How does a group gift work?

Some presents are too big for one guest. A group gift puts one present on the gifts page with its price, shows how much is still to go, and lets each guest promise an amount when they reply.

Set one up

1. 1Open the invitation from your dashboard, choose Update details and go to the More details step.
2. 2In the Gift registry box, add a row and pick A group gift at its top.
3. 3Fill in The present, What it costs with its currency, and, if some of it is already covered, Already put in and Put in by.
4. 4Add a line about it, Where guests can send money (a PayPal or Venmo link, for example) and a photo of it.
5. 5Choose Save, and publish the change.

The box shows what guests will see, for example "Guests see $300 still to go of $500 ($200 from Mom & Dad)". A group gift needs a price; without one it is kept as a fund.

What guests see

The gift gets a card of its own above the lists: the photo with a progress badge, or a ring filling up around a drawn present. Under it: what is still to go, what the family put in, how much guests have promised and how many, then three suggested amounts, an Other box and Chip in, which opens the reply form on that gift. The card says that the amount goes with their RSVP as a promise and that nothing is paid there. Once the whole price is covered it reads Fully given.

Guests only ever see the sums. Who promised what is yours alone to see.

What a promise is

• A promise is made with the reply, counted only on a published invitation, and never for more than is still to go.
• A changed reply replaces the earlier promise; it is never added twice. Leaving the box blank takes a promise back.
• A guest who answers No can still chip in.
• The money changes hands outside Nimanto, through the link you gave or on the day.

Where you see the promises

Each promise shows in the guest's reply under Guests & RSVPs as "Chipping in: $50 toward …", in the replies export, in your RSVP alert e-mail, and as a running total in the group gift's box under Update details.