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	2 hours ago
Kirchberg	Sign in	6 hours ago
Nantes	Errors	11 hours ago
Vícar	Errors	12 hours ago
Étauliers	Errors	13 hours ago
Onnion	Website Down	21 hours ago

Full Outage Map

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 11 minutes ago

  Turn on login alerts and payment notifications By default, PayPal sends email confirmations for completed payments. But it doesn't always alert you about new logins, password changes, or account modifications. His friend said: "Go to Settings. Click Notifications. Turn on alerts for everything logins, sent payments, received payments, password changes, linked device changes. Get them via email and push notification." He then showed him the Activity page a full log of every transaction, login, and account event. Most people never scroll through it. He said: "Spend 2 minutes once a month scrolling through your Activity feed. Look for payments you don't recognize, logins from unknown devices, or subscriptions you forgot about. That $2.49/month charge ran for 7 months before you noticed it. If you'd been checking Activity once a month, you'd have caught it after the first charge."

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  Todd | Saudi Money (@ToddSaudiMoney) reported 12 minutes ago

  Stripe shut down my friend's account at $47K revenue IRS flagged another one for "suspicious patterns" at $80K PayPal froze $12K for 6 months with zero explanation Meanwhile I just cleared $90K commission on a single gold shipment No platform risk No freeze threats Bank-to-bank wire transfers only The system doesn't care how much you make when you're moving real commodities between verified entities Like, RT & comment "WIRE" for the guide (must be following)

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  ASHT0N (@ashkmeow) reported 14 minutes ago

  @drainddog hii, i’m tryna fix my paypal situation atm so i’m HOPEFULLY going to be switching back to paypal/kofi payments v soon 🤞

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  BILLIONAIRE UNIVERSITY® (@TheBillionaireU) reported 15 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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  44🎐’ (@JS44UTD_) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Cian_UTD @Theirishladdd no worries mate this is fine just use your PIP and monthly payments of 1543 to fix this since you don’t need paypal anymore👊

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  MaxGaming170 | Changeling VTuber (@MaxRenRez2) reported 18 minutes ago

  @MendamCaedo @takasiraVT Vroid is one option, but you can rarely get anywhere with that. The point I'm making is that this industry is predatory for newcomers and old timers alike. Particularly in the modeling, art, and rigging departments. People will scam you, hide things in TOS, and just recently threaten to revoke the model entirely without a refund if you even touch AI for one reason or another (including using an AI reference sheet, by the way). There's even a server out there that has decided to just start banning people if they use it on ANY PLATFORM, like some 1984 type ****. Cheap artists can rarely be trusted either, because again- on the off chance you don't read over your agreement with like seven lawyers, they can just decide to take it away because of any slight problem they have with you. And let's not even mention the fact that some people will decide to drag their *** on the commissions until the six month refund period on paypal has expired, then take the money and run, meaning that now you're out several thousand dollars depending on how expensive that commission was.. With all of this in mind, do you see why people are hesitant to turn to artists who are screeching about losing their commissions and turning to sources that won't complain about what they choose to do?

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  ᚷᚱᚨᚱ ᚢᛚᚠᚱ (@NotJoshGeyer) reported 21 minutes ago

  **MOLD SAGA UPDATE** Car is in the bay, waiting on tools to be dropped off and parts to be delivered so I can fix this pulley and belt and coil packs. Could REALLY use $50 for gas, I’ve only got a half a tank and I need to get to Atlanta and drive around a little bit before I’ll make any money so if anyone wanted to throw me even a couple bucks it would help tremendously. Cashapp $primetime1313 PayPal JoshGeyer1313

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  Dan Farfan (@DanFarfan) reported 21 minutes ago

  Stripe + Block + Paypal (SBP) is a HUGE problem for Visa and Mastercard (V+M) because suddenly zillions of dollars of xactions become local only to SBP and off V+M networks (and pocketbooks). V, M or both must find something ginormous (now or potential) to buy... (e.g. what I'm building $-))

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  amani ༊*·˚ (@gonnaendintears) reported 23 minutes ago

  @liestogirls i’ve ordered a vinyl from discogs!! i didn’t have any issues with it or anything and i used paypal g&s for security and stuff

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  Podcast Alpha (@PodcastAlphaX) reported 29 minutes ago

  @FinanceNinjaB @DavidSacks Paypal’s biggest issue is its brand name is on a decline - similar to eBay in warly 2020’s. They have solid foundation but a lot of headwind in growth. Not sure if they can get the process targrt you are looking for with the current state.

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  Carl Weische (@CarlWeische) reported 29 minutes ago

  You're currently losing 70-75% of purchases to abandoned carts (70-75% is the avg in ecom) & taking that rate down to 65% or even 60% is something you can do in literally a few hours. So here's every reason people leave the cart & how you can fix it: 1. 48% leave because of surprise costs This is by far the biggest one. They get to the payment step with their card in their hand, & suddenly there's $20 shipping or some handling fee they didn’t see coming. So communicate every cost (shipping, handling, taxes) on the PDP & in the cart, before they hit the checkout. Something like "free shipping over $50, taxes included" right next to the price. Same deal with delivery times. If you're dropshipping & delivery takes 5-10 days, do NOT save that for the end of the buyer journey. Say on the product page that you dispatch within 1-2 days (which is true), so the shipping time isn't a nasty surprise when they're about to pay. 2. 25% leave because you made them create an account I straight up don't buy from stores that force me to register, & apparently neither does a quarter of your lost traffic. So have guest checkout, always. & remove that pre-ticked newsletter box as well, that one makes people drop off too. 3. & a big chunk leave because they don't trust you, or can't pay the way they want to pay So put your payment logos (PayPal, Klarna, Amex, Visa, whatever you take) on the PDP, in the cart, AND inside the checkout itself, basically just put it everywhere. & answer all the questions that could be running through their head at checkout, like: - what happens if I don't like it? - is sending it back gonna cost me? - when does it show up? 4. Then a few smaller things that make a big difference when you add them up - Hide your discount code field behind a "more options" dropdown. An empty coupon box in front of someone with no coupon is basically an invitation to go google "[your brand] discount code", & a lot of them never come back - Use ONE name field instead of first + last (people type their full name into the first box, get an error, & get annoyed) - Give them a progress bar (address → shipping → payment) with little green checkmarks as they fill each field in. Gamifying the checkout like this is a very simple way to dopamine hack some incentive into it - Then try to avoid all pre-purchase upsells. It's just unnecessary friction when you can upsell them post-purchase (which has higher take rate as well) 5. Final (but very important) note Everything I’ve gone through here are points of friction & anxiety. But there’s another part to this as well: Motivation. & increasing the motivation people have to get your product is by far the most impactful way to increase CVR. This is done through good pre-sell conversion (good pre-sell & product pages), so I’m gonna link a few articles in the comments under this post on how to increase motivation if you want to really understand this & thereby make a **** ton more money. Now, you of course can't get abandoned carts to 0% since a large portion of them are just people looking around & saving products, but you can decrease it significantly. If you implement all of this I guarantee you will see a very significant decrease in abandoned carts & a big increase CVR & in profit per visitor. Avoidable abandoned carts are very expensive in the grand scheme of things.

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  Ahmed Almakhzanji (@a_makhzanji) reported 31 minutes ago

  @alihadad90 @PayPal @AnthropicAI Anthropic AI supports Libya and accepts payments from Libyan cards (at least my ATIB mastercard). Paypal is a different issue. But I speculate that they need a well-regulated environment and strong judicial system to operate. Today, both are shaky.

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  𝔄𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞 𝔇𝔢𝔦 ✝️🇻🇦⚜️ (@assignedgoy) reported 34 minutes ago

  @DoofyOfficial @CENTCOM ill paypal you $25 if you can tell me what the issue between israel and iran is about

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  ☆nermiko☆ (@tamargirl25) reported 40 minutes ago

  I really want to start taking commissions, but there's one problem... I don't have PayPal yet. 💔 I'm saving up for my dream iPad and Procreate, so hopefully I'll be able to open commissions in the future. For now, I'm just going to keep practicing and improving my art. 💪✨

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  Beyres (@Beyrestt) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care paypal to mpesa is still not working, please solve it

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  Mr.Presentable (@MrPresentable2) reported 44 minutes ago

  So I fed this to Grok and holy ****… Analysis of the X thread by @whisper_alpha (post ID 2077722854414532656) This is a 14-part investigative thread doing on-chain forensics on the $WALLET token (contract: 0x0339f5459fc690ac85f1782e15782a151b4a9e1b) deployed on Robinhood Chain. The core thesis: This is Robinhood’s biggest unannounced (or stealth) product — a token deeply tied to their team, infrastructure, and new L2 blockchain. Summary of the Thread’s Claims The author traces funding flows across Ethereum and the new Robinhood Chain, connecting the token deployer to: • Vlad Tenev (Robinhood CEO) via a publicly referenced wallet. • Seong Lee (@seongboii) — Head of Crypto Product / Project Manager at Robinhood (Crunchbase + Arkham labels link seonglee.eth). • Richard Reitzfeld (richiereitz.eth) — Senior iOS Engineer at Robinhood (confirmed via LinkedIn; works on mobile/wallet engineering). Key technical findings highlighted: • The same wallet (0xF718d37dBC25799f7cFf04B5AacdA94e87619649) funded: • The Robinhood Chain deployer on Ethereum. • The $WALLET deployer on Robinhood Chain (post-mainnet). • The Paxos hot wallet early on the chain. • Vanity address pair — Two early wallets share a long common substring (dBC25799f7cFf04B5AacdA94e8761), a deliberate pattern often used by teams/institutions. • Extremely early funding (blocks 34 and 41 on Robinhood Chain) — One wallet had ETH with no incoming transactions recorded, consistent with pre-genesis or operator-level initialization funding. • Timeline: Robinhood Chain mainnet launched July 1, 2026. $WALLET deployed July 10, 2026 (9 days later) — deliberate, post-stabilization, after legal review presumably. Speculated use cases (governance token, massive airdrop to Robinhood’s ~23M users, or loyalty/rewards layer replacing or supplementing Robinhood Gold). Verification & Fact-Checking What checks out strongly: • Robinhood Chain timeline: Officially launched public mainnet on July 1, 2026 (confirmed in Robinhood’s own announcements and multiple news outlets). Testnet was earlier in February 2026. Built on Arbitrum tech. • Token existence: The contract 0x0339f5459fc690ac85f1782e15782a151b4a9e1b exists on Robinhood Chain. It is labeled “Robinhood Wallet (WALLET)” on the official Blockscout explorer and OpenSea. Total supply: 1,000,000,000. • Employee connections: • Richard Reitzfeld is a real Senior iOS Engineer at Robinhood (LinkedIn confirmed). • Seong Lee (@seongboii) is real and has been publicly associated with Robinhood Crypto / product roles. • Paxos link: Paxos is a legitimate regulated partner (issues stablecoins, custody for PayPal/Mastercard). Early funding of their hot wallet fits infrastructure setup. • Community consensus: Multiple independent accounts on X have replicated or referenced parts of this tracing and reached similar conclusions about the funding cluster. What is weaker / unconfirmed: • No official Robinhood statement confirming $WALLET as their token. They have stayed silent. Robinhood does have an official self-custody Robinhood Wallet app that natively supports their new chain. • The exact Vlad Tenev “robust wallet” quote from July 8 wasn’t directly surfaced in quick searches (the linked older tweet was about something else). The on-chain breadcrumbs are the stronger part of the case. • Arkham labels and OpenSea “nomujja” attribution rely on heuristics/user reports — generally reliable for these profiles but not 100% infallible. • Current market status (as of mid-July 2026): Very low market cap (reports of ~$4M–$10M range recently), high volatility, typical of new tokens on a brand-new chain. Some early reports of issues with certain dubious tokens on the chain (not specific to $WALLET). Overall Assessment This is one of the more credible “insider/stealth token” narratives I’ve seen in crypto recently. Strengths of the thread: • Multi-wallet, multi-person, cross-chain tracing.

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  Mimi Too (@mimitoo___) reported 45 minutes ago

  @essywritter @Safaricom_Care I thought I was the only one but they say they don't have a problem but the money keeps getting reversed back to paypal

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  ·★ɮǟʀօզʊɛ ɦɛǟʊӼ★· check my 📌 (@Baroquebaby_) reported 46 minutes ago

  I get paid on the 29th, is there anyone that can spot me for groceries until then? the stupid holiday then 6days of no power led to a tiny paycheck. I have terrible luck. My next check will be a full 2 weeks. If u can help us my paypal is @kellythompson330

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  💜SpazzBhabie💜 (@SpazzBhabie) reported 46 minutes ago

  @k_ovfefe2 I can’t wait until it opens up for me to get it. I’ve had so many problems with my PayPal getting hacked before so trying @XMoney will be good to try

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  The Market Hustle (@themarkethustle) reported 51 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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  Nauman Ali (@NaumanBalochDM) reported 51 minutes ago

  Broken GA4 sessions? Check referral exclusions. Payment gateways like Stripe/PayPal redirect users back to your site — GA4 counts it as a new session and wipes your source. Fix: add payment domains to your unwanted referrals list. 4 minutes. #GA4 #Ecommerce

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  NOVA VENTURES (@NovaVenturesCEO) reported 51 minutes ago

  PayPal's board just told Stripe no. $53 billion bid, rejected as too low, door still open for a richer offer. We broke down what a bigger number might look like on today's Nova Ventures Daily. $PYPL #PayPal #Fintech #Investing

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  𝐂𝐇𝐘𝐍𝐄 (@realchyne) reported 54 minutes ago

  ~ Account just got de-activated in the middle of tasking.... ~ UK accounts suspended ~ Had issues with previous payment method as @airtminc has refused to verify clients details (got last weeks payout on pending till now) so we decided to change Payment method to PayPal for this week payment not to get stuck, only for outlier to deactivate the account even after the client verified. boyyy, it's tuff...

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  Alkana (@Alkanarich) reported 55 minutes ago

  wts wtr nct 127 membership for the redline in Seoul ✨ 100k idr | 6 usd 🌷 accept: paypal, wise, qris, Ina bank ✨ weverse login access available: ✅❌❌❌ 💌 DM me if you're interested! t. wts wtb rent membership nct 127 seoul the redline

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  Magenta Qin🇨🇳🇩🇪 (@magentaqin) reported 59 minutes ago

  I finally understand why so many friends recommend Wise. It wasn’t just the fees. It’s about transparency and timely customer support. Half a year ago, PayPal kept charging me for a subscription I’d already canceled. I disputed it multiple times. PayPal told me to contact my bank. My bank told me to contact PayPal and the merchant. The merchant blamed a system issue. My mood be like: 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪?????? Everyone pointed fingers, and nobody actually solved the problem.

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  Anwar (@anwarbaksh) reported 1 hour ago

  I helped a client grow from $250K to $2M ARR by transitioning their store from PayPal Buy Now buttons to a full WooCommerce store. Here's the active plugin stack running the site today: Admin Columns Payment Fee Admin Columns Pro Block Emails & Addresses for WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce Code Snippets Duplicate Page Error Log Viewer GTM4WP Invoice Payment Option LiteSpeed Cache ShipStation for WooCommerce WooCommerce WooCommerce PayPal Payments WooCommerce Ship Discounts — custom plugin I built WooCommerce Stripe Gateway WooPayments Wordfence Security WP Mail Logging Code Snippets handles the smaller customizations that don't need dedicated plugin. Maintenance costs less than $200/month. The client has control, flexibility, scalability, and portability. You don't always need an expensive "enterprise" stack to run a serious eCommerce business. Sometimes you just need to build the right stack, and maintain it properly.

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  Wahome Thuku (@wahome_thuku) reported 1 hour ago

  @SafaricomPLC I am on call with paypal and they say you sre the problem its you refunding the money

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  Sai (@HSsai) reported 1 hour ago

  @ArcadeValentine problem is that you can't do business at all. like, say you want to draw IoIi lewds for money. well, paypal, mastercard, visa, they all hate you, so what do you do? ****** lie that you're not doing what you're doing. why are death threats a requirement for oppression?

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  Delores S (@SwansonDel3782) reported 1 hour ago

  WTS FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 TICKETS I’m selling my tickets for spain 🇪🇸 VS Argentina 🇦🇷 final 2026 World Cup match for July 18 . I could not make it due to error on my flight schedule. I accept PayPal goods and services Kindly message if you’re interested

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  Kiri (@_Kirichu_) reported 1 hour ago

  @talim_stuff Omgg terrible time to only have access to PayPal... 😭 This is SO cute