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 (41%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Sevilla	Errors	9 hours ago
Rome	Errors	11 hours ago
Isola Maggiore	Errors	1 day ago
Schmallenberg	Errors	2 days ago
Berlin	Sign in	7 days ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	7 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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  Fulbau Pantera (@fulbau) reported 2 minutes ago

  @NamesakeGeodite if you're keeping that much money in your paypal account trying to use it as a bank account, that's just skill issue. You played yourself.

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  Jes (@luma_bite) reported 11 minutes ago

  @dearpetangel When I first started PayPal my funds were limited and held, but after they confirmed I was legit and not a scammer, after like.. a year? they got rid of the hold thing and I never had a problem since. (Used it for 12+ years)

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 12 minutes ago

  You spent $2,000 on a MacBook Pro for a new hire. Then $180 a year on the Microsoft 365 seat, $60 on Adobe, $144 on Slack, $240 on Zoom. All assigned to one laptop, one employee, one desk. Then your CFO asked how many of the 400 laptops in this company are actually being used, and by whom. You opened the Google Sheet. Half the rows were blank. Employees who left six months ago still had assets assigned. So IT called ServiceNow. ITAM Standard is $100 per user per month. Professional $150. Enterprise $200+. The median ServiceNow contract on Vendr is $124,364 a year. Implementation runs three to five times the license fee. Then IT called Lansweeper. $239 a month for 2,000 assets. Then IT called Freshservice. $19 per agent, then metered on every asset over 500. You are paying six figures a year to answer "who has laptop DELL-4471" in 2026. Now meet Snipe-IT. A free and open source IT asset management platform that runs on your own server and tracks every laptop, phone, license, and cable your company owns. No cloud. No agents. No per-seat fee. Built in 2013 by a developer named Alison Gianotto who was the CTO of a New York City ad agency when the office had to move. Her team was tracking hundreds of laptops in a Google Doc. She tried every commercial and open source tool. None of them worked. So she wrote her own. When she finished the first full inventory, she discovered the agency was missing $25,000 in assets. Her husband nagged her for months to add a PayPal button. She finally did it. Two days later she had a paying customer. Snipe-IT itself stayed free. 14,113 stars. 3,886 forks. AGPL-3.0. Pushed to the repo today. Here is what Snipe-IT gives you: - Track every laptop, phone, monitor, cable, and accessory in one place - Assign assets to users, departments, or locations with full history - Software license management with seat tracking and expiration alerts - Barcode and QR code generation for physical labels - Custom fields, statuses, and categories - LDAP, SAML, and Google Workspace SSO - REST API for every endpoint - Runs on any Linux box, Docker, or a $5 VPS Here is what Snipe-IT costs: Zero. Forever. No per-user fee. No asset cap. ServiceNow charges $100 per user per month. Snipe-IT doesn't. Lansweeper charges $239 a month for 2,000 assets. Snipe-IT doesn't. Freshservice meters every asset over 500. Snipe-IT doesn't. Ivanti and Flexera hide their pricing behind a sales call. Snipe-IT doesn't. Here's the wildest part: Snipe-IT is used by Sony, Yale University, Fujitsu, and thousands of school districts, hospitals, and government agencies that couldn't stomach a $124,000 ServiceNow bill. Alison's official title at Grokability is Chief Mohawk Officer. For a 50-person IT team, you save $60,000 a year. For a 500-person company, you save $600,000 a year. Your assets. Your database. Your server. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

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  Forrest Berg (@Forrest_Berg) reported 14 minutes ago

  @KnowingBetterYT PayPal forced it! Wasn’t optional on the PC login

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  WeirdPopeArts (@PopeWeird) reported 16 minutes ago

  @bubblegum711971 Eitherway, I'd be careful I've never had issues using PayPal, but then I'm very careful and paranoid about this sort of thing :V

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  ✯ PESSI ✯ (@plastiktubes) reported 16 minutes ago

  does anybody else have issues with paypal not letting them deposit to a bank account with money on a business profile or does mine just hate me

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  Light Artist - COMM CLOSE (@Light_artist) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Zmeinir @ScruffyTurtles That said, I’ve never sent artwork via PayPal (out of pure ignorance); I send it by email or via a temporary link, especially if it involves N5FW or saucy illustration, since Google can be triggered just like PayPal and shut down your email account.

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  el niñopis 🧉 (luis) COMMS OPEN (@silylittleguy) reported 17 minutes ago

  ummmm paypal sent me an email saying my account is no longer deactivated just kinda limited, but when I try to get on the app it still says my account is permanently deactivated and treats me like it is.. Is this just a bug? is the app slow? should I get worried now or wait a bit

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  Tara St. Michel ♪ (@TaraStMichel) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Elidyss Taxes and business license are separate things. You can file taxes as a freelance professional operating under your own name legally without a license. Problem is will PayPal accept your documentation & if you’re in your first year what do you do if you won’t get that until 2027

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  🐺 Athena 🐺 HATSUKOI nov 14/15 mesa 102! 🐾 (@HungryAthena) reported 19 minutes ago

  @mylifeisan3Rr0r Some people that have had this problem have tried on another device and it usually solves it! I would try making Paypal account if that doesn't work

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  🇵🇪 Andino Skb 🎉 COMMS OPEN (3/10) 🎊 (@Andino_SKB) reported 19 minutes ago

  @fsonic3 I've been using PayPal for 10 years, and I pay every tax and transaction they require. The common problem or pattern I see in every post, Reddit thread, etc., is the indiscriminate use of AI moderation.

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  levi-holic (@amjustlevi04) reported 20 minutes ago

  I never had a problem with Paypal ever since I started using it since 2023, so I don't know why these artists are experiencing these kinds of problems. I just send invoice with TOS and detailed information, get paid, and that's it.

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  seele 𖹭 gi + hsr pilot | 23 proof! 𖹭 (@eclipsed_wingss) reported 22 minutes ago

  And this is exactly why I'm terrified to use PayPal 😭 I feel like those who wish to commission people outside of the US and Europe, should just be using Wise instead as form of payment, personally I haven't seen anyone got into any issues with Wise..??

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  nico ♡ (@myokogu) reported 23 minutes ago

  please stop using paypal as a bank or switch to a business acc. we run into this issue every month.

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  Philip Peake (@PhilipPeake) reported 27 minutes ago

  I have a website for CHL training for Oregon. A couple of weeks ago I had problems with the payment system (PayPal) and so rapidly added Stripe payments. The PayPal problem was resolved, and I left both systems live. Most people seem to prefer Stripe, and the CC fees are lower with Stripe. I don't think I want to maintain two payment systems long term, and am leaning towards going with Stripe only. Any comments/comments?

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  Flesh Forge (@Flesh_Forge) reported 28 minutes ago

  @bruhshark @hafuma Problem is, Many clients pay only to paypal and nothing else.

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  Dr. AngelKins (@DrAngelKins) reported 31 minutes ago

  Paypal is very inconsistent, but having an business account does reduce many issues

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  Unknown Traveler 🇺🇸 (@nothanksfrankie) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Na11Ariel I've paid PayPal at least $16,000 in transfer fees over the past decade. It's their loss. It's not even possible to communicate with a human being when you have a problem like this. I should be thanking them. I've stayed with PayPal because I'm too lazy to wire transfer funds and the service has been a convenience I've been willing to pay for. Now, I'm all done. They can now write off the ~$180+ per month that I've spent in just the past 12 months wiring money to my wife. Fees have increased substantially in the past year alone. That they don't care about losing my business tells me I'm making the right choice looking for an alternative too.

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  taz 🤖🎧 (@tazthemenace) reported 35 minutes ago

  Part of the problem is even if Stripe is a good alternative, the way people suggest a ton of different things means ppl are spread everywhere and you may have to make multiple different accounts to comm people, as opposed to everyone accepting a single common site like PayPal was

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  Alex **** (@alexdikeh) reported 39 minutes ago

  @base Same script each time. I thought by now base would have brought a long lasting solutions to the problem of ACH, SEPA, PayPal, Debit/Credit cards and co payments and transfer problem. I was thinking we were about to have a functional international all in one payment platform.

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  🇵🇪 Andino Skb 🎉 COMMS OPEN (3/10) 🎊 (@Andino_SKB) reported 40 minutes ago

  @pnkplasticfangs The "license" argument is a smokescreen. It distracts from the real issue: PayPal demands we act like legitimate businesses to charge us fees and withhold taxes, while denying us transparency and fair process. 🧵👇

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  🇵🇪 Andino Skb 🎉 COMMS OPEN (3/10) 🎊 (@Andino_SKB) reported 41 minutes ago

  @fsonic3 In addition to legal issues, PayPal doesn't assist its users, yet supposedly demands compliance. The blocking is actually due to "traffic," or rather, bank transactions that the AI ​​flags as false positives for fraud, leading to account blocks

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  Nisha 🌷 (@FreenLover) reported 43 minutes ago

  @freendomvn92 Hi, I'm having trouble trying to donate on wise and PayPal. It's asking for an address?

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  Shadowriver@VRC (@ShadowriverVR) reported 43 minutes ago

  My number 1 advice to anyone doing service (commissions counts as service) or selling things (aka running business), first thing you should absolutely do is check your local laws and regulation regarding earning money yourself (aka running business, but not only that, patrion and gifts too, and selling things you own), every country has those (taxes is how counties is keep things running), because if you not following them, paypal closing your account is least thing that can go bad for you, actual banks are even under more stricter rules then that and public institutions find about about they be knocking to your doors. PayPal is not doing it to upset you, they do that because they would be in big trouble if they didn't do it. I heared a lot of stories like that even when i was in school, people getting to trouble because they started selling things, because lot of them are not aware of those because if you have normal work, lot of those obligations and dealing with this stuff usually falls down to your employer (atleast that they case in Poland). And yes it sucks, in most cases is reason why business owners and corporationare more angry about taxes and law changes, then most people are because they the one who usually need to deal with it for you when they employ you and you don't never see money was taken from you... welcome to this side of world, now you know why they are so on edge. Business is always a risk and it comes with extra obligations and costs, if you plan to do it you need to make sure you on stable ground and plan things ahead, make sure what you doing let you effort it before going all out. Even if laws don't make you pay taxes, in most cases you likely required to at least raport income anyway, even you not running business. This also means check licences and ToS of services you using to run business and anything commercial, because if you do business there usually different rules on those for you then of using those products and services.

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  Snowy | Team Tragedy 🎭🎴 (@Sn0wyTheCryptid) reported 48 minutes ago

  If I were you, I would immediately transfer money once commission is done. Surely, there are no alternatives for international artists in the terrible economy. PayPal must really suck if you’re in a situation like this Who tf is keeping 535 dollars' equivalent in PayPal? 😭

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  Koshin Jabarti 🇵🇸 (@DirieKoshin) reported 52 minutes ago

  @BlindWaveCrew hey i have trouble paying beyond with paypal

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  Brock (@ButterCutNiner) reported 54 minutes ago

  @wingoz Club down, thin it, hope they take PayPal

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  Zed 🎭 Comms Open (@Cmndr__zed) reported 59 minutes ago

  @dearpetangel Half the issues I see are dumbasses storing more than 150 USD in PayPal. Even the smallest comm I immediately take out

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  Coag (@coag_ys) reported 59 minutes ago

  @glubo11 All these threads are scaring mee! I still can't find an artist from my country to give me any tips just to avoid problems with paypal, i might have to check my mutuals or something, i'm not very smart for this type of stuff! 😭

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  WeirdPopeArts (@PopeWeird) reported 59 minutes ago

  @bubblegum711971 The PayPal algorithm will look for keywords like 'commission' or 'artwork' because they're trying to crack down on people using the app for NSFW commissions So long as you make it look like the payments are all for regular stuff, you should be safe