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
Hochfelden	Website Down	14 hours ago
Lyon	Errors	4 days ago
Paris	Sign in	6 days ago
Saint-Étienne	Website Down	6 days ago
Tlaquepaque	Errors	8 days ago
Massy	Website Down	8 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Michellekirby625 (@MichelleVault) reported 1 minute ago

  Ripple's CEO just explained why #XRP exists in under 2 minutes no jargon: Venmo can't send to PayPal, even though PayPal owns Venmo. That's how broken our payment networks are. Now scale that to sending money overseas: slow, expensive, and it can vanish for weeks. Ripple's fix: sell the tech to banks worldwide. 4 second settlement, fractions of a penny, anywhere on Earth. Customers don't care it runs on XRP. They just care that it works.

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  دکتر مهندس فتحی (@i_sundog) reported 2 minutes ago

  @DrMichaelBonner will try to secure a copy for you through friends visiting if all else doesn't work? following explains how to directly purchase Farsi translation of the book- sorry a bit lengthy, eh: sanctions heavily affect ability to purchase the Farsi translation directly from Iranian platforms if you are located in the United States. US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control enforces strict comprehensive sanctions on Iran's banking n financial sectors. This creates significant practical barriers, even though the law technically makes exceptions for books. 1. The Informational Exception (The Legality): under the Berman Amendment to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act importation n exportation of "informational materials" -including books, films, n music - are exempt fr US sanctions. •its completely legal for you to own, read, or import a physical or digital copy of this Farsi translation into the US. •You are not violating US federal law simply by buying a piece of literature. 2. Banking Blockade is a Practical Problem while buying the book is perfectly legal, paying for it fr US is nearly impossible through normal channels. •Iranian online stores like Digikala, Taaghche, or IranKetab only accept Iranian bank cards connected to the local Shatab (شتاب) network. •no International Processors: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, n PayPal operate in Iran n will block any transaction attempted on an Iranian website. •IP Blocks: many Iranian e-commerce networks completely block incoming web traffic or payment requests originating fr US IP addresses due to cybersecurity defenses. Workarounds to Purchase the Book Fr the US includes 3 choices: •Diaspora Persian Bookstores: Specialist physical n online bookstores based in the US, Canada, or Europe regularly import shipments of legal info materials fr Tehran. Check retailers like Ketab Corp (Los Angeles - aka Tehrangeles, they may have it, or find out if online Persian book importers can order a copy of آخرین امپراتوری ایران fr Mehrandish Publications for you. •Family or Friends in Iran: is easiest method is to have a contact inside Iran buy the physical book locally or purchase the digital version on Taaghche using an Iranian bank card, n then send you the login details or ship the physical copy via international mail networks. if other methods didn't work for you, let me know i will pursue this option •Third-Party Proxy Services: some international diaspora agencies specialize in paying for Iranian digital services on behalf of expats, though these often incur high service fees n operate in a legal gray area regarding money transfers.

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  Carmen Lucero (@CarmenLucero14) reported 3 minutes ago

  @THE_TNT_TEAM Hi Tony, I can’t get past the first page because it says that my email is already registered. I was having issues with Zelle, so I went to my bank. Waiting for them to fix the problem. Is there another way for me to pay? PayPal works well for me to send money. Please advise.

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  Ueno OPCOM | DTIYS 📌 (deadline September 7th!) (@uenoarutwo) reported 5 minutes ago

  @tehajtg3nzcss6 yes i can draw two characters, as for now it's for locals only sorryy! 😔🙏 i had a little trouble with my paypal acc so i'm trying to figure it out! (i really want to open inter too honestly 😔)

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  Ryan (@ryanprompt) reported 7 minutes ago

  4. It was the exact same question people asked me a few years ago, before I made my ecommerce business successful and moved to Dubai; when I started testing payment platforms that actually offered real individual attention to the merchants who signed up. Believe me, the big payment companies and the scammers ones do not want any real proximity with businesses that simply appear out of nowhere. Frustrated after having thousands of dollars frozen across multiple platforms like Paddle, Commas, Lemon Squeezy, PayPal, Braintree, Square and several smaller ones, I decided to build my own payment gateway. I wanted to understand 100% how this market works and how to establish myself in it. After a few months, a group of developers and I created Arkus, a platform that until recently only served as a payment processor for a close group around me and my companies. Now it is being launched to the public for the first time, and it is specifically looking for legitimate merchants who want to scale but who, just like us, have suffered far too many problems with traditional payment gateways. If you want to be one of the first to receive special attention for your business, before we grow to a level where it becomes almost impossible not to use AI to manage risk for every account, comment “ARKUS” to get personal attention from me, not just from our team.

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  Nick Berardi (@nberardi) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I am encountering an issue where your “Pay With PayPal” button is providing addresses for my billing information that aren’t in my account. Can you help?

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  Dayjia Meatball Blackwell Satire/Parody (@NaanBeenAri) reported 15 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I need help with a closed case from an ongoing issue. I have timestamped proof of an on-time cancellation, but your resolution center closed it unfairly and charged me after all. It was a trial from Adobe and cancelled it right on time! You both ghosted me! @grok help

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  0verKill404🇻🇪 ☕ (@0verKill404) reported 17 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello! I just need to fix a single error regarding my birthdate, which I entered incorrectly when I created my account, and I haven't been able to resolve it for a long time. Please, I need help Fix it so that everything is up to date 🙏🙏

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 17 minutes ago

  open for trades 💸 - load to cash (regular & load card) - binance to cash - paypal to cash - gcash to paypal - gcash to binance - not verify balance transfer to verify (gcash, maya, shopee, lazada, grab, pricelocq) - gcash & maya w/issue transfer balance

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  Joulse (@joulsounet) reported 18 minutes ago

  Airbnb Part 2 I clicked PayPal on a booking just to check the payment flow Airbnb instantly confirmed the reservation and charged me €1,000 without showing any final confirmation screen or asking me to confirm the booking I canceled it within a minute and immediately messaged the host explaining it was a mistake and asking for a refund Then I realized it was non-refundable Turns out the co-host is the same host I had a dispute with a month ago They refused to refund me and Airbnb says they can’t do anything So I’m now €1,000 down with no reservation @Airbnb I really need you to step in here

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  Soren⁴²⁰ (Fokin Graduado💀) (@Soren_cio) reported 23 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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  charles 🌿 𝕽𝖊𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖙 𝕭𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖗𝖆 (@thehorsecharles) reported 26 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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  ☽ EmilyMegan Art ☾ (@EmilyMeganX) reported 27 minutes ago

  @PayPalUK your PayPal business card is almost absolutely useless. I can’t add it to my Apple Pay, can’t add it to my PayPal wallet, can’t even bloody use it online coz it keeps being declined!! Ridiculous. Fix this!

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  Zely (@0xZely) reported 31 minutes ago

  Elon Musk had already made $200 million and was burning through it to keep three companies alive. He explained exactly how in a 45-minute closed-door talk at Stanford in 2003. The recording is on YouTube. Almost no founder has watched it in a decade. Today Musk is worth roughly $400 billion. That is a 2,000x personal net worth increase in twenty-two years. The talk in this video is Musk explaining, from age 32, exactly how he intended to survive the next few years long enough to make it happen. At the time he had three companies. Zip2 had already been sold to Compaq for $307 million. PayPal had just been sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. SpaceX was one year old and burning cash. He was worth roughly $200 million and had just committed the majority of it to keeping SpaceX alive. The 2003 Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner recording is 45 minutes. Musk covers his framework in four parts. Find direction. Do not build what you think other people want. Build what you would use yourself. Everything else is a market research problem, and market research is almost never how new markets are found. Control costs. Do the physics. Every SpaceX component was priced against the raw material cost of its inputs. If the ratio was more than three, he built it in-house instead of buying it. Stay alive. In a war of attrition the last money left in the account wins. When PayPal was near zero he stopped taking a salary, refused strategic investors who wanted control, and cut every discretionary line item to zero. Break down problems with first principles. Do not reason by analogy. Do not defer to what an industry currently believes. Rebuild the problem from the physical constraints and see what falls out. "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." That is Musk in a 2013 interview repeating a line he first used in the Stanford talk ten years earlier. It has been quoted in almost every founder biography since. Every top-selling startup book of the last two decades borrows from this framework. The recording is free. The books are not. Almost every founder on X quotes Musk while running their company on the opposite of what he taught in this room. The talk is free. The four rules fit on a napkin. The willingness to actually do the physics on a business you are running instead of another pitch deck is a much rarer commodity than the framework itself.

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  Ryan (@Gelassoldat) reported 31 minutes ago

  I've been putting off writing this. Asking for help in public is not something I ever wanted to do. But I have a two year old and a four month old, and pride doesn't pay rent. Yesterday we got an eviction notice. We were two days late. Ten days to pay or we're out. Rent is just under $1,700. The apartment manager will work with us if we can put something toward it. My contract pay comes in weekly and I'm putting what I can spare from it straight into rent. Every dollar paid reduces what's owed, and whatever's left gets added on top of September and October rent, which we already can't cover, so paying it down now is the only thing that keeps this from getting worse. Here's how we got here. Our baby was born in April. My wife has had health complications since the birth and hasn't been able to return to work. Her maternity leave and short term disability have both run out. She's seeing a doctor this month, because right now she physically can't do her job, and we have no family in this city to help with the kids. Childcare costs more than we're bringing in. I lost my mom at the end of February. I still haven't had a real chance to sit with that. I've been job hunting since January. Locally I keep hearing I'm overqualified, and I get it, they assume I'll leave the moment something better shows up. I've applied for customer service roles I've done before and gotten nowhere. I've made it to final rounds more times than I want to count and walked away with nothing. I had another interview yesterday and gave it everything I had. On top of that, her company had payroll problems for months. We eventually got everything she was owed, but it came weeks and months late, and I took out loans to keep us afloat in the meantime. Those payments are still hitting every month. I did find contract work. It doesn't cover our bills, but I'm working extended hours and taking what I can get. Before posting this I called the community action agency, RIFA, Area Relief Ministries, the Red Cross, and 211. The rent assistance funding here ran dry back in March. There is nothing left in the local pipeline to catch us. We're going to have to move, either somewhere much cheaper or in with family in another state. What I need right now is to get through this month without my kids losing their home. I've asked family. Now I'm asking here. If you're able to help with rent, you can send it straight through X Money, Cash App, Venmo, or PayPal in the first reply Any amount helps, and it goes directly toward keeping my kids in this apartment. If you can't, that's alright. Sharing this so it reaches someone who can would mean just as much. And if all you did was read this far into a stranger's worst month, that mattered too. Thank you.

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  Gioel (@wonder_land1A) reported 36 minutes ago

  @PayPal PayPal @PayPalSupport Your digital systems are completely broken and supporting fraud. eBay officially ruled in my favor on July 29 for item 168207396673 (corporate fraud device) and voided the purchase. Yet PayPal refuses to redund …

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  Froglet 🐸 (@froglet80) reported 37 minutes ago

  @AgnostikGnostik dont worry about it as long as its clear on your profile on both paypal and ko-fi that its donations - it wont be an issue. at first you may have to wait a bit for funds to clear unfortunately. and it also has a option to say its digital delivery.

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  Frank LaCroix (Frank is my pen name) (@lylemurphy18389) reported 38 minutes ago

  Banks used to be heavyweight investments. Not so much anymore. Look at the last 138 days: XLF (Financials) is now behaving almost like XLU (Utilities) — slow, low-growth, defensive. Meanwhile fintech and crypto keep taking share: • Payment apps (PayPal, Venmo, Chime, X Money…) • Digital banking • DeFi / crypto rails • Even newer players moving into underwriting Traditional banks are losing the energy that used to make them cyclical leaders. Capital and growth are flowing elsewhere. The sector chart makes it pretty clear. Anyone else seeing this shift?

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  Jayne : stand your ground (@JaynenotJanie) reported 38 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?

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  Rudolfs (@ecomrudolfs) reported 39 minutes ago

  Had about 50+ people reach out to me a couple of days ago on insta about private processing So let me break down some common questions Nr1: legal structure If you sell in the US, have a US llc setup This will increase your auth rates and opens a lot of new doors (Same goes for other markets - have a local setup) Nr2: what is “private processing” It is not some payfac Its having processing directly from an acquiring bank You go to an ISO and they talk to the bank and do the whole underwriting process In the end you have your own MIDs (merchant IDs) And you are the only store processing on it Way less wrongful shutdowns than on payfacs cause your data is not mixed with others Nr3: the checkout Its very simple… All you need is a CRM It will high jack the shopify checkout process You build a custom checkout or use pre made templates and connect your MIDs to the CRM Usually will need the MIDs to either be able to issue a VAR sheet or have the NMI gateway But its very common so no worries on that Nr4: the benefits I dont even know where to start lol - full control over your checkout (split test and run what ever you want) - unrestricted upsell flows - if you do mrr then you can own your subscription tokens - apple/google pay wallets + paypal - way less wrongful shutdowns - next day payouts - almost a 0% chance at losing access to all processing - smart rebill logic - built in tracking (sent directly to your ad platform) - no more headaches from SP bs I could go on but you get the point If you are still on SP in the big 2026 its time to rethink your backend Q4 is coming up and volume spikes cause a ton of volatility with SP shutdowns (Not the case on MIDs as you have a HUMAN to talk to) Don’t end up not being able to process payments during November Set this up even as a backup if you don’t want to fully switch Either way if you have any questions or want to get in touch with the right people… Send me a dm

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  Ravikumar (@iamtrk) reported 40 minutes ago

  @_balaji_km The thing thats worrying investors is not about Uber going out of business, its more like not growing the profits in coming years, similar to Netflix, Paypal etc. NFLX : 40% up in last 5 years (325Mn users, 100Bn watch hrs) PYPL : 80% down in last 5 years (TPV: $1.79Tn in CY25)

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  Founder Tribune (@Founder_Tribune) reported 43 minutes ago

  Elon Musk explains why he never starts with a product. He starts with a list he made in the shower: Musk is asked whether he begins with a specific product in mind. A Model S, a Falcon 9 and reverse-engineers his way there, or whether he starts by spotting something broken in the world and commits to fixing it, even without knowing how. Neither framing quite fits his answer. Every company he's built Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, and PayPal and Zip2 before them traces back to his time in college, when he set out to work out "what would most affect the future in a very likely to be a positive way." That single question produced a shortlist of five areas. Three he was confident about: "The three areas where I was quite sure would be positive were sustainable energy, internet, and making life multiplanetary." And two he wasn't: "There were a couple other areas where maybe a question mark, like AI and rewriting genetics." Those two came attached to a warning: "Potentially negative consequences, hopefully positive, but something could go wrong." The striking part is how the whole framework surfaced. Not from a strategic planning exercise or years of deliberation: "Those were the five areas that I could come up with standing in the shower basically." The takeaway: Musk doesn't chase products, and he doesn't start with what's broken. He starts one level higher by asking which domains will most shape the future of humanity, backing the ones he's convinced are net-positive, and letting specific companies fall out of that filter. The Model S and the Falcon 9 are downstream of a decision he made years before either existed. fu

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  avens 𖣓 (@heyavens) reported 44 minutes ago

  @BrillVFX I normally don’t make posts like this, but after giving this person more than enough time, patience, and opportunities to communicate with me, I feel like this needs to be made public. On July 8th, I paid him to create an intro for my team. We said deadline was 1 week. Its is now Aug 7,2026. After receiving the payment, he sent me 1-2 updates showing that he had started working on the project. That was essentially the only real progress/update I received. I didn’t rush him. I gave him roughly 1–2 weeks without bothering him because I understood that creative work takes time. After that period passed with no update, I reached out simply asking about the status of the intro. It then took him another week just to respond. When he finally responded, he explained that he was dealing with a situation involving his family problems. I completely respected that. I didn’t argue with him, pressure him, or immediately ask for my money back. I gave him additional time because I understood that real-life situations come before a project. Another week passed. I reached out again asking for an update. No response. From that point forward, I continued trying to contact him and no communication. At this point, an entire month has passed since I paid him, I still do not have the intro I paid for, and I have not received consistent communication regarding the project. Eventually, after repeatedly trying to handle this privately, I told him that if I continued receiving no response, I would have no choice but to make the situation public and pursue a refund through PayPal. I gave this situation every opportunity to be resolved privately before posting anything publicly. I was patient, I respected the personal circumstances he told me about, and I gave him significantly more time because of them. This post is not being made to send harassment toward anybody. I’m posting this to document my experience and warn other people who may consider purchasing work from him. Everything I’m stating here will be accompanied by screenshots so people can look at the timeline, messages, payment, and communication themselves and form their own opinion. I paid for a service on July 8th. I gave him weeks of patience and multiple opportunities to communicate with me. I still have not received what I paid for. At this point, based on my experience, I believe I was scammed. I have opened/pursued a dispute through PayPal to recover my money. I genuinely wanted to handle this privately, but there comes a point where ignoring a paying customer and failing to deliver what they purchased needs to be addressed. Receipts/screenshots below.

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  Brett Wilkins (@BrettWilkinsSF) reported 44 minutes ago

  @TomasCorax @hearnimator I will pay you $100 for every factual error in the article. So you can get an unlimited amount. You pay me $100 if there are no errors. PayPal or Venmo, your choice. Sounds like easy money to me!

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  Marsanne Golsby (@marsannegolsby) reported 46 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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  Miss_Nancy (@Godfearingbadie) reported 49 minutes ago

  I am a user in Nigeria with a fully linked Paga account. A US sender is trying to send a Goods & Services payment to my email, but your automated filter is blocking it with a 'payment no longer available' error. Please help me manually open a support ticket." @AskPayPal

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  Weaponized Incontinence (@GrindrReject) reported 49 minutes ago

  Hi, I am having issues logging into my account. I am not able to reach the help section on your website as it automatically sends me to the login page. @AskPayPal

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  0verKill404🇻🇪 ☕ (@0verKill404) reported 50 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I would like to create a new PayPal account because they couldn't resolve the issue, and support suggested I create a new one since the other one was deleted. Please and I can't. Does it let me enter the number or does it give an error @AskPayPal

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  sp (@spatte84) reported 55 minutes ago

  @PayPal fix your user interface I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve accidentally doubled clicked when transaction is loading only for it to submit payment before I was ready

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  PENNY L.A. SHEPARD (@shepardout) reported 57 minutes ago

  I am ready stressed right now. My bank account is really low and I had alot of unexpected charges come in this month and more are coming. If you can possibly donate a few dollars to my Paypal I would really appreciate it. My time is stretched, and have been working on technical issues for two weeks. I have had to spend money on software and medical and office that have put me dangerously low in my bank account. If you can afford even a small donation, could you please send emergency funds I would be so appreciative!