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 (41%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Stuttgart	Sign in	2 hours ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	21 hours ago
Arumpo	Sign in	1 day ago
Sydney	Sign in	3 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	3 days ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Sign in	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jason Skadsen (@OptimisticJ33) reported 3 minutes ago

  This is an early-stage report, not a product launch. CoinDesk says 𝕏 is in talks about paying creators in stablecoins (Circle’s USDC is the example named). The source is one person familiar with the discussions who also works with other platforms testing the same idea. 𝕏 has not confirmed anything. Treat it as a live option under review, not a done deal. What is actually changing? Great question… Two separate things are being mixed together: 1. Confirmed: 𝕏 is killing Revenue Sharing. New enrollments already stopped. The old program ends September 7; the last payouts land around September 11. It is replaced by Original Content Rewards, which is supposed to pay for original ideas, reporting, expertise, and commentary instead of ad-impression farming. 2. Unconfirmed: How those new rewards get sent. Today payouts go through Stripe or 𝕏 Money. Stablecoins would be another rail, not the new rewards program itself. Nothing in 𝕏’s official creator announcement mentions crypto. Why would they even consider it? Again, great question… Creator payouts are a messy, global, small-dollar problem. Bank wires, local rails, FX spreads, and minimums eat a lot of what mid-tier creators actually receive especially outside the US. Stablecoins (market cap now over $300 billion) settle in minutes, in dollars, without a correspondent bank in every country. That is the same reason $SPCX already uses them for some Starlink payments in “long-tail” markets. 𝕏 hiring Benji Taylor (ex-Coinbase Base, wallets/DeFi) in March fits the same direction. 𝕏 Money is already rolling to a slice of Premium+ users. YouTube already lets some US creators take PayPal’s PYUSD. Meta has started paying selected creators in USDC on Solana and Polygon. 𝕏 would not be first; it would be the largest social app to try it at scale.

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  RipStudios (@RiptideRipp) reported 11 minutes ago

  I paid for everything even the thumbnails that didn’t pass moderation because he said he would fix them which he ended up saying later that it’s not his problem after we agreed he would do it. After the PayPal cases are concluded if I end up winning them, I’m letting him keep the thumbnails that did work, which is less than half of them.

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  DJ (@RedrumCashew2) reported 12 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk Has anyone had issues paying with PayPal?

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  MironAi (@Miron_Ai) reported 13 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel is worth over $20 billion and he tells students that competition is for losers. He earned the right to say it. In 2004 he wrote a $500,000 check to a 19-year-old for 10.2% of Facebook - the first outside money that company ever took. He sold most of it for over a billion. Before that he cofounded PayPal, before that he was a failed Supreme Court clerkship candidate who quit corporate law after seven months. His argument in this lecture is one line long. All happy companies are different because each earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same - they failed to escape competition. Google makes about 30% margins. Airlines fight each other into the ground. Perfect competition is a synonym for zero profit. He wants you to build something nobody can copy.

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  Justin (@JustinCrestwood) reported 13 minutes ago

  @purplepickle743 @lifeofpkay_ Send PayPal ;) But really, it's always the same with these people. They are obviously always eating/drinking more calories, say they aren't, and then turn down any help with tracking. They have to know they're blatantly lying, no? I don't get it.

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  Downtown Freddie Brown (@SmallsObi) reported 13 minutes ago

  @CloutedRandom @coinbase @CoinbaseSupport Mines not with them but the website I used goes to Paypal and its defo a paypal issue

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  David Pollard (@davpol8112) reported 14 minutes ago

  @brecht_dp Well I have a huge problem getting the @PayPal button in place. Weeks trying!

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 14 minutes ago

  @hulosom both shipping. serv launched v3 11 days ago moving from API to visual enterprise suite, joined emerging payments association asia alongside mastercard and paypal, partnered with hitchhiker's guide IP for multi-year agent infrastructure, and their ceo and cto are at the STG-3 AI forum today discussing how serv unlocks agents for high-stakes use cases. zinc generated 2.28m in holder revenue over 30 days ending july 20 and ranked #2 among base protocols by incentive spend at 3.91m same period. serv at 18.6m mc, down 36% over 30 days. zinc at 170k mc, down 74% over 30 days.

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  Dr. Steve (not a doctor) (@rsd4444) reported 17 minutes ago

  @sjaguric @scriptles You can use it anyhere I think. It is like a bank with a debit card. I just set up to use on PayPal, and it worked. I will let you know if I run into any issues.

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  DAVE (@alixdavie2324) reported 18 minutes ago

  Would anyone be interested in my 2 sliver vip tickets for Ariana Grande in London on Aug 23rd. Send me a dm if you’re interested. willing to show genuine proof of the tickets. Will show you a screen recording down to the Ticketmaster app. PayPal G & S accepted

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  Koop Designs (@koop_designs05) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Solyant1 @StopKilingGames I mean yeah, the point of the coin is for the guy to make money. No one is denying that lmao, he's making money through a pretty untraceable mean so Take Two lawyers can't track him down easily from donation collections You want them to link their legal PayPal instead?

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  iyla ⟢ (@saintiyla) reported 23 minutes ago

  trying to figure out another way around this in the meantime, paypal said it’s an error and they’re looking into it but it’ll take a while to clear 😥

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  Sam AI (@AIandTechh87) reported 23 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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  Izk S (@IzkS) reported 25 minutes ago

  @JacobHatesJazz @iKalebHenry I had the same problem. I could only get it to work by using PayPal (which I think cost 2 extra dollars too)

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  TeddyDeadyBear (@teddydeadybear) reported 31 minutes ago

  Man I got an email from PayPal that I had some refund thing and I did a bit of research first to make sure the refund was real and also checked the email and saw it was the real one but after clicking the link and logging in to claim my money I’m worried I got scammed cause I didn’t receive anything and I’m worried it was a login info steal attempt and now I feel super stupid for even logging in through a link to begin with whether it was a scam or not. I really hope it isn’t a scam and it’s legit but me being in need of cash right now made me behave stupid

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  Under Exile57 (@under_exile57) reported 32 minutes ago

  According to cyberleek chips It Can Be Used In Clubs And GTA 6 Online Server Owners Can Disable The Chips App If They Want Chips Can Be Traded To Real Life Money via Banks Also PayPal (can/might) Be One Of The Payment Methods

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  Derrick Jones (@deuceohsixx) reported 32 minutes ago

  @kurlyshark @PayPal You couldn’t be an Uber Eats or DoorDash driver. Both apps make you scan your face most times to sign in to deliver.

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  Odd (@Perioddical) reported 35 minutes ago

  @mullinsverse @lukellios they’ve not replied to any of my emails either so I’ve opted to open a PayPal case before it’s too late as my issues date was August 24th (my item was delivered though, just with a lot of inconsistencies to the mockup and damage for a preorder grade + lack of emails), good luck

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  xochi (@xoc_hi) reported 36 minutes ago

  @isooballin Ran up some bands off that paypal glitch IFYKYK

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  .✦ ݁˖ (@nerosluver) reported 41 minutes ago

  @oujoriku @TheNeroGuy He emailed saying he’d give me my refund than proceed to say he was having trouble and asked for my PayPal to help with the refund I have yet to get it 💀💀 he doesn’t know what he’s doing

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Jason______A @PayPal @AskPayPal nobody has a rep, thats the whole problem. theres no named human to escalate to at consumer tier, which is why 39 people here have the same story and none of them end differently

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  GD | Goldestruction | (@GDestructio) reported 42 minutes ago

  @yol_yoola Once the PayPal issue is resolved, I'll donate as much I can. I don't want to see this **** happened to you anymore

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  All The Influencer Drama 🍿 (@CloutedRandom) reported 43 minutes ago

  is coinbase down rn? i withdrew money into paypal , it usually doesnt take over 1 hour to arrive in my paypal account??? @coinbase @CoinbaseSupport

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  Vox (@Voxyz_ai) reported 46 minutes ago

  If you're building a Grok Bot team, I'd start with these six roles. I moved some work from other agent tools into Grok Bot and reassigned ownership. A Bot needs recurring work, its own memory and task list, and regular handoffs. One-off capabilities stay as Skills or routines. 1. Nexus (Coordination) This is the Bot I use most. It reads today's tasks and each Bot's checkpoint, sets priorities, then hands the work to the right role. It also runs the nightly review, but only updates one TEAM_ALIGNMENT.md file. Conflicts, external messages, spending, and changes to important files come back to me. 2. Scout (Research and Leads) Scout reads X, GitHub, documentation, papers, and videos, and runs the daily content radar. Every result needs a source, a reason it is worth following, and a clear next owner. Content signals go to Quill, customer leads go to Guide, and technical issues go to Forge. 3. Quill (Content) Quill reads my writing rules, previous work, and approved phrasing, then turns research into posts, articles, and replies. When facts are missing, it asks Scout. For code or product details, it asks Forge. It prepares drafts but never publishes on its own. 4. Forge (Engineering and Automation) Forge writes code, builds automations and MCPs, deploys, and verifies the result. Guide can call it when a customer asks a technical question. Nexus can hand it repetitive work to turn into a tool. Every delivery needs test results, screenshots, or files I can inspect. A delivery does not count as complete without that evidence. 5. Guide (Customers and Delivery) Guide manages customers, prospects, briefs, feedback, delivery, and follow-up. Each important customer gets a separate context packet containing recent conversations, current goals, promises made, and open problems. Guide asks Scout to research a company or contact, and asks Forge for technical answers. Customer emails and messages remain drafts. 6. Ledger (Finance and Reconciliation) Ledger reads Wise, PayPal, invoices, and subscription data through my self-hosted MCP, then handles reconciliation, revenue records, and anomaly alerts. The real API keys stay on my own server. Ledger can prepare payment or refund recommendations, but every financial write still needs my approval. Once the roles are set, give each Bot the Plugins it needs. For example, Nexus can use Gmail, Calendar, Slack, and Granola. Quill can read Drive and Notion. Guide can use Gmail, Slack, and meeting notes. Forge can connect to code repositories and cloud services. Ledger continues to use my self-hosted MCP. Repeated methods become Skills. Work that needs to run on a schedule becomes a routine. That creates a basic loop: Plugins provide data and tools → a Skill defines the method → a routine triggers on schedule → the Bot completes the task or hands it to another Bot → I approve external messages, publishing, and financial actions For example, Guide's heartbeat checks the customer inbox on a schedule. When a new email arrives, the Gmail Plugin reads the full thread. Guide then opens that customer's context packet to see what was discussed before and what is currently blocked. If the email contains a technical question, Guide asks Forge to verify the answer. Once Forge replies, Guide writes the email draft and labels it: BOT DRAFT · NOT SENT · HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED Nexus adds the email to my pending report and reminds me that a customer reply needs review. The email is sent only after I approve it. I wouldn't create separate Bots for meeting prep, 1:1 reviews, data analysis, revenue forecasting, slides, or call reviews. Meeting prep and 1:1 reviews are Nexus routines. Ledger or Guide can run forecasting and data analysis when needed. Slides are a Skill called by Quill or Forge. Scout finds prospects, and Guide handles the follow-up. Bot = owns an ongoing work queue and needs its own memory Skill = a reusable method Routine = a task triggered on a schedule Packet = context for one customer or project Connector / MCP = access to external data and tools I start new capabilities as Skills. Once something has recurring work, its own state, and frequent handoffs with other Bots, then I create a Bot for it. This takes me back to the OpenClaw setup I built six months ago. I used almost the same roles then, but had to wire the whole thing together myself across a VPS, Vercel, and Supabase. The part I wanted most was smooth coordination: Bots messaging each other in the background, handing off tasks, and talking in a group. I spent way too many hours trying to make that work and probably lost some hair over it lol. The UX was still clunky. Six months later, bigger companies are moving into this space. They’re treating coordination as part of the product, which is a very different route from the DIY agent stacks I was building. Grok Bot’s group chats still aren’t perfect, but the handoffs and background messaging already feel much more natural.

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  zero 🎷 (@space0dddity) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Marcothecoolest @XitterUser_69 tbf there is a report system iirc, however ao3 will not take works down unless they are incorrectly tagged OR they have links to websites like paypal... ao3 is like famous for letting basically anything slide idk why they think the fics are getting taken down by mods

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  Fahad (@wtfaddyyy) reported 50 minutes ago

  More than half of Pakistan’s financial issues would be solved if PayPal came to Pakistan.

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@aureayutrades) reported 50 minutes ago

  🍓 - open for transferring > paypal permanent limit withdrawal (180 days) > gcash & may with issue transfer balance (authentication failed, face recognition, can't send/open) > not verify balance transfer (gcash, maya, grab, shopee, lazada)

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  Bearlovesbull (@Bearlovesbull) reported 58 minutes ago

  🚨STRIPE’S ENDGAME: BUY $PYPL , OWN THE TRANSACTION LAYER $PYPL is an M&A probability curve. Stripe and Advent started at $60.50. PayPal said no. The stock moved to the bid. Now the only number that can fix this is the clearing price. My range is $65–72. Because $75+ requires Stripe to decide the strategic value of PayPal exceeds the regulatory and integration tax. Stripe owns the merchant infrastructure. $PYPL owns consumer distribution. Venmo gives Stripe the consumer network it never built. OpenRouter gives Stripe a toll road into AI commerce. Put it together and Stripe is positioning itself between the consumer, merchant, money movement and increasingly the AI agent initiating the transaction. That is the bull case. The bear case is equally simple. You are combining two enormous payments networks, inviting regulators into the room, spending $50B+ to do it and then asking two very different organizations to operate as one economic machine. So I wouldn't underwrite $PYPL here as a turnaround. If deal dies, $PYPL will price lower. If deal clears around $65–72, the shareholders monetize the control premium. If Stripe decides that PayPal is strategically irreplaceable, then we see $75+ becoming possible. For Stripe, the bigger question is quietly assembling the financial operating system for the next internet. Payments were layer one. Consumer distribution is layer two. AI agents may be layer three. $PYPL is the expensive bridge between them.

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  GenZ Investor (@investingbyGenZ) reported 58 minutes ago

  $PYPL - the thesis played out. It just wasn’t the PayPal I wanted. I bought this quite a long time ago because the valuation was very low versus the cash they were producing. The downside case was that if the price got ugly enough, buybacks would grind it back, or someone would make a bid. That’s what happened. The bid is not where I’d like it to be. It did recoup what I’d lost. I didn’t sell into the offer, and I didn’t double down at the bottom. There might still be talks of a higher number, and the tape has been doing well. I’m thinking about selling now, or holding a while. Waiting and hoping for a better bid is starting to feel unnecessary. This is likely not the company I want to own for a longer time. Especially with Alex Chriss gone. Checkout is still barely growing, accounts are flat, and the growth I originally thought was possible looks a lot less likely to me.

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  Eliana (@eliana_jordan) reported 58 minutes ago

  @kwawmannanjnr i paid with my paypal balance... that's the problem