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 (40%)
• Errors (38%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Paris	Sign in	7 hours ago
Benfeld	Sign in	3 days ago
Gérardmer	Sign in	4 days ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	5 days ago
Lodève	Errors	5 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	6 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Christina Lee (@_Rina__Lee) reported 29 seconds ago

  here's how to make your first sale without an audience, without a product, and without spending a dollar step 1: think of one problem you've solved for yourself in the last 12 months. lost weight. cleared skin. organized apartment. grew followers. learned to cook. fixed sleep. anything step 2: write the solution as a numbered list in your notes app. every step you took. every product you used. every mistake you made. every shortcut you found. raw. unedited. brain dump step 3: text 3 friends this message: "i'm putting together a guide on [topic]. would you pay $20 for the exact breakdown of how i did it with every step and product listed" if 2/3 say yes you have a validated product. if they say no ask "what would make it worth $20 to you" and adjust based on their answer step 4: clean up the brain dump. add links to products. add before/after if you have it. export as PDF. send it to the friends who said yes. collect payment through venmo, paypal, or cash app step 5: screenshot the transaction. screenshot their reaction when they read it. post both with "just sold my first digital product. if you want the guide DM me. $20" you just made your first sale. the number doesn't matter. the neural pathway you just created does. your brain now has proof that strangers will pay you for what you know. that proof rewires everything that comes after it

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  CrunchyFoamy (@WhiskeyBiscuit) reported 5 minutes ago

  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…

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  4TON$ (@4TONSofPure) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Rb__sa I successfully completed the non FNB customer profile.. but was having issues using the information received from you to utilise the PayPal services.. this was a 48hour process, today I received an email to visit my nearest branch.. will they be able to assist?

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  Wojak (@WojakBoi) reported 6 minutes ago

  @TradingWarz -$380 in my bank currently (issues with paypal).. how do i start? age 26, last 6 years of my life has been disaster, grew up poor. $30K of debt, bad credit, living a hotel (evicted last summer) How can a man get out of this hellhole

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  Arez (@MageArez) reported 6 minutes ago

  @JermainePercins I've been dealing with unbearable payment processing issues. My name is blacklisted on all major payment processors like @stripe @PayPal and so on. I was working for a while with having a having a strawman for my new companies but it's a recipe for a disaster long term.

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  PredCat 🐱 (@pred_cat) reported 10 minutes ago

  @VannDough @agentlayer_ai the paypal analogy undersells it, paypal still needed a human to click confirm. agents need wallets with spend limits and revocable keys baked in, not just rails. x402 solves the sub cent problem card networks never could, a 30 cent min fee kills any agent making 1000 api calls a day.

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  Kevin (@Kevincreates77) reported 10 minutes ago

  The review system is gamed, and the star rating is lying to you. You see 4.6 stars and 12,000 reviews. You trust it. You shouldn't at least not at face value . Amazon has a massive fake review problem, and it goes deeper than most shoppers realize. Sellers pay for fake 5-star reviews through private Facebook groups and Telegram channels. They offer full refunds via PayPal in exchange for glowing write-ups. Some use "review clubs" where hundreds of fake buyers purchase the product, leave 5 stars, and get reimbursed. The product gets thousands of reviews in weeks, ranks higher in search, and looks legitimate to every future shopper who lands on the page. But it gets worse. Some sellers use a tactic called "review hijacking" they take an existing listing with thousands of strong reviews and swap out the product entirely. The reviews stay. The product changes. You're reading reviews for a completely different item. One former analyst described the scale: "We estimated that 30-40% of reviews in certain product categories supplements, electronics accessories, beauty had some level of manipulation. Not all outright fake, but incentivized, recycled, or merged from different product listings. The star rating was a marketing asset, not a quality metric." The counter-move: Install a browser extension like Fakespot or ReviewMeta. These tools analyze review patterns timing, language, reviewer history and give you an adjusted rating based on how many reviews appear genuine. Also, filter by "Verified Purchase" and sort by most recent. If the recent reviews are dramatically worse than the overall rating, the product has likely declined in quality while riding the coattails of old reviews.

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  detective **** ❤︎s goldlewis! 🦇⚰️ (@spacenautica) reported 14 minutes ago

  CHAT IM PACKING ORDERS RN BUT PAYPAL JUST SHAT ITSELF SO SOME OF YALL ARENT GETTING PACKING SLIPS. IM SO SORRY BUT I CAN'T WAIT ON IT TO COME BACK ANY MORE ITS BEEN HAVING ISSUES FOR 3 HOURS. IF YOUR ORDER ARRIVES W/O ONE AND YOU NEED YOUR SLIP JUST LMK

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  Jon Kirby (@JonKirby1974) reported 14 minutes ago

  @TonyClimate @eBay @PayPal are just as bad, absolute crooks, took my money paid a scammer then shut down my appeal case, supposed to have buyer protection, absolute joke!

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  𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐳𝐚 | Networking Guy (@Hamzaonchain) reported 14 minutes ago

  In 2012, Honey launched as a browser extension that promised to find coupon codes automatically and save you money while shopping online. It blew up. Millions of people installed it. Thousands of merchants partnered with it. Some of the biggest YouTubers on the internet promoted it. Then MegaLag started digging. What he found made Honey look very different from the innocent coupon extension everyone thought they were using. Honey could allegedly replace a creator's affiliate cookie at checkout, taking the commission for itself even when that creator had originally sent the customer to the store. And sometimes, Honey didn't even have to find you a better deal. MegaLag also found evidence that Honey's “best coupon” system wasn't necessarily searching the entire internet for the best price. Merchants could control which discounts Honey showed. Then things got worse. His later investigations uncovered Honey's alleged use of “stand-down” workarounds, allowing it to continue receiving affiliate attribution despite agreements telling it not to overwrite another affiliate's referral. By 2026, this wasn't just a YouTube controversy anymore. Affiliate networks started cutting ties with Honey, and the extension had lost more than 7 million Chrome users and thousands of merchant relationships. Then came the lawsuit. PayPal tried to get the case dismissed. It didn't work. On June 22, 2026, a federal judge denied PayPal's motion to dismiss the amended lawsuit, allowing the claims to move forward. And that's why I call Honey a scam. Not because it sometimes failed to find a coupon. But because something marketed as a tool for saving you money allegedly became very good at making money from the transaction itself. Honey wasn't looking for the best deal. It was looking for its cut.

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  CoinDL (@CoinDL) reported 15 minutes ago

  PayPal held $2,500 of my friend's crowdfunding donations for 21 days last year. No explanation, just a reserve. The money people needed for a funeral sat frozen behind a dashboard. That's not a glitch, that's the design.

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  Heather Peter | Tangem CS (@TheHeatherPeter) reported 15 minutes ago

  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?

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  South-Asian Homo-Sapien (@SouthAsianMarx) reported 17 minutes ago

  @aldnmarki This problem is mostly because services like paypal are not supported here.

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  Hashir khan (@Hashirkhanmwrt) reported 20 minutes ago

  Freelancing in Pakistan isn't easy money - PayPal still doesn't officially operate here - Frequent internet outages & slow speeds - Unstable electricity disrupting deadlines - Currency devaluation shrinking real income Talent isn't the problem. Infrastructure is. #Freelancing

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  Katrina Helle (@KatrinaHelle) reported 23 minutes ago

  $PYPL Take away the stripping and don’t sell PayPal! What exactly is Stripe? You can buy PayPal for $150 and still earn interest even at $180. It’s a shame so many shareholders on this board are incredibly foolish. PayPal is bigger than we’re told and Stripe needs PayPal because its valuation is terrible fake!

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  mastapetz GerVTuber (@MastapetzV) reported 26 minutes ago

  @MYNIZEs take all auto payments off, and dont use that paypal account for a year. to prevent additional problems from a charge back x.x As soon as it is legitly mine ... buy a new pc

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  WanderingWlf (@WanderingWlf) reported 29 minutes ago

  Every time I try to be productive something just full stops me. Trying to finish setting up a business paypal account to link to ko-fi but the setup process is just not working. Ugh. Feel like I wasted a whole day. I have to wait tomorrow to talk to a human...

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  tomoko☄️ (@tomoko194he) reported 34 minutes ago

  양도 태민 콘서트 selling at cost bc i'm moving down 😭💞 9/18 section 31 (center) 9/19 section 33 🍒 global ticket, meet at the venue :) 🍒 kr bank transfer or paypal ok any verification possible!!! will cancel if no one wants :)

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  Bruce in Iloilo (@BruceinIloilo) reported 35 minutes ago

  PayPal is such a pain. So many hoops. High charges. Every time I went to use it, there was some issue or glitch or something didn't work right. And now they closed my account because I did not respond to some scam. PayPal sucks

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  Crisbuca (@Crisbuca) reported 36 minutes ago

  @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

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  Enzeyi Siema (@EnzeyiSiema) reported 48 minutes ago

  @EnriqueJLores As a Kenyan, who has been using @PayPal services for over one year now, almost every week. I have a big issue with how your company suddenly limited my account. It was inconsiderate, and I could not get proper assistance through in app messaging, as well as email.

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  mar (@bloodorangegirl) reported 51 minutes ago

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

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  mktboxapp (@mktboxapp) reported 53 minutes ago

  $PYPL takeover talks never actually died. WSJ reports the Stripe-Advent consortium is still circling after PayPal turned down its 60.50-a-share offer in July — roughly 53B, backed by about 50B of committed bank financing. Turning down a bid and ending a deal turned out to be two different things.

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  Hanuska (@Hannuska2109) reported 53 minutes ago

  PART 5 — CREDIBILITY ENDORSEMENT Credibility endorsement happens when the reputation or authority of one person, organization or group is allowed to strengthen the credibility of somebody else — without necessarily verifying the thing for which that credibility is being used. It does not require dishonesty. It can happen entirely in good faith. And in an online fundraising community built heavily upon personal recommendations, it can happen remarkably easily. __________________________________________________ WHO DECIDES WHO IS CREDIBLE? Spend enough time in the pro-Ukraine fundraising world on X and you begin to recognize the signals. Trusted fundraiser. Scambuster. Investigator. Vetted. Verified. Then come the associations. Known fundraisers. Military units. Soldiers. Commanders. Charities. Established organisations. Prominent accounts. Each association can add another layer of reassurance. And eventually a perfectly reasonable human shortcut develops: ---------------------------------------------------------- “PEOPLE I TRUST TRUST THIS PERSON.” There is nothing irrational about that. None of us can independently investigate everybody we encounter. The danger comes when: “People I trust this person” quietly becomes: “THIS PERSON HAS BEEN VERIFIED.” Those are not the same thing. TOONIE TUESDAY Consider Lorelei. Toonie Tuesday publicly promoted a fundraiser involving Lorelei and described her as: “THE ULTIMATE SCAMBUSTER.” That is useful contemporaneous evidence of how Lorelei was being presented to the community. An established fundraising initiative wasn't merely interacting with her. It was publicly attaching a description to her: Scambuster. That word carries an implication. A scambuster identifies scams. A scambuster investigates questionable people. A scambuster is somebody whose judgement about potential fraud should presumably carry weight. But it isn't a professional qualification. There is no examination required to become a Twitter scambuster. No licence. No regulatory body. No published evidential standard somebody must satisfy before adopting the description. Yet when an established fundraising initiative publicly describes somebody as “the ultimate scambuster,” its own reputation inevitably adds weight to that description. -------------------------------------------------------- CREDIBILITY HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED. That doesn't mean Toonie Tuesday did anything improper. It demonstrates the mechanism. -------------------------------------------------------- ANDREW PERPETUA @AndrewPerpetua Andrew Perpetua provides an even clearer example — because he has publicly described how the same mechanism operated around Dmytro. According to Andrew, he was initially: “HIGHLY SUS” of Dmytro. That matters. Andrew wasn't describing blind trust. He had doubts. So he did what most reasonable people would consider sensible: He asked people he trusted. According to Andrew, he asked numerous people in the Ukrainian military about Dmytro. And: “SEVERAL VERY ENTHUSIASTICALLY SAID HE WAS LEGIT.” So Andrew supported him. Then the allegations exploded. And Andrew was angry. Not merely because of what was being alleged about Dmytro. He was angry at people who, in his view, subsequently behaved as though Dmytro's problems had always been obvious. His earlier post makes that frustration unmistakable: “If you thought he was a fraud, you should have said so.” That presents us with an extraordinarily important question. WHAT WAS ANDREW SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE? He had doubts & checked. People he considered credible vouched for Dmytro. He adjusted his opinion accordingly. The weakness wasn't necessarily Andrew's judgement. The weakness was the verification mechanism itself. Because Andrew had not established: “Dmytro's fundraising has been independently financially verified.” What he had actually established was: “PEOPLE I TRUST SAY DMYTRO IS LEGIT.” Again: Those are not the same thing. WHO VERIFIED THE VERIFIERS? Suppose a Ukrainian soldier tells Andrew: “Dmytro is legitimate. He helped my unit.” The soldier may be telling the absolute truth. Perhaps Dmytro delivered a vehicle. Perhaps he delivered equipment. Perhaps he personally risked his life doing it. That establishes something meaningful. But did that soldier examine Dmytro's PayPal records? Did they reconcile donations against purchases? Did they establish where every vehicle originated? Did they determine whether an asset was donated before money was subsequently raised for it? Probably not. So the soldier can be completely honest. Andrew can be completely reasonable in relying upon them. Dmytro can genuinely have helped that soldier. And yet the financial question can remain completely unanswered. Nobody necessarily lied. THE CREDIBILITY SIMPLY TRAVELLED FURTHER THAN THE EVIDENCE. ---------------------------------------------------- THIS IS WHY HINDSIGHT MATTERS Once allegations become widely accepted, reputation can change astonishingly quickly. People who were once publicly trusted become people whom: “Everybody knew” couldn't be trusted. People who once vouched for somebody remember their doubts more clearly than their endorsements. Old warnings are rediscovered. Old associations become uncomfortable. And eventually history can begin to look much cleaner than it actually was. That is why contemporary posts matter. They tell us what people were saying before everyone knew what they now say everybody knew. Andrew's posts matter for precisely that reason. They preserve the uncomfortable middle: “I WAS SUSPICIOUS. I ASKED. PEOPLE VOUCHED FOR HIM. I BELIEVED THEM.” That is far more informative than hindsight. -------------------------------------------------------- DANIEL ASHER Another voice from within the broader community expressed the underlying problem remarkably well: “THAT'S THE WRONG DEFAULT SETTING FOR A COMMUNITY THAT OUGHT TO ACT ON EVIDENCE IT HAS.” That sentence takes us beyond Dmytro, Lorelei, Andrew or Toonie Tuesday. Because ultimately this isn't simply a problem with individuals. IT IS A SYSTEM PROBLEM. A community raising significant amounts of humanitarian money inevitably requires trust. But trust cannot become its verification system. Reputation is not verification. Association is not verification. Endorsement is not verification. And neither is a title somebody has acquired within an online community. --------------------------------------------------------- REPUTATION SHOULD TELL US WHERE TO START — NOT WHERE TO STOP A fundraiser with years of successful deliveries deserves to have that history considered. A volunteer trusted by soldiers deserves to have that considered. An organisation with a strong track record deserves to have that considered. But when somebody asks a specific factual question: How much was raised? What was purchased? What did it cost? Who paid for it? Where did it come from? Who received it? the answer cannot be: “LOOK WHO TRUSTS ME.” That answers a different question. And this is why credibility washing matters. Because the people lending their credibility may be completely honest. The person receiving that credibility may have genuinely earned much of their reputation. The association itself may be completely legitimate. The mistake happens when that credibility is allowed to prove something it never actually verified. So perhaps we have been asking the wrong question. Not: “WHO DO WE TRUST?” but: “WHAT CAN WE VERIFY?” That standard applies to Dmytro, Lorelei, people investigating and it applies to us. --------------------------------------------------------- Trust should make verification easier. It should never make verification unnecessary. ---------------------------------------------------------

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  Shizuka Okutsuka (Commission Open) (@ShizuOkutsuka) reported 55 minutes ago

  Paypal down.

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  DFIR Radar (@DFIR_Radar) reported 55 minutes ago

  JWR, an undocumented PhaaS framework linked to Chinese-speaking actors, uses AES-CTR encrypted WebSockets to give operators live keystroke-by-keystroke control over victims across 44 fake Shopify, PayPal, Apple, and Klarna pages. - The client engine runs in two modes controlled by window.__HOST_MODE: Host Bridge (parent page relays commands into a phishing iframe via WebSocket at path webSocket/QT/{sessionId}/khkjsahfjkwhakjlsdwdddddd88) and Content Mode (Vue.js app rendering 44 phishing pages). Operators issue 40+ named commands (to_card, to_2fa, tip_change_card, to_success, etc.) to steer each victim session live. Final exfiltration POSTs the entire cvvform object to api/open/the_final_interface. - Data harvested goes far beyond card numbers: SSN, passport and driver license images, up to three sets of website credentials, PayPal login, card PIN, browser fingerprint (IP, language, timezone, geolocation, cookies), and OTP codes intercepted in real time before the victim even hits submit. - The active smishing campaign delivers JWR via SMS lures impersonating toll authorities and postal services targeting Singapore 🇸🇬 and UAE 🇦🇪 victims. Operator-facing dashboard messages are hardcoded in Simplified Chinese 🇨🇳, consistent with the broader Chinese-speaking PhaaS ecosystem. Talos assesses with medium confidence JWR is a variant of The Outsider, a PhaaS platform disrupted by FBI Operation Ghost Hook in June 2026. #DFIR_Radar

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  Ale✘ (@Xvinhi) reported 57 minutes ago

  @burned_biscuitt @Rocketyyyy @HYPEX The meme came first (one week early), before the game launch. No one had any idea that Endfield would actually contain a PayPal glitch like that. So once people found out, the meme basically blew up for predicting the future of whatever.

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  ✧Concept of Stars✧ COMMS OPEN (@ConceptOfStars) reported 58 minutes ago

  I have a little problems with PayPal, an agreement on this position of timely delays. This does not affect the already accepted agreement, due to insolvency!

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  jellyman (@jellymanguy) reported 59 minutes ago

  @TheeDegenBoosts @rebetapp That’s why I NEVER leave my money anywhere where it isn’t insured by the FDIC/SIPC. Not PayPal, Venmo, or a gambling site. Youre just asking for trouble. Sucks how these companies operate

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  Arez (@MageArez) reported 60 minutes ago

  @JermainePercins @stripe @PayPal The cause of this was when I was doing about $500,000 revenue monthly I ran into horrible supply manufacture issues that caused my dispute rate to spike to 5%+ for an extended time.