One person claims the expensive item and buys it, then emails the friends who are splitting it. Everyone settles up with them directly — the platform never holds a cent.
Exactly like any other claim — a name and an email, no account. The item greys out for everyone else the moment they do.
The claimer buys the item at the merchant, like every other gift on the list. There is no checkout of ours — there isn't one to use.
From their claim they send the friends splitting it a note: the item, the price and who to settle with. That email is the entire mechanism.
Venmo, cash, a bank transfer — however they already pay each other back. We are not in that transaction, which is why we can't hold it, lose it or refund it.
A pool has to be held by someone, and a holder has to refund it when plans change. Not holding money at all removes the whole problem class — no balance to keep safe, no refund to process, no payout to verify.
The buyer fronts the purchase like any group gift organised in a group chat. The difference is the claim tells everyone the item is covered, and the email tells the friends exactly who to settle with.
Birthdays, weddings, baby showers. Claim the espresso machine, email the family group, settle however you already do.
Parents split the big-ticket classroom item — a listening centre, a set of microscopes — the same way, with delivery to the school.
Givers can split a larger item on a nonprofit's list too. Same claim, same email, same rule that goods ship to the registered address.
No — and they can't. There is no payment page anywhere in the product. They settle with the buyer however they already handle splitting costs.
That's between them and the buyer, exactly like a split organised in a group chat. The buyer chose to front the purchase; we only carry the email saying who's in.
No. There is no fee because there is no money to take one from — nothing is processed, held or transferred by the platform.
The owner sees claims under the usual surprise-mode rules — the friends settling with the buyer are between them.
They release the claim with the one-click link in their confirmation email, before they've bought anything. The item opens up again for someone else.
Yes — personal, classroom and Giving Back lists all offer share the cost on any claim, because the mechanism is just the claim plus an email.
Paste three links, share one. Splitting the expensive thing is built into every claim.
