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 (47%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Brighton	Errors	14 hours ago
Génelard	Website Down	18 hours ago
Paris	Sign in	20 hours ago
Overland Park	Errors	4 days ago
Lausanne	Errors	5 days ago
Ciudad Jardín	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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  Jenna Ryan (@realjennaryan) reported 24 seconds ago

  Ryan v. PayPal - This case is about PayPal shutting down Jenna Ryan’s account on January 21, 2021 after she shared a fundraiser link on Twitter and raised approximately $200. She had used her PayPal account for roughly fifteen years. Less than an hour after closing the account, PayPal’s Director of Reputation, Kim Eichorn, spoke to national media outlets, including CBS News, and stated that Jennifer had violated PayPal fundraising policies by raising money for purposes other than legal defense. Jennifer contends those statements were false because no such “legal-defense-only” restriction existed in the user agreement. #ryanvpaypal

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  TFTC (@TFTC21) reported 51 seconds ago

  The DOJ just forced PayPal into a $30 million settlement over its "Economic Opportunity Fund," a 2020 program that made $530 million in preferential loans available exclusively to minority-owned businesses. The problem is straightforward: the Equal Credit Protection Act says you can't discriminate on the basis of race when lending money. Doesn't matter if you call it DEI, economic opportunity, or social impact. Selecting who gets capital based on skin color is illegal. As part of the settlement, PayPal will waive processing fees on up to $1 billion in transactions for veteran-owned businesses and companies certified in farming, manufacturing, or technology. AAG Harmeet Dhillon's message to other companies still running these programs: "There's no finding of prior discrimination that would justify current discrimination against American small businesses or consumers." This is exactly why permissionless systems matter. When access to financial services is gated by intermediaries who decide which businesses "deserve" capital based on identity categories, the system is broken by design. Bitcoin doesn't care who you are, what you look like, or what box you check. The protocol treats every participant the same. No committee decides you're the wrong demographic for a loan. PayPal had to be sued to stop discriminating. Bitcoin never started.

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  Pavon Yak (@PavonYak) reported 3 minutes ago

  @eneba_games Hello, I bought a game but it not was the game perse but its "public testing" branch I created a ticket but its automatically close, I think it was the "machine" and not a person not even reading what my problem is I demand a refund otherwise I will return paypal pay

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  ♥♠JRPGNATION♣♦ (@JRPGNATION) reported 4 minutes ago

  @ChibiReviews Easy issue refund with PayPal and such. Your bank too.

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  Badwolf (@Badwolf31008685) reported 5 minutes ago

  @phantom your support site is down. I sent usdc to my PayPal wallet and I need a ticket opened. Message me or the next person will be the investigator to figure out why your only support option is offline.

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  Ryvel I Nephilim Vtuber ✨ (@RyvelVT) reported 6 minutes ago

  @sharkybbsh Oh dang I was wondering what happened the comm I put down for a while now, I thought it was just a queue at first. Idk whats wrong with paypal and artists, I had this issue with someone back then, took a good while till they fixed it ;v

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  dude (@QuantumG) reported 8 minutes ago

  @AnimeSerbia Those of us who knew of him from Paypal or early SpaceX days knew the media had been suckered by his public relations team, but once it was clear he wasn't going to get what he wanted from Obama, it all came tumbling down.

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  Lou Andreas Salome (@LaPetiteUmlaut) reported 10 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hey Thieves! I am awaiting a large refund for you that was ALREADY REFUNDED by the seller. I gave you the refund code and you keep leading me in senseless circles saying that the case was closed and no error or refund made. You are better than this--or so I thought!

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  Noah🥥 (@Noirdcreative) reported 10 minutes ago

  Meta tried to build crypto for billions. They assembled Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Uber — the biggest players on Earth — and poured everything into Libra → Diem. Then it got shut down. Avery Ching was the crypto lead on that project. This is the story of what it felt like to lose it all… and what he built next. Aptos was born from the ashes of Meta’s biggest bet. Watch 👇 @Aptos @AveryChing

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  Reload Scaling (@Reload_scaling) reported 11 minutes ago

  PayPal just froze your funds for 180 days. Ads still running. Suppliers still want payment. This is what happens when your business runs on a personal PayPal tied to your real name. The fix isn't a stealth account. It's a proper HK company with a business PayPal. DM "HK"

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  BaN𐤊ℚuOτE (@BankQuote) reported 13 minutes ago

  “Kaspa Accepted Here” is lazy if it becomes the main adoption thesis, because it reduces Kaspa to a faster payment coin in a market where generic payments are already overcrowded, low-margin, and mostly solved by stablecoins, cards, Cash App, Strike, PayPal, and custodial rails. The problem is not that merchant acceptance is bad. It is useful at the edges. The problem is that it does not expose what makes Kaspa structurally different. A coffee shop accepting KAS does not require a blockDAG, 10 BPS, future DAGKnight finality, covenants, or vProgs. That use case barely touches the architecture. It turns a high-throughput proof-of-work settlement engine into a checkout sticker. Yonatan’s point is that adoption cannot be built around the weakest possible demonstration of the technology. Payments say: “Kaspa is faster money.” But that is not enough anymore. Stablecoins are already fast enough for most consumer payment flows, and merchants generally care about fiat stability, tax simplicity, accounting integrations, chargeback expectations, and customer demand more than ideological settlement purity. Kaspa’s stronger lane is not retail point-of-sale. It is real-time decentralized liquidity: coordination markets, sequencing, collateral movement, proof-based applications, financial state transitions, and programmable settlement that needs neutral time without centralized sequencers. That is where Kaspa’s architecture actually matters. So “Kaspa Accepted Here” is not wrong. It is just too small. It markets the engine by pointing at the cupholder.

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  Briar🥀 (@witheredbriar) reported 16 minutes ago

  Update on Commissions: I will be closing them for now due to issues with PayPal, once the issue is resolved, I will open up again

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  czverse (@czverse) reported 22 minutes ago

  For 30 years, the internet ran on one payment assumption: Humans authorize. Humans approve. Humans pay. Every financial rail ever built assumed a person at the end of the wire. Credit cards - designed for humans. Bank transfers - designed for humans. PayPal - designed for humans. Then on May 7th, AWS flipped a switch. And the assumption broke. AI agents running on Amazon's infrastructure can now pay for things. By themselves. In real money. In 200 milliseconds. No human in the loop. The Coinbase head of infrastructure didn't bury the headline: "There will soon be more AI agents transacting than humans." Here's what they actually built: AWS Bedrock AgentCore Payments. Agents get a wallet. Wallet is funded by a human. Agent spends - within hard limits you set. Settlement happens in USDC on Coinbase Base or Solana. Cost per transaction: fractions of a cent. And the protocol underneath is elegant. It's called x402. Built on HTTP 402 - a status code that's existed since 1991. "Payment Required." Engineers reserved it in the original web specs. Never implemented it - because the financial rails of the 90s couldn't support it. Stablecoin rails can. So x402 is finally live. 30 years later. The use cases are already real: → APIs become pay-per-call - no contracts, no accounts, just transact → MCP servers get paid directly by agents doing research → Paywalled content charges per article - agents pay 5 cents to read → Agents hire other agents and pay them per completed task Warner Bros. Discovery is testing it. Heurist AI is building agent labor markets on top of it. And that creates the question nobody's ready for: What happens to the economy when agents are the buyers? No impulse purchases. No brand loyalty. No UI dark patterns. Agents optimize purely on price, speed, and quality. The machine economy doesn't browse. It transacts. We broke down the full architecture, the x402 protocol, every use case, and the risks in detail. Link in bio. czverse

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  David Akinseyi (@DAkinseyi79996) reported 26 minutes ago

  @NoonesSupport Hello👋 reply Dm I’m here to report a trade issue i had on the website. This trader is trying to scam me off my PayPal transfer since on Sunday 10th of this month. I tender every information and evidence to him but he stopped responding. Pls kindly attend to this.😡

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  muddrake (@muddrake) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Hemomal @PayPal @AskPayPal Did you try to unlink the bank account ? Sometime with large amonthof money paypal does that and thats how i "fixed" the issue . Just unlink and link it back. If you got multiple card you can also put another card to make sure

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  Tez Wells (@TezWells) reported 33 minutes ago

  Remote IT Support Available ✓ Windows, macOS, networking, hardware & software issues ✓ Remote sessions via AnyDesk / TeamViewer Payment: Venmo (@Tezjackson) or PayPal DM me with your issue or book a session. First 15-min consult often free. #support #IT

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  Mindful (@DeeperExistence) reported 37 minutes ago

  @xoxofromlia You saying that to me as if that’s a problem lmao only thing is I don’t have Cash App no more so PayPal or Zelle

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  Hamilton (@Debt_Ledger) reported 38 minutes ago

  Claude inside QuickBooks and PayPal is more interesting than another chatbot launch. The real leverage is the back office: invoicing, payroll, bookkeeping, compliance. Cut friction there and you cut delays, errors, and waste. That’s state capacity by software.

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  yuhei (@yuhei_UbiGoreng) reported 40 minutes ago

  I ******* hate paypal man everytime i tried to use it problems starts appearing out of nowhere, wdym "we stopped this payment to protect you from scam" bro. I havent used ts for like a week why does it suddenly flagged my payment??????????

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  AFRICA IS HOME GLOBAL (@AfricaisHOME2) reported 42 minutes ago

  PayPal is pushing a turnaround plan, but its latest earnings beat didn’t win over investors. Revenue rose 4% to $8.7 billion in Q4 2025, slightly below forecasts, and branded checkout growth slowed to 1%. The miss sent shares down over 20%, and CEO Alex Chriss stepped down effective March 1, with HP’s Enrique Lopez taking over. Management also cut its full-year outlook to flat or low single-digit growth, citing weak demand in travel, crypto, and gaming. - World Business News.

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  Dayveed 𝕏 (@dayveed___) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Phils_Cassidy @the_millenium1 I have two problems here, 1 is Getting a non VoIP number and 2 is personal PayPal account, these two are my major issues. Do you have any help in this regard? Please chief

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  Ball Room Blitz 57 (@BallRoomBlitz05) reported 48 minutes ago

  Best if Paypal was shut down.

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  Kiyr (@Kiyreth) reported 50 minutes ago

  @SOU_BTC This is the shift from chat to execution. Claude for Small Business plugs directly into QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Google Workspace. Payroll. Invoicing. Monthly close. Ad creation. Automated. But the adoption question is harder than the technology question. A small business owner isn’t an IT department. Someone still has to connect the integrations, configure the workflows, and trust the output. And AI still makes mistakes on ambiguous tasks - a misread invoice or a wrongly categorized expense isn’t a minor bug when it’s your balance sheet. The enterprise layer solved this with dedicated implementation teams. The SMB layer doesn’t have that luxury. And there’s a harder constraint underneath the implementation problem. AI can prepare the payroll. It cannot certify it. AI can draft the invoice. It cannot legally sign it. In most jurisdictions, financial documents, tax filings, and audit reports require a certified human signature - a professional who engages their legal liability. Claude can do 80% of the work. The last 20% - the part that counts legally - still needs a human with credentials and accountability. Until AI has legal standing to certify, it’s a very powerful assistant. Not a replacement. How long before regulation catches up to the technology - and should it?

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  nihat (@kurds040) reported 53 minutes ago

  @square_ji @AskPayPal Did u fix it ? I have same problem

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  ` (@Huncho_meelan1) reported 55 minutes ago

  @jiggystranger @starboyridex Na there issue dey buh I get who get personal PayPal (Uk)

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  Kira ⋆˙⟡♡ (@kiraaarei) reported 55 minutes ago

  @momoyiiiii Yeah I rmmbr someone from PH is facing the same problem too 🥹 I hope vgen will take note on this so more payment features can be added. Paypal is sucks that’s it!

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  RiskyChris (@Risky_Chris) reported 57 minutes ago

  im tired of playing randomizer. im tired of playing "carry what you care about or it'll randomly disappear" its tiring. this is bullshit. i want my paypal card. i want my meta glasses. please let me get my phone in the morning, that was my error.

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  Luis (@Astralbwe) reported 57 minutes ago

  @ladygummiapple @NolanKN1 @kfhh03 i had the funds smh my PayPal got banned days after. I had zero way to pay bro even if I wanted to. I‘m a cash only person, get paid in cash, pay in cash. and me being in debt, broken house pipe, water heater, etc, me working alone and by myself? stressed from the ground up.

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  Global News (@GlobalNews_EN) reported 58 minutes ago

  PayPal (PYPL) down 20%+ YTD as 3 headwinds mount: slowing revenue growth, fierce competition from Apple Pay & Google Pay, and shrinking margins. Can PayPal turn around amid rising competitive pressure? YES or NO? #PayPal #PYPL #Fintech

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  Cider (@drakefan92) reported 60 minutes ago

  @siltcurrent My Kofi is completely broken I think I can’t even lie to you so I have like PayPal and Venmo and other ****