Paypal Outage Map
The map below depicts the most recent cities worldwide where Paypal users have reported problems and outages. If you are having an issue with Paypal, make sure to submit a report below
The heatmap above shows where the most recent user-submitted and social media reports are geographically clustered. The density of these reports is depicted by the color scale as shown below.
Paypal users affected:
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.
Most Affected Locations
Outage reports and issues in the past 15 days originated from:
| Location | Reports |
|---|---|
| Medina, OH | 1 |
| Leganés, Madrid | 1 |
| Melbourne, VIC | 2 |
| Beaufort, SC | 1 |
| Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 3 |
| Hildesheim, Lower Saxony | 1 |
| Châteauroux, Centre | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main, Hesse | 1 |
| Athis-Mons, Île-de-France | 1 |
| Perth, WA | 1 |
| Courbevoie, Île-de-France | 1 |
| Kassel, Hesse | 1 |
| Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg | 1 |
| Ajaccio, Corsica | 1 |
| Arumpo, NSW | 1 |
| Sydney, NSW | 2 |
| Adelaide, SA | 1 |
| Arrondissement de Poitiers, Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 1 |
| Ciudad Jardín, MEX | 1 |
| Paris, Île-de-France | 5 |
| Benfeld, ACAL | 1 |
| Gérardmer, ACAL | 1 |
| Township of Evan, KS | 1 |
| Lodève, Occitanie | 1 |
| Brisbane, QLD | 1 |
| Hochfelden, ACAL | 1 |
| Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 1 |
| Tlaquepaque, JAL | 2 |
| Massy, Île-de-France | 1 |
| Montlouis-sur-Loire, Centre | 1 |
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Paypal Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Rajat_Bhogrey (@Rajatbhogrey009) reportedwhy is paypal so slow
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saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported@darksainzrising they're trying to shut down the donations system (attempting to report to paypal and other portals that AO3 accepts donations from about the "depraved works" hosted by the website)
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Saanjana Nikita (@Saanjana_Nikita) reportedPayPal just dropped 18% pre-market Stripe and Advent walked away from the $50B+ buyout, according to bloomberg and honestly, this hurts because a lot of PayPal’s 40% rally this quarter was driven by takeover hopes, not some massive turnaround in the business WSJ reported that PayPal thought the first offer was too low and pushed for more. they held out for a better deal and ended up with nothing. that’s the risk with saying no in M&A. now the market cap is around $52.6B, basically where the offer was. except there’s no buyer left to support that valuation. the old problems are still there too. PayPal was way ahead in digital payments, but Apple, alphabet and others have been slowly eating into that lead this isn’t really about PayPal suddenly getting worse today. it’s the market realizing the bailout deal isn’t coming.
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iX (@JimManahan) reported@Euphoria_LiVT wdym paypal doesnt work, all my international purchases are via paypal and not a single one of them ever failed or had issues.
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Mimi (@mimicomments) reported@DrewPavlou Perhaps you could set up something simple like a buy me a coffee or paypal me link so people can support you directly. The Flynn issue seems hopeless for now. I hope that can eventually get resolves but seems you need to have a way for people to support you in general:
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Miguel Rivera (@miguelrivera) reportedHey @PayPal, why do your customer service agents keep dodging me? Three separate agents have abruptly closed our chat today right when I asked them to resolve my issue This is incredibly frustrating. Please DM me so I can actually get some real help #CustomerService #BadService
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blackbox 3D (@privacy_issues_) reported@rasmus1610 @bot The PayPal login being the one manual step is actually the right shape for this — checkout is where you want a human in the loop anyway. Curious whether it handled the cart/shipping choices itself or just followed the exact product link you gave it.
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Rahasya (@sw_rahasya) reported@goddek @RepThomasMassie @mandyarthur A bit of a bummer for me that paypal locked me out of my account because I cant produce 3 month-old documentation for services on land that gets absolutely no services … not sure how to fix that 🤔
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TheOriginalKhutso🇿🇦 (@OriginalKhutso5) reported@the_popemichael Is that Why Shoprite, PayPal, tiktok, etc had problems in Nigeria? They can't compete? Nigerians need to develop a sense of accountability
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daily hamefura (@HAMEFUR4) reportedHi everyone! unfortunately I’m going through some financial difficulties due to personal issues and am struggling to make ends meet. bc of this I’m reaching out to ask for your help. If you have some spare cash and would like to assist me, I’m leaving my PayPal and Pix details 👇
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jinowns (@Jinowns87) reportedHere's another neat trick I do every year. If you have paypal, you can break down the entire cost into 4 payments. Meaning you pay 25% percent now while PayPal pays the merchant the entire amount and then you can make payments every 2 weeks. Doooo iiiittttt!!
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aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported@Realnaz_ @JKeagz enterprise pivot to v3 and epaa membership alongside mastercard and paypal happened 24 days ago. that is real partnership traction and a product direction change toward bigger customers. but price is down 25% over 7 days and 19% over 30 days on 15m mcap. developments are not translating to buying pressure yet.
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Detarame (@Detarame247) reported@_ChokoMami In my case, I didn't even get to do comms, people barely so my stuff, and when I finally started to get more, I had to shut down the whole thing because PayPal doesn't work in my country anymore, I can never get money from the outside anymore.
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˚ʚ♡ Euphoria Li ♡ɞ˚ 🦋🌙🏮 (@Euphoria_LiVT) reported@JimManahan Receiving payments restricts your account. If you use PayPal for purchases meaning money going out from your linked cards, then there's no problem. Receiving payments from clients is a different discussion, especially when your account is new.
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Aditya Warman (@warmanadit_) reportedNight, Everyone!🚇 stable-2:native I've been digging into Stable's team and honestly? I'm conflicted. The CTO is Sam Kazemian who built Frax Finance to $1.4B. Huge credibility. Tether's CEO is advising. PayPal invested. But here's what nobody's talking about: the founder Joshua Harding quietly stepped down as CEO with zero public announcement. Brian Mehler took over silently. And apparently whales deposited USDT before the official window opened. That's insider-trading territory. They have a grant program but zero named dApps. I'm watching closely but not trusting blindly yet. Tag a friend who researches teams before investing.