Easy Way to Send Money to Someone
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Sending money to someone else has never been easier thanks to digital wallets. With a couple of taps on a smartphone, you can request and receive money within minutes or less. Here are seven apps that allow you to send money to others no matter where you are in the United States. All you need is an internet connection.
1. Zelle
While you may not know Zelle by its name, it is a great option to quickly pay back your friends and family. It's free to use, your money moves within minutes and you may not even need to download another mobile app.
- Almost 7,000 financial institutions offer Zelle to their customers through their digital banking apps.
- To send someone money, enter their email address or phone number.
- How much you can send per week varies by financial institution.
- If your bank doesn't offer Zelle and you download the standalone app, you can only send $500 per week.
What to watch for: Confirm that you are sending money to the right person. If you accidentally send money to the wrong person, there's no guarantee that you will get your money back.
Best for: People with bank accounts who don't want to download another app or pay fees.
2. Venmo
Venmo is a popular payments app and for good reason. The PayPal-owned app makes it easy to send and receive money with a social twist. Transactions between people are shared with their friends, though users can choose to make their transactions and payment history private, either by default or for individual payments. Unlike Zelle, there's no getting around downloading an app — you'll need the Venmo app on your phone. But you can easily link your bank account to send money to people for free (or pay a small fee if you want to send a payment within 30 minutes).
- You only need someone's username, phone number or email to pay them, but Venmo will ask for the last four digits of the recipient's phone number to confirm you're sending the money to the right person.
- If you link a bank account, Venmo will automatically take out the money from your account when you pay someone. You can link a credit card, but Venmo will charge a 3 percent fee. (You can update your method of payment before you send money. But you aren't able to make an adjustment after a transaction has been sent.)
- When Venmo confirms your identity, you can send up to $4,999.99 per week.
- You can earn a bonus when people you know use your referral link.
Best for: Paying back friends with a social twist.
What to watch: Like Zelle, you can't cancel money sent via Venmo. So make sure you're sending money to the correct person and that it's for the right amount.
3. Cash App
Square's Cash App is another trendy standalone app used to send money to people you know.
- Like Venmo and Zelle, you can send money back to people with an email address or phone number. You can also send money to someone using a $Cashtag (a unique identifier).
- Within the first seven days of signing up for the app, you can send up to $250. After 30 days, you can send up to $1,000. Once your identity is confirmed, you can send additional funds.
- You can send people money without paying a fee. But if you use a credit card, you will pay a 3 percent fee. You will also be subject to a 1.5 percent fee if you make an instant deposit to a linked debit card.
- You can earn a $5 bonus when someone you refer becomes an app user.
Best for: People who want a stripped down app
What to watch: Like the other peer-to-peer apps, you can't usually cancel the money you send. Pay attention to whom you are sending funds to and the amount.
4. PayPal
PayPal is a longstanding digital-payment system that lets you send and receive money that continues to get upgrades (including letting you use emojis just like you can on Venmo).
- You can send money to people for free if you use a linked bank account or PayPal Cash Card or balance. But you will pay fees for other card payment methods: 2.9 percent plus 30 cents in the U.S.
- If you have a verified PayPal account, you can send up to $60,000; however, PayPal might limit you to $10,000 for a single transaction.
- PayPal also offers a service called Xoom, which allows you to send money to people in more than 130 countries.
Best for: People who want to send larger amounts of money.
What to watch: Pay attention to fees you may incur when sending money to another country. And you can't cancel the transaction. So double check to whom you are sending money and for what amount.
5. Apple Cash
If you have an iPhone or Apple Watch, Apple Cash is another option to send and receive money to and from other Apple device users via a quick text.
To use the functionality, you must first set up Apple Cash in your Apple Wallet — a process that will require linking a debit card to fund the transfer. After that, press the Apple Pay icon in the Messages app on your device to send money via a text to one of your contacts. The transferred funds will appear in the recipient's wallet.
- There are free ways to send and receive money, but Apple will charge you a 1.5 percent fee for instant transfers. The minimum fee for instant transfers is 25 cents and the maximum fee is $15.
- If the recipient doesn't accept the payment, you can cancel it.
- You can ask Siri to pay one of your contacts.
- The minimum you can send per message is $1 and the maximum is $10,000.
- A maximum of $10,000 can be sent or received within a seven-day period.
Best for: People with Apple devices who already use the digital wallet.
What to watch: Unlike some other options, you have to accept the money sent.
6. Google Pay
Google Pay is available on Google Play and on iOS devices and, among other things, lets you send and receive money to friends and family.
- Like other options, the money moving in and out of Google Pay comes from a linked debit card or bank account that you entered into the app.
- In a seven-day period, Google lets you send up to $5,000 if you're verified (or $500 if your identity isn't verified).
- Google Pay lets you set up groups to help split up the costs for things like rent or dinner.
Best for: People who often have bills for groups.
What to watch: It doesn't support credit cards as a way to send money to someone you know.
7. Samsung Pay Cash
Samsung Pay is another digital wallet that lets you send money to someone else, but the recipient needs to have a Samsung Pay Cash Account, making it less universal than some of the other peer-to-peer payment options.
- You can send money to friends and family from your phone with Samsung Pay Cash.
- You can fund your account by using a debit or credit card, transferring money from your bank, setting up direct deposit or by receiving money from another person.
- Samsung Pay Cash is available on Google Play.
A Samsung Pay Cash account labeled as "lite" is an account that's not registered. Your account will have more limited transactions until you upgrade to a "full" account. With a lite account, you send up to $500 with no more than 15 transactions a month.
Best for: People who have Samsung devices.
What to watch: Make sure the person you are sending money to has a Samsung Pay Cash account (or wants one).
Bottom line
Mobile apps can be a great way to send money quickly to others. Make sure you understand whether there are any fees for sending money and how fast the money will get to the recipient.
Learn more:
- Best mobile banking features you've never heard of that actually rock
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- 9 best money savings apps
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