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 (44%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (22%)

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Beaufort	Sign in	4 hours ago
Lyon	Website Down	8 hours ago
Hildesheim	Sign in	8 hours ago
Châteauroux	Website Down	2 days ago
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	4 days ago
Athis-Mons	Errors	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

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  Dear Jesus (@PrayingtoJesus2) reported 1 minute ago

  Breakdown of the good news… 1. Shifting AI Off-Planet (The Energy Crisis Fix) The biggest hidden genius of the SpaceXAI / xAI merger is solving the global power crisis. Terrestrial AI data centers are consuming an unsustainable amount of Earth's electricity grid. [1] •What's Coming: SpaceX has filed to operate up to 1 million orbital data center satellites. •The Loop: Musk plans to use Starship to launch massive AI compute clusters directly into space. These space-based data centers will run on 100% pure, uninterrupted solar energy, bypassing Earth's power constraints completely. Starlink will then beam the AI processing power down to Earth instantaneously. [1, 2, 3] 🤖 2. The Internal "Circular Economy" Musk designs his companies so they don't have to rely on traditional, fragile global supply chains. Instead, his companies are their own primary customers. [1, 2] •Tesla’s factory labor: When Tesla rolls out its mass-produced Optimus Humanoid Robots, they won't be sold to the public first. They will be deployed inside Tesla’s own automotive factories to solve labor shortages and cut manufacturing costs to almost zero. [1] •The Compute Loop: The ultra-powerful AI chips designed by Tesla for its self-driving Robotaxis are funneled directly back to xAI to train newer versions of Grok. Nothing is wasted. [1] 🏦 3. Rewriting the Global Financial System Musk's oldest obsession is rebuilding the way money moves through the economy itself—a plan he has had since his early 1999 PayPal days. [1] •What's Coming: X is transitioning into an all-in-one financial hub. •The Loop: By integrating high-yield banking, peer-to-peer payments, and instant stock trading directly into X, Musk will have direct, frictionless access to hundreds of millions of retail investors. The next time a company like Neuralink or The Boring Company needs capital, his followers will be able to fund it natively in seconds, effectively cutting Wall Street banks completely out of the equation. [1] 🔮 The End Game: Post-Scarcity Economy Musk has openly predicted that by 2036, the combination of autonomous humanoid robots and advanced AI will create an "age of abundance" where goods and services are so cheap that traditional money will become almost meaningless. [1, 2] He isn't managing money to accumulate cash in a bank account. He is spending every dollar he can get his hands on now to control the core infrastructure of the future: the transport (SpaceX), the intelligence (xAI), and the automation (Tesla). [1, 2] If you'd like, we can focus on what is closest on the horizon: •Do you want to see how space-based AI data centers will actually work? •Are you curious about when the Optimus robots are scheduled to take over Tesla's assembly lines? [1, 2]

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  Senb0n22a (@senb0n22a) reported 1 minute ago

  @mattlovesjenni i only hate them when they intercept your normal login and try to apply one every goddamn time you try to login. e.g. paypal & microsoft, leave me tf alone, i login with password and that's all I want to do.

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  Zen (@itZen00) reported 2 minutes ago

  visa just tightened the number that can freeze your store. most sellers have no idea it moved. the numbers: 1. visa's threshold dropped to 1.5% this year 2. stripe caps around 0.5% 3. shopify payments and paypal sit closer to 1% your real danger line is probably tighter than whatever you've been told. cross it and you're not getting a warning. you're getting: - a reserve hold on 20% of payouts - or a full shutdown while the money you already made sits frozen. the fix isn't clever, it's boring: 1. respond to every support ticket inside 12 hours 2. run every ad claim through one test — would this survive your own mother reading it most flags trace back to one of those two. not the product.

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  guy that likes starlo 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽🇵🇸 (@cheesemuffin69) reported 3 minutes ago

  @SAY4CHEESE4 I think cuz of a gambling problem I had PayPal kept thinking my acc got hacked so I’m permanently banned from there

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  Josh (@JoshTradeOption) reported 6 minutes ago

  $PYPL just fell off a cliff. Here is why. On Friday, PayPal closed at 53.66. That is down about 12.7 percent on the day. It was down as much as 16 percent before the open. What happened? Advent and Stripe walked away. They had been chasing PayPal for months. Reports put their offer near 60.50 a share, worth more than 50 billion dollars. The PayPal board thought it was too low. Then the buyers left the table. So the deal premium left the stock. Here is the part to understand. A big chunk of that price was buyout hope, not business news. When the hope goes away, the price falls back to what the business is worth on its own. Now the market has to price PayPal as just PayPal again. Levels I am watching: Failure level: if it cannot hold near 53, sellers are still in charge. Confirmation level: back above 60.50 would say buyers see value with no deal at all. Risk here is real. Catching a knife like this is hard. The story is not over either. A new bidder could show up. Or the stock could just keep sliding for weeks. I do not own it. I am watching. Big drops on deal news often chop around a long time before they pick a side. Not financial advice. Do your own research. Do you all think 60.50 was too low?

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  🕳️ VOIDTALK 🕳️ (@_crtt10) reported 7 minutes ago

  @mftopboy People weh chop paypal glitch last week deh look you dey laugh

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  LunaProdu (@LunaProdu) reported 10 minutes ago

  I guess my paypal issue wasn't isolated.. Its a common thing happened to almost every users huh? My paypal was like 20+ years old.. Everything worked just fine.. Then they decided to implement AI to their website to cut corners.. Suddenly mass banning happening that include mine.. No warning, no notify.. Just instantly blocked my account AFTER i received a commission money.. So the money got stuck and cannot be cash out whatsoever (need at least $ 10 to cash out and i have like 8 atm)

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  Wild Rose Thorns (@wild_rosethorns) reported 12 minutes ago

  @CharBop Your struggle will be buying g points since hulu japan requires use of a Japanese based card or PayPal. I do have a server thats streaming it if peeps need.

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  M Heilner (@mjh2008) reported 16 minutes ago

  @CharliePawsUp Ok, folks - time to rally the troops and support our pal @CharliePawsUp and his mama! They have until Monday to get the rent money together and are behind on other bills, too, due to slow summer store months. Links in bio for PayPal and turkey sammiches!

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  Bill (@Billisthebooqy) reported 19 minutes ago

  @MattZylbert Zylbert my bank cards not working and the only way to add money is PayPal help a brother out

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  E (@dopeboyE43) reported 23 minutes ago

  Fix your ******* app @PayPal

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  Victor Romo (@vektortuga) reported 23 minutes ago

  @O_13_1_18 @reinprime @BeskInfinity He is, the paypal its being backed up by this guy benny hill, who was the modder in its discord server, he was on tg but only by invite, i manage the get in in the first days of everything.

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  Tratte Buzun 👻 (@Faheem_xxii) reported 23 minutes ago

  Most owners still use Claude like a polite intern who rewrites emails. That is the least useful thing it can do. Claude for Small Business now sits in Cowork with QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. It can reconcile, chase, draft, and package work. You approve before anything sends, posts, or pays. Many never flipped the toggle. They kept pasting into chat and wondering why it sounded generic. Stop asking it for sentences. Give it a job. 1. Build a business brain. One Project: offer, pricing, voice samples, FAQ, three winning proposals, two that lost, who you sell to, what you refuse. Skip this and you keep editing sludge. 2. Monday pulse. One page: cash, uncleared settlements, pipeline, this week's commitments, three things that hurt if ignored. Ends the twelve-tab morning. 3. Chase invoices. It reads open invoices, checks settlements, drafts the follow-up, queues it. You approve. Overdue cash stops rotting in a Friday spreadsheet. 4. Close the month for your accountant. Reconcile, flag mismatches, plain-English P&L, export a packet. They want fewer surprises, not a novel. 5. Forecast the ugly week. Thirty days out. Payroll vs incoming cash. Name the week you run out if two invoices slip. 6. Find busy work that loses money. Job costs, SKUs, clients. What looks healthy on revenue and thin on contribution. 7. First-pass contracts. MSA, vendor deal, lease. Flag odd indemnity, auto-renew traps, deviations from your terms. Not your lawyer. The highlighter before the lawyer. 8. Proposal factory. Load three that closed. New draft from a discovery call, same scope style, disclaimers already in. If first drafts still take half a day, the Project is empty. 9. Discovery call to next moves. Transcript in. HubSpot brief, follow-up, open questions, scope outline out. 10. Triage inbound. Sort by fit, budget signal, time-to-close. Draft the yes, the not-now, and the no. Stop answering in arrival order. 11. Support voice from real tickets. Paste twenty replies you were proud of. New complaints get that register, not helpdesk English. 12. Campaign from the slow stretch. Where revenue dipped. Which send moved pipeline. Then Canva assets against that brief, not "we should post more." 13. Repurpose one real offer. Workshop, drop, case study. Sales email, reminder, landing section, three posts that do not sound cloned. One source. Many surfaces. 14. Lead magnet that does work. ROI calculator, quiz, scope estimator as an Artifact. If it answers a question your sales call always answers, keep it. 15. Hire with a scorecard. Role brief, first-week plan, candidate emails. Same standard every time someone quits. 16. Handbook answers the team. Policies, PTO, invoicing, refunds. Staff ask Claude instead of you at 7pm. 17. Tax folder while it is boring. Missing docs, categories, questions your accountant asks in March. October is a gift. April is a tax. 18. Vendor quotes on one page. Price, term, lock-in, exit, the thing buried on page nine. 19. Turn the Monday task you hate into a Skill. Weekly report, recap, SOW format. If it repeats and the bar is specific, stop re-prompting it. 20. Cowork the sites with no connector. Portal report, form, the CSV a vendor still emails. Messy. Cheaper than a VA on the same six screens. Do not let it send, post, or pay in week one. Watch drafts. Fix the voice. Then widen the leash. Owners getting time back are not better prompters. They gave Claude a filing cabinet, a few tools, and one job with a human checkpoint. Start with the Project, the Monday pulse, and invoice chase. The rest can wait until those feel boring. Which of these replaced a real hour, and which still produced a draft you rewrote?

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  Tech Stox (@techstox) reported 25 minutes ago

  Chips gave it all back. Here's what went down on the Nasdaq today 👇 🟢 Workday +5.76%, Amazon +3.97%, Intuit +2.89%, Airbnb +2.73% Software and the big consumer names had a solid day. Apple, Microsoft and Google all finished green too. 🔴 PayPal −12.71% — a $50B takeover bid fell apart 🔴 Marvell −10.28% — beat on earnings and still got sold 🔴 Nvidia −4.57% — giving back the post-earnings pop Chips got hit across the board, not just Nvidia. ARM, Lam Research, Applied Materials all down hard. Kevin Warsh talked at Jackson Hole and made it clear the inflation fight isn't over, which usually hurts the expensive names first. Two days ago Nvidia was up almost 9%. Today it's down 4.5% and the whole chip trade came with it.

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  saph 🦄 (@stevestappen) reported 25 minutes ago

  @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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  Nandkishor (@devops_nk) reported 27 minutes ago

  @lalitgrateful I did not use wise but paypal work so well only problem is that they are charging so much fees suppose we are receiving 100$ they will deduct 7-8$ as a fees 🥲

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  Tarra 🇵🇸 (@freesickdepravd) reported 29 minutes ago

  Since eBay is still refusing to do anything I reported the issue to PayPal to at least get my money back hopefully

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  Ronald Britton (@Ronaldp38dy) reported 32 minutes ago

  @JayJayasuriya Permanent shutdown with zero explanation is such a hard place to be, no reason means no way to even fix whatever triggered it. Hope @AskPayPal actually gives you something concrete soon.

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  SignalVoyager (@signalvoyager) reported 41 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 Eww. @PayPal is disgusting. I would consider it a feature of graphene OS to have it crashed everytime it opens. Plus, @GrapheneOS is busy doing better things. I hope they won't fix this.

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  💚🍃~Ivern Wife~ 🍂 💚 (@Ivernnator) reported 45 minutes ago

  A couple of days ago, my PayPal app was updated, and I find it incredibly slow, tedious, and unintuitive. Does anyone else feel the same way? :(

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  dat bgtea - Spite 3 book in production~ (@iambgtea) reported 46 minutes ago

  Now that I'm thinking about it, are there other stories of mine that you want to see in book format? Probably won't print NC-17 stuff just to be on the safer side, given how the censorship hammer is coming down hard re PayPal. But lemme know!

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  Tech Stox (@techstox) reported 46 minutes ago

  PayPal turned down a $60.50 buyout. Stock is ~$54 pre-market after the buyers walked. Yesterday it closed $61. The run-up this summer was a Q2 beat plus “someone might take this private.” One of those just died. What’s left is a payments company still losing checkout share to Apple and Google, half a year into a new CEO, and no bid sitting under the price. Bloomberg says the group could come back. The stock got expensive relative to $60.50 - which is why they left. Cheaper from here, that math changes again. Did the board overplay it, or refuse to sell too cheap?

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  بايونيك مان (@ZiaDElqadY) reported 46 minutes ago

  @yagizozbilen @AskPayPal Have you tried talking to @Jonas_Nerd about this issues,?

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  尾籠 誇り 💎✨️ (@HokoriOogomori) reported 53 minutes ago

  @MikaM0r0n i'd be interested!! though the issue is i can only pay via vgen or kofi since i don't have a paypal account set up 💔

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  Moodtrack Diary (@MoodtrackDiary) reported 55 minutes ago

  @drewwash @braintree @PayPal I asked support and they recommended holding off on refunds for now as a recovery effort is underway and should include refunding or crediting incorrect charges. They also said it's a P1 issue and they are targeting resolution for end of day today.

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  Ontario Frugal | Faith & Strategy (@OntarioFrugal) reported 56 minutes ago

  @losinghopein @PayPal @AskPayPal I had a crazy problem a bit like this when I tested the Bree app.They weren't supposed to take their payment until my pension came in - the crazy app took it 2 weeks early!

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  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 57 minutes ago

  @ooyanggy I haven't been able to work for about 2 years now due to sudden health complications needing surgery. This one illness has destroyed my husband and I financially. The injection I need isn't covered by my insurance and costs $500 month. Now my husband gets paid and after bills there like $100 left for food for 2 weeks. We have been living on cereal, cheap frozen pizzas and hot dogs. Sometimes I dont eat for a few days so the food lasts longer. If we could any donation to help out, We would be so thankful! Hopefully these gas and grocery prices go down and I get healthy enough to work again. I dont even know how much to ask for...$500 or $1000? Here is my PayPal QR code.

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  Aydın Nasuh (@aydinasuh) reported 58 minutes ago

  @ZidaneZ08902030 @ShubHQcom Neither, from what I can see, and that is the part that surprised me. My scoring tags sentiment per mention, not the reason, so I cannot give you a clean split. But I can check whether payments show up as a problem theme at all, and they do not. This week's e-commerce themes are unfair reviews, Meta Ads instability, account suspensions, dropshipping quality, margin pressure. Cumulatively it is shipping, inventory, ad costs, tax, account holds, chargebacks. No payments theme anywhere. Meanwhile Stripe has 130 mentions and PayPal 143. So payment tools never become the subject of a post. They get mentioned inside a post about something else, usually when a payout is held or a chargeback lands. That is what 65 percent neutral and zero percent positive actually looks like. Nobody writes about their processor. They write about the thing that went wrong around it. Your question exposed a real gap though. Reason tagging is going on the list.

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 59 minutes ago

  THE BUYERS LEFT. PAYPAL $PYPL FELL WITH THE SALE PRICE: PayPal PYPL at $53.66, -$7.81 / -12.7% today. Two groups who said they might buy the whole company walked away, and the extra price that bet was carrying disappeared in one day. THE LEMONADE STAND You run a lemonade stand. A bigger lemonade company and a rich grown-up tell everyone they will buy the WHOLE stand. They name a price: $60.50 for each piece. Other kids start paying $61 for a piece, because a sale at $60.50 is already on the table and maybe someone pays more. Then the buyers say never mind. Nobody puts a new offer down. A piece is now worth what kids will pay for the lemonade itself, not for a sale that is not happening. That is today. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED On July 15, Reuters reported that Stripe, a privately held payments company, and Advent International, a firm that buys whole companies, had offered $60.50 a share - about $53B for all of PayPal. The stock went $47.37 to $55.52 that day: +$8.15 / +17.2%, on 91.0M shares. Thursday it closed at $61.47, still a little above the bid. Thursday night Bloomberg reported, citing people it did not name, that Stripe and Advent had dropped the pursuit. PayPal, Stripe, and Advent each declined to comment. The Wall Street Journal had already reported that PayPal's board found $60.50 too low. Friday opened at $53.74, touched $52.62, and settled at $53.66. That is -$7.81 / -12.7% on 36.0M shares against Thursday's 9.2M, about four times that day's volume. The S&P 500, the 500-company average most retirement accounts track, closed at 7,711.76, -19.23 pts / -0.25%. One canceled sale is loud. The average is not. A share is still above the $47.37 it fetched the day before anyone mentioned a bid. The extra for the sale left. The stand did not. WHAT THE STAND ACTUALLY SOLD PayPal runs the checkout button on websites, plus Venmo and Braintree. San Jose. Enrique Lores is chief executive. The last report, July 28, covering the three months ended June 30: - Total payment volume - the dollars that moved through its buttons: $486.4B, +10%. - Sales, money coming in the door: $8.68B, +5%. - Transaction margin dollars - the money it keeps after the cost of moving a payment: $3.9B, +1%. - Profit per share, the profit split across every share in existence: $1.25 on the strict count, -3%; $1.38 with some items set aside, -1%. Volume grew ten times faster than the cash kept. That is the lemonade, and it was true before anyone named $60.50. WHERE IT SITS PayPal is 40th of 48 on the Quality-Value Len5, the style that hunts a durable business at a fair price. The fair-price half is loud at about 10 times the last year of profit - ten dollars of share price for each dollar earned. The durable half is that July 28 gap: 10% more dollars moving, 1% more cash kept. It also bought back $1.5B of its own stock in that quarter, about 33 million shares, which raises every remaining owner's slice. The gap closing would firm the read. Another quarter of volume outrunning the cash-kept line by that much would break it. A 12.7% drop after an unsigned offer dies is the opposite of a breakout on the company's own news. WHAT A CURIOUS GROWN-UP CAN WATCH Whether PayPal, Stripe, or Advent puts the walk-away in their own words - none of the three has - and whether the next quarter's cash-kept line grows any closer to that 10% volume pace. Not investment advice.

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  James Wester (@jameswester) reported 60 minutes ago

  Retweeting a retweet of @regulatorynerd from July re: Stripe/PayPal and pointing to this: "And the fact they need to involve Advent to fund it illustrates why they should have gone public already. A public company could do this without PE." It wasn't just PayPal's issue.