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 (40%)
• Errors (39%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Tlaquepaque	Errors	11 hours ago
Bron	Errors	23 hours ago
Calp	Sign in	23 hours ago
Sevilla	Errors	1 day ago
Rome	Errors	2 days ago
Isola Maggiore	Errors	2 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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  voidmatic (@voidmatic_2) reported 3 minutes ago

  @discord wow cool I'd love to try it. unfortunately, I'm still paying for full nitro on an account that's been hacked (and I can't fix that because my email was part of the hack and my paypal I use is connected to that email) but uh. neat.

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  J0e_Le || COMMS OPEN(0/2) (@j0e_le) reported 4 minutes ago

  issue are always the one to bring this statement down. It kinda comes of as priviliged considering some people's actually genuine livelihoods rely on that money in paypal, it's just that it either gets flagged before people can even move it to their banks / local e-commerce apps

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  Yuunoh1tz(𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒔 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏) (@Yuusenpai69) reported 8 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @AskPayPal MY customer support is broken it only said "All our agents are currently offline. Please try again during business hours." can you help me

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  @CXTM COMMS OPEN!! (1/3) (@Chixyart) reported 9 minutes ago

  @pnkplasticfangs cool, so what about giving people a damn other option to "accept donations" since we can't use paypal, bcs that's the whole issue, how are me or any other artist getting money from all over the world when there is like 1 big app that does that?

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  Tur (@FathurMakaramah) reported 10 minutes ago

  Hi @AskPayPal , I can't reset my password. After selecting SMS verification, I get "We're having trouble confirming it's you." I still have access to my email and phone. My account is from Indonesia. Please help me recover my account. Thank you.

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  Mimi⁷ 💜🥢🔍㉧㉣㉣🔎💮 (@SCEN7BTS) reported 12 minutes ago

  @janawithluv Yep, they tried Apple pay and Zelle first. Said they have issues with PayPal.

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  TEMPTRESS ♛ TANIA (@FinDomTemptress) reported 12 minutes ago

  Give me your PayPal login so I can play with myself while taking all of your money💸💦

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  Ceri Lokison 🐊🥚 {1.0 Debut} (@GatorceriVT) reported 13 minutes ago

  This here is why you don’t trust people. People would have blown it up if it was 200 and editing the screenshot makes you out to be a lair. Now that everyone knows this, they may think your either faking the whole thing or that your account is being rightfully banned since if you lied to everyone for attention, it could mean you lied to a client that reported you which made you be in this situation. Also, I do have to say, in the situation where my personal account was being banned, the PayPal support team here on Twitter saved my account when I tagged them into the original post so saying PayPal Live agents do not care if you provided documents/proof again makes me feel like a client reported you for taking their money and not providing the goods and since it is a personal account and not business, you are going to lose that account and there is no way of stopping it and if you create another one, they’ll ban it too. Had my personal PayPal account since early 2000s, PayPal support helped me get access back from my ex-husband, when I went through a similar thing the Twitter PayPal support fixed it, and I’ve never had a single problem with PayPal business. I’m posting it like this because the person locked their comments.

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  Cuppa (@CuppaXD) reported 14 minutes ago

  @cyndiquills Try using paypal instead of your card, i havent been able to use my card for like a year even after changing cards, heard alot of people with this issue too

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  Jes (@luma_bite) reported 20 minutes ago

  @dearpetangel When I first started PayPal my funds were limited and held, but after they confirmed I was legit and not a scammer, after like.. a year? they got rid of the hold thing and I never had a problem since. (Used it for 12+ years)

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  EliteWave Consulting (@Elitewavecons) reported 21 minutes ago

  PayPal doubles down on stablecoins and crypto tools, signaling mainstreamed digital assets are shifting payment economics from a fringe option to a core revenue driver. #Fintech

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  😑alyshia⁷ seen skz ₈ ࣪🐺 (@alyshia_2001) reported 21 minutes ago

  @dimpledormlover I had the issue with PayPal so I just use my card instead and it worked

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  Gojo Maduro 諸葛亮 (@kungfurykong) reported 25 minutes ago

  What Would Happen If Elon Musk Had Been Born in China? This is Mr. Ma, a barbecue chef at a restaurant in Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province. Because he looks strikingly like Elon Musk, a customer took his photo and uploaded it online, unexpectedly making him famous. He said that over the past two days, more than a dozen people have asked to take photos with him, while several others have approached him about possible collaborations. In fact, there have long been many discussions on the Chinese internet about what would have happened if Elon Musk had been born in China. One fairly representative article argued: "Let us suppose that, in 1971, twenty people with the same potential as Elon Musk were also born into ordinary Chinese families. "If they were fascinated by science and technology, the most they could probably do would be to join an extracurricular hobby group at a children’s activity center and build model airplanes. "In 1981, a computer cost tens of thousands of yuan. There was absolutely no way an ordinary Chinese family could afford one. "It would not be until the 1990s that they might finally get access to computers in a school computer lab, where one hour of use could cost about as much as an entire meal. "But students had to attend morning reading sessions every day and evening self-study classes at night. Where would they find the time to learn programming? "Besides, what if they spent all their time messing around with these 'useless' things and then failed to get into a good university? 'A mild-tempered father might patiently lecture them: 'Focus on your studies. Stop wasting your time on improper pursuits,' until they finally gave up on their own. "A bad-tempered father would simply confiscate everything. If they dared to argue, he would grab something and beat them. "From the first grade onward, they would have to devote all their energy to exam scores. Otherwise, they might not even make it into university. "By the time they finally entered college, all their sharp edges would have been worn away. They would have been molded into conformity and would have had almost no chance of becoming another Elon Musk. "If Musk had been placed in China, his life would probably have followed a path like this: "No one would have paid for software like Zip2, an online city-guide and business-directory platform. Lenovo would not have acquired it. It would have ended up like Zhang Xiaolong’s Foxmail: users would simply use pirated copies. "Have you ever seen Lenovo pay a huge amount of money to acquire independently developed personal-computer software? "So Musk would probably have starved to death at the age of 28 and gone to meet Karl Marx. "Suppose he somehow survived until the age of 31 and developed a payment platform like PayPal. The major Chinese internet giants—Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent—could simply copy it. Why would anyone pay to acquire his company? "Have you ever seen BAT pay an enormous price to acquire an internet application developed by an individual entrepreneur? Investors would know that his product would be copied, so they would refuse to fund him from the very beginning. This time, he would definitely be finished. "Even if BAT did not copy him, could Musk manage the necessary connections? Could he obtain the required licenses? "Those are not things an ordinary person can easily secure, as everyone understands. "Operating such a business without a license would be illegal. In the best-case scenario, the authorities would order him to shut down. In a more serious case, they might accuse him of illegal fundraising, and Musk could end up spending the rest of his life in prison. "Even if he successfully built PayPal and had more than a billion yuan in his hands, could he establish a company like SpaceX? "That is the domain of the state-owned aerospace corporations. "Even if he somehow obtained permission to enter the industry, no one would provide him with the necessary components or support. "If one private individual were allowed to accomplish all that, where would it leave the millions of people working within China’s state aerospace system? "I guess that, had Musk been born in China, the best possible outcome for him would have resembled Zhang Xiaolong’s career path: working for someone who had the connections and qualifications needed to obtain the necessary licenses."

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  🇵🇪 Andino Skb 🎉 COMMS OPEN (3/10) 🎊 (@Andino_SKB) reported 26 minutes ago

  @fsonic3 I've been using PayPal for 10 years, and I pay every tax and transaction they require. The common problem or pattern I see in every post, Reddit thread, etc., is the indiscriminate use of AI moderation.

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  nikhil (@uninsightful) reported 29 minutes ago

  @pchopra28 I think that is a fairly consensus take tbh the classic trope is that mafias get formed from companies with some success but not too much and some catalyzing event to churn people out, and people classically cite Paypal as having these conditions I wouldn’t call Stripe a slow burn. going from zero to $200B valuation in 17 years is insane RE your google/fb examples: the reason people haven’t held “ex-google” in high regard since the early 2010s is not because all the great people stayed (plenty of them left), it’s because the hiring bar decayed and the culture itself at google became soft and no longer deeply shaped people

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  Vinod Bhardwaj (@VinodBhardwajUS) reported 32 minutes ago

  @fandom_david I am tired of modern life for another reason. Every product needs a PhD just to be able to use it. It is impossible to turn on the TV at a friend's place. On a Tesla, you don't know how to open the glove compartment or turn on the wipers, or blow the air in your face. Netflix keeps telling me that this device - my TV- is not authorized. I have to go through hoops to get it reinstalled. One time I had to call customer support. Fortunately Netflix still has real human beings who are helpful. There is no way to reach a real person on X. I have wasted several thousand dollars to boost my posts but it just ate my money. The XAI that monitors my posts found something wrong with my post, I don't know what. When I sent a DM to Ad services, it never responds. I have sent the complain a dozen times. The XAI reads not only the posts but also the DMs. When XAI doesn't understand a post, it simply ignores it. There is no way on X to reach a real human being. If XAI is cheating me, it is the cost of living with modern AI technology. The ring in my wife's phone becomes almost inaudible. She sets it up to full volume but it keeps coming back to lowest volume. So, she asked me to find out the problem. I haven't been able to solve the problem. I tried to de-install an App, and it would keep on reinstalling it. On PayPal, I cannot turn off notifications of parcels from USPS. In an Airbnb I could not turn on the A/C. It had so many things in the menu. It would keep going back and forth in the menu but not show me the temperature controls. Even powering on and off did not work. In another Airbnb in New Zealand, I could not use the oven because I could not set the temperature. It kept turning off. In a hotel I could not set the time on the alarm clock. The list is limitless. And I am not a computer illeraterate person. You might think I am a dumb person. I am the inventor of Ethernet switch which is widely used in AI data centers, My company I founded turned an investment of $25 million into $10 billion. I have a dozen patents. If I am having so much problem with modern technology, I can imagine how much problem others might be facing.

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  Daniel (@Daniel57568064) reported 34 minutes ago

  @weary_centurion And did you own it at all during its 8x growth or were you too busy holding PayPal through its huge 50%+ fall off? Easy to trash on stocks when they are down a bit...would love to see your returns from the last year...

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  Nikola (@ftblnikola) reported 35 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Im locked out of acc because I don't have access to the phone number of it anymore. 2mo ago I've talked with your staff through message center so I have some mails where they did some stuff on my acc. Also I have 2FA but it's not asking me for it on login

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  Senius (@CryptoSenius) reported 41 minutes ago

  @CoinMarketCap PayPal is clearly doubling down on digital finance stablecoins are becoming part of the mainstream payments conversation.

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  Chambo (@JCha001) reported 42 minutes ago

  @overkillshop When trying to enter ZX8000 MIF raffle saying paypal not working, can you advise plz?

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  jaylynn ☆ (@lunarstvn) reported 44 minutes ago

  hellolive . can u fix your site too cause my bank blocked me from getting premium but Caits didn’t and it still kept failing to go through until she used Paypal AFTER premium already sold out

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  Zarafan 🇻🇪 (@Zarafaneando) reported 44 minutes ago

  @inkfycreates Yeah, and everyone else Warns and Helps its User to prevent any issue. PayPal is the only one that doesnt care, because at the end they can claim the money for "Not following/knowing the Rules".

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 46 minutes ago

  You spent $2,000 on a MacBook Pro for a new hire. Then $180 a year on the Microsoft 365 seat, $60 on Adobe, $144 on Slack, $240 on Zoom. All assigned to one laptop, one employee, one desk. Then your CFO asked how many of the 400 laptops in this company are actually being used, and by whom. You opened the Google Sheet. Half the rows were blank. Employees who left six months ago still had assets assigned. So IT called ServiceNow. ITAM Standard is $100 per user per month. Professional $150. Enterprise $200+. The median ServiceNow contract on Vendr is $124,364 a year. Implementation runs three to five times the license fee. Then IT called Lansweeper. $239 a month for 2,000 assets. Then IT called Freshservice. $19 per agent, then metered on every asset over 500. You are paying six figures a year to answer "who has laptop DELL-4471" in 2026. Now meet Snipe-IT. A free and open source IT asset management platform that runs on your own server and tracks every laptop, phone, license, and cable your company owns. No cloud. No agents. No per-seat fee. Built in 2013 by a developer named Alison Gianotto who was the CTO of a New York City ad agency when the office had to move. Her team was tracking hundreds of laptops in a Google Doc. She tried every commercial and open source tool. None of them worked. So she wrote her own. When she finished the first full inventory, she discovered the agency was missing $25,000 in assets. Her husband nagged her for months to add a PayPal button. She finally did it. Two days later she had a paying customer. Snipe-IT itself stayed free. 14,113 stars. 3,886 forks. AGPL-3.0. Pushed to the repo today. Here is what Snipe-IT gives you: - Track every laptop, phone, monitor, cable, and accessory in one place - Assign assets to users, departments, or locations with full history - Software license management with seat tracking and expiration alerts - Barcode and QR code generation for physical labels - Custom fields, statuses, and categories - LDAP, SAML, and Google Workspace SSO - REST API for every endpoint - Runs on any Linux box, Docker, or a $5 VPS Here is what Snipe-IT costs: Zero. Forever. No per-user fee. No asset cap. ServiceNow charges $100 per user per month. Snipe-IT doesn't. Lansweeper charges $239 a month for 2,000 assets. Snipe-IT doesn't. Freshservice meters every asset over 500. Snipe-IT doesn't. Ivanti and Flexera hide their pricing behind a sales call. Snipe-IT doesn't. Here's the wildest part: Snipe-IT is used by Sony, Yale University, Fujitsu, and thousands of school districts, hospitals, and government agencies that couldn't stomach a $124,000 ServiceNow bill. Alison's official title at Grokability is Chief Mohawk Officer. For a 50-person IT team, you save $60,000 a year. For a 500-person company, you save $600,000 a year. Your assets. Your database. Your server. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

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  Nisha 🌷 (@FreenLover) reported 47 minutes ago

  @freendomvn92 Hi, I'm having trouble trying to donate on wise and PayPal. It's asking for an address?

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  ⋆. 𐙚˚࿔ 𝕽𝖔𝖗𝖔♡‧꒰𝓜𝓸𝓻𝓫𝓲𝓭𝓷𝓬𝓾𝓽𝓮꒱ ‧₊˚ (@Rorophism) reported 49 minutes ago

  I think going forward i think i won't use paypal when commissioning or receiving commissions. Seeing paypal just perma banning peoples accounts(this includes my roommates account) left, right and center i think it's best for me to not use it or have it used for commissions. is paypal being shady? how terrible.

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  Michelle Chamberlin (@MichelleChambo) reported 51 minutes ago

  @Ticketek_AU @PayPal Don’t miss out. What a joke. The system glitches constantly and guess what, we missed out. Fix up your process.

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  Batfella 🦇 (@Batfella_Rises) reported 51 minutes ago

  @JonesyShwemes @bekamaciorowski @RebekahMac8a93 I cant fault you Jeff. The only reason I do is so I can get the payment details and report to Paypal etc , its very rare that we close down a paypal account but it has happened.

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  The_Bullvestor (@BullishWhisper) reported 51 minutes ago

  PayPal beats. Raises. Executes. Stock still down. That’s not a fundamentals problem… that’s a trust problem. Who’s still buying $PYPL here?

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  Rubyfabstore🆑 (@beauty_rubby) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Onlgig If you don't have PayPal How can I get a paypal account I have tried but is not working

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  Ryzm (@Goeun_6121) reported 59 minutes ago

  X Money pays 6% APY on deposits. The US average deposit rate is 0.38%. Call it 15.8 times. Ally and SoFi, the strongest online banks, top out at 4 to 4.21%. X pays more than that too. X isn't a bank and doesn't want to be. Deposits sit at Cross River Bank, a partner. KCIF writes plainly that the structure exists to avoid bank capital and liquidity requirements. The one paying 15 times the average is the one not carrying bank capital rules. Cross River is a New Jersey chartered bank with $8.7bn in total assets, specialised in renting account, payment and lending infrastructure to other platforms. The rate is probably promotional. Ken Tumin points to Chime and SoFi, where these numbers drifted back to competitor levels over time. There are gaps on the map. X holds money transmitter licences in 41 states and DC, but not New York or Massachusetts, where state legislators leaned on the regulators. Deposit protection runs to $250,000 per person, or up to $10m for larger balances through an IntraFi sweep. PayPal and Venmo carry none at all. The next question is stablecoins. If X issues its own, money parked in it may sit outside protection no matter what backs the reserves.