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
Chesterfield County	Errors	6 hours ago
Wake Forest	Sign in	8 hours ago
Frechen	Errors	11 hours ago
Leipzig	Errors	16 hours ago
Stockport	Sign in	1 day ago
Mennecy	Website Down	1 day ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  sheila (@velvetcobalt) reported 7 minutes ago

  Also PayPal not working for me rn wtf

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  king ra (@kingra24241821) reported 7 minutes ago

  @JumpyFeller @The_Real_Lord33 Like even before that bullshit with Patreon, Paypal (which artists use for commissions) was (and still is) anti-porn. If Paypal found out you did NSFW art then there would be issues from them freezing your account and keeping YOUR money. Genuinely a lawsuit waiting to happen.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Uniquecomics1 @LogWeaver Michael Burry shorted AI darlings like Nvidia & Palantir last year, then watched software stocks crash 20-30% on technical debt issues (not fundamentals). Now he's buying resilient names like PayPal, Adobe, Salesforce—self-funded companies trading at 2018-level valuations with rising earnings forecasts. Lesson: Top investors follow the data, not permanent narratives. Retail does the opposite.

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  Laille (@lailleorm) reported 12 minutes ago

  @xHeraKita @AskPayPal Why would anyone use your service if you lock accounts without any legitimate reason? Fix your ****.

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  David Dent (@ddent366) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Owlizard Ah I see now. They couldn't make the payment at the level they booked. If it were once or twice I might add with bad wi-fi / early Patreon and Paypal I used to have trouble connecting my payment methods but this seems rather a large number not just one or two?

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  Grok (@grok) reported 23 minutes ago

  @iamSamtexD @nypost The "why" boils down to a few key changes hitting this tax season: - Platforms like PayPal, Cash App, and Venmo issued more 1099-K forms after Congress rolled back the reporting threshold (now $20K/200 transactions federally, lower in many states). They report gross revenue—not your profit—so resales or gigs get taxed unless you prove costs with receipts. - Gig workers (Uber, DoorDash, freelancers) pay the full 15.3% self-employment tax themselves (no employer split) and often skip quarterly estimates, triggering penalties. - W-2 folks: Life changes (marriage, raises, side income) mess up withholding if your W-4 isn't updated. Double-check your docs and consider tax software or a pro to sort it.

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  Abdul wasay (@Abdulwasay0090) reported 24 minutes ago

  @PayPalUK Small business owner here my PayPal was deactivated with no explanation no disputes no refunds everything legit so what’s the issue just be clear instead of hiding behind vague policies

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  Lord Sammy Gato (@lordsammygato) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Nero His work on PayPal is commendable. But Tesla is the result of a **** ton of money printing. If that's centrist then I say we tear it all down and go back to living in the trees.

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  UnracedF1 - Thanks Peter Sauber🏁 (@UnracedF1) reported 25 minutes ago

  Why is it so hard to just simply login to Paypal... ******** place your USB key????

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  Adelaja Samuel (@psammy0023) reported 27 minutes ago

  @SakurasCardShop That’s exactly why platforms like Cleva stand out. With Cleva, you get a proper USD account, so you avoid those crazy international bank charges and terrible PayPal conversion rates. Instead of losing money on hidden fees, you receive payments faster, enjoy better exchange rates.

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  Someone Inpoway (@Cobra92064) reported 27 minutes ago

  @VenmoSupport Venmo and PayPal are nothing but rip-offs fraudsters, and they need to be taken down. I don't give a **** Who does it? I hope a hacker does it. That would be so f****** awesome.

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  JESSICA 🌺 (@DeFiJesss) reported 31 minutes ago

  @_meetjenie This is a general issue, try PayPal

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  Marwane (@MarwaneResub) reported 31 minutes ago

  Never run 100% of your revenue through one processor. Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments — they're all the same risk. One fraud pattern. One disputed batch. One compliance flag. Your entire cashflow stops. Fix: Route volume across 2–3 processors. Never let one hold more than 60% of your monthly revenue.

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  KonamiCodeGames🕹 (@EugeneGilland) reported 33 minutes ago

  Oh speaking of research, I just had issues with PayPal blocking my sign in from Firefox. 🤔 Seems like they broke something in a site update?

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  𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝔂 👑 (@lorddrey) reported 34 minutes ago

  Someone should create a micro-blogging app where people can discuss news and trends in brevity. This time limit the text to 150 - 200 letters. This is why we signed up to X. But right now X is Instagram, YouTube plus PayPal. Microblogging is broken. We need a new outlet. Trust me. If it's simple and fun people will leave X to build somewhere new from scratch. We miss Twitter so much.

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  ❄️ (@Hermosilla) reported 36 minutes ago

  @hootsuite Hi! I’m having trouble while trying to get the 25% off, whenever I click “pay now” (PayPal or credit card) it says “there was a problem during sign up”

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  Jenna Ryan (@realjennaryan) reported 36 minutes ago

  I'm about to have to do a mandamus--an extraordinary remedy due to the District Courts COMPLETE DISREGARD of 5th Circuit precedence and my civil rights to a jury trial. It's a stand-down. Me--pro se against PayPal and their buddy buddy Judges in the Northern district of Texas.

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  ⋆˚࿔ vaye 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ (@keepstayingfren) reported 39 minutes ago

  Deep down, **** you paypal seriously

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  THE SHADOW KNOWS (@brianvi03340131) reported 39 minutes ago

  @LynneBP_294 PayPal never had an problem ever

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  Michael Salfino (@MichaelSalfino) reported 39 minutes ago

  @molloy255 I mean suspended with no fee but it got screwed up and I can’t undo it. I was going to do something this month but recovery has been slow. I’m sorry. Give me your paypal and I’ll send it back. I will follow so you can DM me.

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  PaymentExecutive (@pymtexecutive) reported 42 minutes ago

  🧵 Payments Pulse — Week of April 13, 2026 The payments industry just entered a new era. SWIFT is building a live blockchain ledger for 24/7 cross-border settlement. Stablecoin regulation is cracking open in Washington. PayPal is losing ground fast. A lot moved this week. Here's what you need to know: --- 1/ SWIFT GOES ON-CHAIN SWIFT completed its blockchain ledger design phase and is now building an MVP — with 40+ banks, including JPMorgan, HSBC, Bank of America, and Deutsche Bank. Live transactions before end of 2026. The goal: 24/7 cross-border settlement using tokenized deposits. No more waiting until Monday. --- 2/ CROSS-BORDER Why this matters more than the headlines say: Traditional cross-border rails shut down on weekends. That means if your CFO wires EUR on Friday, it may not settle until Tuesday. SWIFT's blockchain ledger doesn't replace correspondent banking. It adds an orchestration layer on top of it. That's the quiet revolution. --- 3/ CRYPTO RAILS Stablecoin B2B payment volume hit $226B in 2025 — up 733% year-over-year. That's not crypto speculation. That's enterprise treasury teams quietly replacing slow, expensive wire transfers. The GENIUS Act (signed July 2025) gave them the regulatory cover they were waiting for. Adoption is now the story, not regulation. --- 4/ B2B PAYMENTS PayPal is in trouble. Q4 2025: missed earnings, missed revenue, new CEO in March. The problem isn't the product — it's merchant adoption. They rebuilt checkout, but couldn't get merchants to upgrade fast enough. Apple and Google are eating their lunch on mobile. Gen Z isn't clicking the PayPal button. --- 5/ STAT OF THE WEEK $120,000,000,000 That's how much businesses lose every year to cross-border B2B payment fees. For context: that's more than the GDP of 100+ countries. And yet most enterprises still use the same correspondent banking rails they used in 1990. The opportunity for disruption is enormous. --- 6/ UNDER THE RADAR Most people are sleeping on this: the Federal Reserve published a new note on payment stablecoins and cross-border payments — on March 30. Key finding: stablecoin adoption could meaningfully reduce the role of correspondent banks in international settlement. The Fed is not dismissing this. They're modeling it. Pay attention. --- 7/ REG WATCH Three regulatory fronts to watch right now: → US: GENIUS Act live, but stablecoin yield rules still contested — Coinbase vs. banking groups → EU: MiCA fully operational, USDT delisted from major exchanges, USDC up 337% in Europe → UK: FCA stablecoin framework expected in 2026, secondary legislation pending The US and EU are diverging. That creates compliance complexity for any payments firm operating across both. --- 8/ CONTRARIAN TAKE Everyone says SWIFT's blockchain ledger is proof traditional finance is "winning" the crypto rails war. I think that's the wrong frame. SWIFT moving on-chain isn't a victory for banks. It's an admission that the stablecoin threat was real enough to force action. The question now: can they execute before Ripple, Circle, and Stripe's Bridge build the same thing faster? --- 9/ PERSON TO FOLLOW @jerallaire — Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle Circle's USDC is now the fastest-growing stablecoin in Europe post-MiCA, up 337% in H1 2025. He posts daily on the intersection of stablecoins, payments, and monetary policy. If you want to understand where crypto rails and enterprise payments converge — this is the feed. --- 10/ WHAT I'M WATCHING NEXT WEEK → Any update on SWIFT's MVP bank onboarding timeline → PayPal Q1 2026 earnings — new CEO Enrique Lores' first public commentary → FedNow and RTP adoption data — will Request for Payment finally break through in B2B? → Movement on the US stablecoin yield dispute Follow @pymtexecutive for real-time takes as these develop. --- That's the Payments Pulse for April 14, 2026. 🏁 If this thread was useful: → Repost tweet 1 so others in payments can follow along → Follow @pymtexecutive for daily cross-border, B2B & crypto payments intelligence → Reply with anything I missed this week See you next Monday.

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  Hugofrost (@H2gofrost) reported 42 minutes ago

  I'm really sorry to say this but i need a time to chill My paypal just got perma banned, I can acccess all of donations I've recieved from viewers and some other irl issues are still ongoing and I have army reverse training for 4 days next week. I'm feeling very emotional now and maybe i will talk about this on video soon but at this point I don't think I can keep doing streaming as a full time if I make 0 on twitch from it

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  J. Penrose-Drain (@WynDuffy) reported 43 minutes ago

  @janninereid1 if i refuse to pay taxes for even one tax year, or if I refuse to report income over $600 on paypal, then all hell rains down on me, but a 3d world peasant with nine kids can invade and eat the taxes that the regime has stolen from me. No, I don't care about his sad story.

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  Usagii - Comms OPEN (@usagiiart) reported 45 minutes ago

  If Vgen keeps going down the drain, I will start taking comms only via Paypal and kofi.

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  Rajith Attapattu (@rajith_a) reported 45 minutes ago

  @ashoKumar89 I don't get the kubernetes hate. The decision to use k8s has nothing to do with the number of users, traffic or complexity of your application architecture. YouTube ran fine on VMs, so did PayPal, Google and other planet scale apps. Kubernetes evolve to solve the complexity of managing a pool of VMs and the associated operational overhead and it solves that problem elegantly.

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  Pip ⸆⸉ 🍯❤️‍🔥 (@PiperCim) reported 46 minutes ago

  Paypal better get a grip, I transferred money to my PayPal on Thursday and it still hasn’t arrived but it’s been taken off my bank account. So it’s now just ******* floating in the air and I have a payment going down tonight 💀💀 and now I can’t cover it bc money is pending

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  ★ franky ☆ (@frankyvixen) reported 48 minutes ago

  SB: $150 MI: $5 AB1: $450 (+ Any design change) AB2: $650 (+ Any design change + chibi icon) Rules: - Comment or DM me to bid - Payment via PayPal - Auction ends 24 hours after last bid - AB1 can be outbid with AB2 in 8 hours - Payment plans and holds are ok with a down payment

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  Bixu | Video Editor (@bixuedits) reported 55 minutes ago

  @dharyaedits Most clients prefer PayPal it’s easier for them to get refund, terrible for freelancers

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  ; 🏳️‍⚧️ (@tmascchloeprice) reported 56 minutes ago

  I might have to cool it with the crowdfunding because if it gets shut down and I'm locked out of my PayPal I'm really ******. 🫩

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  🔻𝕖𝕤𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 🔺 (@esbellesantos) reported 1 hour ago

  2 slots left! I had an issue with paypal 😭I cannot get my money for no reasons.