Accept Venmo at Checkout

5 min read · Updated September 2026

Your Venmo handle can now live right on your checkout page. Your customer picks it, pays, and tells you. You tap one button to confirm. No handle in the DMs, no payment requests, no “hey, did that go through?”

The short version

Turn on Pay with Venmo and your handle shows up as an option at checkout.
The money goes straight from their Venmo to yours. We don’t process it.
They tap Yes, I paid → you tap Confirm → the order updates itself.
No 2% fee on Venmo orders, and they don’t count toward your payment volume.
You need Thryft Ship Payments on first, and Venmo asks you to use a business account.

What actually changes

Doing it by hand

Venmo in the DMs

You type out your handle and the total
They ask what shipping costs
You send a payment request
You open Venmo to check, then update the order
Somebody messages “did you get it?”

With Pay with Venmo

Venmo at checkout

The total and shipping are already on the page
They tap Venmo and pay
They tap Yes, I paid
You check Venmo and tap Confirm
Every line updates itself

Two taps for them, one for you — and it all lands on the order.

Now multiply that by every buyer in a drop. Ten minutes of back-and-forth on a $30 sweater, twenty times over, is most of your evening. That’s the part this gives back — to you and to them.

Two ways to get paid

Once it’s on, your checkout page offers both. They work differently, and that’s worth knowing.

Through Thryft Ship

Thryft Ship Payments

Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App, Klarna, Balance

Lands in your balance, then your bank on payout day
The order marks itself paid
Receipt and refund button in the app
2% on items only, never shipping
Builds your payment volume

Through Venmo

Pay with Venmo

Buyer is sent to venmo.com/yourhandle

Goes straight to your Venmo
You confirm it once you see it land
Refunds and receipts live in Venmo
No platform fee
Doesn’t add to your payment volume

You confirm Venmo payments yourself because Venmo doesn’t let outside apps look into your account. So instead of guessing, we hand you a prompt at the right moment.

Why it needs Payments turned on

Pay with Venmo shows up once Thryft Ship Payments is on — Stripe onboarding done, regular checkout live. Two reasons.

Your buyers get more ways to say yes. Not everyone uses Venmo. Some want to tap Apple Pay and be done in four seconds. The more ways to pay while they’re still excited, the more of them actually do.

It shows you’re the real deal. Onboarding verifies your business — name, bank, identity. Your buyer is sending money to someone they found on Instagram, and a verified checkout page with a receipt and tracking tells them you’re legit. Same as your reviews and your sold-out drops: it adds up to a reputation.

Short version: Payments is how you build trust with people who don’t know you yet. Venmo is a nice extra for the ones who ask for it by name.

Turning it on

Open Accepting Payments
It’s in your payment settings. Not set up yet? A Complete Guide to Thryft Ship Payments walks you through it.
Find “Pay with Venmo” and type your handle
Exactly as it appears in Venmo. The screen shows you the link buyers will get — venmo.com/yourhandle — so check the spelling there.
Tap “I understand, enable Pay with Venmo”
One time only. It’s the same five points as this article, in about five lines.
Flip the toggle
Done. Venmo now shows up on your regular customer link and your Sales Assistant checkout links. Turn it off any time.

What your buyer sees

The usual options, plus one
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App, Klarna and Balance sit at the top like always. Venmo is just below, under Other payment options.
They pay you on Venmo
Straight to your profile, amount already worked out — items and shipping together. No math, no asking you what they owe.
They come back and tell you
One question, two buttons. Yes, I paid sends you the confirmation card. Not yet, I’ll come back leaves the order open so they can finish later.

Thryft Ship checkout asking the buyer: Did you complete your Venmo payment? $30.00 to @kickin_thrifts, with Yes I paid and Not yet buttons. — The buyer sees the exact amount and who it goes to — and is told you’ll confirm it before the order is marked paid.

When they say they paid

A card appears at the top of that order, telling you the amount, the time, and how many items it covers.

Order Info with a Venmo confirmation card at the top reading $20.00 paid via Venmo, Confirm payment received or Reject. Below, the jacket and shipping both show Owed, total paid $0.00. — Until you confirm, every line still reads **Owed** and the order shows $0.00 paid. Nothing moves without you.

Open Venmo, find the payment, come back and tap Confirm payment received.

The same order after confirming: the jacket and shipping both show a green Paid via Venmo badge, total amount paid $20.00, still owed $0.00. — Every line flips to **Paid · Venmo** — items and shipping — and the balance goes to zero.

Not there? Tap Reject. The order stays owed and your buyer can try again, on Venmo or by card.

Paid part of it on Venmo and still owe the rest? A Customer Still Owes You After You Shipped? How to Collect has you covered.

The Sales Assistant stops chasing. If the item came from a drop, confirming marks it sold via Venmo and switches off the reminder DMs — nobody gets nagged for money they already sent.
You can print the label whenever. Confirming isn’t required for that. Just make sure the money’s in before you ship.

Check Venmo before you confirm Once you tap Confirm, the order reads as paid everywhere — your orders list, your records, your numbers at tax time. Ten seconds in the app keeps all of it accurate.

Two things to remember

Nothing is paid until you confirm it. An order never marks itself paid because a buyer said so. When the card shows up, that’s your cue to check Venmo.

No 2% fee, and no payment volume. Our fee is 2% on items only, never shipping — and on a Venmo order it’s zero, since we’re not processing anything. What comes with that: no automatic paid status, no receipt in the app, no refund button, no protection, and nothing added to your payment volume. On a $30 sweater the fee would’ve been 60¢. Some days that’s worth it, some days the tracked version is.

One rule from Venmo

Venmo asks that you use a business account for selling. Personal accounts aren’t meant for business with people you don’t know personally, and using one can mean held funds or a limited account.

We can’t see inside your Venmo, so this one’s yours to set up. Switching to a business profile takes a few minutes in the app.

Want the full picture? Using Venmo for Business: What You Actually Need to Handle covers the account rule, protection and records.

What else you get

Free to start — create orders and buy discounted USPS labels, no subscription.
Payments at 2% on items only, with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App, Klarna and balance built in.
The option to collect sales tax at checkout. You choose whether to collect and which states to collect in — then it’s worked out for you at checkout instead of guessed at.
Itemized orders with shipping attached, so what you sold and what you shipped live together.
The option to upgrade to the Sales Assistant whenever you’re ready — $29.99/month with a free week. It runs the drop, reads the bids and sends checkout for you.

That last one is the real time-saver. A drop run by hand — comments, bids, winner DMs, orders, chasing payment — takes most sellers five or six hours. With the Sales Assistant it’s closer to one.

Sales Assistant

Try the Sales Assistant free for a week

Run your next drop with the bids read, the winners turned into orders, and checkout sent automatically. One week free — then $29.99/month, cancel anytime.

Start your free trial

Already have an account? Turn it on in Sales Assistant settings.

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