👥 Group Payments

Group payments let multiple people contribute toward a shared total, making it easy to split the cost of a product or service. This is ideal for scenarios like:

• Group gifting (e.g. birthdays, weddings, holidays)
• Shared travel bookings
• Team or bulk purchases

Hands In offers a fully hosted and embeddable checkout experience for Group Payments, as well as direct API access to create, update and manage them programmatically.

🚀 Why Use Group Payments?

Group payments improve conversion by enabling collaborative purchases that might not happen otherwise.

Benefits include:

• 👯‍♀️ Frictionless collaboration: Multiple contributors pay their share independently
• 💳 Improved checkout rates: Reduce abandoned purchases when costs are split with others able to pay
• ⏳ Flexible deadlines: Set expiration timeframes to prompt quick action
• 🔄 Real-time tracking: Track who’s paid and how much is left

🧰 How It Works

1. Create a group payment session via POST /group-payments
2. Receive a hosted checkout URL to redirect the lead customer (group owner) to
3. The group owner can then share the group invite link for others to join
4. Hands In monitors payment progress and completes the session once the total has been authorized.

Webhooks can notify your system in real time, or you can retrieve the group payment status by polling our API.

---

📘 What's Next?

• Create a group payment session
• Retrieve a group payment session
• Reconcile group payment contributions
• Setting up group payment webhooks