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 (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Berlin	Sign in	23 hours ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	1 day ago
Nantes	Errors	1 day ago
Vícar	Errors	1 day ago
Étauliers	Errors	1 day ago
Onnion	Website Down	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

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  Alex (@obchakevich_) reported 3 minutes ago

  The $33 trillion asterisk Nobody fact-checks a bullish headline. A few months ago I wrote that stablecoins had surpassed ACH in monthly settlement volume, and the line did exactly what lines like that do - it traveled. It is also true, which is the dangerous part. True statements with a narrow frame are how entire markets talk themselves into conclusions the data doesn't support. So consider this essay the correction I owe my own chart. The annual picture Zoom out from one good month to the full year and the picture rearranges itself. On an annual basis for 2025, stablecoins settled roughly $33 trillion. ACH settled $89 trillion. SEPA, by my full-year projection built on available ECB data and historical growth trends, reached about $259 trillion - a figure so large it makes the rest of the chart look like rounding error. This is the trouble with absorbed narratives. The monthly comparison was real, but it captured a moment, not a structure. Structurally, the plumbing of the developed world still runs through bank rails that most crypto commentary has never bothered to size. SEPA alone moves nearly eight times what all stablecoins combined moved last year. You cannot claim to be replacing a system you are still an order of magnitude away from matching. What the $33 trillion actually is The honest cut goes deeper. That $33 trillion headline number is settlement volume - every transfer that touched a chain, including exchange flows, market-making, arbitrage loops, and the same dollar bouncing between wallets five times before lunch. Strip that out and ask a narrower question: how much of this is actual payments, someone paying someone for something? The answer hovers around $250 billion. Not trillion. Billion. Against ACH or SEPA, that is not a competitor, it is a rounding error on a rounding error. It is also, and this matters, exactly what an early-stage payment system looks like. Card networks in their first decade were a curiosity too. The gap between headline volume and organic payment volume is not a scandal - it is a measure of how young this market still is, and anyone quoting the big number without the small one is selling you something. Where the comparison flips None of this means the bearish frame wins. Run the comparison against the systems stablecoins most resemble - consumer and commercial payment networks rather than interbank plumbing - and the result is startling. Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and PayPal together settled about $30.5 trillion in 2025. Stablecoins did $33 trillion. Four decades of card network infrastructure, hundreds of millions of terminals, the most entrenched consumer habits in finance - and a technology that barely existed ten years ago now moves more value annually than all of them combined. Yes, the volume is a different kind of volume. But the rails are real, the settlement is final, and the growth curve has not flattened once. The long game So both things are true at once, and the discipline is holding them together. Stablecoins lag ACH and SEPA by multiples on annual volume, and their organic payment activity is still in its infancy. Stablecoins also already out-settle the entire card network complex, on infrastructure that gets cheaper and faster every year while bank rails get committee meetings. Growth compounds quietly and then all at once. The monthly ACH crossover that started this essay was not the finish line I framed it as - it was an early data point on a curve that keeps bending the same direction. The future of stablecoins is not a prediction anymore. It is a volume chart, updating year after year, and the only real question left is how long the asterisks stay attached.

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  Todd | Saudi Money (@ToddSaudiMoney) reported 3 minutes ago

  Stripe shut down my friend's account at $47K revenue IRS flagged another one for "suspicious patterns" at $80K PayPal froze $12K for 6 months with zero explanation Meanwhile I just cleared $90K commission on a single gold shipment No platform risk No freeze threats Bank-to-bank wire transfers only The system doesn't care how much you make when you're moving real commodities between verified entities Like, RT & comment "WIRE" for the guide (must be following)

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  Sindermann (@0xSindermann) reported 5 minutes ago

  Kelp exploit obviously threw a wrench into any thesis anyone could have about $ZRO and their Zero blockchain, but ultimately, with how much down only the token has been lately, we are, imo, approaching a zone where r/r becomes interesting. While generally speaking, Relay continues to eat the share of traditional bridges (you don't even need to look at data - anyone who bridged around lately would notice how often it's the best option), LZ does maintain a moat around USDT bridging + other stablecoin partners (Paxos, PayPal) + RWAs with Ondo. Their bets on being the primary bridge for the emerging chains (Berachain in the past, MegaETH more recently) also clearly didn't play out, but at least they continue to be able to secure these deals. Also, while I continue to find the inability for LZ to pass the fee switch proposal absolutely hilarious (June's proposal got <3% of the quorum needed kekw), it's one of the few tokens left in DeFi/crypto where tokenomics kind of sort of make sense and accrue some value back to holders. Admittedly, the bar is incredibly low, but hey, if we were to get the DeFi resurgence in one form or another (maybe fueled by the Clarity Act, maybe by all the RWAs), that's got to be worth something.

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  HiStory1 (@HiStory155977) reported 11 minutes ago

  if you have a @PayPal account you need to destroy it cancel it close it lock it down every time I turn around I'm seeing emails that so-and-so has authorized a certain amount to be taken out of my account I don't have that much money in that account so they don't get it but

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  Sharkbyte (@sharkbyte1k) reported 11 minutes ago

  Because original article is down. summary: 1. 2014 Icahn pushes for separation of paypal from ebay 2014. Board rejects, later settles proxy fight, spins off paypal. 2. 2019 Elliot/Starboard pushes for spinoff of stubhub/classifieds. ebay resisted, later sells both, CEO departs.

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  🏴‍☠️Captain Ambrosfox🏴‍☠️ |EN Vtuber| 🇺🇸 🇮🇱✝ (@Ambrosfox) reported 14 minutes ago

  @wearysoles1776 Back when i was on vrchat and had first started streaming i tried to get a 3d model done to use as a vtube and vrchat model, someone said they could make me one for 400$ i put 200 down and everything about them vanished. even paypal didnt show anything.

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  Wayne Jones (@forestknights) reported 15 minutes ago

  @PayPal your business customer service is terrible. Another failed transaction through your payment system. £300 lost and you couldn’t give a fig.

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  Ebin Memes22 (@EbinMemes22) reported 15 minutes ago

  @ItsLulu_7 you can talk to anyone on earth in as near to real time as physics can currently take us, obesity and laziness are magnitudes more of a problem than starvation , with paypal you can pay for things in a couple of clicks and with amazon they can arrive at your home the next day.

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 16 minutes ago

  wts wtr nct 127 membership for the redline in Seoul ✨ 100k idr | 6 usd 🌷 accept: paypal, wise, qris, Ina bank ✨ weverse login access available: ✅✅❌❌ 💌 DM me if you're interested! t. wts wtb rent membership nct 127 seoul the redline

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  amani ༊*·˚ (@gonnaendintears) reported 19 minutes ago

  @liestogirls i’ve ordered a vinyl from discogs!! i didn’t have any issues with it or anything and i used paypal g&s for security and stuff

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  ThanksForTheMemeries (@The_Memeries) reported 23 minutes ago

  @LibertarianG0th Its sort of like paypal and cashapp and such. Its banking built into X. Is it good? Dunno. I have issues with tying finances to something where they can nuke my account if I'm unpopular with enough people.

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  marqix ☆ (@fwmarqix) reported 29 minutes ago

  My son confessed to me that he's been catfishing his boss for the past eight months, and the whole thing has spiraled completely out of control. According to him, his boss is an awful manager that everyone at work hates. Hoping to expose him, my son created a fake Instagram account posing as an attractive woman, believing it wouldn't take much to get his boss to say something that could get him fired. It worked almost immediately. For months, his boss messaged the fake account constantly. He complained about work, trashed his wife, and revealed what my son described as his true personality. Everything seemed to be going according to plan until last month, when the fake woman mentioned she was struggling financially. Without hesitation, his boss sent her $5,000. A week later, he sent another $3,000. By now, my son says the total has reached $12,000. The situation became even worse when my son discovered that the money wasn't coming from his boss's personal funds. After seeing company expense reports, he realized his boss had allegedly been disguising the payments as "consulting fees," effectively embezzling money from the company to send to someone who doesn't even exist. Now my son is trapped in a mess of his own making. If he reports his boss, he'll have to admit that he was the person behind the fake Instagram account, which could land him in serious legal or professional trouble. If he stays quiet, his boss continues stealing from the company unchecked. To make matters worse, my son says the money is sitting in a PayPal account linked to the fake identity. He can't access or return it without exposing himself, and he feels guilty because, even though his original goal was to expose a terrible boss, he believes he's now played a role in taking $12,000. What started as an attempt to play vigilante has turned into a complicated situation with legal, ethical, and professional consequences that he never saw coming.

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  Adam Cooper (@AJ_Cooper95) reported 29 minutes ago

  @YouWhat112 @pokemondealsuk Yep still won’t let me order even normal things. Even PayPal brings up the error. Quite possibly the worst time for this to happen as I think it’ll mean we miss every 30th drop until something happens. 😔

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  Tidal Lion (@TidalWavesLion) reported 30 minutes ago

  Autoclosed by support, and now you're giving me warnings for asking PayPal to assist? I'm willing to close the case with PayPal but please, refund the unordered server boosts. This is unreasonable at this point.

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  Kiri (@_Kirichu_) reported 31 minutes ago

  @talim_stuff Omgg terrible time to only have access to PayPal... 😭 This is SO cute

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  Beyres (@Beyrestt) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care paypal to mpesa is still not working, please solve it

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  IVY ♱ DM for Tarot (@lovewitchivy) reported 33 minutes ago

  Now that kofi is not working for some people, I will be attending with tarot via PayPal for these days until I find a better platform 🤍🥹

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  Milos (@CROguy_) reported 34 minutes ago

  Got traffic that's ready to buy? Get out of their way. Test express checkout buttons right on the product page. We got a $12k difference here with that change. High-intent traffic isn't shopping around - they've decided. Every tap between "I want this" and "here's my card" is a tap you can lose them on. Shop Pay / PayPal / Apple Pay under the buy box 👉 straight to payment, skip the cart. PayPal especially prints here. People trust it and check out without a second thought. Don't slow down someone who's already sold.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 34 minutes ago

  That night, he sat at his laptop and looked at his PayPal account as if for the first time. Two-factor authentication was on. The mystery $2.49 subscription was cancelled and disputed. The unauthorized login session was terminated. His old bank accounts were removed. His data was no longer being shared with advertisers. His primary payment method was now a credit card with fraud protection. And he finally understood the one rule that would've saved him $180 never pay a stranger with Friends and Family. Same PayPal account. Same platform he'd used since college. But for 9 years, he'd been running the financial equivalent of an unlocked house with the windows open. PayPal is one of the most powerful payment tools on the planet. But it's also one of the most abused not because the platform is unsafe, but because 90% of users never open Settings, never audit their automatic payments, and never learn the one rule that separates a protected transaction from an unrecoverable loss. 9 settings. 12 minutes. And an account that finally works for you instead of against you. Save this thread. Share it with someone who hasn't opened their PayPal Settings since the day they signed up.

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  Streamline (@streamlinehq_) reported 34 minutes ago

  Josh peck compares the difference between making money as an actor and an influencer “When I was 15 years old and started making money on Drake and Josh, I was like this gives me a lot of power and it gave me a lot of security and I was like I will do everything in my power to provide for the rest of my life” “ it was a terrible feeling as a little kid, I saw my mom struggle but I couldn’t do anything” “but when I started social media it was the first time that I was like able to do a job and work at something and make money pretty instantaneously” “In 2014, I had gotten really big on VINE, I was the number 1 person on vine and I remember it was July of 2014, I got the brand deal with this darting company called BADOO and they were like we will give you $5000 to make a VINE they were like we will PayPal you” “They were in Europe I was like they will probably not turn out, and I said worst case scenario I spend an hour making this video and they don’t send me the money and I will take it down, then it hit then within that month I made like $20,000”

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  MHINBRON (@colorgravemhin) reported 36 minutes ago

  ✨Be a gamer✨ Join a dev server to demand rebindable controls because your S key is broken. "Use arrows." No I won't enjoy that. "I'll Paypal you money for a new keyboard." No it's OK. Money is tight and I won't enjoy it anyway. I'll just refund.

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  Vee Brown (@Vizzle14rud) reported 36 minutes ago

  @PayPal please what is going on .. Your website is down or is it just me ? ..

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  Coco Colour ★ Live2D Artist (@Colour_awr) reported 37 minutes ago

  @_VGen_ @PayPal WE ARE DEBT FREE NOW GUYS Turns out it was a bank problem T_T i panic and im embarrassed now sorry for making everyone worry

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  ayla 🦴🦈 leopard shark vtuber (@aylattv) reported 43 minutes ago

  dealt with this and i refuse to do it again. no more “please update me soon” — im just going to immediately charge back to paypal/vgen/whatever and get my money back after i don’t hear from you for weeks. i should not have to threaten you to get what i paid for. i’m done being stepped on and ignored by people i gave hundreds of dollars. stand up for yourselves when dealing with artists who lack communication and decency. this screenshot was after being lied to for MONTHS, constant deadline changes, and broken promises. the chargeback period had already passed, and i was completely fed up. this was a huge factor in my rebrand. no i’m not censoring the name of the artist. people need to be aware, and call out behavior like this more often. stay safe yall.

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 46 minutes ago

  wts wtr nct 127 membership for the redline in Seoul ✨ 100k idr | 6 usd 🌷 accept: paypal, wise, qris, Ina bank ✨ weverse login access available: ✅❌❌❌ 💌 DM me if you're interested! t. wts wtb rent membership nct 127 seoul the redline

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  Trove Finance (@trovefinance) reported 52 minutes ago

  Why consider selling? Intense competition from Apple Pay, Block, Affirm, Klarna, Stripe & more. PayPal stock is down 18% YTD and 35% from last year. Nothing confirmed yet.

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  بادجات تويتش 💜 (@twitchksa) reported 54 minutes ago

  I have a big problem with my Paypal account please contact me @PayPal

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  Nikita (@nikita_builds) reported 54 minutes ago

  In 2020, I was sharing an apartment in San Jose with a guy who was absolutely feverish about starting companies. We were both at PayPal. We'd read Tim Ferriss's Four-Hour Work Week, and we spent every weekend learning React and putting things on the internet to see what would happen. That same year, I figured out you could jailbreak a phone, write a LUA script, and simulate taps on the screen to send iMessages automatically. A few people started paying me for it, and that became Blue Text, which eventually became @sendbluehq. But then I spent the next three years trying not to build Sendblue. I didn't stop working on it. I just kept finding new things to start instead. It was a classic case of shiny object syndrome. There was Figment, a Figma-to-website engine I poured real time into. A crypto project from 2022 to 2024, and probably twenty other ideas before and after those, most of which failed. Every time I started something new, I told myself it was adjacent, complementary, worth the detour. None of them were. Sendblue was growing through all of it. Customers were paying. The phone farm I'd built from one jailbroken iPhone 6 in my parents' closet had scaled into clusters across Manhattan and Brooklyn, and we'd figured out issues that no one online had solved before, at least not in the US. The product had a real moat, but I kept looking over my shoulder at everything else. It's so easy to spot our mistakes in hindsight. If you have a real winner, triple down on it. Don't get sucked into something else because hitting a home run doesn't happen all that often. Take it from me.

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  Aras (@MustaAras) reported 57 minutes ago

  Let me be honest, i kind of like Afternic's user dashboard (or got used to it) decided to change the dashboard on DomainLiq in that perspective. i am sure existing users will not have difficulty to adapt it. Now its much easier to do bulk operations. During this 2 days you might encounter some errors/sitedowns it's because of i keep editing/changing. I also want to be clear, i've created DomainLiq to liquidate my own portfolio, it was a personal need, these days you might see i am actively using it because that was my ultimate intention. Until now i didn't make any penny from other users because it wasn't my core intention. Yes i am providing free usage of the platform but honestly if you can connect your stripe and usdc (crypto wallet) sell your domains under domainliq's escrow system there is a platform fee for over $50 transactions (%5) for below $50 there is a flat $2 fee. This fee is because i'm providing sellers a secure escrow system. On the other hand i still provide transfer service for your free Paypal and Wise transactions (this is totally between sellers and buyers) i highly dont recommend you to buy a domain from a seller that you dont know. Some sellers proven themselves and they granted "trusted seller" badge. if a domain couldnt get verified that domain cant get a payment method, this is the least i can do the protect the both sides. if you are using or willing to use the platform you are more than welcome to DM me for your concerns, suggestions and feedback. You may not like me, which is normal but i ensure this "DomainLiq" is something you will like if you start to use. Already so many sellers experienced sales and keep using this makes me proud of what i've created. The support of @uzakyolkaptani is very important, he is an experienced website designer, his suggestions and feedbacks moved me this far. one special thanks to @Name__Groove his productive feedback woken me up for to distinguish between liquidation and retail sales. i will not use ai to correct the grammar, **** it ! Best of luck to builders who are building useful stuff to be helpful for the domain community to grow. Cheers

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  Henry Hankster (@BurstIsMildlyOk) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Juliisuyy Im very sorry to hear about your PayPal, I was hoping to commission you soon! I unfortunately don’t know what to do to help, as I’m not familiar with issues like this with the service 😔 I hope the solution gets solved soon 🙏