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	10 hours ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	13 hours ago
Nantes	Errors	19 hours ago
Vícar	Errors	20 hours ago
Étauliers	Errors	21 hours ago
Onnion	Website Down	1 day ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Sharkbyte (@sharkbyte1k) reported 30 seconds 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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  Johnny Efthimiopoulos (@JohnnyEfthimio2) reported 1 minute 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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  Papa Diesel 🦥 (@1PapaDiesel) reported 3 minutes ago

  PayPal been slacking so bad lately, i hate to put em down after 12 years but damn

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  Anita Ker (@IemberKer) reported 4 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? @AskPayPal

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  Macro Alpha (@MacroAlphaHQ) reported 6 minutes ago

  Stripe and Advent just tabled $53 billion for PayPal and the board is already calling it light. Fair case first: $60.50 a share is a 28% premium to the July 14 close, market cap sits at $50.12 billion, and the stock is up 31% in a month on the rumor alone. You can see why a buyer shows up. Then you look at what they would actually own. TPV grew 11% to $463.96 billion last quarter. Active accounts crawled 1% to 439 million. Revenue hit $8.35 billion, up 7%. Non-GAAP operating income still fell 5% to $1.54 billion. Guidance points to non-GAAP EPS flat to down low single digits this year. Board wants more than $53 billion. They are negotiating from a 52-week drop of 25.6% and a forward P/E of 10.7 that only looks cheap until you price the slow bleed to Apple, Shopify, Affirm, Klarna, Cash App, Zelle. New CEO talking AI cost cuts while the core barely compounds. My read: the bid is the high-water mark, not the opening offer. If nothing firm prints by fall, that 31% squeeze unwinds faster than it built. Funny how undervalued always means someone else should pay up.

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  Vin @ Vintuitive ⚡🌐 (@Vintuitive) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Gold_Phishy @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned His bank, NatWest, told him that it is blocking payments to PayPal accounts for his protection. He has used the same account for years to pay me via PayPal without any problems, until now.

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  anhedonia experiencer (@oilgulp) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Punished_Alien !! I hate PayPal always have issues w it

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  P0kasokas (@p0kasokas) reported 10 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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  Cilla (@Cillah_) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care I'm unable to send money from my mpesa to Paypal despite linking both. What's the problem?

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  Godknowz (@Ohauche1) reported 14 minutes ago

  @raycrypto_1 Yeah am on it , just that getting PayPal has been an issue for me.

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  BitcoinSafari /Education & Developers Program (@BitcoinSafariTZ) reported 16 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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  💅🏽✨️M. Saga. G✨️💅🏽 (@jeezherwife) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care Is there an issue with Mpesa Global specifically Paypal?

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  Joseph Hu (@KeepGoingJoe) reported 21 minutes ago

  Chrome extension "Cashback Master" went 40K → 100K users in 5 weeks. +150%. Buyhatke, same niche: 900K → 1M. Same window, the giant sprang a leak — Honey (PayPal): 13M → 12M. Down a million. Users leaking from the top are getting caught, cup by cup, by the small tools below. When the biggest player in a niche starts slipping: entry signal, or red flag?

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  Vee Brown (@Vizzle14rud) reported 22 minutes ago

  @PayPal please what is going on .. Your website is down or is it just me ? ..

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  Rhysa Darling 🖤⛓️‍💥🥀 (@RhysaDarling) reported 27 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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  ☆ minty ☆ (@sweetmintyz) reported 30 minutes ago

  oh my god just trying to find a solution for an issue on paypal and none of the guides on the site even match what i can actually do and there is only a ******* a//i bot that is telling me it can't do anything 💀💀 what the actual **** 💀💀💀

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  BoyeFran (@HugoBoyefran) reported 31 minutes ago

  @LynxiTwitch @official_throne I crowd funded a new audio interface through Throne for my birthday stream early on in my streaming and it was the first time and last time I used this method to fund anything due to this very issue. They take so much in fees it can really add up. especially if it is many small donations. You are much better off using ko-fi and attaching you paypal account.

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  St. Monoimus 🖕 (@SanctVomitoris) reported 32 minutes ago

  @saIamand3r Best buy wouldnt allow paypal for some inscrutable ******* reason but transfering the money to my card and paying with it did the trick. terrible website. thanks brah.

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  Adam Cooper (@AJ_Cooper95) reported 32 minutes ago

  @YouWhat112 @pokemondealsuk Yep still won’t let me order even normal things. Even PayPal brings up the error. Quite possibly the worst time for this to happen as I think it’ll mean we miss every 30th drop until something happens. 😔

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  Ron LaPedis (@RLaPedis) reported 35 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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  Lior Pozin (@lior_pozin) reported 37 minutes ago

  At 14 I was smoking an e-cigarette at school - People kept asking how to get one - Had them pay me upfront, then delivered a month later, became "the e-cigarette guy" - Wanted to buy a cell phone, found the same one on a Chinese site way cheaper than eBay - Copied the listing to eBay just to try it, got my first sale within three hours The next step: - Ran it on eBay for almost 7 years, used my parents' apartment as the warehouse - eBay suspended my account for a violation and crashed the business overnight - Opened a new account, then thought: what if they suspend me again? - Opened 100 eBay accounts straight away, managed them all manually - Built a piece of software just to manage my own accounts The step after that: - Went to dropshipping conferences, people kept asking how I managed my own business - Told them about the software, a black screen that ran my 100 accounts, and they wanted it - Saved every one of them in my WhatsApp as eBay 1, eBay 2, eBay 3 - Launched with no marketing site, just a login page and a register page - Gave it free for a few weeks, then started charging straight away Then a hacker got in: - About a year in, someone changed every user's username to his own - Switched all their PayPal payout accounts to his, so the money flowed to him - I went live on Facebook, opened the camera, and explained exactly what happened - Competitors saw the chaos and tried to poach our users with affiliate offers - Nobody left, because we were that transparent about all of it Then COVID hit: - Every competitor slowed down, froze hiring, and braced for the worst - We decided this was our money time instead - Hired our first Head of HR and doubled the company within a year - That's when we took the market The last big step: - Ran a 6-month acquisition process with a private equity firm - Aligned on the price, the terms, everything, right up to the signing day - Walked away the day before, because I didn't trust the CEO - Didn't believe in their model of cutting people just to fix the P&L - Kept focusing on what was good for the business Now: - Bootstrapped AutoDS from zero - Sold the company to Fiverr at 28 - Still building three more companies from zero

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  The Market Hustle (@themarkethustle) reported 37 minutes ago

  Stocks down over the past 12 months: Oracle -47% Netflix -44% Adobe -38% Salesforce -35% IBM -26% PayPal -25% Microsoft -22% Meta -9% Shopify -4% S&P 500: +19% Nasdaq 100: +25%

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  StrawHatJoey 🏴‍☠️ (@Renegade_Joey) reported 47 minutes ago

  @pokesliders @AndyCollectz Fun fact it used to be PayPal only lmao Probably why it’s broken

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  BILLIONAIRE UNIVERSITY® (@TheBillionaireU) reported 48 minutes ago

  27-year-old Elon Musk paid $200 a month for a leaky roof office and slept in it because it was cheaper than an apartment. Summer of 1995, no money, no income, so he showered at the YMCA for 4 months and worked out of the nastiest place you can imagine. The office had 1 hidden advantage an internet provider sat on the floor below, so he drilled a hole in the concrete and plugged straight into their server for near-free bandwidth. He couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router either, so he read a white paper and wrote an emulator, skipped the web server entirely to save CPU cycles, read port 8080 directly, and coded the first national maps, directions and yellow pages on the internet that summer in C with a little C++. The company was Zip2 online city guides, where to eat, how to get around. By 1998 CBS came to film the vintage Jaguar, the 6-figure salary, the dog, the house, the girlfriend, and a market Microsoft had tried to enter and failed. Then the reporter asked the standard 1998 question where is the internet going? The 27-year-old answered like he’d already seen the ending: “The internet is the superset of all media. Print, radio, broadcast all of it folds into the internet. It’s the first two-way medium that’s intelligent, where consumers choose what they see and when they see it.” That was 28 years ago and he was describing a feed. A year later Zip2 sold for $307M, the money became X com, X com became PayPal, and PayPal became rockets. It all started with a drill and the server downstairs.

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  Giga Puddi (@AoiAmore) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Joeynator3000 My issue is it will probably be yet another PayPal where they ban you for wrongthink and steal your money.

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  Elizabeta Eremieva (@ElizabetaEliza2) reported 54 minutes ago

  tell me not now that there are any problems with the PayPal deal.

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  Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial (@TruthTrumpPost) reported 55 minutes ago

  A company that came within hours of missing payroll became one of the most valuable in the world. 👏 As SpaceX stock hits its lows, let's look back at Tesla's journey. One thing history teaches us is never to bet against Elon Musk. On December 24th, 2008, Tesla's bank account was about to hit zero. Payroll was two days away. If the financing didn't close that exact afternoon, the company was finished. Then the global financial crisis hit. Musk's other company, SpaceX, was in just as much trouble, its rocket had failed to reach orbit three times in a row. 😯 Musk had already poured nearly all his money from selling PayPal into both companies. In September 2008, on its fourth attempt, SpaceX's rocket finally reached orbit.🚀 But Tesla still needed its own miracle, and time was almost out. Musk put in the last twenty million dollars he had to his name, matched by other investors, and called in every favor he had.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 58 minutes ago

  That night, he sat at his laptop and looked at his PayPal account as if for the first time. Two-factor authentication was on. The mystery $2.49 subscription was cancelled and disputed. The unauthorized login session was terminated. His old bank accounts were removed. His data was no longer being shared with advertisers. His primary payment method was now a credit card with fraud protection. And he finally understood the one rule that would've saved him $180 never pay a stranger with Friends and Family. Same PayPal account. Same platform he'd used since college. But for 9 years, he'd been running the financial equivalent of an unlocked house with the windows open. PayPal is one of the most powerful payment tools on the planet. But it's also one of the most abused not because the platform is unsafe, but because 90% of users never open Settings, never audit their automatic payments, and never learn the one rule that separates a protected transaction from an unrecoverable loss. 9 settings. 12 minutes. And an account that finally works for you instead of against you. Save this thread. Share it with someone who hasn't opened their PayPal Settings since the day they signed up.

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  Queen Hades 🖤 (@GoddessStarr81) reported 59 minutes ago

  About Me I am making this my permanent pinned post as i am tired of answering the same questions over and over again from stupid losers! I am 45 yrs old, and i am from Kent in England, i have a chronic illness, but i show up every day for my page and realm. I mostly sell content such as pics, videos and voice notes for feet, arse, boobs and armpits, mother to good pups & also sell physical items such as worn *******, socks and trainers. I do NOT do live cam work, video or voice calls so don't ask. No i will not send you any type of verification video, i had to upload my Government Issued ID for my Throne, Youpay and Loyal Fans accounts I am as real as it gets, i rarely do my hair and make up as i dont sit around waiting for you losers to msg so if i have done my hair and make up show some appreciation in cash. I do NOT answer dm's that start with "hi" or "hey beautiful" or anything else other than "Sent my Queen" with my £25 tribute attached, no i don't care if you are "buying content" my tribute is non negotiable if you dont want to pay tribute or cant afford it then stay out my dm's i don't need your dusty *** $5 disrespect! I have fully updated my Throne with different sections and levels of cash amounts and physical gifts for all budgets from a £15 coffee send to a new iphone so there is no excuse. No i do not accept gift cards from new senders they are reserved for loyal senders who have sent at least £1000 in the past. All ATM's, Wallets, Silent senders and Paypigs are welcome to gift and run if they wish, please note i will NOT now or ever pay any fees of any type for anything go scam someone else. There will be a full menu and price list available in the near future of what i offer this will be posted and added to my highlights feel free to download and keep it for future reference. All my payment methods are available in the linktree in my bio, these are the only methods i accept, Cashapp, Apple pay, Venmo and Chime are not available in the UK please do not ask for Paypal it is a sore subject right now i am trying to fix it! I do not accept any type of crypto so stop asking. All msgs stay in X dm's until i feel comfortable with you so no i will not go to snapchat, telegram or anywhere else, you will get blocked. If i block you for any reason then you are gone permanently, there is no unblock fee because there is no coming back i dont tolerate disrespect for any amount of money no matter who you are.

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  Daniela 🌻 (@1jeonghan) reported 60 minutes ago

  Suga 93 jersey wasn’t meant to be , **** sold out while I was trying to sign in my PayPal smh