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 (40%)
• Errors (38%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Lyon	Errors	2 days ago
Paris	Sign in	5 days ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	5 days ago
Tlaquepaque	Errors	7 days ago
Massy	Website Down	7 days ago
Montlouis-sur-Loire	Sign in	9 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Richardson Dackam (@RichardsonDx) reported 0 seconds ago

  Money becomes useless to an autonomous agent when it gets trapped in the wrong financial system An agent might: earn $500 through a checkout provider hold $200 in USDC have a card issued by another provider need to pay a SaaS merchant that only accepts cards Those are all "money" but operationally they are different islands Customer pays → money sits in Provider A Agent needs to spend → purchasing power exists in Provider B So WE (Humans) have to move/reconfigure/fund things for our AI agents An their autonomy breaks... The hard problem isn't giving an agent money It's making sure money earned in one system can become purchasing power in another without a human moving it Earn here → hold there → spend somewhere else → keep going An agent should be able to earn through one provider, hold value somewhere else, move that value when needed, spend through another rail, and keep reinvesting what it earns without a human stepping in to bridge the gaps My goal with Mandate is to give autonomous AI agents economic freedom I want anyone to be able to deploy intelligence that can create value, earn from that value, reinvest what it earns, and compound it into something bigger over time That's why Mandate had to be open source and provider agnostic No single financial provider covers every way an agent might earn, hold, move, or spend money One agent might receive revenue through Stripe, hold USDC in Coinbase, spend through Lithic, and use a bridge in between. Another might use entirely different providers Receive: Stripe / PayPal / stablecoins / marketplace payouts Hold: bank / financial account / wallet / stablecoin treasury Move: ACH / wire / bridge / onchain transfer Spend: card / bank transfer / stablecoin / x402 Mandate financial stack is composable: providers supply capabilities, Mandate connects them, and the agent sees one economic system You can connects whichever providers you choose into one continuous economic account Because autonomous agents won't operate in a crypto-only or fiat-only world. Crypto alone can't solve economic autonomy when most of the world an agent needs to operate in still runs on fiat, cards, and banks Fiat alone can't solve it either, because agents will increasingly use payment systems built for machine-to-machine commerce. The future is hybrid. The infrastructure has to be composable. I built Mandate so that an agent can operate across both as one continuous economy

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  Cai Co (@CaiCo87) reported 59 seconds ago

  @AskPayPal @EyoladeAbass In other words, don’t expect the issue to ever be resolved because their help center isn’t monitored by human beings and they engage in fraud.

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  Hope (@LordGem3) reported 1 minute ago

  @ArmandDoma It is hard though, right? Because, the PayPal mafia model is to pull a bunch of disconnected nodes together. You fund a lot of startups, some of them succeed. The successful ones consolidate into something greater than the sum of their parts. The problem with regulating ai is..

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  Murugi (@its_murugi) reported 3 minutes ago

  Wishing everyone at @PayPal a terrible day today 🙏

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  Åsk Dabitch Wäppling オスク・ダビッチ - オスクさん Дабитч (@dabitch) reported 3 minutes ago

  @bashildy Do you remember when Katrina happened and they raised money and Paypal shut their fundraiser down? 2005 was a helluva year.

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  Rena || Butchzai CEO 🇧🇷🍒 (@sincerelyosamu) reported 8 minutes ago

  @PlaneKepler452b i dont want to use paypal either lmao😭😭 ive heard it bans your account out of nowhere and im paranoid as **** also, there are alternatives but they all have their own issues

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  blarby (@darbya09) reported 10 minutes ago

  @CardCash On two occasions, I've gotten demand emails from your loss prevention team. Zero effort to get to the buttom of what happened. Just threats and PayPal invoice due immediately. I've sold tens of thousands worth of gift cards with zero issues. Unfortunately, there is no seller protection so I'll be closing my account and recommend everyone else do the same.

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  Rajat Garg (@rajat_garg25) reported 10 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I’m unable to login into my account, the Indian phone number that was registered is no longer in use. What can be done here?

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  Uncle Link⭐ (@UncleLinx) reported 10 minutes ago

  the market runs 1,440 minutes a day. you run about 40. that's the entire problem. everything else you argue about on this app is downstream of that one number. so people build crutches. price alerts. a hundred goddamn price alerts. and a price alert is the dumbest possible version of your thesis, because it only knows one number. it can't tell a breakout from a wick that got bought back in nine seconds. the other camp sells you a bot. black box, a backtest curve going up and to the right, no way to ask it what the hell it's doing. most of it is a ******* screenshot business, not a trading business. TradeOS took the boring road instead. you type a sentence. plain English, no Pine Script, no repo to clone: "analyze QQQ 1D chart with trend analysis using moving average, MACD, squeeze momentum, ATR" that sentence becomes an agent: > it runs 24/7 > it watches the assets you named while you're asleep > it drops the verdict in your feed. "detected 3 trends." or nothing, which is also an answer. 13,000+ assets in reach. the agent doesn't get bored at minute 41. there's a second piece on there I think is underrated. an indicator market. one premarket S&P model has 19,347 subscribers on it. you can rent someone else's edge instead of rebuilding it from scratch, or publish yours and let other people pay for it. that's a real market, not a Discord with a paywall. now the part almost nobody clicks on. @TradeOS_ai is built on @verona_dev. Verona doesn't rent them blockspace. Verona earns a share of what the app earns. read that twice, because it inverts the usual deal. every other chain wants your gas and a logo in their ecosystem deck. Verona only gets paid when the app on top of it gets paid. that changes who they let build. a landlord takes any tenant. a partner does diligence. and look at who picked those rails. teams that moved money at eBay, PayPal, ByteDance, American Express. those people shipped payment infrastructure at a scale where a bad rail costs real money and somebody's job. they don't pick rails for the vibes. that's the signal I'd weigh, honestly. not the roadmap. the choice.

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  The Grand Teuton 🇺🇸 (@flulrich) reported 11 minutes ago

  @BowTiedKong I think banking regulations mandate the involvement of some physical clearing houses for an "online" transfer Why not just use ravens to transfer the funds? Another issue is PayPal holding people's funds hostage whenever they feel like it, apparently

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  Yasir Ai (@AiwithYasir) reported 14 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  Super Hawa 🐟💜⁷ ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ (@Hawa__Sahar) reported 14 minutes ago

  WTS - 1 level 132 row 3 ticket for BTS World Tour ARIRANG in Foxborough on Thursday, August 6th. Amazing idol parade view! Purchased during production sale for $731.40 & willing to sell for lower! Can provide proof of purchase/video chat. Can no longer attend due to medical issues. Must use PayPal G & S!

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  Hasan_edits23 (@GwHasan) reported 17 minutes ago

  I got hit with a 200 Dollers PayPal lien by a US client 🤯 Sounds scary, right? But honestly this experience reminded me of something I'll never forget entire my life Hear me out guys Few weeks ago , I started working with a new client and the biggest issue what we are facing wasn't the work Yes yess you heard me right It was communication So the client was not very active , so we couldn't discuss feedback properly. Because of that, video revisions kept getting delayed, deadlines started slipping, and eventually our contract was canceled.🥲 To make things worse, I got a $200 PayPal lien. At that moment, I could not blamed the client. Or neither I just walked away Instead, I reached out. I explained my side of the story, listened to theirs, and gave them time to think And then .. Something completely unexpected happened. They finally removed the $200 PayPal lien So the lesson is : Not every problem needs a fight. Sometimes, it just needs a conversation ✨

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  ore (@lanalovesbooks0) reported 17 minutes ago

  after my problems with paypal last year, i no longer submit to magazines like chestnut who will only pay you if you have a paypal account

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  Feanor (@CryptoFeanor) reported 18 minutes ago

  Been holding base:0x5576d6ed9181f2225aff5282ac0ed29f755437ea since way back, and they've done nothing but put their head down and ship the whole time. Now they've got a seat at the table with Mastercard, PayPal and HSBC on agentic payments. Grabbed some more today.

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  Nasi Tumpang (@precilkdrtumpan) reported 19 minutes ago

  @eryndor_0 @Honeyhoneyjoe @AskPayPal Hello, I have a similar issues. What about your progress? My account has been disabled permanently. I don't know why my account has been disabled. I just want to withdraw my balance if the account recovery.

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  Richardson Dackam (@RichardsonDx) reported 28 minutes ago

  Money becomes useless to an autonomous agent when it gets trapped in the wrong financial system An agent might: earn $500 through a checkout provider hold $200 in USDC have a card issued by another provider need to pay a SaaS merchant that only accepts cards Those are all "money" but operationally they are different islands Customer pays → money sits in Provider A Agent needs to spend → purchasing power exists in Provider B So WE (Humans) have to move/reconfigure/fund things for our AI agents And their autonomy collapses the moment money gets stuck The hard problem isn't giving an agent money It's making sure money earned in one system can become purchasing power in another without a human moving it Earn here → hold there → spend somewhere else → keep going An agent should be able to earn through one provider, hold value somewhere else, move that value when needed, spend through another rail, and keep reinvesting what it earns without a human stepping in to bridge the gaps My goal with Mandate is to give autonomous AI agents that economic freedom I want anyone to be able to have an intelligence that can create value, earn from that value, reinvest what it earns, and compound it into something bigger over time That's why Mandate had to be open source and provider agnostic No single financial provider covers every way an agent might earn, hold, move, or spend money One agent might receive revenue through Stripe, hold USDC in Coinbase, spend through Lithic, and use a bridge in between. Another might use entirely different providers Receive: Stripe / PayPal / stablecoins / marketplace payouts Hold: bank / financial account / wallet / stablecoin treasury Move: ACH / wire / bridge / onchain transfer Spend: card / bank transfer / stablecoin / x402 Mandate financial stack is composable: providers provide the financial building blocks. Mandate turns them into one economic system the agent can use. You can connects whichever providers you choose into one continuous economic account Because autonomous agents won't operate in a crypto-only or fiat-only world. Crypto alone can't solve economic autonomy when most of the world an agent needs to operate in still runs on fiat, cards, and banks Fiat alone can't solve it either, because agents will increasingly use payment systems built for machine-to-machine commerce. The future is hybrid. The infrastructure has to be composable. I built Mandate so that an agent can operate across both as one continuous economy

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  Agnostica Gnostica (@AgnostikGnostik) reported 29 minutes ago

  @froglet80 Thanks! I was hoping to avoid the fees and had linked it to my personal PayPal, but I guess that causes issues. Will try to sort it out as spoons allow 🥄

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 30 minutes ago

  🍓 - open for transfer • not verify balance transfer to verify (gcash, maya, shopee pay, lazada wallet, grab pay, pricelocq) • gcash & maya with issue transfer balance (authentication failed, facescan, can't send, can't open) permanent limit paypal withdrawal (180 days)

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  Awesomesaucette (@LittleSlav) reported 35 minutes ago

  anyone else having issues logging into @PayPal on web?

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  KT (@KT87985373) reported 35 minutes ago

  Brittney constantly says “leave my children alone” and acts outraged that people review what she publicly broadcasts about them. The problem is, Brittney herself keeps putting her children and alleged CPS calls into her content over and over again. Not occasionally. Repeatedly. Just in 2026 I've tracked 134 substantive retellings of Brittney’s personal CPS history across 91 streams on 83 separate dates between January 1 and August 5, 2026. She talks about her children being questioned by CPS, what CPS allegedly asked them, how the visits supposedly traumatized them, what allegations were made about their food, bedrooms, medical care, firearms, drugs, prenatal care, the baby, her parenting and her home. Then those stories become evidence that she is being persecuted. Then specific creators are accused of calling, inciting, “dog-whistling,” knowing the caller or being responsible because of who they associate with. And very often, all of this is happening alongside memberships, super chats, gifted memberships, Cash App, PayPal, Venmo, registries or other financial support. A few examples: 2/17 — “Get HELP Stat!!!” — 1:25:00–1:39:54 Brittney recounts six alleged CPS visits, police entries, drug accusations, drug testing and police canines while gifted memberships and Cash App support are being discussed. 2/18 — “Dehumanizing & Outright Lies!!” — 1:00:17–1:09:43 She tells the story of CPS allegedly being told she cooked for Craig but not her sons and says a caseworker inspected her refrigerator. Her child is audibly part of the stream while memberships are being gifted. 2/23 — “A Talk With My Daughter: The Impacts of Harassment on a Family” — 28:53–35:27 Her daughter is literally brought onto the channel to discuss how the online conflict and CPS calls allegedly affected the children. 6/28 — “Let’s Pick Up Where We Left Off” — 4:35:30–4:43:12 She discusses money viewers sent after a serious CPS allegation and explains that it was intended for an attorney. 8/2 — “What’s That About Nicknames?” — 2:18:28–2:26:31 She again talks about CPS repeatedly coming to the home because of online allegations while memberships, Cash App, PayPal and Venmo are being promoted. So spare me the idea that simply reviewing her public streams is somehow “exploiting” her children. She is the one repeatedly making alleged CPS calls and their supposed impact on her children part of her channel’s storyline. And she knows damn well people review these streams. She talks about clips. She talks about screenshots. She talks about people saving streams. She talks about transcripts and documentation. She asks people to send her clips. She discusses collecting material for attorneys, CPS and the district attorney. So this whole shocked act that people actually listen to what she publicly says is ridiculous. There is also an obvious contradiction in constantly demanding that everyone stop discussing the children while continuing to publicly disclose intimate details about them whenever those details help reinforce the victim narrative. The children are apparently completely off-limits... until their alleged trauma helps prove how persecuted Brittney is. Then suddenly we hear about CPS interviews, fears of police, medical treatment, sleeping arrangements, pregnancy, the baby, drug accusations and what caseworkers supposedly found. And to be clear: none of this means every CPS call was fake or that every donation was specifically given because of CPS. But the recurring content pattern is impossible to ignore: Talk about the children → tell another CPS story → describe the family as victims → accuse someone in the community → outrage the audience → promote or receive financial support → repeat. You cannot repeatedly use your children’s alleged trauma as evidence in your public persecution narrative and then declare that nobody else is allowed to discuss the very information you chose to broadcast. Protecting children means limiting their exposure. It does not mean making their alleged trauma recurring content whenever it is useful for sympathy, loyalty and financial support. At some point, “leave my kids out of it” needs to start with the person holding the microphone.

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  Susan Huey (@88845sh) reported 35 minutes ago

  Real families in Gaza use X to crowdfund for survival, but lack of platform vetting attracts highly sophisticated X features expose the real login locations of accounts, GoFundMe and PayPal do not work inside Gaza, meaning every real campaign must

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  ✦ darko! |-/ (@_puppyllenhaal) reported 35 minutes ago

  I WAS FINALLY ABLE TO FIX MY PAYPAL ACCOUNT IM SO HAPPY THAT IRS WORKING NOW THANK GOD

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  charles 🌿 𝕽𝖊𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖙 𝕭𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖗𝖆 (@thehorsecharles) reported 41 minutes ago

  @hasmagoria anyways I think atp I have to assume you just get off on lolis and being talked down to by horses online so if you’d like to continue this conversation i’ll give you my PayPal bc why anyone would continue to talk to you without being properly compensated for it

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  Greg Long☮️ (@ElCarpintuerto) reported 42 minutes ago

  @tanyawoz4 Tanya, I just got some money after not working for 4 months. I want to donate to the raffle, I have PayPal and where do I donate?

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  Maaz (@maaz_ullah_) reported 46 minutes ago

  @PrimeArchetype @HoussamDesigner It's a problem of client. And 4$ are nothing then the PayPal fee

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  Soren⁴²⁰ (Fokin Graduado💀) (@Soren_cio) reported 51 minutes ago

  @tartagliagita But if it’s something digital like a commission, then there’s no problem only the PayPal-style intermediary or smthn like that

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  Marsanne Golsby (@marsannegolsby) reported 52 minutes ago

  Follow up on my problems with Meta. The azzwipe who hacked my FB account also tried to steal $260 something, according to PayPal. Working it out with PayPal, I think. But I’m furious. IF I ever rejoin FB I’ll change my passwords once a month. Changing others this weekend as I have time. 😡

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  Echo (@cresthiker36) reported 56 minutes ago

  @PayPal @AskPayPal your script reading, heavily accented customer service phone agents are a problem.

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  Jayne : stand your ground (@JaynenotJanie) reported 59 minutes ago

  @KissMyCarol Too much de-banking and platforms making decisions based on social credit. I know the D banking has greatly improved and is likely not going to come back in a big way. But I had a PayPal account and they had put out several years ago that if you made unacceptable statements on social media Facebook etc. that they would confiscate up to $2500 from your bank account And sequester that money for your PayPal purchases. So I eliminated my PayPal account and I refuse to work with any corporation that threatens me. I don't think that X will do anything like that but I don't know what will happen down the road and I just don't trust what already happened to me Also how's your first night of retirement?