The Montpelier, VT dance recently invested in a Zettle terminal, and it's been awesome. It's a small device about the size of a phone that accepts Venmo payments and credit card payments and puts them directly into our PayPal account. The cool thing is that we can take Venmo payments without having a Venmo account ourselves! You can set up different sales items — we have a kid price, standard price, and dance supporter price, but you could also do a "donation" item for separating that out from admission. And the machine spits out an itemized paper ticket with sales totals at the end of the evening, which is so useful for accounting and paying the band.

Dana

On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM Robin Hale via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

This isn’t answering your question RE Venmo, since last we tried Venmo didn’t work well for our needs. Our partner organization has a Square account set up, which allows for different QR codes (like one for contra admission, one for general donations) with separate tags and deposited in the bank account together. The QR code goes to a page on our website, where folks can use Apple Pay, Google pay (maybe something else). Without one of those pay ment systems set up it can be annoying for the end user to type in credit card info (especially compared to Venmo), but in general it works well for dancers of diverse generations and technical ability.

I’m not sure if it allows for you to set the cost - we have a sliding scale.

Robin

Oly Contra

Olympia, WA

On Apr 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM -0700, Jeff Kaufman via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net>, wrote:

We don't have a great system: we just do it by timing. Most of the time is not during one of our events, so it's probably pretty close to right.

Jeff

On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM Don Veino via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Hi,

We've been trying to figure out how to tie admission payments via Venmo to specific events. I'm not the account user so I'm only hearing this second hand or through web search, but we can create QR codes in Venmo with information encoded in them, e.g.:

https://www.paypal.com/qrcodes/venmocs/be7ee836-3a9a-44c7-94e3-d6a1ae93b6b9?amount=15.50&currency_code=USD&created=1735786135

But I'm told when they are scanned, folks still need to key in the amount (despite it being encoded in the URL). And when payment comes through, there is no tie to a unique code that makes for easy attribution to a specific event.

Are there any tricks others have found for doing this? It would be great if we can separate generic donations to our organization from event admission payments so we can properly credit them. This is something easily done in PayPal but folks don't seem to have the patience to use that tool and have asked for Venmo availability.

Thanks in advance,

Don

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