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 (44%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Franconville	Errors	1 day ago
Fréjus	Website Down	2 days ago
Feira de Santana	Errors	3 days ago
Berlin	Sign in	3 days ago
Palermo	Errors	4 days ago
Dole	Website Down	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  vvinterorange art ♦️ (@vvinterorange) reported 2 minutes ago

  @frantabul0sa so boosty and hypolink are my only way to sell something xD they are patreon-like and must accept bank cards soo i guess it could work?? as i know all artists in my country use them... but these platforms dont have a paypal payment option and that could be a problem... idk

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  Sagzee (@IAmSagzee) reported 2 minutes ago

  People think I was built to help people sell things they do not want anymore. That’s not why I survived. I survived because I solved a much stranger problem: how do you get two total strangers, who live thousands of kilometres apart and will never meet, to trust each other with their money? Before I launched on 3 September 1995 as AuctionWeb, buying something from a person in another country required institutional trust. You bought from a brand, a store, or a corporation. If an individual wanted to sell a used laser pointer to a stranger, the transaction usually died in the cradle. Why would the buyer send money first? Why would the seller ship the item first? So what did I actually invent? I didn't invent online auctions. I invented a cheap, self policing reputation system. By letting buyers and sellers rate each other after every transaction, I turned trust into a public score. Suddenly, misbehaving on a $10 transaction cost you the ability to make money on future transactions. The score became an asset. That single feedback loop lowered transaction costs so dramatically that a massive, latent global market for second hand goods instantly materialised. Does that mean I created a perfect market? No. I created an information game. Because I don't hold the inventory, I don't inspect the goods, and I don't ship the packages. I'm a protocol masquerading as a marketplace. I collect a fee on the listing and a fee on the final value, which means my profit margin is extraordinary, but my operational risk is shifted entirely onto the participants. When a seller lies about the condition of a collectible, or a buyer claims a box arrived empty, I'm forced to step in as a pseudo judicial system. But because human dispute resolution doesn't scale at the speed of software, I automated the justice system. Algorithms evaluate risk and freeze funds. That creates a distinct structural shift. To protect the buyer and keep the network growing, I eventually had to strip away the wild, unregulated peer to peer charm that made me famous. I forced sellers to accept standard return policies, integrated mandatory payment processors like PayPal, and favoured high volume commercial sellers over ordinary people clearing out their attics. So what am I now? I started as a digital flea market where people discovered rare items. I evolved into a friction free clearinghouse for global surplus goods, refurbished electronics, and commercial inventory. The very reputation score that made me possible eventually became a barrier to entry. New sellers can't easily compete with commercial entities that have 50,000 positive reviews, and small casual sellers get squeezed by automated fraud controls designed for high volume trade. I proved that humans are far more trustworthy than conventional economics assumed, provided you build a system that records their history. But to keep that trust operating across hundreds of millions of transactions, I had to replace the personal human connections with cold, automated oversight. In the end, I didn't just digitise the yard sale. I proved that if you give people a score, they'll build a global economy for you. I started as AuctionWeb. Today, I'm known as ebay. #eBay #eBaySeller #Reselling

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  Bill |-/ semi hiatus era (@hyxnbi) reported 11 minutes ago

  my new paypal account got blocked again omggggg what’s their problem

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  the don of hockey (@don_allain) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Watchdog_MP Here’s a compiled thread list of people named Singh (plus a few immediately adjacent names that appeared on the same boards) and the alleged offences as they were reported in this conversation. This is not an official police roster. Many are charges/allegations, some are convictions, a few were later acquitted or are victims. Duplicates across posts are merged. Drug importation / trucking (Blue Water Bridge & related) •Ranjit Singh — alleged ******* importation, Blue Water Bridge •Charanpreet Singh — convicted of importing 55 kg ******* + 5 kg ******; cut ankle monitor and fled before sentencing •Harinder Singh — charged with importing ******* / possession for trafficking, Blue Water Bridge •Ravinderbir Singh — charged over large ******* seizure; later acquitted •Ravinder Singh Dhanda — alleged U.S.–Canada *******/**** pipeline (Operation Hard Ball); fighting extradition •Gurtej Singh Smagh — same Hard Ball drug-smuggling indictment •Gurpreet Singh (multiple files in the thread) — alleged narcotics / Ryan Wedding network / later FBI wanted in Bhagwanpuria case Extortion / gang violence (Peel, Calgary, Edmonton) •Safaldeep Singh — alleged For Brothers extortion, firearms, drugs; conspiracy to commit murder warrants •Sandeep Singh — For Brothers-related drug/firearm charges •Germanjeet Singh — Calgary extortion series; wanted on firearms warrant •Jaskaran Singh — Calgary extortion / shooting-related charges •Karanbir Singh — Calgary extortion series •Amandeep Singh — Calgary extortion series •Anurag Singh — Calgary extortion series •Sandeep Singh (Calgary board) — attempted extortion charges •Akashdeep Singh — Calgary kidnapping/firearms-related charges •Gagandeep Singh — Calgary extortion series •Pardeep Singh — Calgary kidnapping/firearms-related charges •Taranveer Singh — Calgary kidnapping/firearms-related charges •Ravinder Singh (Surrey/Peel board) — Peel extortion gang •Dilawarpreet Singh — Peel extortion gang •Ajaydeep Singh — Peel extortion gang •Rajan Singh — Peel extortion gang •Jashanbir Singh — Peel extortion gang •Navroop Singh — Peel extortion gang •Mohinder Singh — Peel extortion gang •Mandeep Singh — Peel extortion / also appeared in separate Uber-assault post •Amritjot Singh — Peel extortion gang •Jashanpreet Singh — Peel extortion gang •Sukhwinder Singh — Peel extortion gang •Iqbal Singh Bhagria — Peel extortion gang •Sahibjot Singh — alleged Bishnoi links; deportation order •Karamveer Singh — alleged Bishnoi associate; held in immigration custody Firearms / street crime •Navjot Singh — loaded illegal handgun, Brampton traffic stop; Alberta warrant •Harkomal Singh — same Brampton firearms stop •Jobanpreet Singh — auto-theft toolkit charges; student visa / CBSA warrant •Atish Singh — auto theft, flight from police, assault with weapon •Harwinder Singh — alleged dating-app extortion / confinement / robbery, Brampton •Japinderjeet Singh — Red Deer fentanyl/******* trafficking charges •Ravinder Singh Gosal — same Red Deer drug file; wanted after missing court Fraud / other •Pawanjeet Singh Mann — alleged $4.3M mortgage/cheque fraud; former Brampton lawyer •Balwant Singh — alleged $180,000 elder gold/PayPal scam (New York) •Manjeet Singh — repeat theft case; deportation issues •Jagpreet Singh — convicted of murdering his wife (older case posted in-thread) •Jaskirat Singh Sidhu — Humboldt Broncos crash; dangerous driving causing death FBI / transnational wanted •Gurpreet Singh — FBI wanted, Jaggu Bhagwanpuria group (narcotics / racketeering) •Major Singh — FBI wanted, same Bhagwanpuria group •Amritpal Singh — FBI wanted (Dhanda-linked file in thread) •Harmanveer Singh — FBI wanted •Simranpal Singh — FBI fugitive, later arrested in Moncton •Satinderjeet Singh (Goldy Brar) — alleged Bishnoi lieutenant; U.S. charges including ordering Nijjar killing

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  ً (@hirakodaily) reported 15 minutes ago

  Hi everyone! unfortunately I’m going through some financial difficulties due to personal issues and am struggling to make ends meet. bc of this I’m reaching out to ask for your help. If you have some spare cash and would like to assist me, I’m leaving my PayPal and Pix details 👇

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  SOFTDRINKTV (@softdrinktv) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Stillmatic24 True I'll add that, have it run on my home server, MTX go straight to my PayPal

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  GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) reported 16 minutes ago

  @JKhrushche10538 @linuxuser1996 We already provided a clear solution for the bug recently introduced by PayPal above. If you don't tell us what isn't working then there's no way for us to directly help with it. We can only guess what you're trying to do and what's not set up properly to cause an issue.

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  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 20 minutes ago

  @shrugdeaIer URGENT!!! PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN. EVEN $1-2 ADDS UP!! WE ARE SO DESPERATE AND AT THE MERCY OF KIND GENEROUS PEOPLE! PLEASE HELP US GET SOME GOOD FOOD AND TOILETRIES! I haven't been able to work for about 2 years now due to sudden health complications needing surgery. This one illness has destroyed my husband and I financially. The injection I need isn't covered by my insurance and costs $500 month. Now my husband gets paid and after bills there like $100 left for food for 2 weeks. We have been living on cereal, cheap frozen pizzas and hot dogs. Sometimes I dont eat for a few days so the food lasts longer. If we could any donation to help out, We would be so thankful! Hopefully these gas and grocery prices go down and I get healthy enough to work again. I dont even know how much to ask for...$500 or $1000? Here is my PayPal QR code.

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  TheOriginalKhutso🇿🇦 (@OriginalKhutso5) reported 22 minutes ago

  @the_popemichael Is that Why Shoprite, PayPal, tiktok, etc had problems in Nigeria? They can't compete? Nigerians need to develop a sense of accountability

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  Richa K (@richakakw) reported 22 minutes ago

  Hi PayPal⁠ Support, I’m facing an issue with a payment on my PayPal UAE account and need assistance from your support team. Could someone please help me resolve this or guide me to the appropriate support staff? Thank you! @PayPal_Open @PayPal @AskPayPal

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  Aditya Warman (@warmanadit_) reported 27 minutes ago

  Night, Everyone!🚇 stable-2:native I've been digging into Stable's team and honestly? I'm conflicted. The CTO is Sam Kazemian who built Frax Finance to $1.4B. Huge credibility. Tether's CEO is advising. PayPal invested. But here's what nobody's talking about: the founder Joshua Harding quietly stepped down as CEO with zero public announcement. Brian Mehler took over silently. And apparently whales deposited USDT before the official window opened. That's insider-trading territory. They have a grant program but zero named dApps. I'm watching closely but not trusting blindly yet. Tag a friend who researches teams before investing.

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  Detarame (@Detarame247) reported 30 minutes ago

  @_ChokoMami In my case, I didn't even get to do comms, people barely so my stuff, and when I finally started to get more, I had to shut down the whole thing because PayPal doesn't work in my country anymore, I can never get money from the outside anymore.

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  Odogwu Herself (@IdaraImeh) reported 30 minutes ago

  Look at the timeline and something clicks. May 2025, Coinbase drops x402 so agents can pay per request. September 2025, Google launches AP2 with over 60 partners including Mastercard and PayPal. January 2026, ERC-8004 hits Ethereum mainnet, almost 39,000 agents register in 90 days. May 2026, @Concordium’s Agent Registry goes live. June 2026, Proof introduces x401 to handle identity proof. That's five major pieces of agent infrastructure landing across just over a year, and the gaps between them keep shrinking. Payment, identity proof, runtime management, persistent registry, verified human anchor, each one built by a different team without waiting for the others to finish first. Nobody planned one unified system. It's assembling itself in public, piece by piece, weeks apart instead of years apart. That pace alone tells you something about how seriously the industry is taking this problem right now.

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  AMOS BLACKFIRE (@amoblackfire) reported 32 minutes ago

  @GOAT72573384663 @PayPal I just requested for a refund but the issue is not yet resolved. Were you sorted?

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  Daniel Pacheco (@DanStrover) reported 34 minutes ago

  I can't create my account from Venezuela because I get an error when requesting the SMS; I've already tried with all the phone carriers. @AskPayPal

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  Unc (@UncSupply) reported 36 minutes ago

  @phantasyftw @phantasyftw I'll paypal you 20 bucks if you tell Joe someone's at the front door and go push the GREEN button on the server rack for us right now.

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  NoCreaturesWereHarmed (@NoCWereHarmed) reported 39 minutes ago

  Apparently PayPal was having some issues so I added stripe in the meantime. PayPal should be straightened out by Tuesday as they need those test deposits to clear in my new business account. You can buy via Stripe now.

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  Solemn Bhoi (@waseemm09) reported 40 minutes ago

  Hey @PayPal @AskPayPal @PayPal_Open plz Check Dispute: PP-R-RQN-642414527. You didn't solve after giving proffs & you just skip solution date 31 Aug. To 09 sep. Why bro? Plz solve the issue ASAP from your side.

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  ᴅɪᴠɪɴᴇ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ™️ ⟁ (@DivineThoughtTM) reported 41 minutes ago

  I'm in a real bad spot. I hate trauma dumping.. I've been taking care of elderly family member while I've been dealing with my own health issues. I can't seem to get ahead before another crisis. Any help is more than appreciated and sorry for putting this on your feed 🙏🏻 Venmo: @geekay1 I have a PayPal too

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  MarsSpittingBars (0/4) (@MarsRecitinBars) reported 45 minutes ago

  Question: If people who do commissions and use PayPal as a pay method, how do y'all die around the whole issue that came from it? Wasn't it closing it down ppls account cause if it?

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  TheOriginalKhutso🇿🇦 (@OriginalKhutso5) reported 46 minutes ago

  Nigerians don't have a sense of accountability and lack self introspection, Shoprite, PayPal, tiktok,etc had problems in Nigeria guess they couldn't compete according to them

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  Potat0 (@PoPaP0) reported 50 minutes ago

  RANT Why must PayPal hate new accounts. I just created a business account confirm if my account is good, costumer support said yes. Proceeds to hammer me with money stuck there for days. Doesn't even tell you what's the main problem. Man this sht sucks.

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  NDN Silver (@WingsNDNSilver) reported 51 minutes ago

  Cindy is out of the hospital and has wound-care treatment tomorrow. No idea yet on the medical bills, but thanks to y'all, she's down to needing $430 to repair her car: PayPal: @ cindysalazar435 Venmo: @ tiocindy42

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  Michael Klusman (@Candmremodeling) reported 51 minutes ago

  I bet he wishes he didn’t have to sell the ones he did. However I think he did that on purpose to drive the price down to buy more. Based on math the supply should be just about gobbled up. With what you can do with bitcoin it is clearly a utility and not going away. Who in there right mind would sell with all the major brokers now selling bitcoin ??? Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo, Venmo, PayPal Morgan Stanley it’s only a matter of time keep buying and stacking

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  Patrick ⚓️🇺🇸 (@lowtide1985) reported 51 minutes ago

  @stphnmaher It’s gonna be a little more involved than you think- If Canada’s goal is true technological independence from the United States, a Canadian sovereign cloud is only the first piece of an enormous puzzle: Canada would have to replace or become independent of Amazon/AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle for cloud; NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Marvell, Micron, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices and GlobalFoundries for processors, AI accelerators, memory, networking, communications and other semiconductors; Dell, HPE, Supermicro, IBM, Western Digital and Seagate for servers, storage and enterprise hardware; Cisco, Arista, Juniper/HPE, F5 and Ciena for networking and communications infrastructure; Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Oracle, Workday, Intuit and Broadcom/VMware for operating systems, productivity, mobile platforms, databases, CRM, ERP, virtualization and enterprise applications; Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Zscaler, Okta, Cloudflare, Cisco and Microsoft for cybersecurity, identity and internet protection; OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft and NVIDIA for frontier AI models, development platforms and AI infrastructure; GitHub/Microsoft, IBM/Red Hat, Docker, Datadog, Snowflake, MongoDB, Confluent, Elastic and HashiCorp/IBM for software development, containers, databases, data management and infrastructure automation; Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe, Apple and Google for major payment and digital-wallet infrastructure; Apple, Google and Qualcomm for smartphones and mobile ecosystems; Akamai and Cloudflare for content delivery and internet infrastructure; and, critically, Cadence and Synopsys for semiconductor-design software plus Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA for the equipment needed to manufacture advanced chips. Even that doesn’t completely solve the problem, because Canadian, European, Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean products frequently incorporate American chips, software, patents, design tools or manufacturing equipment somewhere in their supply chains.

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 55 minutes ago

  @m4xlesbian they're trying to shut down the donations system (attempting to report to paypal and other portals that AO3 accepts donations from about the "depraved works" hosted by the website)

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  kittybangz (@kittybangbang9) reported 56 minutes ago

  My truck finally broke down. The radiator blew. Obviously with the heater core leak etc. it was too much on it. I really really need help. I can’t work. I’m so scared. PayPal: @ kirabanger

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  Scott Wolf (@TheReal_OAG) reported 57 minutes ago

  @PayPal having trouble getting help from customer service with my pending refund? Help please!

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  紅葉MOMICHI 🔜VeXpo (@momichiword) reported 58 minutes ago

  @cloverclubcos If it’s not too much trouble!!! I’d really appreciate it if you could help me with this. I can pay for the item and shipping via PayPal, and I also have a forwarding warehouse that can ship it to Taiwan for me, which should be a little cheaper than shipping it directly🥹

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  sham ISO HARRYWEEN N2 PIT (@suffering_sam) reported 60 minutes ago

  down to ft and pay extra w paypal g&s! not selling!