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 (35%)
• Website Down (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Kassel	Sign in	4 days ago
Stuttgart	Sign in	4 days ago
Ajaccio	Sign in	5 days ago
Arumpo	Sign in	5 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	7 days ago
Adelaide	Sign in	7 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jort van Meeteren (@jortvanmeeteren) reported 4 minutes ago

  @HeadspaceHelp Hi! I read that you’re having problems with Paypal in the EU at the moment, but I don’t have Visa, Mastercard or any of the other payment options. Are you planning to add iDeal/Wero or will I have to wait until the Paypal issue is resolved to be able to renew?

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  VaniVani || ✦ Comms open! (@toastie_vani) reported 5 minutes ago

  i've been trying to transfer my 20 dollars from paypal to my Dana wallet. it was declined and i didn't get my money. think 4 dollars was cut from it and on my second try to my bank account this time, it DECLINED AGAIN and now i'm down to 13 dollars. what kind of petty is this???

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  CL (@CALaFontaine) reported 6 minutes ago

  @annbauerwriter @intrnlcmbstn Venmo and PayPal issue Form 1099-K when payments for goods and services exceed $20,000 and you have more than 200 separate transactions in the calendar year. Personal payments are excluded. Personally I'm all for helping individuals and small business people with cash or Venmo.

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  PayPal Developer (@paypaldev) reported 8 minutes ago

  PayPal Sandbox: $5,000 Of Fake Money In 60 Seconds PayPal's sandbox hands every developer a fake buyer and a fake seller (merchant), each preloaded with USD 5,000. Nobody tells you the balance is editable, so you can set it to any number you need to test. Full flow: 1. Developer dashboard, toggle top left set to Sandbox. 2. Left nav, Testing Tools, then Sandbox Accounts . 3. Create account. Personal is your buyer, Business is your merchant. 4. Set Country to the market you are actually building for. 5. Make one of each. A seller with nobody to buy from tests nothing. 6. Find your row, click the three dots under Settings, then View/Edit account. 7. Login Info holds the email and password. Click the eye to reveal it. 8. Log in to the PayPal Sandbox. Your Client ID and secret come from the Business account, under REST API apps, then Create App. The Personal account has no such section, which is what trips most people up.

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  Paulina ✿⁠ VGEN (@eggeiro) reported 10 minutes ago

  @gy_sup Maybe it's because it's past the 180 days PayPal gives to issue a dispute? Otherwise I have no idea why Vgen would refuse to refund them ://

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  DebIsGone (@DebIsGone) reported 11 minutes ago

  @ScratchycClark Not me, I'm technically challenged. Everything has to be so many steps. So complicated, sign up for an account. Sign in with Google or FB or Paypal. It's neverending

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  Luis (@Ibarragan19) reported 13 minutes ago

  @ddw88523 I never said he wasn't. But every time he posts value plays they always go down a massive chunk. He was hyping PayPal for the longest time. It's simple pattern recognition.

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  Olibher Cafirma (@C37484Olibher) reported 13 minutes ago

  @ima_fly_tok @alexabelonix That's the bigger issue IMO. Switching from PayPal to another giant provider doesn't really remove the dependency, it just changes who you're dependent on. Having more than one payment route makes a lot more sense.

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  ZiniHost 🧞 (@zinihost) reported 15 minutes ago

  @PayPal @Venmo Can't login my account

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  Rose 🌹| (@opereitta_) reported 17 minutes ago

  I have gone to the effort of stating I am willing to take payment through Paypal or Zelle if paying in cash is the problem, nothing. It's not like I have high priced items, most being half of ebay, all under $30 for the most part. Cleaning my bedroom out is just hard.

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  sd (@sd_katsu) reported 21 minutes ago

  the asian sounding woman with kids screaming in the background says she can't fix my issue with my name and that it's the merchant's settings that cause the problem. does anyone else get stuff addressed like "surname, lastname" when checking out with paypal?

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  Share_Trader (@KoosKanmar) reported 21 minutes ago

  @wile_e_za Marathon Petroleum, HubSpot, IBM , PayPal and I have an order in for Veeva System lower down.

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  Swesda4et ✰ (@swesda4et) reported 22 minutes ago

  @3am_starlight @wearelloud What is the problem with claiming a refund through PayPal or your bank?

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  Yadav Ramdewar (@Official_YadavR) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Godsent001p 384 usd to pay for car as i had an accident but couldnt fix my car since 2 years, i travel mostly by bus and am always late paypal: YadavRamdewar877

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  Mike ~ マイケル・チャンドラー (@Mike_reCenter) reported 25 minutes ago

  @retrotink2 Is the shipment going to the address on the order or the PayPal address? I'm having trouble completing my order and I think it's because of the address I chose on PayPal. I'm in Europe and I want the shipment sent to the US.

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  R (@SQUIRTDRINKER17) reported 28 minutes ago

  @CoFoundersNik this highlights the issue with stripe. they don’t like hyper growth. my saas did $250k rev in first month after launch, stripe didn’t like it. 4 months in they disconnected us with a 0% chargeback rate (we forced 3ds! can’t chargeback when you literally have to sign into ur bank and 2fa). it was insane trying to find another processor to take us and integrate them. will never use stripe, they’re just a new paypal.

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  Pasco Sheriff (@PascoSheriff) reported 29 minutes ago

  Pasco Sheriff’s Office is aware of several warrant scams. The scammer claims to be a Pasco Sheriff’s Office member or other local government employee informing the potential victim that they have a warrant and have to pay a fee. These payments are made through gift cards, PayPal, Bitcoin, Zelle, and other similar accounts. The scammer will provide PSO’s closed Grove location to appear authentic and spoof a number associated with PSO, such as our general information line. PSO will never contact individuals for any form of payment to resolve issues, criminal or otherwise. PSO stresses that these messages are not legitimate.

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  Infaris || Cyber Demon VTuber (@InfarisVelsina) reported 33 minutes ago

  @MaximiliankotWA This is why I’m probably double or tripling down on Patreon once I confirm it works for payment processing and such. I was using it with PayPal but now doing it direct to bank. I also am doing the math on what I need to full time and to help expand.

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  T, N, rives (@Pomskyd2) reported 34 minutes ago

  @NeonWhiteRabbit I have @PayPal problem I ask them to Cancel my Account, give me your SS#. for sure All of them are Scammer thief

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  PaulsCorner-VerseQuest (@TNTJohn1717) reported 42 minutes ago

  @ziz318 Amen!! My developer is now looking into the PayPal error.

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  who’s asking (@sugarfooters) reported 47 minutes ago

  @annbauerwriter Oh this finally explains the video I saw of someone taking down a perfectly good staircase and deck. Yeah I would go with cashier’s check or money order, not comfortable with even PayPal anymore.

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  Blue (@smol_hibiscus) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Kallynnei I wanted him so bad but PayPal failed me at the last minute and didn't process my order!! Hoping the ACG team helps me with the issue so I can get him!

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  vie ʚɞ #IDFK (@sylveriii) reported 50 minutes ago

  i want to commission ppl but i actually need to fix my paypal and **** and idfk how and also other currencies changed to php is so expensiveee like wym 1usd is like 50php😭😭😭😢😢😢

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  Dave Cobra (@Dave_Cobra_) reported 53 minutes ago

  @anamazingpita @Venmo @PayPal Thank god it's not just me. I reported it and they tried to gaslight me that it was on my end. Then opened another chat and was told it was their issue.

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  Supra | スープラ (@supurasensei) reported 53 minutes ago

  Just tried to help a friend get an Indian tourist visa and it was a proper nightmare. My friend is a Japanese national and has never had to apply for a visa for anywhere. The application form asks for all sorts of details, which was not too difficult to fill but in parts annoying. For example, it compulsorily asks for a person of contact in India and their address; how is a tourist who has never been to India supposed to have that? Luckily, I was able to provide a family member's details. But then it comes to the payment section (USD 25), the website only provides the following options: - SBI e-pay -PayPal -Axis Bank e-pay How on earth is someone supposed to know that choosing the e-pay options leads you to a page where you can pay by credit or debit card? Anyway, because I have helped people with this before, I advised her to choose the SBI e-pay option and she started entering her card details. Hit enter. Transaction failed. Strange, she said. It's a Visa and she's used it all over the world. Curiously, after a transaction fails, you still get a screen asking you to check transaction status but only AFTER 30 minutes. Going back simply brings you back to the same page. Kept getting an error. Tried two more times. Error. Tried another card. Another error. Exited and tried to get back to the payment screen from midway through the application and chose the Axis Bank gateway. Errors again on both cards. Another friend, from Hong Kong, volunteered to pay using her card. The first one received errors on both. Finally, on the eighth attempt, the friend's second card went through on the Axis Bank gateway. This entire process, that should have taken 15 minutes at most, ended up taking three hours. A foreigner with a genuine interest to visit the country, with tickets and accommodation booked already, needed multiple tries to book a simple e-visa, with four credit cards, all enabled for international use, that were declined regularly until one finally, randomly worked. If anyone in the Indian government is wondering why foreign tourism and Incredible India aren't exactly booming, they might want to consider this as a potential reason.

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  Mr. Daimoku (@niftydaimoku) reported 54 minutes ago

  @PayPal @Venmo SHUT DOWN PAYPAL!

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  The Analyst X (@bullmetrics) reported 55 minutes ago

  PayPal is up nearly 50% in six months and still down 78% over five years. So the real question: is this the turnaround, or a bounce in a broken stock? Here's the actual setup: $PYPL sits in the middle of online payments. You check out, they move the money, they take a fee. PayPal and Venmo are both theirs. 🟢 What's driving it: - Buying from a shop you've never heard of? You don't type your card in, you hit the PayPal button — if it goes wrong, they chase it, not you. That trust is the product. - Shops can't remove that button. It turns browsers into buyers, so taking it off costs them sales. - Apple has your wallet but not the shop's checkout. Stripe has the shop but not your wallet. PayPal has both. - They're buying back 10.21% of the company a year — the fastest pace in their history. Fewer shares, bigger slice for investors. 🔴 Why it got this cheap: - On your phone, Apple Pay is already sitting there with your face. PayPal makes you log in. That one extra tap is the whole war. - They've always charged shops a premium for that button, and cheaper options now sit right next to it. - Revenue growth has slowed to low single digits and the profit engine has cooled. What do the pros think? Here it gets uncomfortable: 🔴Avg target: $57.26 — 7% below where it trades today 🚀High: $85.68 — +39% 🔴Low: $36.36 — −41% The verdict: you're not buying growth here, you're buying cash. At $61 you pay $11 for every $1 of profit — Visa and Mastercard cost three times that. The model says $75.36, Wall Street says $57.26, and that gap is the whole trade. The risk is the fee. If Apple and Google keep owning the checkout button, the cash machine slips with it. That's why the Low target sits at $36.36. Bargain or value trap?

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  sourcery (@sourceryy) reported 60 minutes ago

  .@Rabois says "99% of everything that matters" for a company is the CEO.⁣ ⁣ "If you have the right CEO, things that people believe to be impossible are very possible and sometimes probable."⁣ ⁣ "If you have the wrong CEO—almost nothing else matters."⁣ ⁣ "@vkhosla taught me this lesson in a pithy way, which is, 'The team you build is the company you build.'" "It's really easy to get distracted with everything else, like the product, the market, technology, but ultimately it comes down to the people." ⁣ "If you can marshal a critical density of talent—you have a shot at winning. That's what we did at PayPal. We had an unusual density of talent, were able to sustain that density of talent—and we were able to accomplish things that other people wouldn't have been able to."

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  LibbyAnn C (@MarineLibby) reported 1 hour ago

  Things I will admit I don't know that I should know But I will admit #FuckFinePrint But I've been told if there are options like sign in with Google or Apple or PayPal that you are supposed to just go with your email but But if your email is with Google ? Am "signing in with google,"?

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  dawgyg - Defcon (@thedawgyg) reported 1 hour ago

  @dvnblj @0x686967 yea i was on Efnet in the mid and late 90s.. fighting tnt and glitch in IRC take over wars with tdk (those damn kids) and dznutz/kryptonic/dev and a few others.. it was fun til the massive ddos nets started popping up.. the first time mafiaboy (the kid in canada that has first recorded ddos against ecommerce circa 2000) hit me with his trin00 net it dropped my entire city.. so then i started building my own net to retaliate lol but he ended up getting arrested a couple months later for ddos'ing paypal and them