Gift Pledges
Track who's chipping in for the gift.
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Gleekit never takes or holds money. This is a shared list of who said they would chip in and how much — nothing here can move a payment, and you should never put card numbers, bank details or a payment link on this page.
Your two links appear here once the pool is started: one for everyone chipping in, and one for you.
A list of who is chipping in, and nothing that touches your money
Start with the important part, because the word “pool” makes people expect something else. Gleekit never takes or holds money. There is no payment processor behind this page, no card form, no account number, no IBAN and no payment link, and none of those is coming later. What this is, exactly, is the sheet of paper that used to go round an office with a biro attached to it: a list of names, a list of amounts, and a total at the bottom. The money still moves between people who know each other, the way it always did.
That sounds like less than it is. The sheet of paper is genuinely the hard part of a group present. Somebody buys the thing, somebody else collects, and a fortnight later nobody can remember whether Tom paid or only said he would. The organiser ends up thirty pounds down and too polite to ask. A page everyone can see fixes that on its own, without a single transaction going anywhere near us.
How to run one
- Say what the money is for. “A leaving present for Sarah” is plenty.
- Pick what the amounts are in, and set a target if you have one. Both are optional to think about; the target is only a number to aim at.
- Send the share link to everyone who might chip in. Six characters, so it survives being read aloud.
- People add their name and their amount. The total climbs as they do, and everybody can see the list.
- Collect the money however you normally would — cash, a transfer, the coffee tin. As each person hands it over, tick them off on your own link.
- When you have gone shopping, close the pool. The list stays readable so anybody can check what they put in.
Three things worth knowing before you send the link
The arithmetic is done in whole pennies. Every amount is stored as a whole number of the smallest unit of your currency and added up as integers, which is the boring answer to a real problem: computers that add up decimals produce totals like 41.999999999, and that is not a number anybody wants read out at a leaving do. Type it however you like —12, 12.50, £12, 1,234.50 — and the box underneath shows you what it read. Anything with three decimal places is refused rather than rounded, because we would rather ask than quietly change your money by 3p.
One pledge per person, and it can be changed. People revise what they are putting in more often than they revise anything else on this site, usually after seeing what everyone else put. Opening the link again brings back what you typed, and saving replaces it instead of adding a second line.
Anyone with the link can write on it. Names and notes go through a word filter, and it is a first line rather than a wall. Every shared page carries a Report link, one click takes the whole pool off the air, and your manage link is what puts it back — and it is also where you remove a single line without troubling anybody. Send this to the people you would have handed the envelope to.
Good uses
- A leaving present, where six people are working from home and nobody can find the envelope.
- A wedding or a big birthday, where the group is wider than one office and the organiser needs a record.
- A shared bill that is going to be settled later — a meal, a weekend, a hired van.
- A whip-round for something small and urgent, where the point is knowing quickly whether you have enough.
When to use something else
This tracks money and collects nothing else. If what you want is everybody’s words for one person, that is Group Card — messages, saved up and opened at once. If you want thank-yous on a wall the whole team reads as they land, that is Kudos Wall. And if the question is which present to buy rather than who is paying for it, that is Live Poll. For actually moving money, use your bank, or whatever app the people involved already trust — that part was never ours.
Questions people ask
- Does Gleekit take the money?
- No — and there is nothing here that could. Gift Pledges is a shared list of who said they would chip in and how much. There is no card form, no payment button, no account number and no payment link, and we will not be adding any: Gleekit holds no money and has no way to move it. The money itself changes hands the way it always did, between people who know each other, and this page is only the note of who said what. If a page ever asks you for bank or card details in our name, it is not us.
- What does “handed over” mean, then?
- It is the organiser writing down something that happened in the real world: the cash is in their hand, or a transfer landed in their own bank. Only the person with the manage link can tick it, ticking it moves nothing and pays nobody, and it is their note to themselves rather than a receipt. Everybody on the share link can see the ticks, which is mostly so people can check whether it is them who still owes.
- Does anyone need an account?
- No. You start the pool, you send the link, people add themselves. Nobody has to sign up, nobody has to give an email address, and nobody installs anything. The organiser can sign in if they want to keep it past ninety days and find it again without the link — that is the only thing an account does here, it is optional, and it changes nothing for anybody else. The name somebody puts down is kept in their own browser so the next Gleekit tool that asks already knows it, and it is in no account anywhere.
- Can I change what I said I would put in?
- Yes, and this is the one place on the site where that matters most. One pledge per browser: open the same link again and the form comes back filled in, and saving it replaces what you put down rather than adding a second line. If the organiser had already ticked your pledge as handed over, changing the amount takes that tick off — because the money they have is no longer the money you have promised, and they will want to know.
- What about currencies, and what happens to the pool afterwards?
- A currency here is a label and nothing more. We do no conversion and never add two currencies together, because we have no rates and no business holding any — so one pool is one currency, and everybody in it is putting in the same kind of money. As for afterwards: the pool stays readable for ninety days after the last pledge, then it is deleted along with the whole list. Every pledge pushes that date out again. There is no archive and no way to bring one back, so if you still need to know who owes what, copy the list out before then. Reporting is per pool rather than per line, so one report takes the whole page off the air and your manage link is what puts it back; an organiser who wants one line gone uses Remove instead, which costs nobody a report.