Venmo and PayPal \u2014 two of the most popular apps for digitally sending money to friends, family, or businesses \u2014 have never been natively compatible. But according to Venmo, this is changing in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cVenmo users and PayPal users will be able to pay each other in the U.S. and worldwide,\u201d Venmo wrote in an email to customers. \u201cThat means that PayPal users will be able to find and pay you using your phone number, and later using your email address.\u201d <\/p>\n
For years, customers have used convoluted<\/a> workarounds<\/a> to transfer money between the services. This has long been a pain point for users, especially since Venmo is owned by PayPal, leading users to believe this kind of feature would already exist. (Perhaps integrating the two services would discourage users from creating accounts on both platforms, disincentivizing PayPal to enable this feature sooner.)<\/p>\n This change means that PayPal users will now be able to find Venmo users by inputting their phone numbers, and later, their email addresses. If you don\u2019t want PayPal users to be able to find you, you can update your settings in the Venmo app by navigating to Settings > Privacy > Find me\u2026 and while you\u2019re at it, you might as well default your Venmo transactions to private via Settings > Privacy. You\u2019ll thank me in the long run<\/a>.<\/p>\n