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 |
|---|---|
| Castleford, England | 1 |
| Olie Rivier, Northern Cape | 1 |
| Sarcelles, Île-de-France | 1 |
| Bedford, England | 1 |
| Kassel, Hesse | 1 |
| Paris, Île-de-France | 13 |
| Peyton, CO | 1 |
| Township of Evan, KS | 2 |
| Ahrensburg, Schleswig-Holstein | 1 |
| Torremolinos, Andalusia | 1 |
| Botorrita, Aragon | 1 |
| Brisbane, QLD | 4 |
| Madrid, Madrid | 3 |
| El Vendrell, Catalonia | 1 |
| Perth, WA | 3 |
| London, England | 2 |
| Hulu Langat, SGR | 1 |
| Loughborough, England | 1 |
| Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 1 |
| Jaworzno, Silesia | 1 |
| Munich, Bavaria | 1 |
| Guayaquil, Guayas | 1 |
| Tramoyes, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 1 |
| Hamburg, HH | 2 |
| Bétaille, Occitanie | 1 |
| Caen, Normandy | 1 |
| Köln, NRW | 2 |
| Manta, Manabí | 1 |
| Chesterfield County, VA | 1 |
| Wake Forest, NC | 1 |
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Paypal Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Pavlo (@Thunderbol50) reported@AskPayPal Hi @AskPayPal My PayPal account was taken over. I cannot login because the hacker changed my email and phone. I need help recovering access. I can provide ID and proof of ownership. I can’t community with support by phone.
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Talking Tokens Podcast (@_TalkingTokens) reportedMay Zabaneh (SVP & GM of Crypto at PayPal) explains why payments still feel fast, but are actually slow, costly, and fragmented and how stablecoins could quietly replace the system underneath. In the latest episode of @_TalkingTokens, we break down programmable money, global payments, and where stablecoins are already working at scale. Links below
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Berbafaz (@Berbafaz) reported@realEstateTrent how did paypal not go down the toilet when ebay took the option for payments away?
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simbakis (@Simbakis) reported@AbdoMosa_ @mostafaezztaman It’s a big issue here PayPal apparently has a lot of issues but I’m hearing there are other ways people are using now
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Arnab Chatterjee (@Chatterjee_arn) reportedVisa. Mastercard. Stripe. PayPal. Shopify. These are not crypto startups. They are the rails the global economy runs on. Combined, they process trillions of dollars annually across hundreds of millions of users and merchants. Every single one of them is moving to stablecoins. Not as a pilot. Not as a press release. As infrastructure. Visa has integrated stablecoins directly into its settlement layer. Issuers can now settle obligations in USDC rather than via ACH or wire. 24/7 settlement. No weekend liquidity gaps. By late 2025, Visa was processing $3.5 billion in annualized stablecoin settlement volume. Mastercard linked stablecoin-funded wallets to its card network. PayPal launched its own stablecoin. Stripe built stablecoin financial accounts for businesses across 100 countries and acquired Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure platform, for $1.1 billion. Shopify enabled USDC payments for merchants with no foreign transaction fees. Six in ten Fortune 500 executives are now developing blockchain initiatives. This is not ideology. It is procurement. But settlement speed and FX efficiency are only the first layer. The more significant opportunity sits in what happens to money between the moment it is earned and the moment it is spent. In the legacy system, that float earns nothing. It sits in a payroll account, a platform wallet, or a bank balance with zero yield attached. Yield-to-Pay changes that equation. Stablecoin rails allow idle balances to be routed into yield-bearing positions automatically, at the infrastructure layer, before payout. The worker earns on the float. The merchant earns on the float. The platform earns on the float. No action required from any of them. This is not a feature. It is a structural shift in how payment infrastructure creates value. Every dollar in transit becomes a productive asset rather than a dormant one. The reason every major platform is moving is the same in every case. Legacy rails were built for domestic transactions, business-day settlement windows, and single-currency payroll. Stablecoin rails solve the problem that actually exists. Instant settlement. No FX leakage. Yield on every dollar in motion. When Visa moves, it is not a signal that crypto is going mainstream. It is a signal that the old infrastructure lost the cost argument. And the yield argument. And the speed argument.
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xpaml (@jstalloser) reported@AskPayPal I am writing to formally escalate my issue regarding the limitation placed on my account and the inability to access my funds. I would like to clearly state that I have not engaged in any activity that violates PayPal’s policies.
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RunyaChan 💫🪽 VTuber💫🪽 Dokomi 10D13 (@RunyaChanVT) reported@Chaos_Munchkin I have a business PayPal in Germany you have to have your IRL name and the IRL name of the other person on the invoice otherwise she will have a lot of issues with the IRS 🫠
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☆ dan ☆ (@gaganddestroyme) reportedi lied about my name and age on my paypal account like 3 years ago and i haven't had any issues with the account so far ?
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Geert Jan Sloos (@geertjansloos) reported@levelsio Login with PayPal as a third onboarding option. ~3 hours, guess he will finish it in 10 minutes haha
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mr e ❤️ a music-loving slushy lover (@ProfKukuiLVR) reported@mikajihiko Nooooooo!!! I hope it goes through! 😭😭 Hope it's a PayPal issue and not an issue on your side 🥹
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Elevate Dreams (@ElgDreams55370) reportedGlobal payment platforms are not equally accessible to every business For many African founders, the issue is not demand or credibility It is structure Payment processors like Stripe, PayPal, and Square operate within specific systems
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Ori (@therealOri_) reported@RogonUsaryis @PayPal That could be fixed if they just routinely deleted the accounts that weren't logged into for awhile & the locked accounts people can't use anyways.. and the user was contacted about it beforehand just to give them ample time to verify/login or else. But they don't do any of that.
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Crypto Quick Hits (@CryptoQuickHits) reportedPayPal is pushing SHARPLY higher on a CNBC report suggesting that new CEO Enrique Lores plans on separating Venmo into its own business unit! This could make the Venmo business easier to sell later down the line.
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Fiona@PLAY BOTH PARANORMASIGHTS (@ThornheartCat) reportedFedEx won’t let me pay a duty… it keeps saying error when I try to use PayPal and when I put my card info in it says it’s wrong… is it because it’s a debit card and not a credit card? I don’t have a credit card, what do I look like, a functioning member of society???
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elizabeth keene (@elizabe13204272) reported@moniquepowell Patiently waiting on the launch! Would solve a lot of my problems in Jamaica as someone who gets paid through PayPal