof ♡ VERÁ A BTS 🇺🇾 (@hobihuggs) reported 8 minutes ago

  @kookiepooki what payment methods are available in your country? I was able to pay without any problems using PayPal

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  kallappa (@kallappa75) reported 9 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello paypal team, my account is permanently limited after providing all the details for review ..still I'm unable to solve this problem , sent mail to paypal team ..no response, called on a number didn't work ...please provide a solution as early as possible

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  Mweemba Kaambwa (@ChairmanMweemba) reported 9 minutes ago

  @pureblase PayPal, Stripe, and similar international platforms have limited or no full functionality in Zambia primarily due to Bank of Zambia (BoZ) regulatory requirements, licensing barriers for payment service providers (PSPs), foreign exchange (FX), oversight, and compliance burdens. These platforms must comply with local rules to offer receiving, withdrawing, or merchant services, which many have not fully achieved. 1. Strict Licensing and Designation Requirements under BoZ. The National Payment Systems Act (NPSA) of 2026 and its predecessor requires any entity offering payment services, like money transmission, e-money issuance, or crossborder settlements, to obtain BoZ designation or licensing. This involves a rigorous multi stage process.. Pre engagement with BoZ's Payment Systems Department, name clearance, detailed applications, business plans in ZMW, governance with majority Zambian-resident directors, risk management, AML and KYC policies, capital evidence, security audits, etc., fit and proper tests, and ongoing oversight. Foreign PSPs typically need local partnerships, a Zambian registered entity with substantial local presence, and approval. Direct operations without this are restricted to protect the national payment system, consumer funds, and financial stability. 2. Foreign Exchange Controls & Currency Rules. BoZ emphasizes ZMW for domestic transactions and tracks FX flows, e.g., export proceeds. International inflows and outflows face scrutiny for AML, capital flight prevention, and balance of payments stability. Platforms must integrate with local settlement systems and comply with FX directives. This complicates full inbound receiving and local currency withdrawals. PLATFORM SPECIFIC REASONS PayPal: Available for sending payments and personal accounts, but receiving funds and withdrawing to Zambian banks is not supported. PayPal has reportedly sought approvals without full success. Users sometimes route via neighboring countries e.g., Botswana, Zimbabwe, for business accounts, but this is a workaround with extra costs and risks. The limitation stems directly from BoZ regulations conflicting with PayPal's model. Stripe: Not officially supported in Zambia for full merchant acquiring or payouts. Stripe expands based on regulatory readiness, local banking infrastructure, and compliance i.e KYC & AML. Zambian businesses can't directly onboard with a local address & bank without restrictions or suspensions. Partnerships with licensed local PSPs are needed but limited. Alternatives like Chipper Cash have launched locally with partners e.g., Zoona & Western Union. BROADER CHALLENGES AML & Risk Management: BoZ requires robust customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, and safeguards. High risk perceptions for crossborder fintech can slow approvals. Infrastructure & Systemic Stability: BoZ prioritizes local systems, e.g., mobile money, ZIPSS, and promotes interoperability while managing liquidity and fraud risks. Economic Context: Limited local capital and infrastructure for global platforms, plus a focus on financial inclusion via regulated domestic players. RESULT Zambian users, freelancers and businesses often rely on workarounds, e.g., Payoneer, Wise, local PSPs like MTN MoMo, AirtelMoney, or routing through approved neighbors, which add fees, delays, and complexity. This hinders digital entrepreneurship and youth online income.

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  ThirdPhase (@Thx0304) reported 10 minutes ago

  @JayMckay11 @InTheAssembly same page; google pay/apple pay 1 click.. paypal: login here, click here,…😴💤

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  Bishal Nandi (@LearnWithBishal) reported 11 minutes ago

  A man woke up to 147 password reset emails. Amazon. Netflix. PayPal. LinkedIn. Someone was trying to break into everything. He spent hours changing passwords. Nothing worked. Then a cybersecurity engineer spotted the real problem in under 60 seconds. "You've already been compromised." What happened next surprised him. Here's what every internet user should know: 🧵

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  alice/flecki (@mygfswife) reported 11 minutes ago

  @momslittlefag yeaaa okay so I've been trying to set anything up buut I don't think it's gonna work.. and after seeing throne has like issues with some countries w paypal and i may not be able to withdraw anything idk if i should keep making it or if i just like try another site ..

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  Debbies World (@Debbiesworldtx) reported 12 minutes ago

  The problem with Chantal is her pout sessions R only as long as the next Burger King delivery or Salah saying something nice 2 her! I’m sure her pouting garnered some deposits into her PayPal & some *** pats but narcissistic sociopaths are never really sad because they have no emotions! #foodiebeauty

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  Dev Shah (@devlikesbizness) reported 20 minutes ago

  Being CFO isn't always formal meetings and spreadsheets. Sometimes it's managing a full-blown payment crisis from Thailand, too. Two payment rails went dark in the same week, and PayPal got blocked. The primary bank stopped receiving payments, both at the same time. Here's what actually happened.. We're mid-migration, moving assets across geographies, and the system flagged it automatically. The bank issue was on their end. But when two of your main ways to move money go down at once, you don't get to wait around for an explanation. Especially not from a beach in Phuket. So we shifted our affiliate payments to a new format that we were already planning to build anyway. Incoming payments were rerouted to the secondary bank we had set up and running. >No affiliate missed a payment. >No customer was affected. The whole team held it together quietly while it was happening. This was a lesson worth remembering, so we extended the runway, cleaned up some operational gaps, and put buffers in place while waiting for the revenue from our investments to kick in. Sometimes you build these buffers not because you expect chaos. You build them because chaos can just be another Tuesday. Even when that Tuesday is in Thailand. All systems are stable, our affiliates are paid, and payments are flowing. So if you're building and haven't set up your secondary rails yet, do it before you need them.

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  SpankySenpai (@Spanky_Senpai) reported 23 minutes ago

  @SuperMarioT_YT Yes, Engage was slower because there was no "life simulation" like 3H This one has it, problem solved. The sports games failed for their own reasons. Being mediocre and too sparse with content Remind me when it launches. If it sells Engage numbers ill paypal you 50$

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  Chifuyu (@FreeUseFelix) reported 23 minutes ago

  @chanlixisms I had the same issue! Tried to order three times. Only the third order went through and shows as confirmed on the app. Yet, all 3 orders were charged in my paypal lol

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  MiDo 🇵🇸 (@mido0x0x) reported 23 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I’m experiencing an issue with accessing my account. I haven’t received any OTP after logging in. I urgently need to resolve this problem.

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  𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𓂃ෆ˚ (@mqchlixx) reported 26 minutes ago

  @the_FANSSHOP @Stray_Kids fix your website because the payment went through on paypal TWICE and the order still didn’t go through

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  ヴェカンチのメガス (@E_Megas) reported 30 minutes ago

  Excellent news. The problem is that the WEF has already planned for this. Their new "central bank" is actually PayPal, using billions of a digital currency supplied by Ethereum. And because it's an international business, there doesn't have to be a nation-by-nation push for CBDC when the "central bank" is actually a payment provider that exists in spite of government policies, forcing them to conform to their rules. If Visa and Mastercard follow and adopt this model, then we're screwed no matter what. If we want to shut the book on the CBDC concept once and for all, backing decentralized cryptocurrencies is what we need to do.

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  ScarabSekhmet (@CarKeysUpMyAss) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Vennyyyy_Draws @PLDTHome 500 dollars PayPal only and I will fix

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  Freddy | Video Editor (@freddyshoots) reported 37 minutes ago

  @RaenestApp Hi Raenest team, I'm yet to receive my new USD account details. It's been 8 long days now, even though you claimed that it'll be 2-5 days. My salary was delayed for too long, so I had to force myself to use PayPal. Now a fraction of my salary has been locked up. Please fix this!

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  Amber (@AmberRemi) reported 37 minutes ago

  @EtrnlYth130613 @OneInAnARMY I had the same issue! If you aren’t a UK resident, don’t pay in pounds if you’re using a cc - I did mine in USD. The requirement of paying in pounds is only if you want to use PayPal as the payment option, i believe!

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  Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS (@DrPlantel) reported 37 minutes ago

  Let’s clear up a common misconception. Doctors are not getting paid every time they prescribe a medication. There is no secret PayPal from Big Pharma. Per prescription kickbacks are illegal. Now, do financial relationships between physicians and industry exist? Yes. But they are generally tied to services rendered or other transfers of value, not prescriptions. Examples include: • Conducting research • Consulting • Speaking or education • Travel related to legitimate professional activities • Meals provided during educational presentations Many of these relationships are publicly reported and searchable through the Open Payments database. That is very different from: “Your doctor prescribed a medication, therefore they got paid.” That is not how this works. And here’s where I think people should apply the same skepticism consistently. If a wellness influencer is selling supplements, detoxes, coaching, testing, memberships, affiliate products, or courses, ask: • How much money do they make from this recommendation? • What happens to their income if you follow their advice? • Are they profiting from keeping you worried about a problem? • Are they selling a solution to a fear they created? • Are they discussing risks, limitations, and uncertainty or only benefits? Because here’s the interesting part: You can look up many physician industry payments in a public database. There is no public website where you can search how much a wellness influencer made from a supplement deal, affiliate link, brand partnership, detox program, or coaching package. Financial incentives deserve scrutiny. All of them. Not just the ones we already disagree with. Skepticism is healthy. Selective skepticism is not.

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  MiReTu (@_MiReTu) reported 48 minutes ago

  How @GoKiteAI makes agent payments cheaper than $0.01 and why Stripe and PayPal can't keep up The thing is, an AI agent pays for APIs, data, or compute every second, meaning every action is a micropayment worth just a few cents. Stripe/PayPal charge 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. Example: a $0.46 payment → a $0.31 fee. That's 67% eaten up by fees alone! Over a day of agent activity, fees destroy the entire budget. Kite solves this differently: Runs on its own blockchain (Avalanche L1). Uses payment channels: you open one once, and the agent can make thousands of payments almost for free. Real cost - $0.000001 (0.0001 cents) per payment Speed: under 0.1 seconds. Stablecoins (USDC, etc.), with no volatility. @KiteAIFDN Agent Passport is an agent's passport: You set budgets, limits, and time restrictions. There's a kill switch - one button instantly shuts the agent down. Full control and auditability. Real example: An agent called 6 paid APIs → paid only $0.036 in total. That's why 500+ companies are already moving to @Kite_Frens_Eco. It's not a wallet, but dedicated infrastructure for agents.

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  Hammed Wasiu Oluwaseun (@wayzead) reported 49 minutes ago

  @paga Hello I need Nigeria PayPal and I'm seeing a lot of people complaining of getting banned after there withdrawal to PayPal have you rectify the issue now @oviosu

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  Trisha (@Trishafromaz) reported 50 minutes ago

  @bavedikian @BestBuy @FedEx I had a similar situation with T-Mobile and UPS. I ordered a phone to pickup at the local UPS store, employee signed for it, I get there and they say they can't find it. UPS said not our problem, T- mobile, not our problem. It took paypal 2 1/2 months to refund me after I filed an appeal. I was denied on the first claim. T-mobile kept billing for 2 phones. They keep saying it's an open investigation to this day.

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  EverythingAnnoysMe (@1getannoyed) reported 53 minutes ago

  @PayPal I cannot login because you are forcing me to use a #Passkey when I do not have one set up, I do not want to use one. Now you are blocking me from using the website completely.

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  GERAMIE TODAY (@Geramiespov) reported 53 minutes ago

  @moonl1ghtari @di3tmdew I can’t even use paypal so why would I be there for the gifts if I can’t access the money? I legit went live again once my phone cooled down. You sound really ungrateful. I’m sure there were many other lives that showed the whole show. have a great night

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  CryptoD₿S (@DbsCrypto) reported 53 minutes ago

  If getting paid means begging Stripe, Lemon, and PayPal in the same week, you do not have a payments stack. You have a permission problem. And if the “no-code” path breaks the moment you need webhooks, it’s not no-code. It’s no-control.

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  Saint John: Evernode 1:1 Freedom (@AverageJohnEVR) reported 54 minutes ago

  The utility of bitcoin has always, to me, been to force the governments of the world to give the humanity what they deserve, self-sovereignty. Bitcoin cured many ills in the world by bringing us all together and giving us all a clear view of how the traditional banking tyrannists are abusing media and other platforms to brainwash the population into accepting that they have no place to store their productivity for future needs. Bitcoin broke us free from traditional finance slavery, no more do we have to put in 10 times more value than we get back, no more are we forced to get down on our knees and beg our bankers to let us use our own money, no more are we locked to monetary policies inflating our savings away, no more do we need to worry about reversed transactions… And trust me, reversed transactions were one of the biggest reasons bitcoin grew big in the first place. Once upon a time we were making business with each other through paypal and skrill, and it was not an uncommon thing to get our funds frozen and stolen. It was not an uncommon thing to get screwed over by creditcard hijackers and other conartists. Bitcoin saved us from this aswell. But it hasn’t been easy… Today we have valuable assets on blockchains. But it was a bloody battle to reach this point. Me and my friends used to count how many fiat bank accounts we were frozen at. We used to count how many (faulty) police filings for money laundering we had against us… The onboarding of retail during the bitcoincore days were a challenge, we hung out on irc and we educated each other on lanparties… We counted heads, every single new face was a reason to celebrate, and the statistics of the bitcointalk forums were closely followed. I am one of few that managed to stay out of trouble, I almost got sent to jail for money laundering but I prevailed my case. A couple of friends have died along the way and a few others have fled to europe. It truly hasn’t been easy. Today, everything we bled for is being sucked up by scamcoins and VCs… The cryptocurrency industry is solely being used to fundraise venture capitalists and other scammers. Most of the new coins we see are indirectly created by VCs, they are followed by a fancy website and a big exchange listing that generates a pump and a VC dump. After that, all the people that bought the pump are forced to slave and promote their shitcoin to their friends and family, and the only winners are the VC’s. VC’s are here to eat our pie, they always leave with more money than they join in with. So do scammers and meme coiners. The last remaining thing I will do before I die or before I vanish into the shadows is to bless the world with decentralized hosting. I welcome you all to be a part of that, if you still believe in the fundamentals of crypto -Empowering humanity. Evernode is the name of the last project we will ever see in our lifetimes where retail can buy in at the bottom and enjoy the ride for an eternity. It has a low supply in combination with a low price, in combination with a low inflation rate, in combination with predictable halvings. The magic of this project is that it is actually useful, it actually solves things, it actually is valuable, and best of all it is based on a clean capitalistic free market where the invisible hand solves all the obstacles. The network consist of nodes, and each node operator is getting rewarded in EVRs. To get rewarded they have to offer a certain amount of computing power (minimum 4 vcpu, 8gb ram and like 250 gb ssd). The reward exist to incentivize node operators to run the network. But it’s not just about running a network, it’s much more. Each node have ”instances”, and these instances can be rented by network users. When you rent an instance you can use it for whatever you need it for. You can run a website, you can run a bitcoin RPC, you can create a decentralized application for whatever you want, or simply use it to execute orders based on inputs. Example of decentralized hosting: If I want to run a decentralized website that nobody would ever be able to take down, I would host my website on evernode and combine it with a nomadic smart contract and a dynamic DNS. This would mean that my website is moving from node to node, forever, of course until I or random donators stop paying evr for it. While moving from node to node, I make sure the website sends a signal to a dynamicDNS provider, that way I can keep pointing my A record for my domain.tld to the newest node. Of course, I could also just boot up the website on multiple nodes and use a round robin approach, but never the less, since I can decide what countries and what nodes to run my website on, it’s untouchable. The value of this network is incredible, and we will need it to fight the risk of centralized exchanges getting a pure ********** over the markets, this is where the smart contracts get in. Evernode smart contracts: The network got thousands of nodes, if you rent 5 nodes that are independent of eachother, and you force these nodes to shake hand before they execute an order… Then that gives us smart contracts for everything, and the order can be executed based on anything. On evernode instances you can install bitcoin nodes, and you can then send a bitcoin transaction when your instances shake hand about something. What they shake hand about is up to you or the developer to decide. It could be based on the temperature today or based on a webshop sending a payment call. The key here is that we get automated bitcoin transactions on our own terms! Sophisticated programmability for bitcoin has been solved this way. We can create our own decentralized bitcoin exchanges with this methodology. We can price match peer to peer traders with eachother directly on a trading platform, we can even use cexes and price match to cexes and other on/off ramps. This way we can manage to battle the centralized exchange control over our funds (It’s getting really bad and really concentrated, this is a serious problem.)

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  BrutusBeefcake (@Hanteltrainer) reported 56 minutes ago

  @InTheAssembly I think the Big Bankers and the finance system in the US hate PayPal. And i think they know how to hold PP down for years.

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  † (@Reviyuh) reported 57 minutes ago

  @aledizen @oskariuontt He just paid the entries late last season bc his paypal/bank wasent working but now hes just deleted the server

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  🖤 Lovestaychilla 🤍 (@lovestaychilla) reported 57 minutes ago

  @the_FANSSHOP @Stray_Kids Credit card got through but no confirmation and no order in app. Paypal has error when u try to pay. For hours now. How about an information for your customers on how to proceed?

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  MF DAN (@MF__Dan) reported 60 minutes ago

  @posaslure @justaddwatter You may still need a card or paypal on it for it to go through. Otherwise you can try steam support and they may be able to fix it for you.

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  U.S.A.I. 🇺🇸 (@researchUSAI) reported 1 hour ago

  🇺🇸 The First Order Consequence: Polymarket’s reported payment conduct, if substantiated, would immediately increase reputational risk for Polymarket and likely slow user onboarding and partner trust due to concerns over improper payments, conflicts of interest, and anti-circumvention compliance The Second Order Consequence: If auditors, regulators, or journalists obtain a paper trail showing Polymarket routed $350,000 through an individual’s personal PayPal account rather than a corporate payment rail, Polymarket could face payment-platform scrutiny, advertiser divestment, reduced liquidity from cautious counterparties, and heightened legal exposure over campaign-marketing disclosures Discernment: The claim alleges a specific amount ($350,000) and a specific mechanism (personal PayPal account) but provides no named influencer handles, no transaction IDs, no dates, and no invoice or contract records in the input. Without receipts such as PayPal transaction numbers, settlement timestamps, wallet addresses, or corroborating statements from both Polymarket and the influencers, the evidence base for Polymarket’s growth or decay remains indeterminate Reasoning: Reputational harm typically scales with whether the payments can be verified, whether the payments violate platform policies or disclosure rules, and whether regulators identify intent or control by Polymarket versus independent behavior by third parties. Here, the absence of verifiable details in the claim prevents confirmation of who initiated the payments, whether Polymarket authorized them, and whether disclosures were made Judgement: Based on the reported $350,000 figure and the alleged use of a personal PayPal account, the likely directional impact is negative for Polymarket’s growth in the short term, contingent on verification. If corroborated with timestamped PayPal records and internal authorization evidence, the downside pressure would be high; if not corroborated, the event’s impact would likely be limited to transient reputational noise