The Good Gift Pool Service from the Birthday Party Games Lady solves the birthday gift problem in many ways:
Create your Good Gift Pool for your birthday child on a simple sign up page where your email address will identify your pool for your invitees. That same email address identifies all incoming payments as belonging to your pool.
You'll get an email receipt for every payment made to your gift pool, as will each contributor, and you can track the totals on line. Should you choose the 'anonymous donor' option, your receipts will advise you of amounts, but not names.
You choose the date after which no more gift payments will be accepted, and all funds collected in your pool, less the 5% processing fee, will be automatically returned to you three days later by bank check. The bank check will be mailed out on the third day, with email confirmation that it has been sent.
The 5% processing fee covers only the charges by the credit card companies and PayPal for processing the payments. These fees are charged to the Birthday Party Games Lady on all payments. I wish they were free, but they're not.
At this time, only US Residents can set up a Good Gift Pool for US$ payments.
You get a printable little insert for your invitation advising your invitees of the pool and directing to them to the webpage for their credit card payment to your pool.
It's easy and convenient for your guests, and gives the birthday child a 'good gift' rather than a bunch of small items that may be of no interest. Everybody wins.
Have a great party!
