Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
We’ve been working hard at listening to your feedback and adding new features that make Venmo easier to use. Rejoice– we’re getting closer to being able to completely eliminate cash from our lives.
- Alert preferences- In your account settings, you can now control how often you receive notifications from Venmo– weekly transaction summaries, payment notifications, and Fav notifications.
- Invite your friends- You can now invite up to 10 friends to Venmo. Give the gift of Venmo to people who you frequently exchange money with– roommates, friends, and family members!
- Tweet your payments- Connect to Twitter, and post your Venmo payments automatically to Twitter by adding “#tw” at the end of each message you send to Venmo. Use our Twitter Connect to share payments, invoice your friends who owe you money, and share items you’re selling with your friends!
- Fav spell check- We all make typos (yes, even this guy). If you try to make a payment on Venmo to one of your fav’s, and accidentally type in the wrong name, we’ll make sure you had the correct user.
As always, we’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Think of a killer feature we need to add? Let us know! Talk to us at our support forum, on Twitter, Facebook, or just leave us a comment below.
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
We’re excited to announce that Venmo is now being accepted by the following food trucks serving up delicious meals on Penn’s campus! Next time you’re hungry or want some coffee, stop by at one of these fine establishments and Venmo them for your food.
- Hemo’s on 38th and Walnut- username hemos
- HubBub coffee on 38th & Spruce- username hubbub
- Don Memo’s on 38th & Sanson- username memos
- Coup de Taco on 40th between Spruce & Locust- username coupdetaco
View Venmo food trucks in a larger map
Tweet us about your meal, or write on our Facebook wall!
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
If you’re a vendor with multiple employees staffing your location at different times (for example, a food truck, small business, coffee shop, or campus organization), you might be wondering how you can use Venmo with an account named after your business. After all, isn’t Venmo tied to your phone number? How can an employee at the register verify that a customer has paid if they don’t personally get a payment receipt?
Introducing group receipts, a new feature that lets multiple employees get access to a single account’s invoices!
Here’s how to set it up:
1. If you’re the admin or manager of the business or group, you register a main account named after your business, for example: johnscoffee.
2. Let’s say you have 1 employee staffing your store apart from you, named Brian. He sets up an individual Venmo account, for example with the username brian.
3. To give Brian access to your receipts, you send Venmo a text with the prompt “ping [username of employee]“. For example, you’d say “ping brian” in a message to Venmo.
4. Brian will immediately get notified that you gave him access to your invoices. He needs to reply with the prompt “sub johnscoffee” to subscribe to johnscoffee’s receipts.
You can repeat this process for as many employees as you want. Each employee simply has to respond with “sub [username of the main business account]” (in this case, it’d be “sub johnscoffee”).
What are the benefits of using group receipts?
- You make it easy for customers to pay you, since they only have to remember the Venmo account named after your business (e.g. johnscoffee).
- You don’t need a dedicated device or point of sale system.
- Anyone on your staff can man the register or checkout line– you don’t have to be around all the time.
- You can keep track of your receipts and payments from one central account.
Get started using group receipts today! Got any questions? Let us know in the comments or send us an e-mail!
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