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 (48%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Mechanicsburg	Sign in	17 minutes ago
Stockton	Sign in	3 days ago
Brighton	Errors	3 days ago
Génelard	Website Down	3 days ago
Paris	Sign in	4 days ago
Overland Park	Errors	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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  Mushy (@RocksonYeah) reported 2 minutes ago

  Hey @AskPayPal what ******** is this I thought its ******* instant transfer that takes 30 Minutes or more why ******** IS IT BEEN 2 DAYS AND MY MONEY IS STILL NO THERE I ALREADY CONTACTED MY BANK AND ITS SAYS THERE'S NO ******* ISSUE ON THEIR SIDE WHY ******** IS YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE WHEN ITS MOST NEEDED? ******** IS THIS A SCAM OR WHAT GIVE ME MY ******* MONEY

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  Apollonighter Luvin' (@heavenblitzer) reported 3 minutes ago

  @PlayStation @PlayStation you guys are screwing with my PayPal payments, what the hell does invalid error mean Freaking fix it

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  Lou Andreas Salome (@LaPetiteUmlaut) reported 4 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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  Lewis, William... William (@WillLewis_1976) reported 6 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser this is my opinion, and would like to see if others feel the same. Ever since Venmo started offering the immediate transfer option on accounts for the extra fee like Paypal has, Venmo then slowed down their free regular transfer method to try and push people into using it. It's bad customer service, just to make extra money. I never in the past had to wait more than 24-48 hours for my free transfers to go through despite it saying it could take 1-3 business days.

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  Julian Köser (@HonourM4xAI) reported 10 minutes ago

  @kabu_nyan0214 @Capito_Nihongo Problem is I don’t have an account which accepts foreign transfers only from my country and Paypal unfortunately blocks everything and supports my bank net. But if I could open a Japanese account that accepts foreign payments, that would be perfect for me.

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  Daedalus (@Haydendeathera2) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Dylanxjl14 @SkaavArt It's most likely due to payment processors (mastercard/VISA). It's been a recurring problem with EVERYTHING recently. Subscribestar, steam, PayPal, etc. So so so many platforms are changing up their rules regarding NSFW content because of pressure from payment processors.

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  kobbystone (@Kobbystone_1) reported 13 minutes ago

  @SIKAOFFICIAL1 Na so the reputation for the country dey spoil o, you won’t see it, and it with time it will be difficult for Ghanaians to access things internationally because these people spoil the Ghana name give we all, tight visa requirements then things, PayPal et al all no want come down

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  Rushen Samodya (@RushenSamodya) reported 15 minutes ago

  Why PayPal in Sri Lanka Actually Matters (And What it Means for You) 1/ The Old Problem Before today, Sri Lankan devs had three options: Use fake overseas addresses (illegal, risky) Keep money in foreign accounts (forex leakage, tax issues) Rely on shady remittance channels (high fees, no protection) We were essentially locked out of the global economy. Meanwhile, Indian and Filipino devs were cashing in directly.

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  Mobot685 (@marshallpress0n) reported 17 minutes ago

  @omoalhajaabiola @RaenestApp The actually solve reliable bank transfers without the constant issues we face with PayPal, Wise, or Payoneer in Nigeria. No more frozen accounts or long waiting periods. Exactly we’ve been waiting for!

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  ♱⃓˚₊‧꒰ა cierra​ 👁️🪶|| healing arc ໒꒱ ‧₊˚​♱⃓ (@CierraTenshi) reported 17 minutes ago

  @sawy0s @PayPal There were times that they were but this time, I was just getting shut down everytime💔

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  Dovahkiui shizuka (@DovahkiuiVT) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Hemomal @PayPal @AskPayPal I've had this before as well, it was back then my bank who stopped PayPal from using my bank account. Pretty strange, hope it isn't the same problem. Because it took a good few days before I could pay again

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  마랑 (@vhopekookerz) reported 22 minutes ago

  @SORTE613 Hi Sorte-nim, I think Paypal is having an issue my payment is not proceeding 🥺 is there any other payment option please?

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  Serenity Solo Studios (@SerenitySoloDev) reported 22 minutes ago

  @TiggerStan01 I get the verification message now and again. I have no problem with those. I also have no problem making big purchases on Amazon or in a doing monthly shops. It's always PayPal it happens for. Not even every purchase I paid using them. It seems to happen at random. It's not as bad as what you've been through, though. At least I made the purchases. The money wasn't stolen. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I can only imagine the amount of stress that causes. The closest I got to it was when someone got my partners bank card details and started spending the money, leaving them broke within a week of my partner being paid. Of course, I got the blame for not pulling my weight financially for months. That was a stressful time.

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  Panditha44 (@Panditha44) reported 23 minutes ago

  @stopvaccinating Why credit cards from middle east are not working on the website. Tried 2 credit cards and after typing in the details, it just revolves. Same with paypal. Kindly check.

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  yaamc01 (@yonahaer1) reported 23 minutes ago

  Minor spelling mistake on pic but who cares Btw I cant accept requset from Vgen now due to problem with paypal

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  rnewton (@rnewton7777) reported 24 minutes ago

  I asked last week, How do you price this? (eBay + GameStop) There are a lot of models you can try to build but ultimately I think it only really matters for me if I capture Wallstreet's sentiment. Because as I wrote in some longwinded post a few weeks back, they will have an algo parse the filing on deal close and "price" the deal by selling it to that level in the extended market when we can't trade. We have seen this repeatedly lately, that's how this whole thing works. So my model will essentially be wrong automatically because I don't know how the street models these things precisely. And they will absolutely pin the price immediately to what they think is "fair value," via sell action. Then as new details emerge and quarterly progress on optimization and such happens, they'll evaluate the balance sheet and price it again. And again. And again. For anybody that watched my videos, they must laugh, because in 2022 I was so optimistic all the time. Then I watched them price it to $10 and I was humbled. I simply didn't know how aggressively they could price a target down. And so I learned a measure of respect. But then I got excited again and bought in the 30s when Roaring Kitty came back and was re-humbled when we got priced back to the teens. And even with all our balance sheet improvements, our fortress of cash, our operational profit, and our collectibles pivot, I was re-humbled again in late November and December twice. Again, back to the teens. Does it mean we are destined to always price back to the teens? No, it simply means somebody felt compelled to price the stock down for whatever reason. Maybe they sensed weakness. Maybe there was sell side pressure post warrant issuance. Maybe options interest collapsed post Q3 earnings. I don't exactly know why we mark down so badly sometimes or mark up so much other times. So I don't know the model to even use today on GameStop even though I recently said I like knowns and feel I know current dog-form version GameStop. So how can I model a totally new thing? I know I'll mess it up just like I messed up cash per floor several times and still don't feel super confident in it today. So for the time being I'm not settled on any particular model. I see the word accretive thrown around a ton. This deal could work out to be accretive in the sense that per share value could go up over the long term, yes. eBay has value that can be unlocked at scale, so the shareholder value would spill over to us as GME holders post deal optimization period. Does that mean it moves in a straight line? No. Could we compress back to some mark down that represents paying for eBay at premium + cash drag on 20b in loans + unoptimized eBay? Seems likely to me. What's the mark down look like? How fast could Cohen unlock value, deleverage, etc? Well a very simple model would be something like this, Imagine he does de-leverage the 20b loan very quickly. If the combined company has 1.6b shares (even that is unknown), simple division shows: $20,000,000,000 / 1,600,000,000 = $12.50 dollars per share That means if Ryan Cohen and leadership can cost cut super fast, pour operation profit into the loan and pay the balance down, liabilities drop off by $12.50 a share. That's what he means by "not running it hot." That's what I personally mean by paying off your mortgage as fast as possible. Leverage and margin are terrible. That's why eBay leadership doesn't want this deal right now. $20 billion financed at 7 or 8% corporate rate is enormous drag on profitability that they don't currently have. But again, if he can work magic and pay it off very quickly, Assets - Liabilities = Shareholder Equity. Drop liabilities by $20 billion and you immediately increase shareholder equity by $20 billion or $12.50 a share. So while I don't know the immediate post deal compression price, I see a post leverage price as +$12.50. Because that's just basic mathematics. And that is certainly accretive. Because increasing share price on GameStop by $12.50 for leadership is significantly harder right now. That would take something like 5-10 years at current rate using a fundamentals analysis. There just isn't any fat left to cut and while we are making $600m a year or whatever, 600/488 = $1.23 a year. But post deal, to me, looks ugly. People want to do models like: GME $11b Market Cap + EBAY $55b = $66b Doesn't work like that. or, GME $23 a share + EBAY = X Doesn't work like that. You have to do it how the street is doing it and they'll use some formula based on revenue, earnings, assets, liabilities, etc. And the deal burns our assets. The deal burns our earnings (loan coupon). The deal burns our shareholder equity. The deal likely adds something like $25 billion or more in Goodwill to the balance sheet because otherwise shareholder equity would actually be negative. And I am not a fan of goodwill. It is why GameStop was overvalued when it was recklessly acquiring bad companies in 2014 and why it got marked down so badly when they dropped all the goodwill in 2019 or so. Goodwill is, imho, nonsense financial wizardly meant to make assets - liabilities = shareholder equity still make sense on paper when it simply doesn't because of destructive acquisitions. Not to say this is a bad deal, not at all. It is a fine deal if and only if Ryan Cohen can land it at the stated price or better and immediately extract at least $20 billion in savings to de-leverage. Because that right sizes the balance sheet, makes the phantom $12+ in goodwill share value real and protects our downside. I watch tickers all day where stocks trade at 100 PE or 10 PE. Sure, the street could love this deal, ignore the goodwill, and send this thing (up). But I don't know how to model that either. I don't know the rationale for why they send some stocks and not others. For example, Best Buy is trading in the gutter but the balance sheet is fine. Shareholder equity is fine. It isn't in any sort of fiscal distress. But it is out of favor, so it trades at a very low multiple. Meanwhile, name any other stock right now and it might have negative EPS, negative shareholder equity, and be weeks from insolvency, but trading at 40 PE. Why? No clue. So on this one, I have to assume for the immediate term, as much as GameStop would now be 75% eBay 25% GameStop, it would trade post deal a bit out of favor still. Because for whatever reason, we trade as an underdog. How badly do they compress it? Do they respect goodwill or simply ignore it? Do we trade at 30b market cap or 40? Or 50? You can build 20 different models and they will all sound great on paper. Then you'll wake up in the pre market and be trading at 16.50 or 21.50 or 32.50 and be like, Oh obviously. But it really isn't obvious at all, it is totally subjective. And the player with all the ability to price it, all the economic leverage in the world, is going to apply some model to it that is totally different than Best Buy or PayPal or whatever and they'll have all the logical reasoning for whatever it is they do. And we'll just be a leaf on a river wondering why we couldn't see where we were going. So it isn't that I can't price the post deal. I can. 20 different ways. And all of them will be wrong. So do your own modeling however you want, read others' models, and be skeptical of them all. Because at this point we don't even know the final terms. Assuming the deal closes, and I honestly believe it will, just in a long while, because closing on a house takes a long time let alone a 55b company, Is $125 per eBay share the final accepted offer? 50% cash still? 20b in debt? At what coupon (interest rate)? 50% stock still? At what conversion? And is there any other angle we're missing here? Suppose, just for the sake of pure hopium, Cohen has outside backing in the form of a large institutional presence that wants to do a block equity finance deal where they take something like a $20b interest in the new company via common or preferred stock. Well that changes everything immediately. And that isn't altogether that unrealistic. So it is very hard to model this right now. Be careful but have fun with it. Will it immediately send the stock? Very hard to say. But it certainly gives room for immediate upside improvement via debt paydown. And I do like that along with the other things Ryan Cohen is talking about. Because right now upside movement from a fundamentals perspective, on GameStop's balance sheet, is not bad, it is just slow. This could be fast and people want fast. But it could be volatile... I just hope people understand why.

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  センディ (@MarioDontol) reported 29 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I am 19 years old (born 2007). I've sent my ID but got banned for being under 18. This is a technical error, please review it manually.

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  Dayveed 𝕏 (@dayveed___) reported 31 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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  Jim Cannon (@JPRCannon1701) reported 33 minutes ago

  @santanderukhelp trying to make a purchase online via PayPal and apple play and saying bank has declined it. App says no issues so is something down?

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  JustAWuWaGuy (@JustAGuy1610) reported 34 minutes ago

  @_Aemeath_ Or at least fix it like AKE fixed their paypal issue.... Just delete it.

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  William | Cybersecurity & SOC Analyst (@WilliamInCyber) reported 36 minutes ago

  3/ Next: secure- login- verify. com VirusTotal: 8/92. Whois: “No match” — already taken down. Email headers told me the rest: • From: security@ paypal. com (spoofed)

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  BEAST ⭐️ NASTY (@BeastNastyCallz) reported 37 minutes ago

  @PayPal You have been processing my LTC you received for over an hour now Congratulations..... I will never use PayPal for crypto again (Maybe PYUSD,.. but geezuss... ya'll have issues)

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  Sinead (@sineadmcfly) reported 41 minutes ago

  @FaceValueCFC Why? Because I’m a woman? Tickets are club Wembley and I accept PayPal goods and services for payment to protect the buyer. Terrible ticket page if you’re calling anyone a scammer without evidence

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  Gfire (@Gfire520) reported 44 minutes ago

  @WallStreetApes Got hit with a SIM swap fraud. Bank confirmed unauthorized transfer. PayPal still denied my claim multiple times and kept pointing to “successful authentication.” So apparently if a hacker gets your texts, it’s still considered “you.” This is broken.

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  Nadia Tory (@Nadiatory_) reported 45 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Good morning, I hope you're doing well. I have been trying to login to my PayPal account to no avail because the SMS with verification code sent to my phone won't come through and I never changed my number. I would like an assistance please.

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  Primrose ﴾V-Gorbs﴿ (@Primrose_115_) reported 47 minutes ago

  Anyways! Half of my grocery order didn’t arrive, I ****** up PayPal and might’ve lost $ because I sent the wrong person the adopt money (got it the second time and now I gotta wait on PayPal to fix it) But more FFXIV tomorrow (Warrior yay!) *internal screaming*

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  oceanturn (@oceanturnmusic) reported 52 minutes ago

  Guys… PayPal doubled down with a consumer wording. They tried to play human without soul. So I gave them the soul they needed and pressed “send feedback.” Good luck with the FTC.

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  BGC Prince County - Summerside Club (@bgcSummerside) reported 53 minutes ago

  May 13th, 2026 Ken's No Frills BGCPC Summerside GoldRush Draw Results: #5146 WILLIAM COUGHLIN $9,499 *NEW AUTO-RENEWAL FEATURE NOW AVAILABLE* (this feature is only available for the PayPal, Credit Card, and VISA debit option) Keep forgetting when it is time to sign in again? With

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  Big Brain Business (@BigBrainBizness) reported 54 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and early Facebook investor, explains how to tell a good monopoly apart from a bad one: Thiel starts with an honest admission about how monopolies are perceived: "From the inside, monopoly is always a good idea. From the outside, that's it's much more debatable." The way to tell them apart, he argues, depends entirely on whether the world is static or dynamic. In a static world, a monopoly earns its bad reputation: "Monopolies deserve the bad reputation they have in a static world where nothing changes because that's where the monopoly is just a rent collector or a tax collector of one sort or another artificially restrict supply. And that's sort of a bad monopoly." A good monopoly, he explains, is something entirely different: "It is one that actually has invented something new." His example is Apple and the iPhone: "When Apple came up with the iPhone, it was the first smartphone that worked. And so it for many years had a monopoly on smartphones. I would argue it still actually has it with the brand and with, you know, a lot of the network effect that's built up around it." The test, according to @peterthiel, comes down to what the monopoly does to supply and value: "In a dynamic context, that's a monopoly that actually doesn't create scarcity, but creates a whole new thing. So it's, you know, people are lining up to get iPhones because they didn't even exist before. That's a good one."

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  ecr.socialmedia (@ecr_socialmedia) reported 58 minutes ago

  @AAGDhillon @CivilRights @TheJusticeDept PayPal and Venmo should be shut down.