New Feature: Group Receipts
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!