Coming to things

“I’d come” is free, in every sense

While something is an idea, your tap just says it’s worth planning. It costs nothing, and you can take it back any time by tapping again. The count on the card (“6 of 10 kids would come”) counts kids, not families: your tap carries how many you’d bring, guessed from your profile, and the event page has a stepper if the guess is wrong.

Be honest with it, though. Whoever’s offering to run the thing decides off that number, and a tap you never meant is how someone ends up booking a room for families who don’t show.

A paid place is the real promise

Once enough families are interested, the thing moves to Committing and the number that matters changes: it stops being who’d come and becomes how many places are paid, because saying you’d come doesn’t pay the instructor.

The cost shown is per kid, and you take as many places as you’re bringing in one payment: three kids in a $15 class is $45, three places. They’re yours once you’ve taken them.

The two deadlines

Every planned thing carries two dates, shown right on the card. Interest closes about 7 days after posting: not enough families by then and it drops off the board, no harm done. Commitments close about 7 days after that: this is the moment the organiser takes the money and books.

Everything about refunds hangs off that second date, so it’s the one to actually read.

If you can’t come after all

Before commitments close: open the event page and release your place. You get your money back, no questions, and someone else can take the spot.

After commitments close: the organiser has already paid the instructor with that money, so it can’t come back. The place is still yours, though, and you can give it to another family: just tell whoever’s running it. It works the way a ticket works, and for the same reason.

About actual money, right now

Card payments inside the app aren’t switched on yet (the footer on every page says so). Until they are, taking a place records your commitment on the board and you settle up with whoever’s running the thing directly, cash or e-transfer.

When card payments turn on, the flow stays the same, the card just does the settling: pay on the event page, and a release before the deadline lands back on your card by itself.

Free things, short notice, and regulars

No minimum, no cost: the button says “I’m coming” and that’s the whole transaction.

Short notice things (today, tomorrow) have no places and no deadlines. See it, turn up. Turn on the text alert on the You page or you’ll hear too late.

Regulars (a park day every month, a games afternoon every Wednesday) always show their next date, and you can say you’re coming to a specific one from the event page, which is what puts the “4 coming on the 19th” under the date.