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Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems detected

Users are reporting problems related to: sign in, errors and website down.

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PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.

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.

August 14: Problems at Paypal

Paypal is having issues since 11:20 AM EST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

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

Live Outage Map

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

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Benfeld Sign in 1 day 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 5 days ago
Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • legitsleeper
    Legit Sleeper (@legitsleeper) reported

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

  • antonello_web
    nothing to see here🇬🇧🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@antonello_web) reported

    @BleepinComputer Arghh! Again why companies are not careful! In Apr was PayPal, in June Facebook, yes it's terrible. Why this yanks are not careful with OUR data!

  • liambraus
    liam. (@liambraus) reported

    JD Ross lore is actually insane > show up at WashU on two scholarships > study finance and computer science at the same time > freshman year: start running a campus apparel company > also buy a moving company off some other students > graduate 2011 with two degrees and two businesses 2011 > join Addepar as one of the first employees > end up VP of Product > meet Keith Rabois > Rabois tries to hire him to run risk at Square > says no 2014 > co-found Opendoor at 23 with Rabois and Eric Wu > the pitch: skip the agent, we'll just buy your house > everyone says real estate will never work online > raise from Khosla Ventures > scale to 1,500+ employees > buy and sell tens of thousands of homes > Opendoor goes public in December 2020 2019 > leave, become a GP at Atomic > the studio behind Hims & Hers and Homebound > co-found three more companies out of it: Villa Homes, Playbook, Butter > then co-found Royal, where you buy royalty shares in actual songs 2023 > pick the next entrenched industry: insurance brokerage > $500B, basically unchanged for 40 years > the problem: your broker earns a % of your premium > which means they get paid more when you overpay > co-found WithCoverage and charge a flat fee instead > 700+ companies switch, including GoPuff, Eight Sleep, Blank Street > Hungryroot cuts $300K a year. Thirty Madison over $200K January 2026 > raise $42M Series B > led by Sequoia and Khosla > Keith Rabois writes the check > same guy he started Opendoor with, 12 years later > also the first time Rabois and Roelof Botha have teamed up since PayPal August 2026 > ship WithCoverage 2.0

  • bloodorangegirl
    mar (@bloodorangegirl) reported

    Down $480 now because someone decided to be super inconsiderate and paypal wont ******* help me wow i love life

  • cbaihao
    baihao (@cbaihao) reported

    Payment is a slow moving space. amex is a 176 yo company. visa 68 yo. paypal 27. stripe 16. It takes decade for a tech breakthrough to come around and reopen up design space for payment. think internet, mobile, and blockchain. we’re likely looking at the next

  • Crisbuca
    Crisbuca (@Crisbuca) reported

    @CoachNassimm @coachmaxenfn I mean maybe give him time to fix paypal and then resolve problem u didn’t even try understand that his paypal wasn’t working

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

    @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

  • OzPardo6
    Oz "Karen Plankton Superfan" Pardo☮ (@OzPardo6) reported

    @VaporSoup7 so basically, he was known as the guy behind paypal, and the biggest problem people had with him in the episode at the time was his terrible acting.

  • WebWadeOfficial
    Citizen ☕ Scientist (@WebWadeOfficial) reported

    @EnriqueJLores @PayPal We did $1.5 million/year via PayPal and 1.5 via Stripe until PayPal stopped sending us SMS login codes. Three calls over three weeks with PayPal support did not solve it. I unblocked all blocked numbers, O2 did an investigation and reported they're not blocking shortcodes and our account is working well and still able to receive money. Also waiting 72 hours before re-trying login (to reset the "you were deemed a "risk of hacking") doesn't work. So now we do 3 million/year with Stripe.. Support told us every time they'd let Dublin contact us but that never happened. Perhaps you can help us?

  • ComRicheyweb
    Michael Richey (@ComRicheyweb) reported

    @TonyClimate @eBay This happened to me in the early 2000s. I filed a report with paypal (part of ebay at that time) and they dismissed it because "the seller said he shipped it" even though he could not provide tracking. $649 Eventually he shut down his account after a series of complaints.

  • ayutrades
    ayu trades - spaylater, ggives, etc. (@ayutrades) reported

    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)

  • curse_de
    CurseDeReaper ✖️🍶/❤️‍🩹💉 (@curse_de) reported

    @jmnationtv @PayPal @AskPayPal I hope the issue is fixed soon. Freaking insane that they pull auch a sh1t and screw with the livelyhood of independent creators like that...

  • hammerhead_worm
    🤖⚙️ROBOFAGhead worm 🪲🦐 (@hammerhead_worm) reported

    trying to fix my paypal and its RAGEBAITING ME **** YOU I HATE YOU PAYPAL

  • o_w7jj
    𝕆𝕞𝕒𝕣 (@o_w7jj) reported

    I have $199 currently being held in my PayPal account. I’ve contacted support several times, but the issue has not been resolved yet. I’d really appreciate your help in reviewing my case and resolving it as soon as possible. Thank you @AskPayPal

  • eternalsoulrape
    keyed (@eternalsoulrape) reported

    @re10sevv @driveintopole I didn't do anything to you please I'm sorry just take it down I'll PayPal u

  • WhiskeyBiscuit
    CrunchyFoamy (@WhiskeyBiscuit) reported

    Hey @Safeway could you please fix your app? Most recent issue…won’t let you select a payment type. Clicking on a payment type displays $0.00 rather than the last four digits of the payment. Advancing sends you back to the select payment type page. Selecting PayPal and…

  • KaloyanMitev00
    Kaloyan Mitev (@KaloyanMitev00) reported

    Every big company is the second version of something that already worked. PayPal → Stripe. Adobe → Figma. The original product usually wasn't broken. The infrastructure around it was. Poker is the same. The game isn't broken. The cards are good. The strategy is good. The competition is good. People have been playing it for decades. What’s broken is everything around the game. You win money, and someone else holds it. You want to withdraw, and you wait. Your balance exists because a company says it does. Your money is sitting in an account that can be frozen, restricted, or confiscated. And we've somehow accepted that as part of playing poker. I don't think poker needs to be reinvented. I think it needs a second version. Same game. Different foundation. The room deals the cards. The contract holds the money. You play, you stand up, you take your stack with you. That's what we're building with Stacked. Poker 2.0 doesn't need to change poker. It just needs to stop treating custody as part of the game.

  • RichRedVoices
    Rich C (@RichRedVoices) reported

    @Prolific Hi. I cashed out a mixed £/$ amount today. The £ arrived but the $ have not. I’ve been cashing out both currencies for years to my PayPal without issue. Can you help?

  • YuAmeFae
    YuAmeFae (@YuAmeFae) reported

    @VanillaChanny Yeah I kind of figured. I was already login into PayPal to check

  • kambinkskena
    mac (@kambinkskena) reported

    Update, i got limitation problem w paypal. I'll only use Wise for international payment until the problem solved😓

  • TheHeatherPeter
    Heather Peter | Tangem CS (@TheHeatherPeter) reported

    Hello 👋🏻 @jeffleonard000, this is UX/confirmation issue with PayPal Express checkout flow but since you got a confirmation email, good. Is your Tangem updated to the latest version?

  • the_vc_intern
    VC Intern (@the_vc_intern) reported

    PayPal paid approximately $4 billion for Honey in 2020. The browser extension had 17 million monthly users, worked across roughly 30,000 retailers and gave PayPal something it normally reached only at the end of a purchase: influence over what happened before checkout. That position created Honey’s value. Shoppers installed it for discounts, merchants supplied offers to reach those shoppers, and Honey earned money through affiliate attribution when a purchase occurred. Then MegaLag alleged that Honey sometimes replaced creators’ affiliate tracking with its own. PayPal said Honey followed industry practices including last-click attribution, but the explanation did little to stop the reaction. Honey has reportedly fallen from more than 20 million Chrome users to 12 million. Merchant relationships declined from roughly 35,000 to just over 28,000, while its coupon database fell from about 90,000 codes to 50,000. This is what happens when a marketplace flywheel reverses. Fewer users make the product less valuable to merchants. Fewer merchants mean fewer working offers. A weaker product gives the remaining users another reason to uninstall it. Affiliate networks added pressure. Rakuten removed Honey before later reinstating it with new protections, while Impact and Awin also took action. A creator lawsuit has survived PayPal’s attempt to dismiss it, although that is not a finding that PayPal is liable. PayPal bought Honey because it occupied a valuable point between product discovery and payment. The same position became dangerous once shoppers and creators began questioning whose interests the extension served. A $4 billion distribution advantage turned into a trust problem sitting inside 12 million browsers.

  • lelfelipersrs
    Central do Lyanco (@lelfelipersrs) reported

    @Moiduran2 Hi, I'm from Brazil and I want to buy your "Individual Model Pack for PES 2021 (Over 50 models)" mod via PayPal, but I'm having trouble doing so. Is there another payment method available? I really want to purchase it.

  • TechFocused
    TechFocus 🇺🇸 (@TechFocused) reported

    @Nebraskangooner @Duffey7Tom @eBay They WILL shut down your PayPal / eBay accounts because of this.

  • lowstakesdre
    Ondrei (@lowstakesdre) reported

    @ShaneSchleger Nope. It’s 100% true. I called their customer care three times reporting the issue. Each time they told me they would correct the issue. I left the money in my PayPal account for months. I finally decided I wanted to earn interest on it so I moved it to my high yield savings account earmarked for PayPal.

  • BoomerDivvies
    DividendBoomer (@BoomerDivvies) reported

    @darrelltalksfi I sold PayPal after it recovered from a long down cycle. I wish I only picked winners lol.

  • AlanTheWolfXZ
    AlanZX (Commis PAUSE) (@AlanTheWolfXZ) reported

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

  • ZainAahil30172
    Zain Aahil (@ZainAahil30172) reported

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  • Gabriels42w
    Gabriel (@Gabriels42w) reported

    @Mutualaidboost2 I ask humble to help me I have problems with my anxiety and severe depression and fot the moment I can't work If someone can help me with on dollar or 2 how much you want this is my PayPal @CiucaGabriel1991 thank you a lot for help . I have also a 4fund but no one helps 😔😔

  • Compaytence
    Compaytence | Your Payment Processing Team💰 (@Compaytence) reported

    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 👇