Nobody should have to be the group’s bank

Why we built it

Every group event has the same weak point. Someone volunteers to collect the money, and from that moment they are doing a job nobody trained them for: chasing contributions, fronting deposits on a personal card, and keeping a running total in their head while everyone else asks how much is left. When something goes wrong, it goes wrong between friends and family.

The problem is rarely dishonesty. It is that one person ends up carrying both the cash and the blame, with no shared record that anyone else can check. Reunion Fund exists to take that position away, so planning a reunion does not require trusting a single treasurer, and being the organiser does not mean putting your own relationships on the line.

How the money works

Contributions go into a shared fund for the event rather than into an organiser’s personal account. Money leaves that fund only when the committee agrees it should: a payout has to be requested, and it needs approval from the group before anything moves. The person who requests a payout cannot approve their own request.

Every contribution and every payout is recorded where the whole committee can see it, so the answer to “where did the money go?” is a page, not a conversation. Card payments are processed by Stripe; we never see or store full card details.

What we are not

Reunion Fund is not a bank, and it is not an investment or savings product. It does not lend money or pay interest. It is event software with a shared fund attached, for groups who are already pooling money and want to do it in the open. We are not a registered financial adviser and nothing on this site is financial advice.

Who runs it

Reunion Fund is an independent product built and operated from Tampa, Florida. It is a small operation, not a large company. That means the people who write the product are the people who answer the support email. If something about your event’s money looks wrong, you are not routed through a call centre to reach someone who can actually fix it.

We publish our terms of service, our privacy policy and our refund policy in full, and our guides take on the awkward parts of group money, including who should hold it in the first place.

Talk to us

Questions about an event, a contribution or a payout go to our contact page, and a person reads them. If you are reporting something urgent about money that has already moved, say so in the first line and we will treat it that way.