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 (33%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Lafayette	Sign in	12 hours ago
Sydney	Sign in	2 days ago
Houdelaincourt	Website Down	3 days ago
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume	Website Down	4 days ago
Colonia los Sauces	Sign in	5 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	6 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Kai - Briefing Block (@briefing_block_) reported 7 seconds ago

  $PYPL - PayPal’s problem is not growth. It’s what that growth is worth. PayPal just printed $8.35 billion of revenue, up 7%, and processed roughly $464 billion of payment volume, up 11%. On the surface, that is not a broken business. The issue is that the earnings bridge still looks too thin. Net profit fell to $1.11 billion from $1.29 billion, while transaction margin dollars rose only 3% to $3.8 billion. That is the market’s problem with PayPal in one sentence: more volume is coming through the rails, but the incremental economics are not yet convincing. Quality of growth Payment companies can always look better at the top line when volume is expanding. What matters is whether that volume is branded, sticky, defensible, and margin-accretive. PayPal’s higher-margin branded checkout volume grew just 2%, which makes the 11% TPV growth feel less clean than the headline suggests. Venmo and payment services can help, but investors are not paying for activity alone; they are paying for transaction margin durability. Management knows the gap. That is why the new plan is built around AI, simplification, and at least $1.5 billion of gross run-rate savings over the next two to three years. But cost cutting is not the same as operating leverage. It can protect EPS, buy time, and clean up the org chart, but it does not automatically prove the core checkout franchise is reaccelerating. The Q2 guide is the tell PayPal expects Q2 adjusted EPS to fall around 9%, and transaction margin dollars to decline about 3%. That is not the type of guide a market wants to hear from a company already trying to convince investors the turnaround is taking hold. To me, the stock debate is no longer “can PayPal grow?” It clearly can. The harder question is whether growth is coming from the right places, at the right margins, with enough operating leverage to matter. Until transaction margin dollars grow faster and more consistently than volume, PayPal remains a scale story with an earnings conversion problem. Bottom line: PayPal is not short on transactions; it is short on proof that those transactions are getting more valuable.

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  Pagan (@Pagan_GMR) reported 1 minute ago

  @Pirat_Nation Banks have zero ******* business telling us what games should cost. Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal already try to censor what we’re allowed to play, now they want to help push $80 as the new standard? Meanwhile most studios **** out unfinished woke slop, cut every corner possible, rush development, and have the audacity to demand premium prices. If the game is actually good and worth it? Sure, charge more. But asking $80 for mediocre trash and broken launches? Get absolutely ******. Gamers aren’t stupid. We’ll just wait for the inevitable sale… or skip your garbage entirely. Stop punishing your customers for your greed and low-quality woke slop.

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  Marcus Storm-Mollard (@marcus1storm) reported 2 minutes ago

  @PayPal @PayPalUK have really gone down the drain. How are they still a company when Revolut and Wise exist? Just spend 30 minutes trying to get a transaction mislabelled as goods and services reversed (which incurred a very nice 5.5% fee for PayPal) and apparently it’s impossible. Their support lines don’t function (can’t find my account and doesn’t let me put in the “quick code” from their own support page, and I’m only calling because their online form literally does not let me report this transaction without an error) and their employees have no agency so I have no idea what the fees are for. Will gladly use Revolut and Wise for subsequent transactions

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  MiguelRamos (@iamholarks) reported 3 minutes ago

  @ifemmachu Pls is this not PayPal? Cos PayPal deduct a lot of fee from converting to pounds from dollars, I’m finding a way to make them not to convert again but not working

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  Q (@Say2km) reported 5 minutes ago

  @AutoInfatuation @eBay_UK I bought a watch a few years ago. £3k. Seller sent me a box with screws in it. Took it up with eBay and PayPal back then. They backed the seller, shut down my PayPal and eBay accounts. Got proof from the police the seller was dodgy. They took no notice

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  cherry (@nubesnivalis) reported 5 minutes ago

  @jbabsahk I can, but I can only take payment on PayPal (for now) and the problem is that my rl name can be seen there, even if I have a business account 😭

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  jbulltard (@jbulltard1) reported 5 minutes ago

  @ruth_capital i just mean like he picks the worst names lulu/paypal/adbe/gamestop. There is no option flow here, the charts are broken like wtf are you seeing man. I like to think im very good at calling out what is going to work and none of those are on my radar lol

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  Ṩeverin (@kirika0223) reported 8 minutes ago

  @IAMDorkSide Yeah she acted like I said the craziest things when I said something simple ("people in some areas don't have access to PayPal") and it left a bad taste to my mouth, really felt like she wrote the worst possible things down

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  Neoborn Caveman (@NeobornCaveman) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Statsstyret for many the issue is the cards and ie paypal they are address based - geo restriction on apple etc is based on that...

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  Jordan (@jzrdan) reported 15 minutes ago

  @sionster @antibearthesis I’ve been in and out of PayPal, thankfully for profits. Many people seem to agree that a lower price would make it good value based on the P/E. Earnings have plummeted which will be an issue soon resolved, you’re highly unlikely to see a brand like Nike trade at 15 PE.

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  ȺlgoNeil (@neilstucky1) reported 16 minutes ago

  @rob_berg_ @MoneyTM1 I had some PayPal issues. Happy to pay with a credit card etc

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  Craig McNeal (@CraigMcnealc) reported 24 minutes ago

  Most people meet Elon Musk at the outcome and completely miss the origin story. At 12, he coded and sold a video game (Blastar). As a young founder, he built Zip2, got acquired, then helped create PayPal only to be pushed out before its biggest moment. Instead of playing it safe, he put nearly everything back on the line: pouring his own money into SpaceX and Tesla, Inc. when both were burning cash and on the edge of failure. In 2008, rockets were exploding, Tesla was weeks from collapse, and he was down to his last reserves choosing between keeping one company alive or letting both go. Most would’ve folded. He doubled down. That same persistence later powered reusable rockets landing themselves and made electric vehicles unavoidable. This wasn’t luck. It wasn’t smooth. It was pressure, risk, doubt and a refusal to stop building. He didn’t begin as unstoppable. He became unstoppable by staying in the fight longer than anyone expected. Start where you are. Stay longer than it’s comfortable. Build anyway. 🚀

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  𝐂𝐈𝐑𝐈_𝐕𝐓🐾🪶 (@Ciri_VT) reported 25 minutes ago

  @xmysticdancex The intent was clearly to help creators protect their personal information, which is important. The issue is that the original post framed it like “switch to a business account to hide your info,” but did not explain what using a business account actually means. A PayPal Business account is not just a privacy toggle. It is meant for people receiving business payments, invoicing, selling goods/services, taking commissions, etc. There can be tax, verification, recordkeeping, and account-setting implications. OP only clarify much later her error, but some people might not see that (since its not in the original post). That is why I wanted to add the warning respectfully.

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  Bourbon Invesments 2 (@BourbonInvestm2) reported 26 minutes ago

  3,500 toploaders for $98.64 after my $100 cash rebate hits my PayPal upon shipping. Haters will say but Temu blows you’ll never receive them or your cash rebate and the quality will be terrible Well, quality is actually better than what I was getting from the big names. And my rebates came instantly the last two times and product received within 4 days each time. @CardPurchaser

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  Joe Kerick (@JoeKerick) reported 35 minutes ago

  @PayPal Must be nice. Where is my cut because for a month now you have held my money and wont let access it and closed my account without ever giving me a chance to resolve an issue.. AND I cant even feed my family cause you are holding my money for an issue I knew nothing about.

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  Qianjun Befanis (@QianjunBefanis) reported 35 minutes ago

  @LiveSquawk @grok Then why is PayPal down?

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  Frontline Ticketing (@FrontlineTicket) reported 36 minutes ago

  @MissNikkiNY This statement is very incorrect thousands of persons purchase daily. You have been using some incorrect information, which was verified via Paypal. This was not a frontline issue.

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  Josh Bethlehem ☦️ (@KhushieFiji) reported 36 minutes ago

  @0xQuantic PayPal took a decade and they still have cross border issues

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  ifourth (@ifourth) reported 37 minutes ago

  The hidden cost of eCom no one talks about: everyone holds your money. Stripe and PayPal hold payouts and skip weekends. Amazon pays every two weeks. Etsy holds yours too. Meanwhile Facebook Ads charges you every threshold, weekends included. You pay fast, you get paid slow. eCom life lol

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  Justin (@Drfeckler_) reported 40 minutes ago

  @PrayFPSHub He disputed PayPal payment and it showed the return address. Allskill never posted the address or an “ip”. He simply called him poor bc the guy was spamming the server on multiple a coutd Also your friend that worked for us has over 15 pc’s you broke after only working for us 2 Week he had 15 of your orders.

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  Tony Franklin (@GamblingHurts) reported 43 minutes ago

  @EnriqueJLores @PayPal PayPal has become inefficient and difficult to use in my opinion. I have had issues for 2 months now that despite hours trying to resolve, remain unresolved. At scale, no wonder PayPal needs a turn around. Good luck

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  Dgaan (or Nina) (@Dgaan_Ryunina) reported 50 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal talked to you customer support on your site. was useless. you site is still trying to force the use of a passkey. Have no interest in using Passkey. Either fix this, or i find some other service ot use.

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  Arjun Ghimire (@arjuun_3) reported 50 minutes ago

  nobody in nepal talks about how broken the payment infrastructure is for creators. no stripe. no paypal receiving. local cards don't work internationally. you can build the audience but you can't collect the money.

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  CarolAnn Barrows 😷 🍍 🙏 (@frogess33) reported 50 minutes ago

  This is beyond brilliant - and all too, accurate. "Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???" Apr 30, 2026 · 1:32 PM UTC @effthealgorithm Katherine Argent

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  Sam Boboev (@samboboev) reported 54 minutes ago

  BREAKING: @PayPal to Cut 20% of Staff Amid Turnaround Push The job eliminations are part of PayPal’s new plans to accelerate its adoption of artificial intelligence and cut costs. The planned reduction would amount to 4,760 positions based on the 23,800 employees PayPal reported having at the end of 2025. The layoffs were reported earlier by Bloomberg. Chief Executive Enrique Lores told investors Tuesday that he thinks PayPal has underinvested in its technology platform and is falling behind other financial services companies. He wants to cut down on what he sees as unnecessary layers of the business to spend more on AI and becoming a technology leader. “PayPal needs to focus,” he said. “We need to recommit to the fundamentals.” Lores, who joined in March after Alex Chriss was ousted, said he wants to trim costs so the company can spend more on putting out new technology. “First, we will remove duplication and layers from our organizational structure. Second, we will accelerate our AI adoption and automation across our operations,” Lores said. Shares are down more than 8% at $45.93 on Tuesday. The cost-cutting efforts are expected to yield, at a minimum, $1.5 billion in gross run-rate savings over the next two to three years, management said. PayPal didn’t specify which areas of the business would see cost reductions. This year and next, PayPal will be rearranging its teams and building new systems and processes to run the business, management said. PayPal’s board brought in Lores, a former chief executive of HP, earlier this year because it was unhappy with “the pace of change” under Chriss. The company had been trying to diversify beyond its checkout business, which had seen growth slow since the pandemic. Lores said his highest priority is the checkout business, which lets customers use PayPal when making purchases with online retailers. He said he sees room for growth in buy now, pay later, as customers are increasingly looking for flexible payment options. His other focuses are financial services, Venmo and payment processing. PayPal reported a lower first-quarter profit of $1.11 billion, or $1.21 a share, compared with a profit of $1.29 billion, or $1.29 a share, a year earlier. Stripping out certain one-time items, adjusted earnings were $1.34 a share, ahead of the $1.27 that analysts were expecting, according to FactSet. During his time helming HP, Lores became known for streamlining the tech company and pivoting it toward AI and subscriptions. Paypal’s cost-cutting effort marks the second major initiative under Lores. Last week, PayPal said it would reorganize into three business units: Checkout Solutions & PayPal, Consumer Financial Services & Venmo, and Payment Services & Crypto. Source: Wall Street Journal

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  osk (@ogsvg) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Krysia830073 lol I did this with Reptides. Had a few people buy from me actually. Created the entire store in 2 full days. Payment processing was through PayPal, stripe wouldn’t even accept me. Took me a week beforehand to find a good peptide supplier in China who had decent COAs and had a U.S. warehouse. The hardest part and the reason I stopped is because the risk of being caught with your pants down once the FDA fully cracks down on people is not going to be fun. Theres a reason peptide sciences shut down. There’s a reason RUO sites don’t even sell retatrutide or ANY GLPS anymore. Shutdown is coming, the move to underground is happening. The site looked vastly different than it does today. I now aggregate clinical research data on peptides. The long legal game is selling information, not the actual peptides. Too much risk. But yeah it was crazy to spend so much time and money building basically an e commerce site, to then rebranding and rebuilding one the worlds largest aggregated sites of peptide research.

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  quíron 🪶 (@_MJSTY_) reported 55 minutes ago

  I've been so exhausted The charge back taking my cmmssn money, being in debt with PayPal and having no answer from the dispute, my cell phone broke and I had to spend a lot on a new one, art block, mental exhaustion, everything Ty for the patience with the slow art and progress

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  jermy (@mandzuu_) reported 55 minutes ago

  @elyon_hintatas when i finally fix stuff gcash and paypal payments will be available !!! : )

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  T Hausl (@barbiq2025) reported 59 minutes ago

  @Steam_Support I cannot buy the controller via paypal or any card. always says: There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance. what should I do ? #Steam

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  0xfr0han (@tech_aarohan) reported 60 minutes ago

  @nobelprimal just use khalti; you can issue invoices via stripe; for paypal; the workaround is you just create account; dont link bank; let the money deposit; pay a small commission to middleman to retrieve in bulk