$Cashtags by Square

Get paid via $cashtags for things you do online or in person

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michael — likes the internet
This is awesome for SMBs. I wonder if an integrated invoicing system is next?

Obligatory https://cash.me/$McLean
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Jonathan Archer — Freelance
@michael_mclean Huge for non-profits, too. 1.5% fee addresses a major pain and the UI is so simple.
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Ryan Hoover — Product Hunt
It's surprisingly still difficult to accept and pay people online. Venmo makes this much easier but it's designed for friends. Stripe-integrated Payzo and Plasso are decent but require more upfront setup and built primarily for freelancers or SMB's.



P.S. click here 😉
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Mike Bronfman — Meta AR COO, Harvard '16
@rrhoover :-)
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✎ Andrew Warner 
@rrhoover seems to work without the dollar sign, so this might be an even easier url to give: http://cash.me/rrhoover
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Andy Rosenberg — More coming soon.
@rrhoover I agree. I love Venmo and am still shocked by its massive consumer adoption by my "non-tech" friends. But I still find it difficult to find my friends for a first time payment to them on the platform, and usually end up asking them (via showing them my phone to their face), "is this you??" before pulling the trigger.
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Marty Bell 
Is this unavailable in the UK? :(
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Mojca Mars — Founder, Super Spicy Media
@marty Nope, I think not. Us Europeans will have to wait. :/
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Doney den Ouden — Product Designer, Crimson Keyboard
@marty @mojcamars Super unfortunate. I had hoped we would at least get the possibility of securing our cashtags.
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Shaun Trennery — Founder X&Go
Simple Wins.
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Clément Wehrung — Product Manager, LiveMinutes
Can't wait for it to be released in Europe. Would be cool to claim a hashtag through the web app as well though
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Todd Saunders — CEO @ adHawk
I wonder if Square is going to utilize this and their partnership with Snapchat.
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Kevin Bastien — Developer R/GA
@toddsaunders The Square Cash Twitter account is following Snapchat and Kanye West so possibly Snapcash and Kanye collaboration :)
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Nico Mage — co-founder & designer @ It Rocks Studio
I don't understand why big institutional banks, which earn a lot of money, do not invest more in the development of such services.
That's a really cool product anyway. Hope to see it in France soon.
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Derek Shanahan — Accounts & Biz Dev at Playerize
@nicomage bc those banks really aren't in the business of retail / person-to-person payments. :)
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Jonas Daniels — Product @ MakerHunt.co
Give love (& $cash) to us Europeans... PLEASE. :(
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Marcus Karoumi — Founder - GadgetHunt.club
Love this, and beautiful site. I wonder how I'll use this!
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Adam O'Kane — http://adamokane.com
I wish SnapCash (powered by Square) was more widely used. I love using that with the (few) friends who have it. I think there are two main flaws there - 1.) Users don't trust Snapchat with money, and 2.) They don't know it's possible to do that on Snapchat, despite the fancy intro vid.
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Dan — Co-Founder & CEO, Veromuse
Sometimes there are products that you just want to go and tell everyone about... this is one of them. Great for small businesses, send an invoice payable to http://cash.me/$danfein and easily accept payments.
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Mike Holford — Web Developer
Ladies and gents we have a game changer... Genius
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David McGraw — Founder
Loving this experience. Talk about a painless way to make payment easy for clients. Or setup a simple tip-jar... slick.

I've had clients delay payments for so long because they had to deal with transfer nightmares with their bank... This usually leads to reverting back to sending checks.

Wife runs an interior design business and had a client move into town who couldn't find their checks. They had to run to several ATMs, due to limits, to withdrawal the required payment...
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Andy Rosenberg — More coming soon.
Paying rent through older methods (mailing checks) is still one of my major painpoints in NYC. This is a great solution.
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Raul Perțe — Designer · Makes iOS apps · Client's BFF
While everybody is getting into fast-online-payments, they truly nailed this one. The idea of sending money so simple is catchy. I can't wait to use this in Europe.
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Waveney Hudlin — UI/UX, Muno Creative
Wow--made something almost exactly like this as a side project a few months ago. www.justpayme.co Maybe we should have given it more of a chance :0
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Jeff Needles — BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things
This is maybe one of the most effortless payment mechanisms yet. Square is really winning the simplicity game. ( https://cash.me/$jeffneedles )
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Andy Rosenberg — More coming soon.
From a business perspective, I'm conflicted. Yes, there needs to be efforts made to acquire customers as well as brand building. But how do they even break even from this at this rate?
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Jack Smith — Co-Founder @Vungle - Advisor @Coin
This product is pretty much exactly the same as what ribbon.co have been doing for close to 18 months now. Except I think their debit card option is free.

See: http://ribbon.co/jack
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Nick O'Neill — Cofounder, @get_treat
@_jacksmith Are they still in business? Product still looks like it's behind a beta/invite wall and very few tweets since spring 2014.
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Jack Smith — Co-Founder @Vungle - Advisor @Coin
@nickoneill not sure
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Andy Rosenberg — More coming soon.
@_jacksmith yeah, but building a product is only half of the equation. Being able to launch it in the market and gain consistent traction is the difficult part when it comes to payments. So much friction.
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Jack Smith — Co-Founder @Vungle - Advisor @Coin
@andythegiant agreed - when building a business, that's the mantra. doesn't mean that I can't call out a product clone.
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Zac Coffman — Support Member for Airmail
@_jacksmith @nickoneill I wondered if they were in business as well. Haven't tweeted in almost a year and they were rather active.
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Jack Smith — Co-Founder @Vungle - Advisor @Coin
@nickoneill @zaccoffman I think they've pivoted to a different product focus
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Andy Rosenberg — More coming soon.
@_jacksmith glad we have PH to compare and contrast and not let past products go unnoticed!
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Loren Baxter — Founder, Priime
This is a genius growth mechanism - the land rush for reserving your username means a lot of people will install (or re-install) Square Cash.
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Violeta Nedkova — growth, somewhere.com
I don't fully get this, but man, that landing page is cool.
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Jason Hitchcock — Director of Customer Success, Singular
No AMEX support.
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Aaron Hanson — Startuplister
Sweet. That UX is sexy. I was torn between $2chainz and $startup. Ended up with the latter. :) cash.me/$startup
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Kevin Bastien — Developer R/GA
@crixlet should have gone with the former :)
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Greg Barbosa — Founder at PrayerHandsSweatshirt.com
I mocked up a quick image and tweet showing just how great this could be with Twitter Cards.

https://twitter.com/gregbarbosa/...
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Ryan Hoover — Product Hunt
Nice, @gregbarbosa:



How long before Twitter adds its own $cashtags/Snapcash/Venmo/ChangeTip functionality?
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Evan Zhou — Co-Founder, STEEZY
Main reason why I created a profile was the 1.5% transaction fee. Tested it out and very simple to use. Nice security check with a confirmation code to verify payment.

Are Cash Pro accounts not available yet? Was trying to look into how they know if you're a business or not.
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ayo o — Founder, Hipmob
@evanczhou You can switch to a Pro account in the app, in settings.
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Evan Zhou — Co-Founder, STEEZY
@ay_o apparently they don't have it up on their web app and I assumed they had the same functionality as the native app. Thanks!
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Venkatesh Thallam — Founder @ Jobsplane
This is going to be big! Use cases are unlimited! And the only service where i got my first name as the username(http://cash.me/$Venkatesh) lol!
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Saijo George — Marketing Analyst
Crap.. US only, ahhhh. Which I could register my username, hate it when this happens.
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Sameer K — Entrepreneur & Start Up Strategy Expert
Can I implement this on a website? Or do I have to redirect my customers to the website.
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ayo o — Founder, Hipmob
@thetechpop at the moment (at launch) you can only accept payments to your cash.me url.
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evan 
This was great to use today, just sold a bike. Gave the buyer my url before hand, and got paid on the spot. Great for people who don't have cash.
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ayo o — Founder, Hipmob
@510_boatswain This is an awesome story. Thank you for sharing.
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Mohit Mamoria — Founder, Horntell
There're a few products that let's you collect payments, but everyone comes up with a setup cost (either one time or for every product), but this is like a bank account number. Simple, easy and fast!
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