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 (49%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (19%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Alphen aan den Rijn	Sign in	13 hours ago
Bordeaux	Errors	15 hours ago
Liouc	Website Down	18 hours ago
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	21 hours ago
Granville	Sign in	22 hours ago
Puisserguier	Sign in	22 hours ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  carleto co (@CoColloca) reported 2 minutes ago

  @FredMartinezST @nepentia @CharuSan83 Technology? Hilarious what’s the miracle tech that xrp provides? Zelle , PayPal , WesterUnion send money more efficiently trusted by everyone and no one questions it … xrp ? Not so much … downtrending hard since Jan 2018 and nothing can stop it going down … joke is on you all

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  aims ♡ D-6 (@hynjnrose) reported 9 minutes ago

  why is paypal not working

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  ☆Izuru Planetes☆ (@CreatorOfHeroia) reported 10 minutes ago

  @HimeMysti Maybe some idiot said it in the message section when they paid them. Like dude how stupid is that! You should either say nothing or be generic like “thank you for the arts.” You don’t gave to be specific cause that’s asking for trouble. PayPal would act upon anything.

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  サラ (C6 Hu Tao Main) 🔥🏳️‍🌈☽◯☾ (@AyakaMain5000) reported 12 minutes ago

  @DMAYaichi While PayPal is definitely a problem, I imagine people were also dumb enough to send notes with their payments like "HEY THANKS FOR THE LEWDS!" Don't do that, people.

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  ⚠️🔪regg (the colbmos guy) (@koinsqlash) reported 14 minutes ago

  paypal constantly gives me a connection error whenever i try to make an account so if i ever WERE to hypothetically open comms, cashapp it is i guess!

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  Czarson (@Czarson_cr) reported 16 minutes ago

  @ChibiReviews People should just stop using PayPal, they were known to be terrible since like 2017

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  Roly Poly Games (@RolPolyGames) reported 16 minutes ago

  I am seeing people freaking out about paypal account bans. As a commissioner of much artwork 3D and 2D for my game development I want to give some advice: Keep your details simple. Don't use terms that could be taken in a NSFW manner. Now mine isn't NSFW, but keep it simple "Character custom 2D art piece ." "3D model fully rigged female character." They aren't physically seeing your art they just see what the payment is for. The less they know the less they can find a problem with.

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  「 Suu 」 (@Suuja_MMVII) reported 17 minutes ago

  Are there any alternatives to Patreon? I ******* hate this show government ID ****. Feels like a breach of my privacy. And ever since I saw the PayPal problem, I think I need an alternative too. I WAS CONSIDERING COMMS FFS. **** YOU

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  Zi ⋆ Beerus DNI (@rororororo77777) reported 18 minutes ago

  @ExraNiche @AnuragRai2003 I've always had an issue with PayPal. Back when I used to donate for CSL, I started adding my donation money to PayPal so I can transfer it to my brokerage faster. it kept giving me **** for transferring... my own money. To my OWN accounts. The only time it helped was when I couldn't find my brokerage card and I had to buy BTS tickets before the cart expired so besides that one moment, it is genuinely the WORST platform to manage money.

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  Enerton 🔞🇨🇴 (@En3_Art) reported 19 minutes ago

  My local bank is a ***** *** *** so no comm work for me for a good while until those issues are solved + I need to focus on my art course. (I only had one comm but I refunded it, it wasn’t even PayPal that screwed me over like many other artists). I’ll reopen comms someday.

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  Jay One Tailed BEAST (@0TBJAY) reported 20 minutes ago

  Who got paypal and down to shoot content in Dallas area? Today? Paid work

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  Walter Grokite (@buddyperdue) reported 23 minutes ago

  @seyba89357 @CNN Ha! Electric cars did not work. He made them work. Banking sucked, he fixed it with Paypal. He fixed space travel, made it way cheaper. NASA was pathetic and could barely do anything. He fixed the internet, you can get cell service if you are lost in the middle of the ocean now because of Starlink. He will some day fix traffic with self driving cars. Which Tesla made a reality. He also recognized NVIDIA's tech that they had but did not know what to do with, he knew it would make AI possible so he introduced them to Sam Altman. He may have created AI with his insight.

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  Open3DLab / SmutBase (@Smutbase1) reported 26 minutes ago

  If PayPal gets an inkling of you using their platform for 18+ work, they will shut you down, and you lose access to any funds left in your account. This has happened since forever, and is not a new policy change. Enforcement always comes in waves.

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  🐝🇬🇷 (@bee_fumo) reported 26 minutes ago

  From what I understand the the set of laws they have built in the EU are less about censorship(they don't care about it) and more about breaking the 90%+ marketshare VISA and Mastercard have. Most payment systems around the world(Stripe,Paypal for example) rely on the existing VISA/MasterCard networks. The change is that a service can now directly connect to your bank account in the EU completely bypassing the VISA/Mastercard network in order to bring down prices and introduce competition. It has apparently worked.

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  Sonican (@Sonicanka) reported 28 minutes ago

  I hope you can help me 🙏 think of another payment method because my PayPal got broken again. I honestly don’t know why PayPal is so sensitive — I heard a lot of other people have experienced this too.

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  Laharl (@SpaceMutiny) reported 31 minutes ago

  Annnd loading the Red Site from the homepage and going to my images has the Death Markers back on again. Yeah **** this glitchy *** website. CivitAI should be spending time fixing the sync issue from their two door bullshit that really was done to get PayPal back in again.

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  Maxx Feral (@MaxxFeral) reported 32 minutes ago

  No, PayPal and them working with Patreon to move goalposts and make up 'rules' on the spot that work for one but not another is HARDLY a new thing. These are monopoly pig SCUM and they need a pile of complaints so they have to bleed $ like a geyser to keep in business for lawyers - then get a class action when big clients aren't gouged to pay for it - and lose their tax breaks. THEN face a serious catastrophe when competition wedges in since at this stage it's likely CEOs surrounded by yes-men afraid to tell there's a problem

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  Vino (@El_Vino772) reported 35 minutes ago

  After the discount, it came down to $439. Which is really good. But after five days after doing this purchase find out, PayPal canceled my damn order. I knew that I would’ve went with affirm. The discount was just for that particular day.

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  Freyas Fantasy (Commissions Open) (@FreyasFantasys) reported 38 minutes ago

  so i might be abandoning paypal and moving to nexapay... seen to many people get banned on paypal. and with all the trouble i am already in, im trying to do damage control. nexapay is crypto though. but it sounds stable. thoughts?

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  ♡ Maii Artss ♡ (Comms Open) (@maii_artss) reported 39 minutes ago

  @TerraDraca @Grummz I've been using PayPal for 6 years and I've NEVER put "lewd" on an invoice, I only put "Digital Service" and that's how it should be to avoid problems..

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  vextajun (@vextajun) reported 44 minutes ago

  from client to artist or even artist to artist, do you prefer using wise or paypal when paying for art commissions? im having problems with my paypal and sadly i think wise is the only viable option for me 😭😭

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  Desperse (@DesperseApp) reported 44 minutes ago

  @rovik90s @Goku53npai If you’re a creator running into issues with PayPal, Desperse might be worth trying. It’s a platform for artists to post, share, and sell work as NFTs. Payments go directly to your wallet in SOL or USDC. You’ll just need a way to offramp, usually something like Coinbase.

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  Biggles (@mjwinslade) reported 47 minutes ago

  @TerraDraca @Grummz Because arseholes on the internet will report you and PayPal wont care enough to actually check manually. Thats what started this whole thing a while ago. PayPal received shedloads of complaints about morally grey content and decided to shut it down rather than deal with it

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  Inky - Commissions Open (@inkusumi) reported 47 minutes ago

  @EezySeven I don't follow grummz however PayPal has had a history of this and has done this to me prior. PayPal has had a strict policy against nsfw for years so in a sense he's no wrong they've been shutting down commission work.

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  Melody Witch Draws (@majo_melody) reported 48 minutes ago

  Does anyone know an Aussie alternatives? My paypal is still up but i wouldn't be shocked if it goes down

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  Kolbász Kosher (@GlitchValkyrie) reported 51 minutes ago

  I have done thorough research and the internet is in decline. It became enshittified by Amazon, Shopify, Spotify, Meta, X, Google, Apple, Play Store, Microsoft, Enter Your Address and Pay Subscriptions, Netflix, KYC, Login with Google, PayPal, Domain Name Price Hikes, Hosting Price Hikes, and it will get worse. They will come for your VPN, they will ask for your government ID, you will login to the above mentioned enshittified services with your government digital ID app, and you will pay your subscriptions in perpetuity. But there is hope. It is called Tor. Onion addresses. The scary stuff they warned you about. That's where John Galt is. You don't need to subscribe, no KYC, no logging in with Google, just perfection. The people who will flock there are the builders, the rebels, the kind of people that brought the original internet to life. And this new sovereign realm will run laps around the old internet. Businesses that are purely digital, no taxes or VAT, no need to form a corporation, just exchange of the highest quality goods and services, paid for using bitcoin or monero, between parties that are no more and no less than cryptographically unique entities. This is where we are headed. Don't despair as the sun sets on the old internet; something better is rising on the horizon and it will set you free.

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  lesbes (@Lesleybaas9) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Leo_El_Random But that mean comms are now only able to go through patreon or still by paypal too? Due to having CC problems and patreon (still despite having money in paypal wallet) every time going straight for the CC digits, I can't use patreon... but I CAN still use paypal

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  Terra .𖥔 ݁ ˖⋆ ˚❆🪽 (@Terramisu_nyan) reported 55 minutes ago

  I’ve never used invoices the entirety of my history with PayPal and I’ve never had issues with it,,,some people were saying this was caused by sending invoices so I just wanted to share my two cents Send your PayPal link to someone and have them pay like that + friends and family

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  christomwow🔞 (@CrazyBunny4994) reported 55 minutes ago

  Hello everyone. Unfortunately i wont be able to take in new commissions temporarily because of issues i have with Paypal. I will be working on the current paid ones but i wont be able to accept new ones. 😔

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  Ace 3 boogie (@Ace3boog) reported 59 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal have called 10 times , provided proof the crypto went to the wallet the issue is still unresolved. Which is why I’m on x unfortunately