Each payment app behaves a little differently. We're honest about it.
Where the payment app lets us, we prefill the amount and your order number. Where it doesn't, we give you and your customer the cleanest manual handoff that's technically possible.
Amount + order number prefilled.
Customer taps, Venmo opens with you as the recipient, the dollar amount filled in, and your order number already in the note. They confirm. Done.
Prefills: amount, order # in the note. Fee: 1.9% + 10¢ (their rate, not ours).
Amount prefilled. Order # one-tap copy.
Cash App's link format won't accept a memo, so the order number gets a copy-to-clipboard button right next to the pay button. One extra tap, zero typing.
Prefills: amount. Order # via copy button.
Amount prefilled. Order # one-tap copy.
PayPal.me opens with the dollar amount ready to send to your handle. Order number sits next to the button as a copy-on-tap chip, never as a thing they have to remember.
Prefills: amount. Order # via copy button.
Recipient + QR. Everything is copy-tap.
Zelle doesn't accept any prefilled link, nothing does, anywhere. We give your customer your handle, an optional QR, and copy buttons for every field. As close to one-tap as Zelle physically allows.
Prefills: nothing (rail limitation). Bank-set fees, often $0.
Four beats. No payment detective work in any of them.
The customer pays the way they were going to anyway. You stop matching screenshots to orders from memory.
Customer checks out
Normal store checkout. They pick a payment app, Venmo, Zelle, Cash App, PayPal. The order is created and marked Pending payment.
They tap to pay
The pay button opens their payment app with the amount filled in (and the order number, on apps that allow it). Same block ships inside their confirmation email.
Money lands, tagged
Payment hits your account with the order number on it. No more "$84.00, Sarah M" with zero context.
You confirm, it ships
You verify the payment landed, mark the order Processing, and fulfill. Orders left unpaid auto-cancel on your schedule.
You'll also keep more per month than you would with a card processor.
The main reason to use Manual Pay is the automatic order matching above. The fee math is a bonus. Since Venmo, Zelle, Cash App and PayPal charge little or nothing compared to card processors, the same sales leave more in your account. Here's the arithmetic on a typical small-shop month: $3,000 in sales across 60 orders at a $50 average. Stripe is the baseline. Every row below it is what you'd keep instead.
Published rates as of June 2026. Your effective savings depend on your bank, your average order size, and which payment app each customer picks. We don't set these rates, the processors do.
Built under the same pressure it removes.
Stripe shut us down. So did the next processor, and the one after that. Our category is legal, our revenue was real, and none of that mattered to underwriting. Overnight we were running a seven-figure storefront with no checkout, refunding customers by hand, and watching abandoned carts climb while we waited on appeals that never came.
The workaround was brutal. Venmo on one screen, the order list on another, a spreadsheet matching names to amounts, a teammate on Slack confirming whether "Sarah K." was the Sarah who ordered the $84 box or the $112 box. We lost orders to typos. We lost orders to fake screenshots. We lost a full weekend of revenue the first time a payment-app link format changed and nobody noticed for nine hours.
Curevora Manual Pay is what we built to get our nights back, hardened over months of our own orders before a single other seller touched it. Then sellers in the same corner of the internet, people who'd been kicked off the same processors for the same non-reasons, started asking to run it on their stores. This is that tool, productized. Not a side project. The thing we wished existed the day we got the shutdown email.
Book a free consultation. We'll tell you straight whether this is a fit.
Install starts at $500, with an optional $10/month maintenance plan, we confirm the exact scope on a free 15-minute fit check. Every store is different, different platform, different payment apps, different volume, different reasons your last processor walked away. We don't quote a final number until we've actually looked at your setup. Fifteen minutes on a call, no pitch deck, no obligation.
What we cover in 15 minutes
- A walk through your current store and checkout setup
- Which payment apps make sense for your category, average order size, and customer base
- The real math on what you'd keep vs. what you're losing to card fees today
- A scoped quote for install, configuration, and rollout, only if we're a fit
- A direct "no, here's why" if we're not, with a referral when we know of one
No card required, no auto-enrollment. One call, a straight answer, and a written summary in your inbox afterward.
After the call
If we're a fit, you get a written scope and a fixed quote, no hourly billing, no surprise change orders. If we're not, you keep the math we ran together. Either way, the consultation costs you nothing.
What to have ready
Your store URL, the platform you're on (Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, or other), and a rough sense of which payment apps you already use or want to accept. That's enough for us to give you a real answer.
Honest answers, including the awkward ones.
So what does it cost?
Does the money go through Curevora at any point?
Is payment confirmation really manual?
What do I need before you can install it?
Can I use my personal Venmo instead of Venmo Business?
What happens if Venmo or Cash App changes their link format?
Will this work for my business?
Stop matching Venmo notifications from memory.
Book a free 15-minute consultation. We'll look at your store, run the real math with you, and tell you straight whether Curevora is a fit. No card, no commitment, no pitch deck.
Questions? info@curevora.com