How Do I Recover My Venmo Account If I Can't Sign In?

In a nutshell: If you’re having trouble accessing your Venmo account, avoid creating a new one, as it may violate terms and complicate payment methods. Issues can often be resolved easily. To recover a frozen account, make a recovery payment using a debit or credit card

Oct 27, 2025

Introduction

Venmo is a convenient way to send and receive money, and to receive client payments if you are in business for yourself. So, if you can no longer sign in to your Venmo account, you may be very anxious to fix the problem and regain access. There are a few different things that could be causing the problem, and most of them are pretty easy to resolve.

What You'll Need

If you are having difficulty signing in, do not try to get around the problem by just creating a new account. This can cause problems with your payment methods and is against Venmo's terms of service.

If you are trying to unfreeze and account that was frozen because of a failed payment, you will need to provide funds for a recovery payment. Do this using a debit or credit card, rather than a bank transfer, because the card payment will go through right away, while the bank transfer can take up to five days, leaving your account frozen for longer.

If you contact Venmo's customer support for help regaining access to your account, make sure you have the email address and phone number associated with the account, your bank's routing number, and the last four digits of your bank account number with you.

Go to the Venmo home page.

Venmo home page

Click on the Log In link in the upper right corner of the page.

Enter your username, cell phone number, or email associated with your Venmo account.

If you are signing in from a new device and no longer have access to the email and phone associated with your Venmo account and have been asked to provide a verification code sent by Venmo, skip to step 6.
If your account has been frozen, skip to step 9.
If you cannot remember your password, continue on with the next step.

Click on the "Forgot Password?" option.

Check for an email from Venmo with a link to reset your password.

Try to sign in to Venmo from a device that you have previously used to sign in.

Because it is a remembered device, you might not be asked for the verification code this time. If you get in to your account, change the email and phone number in your profile so this problem does not happen again.

If the previous step did not work, try to sign in again.

After entering your password, click on the ""Other options to confirm your identity" or "I don't have access to this phone" option.

Follow the prompts to regain access to your account.

If your account was frozen because of a failed payment, go to Venmo's account recovery page and follow the prompts to unfreeze your account.

Venmo account recovery page

Conclusion

To get help signing in to your account, call a Venmo customer support representative. You can call from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm EST from Monday through Friday. The customer support center is not open on weekends.

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