To show a Venmo QR code on the TV for tips or donations, put a Payment codes tile on a board: your own Venmo, Cash App or PayPal code, big enough to scan from across the room, with your handle printed under each code so guests can check who they're paying. A guest points a phone camera at it, their app opens on your page, and they pay you there.
It suits a party where friends want to chip in for the food, a bake sale or a market table, and a tip jar by a counter. The money goes straight from the guest's app to yours: PlazaScreen never touches it.
What a guest sees
Under each code the TV prints the app's name and your handle the way the app shows it: your Venmo username with its @, your Cashtag with its $, your PayPal.Me address. The handle is never left off or shrunk to make room, because it is how a guest checks they are paying you and not somebody else. Fill in "Name guests will see in the app" and the tile prints that name too, the one the app shows on the payment screen.
A code never carries an amount. It opens your page in the app and the guest types what they want to give, so a price goes in the tile's note, or in an announcement beside it.
Which apps
Venmo, Cash App and PayPal each get a code, up to four apps on one tile. Zelle has no link a code could open, so it shows in words: the email or US mobile number your bank uses for it, for guests to type into their own bank's app. For anything else, "Other link" takes a payment page of your own, a card payment page or a fundraiser, and the TV calls it "Pay online", with the site it opens printed under the code.
On a big tile the codes sit side by side. On a smaller one the apps take turns, one code at a time at full size, for as long as you set in "Seconds each". A tile one row tall prints the apps and handles as a line with no code, because no code a phone can read fits there.
Who can change it
Only the account's owners and admins can add the tile or change where it sends people. Anyone else who edits the board can move it, resize it or switch it off, but not touch a handle, and no schedule can change it either. Whenever an app or a handle changes, every owner of the account gets an email with the board, the old handle and the new one, who changed it and when, even when it was them, so a change nobody meant to make doesn't go unnoticed.
Off the screen after the party
The tile starts with "Hide after the event" switched on. Give the board's event its start and end, and when it is over the codes come off the TV by themselves, the same as the wifi. A board with no event dates never hides them, so a counter that sets none keeps its tip jar up every day.
The money never comes near us
PlazaScreen doesn't take payments, keep card details or talk to any payment company. The code is drawn on the TV from your handle, the guest's phone opens the app, and the payment is between the guest, you and the app, under the app's own terms. There is no cut and no fee from us, and nothing to set up beyond your handle.
Selling things, not only chipping in
Friends chipping in toward the cost of a party is one thing; selling lemon bars or taking tips at a business is another, and each app has its own rules for it. This is what each company says on its own pages, which we checked on October 29, 2026. It isn't legal or tax advice, so read the app's terms for your own situation.
- Venmo. Venmo says you can accept payment for goods or services only when it has authorized it: with a business profile, which is a separate profile linked to your account, or when the person paying tags the payment to your personal profile as a purchase.
- Cash App. Cash App's terms keep a personal account for personal, non-commercial payments. Payment for goods and services goes to a Cash App Business Account or, for a sole proprietor who enrolls, to their personal account through an option the terms call Earn in P2P.
- PayPal. PayPal asks for a payment for something bought to be sent as goods and services rather than friends and family. The seller pays a small fee on it, and only those payments are covered by PayPal's Purchase Protection.
- Zelle. Zelle says it is for paying people you know and trust, offers no purchase protection, and recommends against using it to buy from people you don't know. A business can receive it only where its bank offers Zelle for its kind of account.
A board worth copying
For a party, pick "Chip in" when you make the board. Your payment codes take the biggest block with the wifi beside them, and under them a thank-you sits beside a countdown to the moment. That is four tiles. On a screen turned on its side the codes lead, then the thank-you, the wifi and the countdown.
For a table or a counter, pick "Pay here": the codes across two-thirds of the screen, as big as it allows, and beside them your logo, your prices in an announcement and the time. That is four tiles. On a screen turned on its side your logo leads, the codes fill the middle, and the prices and the time close it. Watch it on the board above.
The party guide has the rest of a party board, the café guide a menu board for the counter, and the layouts guide every other starting point.