I noticed tonight that Venmo has started selling third party gift cards in the app. There are currently only 12 brands available, but they’re mostly high value brands like Amazon, Target, Walmart, Uber, Uber Eats, Starbucks, Lyft and more.
I’ve never really played around with Venmo and so don’t know if there’s some kind of play here, but wanted to give a heads up that these gift cards are now being sold in the app. I imagine Amazon and Walmart in particular will be of interest for some.
Update: I forgot to mention in the post how to find the gift card buying option. Tap the ‘Me’ tab in the bottom right corner and then the settings cog in the top-right corner, then scroll down to Gift Cards.
Where is this?
That would’ve been helpful for me to mention! I’ll update the post, but tap the ‘Me’ tab in the bottom right corner and then the settings cog in the top-right corner, then scroll down to Gift Cards.
Oh I see it, thanks—it’s really buried in there! I don’t have it anyway—says it’s not available to everyone right now
Interesting – I wonder why they’re not rolling it out to everyone as I doubt they’ll be flooded with people using the feature.