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 (43%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Guayaquil	Sign in	4 hours ago
Auxerre	Website Down	2 days ago
Le Havre	Website Down	2 days ago
La Riche	Errors	2 days ago
San Luis Potosí	Errors	2 days ago
Tampere	Sign in	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  FNATIC TheRealSlimJadey (@TRealSlimJadey) reported 3 minutes ago

  welp this just happened to me only just noticed cause I got my payout email and its linked to a paypal I have 2FA on and they managed to change it to theirs and also change my payout without me noticing. I'm hoping Twitch has found a fix for this since January and can help me 😭 Has anyone know anyone who had any success getting their payout back?? I have a bad feeling it's gone for good 😭😭

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  Bill Sexson (@BillSexson) reported 7 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I can't login into my account using my aol email. I get something went wrong please try again. Trying to stop a automatic payment.

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  JB (@thedarkonexx) reported 7 minutes ago

  @DrewCohenMoney Block Inc. Hated similar to PayPal, but has been turning around the business successfully for last 2 years. Still 70% down from COVID high & mostly flat since 2023. Never a down YoY qtr for GP Trades at my scaled margin est of 12.5x, growing gross profit mid-teens guided to 2028

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  Electric Pixel (@electricpixel) reported 9 minutes ago

  so glad paypal is loosing market share. once a 300 billion company now down to only 50b.

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  Jordan Pivato (@pivatoinvesting) reported 12 minutes ago

  I’ve had some bad picks over the years: PayPal, AU79, Beyond Meat. I’ve also had many huge winners: Tesla, Palantir, Bitcoin, Meta, AMD. Losers were down 15% to 90%. Winners went up 400% to 3,000%. The math proves you don’t need to be right all the time. If your winners are much bigger than your losers, you will still come out far ahead.

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  evil ******* buck buckley 🃏🦂🐞 nw: crim minds (@buckspnatural) reported 13 minutes ago

  btw I hate calling people and I've been on call for 12 minutes with paypal to fix my account just so I can get a holland march and kay plushie my dedication to this is admirable and concerning

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  Mara💗 (@leelittledino_) reported 14 minutes ago

  @5SlicesOfSummer Why is PayPal not working? I am trying to go through verification and it keeps loading

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  Kris Patel 🇺🇸 (@KrisPatel99) reported 14 minutes ago

  $PYPL Road to $75-85/share The reason why PayPal is likely going to be asking for a higher premium is from Stripe is because its so undervalued even at todays prices because of its enormous FCF and user reach. Paypal has been discounted by the market because of potential disruption risk in its largest high margin segment, Branded Checkout. But they do have other business lines that are growing at a much faster pace but with lower margins. This means that Paypal overall growth was slowing but not dead. The market focused too much on branded checkout and ignored the other parts of the business that have a lot of value in the hands of a company like Stripe. Stripe is currently valued at almost 160B with gross revenue of about 20B. Not sure what margins they are currently getting but by adding PayPal, they are essentially rationalizing their high growth prospect with instant boost to profitability. This would mean that when they IPO, they will be valued at high profitable growth compounder and comand a significant enterprise value. This is why they were able to get financing from Advant. They can essentially buy the company using short term cash and sell shares at huge mark up during IPO and pay the money while retaining the massive cashflow. They can also strip redundant costs and actually boost FCF by $1B to $2B depending on the level of cuts they are willing to make. Another 1B to 2B from organic growth over the next 5 years and the payoff period could be compressed down to 3-4 years. PayPal is worth at least $75-85 for Stripe. I wonder if another competitor might show up and realize the same thing and try to juice up the bid because it might put them at a disadvantage with the beast that the new Stripe + Paypal would become.

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  Kingsley Okeze (Igwe) (@KingsleyTheDev) reported 17 minutes ago

  Stripe offering to buy Paypal is the craziest thing I've heard in a while. Apart from it being a startup trying to by a legacy tech, but one of the reason Stripe started was to fix an issue Paypal created.

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  Larry joel (@Khalifa1641655) reported 17 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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  Ali (@ali310019) reported 17 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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  hailey kisses (@haileyqtbazbil) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Gametime Be aware - Gametime will not send your money for selling tickets if you don’t have a PayPal account or your PayPal account is dormant. They will not even issue a credit card- Very sad

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  TIC (@TICkuus) reported 19 minutes ago

  Who’s down for customs? PayPal only #buyingcontent #sellingcontent #nsfwtwt

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  Wendy (@WendyGayleLove) reported 21 minutes ago

  PayPal WILL create an invoice seemingly I could pay?? I wonder about the intersection with the bank's being the problem. How does it intersect with the merchant. So many cues signal actions that are not necessarily appropriate in how they intersect: number of hits does NOT necessarily translate into items PURCHASED for example but is recorded that way erroneously, because of that Shortcut.

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  Lilylovesyuri (@lilylovesyuri) reported 24 minutes ago

  I FORGOT TO TAKE THIS DOWN BUT THEY ONLY TAKE PAYPAL APPAARENTLY SOB

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  Jhon Doe (@scaryinvestor) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Mindset4Money_X uber is a terrible deal, time will prove, just like it did with paypal.

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  Andrea Giammarchi 🍥 (@WebReflection) reported 27 minutes ago

  so ... @PayPal is stealing me money but of course it wouldn't let me close the account as I've requested multiple times ... good job folks 👍 (please don't even start with links to help me solve the issue, I've been through those multiple times already)

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  Analyst (@djhef216) reported 29 minutes ago

  PayPal up 30% off lows – nice for bagholders. But if your avg is $120 and it's $60, you're still down 50%. No victory laps. Cut losers fast or market cuts you. Discipline > hope.

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  Marsu (@marsuplamy) reported 33 minutes ago

  The Agentic Economy 2024 was the year of LLMs. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and models like them responded to prompts and that was enough. But 2025 brought something different. Models were no longer just responding, they were planning, calling tools, executing code, coordinating with other systems, and doing all of this without constant human oversight. This transition transformed AI from something you query into something you delegate to. This is called agentic AI and with it an entirely new economy began to take shape. To understand the scale of this economy a few numbers are worth looking at. The AI agents market is expected to grow from 7.84 billion dollars in 2025 to 52.62 billion dollars by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate of 46.3%. McKinsey projects that agentic commerce could orchestrate between 3 and 5 trillion dollars in global revenue by 2030. These numbers are not theoretical, the infrastructure is already being built. In just the six month period between April and September 2025, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe and Google all launched agentic payment infrastructures. So what are these agents actually doing? They are purchasing services on your behalf, paying other agents, accessing APIs, buying data, and doing all of this while making decisions in fractions of a second. Stablecoin transaction volume reached 33 trillion dollars in 2025, up 72% year over year, with supply surpassing 300 billion dollars. Agentic payments and machine to machine payment flows are cited as one of the key drivers behind this growth. Stablecoins like USDT and USDC are critical for agents because they allow programmable payments without price volatility. But legacy payment infrastructure was never designed for this world. Credit cards require human authentication, subscriptions demand upfront commitments, and API keys depend on manual onboarding processes. All of these systems were built for humans. When millions of agents are making countless payments per second none of these systems work technically or economically. x402 and the Awakening of HTTP 402 When web standards were being written in 1991 HTTP status code 402 was added and defined as 'Payment Required'. That day it was reserved, set aside for future use. This code waited more than thirty years and when its future arrived it turned out not to be human. The x402 standard activated this dormant code as a native payment layer for the internet: a server responds to a request with 402 and a price, the client pays on-chain in stablecoins, retries the request with proof of payment and receives the service. No account creation, no card on file, no subscription, no human. The protocol was launched in September 2025 by Coinbase and Cloudflare through the x402 Foundation. The coalition behind it is unusually broad, Google, Visa, AWS, Circle, Anthropic and Vercel are all core foundation members. Within five months of launch x402 had processed over 100 million transactions. In a single week in October 2025 the protocol handled approximately 500,000 payments, a 10,780% increase from the prior month. The technical side of x402 is very clean. For a developer integration is a single line of middleware, set a price per endpoint, point to a facilitator, and the API can charge per request in stablecoins. When an agent wants to access a service payment happens automatically inside the HTTP request, settlement completes within the round-trip. Zero human intervention. The Problem: Public Rails Don't Work for the Agentic Economy Now we come to the critical question. When millions of agents make transactions and every one of those transactions is visible on a public blockchain, what happens? Which APIs the agent uses, which data it accesses, which services it purchases, how much it pays, who it works with, all of it becomes completely visible. This is not just a user privacy problem, it means the strategy and logic the agent operates on is open to competitors. Is a company's agent feeding from the same data source as a rival's agent? How much is it spending on which compute services? How are supply chain decisions being made? All of this becomes readable on a public chain. On top of that there is the gas fee problem. On Ethereum and Tron fees shift constantly with network congestion. If an agent is making hundreds of microtransactions per second modeling your unit economics becomes impossible because you have no idea what costs will be in advance. For the agentic economy to work payment rails must be both private and predictably priced. Why Bitcoin is the Neutral Rail There are several clear answers to why Bitcoin stands out as the ideal settlement layer in this equation. First, censorship resistance. No central actor can stop, censor or restrict agent payments. For agents to operate autonomously the payment infrastructure must also be autonomous and uncensorable. Second, deterministic finality. Bitcoin's proof-of-work security is the most battle-tested and proven consensus mechanism in existence. For agent payments settlement must be definitive and irreversible. Third, global liquidity. Bitcoin is accessible everywhere in the world with no geographic restrictions and agents operate without borders. Fourth, the UTXO model. Unlike Ethereum's account-based model Bitcoin's UTXO structure allows non-conflicting transactions to be validated in parallel, a natural advantage for high-frequency agent payments. Where @Utexocom Fits The layer that combines Bitcoin's advantages with USDT and makes it production-ready for the agentic economy is Utexo. The RGB protocol issues and transfers USDT as a native asset on Bitcoin's own layer. Transfer details never get written to a public ledger thanks to client-side validation, only cryptographic commitments are anchored to Bitcoin UTXOs. So when an agent makes a payment who sent what to whom never leaks outward. The Lightning Network allows these assets to settle in milliseconds, at around 200ms latency. Utexo handles channel management, liquidity and routing entirely internally, with fees fixed and predefined at the protocol level. For the agentic economy this combination means the following. The agent pays in sub-second time, costs are predictable, payment details are private, and Bitcoin's finality provides the settlement guarantee. With the Mint component USDT from Ethereum, Tron or Solana can be moved onto Bitcoin rails. With the Swap component non-custodial exchange between BTC and USDT is possible. And the SDK reduces all of this complexity to a single API call, meaning a developer integrating agent payments never has to run a Lightning node or manage RGB infrastructure. Tether not only supporting this infrastructure but leading the seed round themselves, and preparing to issue USDT natively on Bitcoin through RGB protocol v0.11.1, answers the question of which rails the agentic economy will be built on. Machines are making payments now. Those payments need to be private, predictably priced, and anchored to Bitcoin. The infrastructure is here.

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  DojiPad (@DojiPad) reported 35 minutes ago

  Soft PPI, Apple at a fresh high, chips sold. Indexes closed green. The split is the real story. $SPX finished +0.38% at 7572. Nasdaq led. Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft all punched higher. BlackRock crushed on earnings and AUM. PayPal exploded on the Stripe/Advent bid talk. Micron got hit hard, semis rolled after the early ASML lift. Soft wholesale prices and the inflation-peak chatter gave the big names the bid while the rest of tech took profit. That dispersion is what most retail desks misread on the train home. Trap it triggers right now: the index looks clean so the day feels earned. You bank the runners early for the hit of relief, then hang onto or average the laggards because “they’ll catch up.” Disposition effect — risk-averse in the green, risk-seeking in the red. Losses register twice as heavy, so you defer the pain. The equity curve of that habit is the slow grind up and the elevator later. Market’s closed. Your review isn’t. DJ already saw the live trade cards and the fills. It scores the behavioral calls it made on you against what actually printed — early exits on the winners, size on the names that weren’t working — then updates your TraderProfile with the instrument fingerprint and the leak flags. Counterfactual ledger puts a currency number on any rule you ignored. No cheerleading. Just the record.

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  Brett Kessler (@BrettKessler__) reported 40 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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  isac (@isacfnr) reported 42 minutes ago

  Need help! My acc on paypal got suspended.. for some reason if someone know how to fix it 50$ prize money for u I really need help!

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  Matt (@_M98H) reported 45 minutes ago

  @RobertGreville @PBSTUK Must be an iOS issue iPhone never works for pre orders for me or my mates because of payment issue, regular drops are fine as you can use PayPal and Apple Pay but not pre orders, only Samsung works for me for for new items

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  Aseem Kishore (@akishore) reported 48 minutes ago

  $PYPL FINALLLLLLLYYYYY. I have 10 call LEAPS expiring in 2028 and I was down 75%! Stripe and Advent International just offered to buy PayPal for over $53 billion! - cash bid of $60.50 per share - roughly 28% premium over tuesday’s close - shares surged 18% premarket to ~$56.10 - paypal has been reluctant to engage so far - no on-record comments from any party yet paypal has been resisting, but can they really ignore a 28% premium in this market? 🤔 I'm gonna be mad if they reject it...I swear their stock will go to $20 or less

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  Nicola (@nicolakaye85) reported 49 minutes ago

  @MartinSLewis ...make X Y and Z transactions - exact same script as previous (genuine) call - no I did not. "There's also been an attempted login to PayPal, we will send a code to your email, please read it out to us" - hmm, bells, I hung up but on a different day I might have fallen for it.

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  🏳️‍🌈 nøva •_• ⊬ 🌌 ⏭️ ALL POINTS EAST (@blurryjoong) reported 50 minutes ago

  almost couldnt make the purchase cause paypal claimed there was a login (MY LOGIN) from wherever ******** holabird is

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  Bixia 🌺⚫️🐈‍⬛ (@BixiaVT) reported 58 minutes ago

  anyone else having issues with @Twitch and their IBAN discrimination? I am a german citizen and resident but my bank account is belgian, which is fine because both are EU countries but Twitch won't accept my IBAN and now I can't get my payouts >_> (No, I don't use Paypal)

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  Laguna Computer (@LagunaComputer) reported 1 hour ago

  @AskPayPal For those interested here was the resolution after talking to Chat. They said it was an internal Zettle glitch that they are trying to resolve. But they don’t know when, so they will add my case to that ticket. So, no there is no resolution currently.

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  Prof (@TheProfInvestor) reported 1 hour 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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  Sencyr💭 (@senCyr) reported 1 hour ago

  @thetrainline is the payment system down? I’ve been trying to book and I’ve tried Visa, Amex, PayPal, and Apple Pay. Any idea on when this’ll be resolved?