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 (42%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Auxerre	Website Down	11 hours ago
Le Havre	Website Down	22 hours ago
La Riche	Errors	1 day ago
San Luis Potosí	Errors	1 day ago
Tampere	Sign in	1 day ago
Paris	Website Down	1 day ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Sara Blaydes (@sarablayde) reported 10 seconds ago

  I completely understand, and thank you for letting me know. It sounds like PayPal has been giving you far more trouble than it's worth, so let's not put you through any more frustration. A direct bank transfer will be absolutely fine. Here are the bank details: Account Name: Oluwaseyi Emmanuel Adedeji Bank Name: Regent Bank Account Number: 117088166593 Account Type: Checking Routing Number: 103913434 Bank Address: 7136 S. Yale Ave., Suite 100, Tulsa, OK 74136, USA To make the transfer easier, you don't need to send the full amount all at once. Please start by transferring $3,298 using the bank details above. Once I've received and confirmed that payment, I'll let you know immediately, and you can then proceed with transferring the remaining $3,000. After you make the first transfer, please send me the payment receipt so I can verify it as quickly as possible. As soon as the full payment has been confirmed, I'll immediately purchase the ISBN so we can move ahead with publishing your book without any further delays. Once your book is published, I'll also arrange your author copies. When you have a moment, could you also send me the full mailing address where you'd like your author copies delivered? That way, I'll have everything ready on my end. Thank you again for your patience and understanding throughout this process. I genuinely appreciate it, and I'll make sure everything moves as quickly as possible from here.

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  Odysseus (@Odysseus_12345) reported 15 seconds ago

  @YellowLabLife @BestBuy Always pay with paypal. They will resolve in your favour no problem (takes 2 minutes to submit a refund request). Then bank reverse the transaction as final straw.

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  Prof (@TheProfInvestor) reported 51 seconds ago

  PayPal is up 30% off the lows. This is great for bag holders. But nobody… and I mean nobody… should be doing victory laps. If your average is $120 and the stock is trading at $60, you’re still down 50%. A message for the “I told you so” gang.

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  Funa Ch. | 🦋🐧| ARTFIGHT Arc (@funa_vt) reported 2 minutes ago

  @leafumn problems: artist need to modify prices to fit currency (some places like dont like custom prices) But yeah, being unbanked is soooo real. tiktok ppls want you to pay you in pennies and unlike vgen or paypal it doesnt have any strucutre. :c

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  강진주 (@jinjrivers) reported 3 minutes ago

  Is anyone else having issues with the PayPal app today?

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  Moongz (@TakatotoSanoshi) reported 5 minutes ago

  I'm up 12.4% on my Paypal shares. It hasn't gone down at all since I bought them. I probably missed my chance to go big.

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  Yoma (@yomaaren) reported 6 minutes ago

  @HexNoEyes i could connect my european paypal to my psn awhile back which solved the issue thankfully

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  Raj Nagulapalle (@rnagulapalle) reported 11 minutes ago

  built FetchSandbox with it, a CI agent that diagnoses and fixes broken builds automatically. the 2am on-call page for a flaky test is now just... a merged PR in the morning. raj here. 15 years at Meta and PayPal in devex. this is the thing i wish existed back then.

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  Brett Kessler (@BrettKessler__) reported 12 minutes ago

  The Consensus View: Wall Street looks at PayPal's massive decline from its 2021 peak of $360 billion down to around $36 billion, assuming they have permanently lost the consumer checkout war to Apple Pay and Google Pay. They think Stripe is just buying a bloated, legacy user base. The Reality: The underlying commercial engine has fundamentally transformed. Stripe isn't buying a dying platform; they are executing a masterclass in scale. While Stripe absolutely dominates the backend B2B developer and infrastructure layer, PayPal still controls over 430 million active consumer accounts and massive proprietary transaction flow.

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  Aoro Freeman (@Heuy_Freeman_X) reported 17 minutes ago

  Dear @Safaricom_Care . The My OneApp is very unresponsive and slow. I can't seem to make any transaction with the app. The only reason I installed it was so I can use the PayPal mini app to withdraw funds to my mpesa, and I can't do that because the app is ****** up. Please help

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  Bohdan | Gamma Prime (@B_GammaPrime) reported 19 minutes ago

  In 2010, two Irish brothers founded Stripe to build what PayPal should have been. Yesterday, Stripe offered $53 billion to buy PayPal itself. Together with Advent International, Stripe tabled $60.50 per share - a 28% premium. PayPal jumped 19% on the news. The board hasn't answered yet. Sit with the numbers for a second. In July 2021, PayPal was worth $360 billion. It was the undisputed king of online payments - the company that built the category, the alumni network that produced Musk, Thiel, and half of Silicon Valley's founding class. The "PayPal mafia" became shorthand for tech royalty. This year, its market value touched $36 billion. Ninety percent - gone in under five years. Not because payments shrank. Payments exploded. PayPal lost the decade to faster checkout flows, embedded finance, and a developer-first competitor that simply out-built it. In February, PayPal's market value fell below eBay's - the company it was spun out of in 2015. The child became worth less than the parent it outgrew. And now the offer on the table is $53 billion. Roughly 15 cents on the peak dollar. Here's what makes this bid remarkable beyond the symbolism. Stripe never went public. While PayPal spent a decade being repriced, quarter by quarter, by a market that punished every stumble, Stripe stayed private, took the long view, and compounded quietly. Now the private challenger - teamed with private equity - proposes to take the public pioneer off the market entirely. If that playbook sounds familiar, it should. It's Dell, 2013: a fallen public giant, a buyer convinced the problems are fixable away from the quarterly spotlight, and shareholders being offered a premium to today's price that is also a fraction of yesterday's. Dell's take-private turned $1.8 billion into $15 billion. It's the most profitable tech buyout in history. Whether PayPal has a Dell inside it is the entire question. So if you're a PayPal shareholder, here's your choice: $60.50 in cash - 28% above yesterday, 80% below 2021. Take the money, or bet the turnaround?

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  apollo440 (@0xApollo440) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Booster7860 @stripe @PayPal Not speculation, relief. Market's been waiting for someone else to fix it.

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  JamesSu Chile FC 🇨🇱 (@jamessuchilefc) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Suay11_ Hi! We have PayPal (on the image) and also wise If you want to donate you have to do it to that account and then send us a DM with the receipt and your name to write it down on the excel ✨

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  brady (@by_rururi) reported 32 minutes ago

  Hopefully they fix paypal

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  Allen Sullender (@SullenderA87010) reported 37 minutes ago

  @BeckyGiving I don’t have cash app or PayPal but I don’t have a problem with reading your posts!

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  Donna Ann Leffler (@DonnaAnnleffler) reported 38 minutes ago

  $PYPL now we know who was manipulating the price down so much! Stripe and Advent with their criminal banksters! Better question who (from the competition) wouldnt buy Paypal for 53 billion? Let the bidding war begin…

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  Weary Centurion (@weary_centurion) reported 38 minutes ago

  @ztipme Go on then why is my take wrong? You probably don’t realise I was full port PayPal at one point. I know the business very well. I actually think it’s worth $80-90 per share. So we probably have a more similar view than you think. But you cannot discount the fact the business is declining and is under constant pressure from competitors. It also has a very stubborn, toxic corporate culture which is the biggest problem of all. This is what happens when a good business gets mismanaged for a long period of time. The moves taken under Schulman between 2015-2023 broke the company permanently. Alex Chriss could have turned it around imo if he had taken over earlier in 2021 maybe. But it was too late and too much damage has been done. I am open to opposing views though

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  Stanlee 🎩🟥🟩 (@Stan_lee14) reported 38 minutes ago

  @TheMysti Exactly. The PayPal Mafia didn’t wake up one day and decide to become legends. They were just a group of sharp people obsessed with solving a real problem in the same room.

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  Prof (Private) (@TheProFInvests1) reported 40 minutes ago

  PayPal is up 30% off the lows. This is great for bag holders. But nobody… and I mean nobody… should be doing victory laps. If your average is $120 and the stock is trading at $60, you’re still down 50%. A message for the “I told you so” gang.

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  Larry joel (@Khalifa1641655) reported 42 minutes ago

  I can get you $7k same day on cash app or PayPal u pay me $2k when it hit you , I don’t need your login info or your money I’ll just tell u what to do

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  Luke Bruni Invests (@LukeBruni17) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Roinikainen @Takyon @Peregrino1708 The main problem of PayPal is that they don’t really have something different from other competitors. Why chose it now? I had I few years ago because was easy to send money immediately between friends but nowadays you can do the same with a bank (like Revolut). Anyway talking about the acquisition I agree that is bad for PayPal

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  Ricky | Save Physical Games! (@RickyWinsKO) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Nopelol_Article @moyugii Oof, yeah, don’t ever do friends and family if you’re buying something. However, even if they did use FnF, just issue the chargeback through your bank and not PayPal. Explain the situation, you were deceived into paying for an item that never came. Screenshot everything and send it to your bank.

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  Raye (@arayyye) reported 51 minutes ago

  The proposed acquisition of PayPal by Stripe and Advent International looks like a potentially win-win transaction, but the economics appear significantly more attractive for the buyers than for existing PayPal shareholders. The reported $60.50-per-share offer values PayPal at more than $53 billion and represents roughly a 28% premium to its unaffected share price. That is a meaningful headline premium, but it also comes after years of declining valuation, weak investor confidence, and management instability. For Stripe, acquiring PayPal would immediately provide scale that would otherwise take years to replicate. Stripe is strong in developer-focused infrastructure and online merchant payments, while PayPal brings a global consumer wallet, hundreds of millions of active accounts, Venmo, branded checkout, merchant relationships, credit products, and a large payment-processing operation. Stripe would effectively acquire both consumer distribution and a mature financial ecosystem rather than continuing to build every layer organically. Advent also makes the transaction more realistic. Stripe may have the strategic logic and technology, but Advent can contribute capital, restructuring expertise, and operational discipline. PayPal could potentially benefit from being taken away from the quarterly pressures of public markets while it modernizes its technology, cuts costs, and reorganizes its businesses. Reuters reported that the offer is supported by approximately $50 billion of committed bank financing and that the buyers currently intend to keep PayPal together rather than immediately breaking it apart. The problem is that $60.50 may still be too low for PayPal shareholders. PayPal is not a distressed company running out of cash; it remains a highly profitable and strategically important payments platform. In the first quarter of 2026, revenue grew 7% to $8.4 billion and transaction margin dollars increased 3% to $3.8 billion, despite the company’s operational problems and weak market perception. The offer therefore appears to price in much of PayPal’s current weakness while allowing Stripe and Advent to capture most of the potential upside from restructuring, cost reductions, product integration, and renewed growth. My view is that the strategic combination makes sense for both sides. Stripe gains distribution and scale, Advent gains a large cash-generating platform with restructuring potential, and PayPal gains stronger technology, private-market flexibility, and more focused ownership. However, being strategically sensible does not automatically make the proposed price fair. PayPal shareholders should not reject the deal merely because the stock once traded above $300, but they should probably demand a larger control premium for surrendering the company’s long-term turnaround and strategic optionality.

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  Ali (@ali310019) reported 52 minutes ago

  learning PayPal is banned in turkey after I tried to pay someone from there for a product now I gotta chase down this money and do further ID stuff cortisol spike

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  Jay (@blyat322) reported 53 minutes ago

  @OTBCjayden not had a problem with them myself, 5 min withdrawal to paypal usually for me

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  SYEDsSHAHID SsS PRO (@SYEDOO7) reported 53 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube This is another one all over YouTube trying to con ppl in the west , uk etc it’s nothing like how they put it , they say things which there products don’t back up , really disappointed with @PayPal letting companies like that use there platform but how comes there safety net has gone ? Any issues false advertisement etc then we can get our money back

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  Wakhungila (@_Wakhoo_) reported 56 minutes ago

  So, PayPal has become a major headache for so many African freelancers, developers, bug bounty hunters, and remote workers. People do legitimate work, get paid, then suddenly find their accounts limited or their money held for months in the name of “verification.” In Kenya, some people are even asked to provide a home address in a format that simply doesn’t exist for many neighborhoods. Meanwhile, their money sits locked away for up to 180 days. This is so frustrating. We honestly do need a payment infrastructure that’s built with African realities in mind…. fairer reviews, transparent decisions, and systems that don’t assume every cross-border payment is suspicious. The talent to build it already exists. What’s missing is more people willing to solve the problem.

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  Phil | Rentier Digital Automation (@rentierdigital) reported 57 minutes ago

  a $43.5M app raised money on Phoebe Gates' name and a cap table full of celebrities. then Bloomberg found it opening hidden tabs at checkout, injecting affiliate codes, claiming commissions it never earned Phia called it a bug. the code said otherwise feature flag: live on iOS where users won't see it, off on Chrome desktop where they would. that's not a bug you patch, that's a design choice you make once you already know what gets caught last-click attribution runs a $13B market. whoever clicks last before payment gets paid, whether they earned it or not. a browser extension sits in the perfect spot to fake that last click on nearly every purchase cookie stuffing used to send people to prison. Shawn Hogan did 5 months for it at eBay. Brian Dunning got 15 months. max sentence runs 20 years under federal wire fraud law eBay jailed a man for this exact scheme. now it just funds it through eBay Ventures on Phia's cap table Honey did the same thing bigger. PayPal owned it, worth $4B, until MegaLag's video showed how it stiffed creators. Chrome lost 6-8 million users. Google banned the practice in March 2025 it hasn't slowed down i build and ship daily. Claude Code, Codex, whatever ships fastest. SaaS, tools, automations. ⭐ if AI can build it, i've probably broken it first. what works → link in bio

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  Hrishi Mittal (@hrishio) reported 57 minutes ago

  @cjc I just hope they fix Paypal. It's such a powerful idea executed and managed badly.

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  Eidryana HMartinez (@EidryanaH) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Hottest_April April just to let you know my paypal didn’t opened even trying all the options they gave me. But then it occurred to me clicked the X that appears there (not the one for closing the window) and my paypal session started with out any problem