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 (46%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Marseille	Errors	2 days ago
Montpellier	Website Down	2 days ago
Villeblevin	Website Down	3 days ago
Sydney	Website Down	4 days ago
Leonardtown	Sign in	5 days ago
Mayen	Sign in	5 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mrs.Sunshine (@Sunshine1rdh) reported 27 seconds ago

  @libsoftiktok @PayPal They are terrible! They kick even regular businesses off for no good reason!

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  Rico - Investing 🇵🇦🇲🇽🇩🇪🇨🇱🇺🇸 (@venaodiver) reported 9 minutes ago

  @BourbonCap Dumbest post ever seen.. you can do literally just do PayPal and adobe and go down like them..

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  Never Married Dating . Com - Dating App (@NMdatingapp) reported 13 minutes ago

  @codeofvets @PayPal @stripe what do you mean paypal shut down ?

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  Jerry Beaird (@JerryBeaird2) reported 14 minutes ago

  By the year 2022 PayPal had shut down 4.5 million accounts.

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  Creative Deduction (@CreativeDeduct) reported 14 minutes ago

  Elon Musk didn’t get rich by accident, by luck or by fraud. He got rich through entrepreneurship and ingenuity, and by taking enormous risks. The picture is Musk staring at the wreckage of another exploded Falcon 1 rocket, the third to fail on launch. In 2008, Musk was borrowing money from friends to pay his rent, going through a divorce, SpaceX was running out of cash, and to add to the misery, Tesla was at risk of missing payroll and going bankrupt. Down to his last $40 million of the $180 million he made from selling PayPal, Musk decided on one last roll of the dice and poured his remaining capital into a fourth launch on September 28, 2008. This time it worked. The rocket successfully reached orbit. Weeks later, SpaceX was awarded a $1.6 billion contract from NASA. A few months later, Tesla secured crucial investment to commence production of the original Tesla Roadster. "I gave both SpaceX and Tesla a probability of less than 10% likely to succeed," Musk later said. Musk could have taken a salaried job and never pursued entrepreneurship. He could have pocketed his PayPal millions and sat on a beach for the rest of his life. Instead, he risked it all and it paid off in a spectacular way, not just for him. His groundbreaking companies have given consumers new and better products and created 1000s of well-paid jobs. SpaceX alone has made more than 4,000 former and current employees Dollar millionaires. It also made Musk the world’s first Dollar trillionaire. His detractors tell you his wealth is undeserved. The truth is that when exceptional individuals like Musk run risks that may seem unacceptable to most of us, society progresses and we all gain. Instead of chastising success, we should take inspiration from people like Elon Musk. Next time you think of giving up, remember this picture.

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  Neel Chhabra (@NeelChhabra) reported 19 minutes ago

  Free infrastructure creates competitive applications. The entity that sits between them, making the connection work reliably, becomes the most durable business in the ecosystem. In the 1990s, as the internet was being built, the battle everyone watched was between infrastructure players and application players. The infrastructure companies were critical and modestly valued. The application companies were exciting and wildly overvalued. What few people noticed was the emergence of a third category… companies that weren’t building the internet and weren’t building on the internet, but were building the tools that made the internet commercially usable. The payment processors that connected the banking system to e-commerce. The security companies that made consumer trust in online transactions possible. The logistics companies that connected digital demand to physical fulfillment. These companies — early PayPal, Verisign, FedEx in its transformation, were not glamorous. They were solving operationally complex, commercially invisible problems in the gap between infrastructure and application. Over the next two decades, many infrastructure companies became commodities. Many application companies failed or were acquired. The middleware companies, the ones that had built genuinely irreplaceable connective tissue between the two layers, quietly became some of the most durable and profitable businesses in the digital economy.

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  Niklas ⚡️ (@Niklas_Sikorra) reported 20 minutes ago

  @levelsio Buy PayPal for the memes and fix it.

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  .˚𓏲 𝔏𝔶𝔠𝔲𝔰'☥.| Vartist (@BatLycusx) reported 21 minutes ago

  @ZandoraVT But this is purely Paypal which has always been an issue for many artists. If someone was planning to chargeback they will either u commission it on vgen or Kofi or carrd or any other platform. I don’t trust Paypal for that reason

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  Kevin Kershner (@kevinkershner) reported 21 minutes ago

  @wariocolosseum Sir, the federal government already spends $5.3 trillion--every year trying to fix that stuff. Second, starting 3 wildly successful companies (PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX) would be why he has triple the wealth of those people who created one successful com

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  Ronnie Irby - Crazy Cajun (@RonnieIrby1951) reported 22 minutes ago

  @GretchenPSmith @PayPal @AskPayPal I hear You Ms. Gretchen, in 2008, PayPal employees in Accounting, stole my money, after I paid a $12.00 invoice for selling a car. They sold my info, and 2 places got all of my money out of my account. I luckily had a sister working for AT&T and I had references & Numbers on the transactions they used, and found them. I call FBI, but I was able to get every penny of my money back by 4:30 PM that day. FBI asked me how I did that, I refused to tell them, methods they can't legally use. But ever since I Refuse to Use PayPal! I was so mad at Mr. Elon for selling, I had no issues while he was there. I am praying for you & the Veterans to Get The Money You raised for them! That is Horrible!!!! GOD BLESS YOU & YOURS!!

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  Jordan Keyser (@jordankeyser) reported 24 minutes ago

  @CHINNIE1380 @Youngjoeybaby Yeah I used PayPal, didn’t know it would be an issue!

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  さとう/Skeb.VGen (@sdus1017) reported 25 minutes ago

  Currently, to prevent problems, we are only accepting requests via X DM from individuals whose online activity on platforms such as streaming and video can be verified, and only with a "full prepayment via PayPal/no illustration revisions" system.

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  The Arcane Verse⚕️ (@Telephantix) reported 27 minutes ago

  @FTC I am following up on an official complaint I filed with your office a few years ago. I continue to experience issues with several companies that appear to block or withhold funds through their policies or technology. These companies include Gmail, Cash App, PayPal, and X (formerly Twitter). Cash App is embedded within the X platform, yet after years they still claim I never received funds that should have reached me. I strongly suspect fabricated transaction numbers or records, which I believe constitutes fraud. These actions have resulted in the loss of life-changing sums of money due to what appears to be poor policy enforcement and/or malfeasance. I respectfully request that the FTC investigate these companies for unfair and deceptive practices. Please advise on the status of my prior complaint and what additional documentation or steps are needed to move forward. Thank you for your assistance. Joshua Lowden @Telephantix

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  VC Intern (@the_vc_intern) reported 27 minutes ago

  PayPal Ventures is winding down That is not just a cost-cutting story. It is PayPal giving up one of its windows into fintech before the next wave hits. The venture arm launched in 2016, backed more than 80 companies, and raised $850M across three funds. Its portfolio included Plaid, Anchorage Digital, Divvy, Talos, and other companies building the infrastructure around payments, crypto, banking, and fintech APIs. Now PayPal is restructuring. New CEO Enrique Lores is trying to simplify the company, refocus around core businesses, and make PayPal a technology company again. That makes the venture shutdown awkward. Corporate venture is not only about financial returns. For incumbents, it is market radar. A CVC fund lets a company see what founders are building before the category becomes obvious. Which payment rails are getting traction. Which compliance problems are becoming startups. Which fintech APIs are replacing internal roadmaps. Which crypto or banking infrastructure layers are moving from experiment to enterprise. PayPal can still partner, acquire, or invest later. But shutting down the venture arm means fewer early signals from the edge of fintech. The company is trying to get sharper. It may also be narrowing the lens right as fintech is getting rebuilt again.

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  OJ - PlayerEssence (@PlayerEssence) reported 28 minutes ago

  @ArcanaLegacy I see, no problem. Send me your paypal and I'll buy the game for you.

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  Inuio🔪🦭┊coms soon.ᐟ.ᐟ (@1nuio0o) reported 28 minutes ago

  i think im not gonna use paypal since i saw artists have problems a lot ;-; what payment method do you guys usually use tho 🤔🤔

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  🟩 Silver Fang ⬛️ (@ThatStripedFox) reported 28 minutes ago

  Okay so honest question for those following me, this artist owes me like $310 in coms and I havent gotten a single one for a LONG time, way past the time PayPal could issue refund so what do I do? This is honestly a new experience for me :/ I feel the money is just gone.

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  Creative Deduction (@CreativeDeduct) reported 31 minutes ago

  Next time you think of giving up, remember this picture. The picture is Elon Musk staring at the wreckage of another exploded Falcon 1 rocket, the third to fail on launch. In 2008, Musk was borrowing money from friends to pay his rent, going through a divorce, SpaceX was running out of cash, and to add to the misery, Tesla was at risk of missing payroll and going bankrupt. Down to his last $40 million of the $180 million he reportedly made from selling PayPal, Musk decided on one last roll of the dice and poured his remaining capital into a fourth launch on September 28, 2008. This time it worked. The rocket successfully reached orbit. Weeks later, SpaceX was awarded a $1.6 billion contract from NASA. A few months later, Tesla secured crucial investment to commence production of the original Tesla Roadster. "I gave both SpaceX and Tesla a probability of less than 10% likely to succeed," Musk later said. Musk could have taken a salaried job and never pursued entrepreneurship. He could have pocketed his PayPal millions and sat on a beach for the rest of his life. Instead, he risked it all and it paid off in a spectacular way, not just for him. His groundbreaking companies have given consumers new and better products and created 1000s of well-paid jobs. SpaceX alone has made more than 4,000 former and current employees Dollar millionaires. It also made Musk the world’s first trillionaire. His detractors tell you his wealth is undeserved. The truth is that when exceptional individuals like Musk run risks that may seem unacceptable to most of us, society progresses and we all gain. Instead of chastising success, we should take inspiration from people like Elon Musk. He didn’t get rich by accident or by luck. He got rich through entrepreneurship and ingenuity, and by taking risks.

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  Glenn 🇺🇲⚓️ (@gcanderson57) reported 33 minutes ago

  @OldGloryBank @johnrich Is there any sort of service you guys have or can create to help her. She's always used PayPal in the past, however I suspect like everything else now days her problem is being caused by an AI.

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  Mike - Arizona (@MikeAz100) reported 36 minutes ago

  Dear @PayPal You need to fix this and then for the inconvenience make a donation to @codeofvets

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  Mason🛸PHM era (@ItsMaybeMason) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Pasta_Eclipse Hi!! If you got it through PayPal it'll say it charged the full amount but it only actually took the $3! If it's showing up in your bank that it took the full amount tho that sometimes happens as a glitch, and you should get a refund any minute, it's the same thing uber does 1/2

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  Nick hoult in the flesh (@benreyholic) reported 39 minutes ago

  Broo this pisses me off it's not like I don't have money the authorisation just keeps failing for some reason PAYPAL IS BROKEN FOR MEE I hate this 😭

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  Rogue Hillbilly (@From_The_Hills_) reported 40 minutes ago

  @codeofvets @PayPal PayPal is straight trash. I had an account for years with no issues, then about 5 years ago they suspended my account and said they needed access to my email and social media accounts to continue. I told em to eat a bag of *****.

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  H-Man🇺🇸 (@HarlanDaniel54) reported 48 minutes ago

  @libsoftiktok @PayPal She is 100% correct and they need to fix this SH*T quick!

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  Domari Nolo 🇺🇸 (@Domari_NoIo) reported 48 minutes ago

  @codeofvets I just nuked my PayPal account because of the issues you're having. Sorry, but I'm done with them.

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  Nyuyu ☁️🍭 VGen Artist 🌸 (@Nyuyu____) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Flip_Uni @xCookieHana Awww thank you!!! I alrdy played again with the thought even lowering them more but i wouldnt make much at the end due to vgen and paypal fees lol Full agree with you there, regardless of c○mms or the shop feature, when u use the pricing option it just feels like not working

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  Brian Rose, Founder & Host of London Real (@LondonRealTV) reported 50 minutes ago

  CONGRESS BANS THE FED FROM THE DIGITAL DOLLAR RACE The Senate voted 89-10. No government digital dollar until 2030. The ban is explicit: The Federal Reserve cannot issue or create a CBDC - directly or through intermediaries - for at least four years. The stablecoin market hit $319 billion in April 2026. USDT sits at $189.6B. USDC at $77.6B. Stablecoins processed $46 trillion in transaction volume in 2025 - 20x PayPal, nearly 3x Visa. Circle and Tether now own this market. No government competitor until 2030. The policy context matters. The GENIUS Act was signed into law in July 2025 - the first comprehensive federal framework for dollar-backed stablecoins. Congress didn't stop there. It then banned the Fed from competing with them entirely. Since the GENIUS Act passed, daily stablecoin transaction volumes soared from $1 trillion to $4 trillion. Circle vs. Tether: diverging paths. USDC was already compliant before the law passed - 1:1 T-bill backing, institutional custody, monthly attestations. Tether launched USAT in January 2026 as a separate U.S.-compliant stablecoin through Anchorage Digital Bank. Global USDT stays outside the U.S. framework. The bottom line. Washington isn't just tolerating private stablecoins. Treasury Secretary Bessent has confirmed a U.S. digital dollar remains "off the table." Policy is actively choosing private over government. And it's locked in for four years.

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  G (@NewMusic) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Brownmoose Nope it can easily turn into PayPal or Adobe. If I had to buy anything that’s been beaten down it’ll be Microsoft.

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  PRANGMA (@Prangma18) reported 53 minutes ago

  I apologize, but my PayPal account is experiencing unexpected issues. Therefore, I am currently only accepting payments via Wise. 🥹

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  Furryparty (@Furryparty67848) reported 57 minutes ago

  There's a problem with our current credit card payments. You can try PayPal.