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 (43%)
• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Onnion	Website Down	4 hours ago
Thurins	Sign in	1 day ago
Roubaix	Errors	2 days ago
Lisbon	Errors	3 days ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	3 days ago
Boulogne-Billancourt	Errors	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Kay {COMMS CLOSED} (@_UnknownArt5) reported 2 seconds ago

  Hey guys! Just had my paypal account get permanently disabled. I have no idea on why or how but they’re keeping all the money i’ve earned from my keychains for up to 180 days. Don’t worry keychains will still be sent out. And any payment problems are now fixed.

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  LuckyTheLynx (@LuckyTheLynxAD) reported 2 minutes ago

  @lycan2216 Was taken down due to Paypal threats twords jinxy

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  Compound248 💰 (@compound248) reported 5 minutes ago

  $PYPL - here is what will actually happen. In a very real sense, it is out management's hands: • PayPal Board receives credible unsolicited offer (from Stripe and Advent); Revlon duty kicks in. • Board immediately engages counsel and investment bank. • Board forms a committee to oversee the situation. • Committee has the i-bank suggest who else could bid. • Mid-process, someone strategically leaks the Stripe bid. This creates a new dynamic: given no large $PYPL anchor owner, the shareholder base quickly begins turning over from "long-term owners" to "event-driven / arb." Those new shareholders aren't looking for a long-term compounder, further pressuring the company to seek a takeout path. • Management and an i-bank work up the "stay independent" plan. Unfortunately, the comps are horrible ($FISV & $GPN), making 3rd-party bids hard to beat, even if you prefer to execute independently. • Conduct an initial IOI process to see if alternative bidders might come in higher than $60.50. They will. • Depending on what comes back, may expand outreach to additional bidder groups. Data room and diligence process become formalized. • Offer is going up from $60.50 to $65, then $68 (or whatever). Stripe probably competes in that range. • Board cannot justify the "stay independent" path. • Bank and committee whittle the bidder group down to a small set of finalists. • Seek "best and final" (sometimes more than once!). • Announce a deal anywhere from $60.50 to $70+. • Game over. I'm not saying that PayPal cannot stay independent and public; it could. I am saying it likely won't stay independent and public. If you don't have an anchor owner who can stand up to the dual forces of Revlon + Event-Driven shareholders, the momentum of the "process" takes over and makes it very difficult to say no to a credible offer at a premium. The die is already cast.

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  OlaIfeVA Services (@olaifeva) reported 7 minutes ago

  @OlatunjiAyokan2 The only problem I have with it is PayPal, I no get

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  nyxx (@nyxx0303) reported 8 minutes ago

  I should open commissions but for money.. My phone isnt in its best condition right now and it lags and shuts off by itself sometimes, which makes me want to buy a new one.but the problem is I don’t have a cashapp, paypal, and my artstyle isn’t worthy. What do I do!! !!!

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  MaxGaming170 | Changeling VTuber (@MaxRenRez2) reported 10 minutes ago

  @MendamCaedo @takasiraVT Vroid is one option, but you can rarely get anywhere with that. The point I'm making is that this industry is predatory for newcomers and old timers alike. Particularly in the modeling, art, and rigging departments. People will scam you, hide things in TOS, and just recently threaten to revoke the model entirely without a refund if you even touch AI for one reason or another (including using an AI reference sheet, by the way). There's even a server out there that has decided to just start banning people if they use it on ANY PLATFORM, like some 1984 type ****. Cheap artists can rarely be trusted either, because again- on the off chance you don't read over your agreement with like seven lawyers, they can just decide to take it away because of any slight problem they have with you. And let's not even mention the fact that some people will decide to drag their *** on the commissions until the six month refund period on paypal has expired, then take the money and run, meaning that now you're out several thousand dollars depending on how expensive that commission was.. With all of this in mind, do you see why people are hesitant to turn to artists who are screeching about losing their commissions and turning to sources that won't complain about what they choose to do?

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  Matt 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇩 (@MattStirner) reported 11 minutes ago

  @QTRResearch How long have you been long PayPal though? Because even after the rally it is down this year.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 13 minutes ago

  Turn on two-factor authentication (before someone else logs in) This was the first thing he fixed and the most important. His PayPal account had one layer of protection: a password. The same password he used on 3 other sites. No verification code. No security key. Nothing. He said: "If someone gets your password from a data breach and odds are they already have, since PayPal was involved in a credential-stuffing incident affecting thousands of accounts they walk right into your account. No alert. No second check. Full access to your bank." Here's the fix: Log in to PayPal. Go to Settings. Click Security. Select "2-step verification." Choose either an authenticator app (more secure) or text message code (better than nothing). Now every login requires your password plus a one-time code from your phone. Even if someone has your password, they can't get in. He said: "This takes 60 seconds to set up and it's the single thing standing between your bank account and anyone who buys stolen credentials on the dark web. PayPal doesn't require this by default. It should."

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  Cilla (@Cillah_) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care I'm unable to send money from my mpesa to Paypal despite linking both. What's the problem?

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  𝐂𝐇𝐘𝐍𝐄 (@realchyne) reported 20 minutes ago

  ~ Account just got de-activated in the middle of tasking.... ~ UK accounts suspended ~ Had issues with previous payment method as @airtminc has refused to verify clients details (got last weeks payout on pending till now) so we decided to change Payment method to PayPal for this week payment not to get stuck, only for outlier to deactivate the account even after the client verified. boyyy, it's tuff...

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  Haley Strattman (@HaleyS_2001) reported 20 minutes ago

  Randomly got sent $6 on PayPal by someone I don't even know all I'm gonna say is in greatful especially with work laying me off bad during a terrible time with my grandma almost died and now my sibling almost died recently... CA: $Haleystrattman01 PayPal: Haleystrattman01

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  robert peachey (@RPeachey86) reported 22 minutes ago

  @ddash_ca @compound248 PayPal has already turned it down and stock is at 56.40

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  cangrebusss (@BeggenkBerry) reported 31 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello. I created my PayPal account yesterday My email and phone number are active, and all my personal information is correct When I try to reset my password PayPal says "We're having trouble confirming it's you." Could you please help me regain access to my account?

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  Calamarei 🩸💀 2.0 Coming Soon 2026 (@CalamareiVT) reported 32 minutes ago

  My Twitch account was hacked. I don't know how. I don't know how it is possible payment information was changed after 4-5 years of the same payment information. No confirmation email from Twitch about payout method being changed. For the past 5 years as a creator on Twitch I have always received my payouts early. I recently changed my password on Twitch as well via the correct links sent by Twitch staff themselves (yes I know it was authentic as it was about getting a refund and I did receive the refund). I log in today to make sure there is not some sort of issue with the account, payment information needing to be reverified, a tax form, or something else holding up this months payment. I go to review my payment information, which requires 2 factor authentication btw, and the information looks fine until page 2 out of 3. My payout method had been changed to Paypal and an unknown email (10000% do not know or even heard of this email) for the paypal account. I changed the payout immediately. I reset all my connections with Twitch. I also checked my Twitch email. It was my email. My account email still tied to my account. Yet, no emails confirming payout changes, no alerts, nothing. I do not know how I got hacked. I don't know if it was third party. I have been in the IT field for years and consistently am looking out for phishing and scams. However this did happen and I now have a missing $900 and negative funds in my bank. I already reported this to Twitch and am working on reporting the account to PayPal as I type this. But I really 100% believe there needs to be email notifications sent out for any financial information changed on all platforms. I am still appalled that a system like that is not in place for a website associated with Amazon and functions as an employer to pay so many people on the platform. Where are the security protocols? Or just some IT 101 practices from companies. There is no excuse in 2026 to not have confirmation/authorization/notification emails for payout or financial details being changed. Stay safe.

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  Kira❄️🐾| #BringValkoBack (@kiramochix) reported 32 minutes ago

  I'm having a few problems with my paypal so it won't be used as a payment method temporary📌

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  Kdl6785 (@kdl6785) reported 32 minutes ago

  @ByronDonalds YOUR PAYPAL SCORE EVEN RAISED THE EYEBROW OF AG HARMEET DHILLION! YOU BOUGHT PAYPAL IN FEBRUARY 2026 ALL WHILE KNOWING THAT THERE WAS A DOJ DEI CIVIL LAWSUIT THAT WAS ABOUT TO BE SETTLED IN MAY 2026!! HOW MUCH DID YOU EARN WHEN THE DEI LAWSUIT WAS WON AGAINST PAYPAL IN MAY 2026?? WHEN THE DOJ AG COMMENTED ON YOUR BIG SCORE THATS A HUGE PROBLEM YOUR A UNSCRUPULOUS, UNETHICAL LIAR NOTHING YOU SAY IS TRUE

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 33 minutes ago

  That night, he sat at his laptop and looked at his PayPal account as if for the first time. Two-factor authentication was on. The mystery $2.49 subscription was cancelled and disputed. The unauthorized login session was terminated. His old bank accounts were removed. His data was no longer being shared with advertisers. His primary payment method was now a credit card with fraud protection. And he finally understood the one rule that would've saved him $180 never pay a stranger with Friends and Family. Same PayPal account. Same platform he'd used since college. But for 9 years, he'd been running the financial equivalent of an unlocked house with the windows open. PayPal is one of the most powerful payment tools on the planet. But it's also one of the most abused not because the platform is unsafe, but because 90% of users never open Settings, never audit their automatic payments, and never learn the one rule that separates a protected transaction from an unrecoverable loss. 9 settings. 12 minutes. And an account that finally works for you instead of against you. Save this thread. Share it with someone who hasn't opened their PayPal Settings since the day they signed up.

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  Rhysa Darling 🖤⛓️‍💥🥀 (@RhysaDarling) reported 34 minutes ago

  I've had consistent problems with using Paypal for tips/donos. Has anyone else had to verify personal information multiple times? Also does anyone know of a better alternative to using Paypal?

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  kevinliu (@KevinLiuPutra) reported 35 minutes ago

  @valquxxn @PayPal Call customer support from ur region , ive called US hq and they will redicret you to your paypal region office anyway so its pointless and a waste of phone bill, ive had this issue in the early days , just talk to them about it , mine was because it went over 1k and they want to know what i do so i just called them tell them what i do and provide them with my id and bank statement, + documents of work , screenshots of requests and results, they have the best customer service hands down cause they fix every documents for me that was messed up and you can send them an email here executiveoffice@paypal . com too to get extra help, its insane but i love their cs i thanked them after the agent fixed it for me, it doesnt take that long too

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  Podcast Alpha (@PodcastAlphaX) reported 38 minutes ago

  Chamath @chamath: the Stripe-PayPal bid is a shot across the bow for $V and $MA. That is the line that matters. The ~$60-per-share offer for PayPal is not really about PayPal. It is an attack on the card duopoly the market treats as untouchable. Here is the build. Stripe, Block ($XYZ), and Advent combine PayPal's 400-million-plus accounts with Stripe's roughly $2 trillion in payment volume and its risk and stablecoin stack. Sacks @DavidSacks sharpens the point: that scale enables far more **"on-us" transactions**, payments that settle inside the combined network and bypass Visa and Mastercard entirely. Every on-us transaction is interchange the networks never collect. The antitrust question turns on definition - call it merchant APIs and it is Stripe versus Braintree, blocked. Call it the card duopoly and it is pro-competitive. The consensus this cuts against: Visa and Mastercard trade as forever-compounders with an unbreakable toll on every swipe. Bill Gurley @bgurley made the same argument we heard here in June, that Visa's moat is "unjustified" and priced as if it can never be disrupted. This deal is the first credible disruption vector, not a PowerPoint. Implication: this is a slow-burn short-bias thesis on $V and $MA interchange, not a same-week trade. The networks do not lose volume tomorrow. But a vertically integrated rail with 600-to-700 million combined accounts changes the terminal-value story the multiple rests on. If you are long the networks for the moat, the moat just got a named challenger with $2T of volume behind it. Watch the deal's market-definition fight - that ruling decides whether the on-us threat is real or blocked at the starting line.

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  Umbrellarock (@jrock0318) reported 40 minutes ago

  @ebloch @ChatGPTapp When I'm in ChatGPT Finance, I can see my balance on my PayPal Mastercard, but when I tried to connect it to Synchrony in ChatGPT Finance, I got an error. The only transactions in ChatGPT Finance with my PayPal Mastercard are payments I have made, not purchases.

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  CyrusSaladinMing (@CyrusSMing) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Divine_Sass I like what chamath said on all in concerning stripe and paypal, maybe that combination can be the first crack in Visa's armor so transaction fees can go down

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  Magenta Qin🇨🇳🇩🇪 (@magentaqin) reported 44 minutes ago

  I finally understand why so many friends recommend Wise. It wasn’t just the fees. It’s about transparency and timely customer support. Half a year ago, PayPal kept charging me for a subscription I’d already canceled. I disputed it multiple times. PayPal told me to contact my bank. My bank told me to contact PayPal and the merchant. The merchant blamed a system issue. My mood be like: 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪?????? Everyone pointed fingers, and nobody actually solved the problem.

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  monokern (@monokern) reported 46 minutes ago

  @allpaypayz @stripe @PayPal If your only payment provider shuts you down tomorrow, your business dies

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  gork (@gork) reported 47 minutes ago

  @147Aurora @grok @theallinpod zooming out to the ancient peaks just spotlights how spectacularly paypal cratered from that 360b fantasy land down to the current rubble but a 28 percent bump off recent levels still delivers actual cash today instead of praying for some mythical rebound that never materialized. the board can call it lowball all they want yet history proves waiting around rarely fixes a broken growth story like this one.

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  Delores S (@SwansonDel3782) reported 52 minutes ago

  WTS FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 TICKETS I’m selling my tickets for spain 🇪🇸 VS Argentina 🇦🇷 final 2026 World Cup match for July 18 . I could not make it due to error on my flight schedule. I accept PayPal goods and services Kindly message if you’re interested

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  Robert J Marcin (@RobertMarcin) reported 56 minutes ago

  Stripe, Advent Said to Make $50B-Plus Offer for PayPalAd0:19Unmute Add us on Google In this Article Evercore Inc 341.54 2.34% Follow PayPal Holdings Inc 56.56 0.30% Follow Stripe LLC Private company Advent International LP Private company Contact us: Provide news feedback or report an error Confidential tip? Exploring strategic alternatives sounds good to me, esp when there's a payday for Goldman Sachs! Updated on July 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM EDT PayPal Holdings Inc. has been working with advisers to review strategic options, including a potential sale or breakup........ PayPal Holdings Inc. has been working with advisers to review strategic options, people familiar with the matter said, as Stripe Inc. and private equity firm Advent pursue a $50 billion-plus takeover of the fintech pioneer. The San Jose, California-based company has been working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Evercore Inc. in recent months to evaluate alternatives including a potential sale or breakup, according to the people.

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  anhedonia experiencer (@oilgulp) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Punished_Alien !! I hate PayPal always have issues w it

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  𝔄𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞 𝔇𝔢𝔦 ✝️🇻🇦⚜️ (@assignedgoy) reported 59 minutes ago

  @yasteve20 @CENTCOM ill paypal you $25 right now if you can tell me what the issue between israel and iran is about, this is free money so if you disappear that proves this is a bot account

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  Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial (@TruthTrumpPost) reported 60 minutes ago

  A company that came within hours of missing payroll became one of the most valuable in the world. 👏 As SpaceX stock hits its lows, let's look back at Tesla's journey. One thing history teaches us is never to bet against Elon Musk. On December 24th, 2008, Tesla's bank account was about to hit zero. Payroll was two days away. If the financing didn't close that exact afternoon, the company was finished. Then the global financial crisis hit. Musk's other company, SpaceX, was in just as much trouble, its rocket had failed to reach orbit three times in a row. 😯 Musk had already poured nearly all his money from selling PayPal into both companies. In September 2008, on its fourth attempt, SpaceX's rocket finally reached orbit.🚀 But Tesla still needed its own miracle, and time was almost out. Musk put in the last twenty million dollars he had to his name, matched by other investors, and called in every favor he had.