Life happens together.
Payment should too.
Some of the best parts of life don't arrive in a box — they arrive in shared moments, with the people we love most.
They happen when friends rent a cabin for a long weekend. When families reunite somewhere special. When teammates travel to compete. When a club plans its next adventure. When colleagues step away from their desks to learn, celebrate and build stronger relationships.
From a simple night out to a professionally curated expedition, experiences bring us out from behind our screens and back into the world with one another.
But organizing them is harder than it should be.
One person books the house, reserves the suite, pays the tournament fee or places the deposit. Then comes the spreadsheet, the payment requests, the reminders and the uncomfortable job of figuring out who has—or hasn't—paid.
The experience may belong to everyone. The financial burden usually falls on one person.
We built Paywalla to change that.
Most checkout systems were designed for one buyer making one payment.
Experiences work differently. They are planned together, shared together and often funded by several people. Paywalla gives businesses, nonprofits, clubs and group organizers a checkout designed for that reality.
The organization creates one group purchase and appoints an organizer. The organizer divides the cost among the participants. Each person then pays their own share directly to the organization.
Nobody has to front the entire cost. Nobody has to collect money in a personal account. Nobody has to reconcile a spreadsheet after the fact.
The organization gets paid as payments happen. The organizer can see the group's progress. Every participant receives a clear individual receipt.
That is the group checkout.
One platform, every persona
Organizations create checkouts from their dashboard, organizers configure the group and invite participants by QR, link or email, each participant pays their share, and an optional read-only progress view keeps the group in the loop—while invitations, receipts, reminders and alerts flow automatically.
Behind nearly every memorable experience is someone who made it happen.
It might be a professional event planner, travel advisor, coach, promoter, producer or hospitality business. It might be a nonprofit leader, club administrator or sales representative bringing customers and partners together.
Sometimes it is simply the person in a family or group of friends who always steps forward to organize—and usually ends up putting the reservation on their own card.
Paywalla gives these organizers a better way to lead.
They can divide the total equally or assign custom amounts. They can send secure payment links by email or show personal QR codes for face-to-face collection. They can follow progress as payments arrive, send reminders and manage changes without chasing people across texts, spreadsheets and payment apps.
Participants pay the actual organization—not one another—and receive the documentation they may need for reimbursement, business expenses or recordkeeping.
Paywalla is not only for occasional group trips.
We believe group checkout can become the foundation for an entirely new class of experience businesses.
A travel planner can assemble group trips without financing the reservations personally. A venue can sell a private night to an entire party instead of requiring one person to pay. A club can collect tournament, facility and membership costs from every family. An event producer can sell access to a suite or private experience across several participants. A nonprofit can coordinate member-funded activities and community events.
Organizations can add their own percentage or flat service fee—or charge no additional fee at all. Existing professionals can align Paywalla with their contracts, negotiated rates and operating models. New entrepreneurs can begin organizing experiences as a side business and grow from there.
The organization remains the merchant of record. Payments move through Stripe directly into its connected account, subject to the applicable fees. Paywalla provides the group checkout, allocation, collection and tracking layer around that transaction.
Booking systems, travel planners, event platforms and billing tools can go further and build group checkout right into their own product through our developer API. Explore the developer community →
Group checkout is not only for memorable experiences.
The same structure — one purchase, several payers, each paying their share directly to the organization — solves a broader set of problems that have long been awkward inside organizations.
It can manage internal chargebacks: when one team, department or individual fronts a shared cost, a group checkout recovers it from every responsible party, each paying directly to the organization and receiving a proper receipt instead of a forwarded screenshot.
It can split invoices: a single bill to a shared client or co-funded account becomes one checkout with per-payer links, so co-payers settle their portions without one person carrying the whole balance.
And it can fund programs and establish funding pools: a department, committee or member group can pool money toward a shared initiative — collecting contributions from every participant straight into the organization's account, with live progress and individual documentation.
For the booking, billing and operations tools that already sit inside organizations, integrating this category of group checkout opens up an entirely new way to manage chargebacks, split invoices and fund programs — without spreadsheets, personal fronts or ad-hoc payment apps.
Paywalla works wherever the group happens to be.
An organizer can send individual payment links before an event, display a QR code from a phone while meeting someone face to face or use email as a fallback. Each participant sees their assigned amount and the details of the purchase before paying.
As payments arrive, the group's progress updates automatically.
Every completed payment produces an individual receipt containing the merchant, transaction date, purchase description, base cost, service fee when applicable, payment method and other relevant details. Participants no longer have to rely on a screenshot of a transfer or a generic note from the person who collected the money.
Businesses receive money directly. Organizers get visibility. Participants get clarity.
Consumer payment apps help people reimburse one another after someone has already paid.
Paywalla addresses the moment before that becomes necessary.
It allows an organization to establish the purchase, its terms and the amount to be collected. It allows an organizer to coordinate the group without becoming the group's banker. And it allows every participant to complete a direct, documented transaction with the organization.
That difference matters when the purchase is large, the group is complex or the payment needs to be treated seriously.
Paywalla isn't peer-to-peer payment. It is organization-to-group checkout.
- We believe people want more reasons to gather—not more time behind screens.
- We believe meaningful experiences should be easier to create, fund and share.
- We believe the person who brings everyone together should not have to assume all the financial risk.
- We believe businesses should be able to sell to a group as easily as they sell to an individual.
- And we believe new businesses, clubs and communities will emerge when anyone with the ability to create a remarkable experience also has the infrastructure to organize and fund it.
The future of experiences will be more personal, more creative and more participatory. Some will be simple and spontaneous. Others will be ambitious, curated and professionally produced.
Paywalla is building the group-payment infrastructure behind them.