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 (41%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Benfeld	Sign in	15 hours ago
Gérardmer	Sign in	2 days ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	3 days ago
Lodève	Errors	3 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	4 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	4 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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  R.Louis (@RLouis1397) reported 17 seconds ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay I absolutely hate buying from eBay. Slow shipping and customer support. Always pay with PayPal when using eBay and have a credit card as the primary payment method for two layers of protection. Always DYOR on seller. If a price seems too good to be true, it probably is.

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  Lin 💜🖤🐈‍⬛ 🇭🇰🇨🇳🇬🇧 | 🔞 | Job searching! (@LinnychuVT) reported 28 seconds ago

  Before today, I only had Stripe payments only which meant that it only allowed credit/debit cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay, etc. But now, I've also added a PayPal option as well so hopefully there won't be as many issues with payments 🫡

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 1 minute ago

  PAYPAL $PYPL: WE NAMED THE WRONG CATALYST AND THE STOCK ROSE 39% ANYWAY: PayPal $PYPL at $58.85 (after hours), -$0.22 / -0.37% from Monday's $59.07 close. On June 22 this account put the San Jose payments network on the Deep-Value and Special-Situations Len5 at roughly $42.51, near 8x earnings, and named its catalyst: the 2026 reorganization into three units, with a re-rate to 12-15x as the case. Monday's close sits +$16.56 / +38.9% above that quote. The re-rate arrived. The stated reason did not. Where the move came from: on July 15, privately held Stripe and private-equity firm Advent International made an unsolicited joint offer at $60.50 a share - more than $53B, backed by about $50B of committed bank financing. The stock went $47.37 to $55.52 in one session, +$8.15 / +17.2%. That one day is 49% of everything gained since June. The offer is still unsolicited and unaccepted: no formal response from PayPal, no signed merger agreement, no closing date. The thesis check, on the July 28 print for the June quarter. Total payment volume - the dollars moving through its systems - $486.4B, +10%; net revenue $8.68B, +5%. But transaction margin dollars, what PayPal keeps from each payment after the cost of moving it, rose 1% to $3.9B (+3% ex-interest on customer balances). GAAP EPS $1.25, -3% YoY; adjusted EPS - profit per share with some items stripped - $1.38 vs about $1.28 modeled, still -1% YoY. Volume grew ten times faster than the profit line the cheap-multiple argument rested on. The reorganization is real - announced April 29, live June 2 - and has not reached the profit line. So the multiple moved without the earnings: near 11x on roughly $5.38 of guided full-year adjusted EPS, up from ~8x in June and most of the way to the 12-15x that note wanted - delivered by a bidder. The tape carries the bid's shape too: $1.43 / 2.4% up to the offer, against $11.70 / 19.8% back to the $47.37 paid the day before the news. Len5 read, all six files opened this pass. Quality-Value carries PayPal, twenty-eighth on its ranked list - that style wants a durable franchise at a fair price, and 439M active accounts plus $6.0B of buybacks over twelve months is the durable half; a signed deal at $60.50 retires the question. The Deep-Value and Special-Situations file reads as of August 4 and does not carry it - an unsigned bid is an event you cannot underwrite; a definitive agreement with a close date changes that. Momentum, Growth, and Hypergrowth are no on one fact: mid-single-digit revenue with earnings down is neither a breakout nor growth at any price. Reaccelerating transaction margin moves it. Income is out on mechanics - no dividend, buyback only. One name rising says nothing about a way of reading the market - only about that name. The stock got its re-rate. The reorganization has not earned one, and only one of those two things can be taken back by a press release.

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  JasensCustoms.com - Panzer Fight Stick (@JasensCustoms) reported 2 minutes ago

  Well @PayPal it’s been 5 days for PP-L-857921601544 - and my account isn’t restored. It’s been over 60 for a fraudulent claim of no-refund when you can see I provided one - so I’ve effectively lost $600. If I can’t use my account to move money, I guess I can’t use it to make the payments on the working capital. Fix this.

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  Hasan Aboul Hasan (@hasan_ab_hasan) reported 4 minutes ago

  You're building an app with Claude Code. a button that places an order. Claude builds it, you test it, it works! then one day someone taps it and the spinner just spins... nothing. so they tap it again. the first tap actually worked, the answer just never made it back. and no, this isn't about one slow checkout. it's about what your app does when a request succeeds and nobody hears about it. it's anything where one tap changes something on your side: → a checkout or a payment → a signup that creates an account → a "send" on a message, an email, an invite → any write your retry code might run a second time reading is safe. ask for the same page twice, you get the same page. writing isn't. run the same create twice and you've got two rows, two orders, two emails. 🧾 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁. your code calls the API. the work goes through, the server starts writing the answer back... and your 10 second timeout fires first. your app sees an error. so does the user. but nothing got undone. the order is real, sitting in your database. nobody on your side knows it. so now three things want to try again: the user tapping the button, your retry logic, the browser resending the form. none of them know the first one landed. block 19 said only retry calls that are safe to run twice. this is how you make them safe. it has a name: 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆. long word, boring idea. an operation is idempotent when running it twice leaves things exactly the way running it once did. and if that sounds like an edge case, look at who already solved it. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗲 built the fix into their API. you send a header with the request, 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆-𝗞𝗲𝘆: 𝟰𝗳𝟬𝗰𝟵𝗯𝟮𝗲-..., and if Stripe sees that same key again it doesn't run the charge a second time. it hands you back the saved response from the first one, status code and all. the key is good for 𝟮𝟰 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨. 𝗔𝗱𝘆𝗲𝗻 uses the same header name. 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗣𝗮𝗹 calls it PayPal-Request-Id. 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗲 does the same when you create a payment. none of them built that for careful developers. they built it because they assume your request is going to show up twice. 🔑 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗱, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁 you do the same thing inside your own app. the client makes up one id when the user commits to the action, and sends that same id with every attempt. same id on the retry, same id when they tap again. your server keeps a short list of keys it has already handled, and the answer it gave back for each one. → a key it hasn't seen: do the work, save the key with the response. → a key it has seen: don't do the work. hand back the same response. so the second request never creates a second order. it merges into the first one and walks away with the original receipt. the thing people get wrong: generate that key once, up front, and reuse it. make a fresh one on every attempt and every attempt looks brand new to the server. you're right back where you started. Here's the part that matters if you build with AI. You don't have to write this code yourself. You just have to know idempotency exists, so you ask for it from day one. That's the real skill. Knowing the block is there to ask for. This is one block from the Vibe Engineering Blocks series I started recently. One post, one block. This is block number 27. This is the skill that matters today, and it's what separates dummy vibe coders from vibe engineers. And it's what lets you build real, scalable, production-ready apps with AI.

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  ☻Brun G.A.S.T.E.R☻ (@brunon20gab) reported 7 minutes ago

  @riddlebatANTI Omg that's genius!!! I can't use PayPal and stuff bc yk, minor, but hey I can do Robux no problem #signmeup! (#whenigetpayed...)

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  Bubble Puppy VT 🫧🐶 Tamagotchi Vtuber (@BubblePuppyVT) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Sinbadstardust This is so tragic!?! Is this a paypal issue? Are you in or out of the US, because there may be alternate routes to take!

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  Z Domainer (@ZDomainer) reported 14 minutes ago

  Hi how can I contact @PayPal support. I couldn't solve the problem through help center

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  DI (@DI_3) reported 15 minutes ago

  @clerpatriot Women have G’zintas and Men have G’zoutas. Problem solved! Send cash, checks, or money orders direct to me. I also accept PayPal, Mastercard and Visa.

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  Halima (@HalimaIfade) reported 22 minutes ago

  Hello @asda @Georgeatasda, I’ve been trying to check out my basket but I keep getting an error message saying there’s a problem with my payment details. I’ve tried three different payment methods, Apple Pay, my card and PayPal and I get the same error every time. I’ve also tried

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  Dut (@Dut83) reported 22 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay Had same problem. My item didn’t show up. I used PayPal for the purchase and they did all the heavy lifting once I knew it was a scam. They contacted the seller and got no response. Couple weeks later I had my funds back in my account.

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  conor!! (@playdeadpool) reported 25 minutes ago

  willing to go down to £950 + the paypal fee if anyone is still interested 🥹

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  Legit Sleeper (@legitsleeper) reported 30 minutes ago

  @The_SecretShow One problem Bryan made like $800m selling Braintree and Venmo to paypal... What have you done, anon?

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 31 minutes ago

  Bench shut down in December and customers lost access to their own books. Quillfox is the alternative: a 24/7 AI bookkeeping agent that watches bank, Stripe, and PayPal, chases invoices, flags duplicates, and closes a clean P&L each month. Live soon.

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  Yuyu 夢クズかわ ❤️‍🩹💉 2.0 DEBUT 8/15 (@YumeKuzukawa) reported 33 minutes ago

  @jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal they want to cut down cost and replace workers bc they are greedy and ofc to avoid accountability

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  saturn 💙BORDERLINE💙🗝 (@changkitopia) reported 35 minutes ago

  @nkm284 nyeeeee of courseeeee snjffffff error 😭😭😭 HAVE YOU THOUGHT ☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻🗣🗣🗣🗣🫂🫂🫂🫂 OKI I SEND ON PAYPAL🗣🗣☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻🫂🫂🫂

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  Draxx Artz (@art7draxx) reported 42 minutes ago

  PayPal is acting up for me; have they been having issues lately? although I think it might be my phone too

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  Jon Kirby (@JonKirby1974) reported 43 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay @PayPal are just as bad, absolute crooks, took my money paid a scammer then shut down my appeal case, supposed to have buyer protection, absolute joke!

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  Zain Aahil (@ZainAahil30172) reported 43 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  Compaytence | Your Payment Processing Team💰 (@Compaytence) reported 45 minutes ago

  PayPal's Braintree API went down for roughly two hours. Every merchant routing through it saw HTTP 500s. Checkout. Withdrawals. Venmo transfers. All at once. No second rail to switch to. Here's the part most sellers miss: An outage is the version you can't predict. The other version is deliberate. Stripe, PayPal and Shopify Payments approve you instantly and underwrite later. A volume spike or a chargeback cluster triggers a hold with no warning. Rolling reserve: 10 to 25% of revenue, locked for 90 to 180 days. Terminated instead of paused? MATCH can block approvals for five years. An outage costs you hours. A shutdown costs you months. To the customer, both look identical: your store isn't working. 97% of merchants over $500M run multiple acquirers. That isn't paranoia. That's the job. Full breakdown in the reply 👇

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  ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported 45 minutes ago

  open for transfer • not verify ewallet/bank balance transfer to verify (gcash, maya, grab pay, shopee, lazada) • gcash/maya with issue transfer balance (face recognition, authentication failed, can’t send/open) • paypal permanent limited withdrawal (need lagpas 180 days)

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  proxy for korea japan online & offline kpop anime (@wendyproxy) reported 48 minutes ago

  proxy 2026 CORTIS TOUR <PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN> BIRTHDAY PARTY POP-UP 📅 ~08/17 🛒proxy fee 5000 won ea 💳 wise and paypal only 📦domestic shipping and ww 📍korea offline #wendyproxy 양도 wts wtb

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  Warmaster (@MrAntiHero1) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Vicer0yal I am not seeing anything pop up at all in paypal or ko-fi so not sure what the issue is tbh. I appreciate it anyways though.

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  S 👑 EST.19XX ♊️ (@Simply_SunriseX) reported 49 minutes ago

  Down price $75 PayPal

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  proxy for korea japan online & offline kpop anime (@wendyproxy) reported 50 minutes ago

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  AlanZX (Commis PAUSE) (@AlanTheWolfXZ) reported 51 minutes ago

  Hey everyone, I’m going to have to put my commis on hold since PayPal and my bank are giving me some trouble. 🫠

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  Bell ݁ ˖Ი𐑼⋆ (@SweetieBellini) reported 54 minutes ago

  @jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal This is terrible. Every day it feels like PayPal gets so much scarier to use

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  Vex 🇷🇸 🧝🏼👨‍⚖️| Elf Judge Vtuber (@VexVextor124) reported 56 minutes ago

  @jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal Doubt. I am from Serbia. Before my only way of contact was Facebook and they shut it down. I cant call unless I want astronomic phone bills

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  𝒦 (@obeykeira) reported 60 minutes ago

  just cashed out on paypal—go fix the zero im looking at rn

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  jj (@Divopanel) reported 60 minutes ago

  @NamecheapCEO I lost $50.88; I’m going to open a PayPal dispute if they don't resolve the issue. I contacted support, but they didn't help—even though they charged $50.88 to my PayPal! All my sites are down! (Over 22 sites with Namecheap).