Cash gifts that go straight to your own account
Most registries that accept cash gifts hold your money, take a percentage, and pay you out on their schedule. This one never touches it. Guests tap a button and the money moves from their account to yours, exactly as if they had sent it to you directly — because they did.
- Seven services: Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Zelle, Apple Cash, GoFundMe, or any link
- The platform never holds your money and takes 0%
- Amount and gift note prefilled, so the guest just confirms
Why this matters more than it sounds
A registry that processes cash gifts is a payment company. It has to hold your money, verify you, take a cut to cover the card fees and its own margin, and release the balance on terms it sets. Families routinely wait weeks and lose several percent of what their friends intended to give them.
We are not a payment company and have no ambition to become one. You connect the accounts you already use. The site builds a beautiful hand-off to them, records who gave what for your thank-you notes, and gets out of the way. Your friend's $50 arrives as $50.
What a guest actually does
They pick an amount — or type their own — and tap the service they already have on their phone. Where the service supports it, the app opens with your handle, the amount and a note ("For Rowan's nursery fund") already filled in, so all they do is confirm.
For Zelle and Apple Cash, which have no public deep link, they get your handle in a one-tap copy row with the exact steps for their banking app. Every method also renders a QR code, generated inside your own browser so your private registry link is never sent to a third-party QR service.
- Venmo, PayPal and Cash App — one tap, amount and note prefilled
- Zelle and Apple Cash — copy-and-paste handle with bank-app steps
- GoFundMe or any custom link — for a campaign or a 529 college fund
- A local QR code for every method, never sent off your device
Funds with a goal, and a bar that means something
A cash fund can have a target — a pram, a car seat, a month of nappies — and a progress bar that fills as gifts arrive. The bar only counts money you have confirmed actually landed in your account. Unconfirmed gifts show separately as "on the way", so nobody can inflate your fund by claiming to have sent something.
When you confirm a gift, the giver drops into your thank-you tracker with the amount and the service they used. If that gift pushes a fund past its goal, the site says so, on the page, to everyone.
Setting up the accounts
Each of the seven services has a short setup guide written in plain language, with a link to that provider's own help pages if you need the official version. If you already have the account, connecting it takes about fifteen seconds: paste your handle, and the site normalises it so a @, a $ or a full profile URL all work.
What it does not do
We cannot verify that a gift arrived, because we are deliberately not in the payment path. You confirm each one when you see it in your own account. That manual step is the price of keeping 100% of the money and it takes a couple of seconds.
There is no card processing. A guest who wants to give cash needs one of the services above; a guest who does not can buy a gift from the registry instead.
Questions
What percentage do you take?
None. The money never passes through us. You pay for the site, not for the gifts.
Do you see my Venmo balance or transactions?
No. We store the handle you type and nothing else. There is no connection to your account, no OAuth, no read access.
What if a guest says they sent money and did not?
The fund bar does not move until you confirm it, and unconfirmed gifts are labelled "on the way" rather than counted.
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