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 (37%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Sydney	Sign in	2 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	2 days ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Sign in	2 days ago
Ciudad Jardín	Errors	3 days ago
Paris	Sign in	4 days ago
Benfeld	Sign in	6 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Loïc Vee (@loic_vee) reported 7 minutes ago

  Third time this year a payments giant bought or built a piece of the agent stack: • PayPal shipped Agent Ready (ACP + UCP via Braintree) • Shopify built UCP natively • Now Stripe — ACP co-author — owns model routing too The stack is being assembled top-down.

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  m444k (@m444k_) reported 11 minutes ago

  𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗰𝘆. 𝗦𝗶𝘅 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗚𝗠 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱. By the end of 2008, Tesla had roughly $9M left in the bank. SpaceX had just survived its third consecutive rocket failure in a row. Musk had already put over $100M of his PayPal money into both companies, and was personally so cash-poor he was borrowing money from friends to cover rent. “I remember waking up the Sunday before Christmas in 2008, and thinking to myself, man, I never thought I was someone who could ever be capable of a nervous breakdown. I felt this is the closest I’ve ever come, because it seemed pretty dark.” A last-minute financing round, pulled together by existing investors, closed at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve, 2008. “That funding round completed 6pm on Christmas Eve in 2008. Last hour of last day possible, as investors were leaving town that night and we were 3 days away from bankruptcy.” Days earlier, on December 23, NASA had awarded SpaceX a $1.6B cargo resupply contract, its first major win after three straight Falcon 1 failures. The Department of Energy’s ATVM program, created that same year to fund fuel-efficient vehicle development, eventually gave Tesla access to a loan facility as well, money the company only drew down starting in 2010, once it was reimbursing actual invoices rather than surviving on the promise of it. Six months later, in June 2009, General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, needing a federal bailout to survive. Musk has called 2008 the worst year of his life. He was also getting divorced at the same time. Tesla didn’t file. It went public a year later.

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  Shizuka Okutsuka (Commission Open) (@ShizuOkutsuka) reported 12 minutes ago

  Paypal down.

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  sam .ᐟ ₊˚｡ ❆ (mimir comms 10/10 ‼️) (@cremezayniee) reported 14 minutes ago

  @dawnbreaker_joy i don't use kofi atm! im facing some issues within paypal itself 😞

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 18 minutes ago

  @InfarisVelsina @PayPal 72 hours isnt the problem. a whole drive sitting on one account nobody in it controls is. thats the part i work on at vaultleap

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  #BuckeyeNation (@Buckeyefanohio7) reported 20 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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  theorang (@theorang_) reported 22 minutes ago

  @sharlot_priv Rough, I had the same issue when someone made PayPal. To which tool do you refer here? Preflight?

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  SkeTchXP (@SkeTchXPDotEth) reported 23 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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  Trace Cohen (@Trace_Cohen) reported 28 minutes ago

  @RoryCrave How is that larping? OpenRouter $150M rev can 10x in a few years no problem + $35B from PayPal trading at 1.5x rev and P/E 11x with 24000 employees has a lot of potential. And with stripe doing $7B+ they can easily IPO at 20x rev Please explain how that wouldn’t work?

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  ZanoCash (@ZanoCash) reported 29 minutes ago

  @TheRonnieVShow As a value investor, I felt personally attacked, lol. Always invest at the right price. I did invest in PayPal when it was at $40 this year, because at that price, it did represent great value. I got criticized for buying a stock that had went down and down, not easy.

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  evannie 🎀💌 (@evanniestash) reported 29 minutes ago

  I'm holding my status as a former video editor and YouTuber for the time being because of another PayPal email confirming the permanent deactivation of my account after I contacted support about resolving disputes and negative balances. I can't use another payment system to refund my VGen clients and resolve the disputes from PayPal as it's locked on the payment platform, and sadly Wise, Payoneer and Stripe - the alternatives for client payments - isn't accessible in my country. It is potential that I'm requesting @_VGen_ support to ban my account permanently due to this mess - and I can't open my comms any longer - due to both my broken reputation and my PayPal account being banned. I'll update you when there's more info.

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  Rawrskis! (@2017_nonsense) reported 30 minutes ago

  @PayPal @Mastercard Paypal shut down my account that I had used since 2015, mainly to purchase software and claimed I had used the account in some nefarious way, but provided zero documentation.

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  𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 🌸 (@ujios_blossom) reported 32 minutes ago

  code they would send. So I tried to log into twitter on the computer and it said my login was temporarily restricted, so I spend this whole time worried that my account had gotten h4cked. Luckily I remembered that I had oomf saved on Paypal so I messaged him on there +

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  Mirage (@dontstopmirage) reported 35 minutes ago

  CBS filmed a 27-year-old Elon Musk sleeping in his office in 1998 and 18 months later he sold the company for $307M Rita Braver brings a Sunday Morning crew to Palo Alto. Bad haircut. Cheap suit. He shows them the couch he sleeps on and the YMCA down the street where he showers. The company is Zip2. Maps, directions, yellow pages, white pages - the first versions of all of it on the internet, sold to newspapers that still print on paper. He wrote the code himself in 1995, at 23, weeks after walking out of a Stanford PhD. No web server, because a web server burns CPU he doesn't have. He reads port 8080 directly. No money for a Cisco T1 router. He pulls the spec sheet and writes his own emulator. Braver asks him about the internet. He calls it the superset of all media. Says television, print and radio all collapse into one pipe. Two-way. On demand. Whatever you want, whenever you want it. In 1998, that sounds like a kid who read too many magazines. The segment airs. The tape goes in a box. 1999: Compaq buys Zip2 for $307M . His cut is about $22M . He doesn't buy a house. He puts it into Xcom. Xcom becomes PayPal. PayPal becomes the money that starts SpaceX and Tesla. 26 years later somebody uploads the tape to YouTube. 23,000 views. The odd part isn't that he was right about the internet. It's that nobody in that room believed him, and it cost him 0 seconds. He wasn't predicting the future. He was describing his own desk.

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  Jeff Rainforth (@liberty_clarion) reported 36 minutes ago

  🚨SCAM ALERT! Scammers hacked my cousin's account & others. Facebook & other social media accounts are being HACKED, and scammers are posting stuff like their uncle is moving to a rest home and doing liquidation sales with items priced super cheap. DON'T BUY IT!!! Do not send money! Scammers will ask for down payments via Cash App, Venmo, PayPal, and Zelle. One of my cousin's friends did it & just lost $2000. I thought it was real, and so did my dad, and we almost sent down payments for vehicles priced very low. There were several red flags, so I started doing some checking. Sure enough, it's a common scam. People aren't careful with their Facebook or other social media account passwords, or they get phished, and their accounts get hacked; scammers then post whatever they want to get money from the hacked person's family and friends. When a person from a hacked FB page contacts you via Messenger, report the message and use the "Other" selection and choose "Hacked." I did it, and Facebook just took down my cousin's account. Be aware. This is happening RIGHT NOW. That's it! Have a great week and beware of scammers! If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!!! 💯💯💯🚨🚨🚨

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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 40 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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  😇Obe🐹BB-8 🐹 BB8BOOP!😇🐹🐾 (@Obe_QT_Luke) reported 47 minutes ago

  @BearBendor72384 It was terrible! They posted as a friend in knew on here for years that they hacked and asked me to vote for them. Ckick...Porn and hacked! Got into my PayPal, Emails and all if my social media. Had to change everything 🐹😱😖 Thank you for your post!🐹🐾🧸

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  anhedonia ݁ᛪ༙ BLAZE bucharest (@limudrummer) reported 48 minutes ago

  @karupilled what payment method are you using credit/bank card or paypal etc. Japanese sites dont allow foreign cards to be used usually you'll have problems with most cards (in my case at least) try using paypal or amazon pay if you haven't. Thats how i purchase from base shops

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 50 minutes ago

  Uber monetizes a slice. Amazon monetizes a slice. PayPal monetizes a slice. Nothing monetizes the slice that powers all of them: your time. Built 1145 Lifestyle to fix that. A super-app where hours show up as a balance. The full version is coming.

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  Google G-Ware Surface Technology (@GoogleWaveTech) reported 50 minutes ago

  @dotkrueger That's the broken system in USA just not caught up to the reality that a thief has robbed the federal reserve through cash app PayPal and other *******

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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 50 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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  🌿Scylla 🌿 (@ShadowsOfADay) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Massi_m00 Payment via PayPal is still not working on my end but I'll place my order as soon as it does! So excited for these!! 🥹 So pretty

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  Ifiok Ambrose (@ifiokambrosee) reported 52 minutes ago

  @bernarditoro_ You can fix product perception by building a product to global standards. Why should I target Nigerians for a SaaS aimed at solving a global problem when I can use Flutterwave for USD checkout or recurring plans? It even has a Pay with PayPal feature bro.

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  El Croco (@tweri21) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care paypal to mpesa has been down almost the whole day. what`s wrong?

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  CyberLeek (@cyberleekario) reported 56 minutes ago

  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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  CoCo (@sidieurophia) reported 57 minutes ago

  My safaricom one app withdrawal from paypal is not working. I keep getting a 'we could not complete transaction please try again later error' I called paypal, they said it's not an issue from their end. Kindly help @Safaricom_Care

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  Raiku 🐉 (@raikucom) reported 57 minutes ago

  Eddie Mitchell from @StablecoinNewss said something on Friday's Solana Circuit that's worth thinking about. We may end up in a world where payment providers look like fiat on the front, but the back end is all stablecoins. Invisible infrastructure. No consumer ever knows it's there. That's not a speculative future. Western Union is building one. PayPal already launched one. Banks that spent a decade saying this was a fad are now watching Circle step into European markets they vacated. The question isn't whether stablecoins are going to settle the next generation of institutional transactions. They are. The question is what infrastructure underneath them can actually guarantee those transactions land. That's the engineering problem that still hasn't been solved.

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  Jeremy Peeples 🐱 (@Jeremy_Peeples) reported 59 minutes ago

  Sweet - got the paypal credit card knocked down and got a late fee reversed! Their automated system is pretty good.

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  Dani. (@Danizeh) reported 1 hour ago

  @Jason______A @PayPal @AskPayPal Avoid apps like PayPal and Revolut at all times I've had so many problems with both, they'll lock your account, have you contact some DEI hire that knows nothing, and your money will just be gone.

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  Leah (@absolutLeah) reported 1 hour ago

  the fact that paypal make is SO HARD to close your credit with them when you didn’t even ask for it is RIDICULOUS @andyburnham pls fix it x