Venmo charge view count

As someone who now owns and operates my own business, I’m increasingly familiar with processing, submitting my invoices, and managing payments for various software and service providers. It’s not my favorite part of the process but it’s necessary if I want the business to run smoothly.

For the most part, I’ve worked with great partners and have had almost no issues with invoicing to date. The same is not true of friends from my past (and present). Without naming names, there are some group chats I’m currently in where we are waiting on certain people to complete Venmo transactions.

Part of the difficulty here is simply confirming if someone has seen the request. Odds are they say it gets mentioned in the text message thread, but until they reply technically there’s a level of plausible deniability.

But what if there was a feature to see how many times someone’s viewed a payment request? This is one simple line of text that creates a new level of emotional tension in the experience. It probably creates more friction than it resolves, but it’d be a nice way to call out people who are unlikely to pay without a little extra pressure.

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