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At this point, I just want one of these pay-with-your-phone solutions to win and be ubiquitous. The current situation is almost comical. "Do you have Venmo? Haven't set that up yet, can you send over Paypal?. No, what about Square Wallet? Nope, what about Gmail?"
BTW I just send money using PayPal to a Facebook friend and let him know using Facebook messenger. I would totally use this when it's available.
At this point, I just want one of these pay-with-your-phone solutions to win and be ubiquitous. The current situation is almost comical. "Do you have Venmo? Haven't set that up yet, can you send over Paypal?. No, what about Square Wallet? Nope, what about Gmail?"
At this point, I just want one of these pay-with-your-phone solutions to win and be ubiquitous. The current situation is almost comical. "Do you have Venmo? Haven't set that up yet, can you send over Paypal?. No, what about Square Wallet? Nope, what about Gmail?"
Simple dominates all of these, in my opinion. It is perfect from a user experience side. (If people already have the service, but people really want the service for more than the mobile payments part)
I think it's interesting that we can now pay almost anybody we have contact with, at almost zero effort and without even having to remove my debit card from my wallet. You can pay people via gmail now for your email contacts, send money to your personal friends via social media networking. I bought my Uber to work this morning completely frictionless without having to physically use my card. It's an interesting devel…
I mean, in reality, we are just back where we started. cash & checkbooks used to do this very well, until people needed online payments.
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Considering we've had Venmo[1], wallet/gmail[2] and Square Cash[3] since 2013, not really. [1]: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/after-2-years-in-be... [2]: http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2013/05/send-money-to-fri... [3]: http://allthingsd.com/20131015/the-money-is-in-the-email/
which of these were a way to send money through a social network's chat client?
I personally use SquareCash all the time, and also use PNC bank's complimentary POPmoney setup to transfer funds for free (with PNC, I scheduled a partial rent payment to go to my landlord's bank account automatically every paycheck).
Given the number of people that have their fb accounts hacked every day, I'd be pretty concerned about giving Facebook my credit card info too.
If I were Facebook I'd require anyone using the Pay feature to turn on two factor authentication.
At this point, I just want one of these pay-with-your-phone solutions to win and be ubiquitous. The current situation is almost comical. "Do you have Venmo? Haven't set that up yet, can you send over Paypal?. No, what about Square Wallet? Nope, what about Gmail?"