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
Kassel	Sign in	4 hours ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	9 hours ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	1 day ago
Arumpo	Sign in	2 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	3 days ago
Adelaide	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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  Boney R. (@boney2r) reported 10 minutes ago

  Elon Musk explained how he runs two companies at once, months before the one everyone doubted turned its first profit. January 2013. CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, chairman of SolarCity, with his own money inside all three. Watch how he handles the split-attention question. He is being asked to justify the structure right before it starts printing. Tesla reported that first profitable quarter in May, and the stock ran from roughly $35 to over $190 across the year. He had put nearly his entire PayPal payout into cars and rockets and run it down to almost nothing in 2008. Short sellers had spent 3 years betting the car company would fold. He was defending the arithmetic in January. By May nobody was asking.

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  Bill Crowell (@n4hpg) reported 14 minutes ago

  @GeorgeGammon I watched your discussion with @philippilk about USD as a reserve currency with great interest. You gentlemen are both right, but I point out that people change systems reluctantly at first, but then suddenly. Nobody knows this better than software developers like me. Making the transition for even better systems like moving from Windows to Mac is a pain at first until it isn't. Sending wire transfers through Swift is a PAIN IN THE ***. It's also slow. One could say it has a lot of friction. PayPal has low friction. I'm hearing that CIPS is a low friction system. Will CIPS become trusted? That's the key. China is the world's manufacturer. She consumes raw materials and produces finished goods. It make sense to engage in transactions in RMB when possible if it is convenient. Where the Chinese appear to be building a better reserve system is via #Gold. If one can transact in RMB and have frictionless reserves in gold, that would be an attractive system. Lastly, there's resentment. Because of the behavior of the USA in sanctions and seizures of USD by foreign actors, there is great resentment building against the USA. We now have large parts of the planet that hate us for stealing their money. All eyes on China.

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  zero 🎷 (@space0dddity) reported 16 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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  Winston (@CryptoWinnies) reported 26 minutes ago

  @eliana_jordan @kwawmannanjnr a major problem for sure. Paypal is not known for robust dispute practices and they don't claim to be. If your first time to Egypt... sucks but this is not abnormal for Red Sea excursions. Unless you have strong connections with people in the region refrain from putting yourself in risky situations like this in the future. Its a painful experience and not comfy at all. sucks. Reddit, trip advisor are your friend.

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  AK (@EarningsB4Hugs) reported 28 minutes ago

  Breaking down TPV for $PYPL is an absolute headache. It looks like management is going to a lot of extent to bury the TPV for Paypal branded checkout in their filings. Absolutely not needed but I guess they are trying real hard to bury a declining business.

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  TeddyDeadyBear (@teddydeadybear) reported 29 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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  emilia heard ivy live!! (@emiliatmy) reported 32 minutes ago

  painfully sadly crying screaming SELLING 1x ariana grande silver vip ticket for the 27th august london… i paid 359€ so around £308 !! paypal g&s is no problem, can also meet up at the arena today if u want but only today cause i’m leaving tomorrow morning!

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 33 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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  Denise Wildfortune (@Wildfortune1) reported 33 minutes ago

  @J0hnADouglas @Adobe I had a problem with Avast. I successfully canceled the previous year, only to be billed the following year. Then I discovered that PayPal has a tab for sites allowed to use auto-renewal. I deleted Avast and many others. Now all my subscriptions are via PayPal.

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  leighton (@MilenialFulcrum) reported 34 minutes ago

  @IzzatStatus I got hit by a fraudulent PayPal scam a few years ago. I called PayPal. All indians. 100% useless The worthless “customer service” made the issue worse.

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  TomOnTech (@TomOnTech) reported 34 minutes ago

  AI AGENTIC PAYMENTS: The Middle Layer May Capture the Most Value AI agents are beginning to purchase data, software, computing power and services without a person initiating each transaction. Over time, agents could conduct more transactions than people, with many payments worth only a few cents or fractions of a cent. This does not necessarily mean payment processors will collect large fees. Coinbase reported more than 165 million x402 transactions but only about $50 million in cumulative volume—roughly $0.30 per transaction. The x402 protocol is also open and charges no protocol fee. If basic settlement becomes inexpensive and standardized, more value may accrue to the middle layer between the agent and the payment rail. That includes: • Identifying the agent • Confirming its permissions • Setting spending limits • Metering resource consumption • Requesting and verifying payment • Routing the transaction • Managing fraud and compliance • Granting access to the requested resource Public companies positioned around this middle layer: Cloudflare $NET Cloudflare may have the most strategically important position because it sits directly between agents and online resources. Its Monetization Gateway is designed to let an API, dataset, webpage or AI tool require payment before providing access. Cloudflare can potentially handle the payment request, usage metering, verification and access decision at the edge. Cloudflare Wallets could also give agents programmable spending limits, approved merchants and maximum transaction sizes. This places Cloudflare on both sides of the transaction: helping online resources collect payments and helping agents make them. The products are still early, however, and meaningful revenue has not yet been demonstrated. Coinbase $COIN Coinbase has the most developed overall agent-payment stack. It created x402, operates Base, provides agent wallets, facilitates payments and participates in USDC economics. Because x402 is open and vendor-neutral, Coinbase’s long-term opportunity is not charging a large protocol fee. It is monetizing wallets, balances, compliance, business services and activity occurring through its infrastructure. Mastercard $MA Mastercard’s potential role extends beyond processing the payment. Agent Pay for Machines is designed to manage identity, permissions and trust across cards, bank accounts and stablecoins, including high-frequency payments worth fractions of a cent. Even if settlement moves to inexpensive stablecoin networks, Mastercard could remain involved as the credentialing and risk-management layer. Visa $V Visa is developing agent scoring, tokenized credentials, fraud models, stablecoin settlement and an agent directory. Its infrastructure may be especially relevant when an agent makes a larger purchase for a person and the merchant needs to confirm that the agent is legitimate, authorized and operating within the user’s instructions. PayPal $PYPL PayPal combines merchant distribution, consumer wallets, PYUSD, fraud management and dispute resolution. Its strongest opportunity may be serving as the connection between consumer agents and merchants rather than processing sub-cent machine-to-machine payments. Circle $CRCL USDC currently dominates x402 settlement, making Circle an important part of the underlying payment rail. However, Circle primarily earns reserve income on USDC balances rather than revenue from each transaction. High transaction volume matters only if it also creates larger funded balances or demand for Circle’s paid wallet, compliance and developer services. Marqeta $MQ Marqeta can issue virtual cards with detailed spending limits and programmatic controls. This makes it a useful middle layer while agents still need to purchase from merchants that accept cards but not stablecoins. Its role may become less important if direct wallet-to-wallet payments become widely accepted. My current ranking: $NET — payment and access decisions at the internet edge $COIN — wallets, facilitation, Base and USDC economics $MA — agent identity, permissions and trust $V — credentials, fraud protection and merchant acceptance $PYPL — connection between consumer agents and merchants $CRCL — underlying stablecoin settlement $MQ — programmable card bridge

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  Jayden (@Jayden6411742) reported 35 minutes ago

  @_KenjiTheRonin @Luxvozz Well that's great to hear. One problem. I have no idea how to use PayPal. Since I never used it once in my entire life.

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  Koop Designs (@koop_designs05) reported 35 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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  #BuckeyeNation (@Buckeyefanohio7) reported 35 minutes ago

  Someone out there want help me out with 4,000 to help me fix my friends 2013 Chey SVU she's a single mom with kids ! I got cashapps like venmo and PayPal! #whatup #DemonDarling @MrBeast

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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 36 minutes ago

  It’s ridiculous; I’m having a serious problem with a client who filed a series of PayPal disputes. It’s absurd because the complaints stem from the fact that some thumbnails didn't pass the UEFN similarity check—something we all know is normal and happens with 90% of thumbnails. Even so, I made sure they passed the check; I even enlisted @MalakiDZN help to ensure they did. Yet, days later, the client disputed every single thumbnail I created—even the ones that had passed the check. On top of that, he defended his claim on PayPal by alleging I had plagiarized existing work. That’s ridiculous, considering I basically took Roblox concepts he sent me and adapted them for Fortnite. It’s absurd. I hope no other designer works with him, because this could happen to them. I don’t know why @PayPal hasn’t resolved this yet; having more than six disputes filed at once doesn't even make sense—it’s just a desperate attempt to get his money back 🫩🫩

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  Big Baby (@BigBabyvirgin) reported 37 minutes ago

  HE WAS BRIEFLY THE “RICHEST MAN ON EARTH” THANKS TO A PAYPAL GLITCH. 😳 In 2013, Pennsylvania businessman Chris Reynolds opened his PayPal statement and saw something absolutely unbelievable:

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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 38 minutes ago

  @thecanozer The payment access part is underrated. Getting Stripe + PayPal solves the first problem, but as the business grows I'd still avoid making either one the only payment rail. Access is step one, redundancy comes next.

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  Chuck D (@Chucksu1999) reported 38 minutes ago

  @lovelylunafreya Oh God 😱 My card expires soon and I hope that's not the case for my mine. Thankfully I use my PayPal mostly to forward my Child Support to my Ex 🫠 I'm glad you got your issue resolved but hate it took 2 weeks 😭

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  Black Beret (@BlackBeret3) reported 40 minutes ago

  This is actually pretty good for China travel. When I was in China, the only QR code payment processors were Alipay and Weixin Pay. If the vendor accepts Alipay, there’s almost never a problem, but if the vendor only accepted Weixin Pay, there was a lot of problems getting my US financial institution to approve the transaction. So I would either have to use cash or switch to a credit card if Weixin Pay wasn’t working. So PayPal being allowed to be used in China will reduce a lot of headache for foreign travelers. Though you absolutely should set up a WeChat account prior to travel for more efficient communication with Chinese contacts.

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  JATMN (@THEJATMN) reported 40 minutes ago

  @ChasejustChase @kutiekittenxo I don't have zelle🤷 I tried to setup during the early days before it was widely adopted. There was some sort of issue linking to my checking account. They couldn't figure it out. Bank later had it standard, still didn't function for me. My PayPal probably older than that person

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 41 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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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 44 minutes ago

  The version being told isn't the whole story; little is said about his bad practices regarding the conditions he attached to my payment for these thumbnails. Initially, he hired me simply to adapt thumbnails from Roblox to Fortnite—a task I accepted because we had worked together previously without issues. He never mentioned that making them "work" (pass the game's automated checks) would be a condition for getting paid for work already completed. The issue isn't whether I could make them work or not—even though he repeatedly claimed they didn't, filing over a dozen disputes on PayPal (every single payment was disputed), which is already suspicious. In reality, @MalakiDZN himself helped me get them working; furthermore, I could see for myself that some versions *did* work, yet he would simply ask for extra changes, arguing they failed even after I’d tested them all. That’s when I tested them myself and—yes—saw that some versions worked fine. So, the problem wasn't that they failed; I even attached proof of them working to the PayPal dispute. Another important point is that, as I said, he hired me to adapt concepts from Roblox to Fortnite without mentioning the conditions he kept adding later—conditions I never agreed to. We even made a deal where he would pay if I modified just one more thumbnail, but when I did, instead of honoring the agreement and paying, he added yet another request. The mere fact that he disputed *every* payment contradicts his narrative; he even disputed a "remaining" balance payment. Usually, if you aren't satisfied, you just stop working with someone—you don't keep asking for more thumbnails. (It’s worth noting he even disputed a payment for a Fortnite background—which is bizarre, since backgrounds don't even go through the similarity-check process, yet it was still disputed.) Finally, on PayPal, he argued that I had likely just plagiarized work and made minor tweaks, claiming that was why the game flagged it. Any creator knows that isn't how it works; the system relies on colors, shapes, composition, and other subjective visual elements—and sometimes it doesn't even let... ...creators using their own previously used thumbnails—plus, the whole thing would have been impossible given that he had me adapt Roblox concepts that didn't exist in Fortnite. I even provided all the PSD files, so I fulfilled the job requirements—and even went beyond what was required, doing things we hadn't originally agreed upon. As I’ve stated here, there is proof for everything, and it is all attached as evidence to resolve this matter. One thing has become clear to me since I posted my tweet yesterday—even though I didn't explicitly mention it at the time—is that there are other people who have gone through this same situation with him, and they can back me up on this.

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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 46 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel co-founded a company for $10,000. Four years later, eBay bought it for $1.5 billion. He says almost none of that came from doing what everyone else was already doing. Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir. In a Chicago Ideas talk called Going from Zero to One, he laid out the framework from his bestselling book — and it cuts against almost everything startup culture teaches. There are two ways to grow, he says. Horizontal — copying what already works, 1 to n. Vertical — doing something that's never existed, 0 to 1. Globalization is the first kind. Technology is the second. Here's the part that should bother you. Thiel says competition is not the opposite of capitalism. It's the enemy of it. A business making zero economic profit in a competitive market can't invest in R&D, can't pay employees well, can't plan more than a quarter ahead. Monopoly — not competition — is what generates the profit that funds the next leap forward. Google's search share has sat above 90% for years. Its margins have stayed enormous the entire time. That's not an accident of scale. That's the entire model. Most founders won't say the word "monopoly" out loud. Thiel says that's the tell. The ones who deny they have one usually don't — they're marketing themselves for antitrust lawyers, not customers. Then the line that separates his framework from every generic pitch-deck slide. "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Not a hot take. Not contrarianism for its own sake. A truth that's actually true, that the market hasn't priced in yet. He says most founders can describe their business plan. Almost none of them can answer that question. If they can't, they're building a 1-to-n company — competing in a crowded field, racing margins to zero. PayPal in 1999 wasn't fighting banks head-on. It found a tiny, underserved niche — internet-native micropayments — dominated it completely, then expanded outward. Thiel calls this "start with a monopoly in a small market." Not because small is safe. Because ********** is the whole point, and ********** only happens at a scale you can actually control first. Save this one. Every "best practice" in business was built by someone who broke one first — and never wrote down how.

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  mau (@fuckingeats) reported 48 minutes ago

  i’m selling a ticket (sec 412) for ariana grande in london 24th august.🫶🏻 i have no problem to do paypal g&s! dm! #arianagrande

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  Wil Marren (@king_o_whales) reported 48 minutes ago

  My PayPal got permanently deactivated :/... can I make a new one without getting in trouble? The weird thing is That i wasnt using it either and only found out about it because I did need to use it...

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  pourteaux ⋆ ˚｡⋆ (@pourteaux) reported 51 minutes ago

  @GabrielCor54922 yes... wechat still is hit or miss with that, but my foreign linked alipay works well enough for me. that said, both apps still require some chinese ability even though the english is more prominent these days (eg errors are still in chinese) and ID vertification is cumbersome paypal is an app people outside china already use

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  Janes (@JanesUK89) reported 55 minutes ago

  @wearehappydoggo Is anyone else having problems donating using Niall's link? I've tried PayPal, debit card but it keeps saying unknown error. Help please!

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  Yami Hikari ✨ EVERYSing for you (@Yami_Hikari1) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Kallynnei I'm still trying to pay, but god, why does it only accept PayPal? I don't have an account because I always run into some problem.

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  GenZ Investor (@investingbyGenZ) reported 59 minutes ago

  @WagerWizard00 I agree that PayPal is still something but when you look at the overall revenue growth it’s not impressive. Unless they can get revenue acceleration then a low multiple is warranted in an industry like this. And what I said was that I think the chances of them reaching sustained revenue growth has gone down

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  GenZ Investor (@investingbyGenZ) reported 60 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.