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Amazon declared Tuesday it is introducing Venmo as a payment option at checkout.
The aspect will start rolling out in the Amazon app and on amazon.com starting up Tuesday, prior to launching for U.S. buyers by Black Friday on Nov. 25, Amazon mentioned.
Venmo, owned by PayPal, is a well-known payment support that enables consumers to send out income to each other. It has increasingly expanded outside of its peer-to-peer functionality, with additional on line vendors including Venmo as a sort of payment, these kinds of as Shopify and Lululemon.
Customers add their Venmo account as a sort of payment on their Amazon account, then pick out Venmo as their payment possibility through checkout.
The partnership will give Amazon purchasers far more options to shell out for their buy. The organization at present accepts credit rating and debit cards, retailer playing cards, HSA and FSA accounts, as nicely as EBT playing cards.
Amazon also introduced a partnership with purchase now, shell out later on assistance Affirm very last yr that allows people split their purchases into installments.
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