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 |
|---|---|
| Portsmouth, England | 1 |
| Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 2 |
| Montpellier, Occitanie | 1 |
| Villeblevin, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 1 |
| Sydney, NSW | 3 |
| Leonardtown, MD | 1 |
| Mayen, Rheinland-Pfalz | 1 |
| Aubais, Occitanie | 1 |
| Harrow, England | 1 |
| Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 1 |
| Collinsville, OK | 1 |
| Newnan, GA | 1 |
| Créteil, Île-de-France | 1 |
| Tacoma, WA | 1 |
| Chicago, IL | 1 |
| Eugene, OR | 1 |
| Lormont, Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 1 |
| Novi Sad, Vojvodina | 1 |
| Biard, Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 1 |
| Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 3 |
| Brussels, Brussels Capital | 2 |
| Willenhall, England | 1 |
| Derry, Northern Ireland | 1 |
| Amsterdam, nh | 1 |
| Houston, TX | 1 |
| Paris, Île-de-France | 14 |
| Échillais, Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 1 |
| Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 1 |
| Sherman, IL | 1 |
| Reims, ACAL | 1 |
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Paypal Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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zaezae66* (@lynnarmitage7) reported@livysmith99 @JamesMc89631483 liv just done it, paid by paypal, put the extra 87p so they'd be no processing fee's, but no problems at all.
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さとう/Skeb.VGen (@sdus1017) reportedCurrently, to prevent problems, we are only accepting requests via X DM from individuals whose online activity on platforms such as streaming and video can be verified, and only with a "full prepayment via PayPal/no illustration revisions" system.
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Jean-Philippe Lebœuf (@jpleboeuf) reportedTried moving money out of PayPal Business. Even Gemini 3.5 Flash Extended couldn’t explain it after a long back-and-forth, even with full access to PayPal docs and Reddit. PayPal, your documentation and UX are broken: if an LLM cannot get it, regular users have zero chance.
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mira ✦ iono's #1 fan (@delusionedmira) reportedi fear they might shut down my paypal because they wont accept my face as identity
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Nathan 👨🍳 (@OriodofeNathan) reported@madamayo_ The PayPal part is my issue
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Jerry Beaird (@JerryBeaird2) reportedBy the year 2022 PayPal had shut down 4.5 million accounts.
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Light Memoirs (@LightMemoirs) reported@GretchenPSmith @PayPal Helping any one via PayPal has serious issues - I nolonger trust them - Lost money etc
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Anglo (@AngloAlbion) reported@Colour_awr @_VGen_ @PayPal The fact people do this is terrible. I’m sorry I can’t help and that this has happened to you 😩 People are so scummy
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Sal (@SallllllYT) reported@xX_d3stroy3r_Xx It’s cus Australia. I’ve never had issues with PayPal in UK
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Peinlicher Pimmelprimat Jonas Thunecke 🐵🐒😵💫🤪 (@beastiebearpig) reported@klose_alfred @myaltfr @myaltfr do NOT interact with this account! This dude is a scammer. he said the same to me and then he wanted by login data of my bank account, and as I refused to do that, he told me he can send money via paypal but I'd have to send him 50€ first.
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Santino the Archangel (@Santino_1964) reported.@PayPal why would you do this? Terrible terrible look and business practice.
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Big Brain AI (@realBigBrainAI) reportedOracle Co-Founder and Chairman Larry Ellison on why AI is fundamentally different from every tech bubble that came before it: He starts with the internet bubble — not to warn us, but to make a distinction most people are missing. "When people talk about bubbles, what is a bubble? People get exuberant. But the internet was an incredible new technology. It remains the foundation of computing, and we couldn't have AI without the internet." The technology was never the problem. The confusion was. "People started confusing internet companies like PayPal, or even worse internet search, with pets/com." He breaks it down simply: "The fact that I can sell pet food on an e-commerce site doesn't suddenly mean I'm an internet company. Not really." PayPal used the web to build something genuinely new. Pets/com just moved an existing business online and called it innovation. Same label. Completely different substance. He sees the pattern repeating today: "Yes, there'll be people spending money on AI because almost every tech company these days calls themselves an AI company. But they're not. A lot of them are not." But here is where Ellison draws the line between then and now. The internet was foundational. But AI is something else entirely: "AI in terms of its value, this is the highest value technology we have ever seen. By far."
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Jack Raper (@JackRaper7) reported@RightScopee Not in a minute. They money will be spent to save way more than a 1000 livelihoods! Look at the vision, the success and transparancy and the facts of what this man is truly about and why the extra zeros matter. Elon could drop a million dollars at my feet and walk away and I am the poor MF that would chase him down to give it back and ask WTF just out of curiousity. Obviously I am an Elon fan and have been since his PayPAl days.
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Ereas ♔ (@ereas_kaanta) reported@Colour_awr @_VGen_ @PayPal I had the same problem as you a few months ago, for a smaller amount, but neither VGen nor PayPal helped me. The scammer got away with it and received his money back.
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Artist in residence (@artyfarty75) reported@wariocolosseum Musk was born in 1971. He first appeared on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2012 (around age 41) with ~$2 billion net worth.  He made significant money earlier: ~$180 million from the PayPal sale in 2002 (age ~31), but it took further successes with Tesla and SpaceX for him to solidly reach billionaire status. The “40 years” rounds up from birth but overlooks that meaningful wealth accumulation accelerated in his 30s–40s through entrepreneurship, not a slow linear grind.  Now he is making $1 BILLION every 15 minutes from SpaceX stock moves alone.”Exaggerated but directionally illustrative of recent volatility. Musk’s net worth hit ~$1.3 trillion as of June 17, 2026. This is paper wealth tied to stock price fluctuations, not realized cash income. It can (and does) go down. This post reflects the polarised online discourse from people spreading misinformation or partial truths, exaggerated by the misinformed.