Venmo and PayPal Add Payment-Transfer Support, but Do This First

Venmo and PayPal are getting closer than ever. Here's what you should know. SOPA Images/Getty Images

Many Venmo users have received a welcome email in recent days, confirming that direct payments will at last be supported between Venmo and PayPal. It's an integration that users of the payment apps have been waiting for since 2014, when PayPal acquired Venmo .

This direct payment support arrives in November, and will work with basic searches on the mobile app and other portals. PayPal users, for example, will be able to search for Venmo users by their phone number, then send them money. The ability to search for users by email will be added at a later, unconfirmed date. So far, the companies have not said if any additional fees would apply to these types of payments.

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