How to accept Venmo payments in Google Forms?

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This is a common question from people who collect money for events and clubs. For example, your members might pay you on Venmo and you want the payment to be part of the sign-up. Google Forms lets you type your Venmo username in the form, but it cannot show the amount or ask them to pay. So you check each payment against the responses by hand. With Neartail, you can enable Venmo payments in your Google Form. Your members see the total amount and scan a QR code with their phone to pay you on Venmo. Even better, they pay with the wallet already on their phone, so nobody has to type a card number.

Let's start. Create your form and follow the steps below.

Setup Venmo payments

  • On the page that opens, click "Enter your form name". Type your form's name, click Generate and wait about a minute.
  • Check the outline it suggests and click Proceed.
  • Once you create the form, you will land on the form's "Edit" tab.
The tabs Edit, Preview, Share and Orders, with Edit marked
  • If it asks "Do you want to collect payment on form submit?", click Yes.
The Payment form dialog asking if you want to collect payment on form submit, with Yes marked
If you imported a Google Form, it makes a copy of your form and it will not ask. If it says "Your form is private or protected", click Next and give access or publish your form in Google Forms and paste that link. Select your currency and click Continue. When it says "Your order form is ready", click Preview your form, then Edit form. Scroll down to Payments disabled at the end of the form and click Enable. Click Enable again in the panel that opens. Your total may be called Amount Due instead of Order Amount.
Payments disabled at the end of the form, with Enable marked
Venmo is listed only when your form is in USD. If you do not see it, close the Payments settings page and click on the gear icon in the After payment row, the last row above the Submit button. Select USD in Currency and click Save. The form will reload. If it asks "Do you want to collect payment on form submit?" again, click Yes. Otherwise click Edit in the Payments row. Change the currency before you turn on a payment option, because an option you turned on stays on in the new currency.
The Button tab of the panel, with USD selected in Currency, and Currency and Save marked
  • Payments settings page will be displayed. Click on the toggle button next to Venmo under Manual payments, enter your username and click Save.
The Payments panel with Venmo turned on under Manual payments, the username filled in and Save marked

Configure payment amount

You can setup your form to collect a fixed amount, dynamically calculate the amount based on the answer or add custom formula to calculate the amount. In this example, we will setup the form to dynamically pick the amount for the field.
  • Check your products first. If the form has products you do not need, click on the product and click on the delete icon at the bottom of its card. If a product has no title, the wrong title or a price of 0, change it in the card.
A product card with the title Early bird discount pass and a price of $100, with the title, the price and the delete icon marked
  • Click on the Configure key fields icon, the notebook in the last After page row.
The After page 1 row at the end of the form, with the Configure key fields icon marked
  • Order Amount is already selected in Get amount from and it adds up by itself, so you do not have to write a formula. Click Save.
The Configure key fields panel with Order Amount selected in Get amount from and Save marked
  • Click on "Preview" tab
The tabs Edit, Preview, Share and Orders, with Preview marked
When a user clicks Submit, they will see the Total Amount. They scan the QR code with their mobile camera to pay you on Venmo. Then they click Mark as Paid. If you have turned on more than one payment option, they will first select the payment method and click Proceed to payment. To check each payment, read How to see who has paid in Google Forms?

Summary

If your members pay you on Venmo, a Google Form cannot show the amount or ask them to pay. With Neartail, you enable Venmo in the Payments settings and users can pay with Venmo when they submit the form. Create your form and complete the steps above. If you have any questions, write to support.

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