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 (42%)
• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (21%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Kirchberg	Sign in	2 hours ago
Nantes	Errors	8 hours ago
Vícar	Errors	8 hours ago
Étauliers	Errors	10 hours ago
Onnion	Website Down	17 hours ago
Thurins	Sign in	2 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  P0kasokas (@p0kasokas) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Lizbattler2 LOL yeah unfortunately the way the scam works is they send you a fake check, and by the time its processed and you realize its fake you’ve already sent a “refund.” The reason for sending a check? their venmo, paypal, and cashapp were all conveniently not working today 🙃

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  Delores S (@SwansonDel3782) reported 11 minutes ago

  WTS FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 TICKETS I’m selling my tickets for spain 🇪🇸 VS Argentina 🇦🇷 final 2026 World Cup match for July 18 . I could not make it due to error on my flight schedule. I accept PayPal goods and services Kindly message if you’re interested

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  Andrenya (@eglcat) reported 13 minutes ago

  @dreamy_melo Ive heard of some issue paypal has with people getting money if the mote os like commissions or smt ive heard

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  Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) reported 15 minutes ago

  Whitney Webb just exposed the real reason why Palantir was created: To privatize mass surveillance. “This is admitted in mainstream media.” “So don’t tell me this is a conspiracy theory.” “Alex Karp admitted that the CIA was always the intended client of Palantir.” Webb and Mark Goodwin just broke down the truth about Palantir’s origins: After 9/11, DARPA launched the Information Awareness Office to develop a government mass surveillance apparatus. Reagan-era National Security Advisor John Poindexter led the new IAO. After massive public scrutiny and backlash, Congress defunded it. But the program never really shut down. It was moved into the private sector with the help of Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. Webb: “Peter Thiel comes, fresh off of selling PayPal … he’s got all this money, and he’s like: I’m gonna make this company called Palantir.” “Palantir … had really started off as the anti-fraud algorithm at PayPal.” “When PayPal was being created, Max Levchin sort of gave it away.” Goodwin revealed that Max Levchin essentially admitted in an interview at the time: “When I was developing all the anti-fraud stuff at PayPal, I was working with every three and four letter agency that I could.” “Meaning the CIA, and the DOD, and DARPA.” “They form PayPal in the late ‘90s.” “They make a bunch of money, and it’s Thiel and Levchin, admittedly working with the CIA and NSA, while developing this anti-fraud stuff.” “He takes that anti-fraud algorithm, which was built with the CIA in the private sector, and then rebrands it as Palantir.” Webb: “As they’re setting it up, they go through Richard Perle, who was involved with the Bush-era Department of Defense, and I believe the Office of Special Plans.” “He’s approached by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp.” “They’re basically like: we want to talk to John Poindexter, because what he was trying to do is what we want to do.” “They go and meet with Poindexter, who becomes named basically the godfather of modern surveillance because of this.” “He advises them on how to create Palantir.” “And then Palantir gets in bed pretty much right away with the CIA.” “They were their first and only client for their first six years.” @_whitneywebb @markgoodw_in

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  ᴋ🩵 (@mrskennedyxo) reported 17 minutes ago

  Where do people get the confidence to add paypal or a throne? I want to do some stupid **** like that but I’m scared someone will actually send me money that they got illegally and I’ll be in big trouble😭

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  MHINBRON (@colorgravemhin) reported 18 minutes ago

  ✨Be a gamer✨ Join a dev server to demand rebindable controls because your S key is broken. "Use arrows." No I won't enjoy that. "I'll Paypal you money for a new keyboard." No it's OK. Money is tight and I won't enjoy it anyway. I'll just refund.

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  Mo Shaikh 🇺🇸 (@Moshaikh) reported 20 minutes ago

  @neilhar more sophisticated version of PayPal since it’s Musk ;) More social than Venmo Can easily go to 24 seven and incorporate stable coins and self custodial wallets if people actually want it. Most folks just want to be able to move money easily and actually don’t want to have to worry about custodial. People on the Hill saying that self custodial is an elegant solution designed for avoiding regulation- rather than actually solving a problem

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  Am BAD00 Ltd. CMS. (@Bad_Kushiro00) reported 20 minutes ago

  I can't receive payment from my sales on acggoods due to PayPal Thailand's terrible service. Therefore, I have to wait until my sales reach $500 before I can meet the payment requirement via Ko-Fi from acggoods. 🫠🫠🫠🫠 Please help me buy a new PC and a new bed. 🦐🦐🦐🦐

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  JoMama (@JoMamaHoeppner) reported 21 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Your AI Assistant is worthless. How about providing a phone number for a real person that has the ability to understand the issue?

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  Wahome Thuku (@wahome_thuku) reported 24 minutes ago

  @SafaricomPLC I am on call with paypal and they say you sre the problem its you refunding the money

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  American ExPat (@Imported_Fun) reported 24 minutes ago

  @DrewPavlou He's totally right.... Musk employs 150,000 people at an average salary of $125k. He made 4,400 new employee-millionaires with his SpaceX IPO. We could have avoided all of that if we had just had taken all his PayPal money away and plunked it all down on the EBT cards of the Somalis.

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  marqix ☆ (@fwmarqix) reported 24 minutes ago

  My son confessed to me that he's been catfishing his boss for the past eight months, and the whole thing has spiraled completely out of control. According to him, his boss is an awful manager that everyone at work hates. Hoping to expose him, my son created a fake Instagram account posing as an attractive woman, believing it wouldn't take much to get his boss to say something that could get him fired. It worked almost immediately. For months, his boss messaged the fake account constantly. He complained about work, trashed his wife, and revealed what my son described as his true personality. Everything seemed to be going according to plan until last month, when the fake woman mentioned she was struggling financially. Without hesitation, his boss sent her $5,000. A week later, he sent another $3,000. By now, my son says the total has reached $12,000. The situation became even worse when my son discovered that the money wasn't coming from his boss's personal funds. After seeing company expense reports, he realized his boss had allegedly been disguising the payments as "consulting fees," effectively embezzling money from the company to send to someone who doesn't even exist. Now my son is trapped in a mess of his own making. If he reports his boss, he'll have to admit that he was the person behind the fake Instagram account, which could land him in serious legal or professional trouble. If he stays quiet, his boss continues stealing from the company unchecked. To make matters worse, my son says the money is sitting in a PayPal account linked to the fake identity. He can't access or return it without exposing himself, and he feels guilty because, even though his original goal was to expose a terrible boss, he believes he's now played a role in taking $12,000. What started as an attempt to play vigilante has turned into a complicated situation with legal, ethical, and professional consequences that he never saw coming.

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  Lux/Second Paul/Seed of the Morning Star (@winnethsouls) reported 25 minutes ago

  If anyone can, right now I'm not receiving my disability check but hoping for it to be approved before August, this won't be an issue anymore asking for help But right now I need to replace some shoes. Found a pair slightly under $33 PayPal luxord89 C@sh App $lovesvictory

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  Tidal Lion (@TidalWavesLion) reported 29 minutes ago

  Autoclosed by support, and now you're giving me warnings for asking PayPal to assist? I'm willing to close the case with PayPal but please, refund the unordered server boosts. This is unreasonable at this point.

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  gee 🍁 | hualian fic 📌 comms open! (@tappithais) reported 30 minutes ago

  oh deary me paypal decided to be a little funny so i have to fix payment methods but because it's already late i'll just do it tomorrow ;; i cant seem to catch a break you guys :(

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  Jav (@dapzsz) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Onlgig My guy couldn't remove his money Paypal issues

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  𝐂𝐇𝐘𝐍𝐄 (@realchyne) reported 39 minutes ago

  ~ Account just got de-activated in the middle of tasking.... ~ UK accounts suspended ~ Had issues with previous payment method as @airtminc has refused to verify clients details (got last weeks payout on pending till now) so we decided to change Payment method to PayPal for this week payment not to get stuck, only for outlier to deactivate the account even after the client verified. boyyy, it's tuff...

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  ThanksForTheMemeries (@The_Memeries) reported 40 minutes ago

  @LibertarianG0th Its sort of like paypal and cashapp and such. Its banking built into X. Is it good? Dunno. I have issues with tying finances to something where they can nuke my account if I'm unpopular with enough people.

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  BitcoinSafari /Education & Developers Program (@BitcoinSafariTZ) reported 40 minutes ago

  Earning Bitcoin Through Freelance Work: Why It Matters And Why Platforms Like Bitlance Are Building The Future Of Work The internet promised us borderless work. For a long time it only delivered half the promise. You could find a client in Berlin, Lagos, or Buenos Aires from your laptop in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania 🇹🇿. But when it came time to get paid, borders came back with a vengeance. Bank wires that take 5 days. PayPal accounts that get frozen. 8% platform fees. Currency conversion losses. Minimum withdrawal thresholds that make small gigs pointless. That is why earning Bitcoin through freelance work matters. And it is why platforms built specifically for it, like Bitlance, are not just another crypto app. They are infrastructure. Here is the full picture briefly 1. Freelance work has already won, but the payment rails lost In 2026, over 40% of the global workforce does some form of freelance, contract, or gig work. Companies stopped hiring for every role full time. Creators, designers, developers, writers, marketers, editors, translators, data annotators... everyone is unbundling their skills and selling them directly. The problem is that the money still moves like it is 1998. If you are a freelancer outside the US and EU, you know the friction: High fees: Upwork takes 10%. PayPal takes 4% plus a currency spread. Wise is better but still 1-3%. For a $200 job, you can easily lose $20-$30 before the money lands. Slow settlement: 2-7 business days is normal. If your rent is due Friday, that is a problem. Account risk: Platforms ban accounts with little explanation. Payment processors freeze funds for "review" for 180 days. Currency volatility: If you invoice in USD but your local currency drops 10% this month, your purchasing power evaporates. Access barriers: Millions of skilled people cannot even get a PayPal account, or cannot receive international wires without a US bank. So we have this weird situation. The work is global and instant. The payment is local, slow, and expensive. 2. Why Bitcoin specifically, not just "crypto" People hear "crypto" and think of trading and memes. For freelancers, Bitcoin solves three very concrete problems that no other payment method solves well together. A. It is borderless by design A Bitcoin payment does not care what country you are in. It does not need a correspondent bank. It does not need you to have a US LLC. If you have an internet connection and a wallet, you can receive value from anyone, anywhere. For a freelancer in Tanzania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Venezuela, or rural Philippines, that is the difference between being able to work globally or not. B. It is final and censorship-resistant Once a Bitcoin transaction confirms, it cannot be reversed. No chargebacks. No platform can freeze your balance because of an automated risk flag. No government can block a payment because it is "unauthorized". For freelancers who have had $1,200 disappear for 6 months during a dispute, finality matters. C. It is programmable savings Getting paid in Bitcoin is not just about spending. It is about opting out of local inflation. In many economies, holding local currency for 30 days means losing 2-5% of value. Bitcoin is volatile week to week, but over 4year cycles it has been the best performing asset for preserving and growing purchasing power. When you get paid in BTC, you are getting paid and saving at the same time. Other stablecoins solve the volatility problem, and that is useful too. But Bitcoin solves the sovereignty problem. You do not need permission from a bank, a platform, or a government to hold it. 3. The freelance + Bitcoin combination creates new economic behavior When you put these two together, things change in ways that are not obvious at first.

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  bojake horseman 🐴🐎 (@Bojake_Horseman) reported 40 minutes ago

  @KRI3P Grew up with the show but ah sad my PayPal is broken and I can't unlock it

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  💜SpazzBhabie💜 (@SpazzBhabie) reported 43 minutes ago

  @k_ovfefe2 I can’t wait until it opens up for me to get it. I’ve had so many problems with my PayPal getting hacked before so trying @XMoney will be good to try

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  Ahmed Almakhzanji (@a_makhzanji) reported 43 minutes ago

  @alihadad90 @PayPal @AnthropicAI Anthropic AI supports Libya and accepts payments from Libyan cards (at least my ATIB mastercard). Paypal is a different issue. But I speculate that they need a well-regulated environment and strong judicial system to operate. Today, both are shaky.

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  Delores S (@SwansonDel3782) reported 48 minutes ago

  WTS FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 TICKETS I’m selling my tickets for spain 🇪🇸 VS Argentina 🇦🇷 final 2026 World Cup match for July 18 . I could not make it due to error on my flight schedule. I accept PayPal goods and services Kindly message if you’re interested

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  13F Pro (@13F_Pro) reported 50 minutes ago

  Stripe and Advent just told you PYPL is worth $53B+ while the stock trades like it's a legacy embarrassment. The "broken PayPal" narrative was always a valuation story dressed up as an operational one. Turns out the fixer-upper has bidders. 👀 $PYPL

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  ChaDraws 🐇💮 VGen 2D artist (@ChaDraws_Art) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Toast6634 Oh I had a very fast similar talk with Leaflit about this I prefer saying first that I'm against AI, because I think most people are using it so badly they're actively dumbing themselves, and now, young people coming out of high school don't even know how to write 'cause they've trusted their entire lives with ChatGPT or whatever, making them genuinely low IQ, and I say this in the nicest way possible, but they are very, very difficult to interact with. And you might think I'm only talking about text prompts, but visually creativity is a skill and a form of intelligence that is very very heavily underestimated, and that is factually helpful in real life... These young people can't even concentrate on one task for more than a minute, it's alarming But as we say, hate the game, not the player, if someone used AI as a reference and still choses to work with an artist after, I think they should be treated like any other commissioners, because they still chose to come to you ! It's always an honor when people think of me for their characters Though I do understand the fear of being scammed (I'm not sure if it's known outside, but there are a lot of scammers that ask an artist for a comm, take the sketch, don't pay (cause generally artists allow not paying until the sketch) and run it through AI to have a "better result") (there are also bot commissioners, that uses AI made characters to scam artists by executing a chargeback on PayPal) , so I understand if people don't want to go through this and refuse the commission Though I will say, as an artist, you have to stay professional if you want to make money out of it, making it public is in my opinion lacking maturity and professionalism Either way I think Pro AI people and Anti AI people should make love and bring peace to the world right now cause we have bigger issues at hand

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 55 minutes ago

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  Ron LaPedis (@RLaPedis) reported 56 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal - I am trying to send from USD to CNY and get this error: "Sorry, you can’t send or receive payments in that currency." Help pages don't have any suggestions.

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  Anita Ker (@IemberKer) reported 60 minutes ago

  @PayPal I am told I cannot use PayPal anymore because of an activity in my account that is against the policy. But then, since I created the account I have not used it, neither have I link any card to it. So, what could be the problem and how can this be resolved?

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  Haley Strattman (@HaleyS_2001) reported 60 minutes ago

  Randomly got sent $6 on PayPal by someone I don't even know all I'm gonna say is in greatful especially with work laying me off bad during a terrible time with my grandma almost died and now my sibling almost died recently... CA: $Haleystrattman01 PayPal: Haleystrattman01

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  LinIsCrazy (@LinIsCrazy) reported 60 minutes ago

  @SPIDER_SPINES Really? I've never heard of issues with PayPal before and I know people that use PayPal exclusively for purchasing their vbucks so I find this odd