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 (45%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Berlin	Sign in	1 day ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	2 days ago
Ciudad López Mateos	Errors	4 days ago
Anglet	Sign in	4 days ago
Hamburg	Sign in	5 days ago
Medina	Website Down	5 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  J∆Y (@JayJayasuriya) reported 20 seconds ago

  @PayPal @AskPayPal PayPal permanently shut down our small business account—and won't tell us why... 🤔 #paypalfail

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  Rajat_Bhogrey (@Rajatbhogrey009) reported 2 minutes ago

  why is paypal so slow

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  Josh Sperry (@Josh___Sperry) reported 4 minutes ago

  @packaddictsnw Could, but I've had zero issues with the $20 insurance claims on them. Usually hits my paypal within 24 hours

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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 7 minutes ago

  And Bridgett has to drive down to Santa Fe on Thursday for an appointment, and needs $150 to cover gas/food/related costs: Venmo: @ bridgetttru17 PayPal: @ bridgett190

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  AMOS BLACKFIRE (@amoblackfire) reported 10 minutes ago

  @GOAT72573384663 @PayPal I have the same issue, since date 21 august, still pending

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  Ryan Kagels (@rykegs) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Venmo is the worst, most useless digital wallet It blocks payments, no explanation, useless for non-profits unless linked to a volunteers personal account. Business use - a joke. All you have to do is move money. Why wouldn’t @PayPal shut it down

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 14 minutes ago

  THE THREE PRICE TARGETS PUT ON PAYPAL $PYPL SINCE FRIDAY WERE $50, $51 AND $70: The Quality-Value Len5 is watching PayPal at $53.18, -$0.48 / -0.90% today. The San Jose company runs the PayPal checkout button, Venmo, and Braintree, which handles card payments behind other companies' checkout pages. The bottom line: on Friday PayPal lost its buyer, and the shares gave back $7.81 in a single session. Nothing about the business changed that day. What ended was somebody else's offer to pay more than the market would. WHAT HAPPENED ON FRIDAY Since July there had been a bid on the table. Stripe, the privately held payments company, and Advent International, a private-equity firm, had jointly offered $60.50 a share - about $53B for the whole company. PayPal's board considered it too low. On Friday, August 28, Bloomberg reported the pair had walked away. Reuters put the sticking points at price and at how hard a deal that size would be to get past regulators. The shares went from $61.47 on Thursday to $53.66 on Friday: -$7.81 / -12.7% in one session, on 36.3M shares against a 30-day average near 11.5M - more than three times an ordinary day's trading. Today they have traded as low as $51.92, under Friday's own low of $52.62. Roughly seven dollars of that price was one buyer's opinion, and it is gone. Bloomberg noted the two could return later. Nobody is obliged to. THE THREE TARGETS Within two business days, three firms published a view on the same company and the same facts. - Loop Capital, Friday morning: target cut to $50 from $62, rating Hold. - Mizuho, Friday morning: cut to $51 from $60, rating Neutral. - RBC, this morning: RAISED to $70 from $65, rating Outperform. A price target is one firm's estimate of where a share should trade in about a year. It is an opinion, not a measurement. Across everyone who follows the stock the average target is $56.32 and the average rating is hold. So one firm believes these shares are worth a third less than another firm does, three days after the same news. That spread is the story, and the June quarter is where it comes from. WHAT THE COMPANY REPORTED ON JULY 28 Two numbers sit at the heart of it, and they point opposite ways. Total payment volume - the dollars moving across PayPal's systems - was $486.4B, +10% from a year earlier. Busy. Transaction margin dollars - what PayPal keeps out of those payments after paying the cost of moving them - was $3.9B, +1%. Leave out interest earned on customer cash and it was $3.6B, +3%. Ten percent more money went through. One percent more stuck. The rest of the quarter reads the same way: - Net revenue $8.68B, +5% - Profit per share $1.25 on the standard accounting measure, -3%; $1.38 with certain one-off items stripped out, -1% - Operating margin - what the business keeps out of each sales dollar before interest and tax - 16.4%, down 1.71 points - Active accounts 439M, +0.3% over the year, and DOWN 0.2M from three months earlier - Free cash flow - the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment - $1.78B - Cash and investments $15.3B against $13.4B of debt Then the buyback, which is the largest single thing PayPal does with its money. A buyback is a company purchasing its own shares and cancelling them, so every remaining owner holds a slightly bigger slice. It spent $1.5B on that in the quarter and $6.0B across twelve months, retiring about 111M shares against the 855M that exist today. Management raised its full-year forecast: adjusted profit near $5.38 a share against $5.31 last year. On the standard measure it still expects a mid-single-digit decline from $5.41. Put the price against that. $53.18 divided by $5.38 is about 9.9 times what the company itself expects to earn this year. ONE NAME, SIX LEN5ES - QUALITY-VALUE - STRONG, and the only one of the six carrying it. This style hunts a durable business at a fair price, and PayPal is sixth on that watch. The fair-price half is not arguable at roughly 10 times earnings with 111M shares retired in a year. Durability is where the fight is. A checkout button 439M people already have is a real moat - the thing that stops a competitor simply taking your customers - and volume growing 10% while the money kept from that volume grows 1% is what pressure on a moat looks like from the inside. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: transaction margin growing anywhere near the pace of payment volume. WHAT WOULD BREAK IT: active accounts falling a second straight quarter, because a button nobody reaches for is not durable at any price. - DEEP-VALUE AND SPECIAL-SITUATIONS - NOT A FIT, and the most interesting no here. That style wants a business priced under what it looks worth, or one carrying a dated event still to play out. Cheap is present. The event is what failed: an unsigned offer that has now been withdrawn is not something anyone can plan around. Friday is the proof - the event resolved, and it resolved by vanishing. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: a signed agreement with a real closing date, or a markdown deep enough that the business by itself, with no buyer anywhere in the picture, is the entire reason to look. - GROWTH - NOT A FIT, and the price is not the problem. Growth you are not overpaying for needs both halves, and the second one is missing. Adjusted profit guided to $5.38 against $5.31 is roughly a 1% year, and on the standard measure the company expects earnings to fall. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: transaction margin dollars speeding up so profit rises with volume instead of trailing it by nine percentage points. - MOMENTUM - NOT A FIT, on the plainest evidence available. That style watches a company already climbing on news of its own. This one fell 12.7% in a session on somebody else's decision, sits 32.9% below the $79.22 it reached on October 28 last year, and traded lower again today. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: the shares climbing back on PayPal's own quarterly figures rather than on talk of a buyer. - HYPERGROWTH - NOT A FIT, on age and size rather than judgment. Early and fast-growing is the brief. PayPal is 27 years old, serves 439M accounts, books $8.68B in a quarter and grows it 5%. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: honestly, almost nothing available to it - a business this size cannot become early again, and Venmo or the financial-services push would have to compound for years at a rate the whole company has not managed in a decade. - INCOME - NOT A FIT, and the reason is which pocket the cash comes from. That style watches cash genuinely reaching owners and genuinely funded by the business. The dividend is $0.14 a quarter, declared for payment on September 25 to holders on the books September 4 - $0.56 a year, about 1.1% of the share price. The $6.0B of buybacks is the real cash return, near 13% of the company's $45.5B market value, and it came out of money the business earned rather than borrowed. But a buyback is a decision, not a promise: it can be halved next quarter with no announcement and nobody calls it a cut. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: the declared dividend growing into a meaningful share of the price, so the cash return is something owners can count on instead of something they hope continues. THE MIRROR IMAGE, TWO PLACES DOWN THE SAME WATCH Visa at $381.01, -$0.59 / -0.15% today. The San Francisco company runs the network that moves money between shoppers, shops and banks every time a card is tapped, and it sits eighth on that same Quality-Value watch - for exactly the opposite reason. Visa trades near 33 times its last year of earnings, $4.56 / 1.2% under the $385.57 high it set on August 26. PayPal trades near 10 times, a third below its own high. One has the durable half settled and no discount to show for it. The other has the discount and an argument about the durability. What would open the Visa read is a real markdown with earnings unchanged; what would break it is regulation cutting what the network is allowed to charge on each transaction. WHAT TO KEEP AN EYE ON Not whether a buyer comes back. The gap between those two June-quarter figures. PayPal reports the September quarter in late October - treat the date as unset until the company names it - and the line to find is transaction margin dollars against total payment volume. If volume keeps growing near 10% while the margin grows near 1%, then 10 times earnings is cheap for a reason. If they converge, a $70 target stops looking eccentric. One smaller dated item: from September 4 the shares trade without that $0.14 payment, which lands September 25. THE RISK, SAID WITHOUT DECORATION Nothing here is a forecast. The bear case is written into the company's own report: payment volume growing ten times faster than the money kept from it, with the number of people using the service flat over a year and slightly lower than three months ago. A stock can sit at 10 times earnings for years when the earnings are going nowhere, and this company's own guidance has profit falling this year on the standard measure. Push the other way and it breaks just as fast: two buyers examined these numbers up close and were willing to pay $60.50, and a board that said no is either right or expensive. For six weeks this stock had a price somebody else was willing to pay. Since Friday it has only had the one the business can justify - and Friday put $7.81 between them. Not investment advice.

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  Pokettino (@pokettino) reported 16 minutes ago

  @PokemonTCGIntel I get an error as no payment method :( 1 hr trying. i had paypal as default. :(

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  Optus (@Optus) reported 17 minutes ago

  @enngees Hi there, customers can recharge their service or purchase add-ons online using a credit/debit card (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, or JCB) and PayPal. An Optus service needs to connect to the Optus network for activation, so we generally recommend setting up and activating the SIM once they've arrived in Australia. If you're still having trouble recharging, please send us a DM, and we'll take a closer look into this for you. -Talia

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  Aquila (@LeoAquila_) reported 21 minutes ago

  @TheRealCalvin19 @WhisperMute First I gotta fix my paypal, which is hard because paypal sucks 🙃

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  NoCreaturesWereHarmed (@NoCWereHarmed) reported 23 minutes ago

  Apparently PayPal was having some issues so I added stripe in the meantime. PayPal should be straightened out by Tuesday as they need those test deposits to clear in my new business account. You can buy via Stripe now.

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  Daniel Pacheco (@DanStrover) reported 24 minutes ago

  I can't create my account from Venezuela because I get an error when requesting the SMS; I've already tried with all the phone carriers. @AskPayPal

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  Ontario Frugal | Faith & Strategy (@OntarioFrugal) reported 26 minutes ago

  @losinghopein @PayPal @AskPayPal I had a crazy problem a bit like this when I tested the Bree app.They weren't supposed to take their payment until my pension came in - the crazy app took it 2 weeks early!

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  iX (@JimManahan) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Euphoria_LiVT wdym paypal doesnt work, all my international purchases are via paypal and not a single one of them ever failed or had issues.

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  Bern (@Bernman2004) reported 28 minutes ago

  You paypal link is broken @Autumnvz8

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  Moshe Klein (@KleinMoshe) reported 31 minutes ago

  @PayPal I have a problem with my account where payments I send get reversed every couple of days for absolutely zero reason. Frustrating isn’t the word. And speaking to overseas CSR is getting absolutely nowhere.

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  Ronald Britton (@Ronaldp38dy) reported 32 minutes ago

  @JayJayasuriya Permanent shutdown with zero explanation is such a hard place to be, no reason means no way to even fix whatever triggered it. Hope @AskPayPal actually gives you something concrete soon.

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  sail_on_a_surfboard (@CNCKeith) reported 33 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal account locked up, we are american company been doing business with paypal for 24 years, we call every day, we submitted all requested documents to prove that we are a real company, "paypal help" is no help, they are withholding 100K+ , we are going to have trouble making payroll, treating a US small business in business since 1979 like some sort of scammer. this is beyond ludicrous, i'm convinced now someone at paypal is trying to steal our hard earned money, PP-L-836499913052

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  AD Sleazo AKA AD. (@adsleazo) reported 33 minutes ago

  @UDSupport when yall gone fix paypal withdrawals bro it’s been almost a week

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  SOFTBUNNYHOUSE +16 (@SoftBunnyHouse) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Charlie088571 @YellowBunFeet Besides, towards the end of my NSFW trayectory, I lost my payment methods due to some stupid PayPal issue, and well, I had even less desire to continue. As I said before, it was a hobby, not a passion.

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  GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) reported 43 minutes ago

  @TechX1320 @linuxuser1996 PayPal works on GrapheneOS with the per-app compatibility mode. It recently started requiring disabling secure spawning but works fine with the other defaults. It's a bug in PayPal's anti-tampering code and they'll likely fix it soon. It's unrelated to it not working elsewhere.

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  Pokettino (@pokettino) reported 45 minutes ago

  @PokemonRestocks I am having hard time adding the payment method. Yesterday I don't understand why would not let me enter the drawing and was asking for a payment method. I always used PayPal. I tried to cancel all amd add a new CC but does not work. Anyone had this issue?

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  Rhys (@senzu_bean) reported 45 minutes ago

  I was 333rd in the queue. Got kicked out. Went back in at 22900, waited till it down to let me back in. Put the wrong code in. Couldn't claim anywhere near my normal seats and ended up in the Riverbank, then it wouldn't submit payment and I had to switch to Paypal. FFS

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  Mimi (@mimicomments) reported 47 minutes ago

  @DrewPavlou Perhaps you could set up something simple like a buy me a coffee or paypal me link so people can support you directly. The Flynn issue seems hopeless for now. I hope that can eventually get resolves but seems you need to have a way for people to support you in general:

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  Hydrangea 【LVLY】 (@LadyHydrangeaVT) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Immorta1Monarch This is why i use vgen and vgen payments at least i can click ‘theres a problem’ before the funds are released to them. Yes it may mean theres less artists for me to com but at least theres a fallback unlike paypal.

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  jitin yadav (@jitinyadav) reported 49 minutes ago

  Does she even understand what PayPal does? What restructuring is. Who are the clients? Why is their business down? Or is it a requirement that you have to be completely illogical to be a Modi and BJP basher.

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  Edward The Loudmouth (@EDMaumbauer) reported 52 minutes ago

  @GretchenPSmith Gretchen, yeah, you do... that is how Paypal operates, same with X, FB, Insta, Visa, Mastercard, Your bank... we used to simply call them server farms. Data Centers are as necessary for the world to operate today as is oil. Get rid of them, the world STOPS DEAD

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  Kapt'n Krunch 🛠️⚓ (@KaptainKrunch97) reported 54 minutes ago

  if you’re an artist that takes 6+ months on a triple digit priced commission, we don’t issue chargebacks around here this is 2026, your PayPal got your government name and address on it, we are outside your house buddy

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  jinowns (@Jinowns87) reported 54 minutes ago

  Here's another neat trick I do every year. If you have paypal, you can break down the entire cost into 4 payments. Meaning you pay 25% percent now while PayPal pays the merchant the entire amount and then you can make payments every 2 weeks. Doooo iiiittttt!!

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  OwenCarter (@OwenCarter_k) reported 55 minutes ago

  $PYPL: Acquisition hopes dashed; retail investors debate "value trap" vs. "undeserved sell-off." Review of the previous trading session: PYPL plunged 12.7% last Friday, ranking among the worst performers on the Nasdaq and S&P 500. Capital that had flowed in based on acquisition rumors during the previous quarter exited en masse; discussions on X shifted from "how much would Stripe pay?" to "what is PayPal actually worth as a standalone business?" (Source: Reuters) Key Event: Stripe and Advent reportedly abandoned plans to acquire PayPal; the prior offer was around $60.50 per share (implying a valuation of ~$53 billion), but negotiations collapsed due to disagreements over pricing, financing, and regulatory issues. Bullish Views: PayPal’s valuation is already significantly lower than that of most payment industry peers; Venmo, Checkout, and its crypto business still hold value for potential spin-offs. The new CEO is driving business restructuring and cost controls, meaning future earnings recovery need not rely solely on acquisitions. The current valuation may still attract interest from other private equity firms or payment companies. Bearish Views: The recent rally was driven primarily by M&A premiums; following the deal's collapse, the stock must be repriced based on fundamentals. PayPal’s branded checkout market share continues to be squeezed by competitors like Apple Pay and Shop Pay. Without a rebound in revenue growth, the low valuation could persist; one cannot assume a market bottom simply because the stock has fallen sharply. Trading Strategy: Avoid trying to catch a rebound immediately after the initial sharp drop; first, observe whether the price stabilizes in the $52–$54 range. A recovery above $57–$58 is required to confirm that panic selling has been absorbed; until then, it is better to watch from the sidelines rather than taking a heavy position in hopes of another buyer emerging.