If you are making a payment and don’t have enough money in your Venmo account, Venmo will automatically take the difference from your linked bank account. If you are requesting money, the other person will receive an email for the request, and you’ll receive an email notifying you that you’ve been paid. If you are paying someone, they will receive an email to click on to accept the payment, and then you will receive an email confirmation. However you’ve entered the info, once you’re ready to make the transaction, tap “Request” or “Pay” depending on the action you want to take. Emojis will pop up as you type certain words in your note, and you can choose to use them or not.įor more detailed instructions, please see our guide on how to use Venmo.Īll Venmo users are also assigned a personal QR code, and you can scan someone else’s to find them or show yours to a person or merchant to be scanned. You then enter as many people - by username, phone number, or email - as you’d like to pay or charge, the amount, and a note. Once you are signed up, it’s fast and easy to pay someone or request money from someone: Using the app (you can’t pay or request money through the website), find the Pay or Request button on the home screen-it will either say “Pay or Request,” or it will look like a pencil and a square.

(Note: Venmo is only available in the United States and only compatible with U.S.-based banks.) You must link a bank account to your Venmo account in order to use Venmo. In addition to the usual name, address, and phone info, you will be asked to enter your bank account information. To use Venmo, you must first set up an account, which you can do by downloading the Venmo mobile app (available for iOS and Android) or at.

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