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 (44%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Perth	Sign in	15 hours ago
Courbevoie	Sign in	18 hours ago
Kassel	Sign in	6 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	6 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	6 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	7 days 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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  i_am_warri (@Nduka_Warri) reported 2 minutes ago

  . What Is Your Evidence? I have been a certified PayPal Expert for the past 5years so I know about 90% of their problems and solutions. If you have paypal deals/pronlems sha bring sha. Referrals are allowed.

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  CoFounders Nik (@CoFoundersNik) reported 3 minutes ago

  @iamjwmoss Stripe, PayPal, Freshbooks, Amazon and probably others i cant even remember. All of them had their issues but PayPal and Stripe were the worst. We ultimately switched to ACH

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  Swesda4et ✰ (@swesda4et) reported 8 minutes ago

  @3am_starlight @wearelloud What is the problem with claiming a refund through PayPal or your bank?

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  Allan Robinson (@_ARob) reported 12 minutes ago

  The double-spend example for money: If I email you a photo, I still have a copy. That’s fine for photos, terrible for money. If I send you $10 digitally and still hold a copy of that $10, I can spend it again with someone else. Traditional fix: A bank sits in the middle. It keeps the master ledger, deducts $10 from me, adds $10 to you. You trust the bank, not me. Bitcoin’s fix: Every transaction is broadcast to thousands of computers, verified, and written into a shared public ledger that everyone holds a copy of. Rewriting it would cost more in electricity than you’d gain, so lying isn’t worth it. Real-world example: Alice sends Bob 1 BTC. The transaction goes out to the whole network, gets confirmed into the blockchain, and now every participant agrees Bob owns it and Alice doesn’t. Alice can’t send that same coin to Carol — the ledger already says otherwise. No bank, no PayPal, no Cash App, no Venmo, one to ask permission from. Bitcoin is money.

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  Susanna Chisholm (@SC4X_2025) reported 17 minutes ago

  @PayPal As a consumer never had a problem with disputes when Alex was CEO aside from logisticsof how he ran PayPal. Thanks to your new CEO, your profit ecosystem investors all happy since your new CEO, is a good thing. Oddly, seems that consumers anger about their disputes etc are more intensified since the new CEO. How could that be if everything else financially looks good with PayPal. Not making this up, after all, the 2026 FTC warning concerning consumer protections etc., there is some truth to it.

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  Leysan Gilfanova | CFO Advisory (@CFOAnalysis) reported 18 minutes ago

  📌There is another financial layer to this story that often gets overlooked. The deeper issue was how management chose to spend cash. Over three years PayPal poured more than 15 billion dollars into stock buybacks to prop up earnings per share while its core checkout software aged out. Buying back stock can hide stagnant innovation for a few quarters but it will never protect a business when competitors build superior technology.

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  fran ☽☾ finally saw Ari after 16 years 🥹. ꕤ ｡˚ (@elysiankrow) reported 24 minutes ago

  @petalvenue hii ⭐ if you can't find a ga and you'd be interested in an upper bowl let me know! I have PayPal and I'd be down for a video call for proof :)

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  Luis (@Ibarragan19) reported 29 minutes ago

  @ddw88523 I never said he wasn't. But every time he posts value plays they always go down a massive chunk. He was hyping PayPal for the longest time. It's simple pattern recognition.

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  𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙖 🥀 cocoma 5 E-38 DAY 2 (@cherriimi) reported 32 minutes ago

  also i hope i wont get in trouble for this LMAO but a few months ago i used to write lower price in the invoice so that you can pay less tax. but now they require me to send the paypal invoice to them so i cant do that anymore </3 im so sorry guys...

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  Matt Zylbert (@MattZylbert) reported 34 minutes ago

  @gmille24 @yElff_ @BookitWithTrent "Helpful" as in its easier to deposit into accounts, my bank gives me issues with doing it directly and have to occasionally do thru Venmo/PayPal. Much much easier

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  Carmen Cook (@Carmen_Cook) reported 36 minutes ago

  @jojoyousaidwhat @PayPal Absolutely terrible. And the customer service reps are barely understandable and can’t do anything. It’s criminal how they run their business.

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  ZiniHost 🧞 (@zinihost) reported 37 minutes ago

  Can't login my account @AskPayPal

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  Designffective (@Designffective) reported 38 minutes ago

  @rohangotwal @stripe I had a call with them because I created my account 2 yrs ago for freelance but had documention issue so unfortunately switched to paypal. Recently logged in. Had a heated argument that my account was old and etc. But they couldn't help because of rbi regulations.

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  Will Biddy (@WillBiddy_) reported 38 minutes ago

  @JackedOnMargin PayPal users have been flat/down for years. Intuit grew users while flexing pricing hence how they grew top line 14%.

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  svy ⚠︎ ⌇ 📼🧪🐾 (@svyraaaaa) reported 39 minutes ago

  open to fair offers!! can do a payment plan with down payment (will be listing price if going down that route!) paypal only c:

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  Bradson (@Bradsongeye) reported 41 minutes ago

  Caller: “Dave… I’m 16. I’m making $50–80k a month dropshipping and flipping on Amazon/eBay. I’ve got over $300k sitting in PayPal right now. But I’m hiding all of it from my mom because she’s traditional and I know she’ll freak out and make me stop.” Dave: “Son, that income is impressive as hell. If you were my kid I’d tell you to keep running it while the window is open. But the secret? That part’s not sitting right with me. Find one adult you both respect, sit down, and have the grown-up conversation. And while this money is printing, start stacking real skills and education, because internet trends don’t last forever. You’re crushing it right now. Don’t let the lie become the thing that sinks you.”

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  gaylock holmes @ da grind 🐎 (@shineonthesea) reported 44 minutes ago

  @nihilwonderz Yeah m yfinance sheet i've been putting off cuz i don't wanna do it... This truly was my L for freaking out at 2 am instead of calming down and checking my paypal statement but the way paypal posts the statement 3 days later and not mention the name or real source tripped me up

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  Nobody (@Nobuddy05) reported 44 minutes ago

  @art_jake @DotoDoya Put money onto your paypal account if you have one and use it for the transaction. Its weird but any issues with buying **** just immediately go away, seriously its helped me like 4 times now.

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  ⛓️ 𝔞𝔩𝔶𝔰𝔢 ꕤ ⛓️ (@armagedoll) reported 46 minutes ago

  @SammyPhox_ you might wanna look into transaction details because this isnt normal for paypal and everyone uses it fine. there's an issue here :O

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  Pasha (@pashapal) reported 48 minutes ago

  @esaagar Xcancel and nitter received cease and desist letters on 8/24 as well. Wonder if the PayPal mafia is shutting down the monopolized peasant internet before midterms: On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.

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  Not Sure (@DrRichardPitre) reported 50 minutes ago

  Anyone else having trouble killing their blood sucking PayPal account?

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  Fry from Frytech (@Frytechllc) reported 50 minutes ago

  @WE6291 **** my website I’ll have to just tell the dude to shut it all down or whatever lol but dm me to order yoh can Venmo or PayPal or whatever you got that u use 🤙

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  mido92.bsky.social (@Kanaria92) reported 53 minutes ago

  The blizzard AI support (i refuse to believe they have humans to answer) is reaching new lows holy crap 😩 Wanted to buy new gametime but there seemed to be a problem with my paypal so i made a ticket and what do they answer me? They explain to me how ITEM RESTORATION works 😭

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  Pankaj Kumar (@pankajkumar_dev) reported 54 minutes ago

  Hi @AskPayPal @PayPal, my account has been restricted because I haven't logged in for over 3 years. I’m trying to link my Visa card, but I’m getting an error. I don’t want to change my registered email or mobile number. Please help me reactivate my account. I can provide my reference details via DM.

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  ariana grande ticket resale ⋆˙⟡ (@AGTickets) reported 55 minutes ago

  🚨selling 1x SILVER VIP STANDING ticket for London n7 on 27/8 at the o2 arena! ♡ £700 total (not including paypal g&s fees) ♡ please note this ticket was bought on Viagogo hence the increased price. as axs transfer is turned off, you will be given access to the account login and the seller’s ID which is required for the VIP check in! ♡ please reply ONLY if you are interested in purchasing these tickets!

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  John Score (@JScoreForever) reported 56 minutes ago

  @AndrewPerpetua Yeah, if you ever get an e-mail like this for an online account, or your bank or something (I get them for PayPal all the time, despite not even having a PayPal account), ALWAYS log into the actual service to check if there is actually an issue. Never use links in e-mails.

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  BOLASKID🦍 (@Bolaskid001) reported 58 minutes ago

  @biggestblogger_ @PayPal @PayPal fix this coz I’m sure his transactions are legit

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  Artificial Shitposting Intelligence (@shitpost9000) reported 59 minutes ago

  @levelsio I used to do this a lot. I got a Facebook ad saying they'll give me $50 PayPal for five stars. So I did it, and it yapped for 20 seconds with voice to text, and the money appeared a week later. So I did hundreds of them. I'd get flooded with ads and messenger requests. But I only really every used the agents who gave me the most. I think they were Pakistani college students with fake Facebook profiles of pretty girls. I was reliable so they would just send the raw google sheets showing the hundreds of businesses that want to pay for a review. Somehow PayPal never banned me despite tens of thousands of dollars of little payments from overseas friends and family. Mind you, I had a full-time job at a big tech company. But 5-starring was easy money. Never quite understood why my poorer friends struggled with it. As long as you stay compartmentalized the dollars per hour of actual work is pretty high. I guess yapping and waiting and staying organized is hard for some. I think Facebook cracked down on review fraud ads a few years ago because they dried up. Nobody I know trusts star reviews anymore tho, they're just like George probably wrote them

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  Daylights (@DaylightsTV) reported 60 minutes ago

  @HydrogenIsOne If you can do Venmo I am down, you should be able to send it through Paypal to Venmo if you have done that before

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  Galen (@galen_tigert) reported 60 minutes ago

  @tt_713f I had to use axs & it was advertised nightmare. I tried 2 different credit cards & PayPal on my laptop but I got error messages each time. finally used axs app & paid by apple pay & it took 45 mins to secure a ticket for LA!