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 (46%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Clermont-Ferrand	Errors	12 hours ago
Collinsville	Sign in	1 day ago
Newnan	Website Down	2 days ago
Créteil	Sign in	3 days ago
Tacoma	Sign in	3 days ago
Chicago	Errors	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jordan (@jzrdan) reported 2 minutes ago

  I’ve seen a few people here on X saying $ADBE is the next $PYPL (a value trap). It’s not. PayPal completely lost its moat. Stripe, Apple Pay, and Block didn’t just compete with them, they made Braintree and Checkout irrelevant at the infrastructure level. There was literally no switching cost left. Adobe still has the most powerful switching cost in software. Your entire creative life lives inside Creative Cloud. Your assets, fonts and your team’s shared libraries. AI doesn’t break that, it actually deepens it. The classic value trap has one main tell imo, FCF deteriorating before the multiple compresses. Walgreens, Intel & Paypal are all examples of this. $ADBE’s FCF is still compounding though. The reason the multiple compressed was on fear, not fact. Firefly isn’t Adobe’s white flag to AI, it’s their answer. You only call it a value trap when the business is actually broken and in my opinion, it’s not.

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  Chris (@ChrisPyller) reported 4 minutes ago

  @CuriousPejjy Sorry for your problems. Unfortunately this i a great reminder that platforms like YouTube and PayPal doesn’t give a fair treatment to users. Better stay away from them. Hope it all works out for you 🤞

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  ЂП (@djordjijeno1) reported 4 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Also, almost all of your help tools require to be logged in. My problem is platform doesn't send me code to just sign in and make an account. Can you resolve my problem, you consider yourself a serious company?

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  Babbage | BRC100 (@ProjectBabbage) reported 4 minutes ago

  @BTFDGreg @steverabinow You keep trying to force this into a confession that BSV “contradicts Bitcoin.” I don’t accept that frame. A better description is that the technology is growing up. Early Bitcoin solved an important problem: how to make direct digital payments without routing every transaction through a financial intermediary that can impose chargebacks, custody, account control, and platform permission. That remains essential. BSV keeps keys, signatures, proof of work, public validation, direct payments, low fees, and user-controlled wallets. But real commercial systems also have to answer questions early cypherpunk rhetoric often waved away: What happens after theft? What happens after fraud? What happens when a transaction is part of an attack? What happens when property is disputed? What happens when courts, businesses, insurers, estates, exchanges, and ordinary users enter the picture? BSV’s answer is not “bring back PayPal.” It is: preserve direct digital cash for ordinary use, while adding a defined legal framework for exceptional disputes. That is not dishonesty. That is maturity. You can prefer a harsher model where technically valid possession wins forever, even after theft or attack. That is a coherent philosophy. But it is not the only honest reading of digital cash, and it is not obviously the best foundation for real-world commerce. “Satoshi’s Vision” is not scripture worship. It is a design thesis: scalable peer-to-peer electronic cash, stable rules, useful transactions, proof of work, honest nodes, low fees, and commerce that can actually function at scale. BSV is trying to build that in the grown-up world where law, property, fraud, and accountability exist. You can call that a different vision. Fine. But the train is moving toward usable systems: wallets, signatures, payments, identity, privacy, overlays, micropayments, apps, and lawful digital property. And soon you will find that it is leaving the station. These points are what real-world enterprise and commercial builders should evaluate.

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  NOTIME (@nielsyl) reported 5 minutes ago

  Dear Elon, Congratulations! You finally hit that $1 trillion mark. That is a truly absurd amount of money I’m pretty sure the human brain isn't even wired to comprehend that many zeros. Since you’ve officially broken the scale, I have a modest proposal: why not celebrate this historic achievement by making a random person-me—a billionaire? I know, I know, "tax implications" and "fiduciary responsibility." But imagine the absolute chaos and hilarity of the headline: "Elon Musk Gifts Random Person $1B Just Because He Could." It would be the ultimate flex. Plus, you’d still have $999 billion left over, which I’m told is still technically "a lot." I’m currently busy trying to make my PayPal work more efficiently, and having an extra billion in there might just be the technical solution I need to finally get everything running smoothly. Consider it an investment in the most entertaining social experiment of the century. Best.

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  Deerman (@BuckmanMcgeee) reported 6 minutes ago

  @oeoeoeoeoe_ @NobodyCaresEvr @NYCMayor Wrong again! His father had stakes in a mine, he didn’t own it. He got his money by selling PayPal and then mad incredibly risky loans to keep SpaceX afloat when it almost went bankrupt. Tone down your envy, it’s a bad color on you.

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  TECHEPAGES (@techepages) reported 8 minutes ago

  🚨 INTERPOL just took down Sniper Dz, a phishing-as-a-service platform active since 2015. 🌍 13 countries involved 👮 201 arrests made 🎣 45,000+ victim records collected 🌐 20,000+ phishing domains identified 🎯 Targeted PayPal, Netflix, Facebook, Instagram & more The platform was FREE to use thus lowering the bar for cybercriminals worldwide.

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  ꒰ঌ Mønø_xP ۶ৎ (@Mono_Klown) reported 11 minutes ago

  WHAT IS THE ******* POINT OF A CUSTOMER SUPPORT PAGE FOR BEING LOCKED OUT OF YOUR ACCOUNT IF YOU HAVE TO LOGIN TO USE IT PAYPAL?????????

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  iHerb (@iHerb) reported 11 minutes ago

  @trif11 Please be informed that your account is still active. Please go ahead and replace the new order if you still need the canceled items. To place a new order, please visit the "Orders" section and click on the "Reorder" button next to the canceled order. To prevent future payment issues, you might consider using a different payment method, as we accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, JCB, Apple Pay and PayPal.

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  Skoot (@Skoot9191) reported 15 minutes ago

  @PayPal your reps are absolutely useless. I shouldn’t have to call 6 times to resolve an issue

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  Non-Nutritive Cereal Varnish (@tofutefisk) reported 16 minutes ago

  i can’t get login .gov or id .me to verify my identity even when i submit everything they ask for. same for paypal, polymarket, social security administration - and just recently started being required to verify age by google, youtube, and anthropic…

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  Shams (@ShamsAmin56) reported 16 minutes ago

  @ShazaFK @CMShehbaz What's the point of posting? When your reach is terribly down? Anyway, when will PayPal come to Pakistan?

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  J M O (@muse_mule) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Ally_Sammarco Sweetie, if the states didn’t allow billions in fraud, SNAP wouldn’t have had any issues. Because it would have been used as it was created and intended. Not for lazy people who think they can support multiple kids using assistance while feeding them crap to keep them sick for a lifetime. But yes, the man who owns the platform you’re crying on, which you likely accept electronic fund “donations” through a PayPal or Zelle type program (which only exists because Elon and PayPal) from people may drive EVs (whose technology was advanced by Elon) to homes being powered by solar panels (another industry that advanced faster due to Elon’s involvement). And now those people are going online and buying a product from a vendor on the other side of the world who never had access to the internet but now has Starlink. Which will only become bigger since the rockets, designed and produced by Elon, that take the satellites into orbit can now be reused- saving a ton of time, resources, and money. But let us know how Elon messed with the Doritos in the SNAP program again

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  ЂП (@djordjijeno1) reported 18 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello, I cannot call this number from Montenegro because it is very expensive calling Ireland. Do you have any other options for contact, maybe on whatsapp or any other online platform through which i can contact you and resolve all my problems with singning in?

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  Stanphyl Capital 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@StanphylCap) reported 21 minutes ago

  Remember, when Musk ran PayPal it was losing a ton of money and they fired him. He is historically a TERRIBLE CEO. His entire myth is based on unmerited, bubble-level market caps. When the tide goes out, blubber-boy will be swimming very naked!

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  morgs⁷ is seeing bts (@evphcriaa) reported 22 minutes ago

  @amidodachi omg thats worse than what happened to me 😭 i couldnt login cus i use a passkey n not a password for paypal but it wouldnt let me login w/o a password or a code but i couldnt get the code cus my phone was shut off 😭

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  Anghellik (@Anghellik9) reported 25 minutes ago

  @WarOfFreedom @Rothmus He was famously pushed out of PayPal for his terrible ideas that he kept insisting on. One of them being "change the name to X" actually.

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  cosmo the collie 🟥⬜️TAMU WANNNTT (@CosmoPuppy12agg) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Butters_pupper Huff I buys *paypal: nah am your problem* ;.)

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  Simen (@pronouncedsimon) reported 29 minutes ago

  @nobodyknows2322 Who wouldn’t? To be fair to him, he’s turned down requests for him to make a donate page, PayPal or whatever several times. Still he’s people begging to send him money in the comments lol

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  KHAN'✨ (@khanofkhans11_) reported 30 minutes ago

  In August 2008, Elon Musk was squatting in the wreckage of SpaceX’s failed 3rd Falcon 1 rocket. Both Tesla and SpaceX were on the verge of collapse. The global financial crisis was in full swing. This wasn’t a billionaire playing startup. He was effectively broke. After selling PayPal, Elon walked away with $176 million. He poured $100 million into founding SpaceX and tens of millions more into Tesla which he joined in 2004 and became CEO of in 2008. By mid-2008, he had burned through almost all of it. He was down to his last $35 million. He split that final $35M between the two companies instead of saving himself. He took loans from friends, slept on factory floors, and at one point said he ran out of cash entirely. Forbes wasn’t calling him a billionaire. Most people had never heard of him. Then came the turning point: • SpaceX’s 4th Falcon 1 launch succeeded on Sept 28, 2008 (first privately-funded rocket to reach orbit). • Tesla closed a desperate funding round days before bankruptcy. He bet everything when almost no one believed it would work. Today he’s the first Trillionaire while effectively making a lot of factory workers rich. Insane stuff.

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  LadyJoAnn🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@LadyJoAnn9) reported 32 minutes ago

  @RepSaraJacobs Many of us think Elon is terrific, you stinking hate monger. Neurolink, SpaceX, PayPal…he’s got you beat, by any estimation. Sit down. You’re irrelevant to this conversation.

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  李蝙蝠血 (@bat_bleed) reported 35 minutes ago

  @turdmaster97 FIX YOUR PAYPAL

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  MayumiBeans 🔞 | Furry Artist (@MayumiBeans) reported 40 minutes ago

  @NekoyukiOsuneko @vevans0009 @KatieDragonArt my issue was that i couldnt be able to do it because of the fact that i was going to end up homeless if i didnt get the funds i needed for the day coming up (15th of every month) and that was why. i was already behind on rent as it was. i shouldnt discuss this publicly, but for this. listen. yukiko. my problem wasnt with him it was how he went about it. he didnt even try to talk to me after i sent those messages. he blocked me and removed me instead of speaking to me. when you go and report it to paypal and get the refund through paypal im completely obligated BY paypal to do the commissioned work. because he went to a refund without both parties agreeing, i ended up suffereing the issues from it. not only did they slander me through the server and got me removed because of that. but they also went and started spreading misinformation and going public with it. i did not go public or disclose who the commission belong to much less the client. and yet they went the extra mile. paypal even told me after being on calls with paypal 5 times, to do the piece regardless of what the client thinks "because the client started the refund process you are expected to do the commission. it doesnt matter if they client doesnt want it. thats called buyers remorse. you have the oppertunity to provide the piece and that only matters to us paypal. they spent the money and they cant just refund or tell you not to do the piece. thats not how it works." and then the situation got worse because they didnt want to work with me. i didnt go around slinging insults at them or calling them names or ruining their name through my community or anywhere publicly. it shows more integrity than they have to not go and stoop that low. they used what i told them privately agianst me. and thats not even close to fair for me, then went and slandered me publicly everywhere? im sorry. they got their refund, i still ended up doing the piece regardless in hopes i wouldnt get doc't my pay. and i still lost the case. it longer belongs to them since they didnt pay for it.

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  PeteZ (@pzeegers) reported 44 minutes ago

  @IslingtonChap He invented Tesla, PayPal, spaceEx, Starlink. What’s broken about that?

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  William Simmons (@William93410891) reported 44 minutes ago

  When Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, he funded the company almost entirely with the roughly $100 million he made from the sale of PayPal. At the time, the aerospace industry was dominated by massive, government-backed contractors, and building rockets from scratch with a small private team was considered practically impossible. SpaceX’s first vehicle was the Falcon 1, a small, liquid-fueled rocket. But learning how to reach orbit with live ammunition proved brutal: Flight 1 (March 2006): Failed 34 seconds after liftoff due to a fuel line leak and fire. Flight 2 (March 2007): Reached space, but failed to achieve orbit when the second-stage engine shut down early due to fuel sloshing. Flight 3 (August 2008): Failed right at stage separation. The first stage unexpectedly thrust forward and collided with the second stage, destroying the rocket and the payload. The Financial Cliff By the fall of 2008, the situation was dire. The 2008 global financial crisis had frozen investment markets, and both of Musk's major ventures—SpaceX and Tesla—were bleeding cash and teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Musk had originally budgeted enough personal money for three launches. After the third failure, he managed to scrape together just enough remaining capital and spare parts to assemble one last rocket. He later noted that he had to decide whether to let one company die to save the other, or risk his last remaining funds to try and save both. He rolled the dice on a fourth launch. If it failed, SpaceX was dead. Flight 4: The Last Chance Operating under massive pressure, the SpaceX team diagnosed the timing error that doomed Flight 3, built a new rocket largely from existing hardware, and flew it via military transport to their remote launch site on Omelek Island in the Pacific. Because they couldn't afford the liability or the delay of finding a paying customer, the payload was just a dummy mass—a block of aluminum weighing about 165 kg (364 lb). On September 28, 2008, Falcon 1 Flight 4 lifted off. This time, everything worked perfectly. The vehicle reached its target altitude and coasted into orbit, making history as the first privately developed, fully liquid-fueled rocket to reach Earth orbit. But SpaceX was still broke. During Christmas 2008, Santa awarded SpaceX a $ 1.6 billion contract to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. Where were all the Elon Musk haters (Pocahontas et al.) in 2008, when Elon risked both his companies to give SpaceX just one more try? If anything had gone wrong, Tesla, SpaceX and Musk would have been doomed. Friday, June 12, 2026—SpaceX officially went public in what is now the largest initial public offering (IPO) of all time. Well done, Musk et al., well done indeed. Enjoy your money.

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  Mislav Beslic (@mislavbeslic) reported 48 minutes ago

  This is going to sound counterintuitive: But I genuinely believe going broke twice was the best thing that happened to my ecom career. Not in a motivational way but in a specific operational way. The first time I went broke I learned that you never operate without backup processors. Because I watched my only processor lock up $30k with zero warning and had to wait 120 days to get it back. That $30k was everything I had. That lesson is now permanently embedded in how I run both brands. The second time I learned that you can't trust suppliers blindly. Mine stopped communicating, started cutting corners, quality dropped, chargebacks spiked, and it cascaded into losing PayPal and Shopify Payments within a week of each other. Now I have quality control processes, backup suppliers, and I've physically visited our factory in China. I also learned that legal threats can come out of nowhere and end your brand overnight if you're not prepared. A large corporation filed a cease and desist and I couldn't afford lawyers to fight it. Didn't matter if the claim was fair or not. Without money to defend yourself, you lose by default. Now I have legal on standby. Every one of these scars is now a system in my business. Backup processors aren't a nice to have, they're because I know what happens without them. Supplier oversight isn't paranoia, it's because I've seen what happens when you trust blindly. Legal preparation isn't overcautious, it's because I've lost a brand to a letter I couldn't fight. People who've only experienced success are actually at a disadvantage at scale because they haven't been stress-tested. They don't know what breaks because nothing has broken yet. The first time something goes wrong at $500k/mo or $1M/mo, they have no scar tissue to draw from. No instinctive response built from experience. I know exactly what to do when a processor freezes because I've lived through it twice. I know exactly what to do when a supplier starts slipping because I've watched it destroy a brand. That pattern recognition can't be taught in a course. You either lived it or you didn't. What's the most expensive lesson you've learned so far? Because whatever it is, it's probably your biggest competitive advantage right now.

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  🔥Dom ☕️(smells like cinnamon)🍯Flare🔥 (@DadBodFlareon) reported 51 minutes ago

  Question? You’re all free to disagree and such Should I start a throne or share my PayPal for you guys to send cash? I usually don’t like receiving cash. But for me to get thst pc I need to create games. I might need some help. If you want I’ll put a pole down here

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  🅱️ete oaks (@b0newalljackson) reported 55 minutes ago

  @_GrandExchange_ @kingbtc i got on ebay and paypal in 01 and boa gave me trouble with that so by the time i got into crypto they stopped bothering me. i hear horror stories about them but knock on wood never had any issues with either them or cb

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  The Zeno Report (@ZenoReport) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Spybef0rey0ubuy People are trolling and underestimating Mr. Burry way too much these days. They forget no matter people's opinion he's still a legendary Investor, Trader, and Contrarian Analyst. ADBE is a solid business which might be misunderstood by the market now but in a year the picture will paint itself. I don't personally like PayPal. One time I transferred $800 to my friend in Australia while visiting, and they charged me $60-70 in fees for it... So, from that moment I knew this business has a deep problem, and this happened in 2023 so no wonder the downfall.

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  TRambo (@fattyfatman) reported 60 minutes ago

  @steady_profits It's paypal. They should pay a FAT dividend and wind down and slowly as they can before being acquired.