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 (44%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Perth	Sign in	8 hours ago
Courbevoie	Sign in	12 hours ago
Kassel	Sign in	5 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	5 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	6 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	7 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Pasha (@pashapal) reported 2 minutes ago

  Xcancel and nitter received cease and desist letters on 8/24 as well. Wonder if the PayPal mafia is shutting down the monopolized peasant internet before midterms: On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹. ꕤ ｡˚ (@elysiankrow) reported 2 minutes ago

  @fallndleave hii ⭐ if you can't find a ga and you'd be interested in an upper bowl let me know! I have PayPal and I'd be down for a video call for proof :)

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  Leysan Gilfanova | CFO Advisory (@CFOAnalysis) reported 2 minutes ago

  📌There is another financial layer to this story that often gets overlooked. The deeper issue was how management chose to spend cash. Over three years PayPal poured more than 15 billion dollars into stock buybacks to prop up earnings per share while its core checkout software aged out. Buying back stock can hide stagnant innovation for a few quarters but it will never protect a business when competitors build superior technology.

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  Annie Gets **** Done (@BijouConcierge) reported 3 minutes ago

  @amansaini_11 As long as your product solves their problem & is user friendly, they don't care about anything else. Easy & fast checkout is soooo important - I've left websites when the checkout is really complicated & doesn't offer PayPal or stripe!

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  Haliban (@YesCersss) reported 3 minutes ago

  @DarkHaliburton @MCVet087 No, I have a guy that I just PayPal $25 each month too and he does all the updating and all that ****. I don’t have to worry about anything but just paying him my money.! Like I said, I’ve had it for like four years now never had any issues and the best part is,

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  Кобзар 🇨🇦🇺🇦☦️ (@CanadianKobzar) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Sharman2Pam @dzygaspaw I’m sorry… yes it’s very confusing. PayPal is off. But yes you can pay by visa. Make sure you put kobzar in the comments. Let me know if you have trouble and I can pay on your behalf.

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  E.G. Martínez² (@Egm225) reported 5 minutes ago

  @RealWarnerus PayPal has been my main middleman for online purchases, & so far I haven't had any problems.

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  Willyam Jan | Artenine29 - COMMS OPEN! (@artenine29) reported 13 minutes ago

  So I'm opening paypal options for my vgen illustration services again, for now, I only accept paypal on my vgen, i need to play safe as I don't know if there'll be any problem in the long run, for direct comm, I still only accept payment using wise #vgen #vgencomm

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  Nishu (@KisekiyaCodes) reported 14 minutes ago

  @rakshit_yadav19 have you verified yourself via pan etc? open paypal in pc and see for the issues, beside that just open support and tell the bot that you want to talk to real person, the real person then will ask for some details or reason for the money, once done you will most likely get the money.

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  Paulina ✿⁠ VGEN (@eggeiro) reported 15 minutes ago

  @gy_sup Maybe it's because it's past the 180 days PayPal gives to issue a dispute? Otherwise I have no idea why Vgen would refuse to refund them ://

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  Judas🏳️‍⚧️ (@V_red37) reported 17 minutes ago

  I could use some help paying for dinner tonight 👉🏻👈🏻 Im down to 40 and I still need to be seen by my psych nurse which could be anywhere from 100-200 depending on if I have to pay my debt to be seen. Cashapp- $RedRedPandaz PayPal- redraccoonpan

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  Caleb Onyeabor (@mrcalebonyeabor) reported 18 minutes ago

  You made a lot of money instead of using the money to solve the problems of the people, you sent it to another group of people and asked us to go and meet them. Now when we asked you for your score card, you are sending us to them. Did we elect you to send money? Eh PayPal?

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  TYLER🇲🇼🇬🇧 (@amthatguytyler) reported 21 minutes ago

  So apparently late last night. Well actually like 2 something this morning. Someone hacked into my SHEIN account. I thought it was of those scam emails trying to get you to click on the link but it was real. There really is two orders on my SHEIN account. One cancelled for another watch. So technically 3. Thankfully I have never saved my payment methods. I only used PayPal and those payment methods aren't saved unless I login with my phone or code. None of the saved VISAS are mine. I don't know whose cards they are. Hopefully SHEIN can get this taken care of asap. The orders were packed so apparently they can't like cancel it. I do not know at all the address it's shipping. Info says my address on invoice as billing address, but with that Pretoria shipping address. When I googled the shipping address that is now default on my account it says it's a logistics business that's closed apparently. Someone's cards are being used. I don't see the cards being the hackers. Why login to my account to place your orders with your own card. This is definitely identity theft/fraud going on here. Hopefully those poor people notice the charge on their account and have contacted their bank. Hoping SHEIN really escalates this issue asap, I don't want this to keep happening. At this point i dont know if I should delete my SHEIN account now or wait till SHEIN does their thing. I'm definitely never ordering from SHEIN again after this.💔🙌

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  So Eungi (@so_eungi) reported 21 minutes ago

  I still couldn’t get the ticket to Berlin 😭 I tried paying with different cards and through PayPal, and it just kept giving me an error every single time. Well… this is how I ****** UP 😭 What can I say…

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  The Analyst X (@bullmetrics) reported 23 minutes ago

  PayPal is up nearly 50% in six months and still down 78% over five years. So the real question: is this the turnaround, or a bounce in a broken stock? Here's the actual setup: $PYPL sits in the middle of online payments. You check out, they move the money, they take a fee. PayPal and Venmo are both theirs. 🟢 What's driving it: - Buying from a shop you've never heard of? You don't type your card in, you hit the PayPal button — if it goes wrong, they chase it, not you. That trust is the product. - Shops can't remove that button. It turns browsers into buyers, so taking it off costs them sales. - Apple has your wallet but not the shop's checkout. Stripe has the shop but not your wallet. PayPal has both. - They're buying back 10.21% of the company a year — the fastest pace in their history. Fewer shares, bigger slice for investors. 🔴 Why it got this cheap: - On your phone, Apple Pay is already sitting there with your face. PayPal makes you log in. That one extra tap is the whole war. - They've always charged shops a premium for that button, and cheaper options now sit right next to it. - Revenue growth has slowed to low single digits and the profit engine has cooled. What do the pros think? Here it gets uncomfortable: 🔴Avg target: $57.26 — 7% below where it trades today 🚀High: $85.68 — +39% 🔴Low: $36.36 — −41% The verdict: you're not buying growth here, you're buying cash. At $61 you pay $11 for every $1 of profit — Visa and Mastercard cost three times that. The model says $75.36, Wall Street says $57.26, and that gap is the whole trade. The risk is the fee. If Apple and Google keep owning the checkout button, the cash machine slips with it. That's why the Low target sits at $36.36. Bargain or value trap?

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹 (@elysiankrow) reported 23 minutes ago

  hello ⭐ I can't dm u but if you're interested I'm selling an upper bowl for the 27th!! it's available for AXS transfer, I'd be down for a video call and I have PayPal g&s :)

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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 29 minutes ago

  @ima_fly_tok @alexabelonix That's the bigger issue IMO. Switching from PayPal to another giant provider doesn't really remove the dependency, it just changes who you're dependent on. Having more than one payment route makes a lot more sense.

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  juggy 🌸🐏 (@jugproductionss) reported 32 minutes ago

  @wehsturn I think you can issue a refund if u paid through PayPal on ko-fi. I hope you can get it back because this is soooo messed up

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  Alam Aguilera Couto (@AlamCouto) reported 38 minutes ago

  @abdwaleed92 My brother, I wanted to tell you that I tried to donate to your GoFundMe and to your brother's Paypal. But there was a technical problem. Apparently many people have had problems donating to Palestinian people through GoFundMe. I think you should consider opening a Chuffed fund

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  Susanna Chisholm (@SC4X_2025) reported 39 minutes ago

  I don't think so. You go to China. I have no business nor want to go to China. Ps: I just experienced the worst trauma. A freecreditscore just f'd me royally and managed to find a loop 🕳 to win to ach withdrawal from my PayPal account. So I had to pay back you guys for temporarily credit my account. I was greatful for that. I love your platform great app. I felt there was deception and theft by extortion on this online business. Just like when I was tricked to thinking I won a McDonald's $100 gift card. McDonald's on my s**t list now. I get to find something else on McDonald's the company destroys our rainforest. Did you know trees the length of a football field is chopped down every hour. That's here and there. Mainly you know who else is sleeping in bed with our government. Instead of gift certificate, I got signed up with Affordable Obama Care that I was unaware off. I found this out by accident through the IRS. Just like you guys are in bed with other online businesses the one's that go phishing. I take that back. Engineering at best most consumers are naive muchless that you put burden of proof on us. Apparently, the business that took my $32 provided a better rebuttal. I don't get to look at their discovery. In good conscience, I paid back to PayPal. The end. For your perusal. I have already requested to close my account. But here is a caption of why I have come to conclusion... Thank you for listening. Have a nice day.

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  mielle CAYM ROUTE OUT (@caymkanojo) reported 40 minutes ago

  @arvanno1fan If it doesnt end up working u can paypal it to me directly without like .the vgen in between and ill write down your deadline on my sheet 😭😭 (but ill keep the vgen request in my vgen queue so i can check back your ref links)

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  Matt Zylbert (@MattZylbert) reported 41 minutes ago

  @gmille24 @yElff_ @BookitWithTrent "Helpful" as in its easier to deposit into accounts, my bank gives me issues with doing it directly and have to occasionally do thru Venmo/PayPal. Much much easier

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  Mukya 🪸☕️ 𝄆 HOUSE OBSCURUS 𝄇 (@MukyaVT) reported 41 minutes ago

  Okay, I need some advice.... I have been going in circles since Monday with Twitch Support and PayPal. - Twitch says the latest payout was received - PayPal Says it was not - Twitch asks me to check again - gives me reference+transaction ID's - PayPal still says there is nothing pending or in my account with those numbers - Twitch tells me payments cannot be reissued once it shows successful - Twitch says issue has to be sent via email for further 'investigation' - Email is LITERALLY a copy paste of the same info all 3 agents in their instant chat sent - I sent screen shots of all conversations to show Paypal CONFIRMS THERE IS NOTHING PENDING - Twitch now says I have to wait 30 days for the money to MAYBE be sent back to them so they can MAYBE reissue the payment ......im so tired.... $600 for bills just gone....and I might not ever see it

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  Alice Bathory(she/he/they/fae) (@TheAliceBathory) reported 50 minutes ago

  P. S. CA: $AliceBathory VM: AliceBathory *As my Paypal still is a serious problem, still overdrawn, & probably compromised—either Cashapp, Venmo, OR DMing me for my Wise / Zelle deets, is the best go-to . 🫶

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  Zukuna (@cheshire3301) reported 51 minutes ago

  "Hi, I am being stalked and harassed online. Thomas has done this to others – getting them killed. That is what he does once anyone turns against him and has proof of his fraud. He pretends to be a world famous composer online – but he is Not. He is a con Man. He also made Samuel Fullerton and Sgt. Mike Stephen get into a shoot out. Both died. Thomas Schoenberger is a psychopath. A True Psychopath. One whom would now prefer me dead. Just like he's done to Samuel Fullerton, Sgt. Mike Stephen and Isaac Kappy. I am NOT a danger to myself or to anyone else. God bless. (signed initials)" (This is what the note says) This is what he wrote, in a real moment of fear, which is more relevant, instead of focusing on any health issue, because a full archive of emails, phone text messages, and PayPal receipts exists. And they paint a path that leads him to that point.

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  Hande #istanbulsözleşmesiyaşatır (@bebebuskuvusu) reported 56 minutes ago

  @PayPal I cannot login no matter what. I cannot reset my password either. and no one is helping. I have money in my account and cannot reach

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  jc 🏳️‍🌈 (@idliketomeanit) reported 56 minutes ago

  @cherruph And also my mom accidentally put my paypal down and started paying for disney plus without telling me 💔 like how dare she I removed it with a quickness lol

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  @IN SLIME WE TRUST (@SlimeTrust) reported 59 minutes ago

  If YouTube gave 95/5 on ad revenue it be a ******* problem… kick or Twitch does this neither they do it on the donations whoopie send the dono to my damn PayPal anyways

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  アオイ| AOI (@rohioart) reported 1 hour ago

  @SuzunaTsukimi Yeah, there have been multiple issues with this, I’m not sure if it’s a Kofi thing or PayPal. It’s always been there on my end but others were unable to see the option for PayPal, it only showed credit/debit card option. It most likely will only show that now.

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  Galen (@galen_tigert) reported 1 hour ago

  @tt_713f I had to use axs & it was advertised nightmare. I tried 2 different credit cards & PayPal on my laptop but I got error messages each time. finally used axs app & paid by apple pay & it took 45 mins to secure a ticket for LA!