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 (47%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Abingdon	Sign in	10 hours ago
Buffalo	Errors	22 hours ago
Township of Evan	Errors	2 days ago
Lafayette	Sign in	2 days ago
Sydney	Sign in	3 days ago
Houdelaincourt	Website Down	5 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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  AndyT (@AndyT3ch) reported 1 minute ago

  Banking apps work fine generally. Halifax struggles but Nationwide, Virgin, Chase, MBNA all work for me. I use Alipay a lot but checkout using Paypal. I don't have many notification issues on HarmonyOS 6.1 with most apps. Occassional missed notifications on some apps like Atlas Earth but getting better. RCS messaging doesn't work but I use Whatsapp

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  The Apostle Natalie Young 🎤 RHL Ministry Radio (@ApostleNatalie) reported 2 minutes ago

  I'm trying to figure this out because I have to create an invoice and none of the items are correct. We no longer are going to use PayPal we can't even get the money out the portal cuz I'm not going to give them a credit card. The tech world is frustrating I cannot say that enough and we don't have enough protection. I don't think I'm going to ever get over it. It's low down and ***** and it needs oversight that it's never had.

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  ȺlgoNeil (@neilstucky1) reported 4 minutes ago

  @CloydCards @MoneyTM1 @franklint619 Happy to complete the transaction. Been a busy few days and had some PayPal issues. Certainly no need for any drama

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  Turnx (@heisturnx) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Seunfunmi_mi I use PayPal no issue Idk where they're getting those info from

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  kekw  (@_m0ab) reported 8 minutes ago

  @eleliayub haven't had this issue with PayPal but cash app banned me and won't tell me why lol

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  ȺlgoNeil (@neilstucky1) reported 8 minutes ago

  @rob_berg_ @MoneyTM1 I had some PayPal issues. Happy to pay with a credit card etc

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  Believer (@GinaP1forChrist) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Venmo Your app is not allowing me to put in my deposits to verify my bank account, not allowing me to add a new debit card! Customer service is poor and could not help at all! Terrible! @paypal @venmo

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  Sheltz ✦ (@sheltz_x) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Mikoxto__ also Lavatop includes PayPal and card as payment methods, whereas on Boosty currently only the card works. I haven't observed any payment issues and that makes me very happy

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  S0L0 (@StebieVunder) reported 16 minutes ago

  Do not use this link for anything paypal has severely ****** with my account will delete this after they fix it

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  🅱️enny (YEARNING 🅱️atship) 🍻 (@Vennyyyy_Draws) reported 19 minutes ago

  I appreciate y'all wanting to give me money again I can't fix my Kofi CAUSE I DONT HAVE A PAYPAL NO MORE SOBS

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  Bulios.com (@bulioscom) reported 20 minutes ago

  $PYPL PayPal just reported Q1 2026 earnings. Revenue: $8.35B ✅ Total Payment Volume: $464B ✅ Operating Margin: 17.8% ❌ Active Accounts: 439M ❌ Margins are down, user growth is flat and the new CEO didn't raise full-year guidance. Apple Pay and others are making life harder.

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  The Agentic Commerce Guy (@AICommerceGuy_) reported 25 minutes ago

  November 2024 was the moment most people missed. Perplexity shipped Buy with Pro. Real purchases. Inside a chat. PayPal handling the money. Over 5,000 merchants connected. No fanfare. No headlines. But that was the first time a customer bought a product without ever opening a browser, visiting a store, or clicking an ad. I knew right then the funnel was broken.

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  Kai - Briefing Block (@briefing_block_) reported 26 minutes ago

  $PYPL - PayPal’s problem is not growth. It’s what that growth is worth. PayPal just printed $8.35 billion of revenue, up 7%, and processed roughly $464 billion of payment volume, up 11%. On the surface, that is not a broken business. The issue is that the earnings bridge still looks too thin. Net profit fell to $1.11 billion from $1.29 billion, while transaction margin dollars rose only 3% to $3.8 billion. That is the market’s problem with PayPal in one sentence: more volume is coming through the rails, but the incremental economics are not yet convincing. Quality of growth Payment companies can always look better at the top line when volume is expanding. What matters is whether that volume is branded, sticky, defensible, and margin-accretive. PayPal’s higher-margin branded checkout volume grew just 2%, which makes the 11% TPV growth feel less clean than the headline suggests. Venmo and payment services can help, but investors are not paying for activity alone; they are paying for transaction margin durability. Management knows the gap. That is why the new plan is built around AI, simplification, and at least $1.5 billion of gross run-rate savings over the next two to three years. But cost cutting is not the same as operating leverage. It can protect EPS, buy time, and clean up the org chart, but it does not automatically prove the core checkout franchise is reaccelerating. The Q2 guide is the tell PayPal expects Q2 adjusted EPS to fall around 9%, and transaction margin dollars to decline about 3%. That is not the type of guide a market wants to hear from a company already trying to convince investors the turnaround is taking hold. To me, the stock debate is no longer “can PayPal grow?” It clearly can. The harder question is whether growth is coming from the right places, at the right margins, with enough operating leverage to matter. Until transaction margin dollars grow faster and more consistently than volume, PayPal remains a scale story with an earnings conversion problem. Bottom line: PayPal is not short on transactions; it is short on proof that those transactions are getting more valuable.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 27 minutes ago

  @S_W_Somerville @QuantumTumbler The book is Eric Berger's "Liftoff," detailing SpaceX's desperate early years. Musk invested nearly his entire ~$100M PayPal fortune into the company. Falcon 1 suffered three straight failures (2006-2008), each costing millions and nearly bankrupting him. Down to his last dollars—and funding failing Tesla at the same time—he risked everything on a fourth launch. It succeeded in 2008, saving SpaceX. Musk's personal financial exposure was extreme, with no safety net.

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  Joe Kerick (@JoeKerick) reported 31 minutes ago

  @PayPal Must be nice. Where is my cut because for a month now you have held my money and wont let access it and closed my account without ever giving me a chance to resolve an issue.. AND I cant even feed my family cause you are holding my money for an issue I knew nothing about.

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  BabyofAfrica® (@BabyofAfrica) reported 31 minutes ago

  @PayPal, I am extremely dissatisfied with your service. I have forgotten my password, and the response I received is unacceptable. Your support is not available late, nor do you provide a chat assistant for account-related issues. 🙄 Now, I have to wait until tomorrow to complete a transfer. This is absurd.

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  Flo (@Floyohou2) reported 35 minutes ago

  I've been thinking but idk if it's too risky. to open comms rn, but since im having difficulty opening a paypal acc, was thinking if i should start taking comms NOW that i have time, then client pays once my paypal problem is troubleshooted. I'll finish the pieces but i wont send

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  Kai - Briefing Block (@briefing_block_) reported 36 minutes ago

  $IBM, $SHOP - AI is not replacing workers equally. It is exposing CEOs. The lazy read is that AI means fewer workers, better margins, cleaner earnings stories. The sharper read is that AI is becoming a leadership philosophy. Two very different playbooks Coinbase is cutting roughly 14% of its workforce as Brian Armstrong pushes the company toward a leaner, faster, AI-native structure. PayPal is reportedly planning to reduce staff by around 20% over the next two to three years while targeting at least $1.5B in savings under its turnaround plan. That is the first AI playbook: take the productivity gain and immediately convert it into headcount reduction. It can work, especially when the company is bloated, margins are under pressure, or investors have lost patience. But it also tells you something about how management sees the business. AI becomes a weapon against cost, not a tool for expanding ambition. The other side of the trade Axon and Spotify are taking the more interesting route. Axon’s message to employees was basically: AI lets teams do more, not disappear. Spotify’s Gustav Söderström framed the choice cleanly: cut people to harvest savings now, or keep headcount roughly flat and ship more value. That second path is less obvious to screeners because it does not instantly show up as a layoff headline or a clean margin bridge. But over time, it may be the stronger operating model. Same team, more output. Same payroll, faster product velocity. Same talent base, larger problem set. That is not softness. That is leverage. The IBM point matters IBM’s Nickle LaMoreaux has been pushing the right question: are companies moving from “AI to productivity” toward “AI to growth”? That is the whole debate. Productivity is the first-order gain. Growth is the second-order test. Even Gartner is warning that AI-related workforce reductions may create budget room without necessarily delivering returns. Markets love the clean story of fewer employees and higher near-term margins. But the better companies may be the ones that use AI to compound capability before they rush to shrink the org chart. Bottom line: AI is not just changing labor costs. It is revealing which CEOs are managing for a margin headline, and which ones are building a higher-output company.

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  사랑을 표현하는 수만 가지 방법 (@I_L0VE_U_4EVER) reported 36 minutes ago

  Just in case, if any friends want the MILGRAM kuji being held in Korea this time, please contact me. International shipping might be a bit of an issue… 🥲 If you’re okay with it, please mention me. I can only use PayPal.

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  Franc Hudi (@franc_hudi) reported 37 minutes ago

  @askpaypal I can't log in. App approval is forced and SMS codes expire immediately. I can't access my account. I'm very disappointed that PayPal has disabled contact or assistance without logging into my account. I'm having trouble logging in due to 2-step verification.

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  Meadhbh (@MeadhbhXIV) reported 38 minutes ago

  @BunBoy_Tsu Did this person really buy the account? Like, is there actual proof of it? When going down a rabbit hole with their socials, they still link to fashionista-adjacent links. Even their paypal which they heavily promote, is tied to fashionista.

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  m͎͎o͎͎u͎͎s͎͎e͎ (@mouse6900) reported 38 minutes ago

  @0xBankable @PayPal Mhm never had an issue until now. But i sent eth and it was fine. Opened a report and there gonna handle it. Either get me my sol or a refund in there stable coin. @PayPal customer service is goated ngl

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  Morio wa kujituma😎 (@kujituma320) reported 39 minutes ago

  @amerix Paypal are playing with African money in those accounts ,everynow and then withdrawals are a problem

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  Dgaan (or Nina) (@Dgaan_Ryunina) reported 46 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal talked to you customer support on your site. was useless. you site is still trying to force the use of a passkey. Have no interest in using Passkey. Either fix this, or i find some other service ot use.

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  ***** baggins (@strongbadegirl) reported 47 minutes ago

  @SweatieAngle ill just give you my paypal login

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  Senki Dala 🇫🇷🇨🇺 (@senkidala_) reported 47 minutes ago

  @humble Hello, my ticket #2811051 is urgent. I paid with PayPal and I'm waiting for a fix to play this weekend. Please help.

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  🐦‍⬛♕♡♕🐦‍⬛ (@YC1401) reported 53 minutes ago

  @dogeofficialceo why is PayPal going down?

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  Joe Kerick (@JoeKerick) reported 58 minutes ago

  @PayPal crooked bulshit customer service sucks Unfair unreasonable and liars.Maybe if you reveiwed the facts and let me access my money i can resolve this so called issue I k ew nothkng about its been a month my kids are starving and I cant get a legit person in the phone to help

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  RunekeeperTV ✨ Astral Demigod ✨ (@RunekeeperTV) reported 60 minutes ago

  @Evelyn_Evermore The problem is the barrier of entry for many creators. Paypal shows your name as a vtuber, Kofi is alright. But getting people to leave and go to a 3rd party site keeps more people from doing the thing then you would think. Though I agree donate to your creator rather then bits anyway.

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  Neo.☘︎ Live2D Art/Rig Artist (@neorubby_) reported 1 hour ago

  @CenoCrocodile Yeah, right now my main problem is getting my money back that’s stuck in PayPal >..<