Paypal app error when sending money

Use a smartphone money transfer app?

No cash to pay that dinner check? Instead of running to an ATM or waiting to pay your friend back later, you could use a smartphone app to settle up with her right now.

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  • Some services charge a fee.
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Paypal app error when sending money

Odds are you've probably never tried it. While smartphones are pretty ubiquitous these days, sending money to a friend with one isn't, says James Wester, global payments research director at IDC Financial Insights.

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These apps are being pitched as a way to split a check with friends, but the average amount transferred, he says, is in the $300 to $400 range, and is typically for things like roommates giving each other money for rent and utilities, Wester says.

"When you pitch that peer-to-peer service as being something for small things you might normally handle with cash, I don't think it's resonated very well yet," Wester says. "I do think that over time, peer-to-peer payments will be something a little more common once people discover on their own the usefulness of it."

Sending money via your bank's smartphone app or mobile site

Many banks have either created their own peer-to-peer programs or hired companies like Fiserv or ClearXchange to set one up for them.

Each bank has its own fee schedule, but most offer the service for free.

One provider of such services is Popmoney, a product of Fiserv that's used by 1,800 banks and credit unions.

Cost: 95 cents, paid by sender.

Whom you can send to: Anyone with a mobile phone number or email address.

How: Users can access the service through banks' apps and mobile sites. Those whose financial institutions don't offer it can still use Popmoney on a third-party basis through the Popmoney app or Popmoney.

Limits: If not requested by another user, $500 per day and $1,000 per month if drawn from a debit card; $2,000 per day and $5,000 per month if from bank account to bank account. You can request $1,000 per day and $2,500 per month. You can also pay requests through Popmoney of up to $2,500 per day and $4,000 per month.

Paypal app error when sending money

Speed: After a request is accepted, the money will appear as early as the next business day for transfers through a debit card and three business days for transfers through a bank account.

Whom it's for: People who want to make peer-to-peer payments through their banks.

Sending money via 3rd-party apps

With these apps, tech companies have gotten into the financial services game to allow users to send money regardless of where they choose to bank.

Most of these are no or low cost, says Wester, because tech companies want people to feel comfortable paying with the Web or their phone.

"Once you've gotten someone comfortable with making a payment to friends and family, it becomes a little bit easier," Wester says.

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