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 |
|---|---|
| Guayaquil, Guayas | 2 |
| Berlin, Berlin | 2 |
| Township of Evan, KS | 2 |
| Ciudad López Mateos, MEX | 1 |
| Anglet, Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 1 |
| Hamburg, HH | 2 |
| 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 | 3 |
| Benfeld, ACAL | 1 |
| Gérardmer, ACAL | 1 |
| Lodève, Occitanie | 1 |
| Brisbane, QLD | 1 |
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Community Discussion
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Paypal Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Steven Hughes Transport Videos (@StevenHughes129) reported@bran_di98 @DavidJa51216245 @OrevaZSN A lot of it is down to the processor. Your bank is only one part of the chain. Visa/Mastercard/PayPal/Square etc all form part of the transaction chain. While money moves from your available balance instantly when you process a transaction, it usually shows as "pending". 1/2
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ericthepoet (@ericbundipoet) reported@PayPal I transfered money from PayPal to Mpesa on Thursday 27th August, the money was deducted from PayPal but never hit my Mpesa. The status of the transaction is marked as complete. I need some assistance and escalation of that issue.
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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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Adel (@adelpheee69) reported@ichi_dokusha Hello! I can't DM you but I missed first payment bc my PayPal got hacked and I've been trying to fix it. I'm happy to pay through kofi tho if fatson is still available 😭
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🔍⍤⃝🔎✩‧₊*:･⟭⟬ꪑꫀᧁꪖ ᦓꪻ᥅꠸ꪀᧁ᥇ꫀꪖꪀ⁷⟬⟭･:*₊‧✩🔍⍤⃝🔎 (@MegaStringbean) reported@timetobe_brave Just use PayPal... if someone refuses to use it that's your #1 sign its a scam. And if they use PayPal but scam you, PayPal will fix it.
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Stephen Urbanik (@UrbanikStephen) reported@BestBallJunkie @Underdog Well a free PayPal debit card would solve the problem here
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Glerf (@real_oriox) reported@OpieRadio I suppose you will take down all the paypal links from your streams?
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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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Sagzee (@IAmSagzee) reportedPeople think I was built to help people sell things they do not want anymore. That’s not why I survived. I survived because I solved a much stranger problem: how do you get two total strangers, who live thousands of kilometres apart and will never meet, to trust each other with their money? Before I launched on 3 September 1995 as AuctionWeb, buying something from a person in another country required institutional trust. You bought from a brand, a store, or a corporation. If an individual wanted to sell a used laser pointer to a stranger, the transaction usually died in the cradle. Why would the buyer send money first? Why would the seller ship the item first? So what did I actually invent? I didn't invent online auctions. I invented a cheap, self policing reputation system. By letting buyers and sellers rate each other after every transaction, I turned trust into a public score. Suddenly, misbehaving on a $10 transaction cost you the ability to make money on future transactions. The score became an asset. That single feedback loop lowered transaction costs so dramatically that a massive, latent global market for second hand goods instantly materialised. Does that mean I created a perfect market? No. I created an information game. Because I don't hold the inventory, I don't inspect the goods, and I don't ship the packages. I'm a protocol masquerading as a marketplace. I collect a fee on the listing and a fee on the final value, which means my profit margin is extraordinary, but my operational risk is shifted entirely onto the participants. When a seller lies about the condition of a collectible, or a buyer claims a box arrived empty, I'm forced to step in as a pseudo judicial system. But because human dispute resolution doesn't scale at the speed of software, I automated the justice system. Algorithms evaluate risk and freeze funds. That creates a distinct structural shift. To protect the buyer and keep the network growing, I eventually had to strip away the wild, unregulated peer to peer charm that made me famous. I forced sellers to accept standard return policies, integrated mandatory payment processors like PayPal, and favoured high volume commercial sellers over ordinary people clearing out their attics. So what am I now? I started as a digital flea market where people discovered rare items. I evolved into a friction free clearinghouse for global surplus goods, refurbished electronics, and commercial inventory. The very reputation score that made me possible eventually became a barrier to entry. New sellers can't easily compete with commercial entities that have 50,000 positive reviews, and small casual sellers get squeezed by automated fraud controls designed for high volume trade. I proved that humans are far more trustworthy than conventional economics assumed, provided you build a system that records their history. But to keep that trust operating across hundreds of millions of transactions, I had to replace the personal human connections with cold, automated oversight. In the end, I didn't just digitise the yard sale. I proved that if you give people a score, they'll build a global economy for you. I started as AuctionWeb. Today, I'm known as ebay. #eBay #eBaySeller #Reselling
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vvinterorange art ♦️ (@vvinterorange) reported@frantabul0sa so boosty and hypolink are my only way to sell something xD they are patreon-like and must accept bank cards soo i guess it could work?? as i know all artists in my country use them... but these platforms dont have a paypal payment option and that could be a problem... idk
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Unc (@UncSupply) reported@phantasyftw @phantasyftw I'll paypal you 20 bucks if you tell Joe someone's at the front door and go push the GREEN button on the server rack for us right now.
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Compsci Guy🇺🇲 (@compsciman) reported@linuxuser1996 Just to verify that this issue still exists. I intentionally logged out of PayPal while my password manager was still enabled. I closed and then reopened it. Then it began crashing. Disabling the password manager (with protection compatibility still enabled) temporarily fixed it
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RINGO🔞 (@ringo6678) reported@Saviourofman1 I'm not very comfortable using PayPal because there are several issues on my end.😥
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Kali 🔞 (@domocup7eleven) reportedPayPal ******* shutting down my account cuz it’s been inactive apparently (it hasnt been, AT ALL)
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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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