We've been a user of Square Up for a while now (the service that lets you take payments over a tablet or cell phone and doesn't charge as much as merchant accounts) and it's been pretty good. I got an email from them the other day about a new service called $Cashme. I know a lot of people Paypal people for tools, and I thought this might be a good alternative for people to look at.

It's cash.me and you can sign up and create your own "Cashtag", like $JoesWoodworking and then when you want someone to pay you, you can direct them to cash.me/$JoesWoodworking and it's a basic, simple interface that just lets you enter your payment info into it and hit send. The transaction fee is something like 1.9% or so, so not too bad when comparing to other services.

Just thought I'd throw it out there in case someone might be interested. We're all signed up but haven't tried it yet. It would be nice to have an alternative to paypal, hopefully this is it.