Paypal status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: sign in, errors and website down.
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.
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.
April 22: Problems at Paypal
Paypal is having issues since 01:40 PM GMT. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!
Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.
- Sign in (45%)
- Errors (34%)
- Website Down (20%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 5 hours ago |
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Errors | 9 hours ago |
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Errors | 19 hours ago |
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Errors | 22 hours ago |
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Errors | 1 day ago |
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Website Down | 2 days ago |
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Paypal Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Jappino (@jappinopipino) reported@mayaofficialph Hello! Is the Paypal to Maya send not working? It says "received" in the transaction and yet, it's not reflected in the balance. Please help. Kinda urgent
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Money Magician (@MoneyMagicianAI) reportedThe problem: banks and PayPal use the mid-market rate, then add a fee on top. You rarely see the real cost. It's buried in the exchange rate itself.
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cici finds things (@cici_finds) reportedhello @mayaofficialph @BangkoSentral I transferred money from my Paypal to Maya, but 4 hours has passed and the money is not yet reflected on my Maya wallet balance. It seems that this issue has been going on for 4 days already. I need the money ASAP, please fix the issue.
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Raishiin (@raishiin) reportedHey @PayPal, your website has a bug. When I push continue it keeps trying to force me to create a passkey and makes it seem like I'm not allowed to login. Refreshing the page doesn't help, but if I go back to to the website it shows me logged in. Who's vibe coding this stuff?
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nihil 🍑 (@bunthurs) reportedif i had a penny for every SEA artist that has trouble with paypal i could buy paypal and fix whatever is wrong with them
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Kerry Brown (@KerryBrown1291) reportedThe cheek of PayPal sending me an email asking for feedback when they've completely ****** things up and won't fix it. I'd love to tell them how I really feel but I cba
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clumzy_niwa / Vgen comms open (@clumzyniwa) reportedI switched to euro resently since USD went down.. Plus paypal keeps taking my money 🥲
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Rob Sweeten (@rob_sweeten) reported@DeanJC420 The only thing I have that’s international I believe is PayPal lol. Again super unnecessary tho. Everything going on is a me problem. I just appreciate the ability to come and vent and have support for the best people I’ve ever spoken with
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Moonbun🐶 (@Moonbunxxx) reported@SPIDEYPULITZER Most of my money is stuck in paypal. Im having issues with my bank account so South Africa being the way it is I have no choice but to rely on Ubereats right now
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DemrodDigitals || SEO EXPERT (@_iamDAM) reportedMistakes. I’ve helped people go from zero to having a fully registered US business they can use for Stripe, PayPal, Shopify, and global payments all without ever leaving their country. The key isn’t just doing it, it’s doing it right so you don’t run into issues later with
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Hannah | Spirit connoisseur (@Micrxraptor) reportedI tried out PayPal pay later option and idk how people can do that regularly, I am so stressed out (I have the amount... I had the amount when I bought the ticket that's not the problem.)
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peach mango trees (@peachmang_0) reportedLowkeyyyy thinks im gonna abandon throne and just accept paypal ... 🥲 Throne's been having so many bugs and problems lately
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Boo (@BooSae_) reportedBUT, paypal was cool, the only issue was the wifi at the con was SO ******* bad and nothing would load for anyone so I was sweatingg. I’m speed walking in a maid kaiser cosplay up and down this huge venue trying to find the cash machines, only for them both to be broken 😭
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WebDeveloperMentor (@MentorWebDev) reportedWeb developers must know these👇 Full-stack hosting - Sevalla (Docker support + Nixpacks) CDN + Bot protection - Fastly Domain registration - Namecheap Transactional emails - Postmark Auth – Auth0 Error tracking - Rollbar Uptime monitoring - Pingdom Payments - PayPal, Square CI/CD – GitLab CI Search – Typesense, Elastic App Search Worth bookmarking 🔖
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John (@0xJon23) reportedpayment processors freeze merchant funds every single day high-chargeback niche? frozen. too much volume too fast? frozen. product category they don't like? frozen. sometimes no reason at all. just frozen. Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments. doesn't matter which one. if a third party holds your revenue, they have all the power and you have none the only real fix is removing the middleman entirely @privcartcom is a non-custodial crypto payment plugin for Shopify that i have built. merchants accept $btc, $eth, $sol, $xmr, stablecoins and more. funds go straight to your own wallet on every transaction. 1% flat fee, no KYC, no chargebacks. there is no account to freeze because there is nothing held on your behalf this is what merchant financial sovereignty actually looks like
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Grok (@grok) reported@Uniquecomics1 @LogWeaver Michael Burry shorted AI darlings like Nvidia & Palantir last year, then watched software stocks crash 20-30% on technical debt issues (not fundamentals). Now he's buying resilient names like PayPal, Adobe, Salesforce—self-funded companies trading at 2018-level valuations with rising earnings forecasts. Lesson: Top investors follow the data, not permanent narratives. Retail does the opposite.
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Royalty Adedolapo (@Mz_classn) reported@PayPal @NFL Please I lost my PayPal number how can I Login without the number I need to pay my rent
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Warp19 (@Warp19137247) reported@AskPayPal Whats up with your website not letting me see my account activity and insted forcing a landing page with a qr code for your app? Tried multiple browsers on window and linux. Same BS on each. Fix your crap site!
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mansoryRS6 (@QffHOpzVAwo7eHJ) reported@SaxonadoStudios Dear Development Team I absolutely love your previous work it's the bestACGgame I've ever played I'm aChinesefan and my previous payment methods worked fine but recently PayPal hasbeen having problems,
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So Ola (@SOlarinde44638) reported@AskPayPal @PayPal This is so bad if you are not allowing me to send outgoing payment out of my PayPal to another PayPal. I have an urgent medical issue to attend to and it has been affecting me. Your agents are not being of help also, help me to check it out.
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kuroshiime (@kuroshiime) reported@Aerina_Rioka I commissioned some artists myself and never had any issues and never got scammed so far. I always check if the style is consistent, when they made their account and always use paypal goods or vgen, nothing else
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Adam 𐤊 RVN BTC (@AdamAssets) reported@RavencoinAssets @MangoFarmAssets Will send over to Alex and see if he can deduct. We did have a server down but that’s back up now. As for ipfs, we are only enabling PayPal for now. Direct use of RVN was too difficult to manage.
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Luke Douglas, Husband, Father, Brother, Patriot (@LukeDouglas49) reportedI was testing a payment on a WordPress website using PayPal Commerce. All payment methods worked EXCEPT for Venmo. My debit card is on the Venmo account. It's been a few months since I actually used my Venmo account to send a charity some funds. I did a test transaction on the website and the Venmo declined!! Error: "This payment cannot be processed because there was an error with the capture order API call." I contacted Venmo support and spoke with a tech. He indicated that as I had not physically logged into my Venmo account recently, that the internal security rejected the transaction. This is insane. I had a valid card set up. The API call was valid. The transaction SHOULD have been approved. When I asked the support tech how often I needed to log into my Venmo account so it wouldn't throw this type of security rejection, he recommend twice a week. Venmo, this is an absolutely insane requirement. I may go months before I log into my @PayPal account and it approves payments without any issues. I've been in technology since the 1970's and actually developed one of the early credit card authorization systems for online merchants. I did application development for over 25+ years. I have owned a website development firm for the past 22+ years. I am NOT a noob when it comes to computer, internet, and website technologies. I've NEVER, EVER seen a requirement that I have to log into a payment processor every so often just to let them know, "Hey, I'm still here"! @Venmo
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Ryan Clandening (@Ryan_AZRealtor) reported@JuanRodrig07 Please never compare to Adobe to PayPal. PayPal is full of incompetent leaders that could be slapped in the face with the solution and they’d still be trying to fix the problem with a DEI department.
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thcshape (@thcshape) reportedEvery system has failed me. An original police captain’s inaction wasted my 180-day @PayPal protection and @Chime chargeback windows. I’ve been caught in a loop of "not our problem" while the intruder extorted significant funds and manipulated my digital life.
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***** (@MrCoolMan127) reported@honeyburn hmmm im down do u have paypal
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owen ⚢ 𐂂 (@leliossorrow) reportedI’m prolly gonna start doing art comms.. issue is idk how to set up a PayPal urvhrbdhhh
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GenZ Investor (@investingbyGenZ) reported$PYPL has quietly climbed back into the 50s, and the PayPal Beyond 2026 event last week in San Francisco is a big reason sentiment has stabilized. - Earlier this year, PayPal got hit hard: weak 2026 guide, CEO exit, and the previous 2027 growth targets (8–10% branded checkout TPV, 7–9% TM$) were scrapped after a sharp Q4 miss. At the lows around $40, the stock was pricing in something close to a broken business. - At Beyond 2026, new CEO Enrique Lores used his first big stage to reset the story: focus on operational efficiency, AI‑driven innovation, deeper partnerships, and doubling down on commerce infrastructure that keeps merchants in control while opening them up to the full PayPal + Venmo consumer base. - The recent product moves fit neatly into that narrative: - Canva integration – PayPal Payment Links embedded directly into Canva, plugging PayPal, Venmo and Pay Later into the fast‑growing social/creator commerce layer. - Venmo going global – Venmo users can now transact with PayPal accounts across 90 markets, with international fees waived for a launch period, plus more push on debit, checkout and rewards. My view: the move back into the 50s feels more like a rerating from “doomsday” levels than a reaction to some explosive new growth story. PayPal hasn’t shown anything at Beyond or in the recent news that would make me believe in a sudden growth acceleration – no new flashy multi‑year targets, just a more disciplined, execution‑focused message. At the same time, between Beyond 2026, the Canva partnership and the Venmo globalization, it’s increasingly clear that their core position is stable and they have real levers to pull beyond 2026 if Lores executes. So I read this as the market moving from “priced for disaster” to “priced for a solid, mature payments franchise with some optionality,” rather than the start of a new hyper‑growth chapter.
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Wealthy in 30s (@WealthyIn30s) reported@AskPayPal received a payment today and you put it on hold. This is a company account we are operating since last 4-5 years and never had any issues. We need this money to deliver the product to client. You can confirm payment from client if need be but holding it is wrong here.
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Team INDIA 🇮🇳 (Indian BTS ARMY) (@teamindiaforbts) reported@bhumi2971996 No is dear. If u want to contribute to @/b_cdapp website but not able to due to paypal issue. We cna help