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 (40%)
• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Arumpo	Sign in	11 hours ago
Sydney	Sign in	2 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	2 days ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Sign in	3 days ago
Ciudad Jardín	Errors	4 days ago
Paris	Sign in	5 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mission Yak 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇬🇪 🇹🇼🇩🇪🇯🇵 🇬🇧 (@MissionYak) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Rootdar This fake PayPal address scammer issue is a problem for everyone. But your PP address is one of the easiest ones to remember and to get right! 🙏 On a separate subject, I think my grandmother story and reposts got in this morning ahead of the end of the contest.

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  Raiku 🐉 (@raikucom) reported 3 minutes ago

  Eddie Mitchell from @StablecoinNewss said something on Friday's Solana Circuit that's worth thinking about. We may end up in a world where payment providers look like fiat on the front, but the back end is all stablecoins. Invisible infrastructure. No consumer ever knows it's there. That's not a speculative future. Western Union is building one. PayPal already launched one. Banks that spent a decade saying this was a fad are now watching Circle step into European markets they vacated. The question isn't whether stablecoins are going to settle the next generation of institutional transactions. They are. The question is what infrastructure underneath them can actually guarantee those transactions land. That's the engineering problem that still hasn't been solved.

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  Eliana (@eliana_jordan) reported 4 minutes ago

  @kwawmannanjnr i paid with my paypal balance... that's the problem

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  Dani. (@Danizeh) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Jason______A @PayPal @AskPayPal Avoid apps like PayPal and Revolut at all times I've had so many problems with both, they'll lock your account, have you contact some DEI hire that knows nothing, and your money will just be gone.

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  Benson Lewis (@drbnet) reported 10 minutes ago

  @roboticjoey $1500 to fix my PayPal overdraft… bad decision that got worse in short time…

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  🌿Scylla 🌿 (@ShadowsOfADay) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Massi_m00 Payment via PayPal is still not working on my end but I'll place my order as soon as it does! So excited for these!! 🥹 So pretty

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  Purvi Mehta (@mehtapurvi264) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Coinvo @PayPal without any error from my side since ages am unable to sign in to my account at all

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  JET ⚡️ (@EliteOGz) reported 16 minutes ago

  The Architecture That Compounds The market has a short memory for narratives and a long memory for settlement. Eighteen months of watching the same failures repeat across Web3 taught a single durable lesson: value accrues to the systems that close the loop between attention, activity, and ownership. Everything else is theater that eventually runs out of audience. Blaqclouds did not invent the problem of fragmented liquidity, experimental settlement, or the stubborn refusal of the real world to treat on-chain tokens as spendable money. They simply refused the fashionable answers. Where others extracted, they engineered. Where others branded, they wired. Where others waited for the next cycle’s liquidity wave, they built the rails that make the next cycle less necessary. The Four Pillars are no longer a framework. They are an operating system already running. The Architect does not merely govern. It decides who is allowed to participate and under what constraints. FINCEN-registered MSB status is not a badge; it is the permission structure that lets the rest of the stack touch regulated rails without apology. Identity is no longer an afterthought bolted onto a DEX. It is the first condition of entry. In a world still haunted by anonymous extraction and wash-volume theater, that discipline is radical. The Force does not speculate. It supplies. ZEUS exists to move capital at scale—liquidity pools, execution, cross-chain velocity—without claiming the right to define truth or compliance. Power without finality is noise. ZEUS provides the power and then steps back. The Arbiter is the quiet radical. Settlement that is final, wallets that are usable, explorers that record what actually happened rather than what a marketing deck claimed. Apollo does not ask the market to believe. It shows the ledger. When tokens become spendable value through ApolloCASH—routing into the same networks people already trust: PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle—the philosophical debate ends. The money moved. The claim settled. The loop closed. The Conduit is the payoff. BLAQpay, ShopWithCrypto, the merchant rails, the gift-card conversion, the remittance paths. This is where the architecture stops being elegant theory and starts being commerce. Tokens stop being lottery tickets and start being inventory, payroll, rent, groceries. The conversion from speculative asset to functional money is no longer a whitepaper promise. It is product. What makes this architecture durable is not any single application. It is the refusal to let any of them float free of the others. ApolloNFT is not an isolated marketplace. It sits on the same identity, liquidity, settlement, and commerce rails. theAlley is not another social feed. It is a surface where attention can become volume, volume can become fees, and fees can flow back into the systems that generated them. The balance sheet that was cleaned, the non-core assets that were spun or packaged, the insistence that every new initiative clear the Four Pillars test—these are not operational footnotes. They are the difference between a temporary operator of narrative and an owner of infrastructure. Provenance still matters. Infrastructure built to interoperate with legacy finance does not need the world to convert overnight. It only needs the world to keep using the bridges. Each successful remittance, each gift-card purchase, each merchant settlement is another quiet proof that the casino model was never the only option. The market has seen enough simultaneous exit-liquidity events to recognize the alternative when it appears. The broader lesson is no longer theoretical. Tokens that extract more than they return remain excellent short-term business for the launcher and usually poor long-term holdings for everyone else. Brand without economic linkage remains expensive theater. Compliance, identity, and real-world settlement are not optional extras; they are the difference between a temporary narrative and durable infrastructure. Blaqclouds has spent its recent years acting like an owner rather than a temporary operator. The Four Pillars are the clearest public expression of that posture. The architecture is already visible. The loop is already closing. Whether the market ultimately prices that correctly remains a separate question—one that history tends to answer with more accuracy than any single cycle’s narrative. The next chapter is not about launching another token. It is about watching what happens when the plumbing works. More soon.

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  Geoff (@Geoff777111) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Saikoub223 Hey listen I'm kind of in a state where it's hard to explain. My body my brain is slowly dying and I feel like it comes off as I'm being a flake. I'm asking my son for pictures of why he's having a problem sending it and I'm just going to get on I have to go take at the sell something in the morning to get a tire and I'll use the rest of the money to put in my bank and I'll just open a PayPal account myself but that's not your worry I'll send you what problem he says he's having as soon as he sends me a picture of it I keep asking him he laughed already

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  sev (@d1zko) reported 21 minutes ago

  @paccanuqq Im a little Worried cuz people say their paypal accounts get like limited or theres an issue with like business licenses relating to that

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  Ifiok Ambrose (@ifiokambrosee) reported 23 minutes ago

  @bernarditoro_ You can fix product perception by building a product to global standards. Why should I target Nigerians for a SaaS aimed at solving a global problem when I can use Flutterwave for USD checkout or recurring plans? It even has a Pay with PayPal feature bro.

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  Herebus 💧 (@Herebus_) reported 25 minutes ago

  @MTBbronco @J0hnADouglas @Adobe Same issue with Amazon, clicked cancel multiple times, but I had the payment through paypal, which could easily be cancelled.

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  Denise Wildfortune (@Wildfortune1) reported 26 minutes ago

  @J0hnADouglas @Adobe I had a problem with Avast. I successfully canceled the previous year, only to be billed the following year. Then I discovered that PayPal has a tab for sites allowed to use auto-renewal. I deleted Avast and many others. Now all my subscriptions are via PayPal.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 27 minutes ago

  Freelancers are losing weekends to a spreadsheet, a shoebox, and a prayer. Built Tallyward to fix that. A 24/7 autonomous bookkeeping agent that categorizes transactions, chases overdue invoices, and reconciles Stripe, PayPal, and marketplace payouts — then drops a clean P&L in

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  Rictology (@rictology) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care I am having an issue withdrawing funds from paypal to mpesa, kindly assist

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  .✦ ݁˖ (@nerosluver) reported 29 minutes ago

  @oujoriku @TheNeroGuy He emailed saying he’d give me my refund than proceed to say he was having trouble and asked for my PayPal to help with the refund I have yet to get it 💀💀 he doesn’t know what he’s doing

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  PW (@PenfoldWay) reported 33 minutes ago

  @godd3s_tx You wanna reply on instagram or am i gonna report a problem to paypal and ill make this a problem all over your x account

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  Derrick Jones (@deuceohsixx) reported 34 minutes ago

  @kurlyshark @PayPal You couldn’t be an Uber Eats or DoorDash driver. Both apps make you scan your face most times to sign in to deliver.

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  Moyrith (@moyrith) reported 35 minutes ago

  @DeVeyrn yeah, i’ve already seen around 100 people reach checkout and leave without buying. maybe PayPal isn't the only problem here

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  cassie 𓆩♡𓆪 ❥⋆ ˚｡⋆୨🪽୧˚ (@casmel0dy) reported 36 minutes ago

  $honeykuromi honeykuromi casbebe cashapp paypal chime donate to me for my health issues.

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  Marie Devine (@MarieKDevine44) reported 37 minutes ago

  @ElonMinnovateUS A. Yes, but I am being scammed by a person claiming His voice, his Telegram handle 《CEO EL●N MUSK》, and helped me "buy bitcoin" through Cash App sent to tesl-invhub .çom and can't draw out. tried to get new sign in password to PayPal, etc., coinbank withdrew $650 my bank w/c

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  DJ (@RedrumCashew2) reported 41 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk Has anyone had issues paying with PayPal?

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  Zoom Nguyen (@cecilezoom) reported 41 minutes ago

  @SF9KINGS_ I got an error message from Paypal when trying to make a donation.

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  Eliana (@eliana_jordan) reported 42 minutes ago

  I took my first real vacation after 2 years as an indie hacker. And somehow my vacation turned into a full-time job of filing complaints and chasing refunds: • Delayed + damaged luggage • A liveaboard trip in Egypt that turned into a complete disaster (will share soon) • Paypal disputes that keep getting closed by bots • Customer support bots that refuse to let me talk to a human • Hours spent explaining the same problems over and over The worst part isn’t even the money. It’s the energy this takes away from building my business. Some people would tell me to just give up and move on. but it’s a significant amount of money, and more importantly, it’s mine. I don’t think customers should have to accept terrible service just because companies make it exhausting to complain. Sometimes you have to fight for what’s yours. Now working late trying to sort everything out and keep my apps running. At least I got a brand new villa in Bali and yesterday my new landlady brought me the best nasi goreng

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  Felix (@Felix120196) reported 46 minutes ago

  @DaisyBratty Handing over PayPal login and cc details

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  lucas150670 (@lucas150670) reported 47 minutes ago

  Hello! The restriction on my PayPal account has been removed. Due to this issue, the order deadline has been extended to August 20, 11:59 PM (UTC+8 / 8:59 AM PDT / 11:59 AM EDT). Since PayPal withdrawals require a 21-day wait, if you can help ease the financial pressure, you may continue to choose Alipay for payment. Thank you for your patience!

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  Infaris || Cyber Demon VTuber (@InfarisVelsina) reported 49 minutes ago

  @MaximiliankotWA @PayPal @AskPayPal This accounts been in good standing for YEARS they say my info was linked to an account with unresolved issues but like I don’t recall leaving any bad standing just made a new one ages ago. If this was an issue why not bring this up before Or let me resolve it to unlock this one?

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  Hinako (@Hinakopm) reported 52 minutes ago

  @LooongJooohnson @PayPal Isn't this a solution for those who want to travel to China but are struggling with payment issues? If that's your thinking, can I say that the US started using WeChat to curry favor with China?

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  Jeff Rainforth (@liberty_clarion) reported 57 minutes ago

  🚨SCAM ALERT! Scammers hacked my cousin's account & others. Facebook & other social media accounts are being HACKED, and scammers are posting stuff like their uncle is moving to a rest home and doing liquidation sales with items priced super cheap. DON'T BUY IT!!! Do not send money! Scammers will ask for down payments via Cash App, Venmo, PayPal, and Zelle. One of my cousin's friends did it & just lost $2000. I thought it was real, and so did my dad, and we almost sent down payments for vehicles priced very low. There were several red flags, so I started doing some checking. Sure enough, it's a common scam. People aren't careful with their Facebook or other social media account passwords, or they get phished, and their accounts get hacked; scammers then post whatever they want to get money from the hacked person's family and friends. When a person from a hacked FB page contacts you via Messenger, report the message and use the "Other" selection and choose "Hacked." I did it, and Facebook just took down my cousin's account. Be aware. This is happening RIGHT NOW. That's it! Have a great week and beware of scammers! If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!!! 💯💯💯🚨🚨🚨

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  Astroheo (@Astroheo) reported 59 minutes ago

  Peter Thiel co-founded a company for $10,000. Four years later, eBay bought it for $1.5 billion. He says almost none of that came from doing what everyone else was already doing. Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir. In a Chicago Ideas talk called Going from Zero to One, he laid out the framework from his bestselling book — and it cuts against almost everything startup culture teaches. There are two ways to grow, he says. Horizontal — copying what already works, 1 to n. Vertical — doing something that's never existed, 0 to 1. Globalization is the first kind. Technology is the second. Here's the part that should bother you. Thiel says competition is not the opposite of capitalism. It's the enemy of it. A business making zero economic profit in a competitive market can't invest in R&D, can't pay employees well, can't plan more than a quarter ahead. Monopoly — not competition — is what generates the profit that funds the next leap forward. Google's search share has sat above 90% for years. Its margins have stayed enormous the entire time. That's not an accident of scale. That's the entire model. Most founders won't say the word "monopoly" out loud. Thiel says that's the tell. The ones who deny they have one usually don't — they're marketing themselves for antitrust lawyers, not customers. Then the line that separates his framework from every generic pitch-deck slide. "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Not a hot take. Not contrarianism for its own sake. A truth that's actually true, that the market hasn't priced in yet. He says most founders can describe their business plan. Almost none of them can answer that question. If they can't, they're building a 1-to-n company — competing in a crowded field, racing margins to zero. PayPal in 1999 wasn't fighting banks head-on. It found a tiny, underserved niche — internet-native micropayments — dominated it completely, then expanded outward. Thiel calls this "start with a monopoly in a small market." Not because small is safe. Because ********** is the whole point, and ********** only happens at a scale you can actually control first. Save this one. Every "best practice" in business was built by someone who broke one first — and never wrote down how.