Venmo is a free mobile payment service which allows its users to send payment to your friends or relatives by phone. Sounds weird right! Yes it is true Andrew kortina, cofounder of this free mobile payment service Venmo has developed this platform by which you can send money anywhere using your mobile phone. We had earlier written about make payments with Twitter, and now Venmo provides a nice option to make payment with mobile phone.
Venmo comes as iPhone app and Android app. In case you don’t have a smart phone, Venmo also supports making and receiving payment by just sending SMS. This makes it usable on all mobile phones. Venmo is a completely free service to make payment among friends, and it does not keeps any processing charges. It saves you from real awkward situations where you have no money left in your wallet. You can pay your bill, can even transfer money to your family or friend through this great service, Venmo and you don’t have to rush to a nearest ATM for giving payment to someone.
So no need to put cash in wallet when Venmo is here for you. For using this free service, Venmo you have to create a free Venmo account at Venmo.com, and link your credit card or bank account with this Venmo account. Then only you can make or accept payments.
If you are using SMS to send payment to anyone, it is just as simple as typing “pay ted 2.35 for coffee” and then sending this to Venmo’s number. Venmo will then deduct $2.35 from your account, and transfer it to the user whose username is ted. Similarly, you can request payment from someone by just sending a SMS to Venmo.
If you have a smart phone like iPhone or an Android powered phone, using Venmo iphone app or Android app is the best way to go.
The best part about Venmo is its ease of use, and the fact that it does not charges any processing fee for making payments among friends. Also check out free group SMS service.
