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 (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Berlin	Sign in	3 days ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	3 days ago
Nantes	Errors	4 days ago
Vícar	Errors	4 days ago
Étauliers	Errors	4 days ago
Onnion	Website Down	4 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Neil Kerber (@DropKerb) reported 2 minutes ago

  .@AskPayPal @PayPal Can't access my account, message "We’re having trouble making sure it’s you" after passing much security. Need access to my money. customer service said wait 1 week. Cant log in to complain as his message above. Really p**d off, scared to use @paypal in future

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  Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) reported 2 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel on what he doesn’t like about the Lean Startup Thiel believes there are merits to the Lean Startup, but he thinks founders today may have over-indexed on it: “I do think we tend to be dominated by a somewhat nihilistic bias where we claim not to know anything. And when you don’t know anything, you end up defaulting too much to the experimental search, A/B testing approach of ‘Let’s ask the customers.’ And I would say the problem with that is that the search space is simply way too big.” In practice, Thiel argues for a more definite view of the future: “This is an important problem that needs to be solved, and this is the set of things we have to combine in just this way to do it.” To be fair, Steve Blank—who pioneered the Lean Startup methodology—isn’t necessarily against this approach. Blank just recommends treating your assumptions as “a series of untested hypotheses.” But there’s clearly a balance between having a definite view of the future and rigorously trying to disprove your assumptions. As Thiel explains, many of the PayPal founding team’s initial assumptions were wrong: “At PayPal, our original business plan was to have payments on Palm Pilots, then it was wireless payments, then it was payments linked to email. So we had a few fairly big pivots in the first year. I’m not sure there’s anything especially virtuous about that — if you have a dumb idea, it’s important to change it — but it’s not virtuous to have a really bad idea in the first place.” Source: @OxfordSBS (May 2015)

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  Upside (@upside) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Ranked_Props Hi there! We recently made updates to our cashout options to make them faster, more reliable, and more flexible for our users. While PayPal was previously available, it only represented about 17% of all cash-outs last year. At the same time, we were seeing increasing issues wi...

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  🦋monarch🦋 (@starvingmonarch) reported 5 minutes ago

  me when i try to buy something on the best buy website with paypal pay in 4 but the website is broken so i can’t do it but paypal took a temporary hold (the first payment) until the transaction is completed but i can’t complete it and it took it every time i tried so now im out

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  ⸝⸝﹒ Fefe 🍋 & That ﹒ (@TasySt4r) reported 5 minutes ago

  Hey..so i’m selling my oomfs They are all something They love food You need to feed give them a bath and a bed. They cost 0.70 cents. So if anybody wants one of my oomfs they are up for sell i’m saving up for skz tickets A link to my paypal is down below

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  Vince Visuals (@vince19visuals) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Taylor167670099 @LobanjicaCS Man that‘s so sad I can‘t imagine how you are feeling damn :/ I‘ve send them a couple of paypal transaction and also 2/3 game keys which I‘ve used to redeen into my steam accounts and that sold my problem within a week

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  James (@jamescoder12) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Oliviacoder1 This highlights a critical issue with user interface design and transparency. It's concerning that such vital settings aren't more clearly communicated by PayPal.

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  CUBANUS (@cuban_us) reported 11 minutes ago

  @PayPal Everything seems stable until they hit you with a 21-day delay due to some weird verification issue.

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  Xekisuc (@tatsurojo) reported 12 minutes ago

  @amp_convert yo, the link to donate to you is not working. Tried to do PayPal/CC and it crashes.

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  favoritbookshop🚢 (@favoritbookshop) reported 15 minutes ago

  The stablecoin industry is entering a new phase.What was once dominated by crypto-native issuers is rapidly becoming a battlefield for banks, payment networks,asset managers, and Fortune 500 companies. According to industry reports,nearly every major financial institution is either launching or actively exploring its own stablecoin strategy. While the often-quoted "90%" figure should be treated as an estimate rather than an official statistic,the broader trend is undeniable. Visa,MC,BlackRock,Citi,Fidelity,PayPal,JPMorgan,and more than 140 Fortune 500 companies are building stablecoin-related products simultaneously. For the first time,the USDT-USDC duopoly—which still controls roughly 83% of the market—is facing serious long-term competition. Why Is Everyone Suddenly Interested? The answer is surprisingly simple:reserve income. Every dollar backing a stablecoin is typically invested in short-term U.S. Treasuries,currently yielding around 4–5% annually. Users hold digital dollars while issuers collect the interest generated by the underlying reserves. The economics are incredibly attractive. Tether generated approximately $13 billion in net profit during 2024 and more than $10 billion in 2025. Coinbase earned over $305 million in a single quarter simply by sharing reserve revenue with Circle—without issuing its own stablecoin. Exodus is restructuring its business toward stablecoin payments,cutting 25% of its workforce as it pivots toward this opportunity. The stablecoin business is no longer just about payments. It's becoming one of the most profitable financial models in the digital economy. Profit Is Only Half of the Story Stablecoins also introduce something traditional crypto was designed to avoid: Centralized control. Unlike BTC,a corporate stablecoin allows its issuer to freeze wallets with a single command. Recent blockchain data highlights the scale: •Tether has frozen roughly 10,000 addresses containing over $5 billion. •Circle has frozen around 370 addresses holding approximately $109 million. •Across ETH and TRON, more than $3.9 billion worth of assets have been frozen. In several cases, freezes occurred before official sanctions were even announced, demonstrating how much power issuers possess over on-chain assets. The Bigger Question for Crypto Crypto was originally built around censorship resistance and self-sovereignty. Corporate stablecoins represent almost the opposite philosophy. They combine blockchain efficiency with traditional financial controls, creating digital dollars that remain programmable—and, if necessary, fully censorable. That doesn't necessarily make them bad. For institutions, compliance is a feature. For users seeking financial freedom, it's a trade-off. Will Every Stablecoin Win? Probably not. Regulators, including the BIS and the ECB, have warned that dozens of competing private stablecoins could fragment payment infrastructure. Interoperability also remains a challenge. USDC on ETH and USDC on Sol still operate as separate liquidity environments despite representing the same asset. Meanwhile, new initiatives like Open USD—backed by major payment companies—are increasing competition by eliminating issuance fees, putting additional pressure on existing issuers. History suggests that markets eventually consolidate. The United States experienced a similar era between 1837 and 1863, when hundreds of private banks issued their own banknotes before national standards replaced the fragmented system. The next stablecoin race isn't simply about creating "another digital dollar." It's about capturing reserve revenue, controlling payment infrastructure, and owning the financial rails of the tokenized economy. Yield is the incentive today. Control may become the defining issue tomorrow. As AI increasingly automates compliance and transaction monitoring, the debate around programmable money, censorship, and financial sovereignty will only become more important. The stablecoin war has only just begun.

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  Mr.Something (@TheMrSomething) reported 18 minutes ago

  Good news, finally got my issue with Paypal fixed. Though I dunno if I wanna keep using it after all the bs I went through.

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  Chrisncreation.inj 🥷 (@NwudeChris1) reported 20 minutes ago

  Take Maya. She isn’t a crypto trader. She’s a graphic designer who just wants to send money to a developer in Tokyo without paying a $35 wire fee. Last year, a friend told her to try using a fast financial network. So she did. But the second she tried to move her funds, the screen hit her with a pop-up: “Please convert your ERC-20 token to the native chain using a cross-chain bridge.” Maya stared at her phone. Bridge? ERC-what? She closed the app and used Paypal. That’s the silent killer of crypto. We built incredible financial highways, but we locked the doors with confusing jargon, manual token conversions, and terrifying multi-step bridges. If you have to explain network standards to someone just so they can trade a token, you’ve already lost them. This week, two massive things happened for Injective ($INJ) that fix this exact problem. First, @coinbase finished migrating INJ entirely to its native network. No bridging, no wrapped tokens, no accidental burnt funds. You buy it, you withdraw it straight to where it actually runs. Second, $INJ went live on @RobinhoodApp . Because Robinhood and Coinbase are where everyday people, the Mayas of the world actually hang out. Instead of forcing millions of retail investors to jump through technical hoops, the friction was simply erased. @injective brought high-speed financial tools directly to the apps people already use. The future of crypto adoption isn't about teaching non-technical people how the machinery works. It’s about making the machinery invisible. When moving money on-chain feels as effortless as sending an email, that’s when real adoption happens. We’re finally getting closer to that world.

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  Keyboard Crusader 🕈 (@blink2xifnok) reported 21 minutes ago

  sir, you realize fraud is illegal and you can get in a lot of trouble for this, right? @PayPal

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  Alien Queen (@bakukatsu11) reported 23 minutes ago

  @namkookvante I'm sooo pissed I had the jersey, I had a timeslot and I just kept getting paypal errors until it sold out

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  Cathy (@Blue70517) reported 24 minutes ago

  Ticketmaster has paypal now to paypal credit that **** I'll be waiting for the prices to go down before I even think about using paypal

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  Hukam Design (@hukamdesign) reported 25 minutes ago

  @SignalLay It's not issue of international client. All the methods like paypal, Payooner, bank transfer does not work due restrictions imposed on them. There are some other ways but it's too risky , payment can be hold or some legal matter. So it's better to pass.

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  meropun (@yuganecchi) reported 25 minutes ago

  i use personal paypal account and was recommended to do comms through VGen to not get doxxed but on paypal i can still see all my clients names so it seems like VGen doesn’t really solve the problem… why…

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  Mirka77 🇫🇮🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@MirkaSusanna) reported 29 minutes ago

  @vsheredeha Tried to send a small donation via Paypal but I get always error "receiver can´t receive money at the moment", pls check if there is an error in your end, I will keep trying.

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  Nthn8 (@8nthan8) reported 30 minutes ago

  @AlbicelesteTalk I can PayPal them £10 now to save them the trouble. Tramps

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  Scythe | Commissions Closed link Bio (@NamesakeGeodite) reported 37 minutes ago

  What other payment method can I use that isn’t PayPal or Kofi? I’m still having issues with those two

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  BoyeFran (@HugoBoyefran) reported 40 minutes ago

  @LynxiTwitch @official_throne I crowd funded a new audio interface through Throne for my birthday stream early on in my streaming and it was the first time and last time I used this method to fund anything due to this very issue. They take so much in fees it can really add up. especially if it is many small donations. You are much better off using ko-fi and attaching you paypal account.

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  Clam Yossarian 🦘 (@Cpt_J_Yossarian) reported 44 minutes ago

  I will also be making a short film where I sit down and eat hotdogs til the money runs out with a budget of about €50, if anybody wants to contribute n tribute to that, my PayPal is in my bio. Once finished, it will be available to all

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  ଶୁଭ୍ରାଂଶୁ Subhransu K. Panda (@skpaanda) reported 45 minutes ago

  @jackerhack @GooglePayIndia @NPCI I faced the same issue with PayPal.

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  Albatross Protocol (@usealbatross) reported 45 minutes ago

  Introducing Alba Pay. 💳 Buy ANY memecoin with Apple Pay, Google Pay or PayPal. Private. No KYC. No CEX. The problem: Moonshot and every fiat onramp only let you in once a coin hits a certain market cap. The fresh launches, the ones still bonding, the real early plays? Locked out. Alba Pay does not care. Any market cap. Bonded or not. A coin that launched seconds ago? Buy it with the card in your pocket, straight to your wallet. 💳 Apple Pay · Google Pay · PayPal 🔒 Private by default, zero KYC ⚡ Instant settlement 📱 Native app for iOS and Android Fiat to any memecoin in seconds. Buy the launch, not the aftermath. Coming to the App Store and Google Play. 12th of August! $ALBATROSS

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  Hera Kita 🪓🐾Final Girl VTuber (@xHeraKita) reported 45 minutes ago

  @LadyBelvoir every time I do this paypal eventually shuts down my account because I'm not using my real name. Even if it's a business account.

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  ayla 🦴🦈 leopard shark vtuber (@aylattv) reported 46 minutes ago

  dealt with this and i refuse to do it again. no more “please update me soon” — im just going to immediately charge back to paypal/vgen/whatever and get my money back after i don’t hear from you for weeks. i should not have to threaten you to get what i paid for. i’m done being stepped on and ignored by people i gave hundreds of dollars. stand up for yourselves when dealing with artists who lack communication and decency. this screenshot was after being lied to for MONTHS, constant deadline changes, and broken promises. the chargeback period had already passed, and i was completely fed up. this was a huge factor in my rebrand. no i’m not censoring the name of the artist. people need to be aware, and call out behavior like this more often. stay safe yall.

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  🦘🇺🇦Dan On Land With Treaty (@wewatchu2) reported 49 minutes ago

  @ChrisLancasterX Content of the DMs are exactly to script. Bot replies, then taken over by a human if they get a bite. As reports are broken, play harder. Engage. get the PayPal. Then report with a full case. Use id number to trace name changing. if you get enough info report to the $ transfer.

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  Liliya |VGen Commissions Open| (@Liliyalili_art) reported 51 minutes ago

  @ApolloArt_png Ya. That could be But I think VGen can handle it. Good luck! Also use vgen payments instead of PayPal cuz it heard it's easier to issue a charge back on PayPal. Don't know how true that is tho.

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  Tali Eckhart 💜🎻🩸 (@ExoDust7755) reported 56 minutes ago

  @RoboticusPrime PayPal flagged it again and locked my PayPal, need to fix it and relink it again.

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  stan (@tsumugibait) reported 57 minutes ago

  @tsumugied paypal wataru to fix his horrendous split ends instead