Where Can You Use Venmo

Venmo users can now shop online anywhere PayPal is accepted in the U.S.

PayPal this morning appear its mobile payments service Venmo is at present available at over two one thousand thousand online U.S retailers, allowing Venmo users to store on the mobile web at almost everywhere PayPal is accepted today. This includes popular retailers like Lululemon, Forever21 and Foot Locker via the mobile web, the visitor says.

As with PayPal, eligible purchases bought using Venmo online will qualify for purchase protection, besides. For case, consumers can asking a full refund if they don't receive an item or if it's significantly different than described.

The move to make Venmo an online checkout pick will requite merchants a better way to attract millennial shoppers, PayPal explains, as the customer base for the social payments app skews millennial and its users are heavily engaged.

"Offering a way to pay at millions of retailers is a major stride in the evolution of Venmo," said Bill Set, Chief Operating Officeholder of PayPal, in a argument. "Our vision for Venmo is to not but exist the get-to app for payments between friends, just besides a ubiquitous digital wallet that helps consumers spend wherever and nonetheless they want to pay, regardless of device," he added.

As a plus, retailers will appreciate the exposure that the Venmo feed provides. The app's users are less shy about sharing what they're spending money on – like splitting the bill while eating out with friends, grabbing drinks at a bar, buying concert tickets, etc. At present, retailers are hoping their transactions will be shared on this social platform, too, giving them more exposure than a PayPal purchase would.

The addition of Venmo to the merchant'southward website doesn't crave extra integration work on the retailers' websites, PayPal says. Instead, the visitor is leveraging its platform architecture to enable Venmo as a payment method, much similar it did with the launch of One Touch – PayPal's login-gratis checkout method.

Of class, it may exist a fleck confusing to have ii payment options on a site from the same company: PayPal and Venmo. PayPal says information technology'southward working on this at present by testing a new, "dynamically-painted" payment button that will show Venmo customers a dual-branded button that allows them to select between PayPal and Venmo.

The choice to checkout with Venmo only works in apps and on the mobile web, non the desktop spider web. Users will be invited to activate the option through a notification sent by their Venmo app, says PayPal. After they select Venmo to pay, they'll also receive notification of their purchase in the Venmo app. This volition brand information technology easier for Venmo users to dissever their online purchases with friends, as the shop, transaction date, and amount will all be available in the Venmo app.

In addition to allowing users to pay for online purchases using Venmo, PayPal's Braintree merchants can choose to offering Venmo equally a payment option both in-app and on mobile web, and the option to utilise Venmo is being offered to online charities as a way to accept donations. Save the Children is the commencement non-turn a profit organization to accept donations via a Venmo button.

In the future, Venmo volition introduce instant bank transfers – a feature that was previously announced and has been rolling out on PayPal. Venmo users volition gain this pick in the "coming months," notes PayPal.