You Choose How to Pay Back Your Volunteers

You now decide exactly how your volunteers can get paid back. Head to Settings → Expense Report Payment Methods and you’ll see a checkbox for each way to pay: Check (Pick up), Check (Mailed), a peer-to-peer payment app, and Direct Payment to Vendor. Turn off anything your group doesn’t use — say, if you never mail checks — and your submitters will only ever see the options you actually offer, on the website and in the app. You’ll always need to keep at least one turned on, so there’s a way to pay someone.

If your group pays volunteers electronically, you can now say which app you actually use. That setting used to only say “Zelle” — now you pick Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, or Cash App, and that’s the name your volunteers see when they ask to be paid, the name your treasurer sees on the approval screen, and the name that prints on the expense report and shows up in your register (like “Venmo 8XJ2F” instead of a bare confirmation number). If you don’t touch this setting, nothing changes — it’s still Zelle by default.

The destination field adjusts too. Since Venmo uses @handles and Cash App uses $cashtags, those two also let a volunteer type in a username instead of only an email address or phone number.

Nothing changes for organizations that don’t touch these settings. Both check options start turned on, so nobody loses an option they already had.