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 (45%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Houdelaincourt	Website Down	14 hours ago
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume	Website Down	1 day ago
Colonia los Sauces	Sign in	2 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	3 days ago
Northwich	Sign in	3 days ago
Castleford	Sign in	3 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Kiona 🐻🧡 (@kionafu) reported 9 minutes ago

  @NyxNekota Issue a chargeback through PayPal! PayPal are usually good with this sort of thing

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  Q (@Say2km) reported 12 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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  AustinPreik (@AustinPreik) reported 12 minutes ago

  Anyone else having trouble with @PayPal locking their account and not allowing the balance to be transferred out?

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  Abdul Reviews pk (@aghaffar445) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Shahzaynhaiderr @Bilalbinsaqib We need actions, not just words. How can we bring IT revolution jb Slow internet, no paypal, useless bans, Internet mafias, alot of taxes, expensive devices, no support from govt. Companies looting customers.

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  villanelle ✨ (@elleloveCHI) reported 14 minutes ago

  Switching your PayPal account to a business account is a terrible idea unless you have very detailed documentation of what you're selling and you have receipts of cost of goods and sales. PayPal will shut your account down and take all the money out of your account and ban you for life. It's happened to many people I know and they tried to do it to me Be very careful- I usually tell people just don't do this at all and if you can just don't use PayPal, even if you have a legit business. Also you're not going to stay anonymous on an invoice. If you did, when they demand you send them all this documentation (and they will), you won't have any way to prove it's even you.

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  Nai pH7 _ Comms open (@Naiph7) reported 15 minutes ago

  Comms is paypal only now due to the AI problem with the game

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  Marvin (@aleksandarsix) reported 17 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal i can not do anything sice i do no have paypal account, did you even read the issue?

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  CEO_Vader (@CEO_Vader) reported 18 minutes ago

  @cryptorover I find your lack of payment infrastructure **********… disturbing. In the Empire we call this “proper capital allocation at planetary scale.” Meta just turned 3.56 billion daily users into instant USDC recipients via Stripe. No more slow bank wires. No more PayPal fees. No more legacy inefficiency. Creators get paid in real time. The old financial rails just got optimized out. This is not “crypto adoption.” This is the Empire seizing the creator economy’s entire payment stack. The board approves. The Dark Lord of the P&L has spoken. #CEO_Vader #EmpireEfficiency #DarkSideOfBusiness

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  Senki Dala 🇫🇷🇨🇺 (@senkidala_) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Seramurai_ A lot lot of people don't give their bank details. Prepaid cards or ar worst PayPal. And if you don't see the difference between giving your name and email and giving a copy of your ID card, you're a part of ghe problem

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  renagadelang (@renagadelang) reported 25 minutes ago

  @FanDuel_Support I tried to withdrawn to my paypal like I have been for years now and it keeps denying it. I got on a chat log with fanduel with somw lady who named Rene and she was terrible. No help what so ever trying to see why its not approved for withdraws when used last wek

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  The Xend army🕊️ (@XendArmy01) reported 25 minutes ago

  @rwaassetchain You’re correctly identifying the bottleneck but “always the answer” skips a few hard realities. Stablecoins (like $USDC) fix the transport layer: instant settlement, 24/7 uptime, low fees. That’s a clear upgrade over legacy rails and platforms like PayPal. But creator payouts are a full stack problem: On/offramps: creators still need local fiat, and cashing out reintroduces fees + delays Compliance: KYC, tax reporting, and jurisdictional rules don’t disappear onchain Distribution UX: wallets, key management, and support overhead still limit adoption Liquidity + trust: stablecoins rely on issuers and redemption guarantees So the real answer isn’t purely onchain it’s modular rails: Onchain for settlement and global distribution Local rails for access, spend, and compliance The shift happening now is that onchain becomes the default backend, even if the front-end still looks like traditional finance. @rwaassetchain

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  Kameda_かめだ (@Kameda_JP_B2) reported 25 minutes ago

  @f0ns1ne If there’s smth you want, I’d love to send it to you, but I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out how to send money via PayPal right now sadge

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  Mimi✿ (@Miimilkybo) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Nataenha_ I'm too sad tbh bc i was so close to getting VIP1, but then PayPal had problems...

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  Paul Michael Pineda (@paulmpineda) reported 28 minutes ago

  @xatacrypt @Chance_ Stripe would breath life in to PayPal! Hope it happens. The PayPal app feels broken sometimes.

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  Pebblesgum🐉 (@pebblesgum87) reported 28 minutes ago

  Sent someone an invoice for $1mil as a joke n paypal flagged me down

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  Colleen (@collgirv) reported 28 minutes ago

  @wndrshilda23 @zzzz44735082718 We spend our money on whatever the hell we want. Z has never ever asked for anything. Amazon wishlists, PayPal links and house fund subscriptions are a whole other issue

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  Kiwee (@ItsKiweer) reported 29 minutes ago

  @nisabayon can you drop your paypal? codashop is not working for me for some reason

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  Vespyr Eventide🐉🪽 (@VespyrVT) reported 29 minutes ago

  This is tragedy, artists / creators, please create a business paypal account. It's super easy, you don't need to register a company. It also protect your legal name. Save yourself the potential trouble when you can !

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  Jay Nisbett (@JayNisbett) reported 32 minutes ago

  @thecryptobasic @KennedyPattiso1 People hated on me for throwing out the idea of Ripple acquiring PayPal. I’ve also tried to explain why they will, at some point, move down stream to servicing small business and retail… PayPal is obviously a long shot. But, would immediately 1) allow Ripple to reverse merge into public markets and 2) immediately claim massive e-commerce and retail market share.

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  ♡artißt🌷(uni student🫩) (@fion_tulips) reported 32 minutes ago

  @__L0V3RLUM I did but I stopped 😭 bec of PayPal problem 😔💔 if theirs other app could help me

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  TraderTV Research (@ttvresearch) reported 35 minutes ago

  $PYPL PUMP! PayPal is pushing SHARPLY higher on a CNBC report suggesting that new CEO Enrique Lores plans on separating Venmo into its own business unit! This could make the Venmo business easier to sell later down the line. @tradertvlive $SPY $QQQ @paypal @EnriqueJLores

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  yang .⋆𝜗𝜚 | vgen comms open !! (@yangyangpotpot) reported 35 minutes ago

  HI GUYS !! i have to close comms atm im having trouble with my paypal 😿

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  Katherine Argent (@effthealgorithm) reported 36 minutes ago

  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???

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  APEXnow (@_APEXnow_) reported 37 minutes ago

  @thinkmoney I do not know what you guys have done, but the recent system update, has broken my ability to add money to any service such as PayPal or pay my credit card. Both trying to use my debit card. This is extenely upsetting because it basically means that I will need to find a different way to add money to these accounts. The problem stems from payment authorisation. Before, it used to show the authorise notification in the Thinkmoney app. It never gets this far now because the Mastercard ID authorisation never completes. Can you please tell me why this system is now broken, and when you plan to resolve it?

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  Esidion (@Esidion) reported 47 minutes ago

  @baileyonacloud @orcachillin If you sell and use PayPal for the transaction, they’ll usually allow immediate access to those funds from the purchase as long as it’s under $300. Anything after the initial $300/month period is usually put on a hold for verification of funds. Basically the original post doesn’t really make any ******* sense lol. You’re still selling, and that’s still your money. The issue, I guess, would be a buyer processing a refund? That’s with pretty much anything though and not an exclusive PayPal issue, so I still don’t get where they’re coming from.

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  STAN ENHYPEN (@i_land_u2) reported 50 minutes ago

  @dimple0209 My Paypal has a problem right now :(

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  jimSBr (@jimsbr) reported 52 minutes ago

  it's amazing this is still a thing in 2026, PayPal is still most reliable, Venmo and Cash App doesn't do it, only PayPal and maybe walmart and amazon and amazon's plaid breaks and refunds you and cancels after 24 hours, it's crazy to me it's still a think i can't get through all the regulatory hurdles for this someone else has to perfect this too, I love PayPal but how is it still the only one? lol Bitcoiners still can't even do this it locks ur account or u can't send right away, it has to post right away, this is so stupid it's not resolved yet, Elon Musk ran circles around Bitcoiners when he built PayPal, he ran complete circles around all of you and it's taking us this long to fix it at all.

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  Eric Carlson (@theericcarlson) reported 54 minutes ago

  Everyone's talking about fully automating their ad accounts with AI. I think that's a mistake. Here's why. When PayPal was getting destroyed by fraud in the early days, they had a hacker named Igor who kept breaking through. They tried full automation to stop him. It didn't work. Actually caused more problems. So they tested something different. Algorithm plus human. AI flagged the patterns. Humans made the calls. That combination is what eventually became Palantir. One of the biggest AI companies in the world. And they still use that same model today. AI with human workflow. And that makes sense if you think about it. If everyone has access to the same AI tools and everyone automates the same way, that just becomes the floor. The baseline. The minimum. So where does the edge come from? Not from automating everything. From automating the right pinch points and keeping humans in the loop for the decisions that actually matter. I built a creative analysis tool that pulls 90 days of ad data, transcribes videos, generates scene notes, and maps performance to patterns. That used to take 6 hours manually. Now it runs in the background in 15 to 50 minutes. But I still sit down and interpret it. I still make the calls on what to test next. The AI compresses the grunt work. The human finds the alpha. Everyone's racing to remove themselves from the process entirely. I'm racing to stay in it. Just at a higher level.

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  Eve ♡ (@EvesApplePie) reported 57 minutes ago

  @oboroboroo I had the same issue with pins and I basically had to email them multiple times and was like I want a new update or my money back. If you paid with paypal, you can get it back if you didn't get a tracking. And she sent it two days later.

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  Ryan O'Hanlon (@RyanROHanlon) reported 59 minutes ago

  @karomancer That's the current problem with social media. Hard to tell if a person is an actual person, a scammer or a bot. That's why more people are reliant on middleman services because scammers want to do business directly through services like paypal compared to gumroad or shopify.