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PCS
Level 1

Venmo

If money is earned thru Venmo. Do you have to report it? Also, i keep hearing that there is a $20,000 and or a 200 transaction limit that needs to be reached before anything needs to be submitted. So I would like to know if anyone can clear that up..  

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Venmo

Hey @PCS,

 

Are you using Venmo purely for personal transfers? Or business as well?

PCS
Level 1

Venmo

I have not used Venmo yet but was considering using it for business and personal. Have you used Venmo?

Rustler
Level 15

Venmo

I have not used venmo

From their site, it appears venmo is nothing but a payment processor, it works basically as a debit card - hitting your registered account regardless of where you make the transaction.

I expect the 20K/200 transaction you keep hearing about refers to the requirement for any transaction processor to issue a 1099-K at year end.  That 1099-K has nothing to do with your accounting.

Venmo is acting as your agent, so when venmo gets paid, that is the date of your payment (receive or sent), personal or business

Anonymous
Not applicable

Venmo

@PCS, yes I have, but only for personal use. But I still prefer cash!

 

As @Rustler said, it is just the payment processing component - if you need to organize your accounts and accounting as you grow, Venmo doesn't do that. 

 

If you are going to use it for both, make sure you can easily track and mark which is personal and which is business (not sure Venmo has that tool, it might) for taxes. Make it easy for yourself! 

 

Also, insider tip, I talked to a PayPal rep at an event a few months ago and asked if I could transfer funds from PayPal to Venmo to pay a friend (PayPal owns both). Unfortunately, you can't! Something to keep in mind. 

Eugene Shestakov
Level 3

Venmo

I've dealt with Venmo in the past it's a convenient way to send and receive money. However, its a pain to enter and reconcile those transactions in QB being that its not a bank and it doesn't associate any transactions to vendors. Basically on the transaction level all you see from their inconvenient statements is a name of the person you are sending or receiving money to/from. I believe Venmo has an ability to make notes as you send money but when receiving an amount all you get is a persons name (unless they note that this is for services received). So your accountant/bookkeeper would literally have to refer to a list of names provided by you to differentiate between personal and business transactions. In my case the client didn't make any notes so we had no clue as to which transactions were personal and which were business and there were pages upon pages of transactions each month.

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