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 (44%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Perth	Sign in	22 hours ago
Courbevoie	Sign in	1 day ago
Kassel	Sign in	6 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	6 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	7 days ago
Arumpo	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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  CoFounders Nik (@CoFoundersNik) reported 6 minutes ago

  @iamjwmoss Stripe, PayPal, Freshbooks, Amazon and probably others i cant even remember. All of them had their issues but PayPal and Stripe were the worst. We ultimately switched to ACH

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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 7 minutes ago

  @ima_fly_tok @alexabelonix That's the bigger issue IMO. Switching from PayPal to another giant provider doesn't really remove the dependency, it just changes who you're dependent on. Having more than one payment route makes a lot more sense.

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹 (@elysiankrow) reported 10 minutes ago

  hello ⭐ i can't dm u but if you're interested I'm selling an upper bowl for the 27th! it's available for AXS transfer, I'd be down for a video call and I have PayPal g&s :)

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  Guz Moon (@GusMoon48) reported 12 minutes ago

  This restriction over on PayPal and Cash-app makes me think it’s a conspiracy to make crypto a viable option where they can’t touch it and you can sell without issue.

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  𝓑𝓾𝓷𝓷𝔂𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵ლ(╹◡╹ლ) (@annaplayzlove) reported 13 minutes ago

  for those who saw my cashapp post PLEASE STOP DMING ME SCAMS i know how these work u dont need a fee on cashapp bc On platforms like Cash App or PayPal, if there is a transaction fee, the platform automatically deducts it from the sent amount.....like cmon ppl. i aint slow

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  DAMIEN 🌈🦄✨ (@MELTYFUTUREE) reported 14 minutes ago

  PAYPAL UNBLOCK MY ******* ACCOUNT SO I CAN GET SLOW DAMAGE ON JAST

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  The Analyst X (@bullmetrics) reported 17 minutes ago

  PayPal is up nearly 50% in six months and still down 78% over five years. So the real question: is this the turnaround, or a bounce in a broken stock? Here's the actual setup: $PYPL sits in the middle of online payments. You check out, they move the money, they take a fee. PayPal and Venmo are both theirs. 🟢 What's driving it: - Buying from a shop you've never heard of? You don't type your card in, you hit the PayPal button — if it goes wrong, they chase it, not you. That trust is the product. - Shops can't remove that button. It turns browsers into buyers, so taking it off costs them sales. - Apple has your wallet but not the shop's checkout. Stripe has the shop but not your wallet. PayPal has both. - They're buying back 10.21% of the company a year — the fastest pace in their history. Fewer shares, bigger slice for investors. 🔴 Why it got this cheap: - On your phone, Apple Pay is already sitting there with your face. PayPal makes you log in. That one extra tap is the whole war. - They've always charged shops a premium for that button, and cheaper options now sit right next to it. - Revenue growth has slowed to low single digits and the profit engine has cooled. What do the pros think? Here it gets uncomfortable: 🔴Avg target: $57.26 — 7% below where it trades today 🚀High: $85.68 — +39% 🔴Low: $36.36 — −41% The verdict: you're not buying growth here, you're buying cash. At $61 you pay $11 for every $1 of profit — Visa and Mastercard cost three times that. The model says $75.36, Wall Street says $57.26, and that gap is the whole trade. The risk is the fee. If Apple and Google keep owning the checkout button, the cash machine slips with it. That's why the Low target sits at $36.36. Bargain or value trap?

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  PayPal Developer (@paypaldev) reported 18 minutes ago

  PayPal Sandbox: $5,000 Of Fake Money In 60 Seconds PayPal's sandbox hands every developer a fake buyer and a fake seller (merchant), each preloaded with USD 5,000. Nobody tells you the balance is editable, so you can set it to any number you need to test. Full flow: 1. Developer dashboard, toggle top left set to Sandbox. 2. Left nav, Testing Tools, then Sandbox Accounts . 3. Create account. Personal is your buyer, Business is your merchant. 4. Set Country to the market you are actually building for. 5. Make one of each. A seller with nobody to buy from tests nothing. 6. Find your row, click the three dots under Settings, then View/Edit account. 7. Login Info holds the email and password. Click the eye to reveal it. 8. Log in to the PayPal Sandbox. Your Client ID and secret come from the Business account, under REST API apps, then Create App. The Personal account has no such section, which is what trips most people up.

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  Monica (@hbda02) reported 21 minutes ago

  @lisaangeluk thought I’d mention I’ve just made an order, wouldn’t accept Apple Pay, card details and took me three attempts to pay by PayPal. Not sure if there’s an issue or this was a random failure. I tried three cards, both Apple Pay and by debit card and each one failed. Ta!

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  Wellnesskoenig (@binancechiller) reported 26 minutes ago

  @insomnia_vip All I scare is the refunds , actually also I had a lot of issues on sells on eBay also and still refund on PayPal via 180 days. But this is gold if u do it right probably and it work automation

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  Pasha (@pashapal) reported 27 minutes ago

  @esaagar Xcancel and nitter received cease and desist letters on 8/24 as well. Wonder if the PayPal mafia is shutting down the monopolized peasant internet before midterms: On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.

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  dani ★ comms open (@daniesstarr) reported 29 minutes ago

  my PayPal account got closed down for trying to verify my identity . what does one do now

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  Matt Zylbert (@MattZylbert) reported 29 minutes ago

  @gmille24 @yElff_ @BookitWithTrent "Helpful" as in its easier to deposit into accounts, my bank gives me issues with doing it directly and have to occasionally do thru Venmo/PayPal. Much much easier

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  brainshłt (@bot_shape) reported 32 minutes ago

  @BenDempsey18 @ChuckieBre @Acyn looking at elon's personal history he almost killed paypal by introducing a security error that let people steal money extremely easily, then his later business ventures were leveraged off his buyout and ability to raise venture capital through international connections

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  SentryX Recovery HQ ® (@SentryXRecovery) reported 33 minutes ago

  @TMThera Losing $3,000 through an account breach is bad enough without PayPal dismissing your claim. The payment timestamps, login activity, and case records may help establish what occurred and give you stronger evidence to challenge the outcome.

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  Supra | スープラ (@supurasensei) reported 33 minutes ago

  Just tried to help a friend get an Indian tourist visa and it was a proper nightmare. My friend is a Japanese national and has never had to apply for a visa for anywhere. The application form asks for all sorts of details, which was not too difficult to fill but in parts annoying. For example, it compulsorily asks for a person of contact in India and their address; how is a tourist who has never been to India supposed to have that? Luckily, I was able to provide a family member's details. But then it comes to the payment section (USD 25), the website only provides the following options: - SBI e-pay -PayPal -Axis Bank e-pay How on earth is someone supposed to know that choosing the e-pay options leads you to a page where you can pay by credit or debit card? Anyway, because I have helped people with this before, I advised her to choose the SBI e-pay option and she started entering her card details. Hit enter. Transaction failed. Strange, she said. It's a Visa and she's used it all over the world. Curiously, after a transaction fails, you still get a screen asking you to check transaction status but only AFTER 30 minutes. Going back simply brings you back to the same page. Kept getting an error. Tried two more times. Error. Tried another card. Another error. Exited and tried to get back to the payment screen from midway through the application and chose the Axis Bank gateway. Errors again on both cards. Another friend, from Hong Kong, volunteered to pay using her card. The first one received errors on both. Finally, on the eighth attempt, the friend's second card went through on the Axis Bank gateway. This entire process, that should have taken 15 minutes at most, ended up taking three hours. A foreigner with a genuine interest to visit the country, with tickets and accommodation booked already, needed multiple tries to book a simple e-visa, with four credit cards, all enabled for international use, that were declined regularly until one finally, randomly worked. If anyone in the Indian government is wondering why foreign tourism and Incredible India aren't exactly booming, they might want to consider this as a potential reason.

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  Fernanda (@andreaAn43499) reported 40 minutes ago

  To everyone asking for my PayPal or Cash App: STOP. Every single one of you turns out to be a scammer giving me false hope and vanishing. I’m tired of it. I’m tired of getting my hopes up just to be let down again. My only real donation link is my GoFundMe — it’s pinned and in my bio. No PayPal, no Cash App, nothing else. If you ask, I won’t reply. I just want real kindness, not more tricks. 💔

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  AD Sleazo AKA AD. (@adsleazo) reported 41 minutes ago

  @UDSupport paypal not working for withdrawals again

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  Liv’s Hub (Megs🩷) (@MyAngelLacy) reported 41 minutes ago

  @rays_in_bahrain Yeah I have gotten tickets from people on this app before and haven’t had any issues yet luckily!! paypal goods and services is the only way to go for this tho. It backs you up and will protect your money if you don’t get tickets. Anyone who doesn’t want to use it is 100% a scammer

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  🥢BANGTAN’sNIKKI⁷⊙⊝⊜ ⟭⟬ ⓈⒶⓌ ⒷⓉⓈ (@PrettiNikki1999) reported 41 minutes ago

  @RMMoonchild101 I need the PayPal information. I emailed the OP but haven’t gotten a response. I’m in the US so I’m not sure if that’s the issue. 🥺

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  AD Sleazo AKA AD. (@adsleazo) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Underdog @UDSupport Underdog doing that dumbass paypal glitch again.

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  Local China Man (@LocalChinaShop) reported 42 minutes ago

  STILL LOOKING FOR THAT INTERNET WIFE, PROBLEM IS THEY KEEP RUNNING AWAY. SEND ME YOUR PAYPAL IF YOU WANT SOME

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  Aadarsh (@aadarsh_nagrath) reported 46 minutes ago

  @jonathan_wilke Can go with PayPal as last resort not smooth but works. i faced such issue with a service. paypal worked.

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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 51 minutes ago

  Update: After my tweet, and after he tried to convince whoever commented on his post to side with him, I sent him a message. He replied with this, then stopped responding altogether. Today, he filed three more claims with @PayPal . I still can't use my account normally because of this situation, and he has simply gone silent. Honestly, I’m fed up; it’s exhausting, especially since I shouldn't even have to be wasting my time posting this or dealing with this issue in the first place

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  L0rdskywarp (@L0rdskywarppp) reported 59 minutes ago

  @tableminuszero PayPal, I do have Venmo aswell but I’d have to fish out my login

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  So Eungi (@so_eungi) reported 1 hour ago

  I still couldn’t get the ticket to Berlin 😭 I tried paying with different cards and through PayPal, and it just kept giving me an error every single time. Well… this is how I ****** UP 😭 What can I say…

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  ZiniHost 🧞 (@zinihost) reported 1 hour ago

  @PayPal @Venmo Can't login my account

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  TullyNotes (@fantony_francis) reported 1 hour ago

  @GeniusGTX Everybody says the same stupid things. Passion, strategy, edge... scale marketing Meanwhile, success sometimes comes down to simple luck, timing, or random events. Or buying 10 houses in NY back in 2015 This fat slob- an Epstein sleepover and Soros lover- lucked out by being with a much smarter Peter T. and sold PayPal to eBay for 1.5B. In 02. Once in a lifetime.

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  PT (@ptservlor) reported 1 hour ago

  ethereum:0x40e3d1a4b2c47d9aa61261f5606136ef73e28042 just slipped into the same room as Mastercard. Not a tweet. Not a rumor. @openservai announced it themselves. EPAA — the Emerging Payments Association of Asia — just welcomed $SERV as a member. The other members in that room? Mastercard. PayPal. HSBC. Here's where it gets interesting. Mastercard is building an agentic payments network. AI agents executing transactions autonomously, across 30+ card issuers, in a market projected to hit $5T by 2030. The thing they haven't solved? Every payment decision an AI agent makes needs to be traceable. Auditable. Defensible to regulators. You can't have a black box moving money at scale. That's not a nice-to-have. In banking, that's a legal requirement. SERV Reasoning Engine is specifically built for this problem. Every step, every decision — logged, replayable, defensible. It's a one-line integration on top of any existing AI stack. No formal partnership announced. But Mastercard is now in the same industry body as the one team that solved their biggest AI infrastructure problem. Dots exist to be connected. $SERV

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  Matt Zylbert (@MattZylbert) reported 1 hour ago

  @xFlyGod @yElff_ @BookitWithTrent It's to deposit into betting accounts bud, bank gives me issues and I sometimes have to use venmo/paypal