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Venmo + Simple Kitchen = Recipe for Awesomesauce
My buddy Kortina just informed me that his startup Venmo has partnered with the Simple Kitchen.
Simple Kitchen is using the Venmo trust relationship to enable anyone to create a house account with them. To get setup, just text “trust simplekitchen” to Venmo: 646.863.9557
Trusting Simple Kitchen on Venmo is like leaving your credit card with them so they can just charge you whenever you’re done eating. You don’t need to bring cash or wait for them to process your credit card anymore. Plus, they’re going to be sending special Venmo cash back deals to their trusting customers.
===I’ve already stopped using cash with friends and just transfer funds via my venmo account.They recently won an award and it will definitely be the first of many.
Keep up the awesome guys.
If you are reading this and want to give venmo a try let me know if you need an invite.
Game changer. Of course, you still need to register and link up your accounts on Venmo. But I bet they can figure a way so that you pay normally (in person) the first time, and that automatically creates your Venmo account for you. You would confirm registration via SMS.
Add a card scanner -> usb -> desktop app. Make a dongle for an iPad, and input into an app. First time you pay ask for the customer’s cell number, get a text from venmo, reply “trust”, and you’re done. You’re signed up for venmo with a card attached to your account, and you now have a trust relationship with the brick & mortar.
Warning: you are now competing with Square, which is doing so much more on the merchant services side than venmo is.
