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 (35%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bayeux	Website Down	20 hours ago
Franconville	Errors	2 days ago
Fréjus	Website Down	3 days ago
Feira de Santana	Errors	4 days ago
Berlin	Sign in	4 days ago
Palermo	Errors	5 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 4 minutes ago

  PayPal's real product in its early years wasn't payments. It was survival. The company was building something that regulators, banks and its own biggest platform had no category for. Stefan Heck: "It was a true disruption of a very established, very regulated industry, right? Payments, banking… and they were doing things that didn't fit an existing category." Not fitting a category meant almost everyone with power over PayPal had a reason to switch it off. Reid Hoffman, who became Peter Thiel's firefighter chief, describes the job he was handed: "Make sure eBay doesn't drive us off the service. Make sure Visa doesn't shut us down. Persuade the federal government that it's okay that we're not a bank." Nancy Lublin on the person they sent to handle it: "He was the wolf. I mean, he was the fixer." John Lilly remembers how routine the existential threats became: "I remember we had breakfast one time. He said, 'I have to leave at 8:30 because I got to get on the plane to New York to go talk to Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, who's suing PayPal for basically anti-money laundering type things.' And he's like, 'I just got to go fix this and here's how I'm going to fix it because New York was convinced that PayPal is being used for gambling, all sorts of other things at the time.'" There was no playbook, because the category didn't exist yet. So the company argued from first principles: "It was fun because part of what ends up happening is you say, 'All right, well, what's a bank? Like, what defines a bank? How do I persuade them? I've never talked to a regulator before. All right, let me go figure out how this looks.'" While all this was happening, PayPal was outgrowing its own ability to operate. June Cohen: "Their customer numbers had grown so exponentially that they could not keep up with customer service and they actually just made the decision that that was a fire they weren't going to fight at that moment." That was a decision, not a failure. The company sorted its problems by one test: "There was a whole set of fires at PayPal where if you didn't solve them, value of the company zero, out of business." John Lilly on how that worked in practice: "Here's the one, two, three top priorities. Everything else I'm not going to worry about right now because if I get these three things right, everything else will be okay." The fire that passed the test was eBay: "If eBay had turned us off, if we were no longer to operate on eBay, no initial users, no traction, no network effect, no ability to grow." And eBay had every incentive to do exactly that. John Lilly: "eBay had its own payment system that was competing with PayPal. PayPal was winning. And so I think those got very complicated and eBay very much didn't want to have to buy PayPal and eventually they felt like they had to." That's the ending. PayPal survived on someone else's platform long enough to become the thing that platform had no choice but to acquire. A reporter at the time: "We know these guys very well obviously because so much of their business is in fact on eBay. The synergies of putting these two companies together were incredibly outstanding and it just seemed like the right time to get this deal done." PayPal didn't win by solving its problems. It won by correctly ranking them and letting the rest burn.

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  ***** Indy 🟥🟧🟨 (@cobracommanduhr) reported 7 minutes ago

  There seems to be a database issue inside @PayPal users see there first name being different than their own when an order purchase attempt is made on 3rd party website and a shopper selected PayPal to pay method C O N T R A \ L S research 🇺🇸

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  A (@AJBko) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Xoom Hi, I need help with a card verification issue. PayPal has confirmed my Mastercard was successfully updated and is valid, but Xoom still says it can’t verify the card. Could you please help? Thank you!

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  mel (@popodysseytour) reported 8 minutes ago

  @cccatalina_ dw i figured once i got the whole spiel about their paypal not working lol

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  otani x risa (@dailylovecom) reported 8 minutes ago

  Hi everyone! unfortunately I’m going through some financial difficulties due to personal issues and am struggling to make ends meet. bc of this I’m reaching out to ask for your help. If you have some spare cash and would like to assist me, I’m leaving my PayPal and Pix details 👇

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  Kaelix in Bloom (🇸🇬 cafe event) (@KaelixInBloom) reported 12 minutes ago

  it seems there were some issues with payment and order calculations on the international form previously, but everything should now be running smoothly! you can now check out using PayPal or a debit/credit card. thank you so much for your patience and support! 🌻💛

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  🔞🦇𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐳𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐳🐈‍⬛🔞 Hiatus (@batz_catz) reported 16 minutes ago

  Ok I’m a little calmed down now I’ve gotten reassurance that it’s alright if I propose the idea of taking donations. No one should feel pressured to help at all, but my cashapp and PayPal are in my bio. I am going to try all the advice you guys are giving. I’m not sure if this is even the full bill though 🥀

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  ericthepoet (@ericbundipoet) reported 20 minutes ago

  @PayPal I transfered money from PayPal to Mpesa on Thursday 27th August, the money was deducted from PayPal but never hit my Mpesa. The status of the transaction is marked as complete. I need some assistance and escalation of that issue.

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  Ontario Frugal | Faith & Strategy (@OntarioFrugal) reported 21 minutes ago

  @losinghopein @PayPal @AskPayPal I had a crazy problem a bit like this when I tested the Bree app.They weren't supposed to take their payment until my pension came in - the crazy app took it 2 weeks early!

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  Odogwu Herself (@IdaraImeh) reported 23 minutes ago

  Look at the timeline and something clicks. May 2025, Coinbase drops x402 so agents can pay per request. September 2025, Google launches AP2 with over 60 partners including Mastercard and PayPal. January 2026, ERC-8004 hits Ethereum mainnet, almost 39,000 agents register in 90 days. May 2026, @Concordium’s Agent Registry goes live. June 2026, Proof introduces x401 to handle identity proof. That's five major pieces of agent infrastructure landing across just over a year, and the gaps between them keep shrinking. Payment, identity proof, runtime management, persistent registry, verified human anchor, each one built by a different team without waiting for the others to finish first. Nobody planned one unified system. It's assembling itself in public, piece by piece, weeks apart instead of years apart. That pace alone tells you something about how seriously the industry is taking this problem right now.

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  Solemn Bhoi (@waseemm09) reported 23 minutes ago

  Hey @PayPal @AskPayPal @PayPal_Open plz Check Dispute: PP-R-RQN-642414527. You didn't solve after giving proffs & you just skip solution date 31 Aug. To 09 sep. Why bro? Plz solve the issue ASAP from your side.

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 23 minutes ago

  @verstarppens they're trying to shut down the donations system (attempting to report to paypal and other portals that AO3 accepts donations from about the "depraved works" hosted by the website)

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  ˚ʚ♡ Euphoria Li ♡ɞ˚ 🦋🌙🏮 (@Euphoria_LiVT) reported 30 minutes ago

  @JimManahan Receiving payments restricts your account. If you use PayPal for purchases meaning money going out from your linked cards, then there's no problem. Receiving payments from clients is a different discussion, especially when your account is new.

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  Mimi (@mimicomments) reported 30 minutes ago

  @DrewPavlou Perhaps you could set up something simple like a buy me a coffee or paypal me link so people can support you directly. The Flynn issue seems hopeless for now. I hope that can eventually get resolves but seems you need to have a way for people to support you in general:

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  Bill |-/ semi hiatus era (@hyxnbi) reported 33 minutes ago

  my new paypal account got blocked again omggggg what’s their problem

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  GOAT (@GOAT72573384663) reported 35 minutes ago

  @fewchuree Bro, would you tell me how your mpesa PayPal withdrawal issue was resolved. I made withdrawal on Friday, my paypal is 0.00 bal. Yet I didn't get money in my mpesa.

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  Glorious God (@GloriousGod01) reported 35 minutes ago

  HOW TO CREATE AND SELL AN EBOOK IN NIGERIA You do not need to be a professional writer to create an ebook. You just need to know something useful that other people want to learn. Here is the full process from idea to income: - Step 1: Pick a topic that solves a specific problem: The more specific your topic, the better it sells. "How to Register a Business Name with CAC in 2026" will outsell "How to Start a Business in Nigeria" every time. Think about what people ask you frequently, what you know well, or what you spent time learning that others would pay to skip. - Step 2: Write it: Use Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Write in simple, clear language. It does not need to be long. A 20 to 50 page ebook that solves one specific problem is more valuable than a 200 page ebook that rambles. Write like you are explaining to a friend. - Step 3: Design the cover: Go to Canva (canva. com) and search for ebook cover templates. Pick one, add your title and name, and download it. Free and takes less than 10 minutes. - Step 4: Convert to PDF: Once your ebook is ready in Word or Google Docs, export it as a PDF. That is the format you will sell. Go to File, then Download, then PDF Document. - Step 5: Upload and sell on Selar Go to selar. co and create a free seller account. Click Add Product, choose Digital Product, upload your PDF, write a clear description, set your price in naira or dollars, and publish. Selar handles payment collection and delivers the ebook automatically to your buyer. Payouts land in your Nigerian bank account the next business day for naira sales. You can also sell on Gumroad (gumroad. com) which takes a flat 10 percent per sale and pays via PayPal. Most Nigerian sellers access their Gumroad earnings through Payoneer. - Step 6: Promote it Share your Selar link on your WhatsApp status, X, Instagram, and any group you belong to. Your first sale almost always comes from people who already know and trust you. Offer a launch discount to create urgency and ask a few people to share your link as affiliates. Selar has a built-in affiliate feature you can activate for free. You do not need a large following. Nigerian creators with 500 engaged WhatsApp contacts consistently earn more than those with 50,000 cold social media followers. Create once. Sell forever. Start today. Above all, love God.

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  세카르 | Sekhar (@D_Sekhar_14) reported 38 minutes ago

  I was invited to a server on Discord that I knew absolutely nothing about. The server is called 'Eboost', and it sells things like Discord Nitro, skins and in-game items. I’ve already purchased a one-year subscription to Discord Nitro, and as all payments are made via PayPal, it’s a server I have no use for. However, one day, the Eboost server was suddenly reported to Discord on suspicion of ‘fraud’, and my account was temporarily suspended simply because I had inadvertently joined that server. How am I to be compensated for the damage caused—such as the suspension and the flags attached to my account—by the server owner’s negligence on a server where I wasn’t even active? I’ve lodged an appeal, but Discord simply keeps repeating the same 'AI-automated-macro' response. And this isn’t the first time this has happened. Are people really expected to use Discord whilst factoring in the probability that a server owner might cause problems? It’s utterly unfair. 😡😡 @discord @discord_support @DiscordBuild

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  Bern (@Bernman2004) reported 39 minutes ago

  You paypal link is broken @Autumnvz8

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  Aditya Warman (@warmanadit_) reported 40 minutes ago

  Night, Everyone!🚇 stable-2:native I've been digging into Stable's team and honestly? I'm conflicted. The CTO is Sam Kazemian who built Frax Finance to $1.4B. Huge credibility. Tether's CEO is advising. PayPal invested. But here's what nobody's talking about: the founder Joshua Harding quietly stepped down as CEO with zero public announcement. Brian Mehler took over silently. And apparently whales deposited USDT before the official window opened. That's insider-trading territory. They have a grant program but zero named dApps. I'm watching closely but not trusting blindly yet. Tag a friend who researches teams before investing.

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  Aquila (@LeoAquila_) reported 40 minutes ago

  @TheRealCalvin19 @WhisperMute First I gotta fix my paypal, which is hard because paypal sucks 🙃

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  Heath Castor (@HeathCastor) reported 42 minutes ago

  Dear @PayPal I changed my street address two years ago (almost) and tha ks to your system not working properly I’m out $40+ shipping for a purchase I made from a friend’s shop as your system went back to my old address and I also haven’t gotten my replacement debit card…

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  RINGO🔞 (@ringo6678) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Saviourofman1 I'm not very comfortable using PayPal because there are several issues on my end.😥

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  GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) reported 46 minutes ago

  @JKhrushche10538 @linuxuser1996 We already provided a clear solution for the bug recently introduced by PayPal above. If you don't tell us what isn't working then there's no way for us to directly help with it. We can only guess what you're trying to do and what's not set up properly to cause an issue.

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  What makes you fail everything in one night (@Sigloland) reported 47 minutes ago

  PayPal, acquisition plan down, there is one way-out for paypal which can save its business.

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  HypaValley | Algorithmic Trading (@HypaValley) reported 48 minutes ago

  PYPL -14% over two sessions as Stripe/Advent walk away from $53B bid PayPal fell 12.71% on Friday, Aug. 28, when the walkaway news broke, then another 1.85% on Monday, Aug. 31. Cumulatively, that’s roughly 14.3% from Thursday’s close through Monday’s close as Bloomberg News reported that payment processor Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have abandoned their planned $53 billion acquisition of the fintech giant. Stripe and Advent had previously offered $60.50 per share; talks broke down after the bidders and PayPal's board failed to agree on a higher valuation. The collapse leaves PayPal to pursue an independent turnaround under new CEO Enrique Lores amid intensifying competition from digital payment platforms and slower organic growth. The drop erases months of deal-related gains and forces investors to reassess PayPal's standalone operational progress and profitability outlook. Two investment banks have slashed price targets in response, with Mizuho cutting its target to $51 and Loop Capital to $50, both citing competitive pressures and execution risk. Investors should monitor whether PayPal management explores alternative strategic options or accelerates its cost restructuring to restore investor confidence. #PYPL

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  Rahasya (@sw_rahasya) reported 51 minutes ago

  @goddek @RepThomasMassie @mandyarthur A bit of a bummer for me that paypal locked me out of my account because I cant produce 3 month-old documentation for services on land that gets absolutely no services … not sure how to fix that 🤔

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  Moshe Klein (@KleinMoshe) reported 55 minutes ago

  @PayPal I have a problem with my account where payments I send get reversed every couple of days for absolutely zero reason. Frustrating isn’t the word. And speaking to overseas CSR is getting absolutely nowhere.

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  Chaos🔞Comms Open (@ChaosReverb) reported 60 minutes ago

  @Aerea_caeles If you're referring to what happened to what happens around February when my PayPal account was stolen by my ex-bestfriend, I asked the clients to please request refunds from PayPal immediately several times because I never had access to that account again. I explained the topic in detail here and on Instagram. Some people completed the process and received their money back without any problems. There were 2 people who had problems with their banks, one ghosted me when I tried to explain to the that they should insist with PayPal, another commission never responded to my progress reports, and another asked me to do their commission because I think the bank didn't want to give them their money back and I did it without any problem ª In fact, I still have the records.

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  Alfredo Garza (@Alfredo32419283) reported 1 hour ago

  @joeroganhq So Elon created PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, purchased Twitter and became the world's first trillionaire... ...only to be called a "really broken person" by a crack fiend. **** is WILD in 2026!