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A Venmo account is a fast and popular way to transfer money between users without requiring a bank account, credit card, debit card, or relying on a bank-to-bank ACH transfer. The app makes the process even easier, allowing you to send money from the best 5G phones or other mobile devices.
11 Venmo tips and tricks for easy transfers
Learn how to get the most out of the Venmo cash app with these tips and tricks
Venmo is a go-to payment app and digital wallet that takes the stress out of sending money to friends, family, and other contacts in a few quick taps. The app is easy to set up and a breeze to use when splitting cab fare, paying a friend back for food, or managing shared household bills. While you might be a Venmo pro, chances are there are some hidden features you didn't know existed, including handy functions and safety tools.
How to transfer money from PayPal, Venmo to your bank and why you should do so immediately
Keep your money in a safe place
PayPal and Venmo are convenient ways to make purchases, receive payments, and send money to friends. Holding a PayPal balance is a great way to make quick payments on our favorite shopping apps without entering your card details. But you may want to rethink keeping cash in peer-to-peer (P2P) apps.
How to delete your Venmo account
A complete guide to deleting your Venmo account without losing access to your funds or how to keep your Venmo and avoid scams
Venmo can be a convenient tool when you want to split a bill or share expenses with friends. However, there are plenty of other ways to do the same thing. If you signed up for Venmo some time ago but no longer use it, you might want to delete your account. Security concerns could be another reason to close your Venmo account.
Venmo is giving teenagers their very first debit card
Keep tabs on their spending, and your credit card in your wallet
Having a credit or debit card is essential for, well, a lot of things. As we move forward to a digital world, online payments keep becoming more and more common. Cash is really just useful if you're buying something in person. Anything else? Fill in those 16 digits on the back of your card and hit that pay button. As such, if you're a teenager, you're probably excited about getting your very first debit card. It could come from a bank, or it could come from an online wallet, which are actually very similar to banks in functionality these days. Venmo wants to have the honor of being the first to issue you a debit card with your name on it.
If you've ever wanted to quickly send funds to someone without jumping through hoops, Venmo is a popular option. As a mobile payment platform, you can use Venmo on your smartphone to securely send and receive funds with a few quick taps. You also don't need a high-end device to use the service. You can easily send funds from one of the best Android budget phones. In this guide, we go over how to set up your first Venmo account and highlight some of its core features you can check out.
Venmo's redesign moves its tabs to a bottom bar, and it's going live for more users
Say goodbye to the global feed
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Payment apps like Venmo have improved many group dinners out at restaurants — no more fighting over the bill when you can transfer money right at the table. Of course, it's far from a perfect service. Although the social feed makes it easy to find your contacts in Venmo, it also features a global feed broadcasting every public transaction made in the app. With an upcoming redesign, you can say goodbye to that worldwide channel.
Venmo is introducing new fees, and you're not going to like them
Fees for more goods and services will go into effect next month
Venmo is a popular user-to-user money transfer service, which gained a lot of ground for being easy to use and essentially free. But ever since PayPal bought the company back in 2013, the writing was on the wall for the first part of that. Soon the latter will start to look more like the former, with a series of increasing fees for some money transfers beginning next month.
Twitter's new Tip Jar makes it super easy to support your favorite creators
Likes and retweets alone won't pay the bills
More often than not when a tweet goes viral, we see follow-up tweets that ask for support, sometimes monetary. Twitter has noticed this too and so it's introducing Tip Jar to make it easier than ever to send money to your favorite creators or organizations.
Venmo heard you like stories, so it added stories to its app to give you more stories
(Except they aren't real stories)
In case you haven't heard, everyone likes stories now. Sure, maybe you don't, but judging by how many apps now carry them as a feature, you're on your own. Everyone from Spotify to Pinterest to Twitter has shown interest in stories in the last few months, to say nothing of old standbys like Snapchat and Instagram. Venmo, the PayPal-owned payment platform that pulls double-duty as a mini social network, has decided to get in on the fun, but not really in the way you might expect.
Major Venmo outage has been preventing payments from going through
Sixth outage in 6 weeks, according to Downdetector reports
PayPal-owned Venmo appears to be going through a service outage which is preventing users from making peer-to-peer payments. User reports to Downdetector began spiking around 10 a.m. PST today. A resolution, however, seems to be gradually rolling out.
Venmo, the payment service owned by PayPal that people like using way more than PayPal, has just announced the ability to cash checks through the Venmo app. The feature, aptly named "Cash a Check," arrives just in time for the latest round of stimulus checks, though there are fees associated for non-government checks.
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PayPal is launching support for U.S. customers to trade and hold cryptocurrency and to use it as a funding source for retail purchases. The payments processing company has expedited plans for global expansion as it looks to catch the first big wave of future digital public currencies.
Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, Cash app, and Google Pay compared: Which is the best money transfer service?
If you're still splitting the bill with cash, you're doing it wrong
Paying and getting paid is easier than ever, but the various apps you can choose to transact with have their upsides and downsides. Picking one can be difficult, and signing up for all of them even more so — especially when it often means convincing friends and family to do so as well. But old school bank ACH transfer tools are for the birds, and cold, hard cash remains a dicey proposition in the current environment. Splitting the bill with cash is also just a pain, and newer peer to peer (P2P) payment apps are so much more convenient that it's truly silly in 2020 not to be using one. While it does mean giving an app access to your bank account information, hundreds of millions of people around the world use similar services every day. The privacy and security concerns are demonstrably low, and the simplicity and speed of many of these services simply make them indispensable for modern transacting.
Venmo rolling out new design so you can pay or request in fewer taps
It's also a lot brighter in here...
PayPal-owned Venmo is rolling out a new paintjob for its app, cutting down on its signature blue for more white and making it easier to get to paying or requesting money.
Back in July, Uber announced that Venmo, PayPal's strange mobile payment service/social media feed combo, would be added as a payment method "in the coming weeks." It's been about seven weeks since then, and Venmo support has just gone live for both Uber and Uber Eats.
PayPal has revealed today that it will be adding Venmo as an option during checkout. For now, it will be opt-in for users of Venmo and will manifest itself with the same convenience as PayPal. During the checkout process, users will be able to select Venmo with no changes required by sellers. There is no additional cost to the customer or retailer to use Venmo over PayPal.
Mobile payments app Venmo has been around for years now, but without two-factor authentication, security hasn't been as good as it could be. Fortunately the company is now getting around to changing that. Today it announced that it has added two-factor authentication to its mobile apps (Android and iOS) as well as the web.
One of PayPal's problems is that it's immensely popular. As the service implements more features and grows to support a larger user base, it inevitably loses some people along the way. If you want an app that makes it easy to send money to friends that isn't PayPal, Venmo is worth a look. It's simple, doesn't charge to send money from most bank accounts or debit cards, and it just received an update that makes the experience look more at home on Android.
If there are two words that can quickly get people excited, it's "free money." And we just so happened to have some to give away, thanks to Venmo. Haven't heard of Venmo? Here's the skinny: it's a quick, easy, and efficient way to instantly send money to friends. Kind of like Paypal, but without the Paypal-ness of it all – it's all just very simple and straightforward.