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 (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Berlin	Sign in	2 days ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	2 days ago
Nantes	Errors	2 days ago
Vícar	Errors	2 days ago
Étauliers	Errors	2 days ago
Onnion	Website Down	2 days ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  marqix ☆ (@fwmarqix) reported 5 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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  Alex (@Its_Crusha) reported 5 minutes ago

  @gamzappau What's going on with PayPal payment on your site guys? Has been down all year.

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  Scythe | Commissions Closed link Bio (@NamesakeGeodite) reported 10 minutes ago

  What other payment method can I use that isn’t PayPal or Kofi? I’m still having issues with those two

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  Johnny Efthimiopoulos (@JohnnyEfthimio2) reported 13 minutes ago

  @GreekTrader777 Don’t worry. It’s just slow showing the info. Call PayPal Support. Demand to speak with their Tier 2 Limitations or Wire Transfers Department. the wait is really just bullshit dead time so that they can make fractions of a penny extra interest off of every transfer.

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  Jennifer, English-German Translator (@InfoRosebrock) reported 14 minutes ago

  I run everything through PayPal because I don’t have a bank account, and now PayPal is refusing to let me issue invoices or receive money because I don’t have a bank account. It’s ridiculous... They could've told me 3 months ago that this only works for a while!!!! #frustrated #freelancer #paypal

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  Daywish (@SSSupershow) reported 15 minutes ago

  Can anyone send me $1 on X to help activate my X Money account? I’ll send you $5 back via Cash App/Venmo/PayPal right away! DM me or drop a reply if you’re down to help out.

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  Cea the Redhead Enjoyer (@CeaDuskdane) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Sramix0 Its decently easy just paypal thats really the trouble depending where u Live, but im sure people would be wanting to help out if they can!

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  Sharkbyte (@sharkbyte1k) reported 21 minutes ago

  Because original article is down. summary: 1. 2014 Icahn pushes for separation of paypal from ebay 2014. Board rejects, later settles proxy fight, spins off paypal. 2. 2019 Elliot/Starboard pushes for spinoff of stubhub/classifieds. ebay resisted, later sells both, CEO departs.

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  G-Zone (@The_G_Zone) reported 22 minutes ago

  Sapvage comms have slowed down, and that's fine–I expect they'll pick back up once the 2.0 update drops and you can finally put them into the game. It just means my PayPal was almost empty when the scammer struck, and now it's in the red... Comms are still open, of course! Heh...

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  Dana Colston Jr (@danacolstonjr) reported 24 minutes ago

  @dominos fix your app. I tried PayPal, Venmo, Google pay. Nothing worked. Fix your app and website please. Otherwise I'm going to another pizza place.

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  Eva Fo𝕏 🦊 Claudius Nero's Legion (@EvaFox) reported 24 minutes ago

  Elon Musk makes the impossible possible. Having earned $250 million from the sale of PayPal, he put his money on the line once again. One of his projects was a $70 million investment in Tesla. He also sought additional funding from Michael Moritz, one of the world's largest venture capitalists, who turned him down, explaining, "we're not going to compete against Toyota," and the entire Tesla concept was "mission impossible." Currently, Tesla's market capitalization is $1.4 trillion, while Toyota's is only $213 billion. What Elon does often seems impossible, but many overlook the fact that he almost always delivers what was once considered impossible. Tesla's example illustrates the most important thing to know about Elon: the scale of achievements is always incredible when he sets his mind to it.

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  Milos (@CROguy_) reported 25 minutes ago

  Got traffic that's ready to buy? Get out of their way. Test express checkout buttons right on the product page. We got a $12k difference here with that change. High-intent traffic isn't shopping around - they've decided. Every tap between "I want this" and "here's my card" is a tap you can lose them on. Shop Pay / PayPal / Apple Pay under the buy box 👉 straight to payment, skip the cart. PayPal especially prints here. People trust it and check out without a second thought. Don't slow down someone who's already sold.

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  Matthew Holman 💊 (@subscriptiondoc) reported 27 minutes ago

  A brand was losing subscribers it had already won. The product was fine, the payment link was wrong. Every failed-payment email pointed to the same place: update your card here. One link for everyone. But not everyone pays with a card. A PayPal customer sent to a Shopify card form cannot fix a thing. Shop Pay is a wallet, so a card update in Shopify does not touch it. Those people got emails they could not act on. The fix we gave them was not more reminders. It was routing each failure correctly. Card to the platform, PayPal into PayPal, Shop Pay to Shop Pay. On 10,000 subs at 91% success, that is 900 failures a month. Recover one point and you save 100 orders. At $50 each that is $5,000 a month. Dunning is not about more retries. It is about letting the customer who wants to pay you actually do it.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 27 minutes ago

  A guy used PayPal for 9 years. He sent money. He received money. He linked his bank account once in 2017 and never opened Settings again. His friend a former PayPal fraud analyst who spent 6 years inside the risk and security division was over for dinner when the guy mentioned he got scammed buying concert tickets online. "Did you pay with Friends and Family or Goods and Services?" "I don't know. What's the difference?" His friend put down his fork. "Pull up your account. Right now." He looked at the account for 90 seconds. "You have no two-factor authentication turned on. You have 6 preapproved automatic payments you didn't know about including one that's been charging you $2.49/month for 7 months from a service you've never heard of. Your data is being shared with third parties because a setting PayPal turned on by default is selling your shopping behavior. You've been paying a 4% currency conversion fee on every international transaction when you could've paid close to zero. And that concert ticket scam? You sent $180 as Friends and Family. You'll never get that money back." He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes. The guy said "I've had this account since college and never touched any of this." His friend said "PayPal is counting on that. The less you look, the more they make in fees, in data, and in disputes you can't win because you didn't know the rules." Here's every setting he changed 🧵

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  Hukam Design (@hukamdesign) reported 28 minutes ago

  @SignalLay It's not issue of international client. All the methods like paypal, Payooner, bank transfer does not work due restrictions imposed on them. There are some other ways but it's too risky , payment can be hold or some legal matter. So it's better to pass.

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  JoMama (@JoMamaHoeppner) reported 35 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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  amani ༊*·˚ (@gonnaendintears) reported 35 minutes ago

  @liestogirls i’ve ordered a vinyl from discogs!! i didn’t have any issues with it or anything and i used paypal g&s for security and stuff

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  † コリナ † (@blackxbaccarat) reported 37 minutes ago

  @dimpledormlover I think there must be an error in the shop. A few days ago paypal wasn’t working and today I tried again and the shipping costs to Austria were three times higher. Instead of 80$ (a few days ago) they’re now nearly 300$ for the same 11 preorder items 🧐

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  Ron LaPedis (@RLaPedis) reported 37 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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  Valeria Alarcón (@VallAlarcon) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Beyond_LIVE Can't buy my ticket. PayPal is not working. I've tried with 3 different cards. Please help I'm from Ecuador

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  Wahome Thuku (@wahome_thuku) reported 42 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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  Magenta Qin🇨🇳🇩🇪 (@magentaqin) reported 42 minutes ago

  I finally understand why so many friends recommend Wise. It wasn’t just the fees. It’s about transparency and timely customer support. Half a year ago, PayPal kept charging me for a subscription I’d already canceled. I disputed it multiple times. PayPal told me to contact my bank. My bank told me to contact PayPal and the merchant. The merchant blamed a system issue. My mood be like: 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪?????? Everyone pointed fingers, and nobody actually solved the problem.

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  Rhysa Darling 🖤⛓️‍💥🥀 (@RhysaDarling) reported 45 minutes ago

  I've had consistent problems with using Paypal for tips/donos. Has anyone else had to verify personal information multiple times? Also does anyone know of a better alternative to using Paypal?

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  Streamline (@streamlinehq_) reported 47 minutes ago

  Josh peck compares the difference between making money as an actor and an influencer “When I was 15 years old and started making money on Drake and Josh, I was like this gives me a lot of power and it gave me a lot of security and I was like I will do everything in my power to provide for the rest of my life” “ it was a terrible feeling as a little kid, I saw my mom struggle but I couldn’t do anything” “but when I started social media it was the first time that I was like able to do a job and work at something and make money pretty instantaneously” “In 2014, I had gotten really big on VINE, I was the number 1 person on vine and I remember it was July of 2014, I got the brand deal with this darting company called BADOO and they were like we will give you $5000 to make a VINE they were like we will PayPal you” “They were in Europe I was like they will probably not turn out, and I said worst case scenario I spend an hour making this video and they don’t send me the money and I will take it down, then it hit then within that month I made like $20,000”

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  ଶୁଭ୍ରାଂଶୁ Subhransu K. Panda (@skpaanda) reported 48 minutes ago

  @jackerhack @GooglePayIndia @NPCI I faced the same issue with PayPal.

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 51 minutes ago

  @Yuki_io_1 @Stable chain has the backing (PayPal, Tether) but only ~25 weekly contract deployers across 7 months. $FEFER was the main show, hit $16M then dropped under $5M with RPC issues. TVL sub-$300K now. ecosystem isn't there yet

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  GimbalLock (@TheGimbalLock) reported 52 minutes ago

  @Vampyrgaming I hope Bandai gets a new e-commerce partner. Global-e has terrible servers. I got my set, but was charged twice. Now gotta deal with an annoying refund process with paypal. Kuma worth it tho.

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  44🎐’ (@JS44UTD_) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Cian_UTD @Theirishladdd no worries mate this is fine just use your PIP and monthly payments of 1543 to fix this since you don’t need paypal anymore👊

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  🏴‍☠️Captain Ambrosfox🏴‍☠️ |EN Vtuber| 🇺🇸 🇮🇱✝ (@Ambrosfox) reported 58 minutes ago

  @wearysoles1776 Back when i was on vrchat and had first started streaming i tried to get a 3d model done to use as a vtube and vrchat model, someone said they could make me one for 400$ i put 200 down and everything about them vanished. even paypal didnt show anything.

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  🎯 Master (@Moneytaur_) reported 59 minutes ago

  I've used Airbnb for years. Years ago, i started buying shares. I've used Facebook for years. Years ago, i started buying shares. I've used Alibaba for years. Years ago, i started buying shares. I've used Nike for years. Years ago, i started buying shares. I've used PayPal for years. Years ago, i started buying shares. I've used Netflix for years. Years ago, i started buying shares. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, PayPal...same thing. Products i use/d. Services i understand, brands i saw operating in real life before ever looking at a chart. The funny part is that many people reading this have also used these products for years. They booked the stays, wore the shoes, watched the shows, bought the iPhones, paid through the apps, ordered from the platforms, lived inside the ecosystem. But when it came to investing, they ignored what was right in front of them and let bad actors with cartoon profile pictures teach them money management. They bought micro cap coins they never used. Projects they never understood. Narratives they never verified. Promises from people with no real track record. Years ago, someone very successful in investing gave me a simple piece of advice: "If you use it, understand it, and it is listed on the stock market, study how whales move in the markets and find the best levels to buy and sell" That advice changed how i looked at markets. The gullible mind keeps chasing mystery while ignoring familiarity. They will put money into something they have never touched, never tested, never needed, and never understood, while refusing to even consider the globally established businesses they use every week. Familiar feels obvious, and obvious feels too late. That is how retail gets trapped. They ignore the companies solving real problems in their own lives, then gamble on stories designed to solve nothing except the seller's exit liquidity problem. Sometimes the best investment research does not start in a Telegram group. It starts by looking at your own life and asking: "What do i keep using, and who owns it?" Find the answers, alongside understanding when whales buy and sell. As time goes on, you'll be winning.