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
Amsterdam	Sign in	4 hours ago
Houston	Sign in	6 hours ago
Lyon	Sign in	7 hours ago
Paris	Website Down	13 hours ago
Échillais	Website Down	23 hours ago
Cagnes-sur-Mer	Website Down	2 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  moon ⚞•⚟ (@mooniix9) reported 8 minutes ago

  @bwnilly NO WORRIES I totally understand! paypal is terrible to artists 🫶

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  jbsx feels radical judges should be arrested (@jbs_with_a_kiss) reported 10 minutes ago

  @codeofvets @PayPal No problem. Went right through. Hope they find the fraudster hoping to grift off you, but adding the 2026 at the end was a good move.

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  Akeem (@megakeemo) reported 12 minutes ago

  @thaboimanue__ @firelordmaria I was having issues with PayPal too where the Jamaican card wasn't going through.

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  Bunkei (@AlphaISMRadio) reported 15 minutes ago

  @katejennz @TylorHepnerArt I did earlier, but now I must force the issue. I'm so sorry ... but ... you wouldn't happen to know Tylor's PayPal would you???

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  TWST Overblot Physical Zine (@TwstObZine) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Sumayya17286477 We are very sorry to announce that the pre-orders are delayed because of some issues with PayPal !

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  DEUKAE VOTING TEAM ⚔️ (@deukae7voting) reported 21 minutes ago

  (Photos 1 & 2) On May 18, during Round 1, we reserved 1.8M Blue Jams from them. They asked for a 40% down payment upfront, which we sent immediately as requested. (Photos 3 & 4) However, on the final day of voting, with less than two hours remaining before the deadline, we reached out because they still hadn't delivered the votes. They then told us they were unable to vote and offered to refund our payment. However, they never returned the money, claiming they didn't have Wise and that their PayPal account was on hold.

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  Leysan Gilfanova | CFO Advisory (@CFOAnalysis) reported 21 minutes ago

  PayPal's revenue has grown every year for the last decade, but the stock is down 86% from its peak. Last year, PayPal moved a record $1.79 trillion in payments. Operating income hit $6 billion. The market only values the entire company at $40 billion. Compared to its peak in 2021, it was worth $360 billion. How does a business grow every year and lose this much value? In early 2021, CEO Dan Schulman told investors PayPal would have 750 million users by 2025. But PayPal ended 2025 at only 439 million — barely changed from 2021. The flat user count is half the story. The other half is where the revenue growth actually came from. PayPal makes money two ways. One is the PayPal and Venmo button. When a customer clicks it at checkout, PayPal earns a high fee on the transaction. The other is running credit card payments behind the scenes for big merchants who use their own checkout. When a customer clicks Apple Pay or Shop Pay there, PayPal often still processes the payment underneath. The fee on that work is much smaller. Customers used to click the PayPal button at checkout. Increasingly, they click Apple Pay or Shop Pay first. In Q1 2026: → PayPal button: +2% → Behind-the-scenes processing: +11% PayPal kept about two cents less of every dollar it earned over the past year. On the company's scale, that's hundreds of millions in lost profit. This is what Alex Chriss was hired to fix. He took over as CEO in September 2023, cut costs, monetized Venmo, walked away from unprofitable processing deals. In February 2026, the board replaced him with their own chairman — Enrique Lores, a 30-year HP veteran who used to run printers and PCs. Whether the new CEO can fix it is the open question. That's the lesson: The biggest margins come from being the brand customers reach for. When they reach for someone else, the same work pays much less. 🔔 I'm Leysan, CFO who breaks down the economics behind tech companies every single week. Follow for more. #BusinessModel #Pricing #BusinessStrategy

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  Silicon Salvage (@SiliconSalvage) reported 25 minutes ago

  PayPal is being priced as a melting ice cube. The capital return says otherwise. The setup: $5.23B of net income against a $36.5B market cap. That’s a 14.3% earnings yield — roughly triple a 10-year Treasury, on a $33B - revenue payments network, not a distressed cyclical. What the multiple implies: at 7.8x earnings versus ~20x for the index, the market is underwriting structural, terminal decline — flat-to-negative growth in perpetuity. That is the bet embedded in $PYPL today, whether or not anyone says it out loud. What management is actually doing: $6.05B of buybacks last year — equal to 16.6% of the entire market cap repurchased in a single fiscal year, funded entirely from operating cash flow, not leverage. At a depressed multiple, every dollar retired compounds per-share value faster than it would at any point in the last decade. The asymmetry: you’re being paid a double-digit earnings yield to wait, while the share count shrinks underneath you. Down 48% from the high, consensus has stopped paying attention. Re-rating is optional. The buyback isn’t. The first is upside; the second is the floor.

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  ᛊ Mr. Chan ᛊ (@RohitChan666) reported 26 minutes ago

  @vansh22b PayPal disabled my account and never told why. No contact point to contact them. I just cant access my account nor use forgot password. Only way was to contact them via twitter and even their provided steps failed. Glitch is cant contact them without login

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  Mel Asks (@mel_asks) reported 31 minutes ago

  @AlanSla90124663 @Hedgewatchers @BrambleRamble4 I never thought of the PayPal reporting, but that would catch a lot of scammers since they use PayPal across SMS. And PayPal as well as Go Fund Me are very proactive shutting down fake accounts.

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  Mike (@MikeMt1000) reported 32 minutes ago

  @MetamateDaz Yeah because the REAL CRIME is they never taught “Financial Literacy” and “Debt management” like our government the US CITIZEN has a spending problem. Check Klarna, PayPal, Affirm purchases and delinquencies. They wanted you a consumer slave and we all became one. MONEY IS BROKEN

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  Scott (@game693ws) reported 36 minutes ago

  @BNBuzz #BarnesandNoble Have to say that your switch over to the new website is kind of terrible. Not intuitive. Hard to find things. You don’t take #PayPal @PayPal anymore. No clue why you messed with it and respectively request that you fix it. @booksamillion looking good.

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  ʑinthie ☄️🩵 mage vtuber (@zinthie) reported 38 minutes ago

  @bwnilly i had the same issues and they had $800 of my money 😭 basically you have to let them review your account, and eventually (EVENTUALLY) they'll ask you to verify what you're invoicing for. In my case, i had to verify that i was doing commissions, so i would explain that i offered comms on twitter, show them my prices, and i uploaded the piece i did. i doubt you have to include the art pieces, but i did to be safe. they also asked for my ID, and full 360 face shot, and my address to be verified. it was so invasive and dumb and i would have deleted my account if they didn't have so much money. Vgen offers payments without paypal and i found that way easier !!

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  Kate (@honestyandhumor) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Officeworks YOUR ONLINE SERVICES ABSOLUTLEY SUCK! & the fact that your in store staff cannot (they tried) assist with online orders stuck due to a KNOWN issue with Paypal being used to purchase Software is just BS. Why accept paypal for software if YOU KNOW IT NEEDS MANUAL push

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  Elon Musk (@elonmusk) reported 41 minutes ago

  @adeoressi True, when we were stuck in traffic on the way back to NYC, Adeo asked me what I was going to do after PayPal/X and I said I always wanted to do something to advance space, but didn’t think there was anything private individuals could do. The origin of SpaceX was doing a philanthropic mission to get the public excited about life on Mars, so that NASA’s budget could be increased to achieve that goal. There was no commercial ambition at the time. The $50M was from the proceeds of the sale of PayPal to eBay. After learning more about the limiting factors for humanity in space, it became obvious that the issue was a lack of advancement in rocket technology, in particular the failure to develop a fully reusable rocket, without which expanding consciousness beyond Earth is impossible.

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  Alisha Shrestha (@alishashrestha) reported 42 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I deleted my previous account as i needed to change the country. Now when I try to sign up, it says the account with the email id exists. Neither password works nor Forgot Password. Something went wrong pops up. I can even ask the Assistant since I need to login.

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  Kyros (@photolynx_) reported 43 minutes ago

  @VBIOMEDCENTER if you use PayPal you have every right to just do it thru PayPal, I don’t see an issue

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  MiReTu (@_MiReTu) reported 45 minutes ago

  How @GoKiteAI makes agent payments cheaper than $0.01 and why Stripe and PayPal can't keep up The thing is, an AI agent pays for APIs, data, or compute every second, meaning every action is a micropayment worth just a few cents. Stripe/PayPal charge 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. Example: a $0.46 payment → a $0.31 fee. That's 67% eaten up by fees alone! Over a day of agent activity, fees destroy the entire budget. Kite solves this differently: Runs on its own blockchain (Avalanche L1). Uses payment channels: you open one once, and the agent can make thousands of payments almost for free. Real cost - $0.000001 (0.0001 cents) per payment Speed: under 0.1 seconds. Stablecoins (USDC, etc.), with no volatility. @KiteAIFDN Agent Passport is an agent's passport: You set budgets, limits, and time restrictions. There's a kill switch - one button instantly shuts the agent down. Full control and auditability. Real example: An agent called 6 paid APIs → paid only $0.036 in total. That's why 500+ companies are already moving to @Kite_Frens_Eco. It's not a wallet, but dedicated infrastructure for agents.

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  kallappa (@kallappa75) reported 47 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal My account is permanently limited ..tried all the ways to solve this problem but nothing worked ....after providing all the proof I'm still facing the problem...the support team is not working properly...please solve my problem early

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  Debbie Iron Bow (@DebbieIronbow) reported 48 minutes ago

  @ruppe_tr Yes my friend, it did work, thank you. My only problem with paypal is that it will take until next week to hit my account. But it will help so much until that first payday. Everything helps right now, especially with teens to look after while I try stay working 🥰

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  Matija (@matija_aff) reported 48 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I am locked out of my account, lost connected phone number and can't login. I tried calling support with viber out but can't get it work, this number always says failed to connect 0035314369111! I need help ASAP!

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  Klink Rewards (@klinkrewards) reported 50 minutes ago

  The difference between a legitimate reward platform and a fake one comes down to three things. Real brand partnerships: not invented offers. Transparent payout terms: before you start, not after. Actual withdrawal options: bank, crypto, PayPal. Not only gift cards.

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  𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔢 (@quelle560699) reported 54 minutes ago

  GM frens ☕ Instead of waiting for the same gatekeepers to adopt crypto, we should be asking a much bigger question: What real-world problems can we solve with the ledger? A lot of people seem excited about Visa, PayPal, Stripe, and other large companies integrating crypto. But what has really changed if users are still dependent on the same intermediaries, the same rules, and the same extraction of value while only the technology running in the background is different? Crypto started as a movement to create decentralized alternatives. To give people ownership, sovereignty, and direct access to value without requiring permission from centralized entities. Somewhere along the way, the goal shifted from replacing gatekeepers to celebrating their participation.

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  dead (@_xnes) reported 55 minutes ago

  PAYPAL DOWN? smaddy get back to me asap

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  kallappa (@kallappa75) reported 59 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello paypal team, my account is permanently limited after providing all the details for review ..still I'm unable to solve this problem , sent mail to paypal team ..no response, called on a number didn't work ...please provide a solution as early as possible

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  Bishal Nandi (@LearnWithBishal) reported 60 minutes ago

  1. Email Bombing The Situation: You wake up to 147 password reset emails. Amazon. Netflix. PayPal. LinkedIn. Every account seems under attack. Your first instinct is panic. You start changing passwords immediately. The Mechanics: The flood of emails isn't the real attack. It's camouflage. Attackers deliberately subscribe you to hundreds of newsletters and mailing lists at once. The goal is to bury an important email inside the chaos. A purchase confirmation. A banking alert. A password change notification. Something they don't want you to notice. The Fix: Stop. Before deleting anything, search your inbox for: • "Order" • "Purchase" • "Invoice" • "Password changed" Those emails often reveal the actual target.

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  Alexandre Lores 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇨🇺 (@alexandre_lores) reported 1 hour ago

  Onboarding new tech is best dome seamlessly - as few actions as possible, and fewer "decisions". Same goes for RWAs, tokenization, Web 3.0, whatever words we use. "Click here for a 50% discount on your remittance fee with our new high-speed program." One-click. As a parallel, let's look at mobile APIs. 50% of the people using them probably never heard the term. 99% of users don't even have a basic technical understanding of what coding language to use for an efficient secure application programming interface. That doesn't stop an estimated 4-6 million people from using mobile APIs regularly. (Sign in with Google/Apple, Pay with PayPal)

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  Stoic Chain (@stoicchain) reported 1 hour ago

  Stripe walked away from crypto in 2018. Said it was too slow. Too volatile. Not ready. They just came back. USDC, live, real merchants, real transactions. Not just Stripe. Visa is now settling money between banks using USDC on Ethereum. PayPal built PYUSD and loaded it into 430 million wallets. Tether and USDC move more dollars per year than Visa's card network. Read that again. Here's why this is happening: wiring money between banks takes 3 days and costs up to $25. USDC lands in seconds. Any time. Sundays. Holidays. 3am. For a few cents. Visa's current system takes 2 days to actually move the money after you swipe your card the "instant" you see on your phone is an IOU. USDC settles for real while you're still putting your wallet away. The companies that built how you pay for everything looked at blockchain rails, compared them to what they're running now, and said: this is better. So they switched. Stripe, Visa, PayPal these aren't crypto companies. They're the backbone of global commerce. And they all chose the same infrastructure. That's not a bet on crypto. That's crypto winning.

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  NUG ( open commission 2/10 ) (@Nug66Ilham) reported 1 hour ago

  @AskPayPal @PayPal upload my ID error, I want my paypal back to normal

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  David Wall (@wall_david61) reported 1 hour ago

  Hey @paypal is your system having issues. We've not been able to transfer money to our bank for over a day now, and your contact page is coming up blank.