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PayPal user-reported issues in the last 24 hours

This chart displays the number of user-reported PayPal problems over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem.

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PayPal outage history

IsDown has tracked 328 incidents since started monitoring PayPal downtimes in May 2021. We are also collecting data from 4000+ services, and normalize the data to give you a clear picture of the impact of the outage.

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Latest user comments about PayPal issues

  • M

    Micaela

    Payments

    I can not transfer funds nor can people send me funds?

  • A

    Alisha

    Crypto

    Ive been waiting for 4 hours for my paypal usd to send its been in pending status for 4 hours

  • A

    Amber

    Crypto

    Pending Crypto Deposit still pending after being confirmed over 5hours ago on the blockchain!

  • R

    Rebecca

    Crypto

    I sent bitcoin to my wallet and it confirmed on the blockchain but it is not showing up on PayPal. What is going on??

  • R

    Rory

    Crypto

    Sent solana to my PayPal confirmed on blockchain but no pending transactions from PayPal been 5 hours

  • M

    Matthew

    Crypto

    Transfer confirmed on block chain, but not showing anywhere in paypal crypto wallet

  • D

    Dany

    Crypto

    LTC cleared on blockchain and PayPal has been pending for 4 hours, usual is like 20-40min

  • K

    Karl

    Crypto

    Litecoin confirmed on Blockchain for hours and PayPal has not released the funds. Customer service saying its a known issue, but there is nothing online about this.

  • J

    Jamie

    I’ve not received two payments that I’ve sent to my account so far.

  • C

    Charles

    Ihavnt been able to get in for the last hour.

  • V

    Veronica

    Paypal is not working when attempting to make a purchase

  • L

    Leland

    Unable to login on my computer

  • W

    WENDY

    CAN NOT PAY WITH MY PAY PAL ACCOUNT

  • C

    Charles

    Have not been able to get in for the last 30 minutes

  • P

    Paul

    Not loading main screens

  • G

    Gary

    Cannot make a payment on Ebay.

  • S

    sara

    I can't make payments (as I always used to) or add funds to my PayPal wallet using cards

  • T

    Trisha

    Invoicing

    I am unable to send an invoice. Keeps saying I am missing information, but everything is entered correctly

  • R

    Rex

    Problems with direct deposit.

  • I

    Isaac

    Crypto

    Technical issue sending btc. Will not send.

  • S

    S.

    I’m trying to by something from Calming Co. and it said I something to the effect of “sorry, use another payment method”.

  • N

    Nigel

    Account

    Unable to login, wheel of death going round for nearly 20 mins now

  • N

    nozai

    im signing in but it says its not currently available

  • G

    Geoff

    Account

    Cannot log in to account, says account does not exist

  • R

    Richard

    Everytimei try to log in it takes me back saying tech issue and the too many sign in attempts then it finalizes with we are having issues try to sign in later

  • D

    David

    Trying to send money it says there’s a problem with the network

  • M

    mark

    can't login. People must use down detector a lot more because it's going crazy over there

  • P

    Phil

    It says things are not working at the moment - try again. Been saying this for more than 24 hours.

  • C

    chad

    Keeps saying things dont appear to be working at the moment.

  • G

    Gina

    Account

    I cannot log in to my account

  • S

    Skeeter

    Crypto

    I can't purchase crypto on my PayPal account because they say it is currently down

  • C

    Chastity

    I am trying to pay with my account, and it is stating it is having a problem. I am trying to do Buy now pay later.

  • K

    Kathyann

    Its not allowing me to pay with Paypal

  • E

    Emery

    PayPal's verification system is not working it will refuse to allow you to grant access to your camera on phone device

  • J

    janice

    my payment will not complete...tells me paypay is unavailable

  • J

    Jill

    Trying to buy a virtual doordash gift card but it won't let me pick a card amount.

  • I

    Ian

    Crypto

    Transfer button days can't be completed currently

  • R

    Robyn

    Cannot send money to friend

  • G

    George

    Doesn't load from shopping cart

  • G

    Gregory

    Crypto

    Not letting my buy PayPal coin

  • J

    Jordyn

    I am not able to send crypto

  • L

    Louise

    Trying to make a payment to World Central Kitchen (CA wildfires). Tried twice...hasn't gone through.

  • C

    C

    It keeps kicking me out as soon as I log in. It is also happening to my friend also. We are attempting to pay for our childrens sporting registration.

  • C

    Christopher

    Crypto

    Won’t let me transfer the money giving me an error message

  • A

    ali

    All connected cards and accounts have disappeared and I am prompted to add a new bank account but it wont store it.

  • K

    karlene

    I can't login to my account It only seems to happen when something is going on with crypto why is very frustrating

  • R

    ROBERT

    CANNOT LOG INTO MY TWO ACCOUNTS. SPENT DAYS CALLING PAYPAL TO FIX THEIR PROBLEMS. TODAY, TRIED TO BUY A FISHING REEL FOR $148, AND PAYPAL CREDIT SAID I HAD NO ACCOUNT. PAY PAL COULD NOT FIX ANYTHING--SICK OF SEEING SPINNING CIRCLE NOT LETTING ME INTO ACCOUNTS. PAYPAL HAS NO LEADERSHIP TO FIX ...

  • M

    mette

    Can't pay, just spinning.

  • S

    Susan

    App just spins. Won’t open

  • V

    vasiliki

    can't login to my accound and says that there’s no account associated with this email.

  • A

    Ash

    Will not let me pay for items just spinning

  • A

    Andrew

    Crypto

    can not purchase bitcoin cash.

  • G

    Gloria

    Account

    Won't accept my password and will not let me reset it just keeps looping me back to the enter password. Won't let me do a code either.

  • C

    Celestine

    Not able to log into my account

  • A

    Alpha

    No login possible Canada

  • C

    Connie

    Cannot log in Cannot pay with PayPal

  • J

    Jordan

    Unable to Login with Correct credentials, Password won’t reset, login and PW reset functions don’t work. No email notifications, no phone number login. No payments can be made

  • W

    william

    will not send and now it wont let me log in

  • C

    Captain

    Account

    I appear to be having the same issues as everyone else, I try to login to PayPal but it appears my credentials are incorrect? I tried to reset my password, but it will not allow me to proceed further?

  • P

    Perparim

    Account

    Won’t allow to sign in says something wrong with my credentials

PayPal outages in the last 30 days

Number of Incidents

4 issues

Last incident

9 days ago

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Having problems with PayPal? What can you do?

  1. First, stay calm.

    • We know it's stressful when PayPal is down, but running around is not going to fix it.
    • Remember that it's normal for services to go down sometimes. It can be for a number of reasons, from maintenance to unexpected issues.
  2. Make a quick evaluation of the impact of the PayPal outage

    • Try to evaluate the impact of the outage on your business. Is it impacting a majority of your users or just a few?
    • Did PayPal already acknowledge the issue? And published a status update? (You can find it in the top of the page or in PayPal status page)
    • If not, understand if other users are also experiencing issues. You can also check this information on the top of the page.
  3. Communicate with your team and users quickly

    • If PayPal is having problems and impacting your business, it's important to keep your team and users informed.
    • Share this page with your team, so you can start incident response procedures. No need for everyone to go around searching for information. Create a post or a specific channel in your internal communication tools (Slack, Teams, Google Chat, etc.) so you can aggregate all the information in one place.
    • If you have a status page, create a status update to inform your users about the issue. This way they know what's going on and you can avoid a flow of support requests overburding your team.
  4. Understand the root cause

    • After the first communication, let's move on to the next step. Do a more thorough investigation to understand the root cause of the issue and impact.
    • Reach out to the service provider to understand if they are aware of the issue and if they are already working on it. You can reach them in their support channels, or their social media channels if they have any.
  5. Is there any mitigation for the issue?

    • Understand if there are workarounds or mitigations for the issue. Can you use a different provider? Is the switch easy to do? Talk with your team to understand the best course of action.
    • Need to wait on the service provider to fix the issue? Understand if there is a timeline for the fix. Adapt your communication with your team and users to the situation. It's very important to keep everyone informed.
  6. Did PayPal recover?

    • Continue to monitor the situation. A lot of times, the service can see a brief recovery and declare the issue as resolved, but it can come back. Keep monitor for some time to make sure it's really resolved.
  7. Post-incident analysis

    • Once the issue is resolved, it's important to do a post-incident analysis. Understand what went wrong and if it's possible or needed to do something to prevent it from happening again.
    • Sometimes if it's a critical dependency, you might need to have a backup plan in place to avoid a similar issue.
    • Vendors usually publish post-mortem analysis reports, so keep an eye on their social media channels and website for more information.
  8. Prepare for the next incident, because it will happen again

    • Start monitoring your dependencies. Sign up to IsDown and aggregate all your dependencies status in one place.
    • Nowadays, it's very common to have a lot of dependencies, and keeping an eye on them is not an easy task. IsDown can help you with that, by aggregating and monitoring all dependencies status and alerting you if they are having issues. Create status pages to communicate with your team and users.

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Want to be informed about PayPal status changes?

IsDown offers an easy way to monitor PayPal with maximum flexibility

Major Outages Notifications

IsDown monitors PayPal for major outages. A major outage is when PayPal experiences a critical issue that severely affects one or more services/regions. When PayPal marks an incident as a major outage, IsDown updates its internal status, the customer status page and dashboard. Depending on the customer settings, IsDown will also send notifications.

Minor Outages Notifications

IsDown monitors PayPal status page for minor outages. A minor outage is when PayPal experiences a small issue affecting a small percentage of its customer's applications. An example is the performance degradation of an application. When a minor outage occurs, IsDown updates its internal status and shares that information on the customer status page. Depending on the customer settings, IsDown will also send notifications.

Outage Details

IsDown collects all information from the outages published in PayPal status page to provide the most accurate information. If available, we gather the title, description, time of the outage, status, and outage updates. Another important piece of information is the affected services/regions which we use to filter the notifications that impact your business.

Component Filtering

IsDown monitors PayPal and all their 67 components that can be affected by an outage. IsDown allows you to filter the notifications and status page alerts based on the components you care about. For example, you can choose which components or regions affect your business and filter out all other outages. This way you avoid alert fatigue in your team.

Early Outage Indicators

PayPal and other vendors don't always report outages on time. Our crowdsourced status platform helps you stay ahead of outages. Users report issues and outages, sharing details on what problems they are facing. We use that info to provide early signs of outages. This way, even without an official update, you can stay ahead of possible problems.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is PayPal down today?

PayPal is down. You can check PayPal status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors PayPal official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.

What is the current PayPal status?

PayPal seems to be having problems. You can check PayPal status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.

Is there a PayPal outage now?

Yes, there is an ongoing outage. You can check the details on the top of the page.

Is PayPal slow today?

Yes, PayPal might be slow has there's an ongoing outage. You can check the details on the top of the page.

How are PayPal outages detected?

IsDown monitors the PayPal official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.

When was the last PayPal outage?

PayPal last outage was on May 02, 2025 with the title "Initial Notification: Payflow: Delayed settlement on FISERV North platform (PP-LIVE-87970)"

PayPal not working for you? How do I know if PayPal is down?

How can I check PayPal status and outages?

Why use IsDown to monitor PayPal instead of the official status page?

Because IsDown is a status page aggregator, which means that we aggregate the status of multiple cloud services. You can monitor PayPal and all the services that impact your business. Get a dashboard with the health of all services and status updates. Set up notifications via Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, and more, when a service you monitor has issues or when maintenances are scheduled.

How IsDown compares to DownDetector?

IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if a service is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information. The integration allows us to provide more details about the outage, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.

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