Venmo QR code
Venmo’s own code lives in the app and is the right thing to show from a phone. This page is about the other half: what Venmo’s rules allow you to be paid for, and how to print something on a sign that outlives a change of username.
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Your username is yours to change; the sign on the wall is not
Venmo lets you rename yourself whenever you like, between 5 and 30 characters, with no special characters other than a hyphen and an underscore. That is a good feature and a bad one to have baked into a printed sign, because the day you use it every board, sticker and window card that spelled out the old name is pointing at a name that is no longer anybody. Nothing you print from the app knows that has happened.
Venmo’s code is still the code for a phone
Splitting a bill, paying a friend back, being paid across a table: open the app, show the code, done. We make nothing that improves on that and this page will not pretend otherwise.
A rename should not cost you a reprint
A code here holds a short link of ours, and the username sits behind it as an editable field. Change it in the evening and the same painted board takes payments in the morning.
Which sign actually brought the money
A code per place — the counter, the van, the stall at the second market — and the list counts the scans on each. Free keeps 90 days of that history.
How to get your Venmo QR code
Venmo keeps the code inside the app, on your own profile, and the route differs slightly between a personal profile and a business one. These are Venmo’s steps, plus the check at the end that nobody does and everybody should.
Open the Me tab in the Venmo app
Venmo keeps your code on your own profile rather than in settings. There is no page on venmo.com that hands it to you and no way to fetch it from outside the app, so this step cannot be skipped by anybody, including us.
Tap the QR code button on your profile picture
It sits on the picture itself. Venmo’s help calls the panel that opens the place your code lives, and it offers two things: your code for being paid, and the scanner for paying somebody else.
Tap “Venmo me”
That is the half of the panel that shows your code rather than the camera. Venmo says a scan of it takes the person to your profile page, which is where they choose the amount and send it.
Share or save the image
The share button sends it by email, text message and the rest. On a business profile the route is Charge, then QR Code, then Venmo Me, and the printer icon there gives a high-quality PDF, which is the file to hand a printer.
If you are a business profile, set the price in the code
Venmo says a business profile can make a code that takes a customer to the profile with a specific price already filled in, and that the customer can still add a tip or a discount. A personal profile’s code carries no amount.
Scan your own code with somebody else’s phone
Not yours. A phone already signed in as you sees a screen no customer will ever see. Borrow a phone, scan it, and check the name that comes up is the one your customers expect to read.
What Venmo lets you be paid for, and what it does not
This is the part that catches out market stalls, and it is in the user agreement rather than anywhere you would be shown while printing a sign. Read it before you put a personal profile’s code on a table of things for sale.
A personal profile is not a till
Venmo’s agreement says that, apart from transactions it has expressly authorised, personal accounts may not be used to conduct business, commercial or merchant transactions with other personal accounts — including accepting payment from people you do not personally know for goods such as tickets, equipment or merchandise.
There are two authorised routes
Venmo names them: have a business profile, or ask the buyer to identify their payment as being for goods and services. It also says it may offer a business profile inside a personal account, at its discretion and not to everybody.
A charity is a third, separate thing
Venmo links a PayPal confirmed charity account to make a charity profile, which receives donations. It is not a business profile and you cannot hold both, so a fundraiser is a decision to make before the printing, not after.
None of this is ours to enforce and none of it changes because a code of ours sits in front of it. We are not Venmo, we are not connected to Venmo, and we issue nothing on your Venmo account: a code made here holds a link to the Venmo profile you already have. Whether that profile is allowed to take the payment is between you and Venmo’s agreement, which is linked at the foot of this page.
The username problem, in the order it usually happens
Every one of these is a normal Tuesday rather than a disaster, and each one strands a printed Venmo code that carries the username directly.
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The name was a joke in 2019
A username picked at university reads badly on a market stall. Venmo lets you change it in the app under Account, then Profile, or on the web in your profile settings, and the change is immediate.
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The business outgrew the person
A personal profile becomes a business profile, or the trading name changes. The handle behind the sign changes with it; the sign should not have to.
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The account is frozen mid-market
A review, a locked account or a lost phone stops payments on the day you can least afford it. With the handle behind an editable link you can point the same sign at whatever you can be paid into that afternoon.
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You never get told it broke
A scan that lands on a name nobody holds is a customer who shrugs and walks. Nothing arrives to tell you, which is why the only real signal is the scan count against the takings.
One more reason not to type a Venmo web address from a template: Venmo does not publish the shape of one. Its help pages describe the code and the profile a scan arrives at, and stop there. Take what the app gives you, check what it opens, and keep the part that can change in a field rather than in ink.
Putting your name in front of the payment, on purpose
A stranger’s sticker over a payment code is the oldest trick on a street, and a Venmo code that opens the app immediately gives the person paying nothing to check. A code made here spends one screen on that question first.
A scan opens a page that shows the name you typed, the Venmo handle the money is going to, the amount and your note, and one button that hands the person to Venmo. It asks them to look for the same name again on Venmo’s own screen, and if the two disagree there is a link on that page to report the code to us. That is the whole of it: a pause and a name, not a payment system.
Print the address of that page under the code in words people can read — pay.yourstall.com on your own hostname comes with Starter and up — and a copied sticker has one more thing to get wrong. Neither of those stops a determined swap. What stops it is a code printed into the board rather than stuck on it, and a glance before each market day.
Venmo codes, answered
How do I get my Venmo QR code?
It lives on your own profile in the app rather than in settings: the Me tab, the code button sitting on your picture, then “Venmo me”. From there the share button passes the image on. A business profile reaches the same panel from Charge instead, and the printer icon there gives it a file fit for a print shop.
How do I get a Venmo QR code without opening the app?
You cannot, and nor can anybody else. Venmo publishes no way to fetch your code from outside the app, so any site offering to produce one for you is either guessing at an address or making a code for something that is not your Venmo profile.
Is there a Venmo QR code generator?
Not one that makes a Venmo code, here or anywhere. What the builder above makes is a code holding a short link of ours, with your Venmo username behind it as a field you can edit afterwards. The code is ours; the profile, the payment and the rules stay Venmo’s.
Can I print my Venmo QR code on a sign?
Venmo offers a print-quality PDF on a business profile, so yes. What it cannot do is follow you: the username inside it is fixed at the moment you print, and a rename or a move to a business profile leaves the ink pointing at the old one.
What happens to a printed code if I change my Venmo username?
A code that carries the username directly stops arriving anywhere useful, silently. A code that carries one of our short links keeps working, because the username is a field on the code rather than a pattern in the ink — you type the new one and the next scan follows it.
Can I take payments for my business with a personal Venmo profile?
Venmo’s agreement says no, other than the cases it has authorised. It names two: hold a business profile, or have the buyer mark what they send as a purchase. Its wording reaches specifically to money taken from buyers you have never met, for things like tickets or merchandise.
Does a Venmo code work for somebody outside the United States?
Venmo is a US service and its own help is the place to check who can hold an account. If your buyers are visitors, the honest answer is that a Venmo-only sign will turn some of them away, and the amount is worth reading off the scan counts rather than guessing.
Can I make a Venmo code on the free plan?
Yes, and without handing over a card: Free covers 3 re-pointable codes, and one payment sign with its name-check page occupies one of them. The step up to Starter, at $12 a month, buys quantity and a hostname of your own rather than a different kind of code.
Being paid in more than one app, or not sure which to print? The payment QR code page covers all of them side by side. Cash App has its own rules about how often a $Cashtag may change, on the Cash App QR code page, and PayPal is the one platform that publishes the shape of its link, on the PayPal QR code page.
Check it at the source
- Venmo: Personal QR codes FAQ. The Me tab, the QR button and “Venmo me”, and what a scan opens
- Venmo: QR codes for Business Profiles. Charge, QR Code, Venmo Me, the printable PDF and the pre-filled price
- Venmo: Check or Edit Your Username. Where the username is changed, and the 5 to 30 character rule
- Venmo US user agreement. What a personal account may not be used for, and the two authorised routes
- Venmo: buying and selling on Venmo. The same rule in the help centre’s words, with the goods-and-services tag
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We take nothing from a Venmo payment, because none of it reaches us
The money moves between the person paying and your Venmo account, and Venmo’s own fees are the only ones in it. What an account here pays for is the codes and the editing: Free includes 3, and Starter is $12 a month.
Free
Free
Unlimited static codes. Three editable ones that never expire.
- Unlimited static QR codes, forever
- 3 editable items in total — dynamic QR codes, QR Menus and QR Forms share them
- Dynamic codes never expire, and each comes with a short link
- Short links on their own, no QR code needed
3dynamic codes
Starter
$12/mo
For one business with codes out in the world.
- 5 QR Menus
- QR Forms
- GS1 Digital Links we host, so a printed pack can be re-pointed
- Advanced tracking and analytics
100dynamic codes
Pro
Most chosen$39/mo
For agencies and teams running codes at scale.
- 50 QR Menus
- Unlimited analytics history
- 10 custom domains
- API access
600dynamic codes
Business
$99/mo
For organisations running codes across many brands.
- 400 QR Menus
- 50 custom domains
- Up to 25 team members and team management
- Up to 10 workspaces
2,000dynamic codes
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Bulk QR code generator
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A website, plain text, a Wi-Fi network, an email, a phone number, a text message, a contact card, a GS1 Digital Link, a PDF, a location, a calendar event and more. Most download free, with no account; the few marked “Editable only” need one.
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Starter and up
Campaign presets
Saved UTM parameters, so printed scans are not “direct”.Starter and up
A printed code arrives in your web analytics as direct traffic. A preset fills in source, medium and campaign in one click, so the flyer and the table tent show up as themselves.
Starter and up
City-level scan locations
Which towns the scans came from, not only which countries.Pro and Business
Scans by city and region for each code, and towns on the live map. Coarse on purpose: the place the phone’s network reports, never a street or a precise position.
Pro and Business
CSV export
Daily scans per code, in a spreadsheet.Pro and Business
Download scans and unique visitors by day for one code or all of them - with each code’s name and short link - as CSV for your own reports, or for whoever asked how the campaign did.
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Your server hears about every scan and every change.Business
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A full export any time, and deletion you can take back.Every plan, Free included
Download everything - codes, history, scans, form answers and the files you uploaded - as one .zip with spreadsheets inside. Deleting the account gives you 30 days to change your mind, and your printed codes keep working until then.
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