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 (45%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Brisbane	Sign in	23 hours ago
Northwich	Sign in	1 day ago
Castleford	Sign in	1 day ago
Olie Rivier	Sign in	1 day ago
Sarcelles	Website Down	2 days ago
Bedford	Sign in	2 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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  APEXnow (@_APEXnow_) reported 25 seconds ago

  @thinkmoney I do not know what you guys have done, but the recent system update, has broken my ability to add money to any service such as PayPal or pay my credit card. Both trying to use my debit card. This is extemely upsetting because it basically means that I will need to find a different way to add money to these accounts. The problem stems from payment authorisation. Before, it used to show the authorise notification in the Thinkmoney app. It never gets this far now because the Mastercard ID authorisation never completes. I phoned your support line and they said that there is no record on my account of any authorisation. So the problem stems from the service trying to authenticate with Mastercard. Can you please tell me why this system is now broken, and when you plan to resolve it?

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  Wobbliestbear (@wobbliestbear) reported 2 minutes ago

  @ghhughes It really is. I think cost & availability are two big issues for a lot of people with masks. The masks I do but are creeping up in price so I can buy fewer & need to use PayPal in 3 to spread the cost. I am worried that they'll become unmanageable to buy at some point. There are

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  Darshak Vasoya (@VasoyaDarshak) reported 4 minutes ago

  Unbelievable. Now @coursera is closing my new support tickets without even replying, despite their own policy and 'Cora' confirming my refund eligibility earlier. I’ve officially opened a dispute with PayPal to get my €42 back. Fix your support system. #coursera

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  ☆ dan ☆ (@gaganddestroyme) reported 5 minutes ago

  i lied about my name and age on my paypal account like 3 years ago and i haven't had any issues with the account so far ?

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  Arisaya (@Arisaya_art) reported 5 minutes ago

  It turns out there were problems with my PayPal for the purchase, I've already solved them, so now the products are available)

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  NASH 🥀🔞 (@peachinash) reported 6 minutes ago

  Did that girl actually scam a proshipper? No, 100% she didnt. If she did, we would hear from the person who got scammed. Not only that, but if she did scam them, and is bragging about it on the internet, it’d be soooooo easy to get their paypal account taken down

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  Sherif (@sherif584) reported 8 minutes ago

  @asha_shar @XboxGamePassPC @Xbox To the Xbox team, In Egypt we face a major issue: only credit cards work, as local debit cards don't support USD payments. Please consider adding PayPal, Google Pay, or Apple Pay to improve accessibility for Egyptian players. Thanks

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  Princess San 🐍 (@all4khaleesi) reported 15 minutes ago

  I feel like… getting PayPal notifications, fix it puppies

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  University of ZERO (@zerotalktoai) reported 17 minutes ago

  Use case: $ZEROTHINK is an access key for a live AI product. Utility: holders can unlock ZeroThink Pro without a PayPal subscription while eligible. Anti-abuse: the server rechecks live wallet balance and market value. No custody: users sign a message. ZeroThink never asks for seed phrases or moves coins.

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  MacroDog (@MacroPupster) reported 19 minutes ago

  @HedgeFundTips Prob makes the stock go down. Selling the crown jewel and PayPal is a worthless fintech carcass

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  Simon Taylor (@sytaylor) reported 19 minutes ago

  🚨 JUST IN: Former PayPal CEO David Marcus just unveiled a stablecoin banking product for businesses and AI agents. Stablecoin balances. Yield. Payments. Cards. All chain-native, all behind an API. This is Banking-as-a-Service but onchain. --- Banking-as-a-Service is getting rebuilt on stablecoin rails. The old stack - Middleware (e.g. Unit / Synctera) - Galileo - FBO accounts at a sponsor bank There's now a chain-native version. - Squads Grid does it on Solana. - Bridge built it for fintechs, payroll and non banks - BVNK ships it embedded. Lightspark now joins them, with distribution into 65 countries and a Bitcoin L2 underneath. --- I keep thinking about how the "account" itself is being unbundled. What used to be a sub-ledger entry at a partner bank becomes a programmable smart account that holds dollars, settles 24/7, keeps its own yield, issues cards, and accepts agent-scoped permissions. The bank charter turns into a feature you plug in for accessing other rails. --- The agent piece is marketing, but its also more than that. Lightspark is already inside Google's AP2 protocol. As agents want to become platforms in their own right, re-sell financial services to their customers, they'd want a BaaS like thing. Why not go for something that uses stablecoins? --- Marcus has THE most fascinating back story - Former CEO of PayPal, has moved money traditionally - Behind Libra at Meta a global bank account and "stablecoin" that regulators pushed back on. Now this is a global stablecoin bank account distributed through an API, post-GENIUS Act, sold to businesses and machines. Sometimes timing is everthing. Does this compliment or commoditize BaaS over time? I expect the answer becomes obvious within 18 months.

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  yang .⋆𝜗𝜚 | vgen comms open !! (@yangyangpotpot) reported 20 minutes ago

  HI GUYS !! i have to close comms atm im having trouble with my paypal 😿

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  Rspnø 🇳🇴 ✝️ 🇵🇸🔻 (@ruspinisti) reported 24 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Yes but how? I'm really stuck, by the way i can make purchases on eBay and Aliexpress, but i can't acess my account since even the only link you gave to me is not working for me. So i don't know what to do.

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  고양이 (@neyeppeuda) reported 26 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal please check my dm cause your customer service at aplication is not working

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  Darryl (@just_darryl) reported 30 minutes ago

  Updated my Honey browser extension and now it won't load. Reinstalled it, but that doesn't fix the issue. How many H-1Bs do you employ, PayPal?

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  Bailey (@Bailey9274) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Tees_KK If you get them to set the PayPal payment type to "Friends & Family" they cannot report a problem with the payment or retract it later for any reason. Be aware though, a lot of scammers request this payment type, so some may see it as suspicious.

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  Arnab Chatterjee (@Chatterjee_arn) reported 34 minutes ago

  Visa. Mastercard. Stripe. PayPal. Shopify. These are not crypto startups. They are the rails the global economy runs on. Combined, they process trillions of dollars annually across hundreds of millions of users and merchants. Every single one of them is moving to stablecoins. Not as a pilot. Not as a press release. As infrastructure. Visa has integrated stablecoins directly into its settlement layer. Issuers can now settle obligations in USDC rather than via ACH or wire. 24/7 settlement. No weekend liquidity gaps. By late 2025, Visa was processing $3.5 billion in annualized stablecoin settlement volume. Mastercard linked stablecoin-funded wallets to its card network. PayPal launched its own stablecoin. Stripe built stablecoin financial accounts for businesses across 100 countries and acquired Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure platform, for $1.1 billion. Shopify enabled USDC payments for merchants with no foreign transaction fees. Six in ten Fortune 500 executives are now developing blockchain initiatives. This is not ideology. It is procurement. But settlement speed and FX efficiency are only the first layer. The more significant opportunity sits in what happens to money between the moment it is earned and the moment it is spent. In the legacy system, that float earns nothing. It sits in a payroll account, a platform wallet, or a bank balance with zero yield attached. Yield-to-Pay changes that equation. Stablecoin rails allow idle balances to be routed into yield-bearing positions automatically, at the infrastructure layer, before payout. The worker earns on the float. The merchant earns on the float. The platform earns on the float. No action required from any of them. This is not a feature. It is a structural shift in how payment infrastructure creates value. Every dollar in transit becomes a productive asset rather than a dormant one. The reason every major platform is moving is the same in every case. Legacy rails were built for domestic transactions, business-day settlement windows, and single-currency payroll. Stablecoin rails solve the problem that actually exists. Instant settlement. No FX leakage. Yield on every dollar in motion. When Visa moves, it is not a signal that crypto is going mainstream. It is a signal that the old infrastructure lost the cost argument. And the yield argument. And the speed argument.

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  Drag🇩🇪🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@Drag007_) reported 37 minutes ago

  @GyaruGlow I agree with that. But what they also did was promise to refund everyone whose PayPal was used by other people. When the game launched and you paid with PayPal, other players gained access to that account. Thousands of dollars were spent. They promised refunds, but they haven't delivered to this day. People are still waiting. The PayPal function still hasn't been unlocked. And if you demand your money back from customer support, they say they'll take care of it, only to close your ticket and force you to open a new one. This cycle just repeats. Someone had to do that for three months just to get a fraction of their money back. Why don't they use that money to issue the refunds?

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  Indicdialectic (@indicdialectic) reported 40 minutes ago

  @KaranSharma1008 @Prayag_Krishna Why do you have problem with money? That guy is the richest man on this planet. Will he have shortage of money? He created money by launching PayPal and selling it for millions. Then investing in Tesla then owning it, then creating spaceX and other things. Where did he cheat?

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  Ask PayPal (@AskPayPal) reported 44 minutes ago

  @uday1kiran Reliable ways to identify a PayPal number PayPal rarely calls you without request PayPal does not make unsolicited phone calls. If someone calls claiming there’s an “urgent problem,” it’s very likely a scam. Phone numbers depend on the country PayPal does not have a single universal phone number. Numbers vary by region and can change. The only safe way to confirm a number is: Log in to your PayPal account Go to Help Center > Contact Us Check the official phone numbers listed for your country If the number is not listed there, do not trust it.

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  termireum (@termireum) reported 47 minutes ago

  **** @PayPal @AskPayPal. I’ve submitted my ID and all proof, yet you banned me for "unverified info." You are holding my hard-earned money for no reason. Fix this bullshit!

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  Oreo Goreng (@oreogoreng_21) reported 49 minutes ago

  OH and IM SORRY BUT IM INDONESIAN, I cant pay you with paypal (i dont have one anyways) So I can only pay indonesian authors! Thank you~ I kinda dont want my main acc oomfs finding out how down bad im for Leon so i drop this in my 2nd acc instead... But i swear im not shady...

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  ʚdollɞ❀• (@dollusionxo) reported 53 minutes ago

  @samuschillhouse Thats how im feeling right now lol. I like having it as a option for people who dont use PayPal but lile sometimes I really need the money lile rn and its just sooo slow at processing

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  Valra (@ValraSwag) reported 54 minutes ago

  @vestrionone wait for them to resolve the issue. paypal should come soon

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  Shregmancy (@shrek2pregnancy) reported 54 minutes ago

  @AkzG121 im super open to taking commisions, but id have to set up a payment system because i think my paypal is broken atm

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  Carolyn (Robertson) (@Carolyn3702267L) reported 56 minutes ago

  MY CHILDREN that are in heaven, since I AM having trouble with Paypal I have given you authority to be in charge of MY Paypal account, do so effective , you know what I mean. That the American government do not thief from MY money anymore. Nor anyone else. The matter concerning..

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  MarQus Romelle (@MarQusRomelle) reported 57 minutes ago

  @O2 Thanks for your response. There are many customers who’ve complained about these same issues with the app since it’s been updated; a quick scroll through this topic shows numerous responses from yourselves to them. I ended up having to use a desktop and pay with PayPal.

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  Brocolee (@_brocolee_) reported 59 minutes ago

  WHAT ******** IS GOING ON PAYPAL I CANT ******* LOGIN NO MATTERWHAT MY MONEY IS IN THERE FUUUCK

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  Katherine Argent (@effthealgorithm) reported 59 minutes ago

  Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

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  Kameda_かめだ (@Kameda_JP_B2) reported 60 minutes ago

  @f0ns1ne If there’s smth you want, I’d love to send it to you, but I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out how to send money via PayPal right now sadge