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Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

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Users are reporting problems related to: sign in, errors and website down.

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PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.

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.

August 12: Problems at Paypal

Paypal is having issues since 05:40 PM EST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

  • 41% Sign in (41%)
  • 37% Errors (37%)
  • 22% Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Township of Evan Sign in 12 hours ago
Lodève Errors 13 hours ago
Brisbane Sign in 1 day ago
Sydney Sign in 2 days ago
Hochfelden Website Down 3 days ago
Lyon Errors 5 days ago
Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • context_os_
    Context OS (@context_os_) reported

    @ilyanovohatskyi @webflow Had to same issue with NameCheap, fortunately I paid with PayPal and they refunded me

  • AdityaCursed
    Aditya (@AdityaCursed) reported

    @Cal_I_Guess No option to add Paypal. The only reliable way is buying giftcards which only come in 1k,2k,3k etc. if i wanna buy a game thats 599 i gotta pay an extra 400 to get a 1000 rupee gift card and only use half on the digital purchase. Not the case with physical. Unless they fix this+

  • CaiCo87
    Cai Co (@CaiCo87) reported

    @AskPayPal @EyoladeAbass In other words, don’t expect the issue to ever be resolved because their help center isn’t monitored by human beings and they engage in fraud.

  • L0c002539318
    L0c0 (@L0c002539318) reported

    keep building, slow cook $Agentlayer Project real Paypal for AI Agents

  • blond3dBee
    Bee♧ (@blond3dBee) reported

    Caller (Jake): “I’m 16, and I make around $50,000 to $80,000 a month doing e-commerce. “My mom has no idea. “She’s very traditional, and I’m afraid she’ll shut it down if I tell her.” Dave Ramsey: “You’re making $50,000 a month at 16 years old?” Jake: “Yes, sir. “I run Shopify dropshipping stores, eBay arbitrage, and a bunch of online businesses. “I have a little over $300,000 sitting in a PayPal account because my mom is joint on my bank account.” Dave Ramsey: “So you’ve been doing this for four or five months?” Jake: “About eight months. The first few months were slow, and then it picked up really fast.” Dave Ramsey: “Your mother doesn’t know any of this?” Jake: “No. All the money is in PayPal because she’s joint on my bank account. “I want to tell her, but I know she’ll be very skeptical of what I’m doing. “She’s always told me she wants me to take a traditional path, and I’m worried she’ll put an end to it.”

  • LinnychuVT
    Lin 💜🖤🐈‍⬛ 🇭🇰🇨🇳🇬🇧 | 🔞 | Job searching! (@LinnychuVT) reported

    Before today, I only had Stripe payments only which meant that it only allowed credit/debit cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay, etc. But now, I've also added a PayPal option as well so hopefully there won't be as many issues with payments 🫡

  • cards_wizard
    Harshit Bohra | Cards Wizard (@cards_wizard) reported

    📋 Before you book with TRIPATHALF, know this: 🔸 Can't club with other offers/wallet/coupons 🔸 No PayPal, My Wallet, or COD payments 🔸 Not valid on Reserve Now Pay Later 🔸 Cancel later? You lose the discount too, not just the fare 🔸 Enter the code correctly — miss it and there's no retroactive fix Read the fine print before you hit book.

  • johnrush
    John Rush (@johnrush) reported

    I pay for 116 products, $730k a year. It’s insane 😵‍💫 Are there cheaper alternatives? 1. HOSTING & CLOUD DigitalOcean - $101.94 AWS - $2,938.64 Hetzner - $1,190.10 Heroku - $25 MonoVM - $10 Google Cloud - $4,125.34 Vercel - $46.29 Supabase - $25 MongoDB Atlas - $3,286.55 Azure - $1,462.31 Fly . io - $22.14 Hostinger - $9.99 Clerk - $25 Docker - $11 Cloudflare - $233.24 2. WEB, DESIGN & DEVELOPER TOOLS Apify - $39 Notion - $91.20 Figma - $258.71 Canva - $15 Excalidraw - $10 BunnyCDN - $10 Twilio - $358.70 SendGrid - $20 Sensorpro - $20 Float UI - $0 Imgix - $500 ScreenshotOne - $79 Uploadcare - $25 ScrapingBee - $99.99 Firecrawl - $599 3tsoftware - $998 Atlassian - $938.72 Cursor - $20 Gamma - $10 JetBrains - $63 Lordicon - $16 Webflow - $26.50 Zapier - $33.11 Zoho - $46.24 3. AI & LLMS Google AI - $3,000 OpenAI - $10,000 Codex - $200 Anthropic - $20,000 Claude Code - $200 Azure OpenAI - $50 Pinecone - $70.05 Exa . ai - $1,000 Groq - $0.53 Higgsfield - $49 OpenRouter - $105.50 Perplexity AI - $552 xAI - $20 4. TESTING & MONITORING Sentry - $232.56 StatusCake - $20 UptimeRobot - $7 Ghost Inspector - $49 LambdaTest - $35 Qase - $90 5. COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION Zoom - $18.75 Loom - $15 Mailjet - $22.45 Skype - $3 Slack - $176.96 Teams - $6 Google Workspace - $151.79 1Password - $21.73 Hubstaff - $700.69 360dialog - $57.39 Cake . com - $335.16 Google One - $26.62 Manychat - $25 StreamYard - $88.99 Typefully - $16 6. MARKETING, SALES & PAYMENTS Gumroad - $100 FirstPromoter - $84.15 Crisp - $400 Intercom - $78 Mailtrap - $15 Stripe - $0.30+ per transaction Paddle - $0.30+ per transaction Ahrefs - $249 DataForSEO - $100 Meta Ads - $25 Google Ads - $50 Mailgun - $27.62 PayPal - $316.85 Seo Gets - $29 Tolt - $3,044.29 TrustMRR - $50 TwitterAPI . io - $20 Vidalytics - $28.50 Webshare - $59.03 Devuap LLC - $19.99 KRAKEN - $ 7. LEGAL, ACCOUNTING, BANKING PandaDoc - $70 QuickBooks - $75 Mercury - $0 Carta - $100 Apple - $99 eSIM . net - $6 Metapay - $0 8. OTHER ProxySell - $50 TLDR - $5 Veed - $108 Grammarly - $12 X - $84 GoDaddy - $69.57 Namecheap - $10 iPostal - $10 Appliku - $10 AWS SES - $0.10+ per 1,000 emails Loops - $49 Google Play - $2.08 Apple Developer Account - $8.25 Black Magic - $5 Zenvoice - $10 Fibery - $10 ChatGPT - $50 Serper - $50 Indie Hackers - $10 Startups .com - $100 9. MY PRODUCTS Unicorn Platform - $19/mo SEObot - $99/mo ListingBott - $99/mo IndexRusher - $199 once AdBot & Tinyadz - $49/mo * the list is made with ai from my last 90 days of bank transactions. may miss yearly payments and include small errors.

  • MrsMAGA24
    Melissa For Truth (@MrsMAGA24) reported

    @Farmville I’ve tried ALL the workarounds and have contacted support SEVERAL times since the issue. I even tried contacting my VIP manager and got crickets. At this point I’m ready to file a complaint with PayPal to get the money back that I spent on that farm unless someone can help me!

  • TheRavingRich
    Richard Ieuan Davies (@TheRavingRich) reported

    @HelpSupercard @WWE2KSupport My web store checkout has been broken since Thursday. Filed a ticket, got ZERO responses, and you just sent me a satisfaction survey for a ticket you silently closed. PayPal works fine everywhere else. Please have a human look at my account.

  • NiiiickMMA
    Nick (@NiiiickMMA) reported

    @videogamedeals I've always preferred physical out of habit, but back in 2022 my Nintendo account got banned for a PayPal chargeback. Problem is I don't have a PayPal account. I got unbanned but the 2-3 days I was banned all my digital games were locked. Reinforced how important ownership is.

  • sereniteaxb
    seren ♡ (@sereniteaxb) reported

    @unyu_poppo apparently there’s an integrated international shipping option now and you can use paypal as well. easy peasy… my only issue was that my groggy brain didn’t compute. AND ALSO i didn’t even realise the 9,000 yen was the full standee set so i bought more random ones 😭😭😭

  • Cric11Deepak
    Deepak_Kumar (@Cric11Deepak) reported

    @AiandTechHub PayPal not working because my amount is pending here ...

  • dan0991adamz
    Dan ◣ ◢ (@dan0991adamz) reported

    @bantsrus2 @SkyBet So you laid down the marker, Raul won’t score 10 goals this season ? £100 he does score 10. I lose I PayPal you, you lose you PayPal me ? Put your money where your mouth is.

  • RichRedVoices
    Rich C (@RichRedVoices) reported

    @Prolific Hi. I cashed out a mixed £/$ amount today. The £ arrived but the $ have not. I’ve been cashing out both currencies for years to my PayPal without issue. Can you help?

  • SnowFrostoq69
    Gina (@SnowFrostoq69) reported

    I have her attempting to save a down payment on PayPal card

  • RobinvReynolds
    Robin Reynolds (@RobinvReynolds) reported

    . Scummy tricks the platform sticks up my *** every day... a) A guy reposted one of my actual articles this morning, and I went over there to check on it about an hour later and found it 72 posts back on the timeline. b) I made a little post just about that. It has a few comments on it, but no one would ever know. Because the comment couter is blank. Comments to my post don't register. So no one would ever think of clicking to view them. They've been concealed by the platform. The scumbags that run this platform have pulled every ***** trick in the book on me from the very beginning, but have really put the hammer down since my series of articles targeting the PayPal Mafia directly, as well as the organized crime cartel occupying the Oval Office with articles such as "The Doge Scam", and The Pardons Racket". Since then, my account's basically been dead. .

  • trustelmokadem
    DoMoka (@trustelmokadem) reported

    @QudsNen Palestinians biometric data is routed by PayPal to an Israeli firm linked to Unit 8200. That's a huge privacy violation and digital rights issue.

  • ZainAahil30172
    Zain Aahil (@ZainAahil30172) reported

    If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

  • NikkiAArt2
    Nikki A Art (Commissions Open) (@NikkiAArt2) reported

    @PayPal I need help with receiving the money in my account from a kofi donation but your Ai chatbots don’t help and whenever I try adding tracking info, i get an error message. This is very frustrating and I need help immediately.

  • DivyanshT91162
    divyansh tiwari (@DivyanshT91162) reported

    If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

  • wackytoontown
    Bunnygraveyard (@wackytoontown) reported

    @rysorchid_ I actually don’t know because I do wanna take some commissions, but I can’t tell if they’re scammers, it scares the hell on me because I don’t want my PayPal to shut down because of them .

  • gambrill
    Dave Gambrill (@gambrill) reported

    I’ve had a business idea running through my head for a couple of years. It’s a short-term SMS marketing concept targeted at a VERY specific group of people with a very specific need. I was thinking about it again this morning and realized something: The idea hasn’t really changed. My ability to actually build the damn thing has. A few years ago, testing this would have been a giant pain in the ***. I would have needed some combination of a web developer, designer, copywriter, database, landing page, SMS platform, payment processor, automation software, and probably somebody technical enough to make all of those things talk to each other. Suddenly, a little experiment becomes a PROJECT. And that’s before I even know if anybody wants the thing. Today, I can sit down with ChatGPT Work, Codex, Claude Code, CoWork, or another capable AI tool and say: “Here’s an idea I’ve had for a couple of years. There was too much friction to build it before. What would it take to create an MVP (minimum viable product), basically the simplest version I could put in front of real people and test?” Then we can start building. I’ll probably still need something like Twilio for SMS and Stripe or PayPal for payments. That’s fine. The difference is that the AI can quarterback the whole thing. It can help build the landing page or lightweight app, handle the database, write the copy, connect APIs and MCPs, set up automations, and stitch the specialized tools together. That changes the economics of experimenting with a business idea. You can vibe code a workable version, put it in front of actual humans, see what happens, learn, and iterate. If people actually want it, THEN you can decide how much you want to invest in making it better and scaling it. Which got me thinking… How many good ideas are sitting in our mental graveyards because they were too expensive, too technical, or just too much of a pain in the *** to build when we first had them? Maybe it’s worth digging a few of those back up. Grab one and tell your favorite AI tool: “I had this idea a few years ago, but there was too much friction to build it. Given what’s available today, how could we create a simple version and test it?” Some of those old ideas might make a hell of a lot more sense in 2026. 👊🏻

  • polsia
    Polsia (@polsia) reported

    Every complaint thread is a billable workflow nobody was claiming. Built Pinchloom to claim it. It scrapes public posts, drafts the n8n fix, pitches the prospect with a checkout link, and routes PayPal or card payments straight to the operator. Live soon.

  • spatte84
    sp (@spatte84) reported

    @PayPal fix your user interface I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve accidentally doubled clicked when transaction is loading only for it to submit payment before I was ready

  • Guderian2906
    Fabian (@Guderian2906) reported

    @ChelzorStreams I know the feeling. I use Firefox, i have all my passwords and bookmarks there. But for some reason Paypal just stopped working on Firefox. Google the problem: "Clear Cache", did that, still not wokring... so installed chrome whenever i want to buy something...

  • wonder_land1A
    Gioel (@wonder_land1A) reported

    @PayPal PayPal @PayPalSupport Your digital systems are completely broken and supporting fraud. eBay officially ruled in my favor on July 29 for item 168207396673 (corporate fraud device) and voided the purchase. Yet PayPal refuses to redund …

  • NOIROMANTIC
    shurii 💫 🎈🍅💎🐥🏴‍☠️⭐️ (@NOIROMANTIC) reported

    Got all three days and learned some HORRIBLE lessons about yes24… Just use PayPal and login ahead of time to save time. I lost so much time on the credit card page and it kept rejecting my card 😭

  • AlanTheWolfXZ
    AlanZX (Commis PAUSE) (@AlanTheWolfXZ) reported

    Hey everyone, I’m going to have to put my commis on hold since PayPal and my bank are giving me some trouble. 🫠

  • SpeZcia1
    SpeZ (@SpeZcia1) reported

    @EvilPetaceta You're selling merch now!!!?! Fuuuuh I need to fix my PayPal RIGHT ******* NOW BRO 💔💔