Shopify Adds Venmo as a Checkout Option Just in Time for the Holidays

'Tis the season to shop on your phone

Shopping on your phone just got a little bit easier.

Shopify, the ecommerce platform, is partnering with Venmo, the PayPal-owned mobile platform, to create a faster mobile checkout experience.

Shopify merchants who already have PayPal Checkout will see the Venmo option appear automatically. Andre Lyver, head of financial solutions at Shopify, said the Venmo checkout option is the company’s answer to seeing 67 percent of all orders happening on mobile.

“Millennials are a larger part of our buyers, and Venmo is a popular payment for millennials,” Lyver said.

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