A registry where
nobody buys the same thing twice.
A wishlist guests reserve from, sitting on the invitation they already have. Claimed presents stay on the list so everyone can see what has gone, and cash gifts go straight to whatever you already use.
Included in the $39 Event Pass · No listing fees · No cut of your cash gifts
Gift registry
2 of 4 still to be claimed. Say what you are getting and nobody buys it twice.
Cast-iron casserole dish
$120 · Any colour but red, please
Where to buy itWool picnic blanket
Any budget
From
Copper pans, set of three
$240
Where to buy itYou are getting this
Change my mind
Stoneware dinner set
Any budget
Where to buy itMoney instead
We are saving for the honeymoon — anything at all is very welcome.
The registry as a guest sees it, on their own invitation page. No account, no app, no password — the link in their invitation is the only credential.
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I'll get this. One tap on a free present. There is no sign-up step in front of it, and no email is asked for.
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From. The field opens pre-filled with the name on the invitation, and it is only a default. Type “The Bakr family”, or forward the link to an aunt who types hers.
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You are getting this. Your own claims are marked in mint with “Change my mind” under them. That button only appears in the browser that made the claim.
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Margaret Doyle is getting this. Somebody else's claim. The present stays on the list, greyed and named — hide it and the next guest concludes the list changed, and the couple get two.
Two lists, because couples think of them as one decision
The things to buy, and the ways to send money instead. Either one on its own is a complete registry — and both live in the same panel, which looks like this.
Gift registry
Your guests can see this on their invitation.
Presents
Add a presentCast-iron casserole dish
$120 · Any colour but red, please
Where to buy itCopper pans, set of three
$240
Where to buy itClaimed by Margaret Doyle
Wool picnic blanket
No price
Money instead
Add wherever you would like money sent — PayPal, Venmo, Pix, Bizum, a honeymoon fund. Guests see these alongside the presents.
A line to your guests (optional)
Save the note
PayPal
paypal.me/leoandmarta
Venmo
venmo.com/u/leo-and-marta
Honeymoon fund
leoandmarta.example/honeymoon
Name
Link
The host panel with the registry live: three presents, one already claimed, and the cash links in the same view.
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Registry is on. One switch. Off is the default, and while it is off the guest half of the registry answers nothing at all.
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Presents, Claimed, Still free. The three numbers at the top are how you watch the list empty. There is no notification when a present is claimed — this panel is where it shows.
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Claimed by Margaret Doyle. The name a guest typed, shown on the row. You never see their reservation secret, because it is never sent to you.
- 4
Free it up. The ↺ beside a claimed row clears the reservation and puts the present back on everyone's list. It is the only recovery path for a guest who lost their link.
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Up and down, not drag. Order is moved with arrow buttons on purpose: a drag handle is unusable with a keyboard and awkward on the phone most hosts plan on.
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Money instead. A section, not a tab hidden behind the wishlist. A registry made only of these links is a complete registry.
A wishlist guests reserve from
Add what you would like, with a link to the shop, a rough price and a note if the size or the colour matters. Up to 200 presents, ordered with up and down buttons rather than a drag handle, because a drag handle is unusable with a keyboard and awkward on a phone.
Reserved items stay on the list, marked
A present that has been claimed does not vanish. It stays visible, greyed, reading “Margaret Doyle is getting this”, because a list that hides what has gone is a list where two people buy the same toaster, each having seen a list with no toaster on it.
Held by name, not by an identity check
The name on a reservation is typed by the person claiming it, into a field pre-filled with the name on the invitation and editable over. A guest reserving on behalf of a family or four colleagues splitting one present puts down who it is really from, and the registry never argues with them about it.
Two people cannot claim the same present
Claiming is settled in the database, not in the page. Two guests tapping “I’ll get this” in the same second are serialised by Postgres: one gets it, and the other is told by name who beat them to it and asked to pick another.
Cash gifts through whatever you already use
Add up to 8 links — PayPal, Venmo, Pix, Bizum, a honeymoon fund, a bank page — with a short note explaining what the money is for. There is no payment code anywhere in this feature: Picsui does not sit between you and the money and takes no cut of it.
A reservation can be undone
Claiming writes a secret into that guest's own browser, where “Change my mind” uses it to release the present. It is never emailed, never displayed and never shown to you — so a guest on a different phone asks you, and you free the present from the panel.
How it works
Six steps, and the first two are the ones nobody warns you about: the registry needs a guest list to ride on, and it starts switched off.
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Make the guest list first
The registry rides on invitations, so it needs somewhere to ride. In the Guests tab you add people one at a time or paste in a CSV, and each one gets their own invitation link, copied with a button or exported for all of them at once.
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Turn the registry on
It lives in the Plan tab, under Gifts — the nav calls it “A wishlist nobody doubles up on”. It opens switched off, reading “Turned off. Guests cannot see the registry yet”, and one press changes that line to “Your guests can see this on their invitation.”
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Add what you would like
“What is it” is the only required field. Price, shop link, picture link and a note are optional. Prices are read forgivingly — “£49.99”, “1,299” and “1.299,00” all land correctly — and a shop link pasted without the https:// has it added rather than being refused.
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Add the ways to send money
Paste the payment links you already use and give each a name. A link left unnamed is labelled with its own site, a duplicate is stored once, and a payment link that is not a web address is refused with a message rather than quietly dropped.
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Guests open it from their invitation
Below their RSVP they see every present, including the ones already gone and who has them. They tap “I’ll get this”, put a name to it, and the present is marked on everyone else's list from that moment.
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You watch three numbers
Presents, Claimed and Still free sit at the top of the panel. Nothing notifies you when a present is claimed — no email, no push — so the panel is where you find out, and it is also where you free a present up for a guest who lost their link.
Gift registry
Turned off. Guests cannot see the registry yet.
Presents
Add a presentNothing on the registry yet
Add what you would like, with a link to where it can be bought. Guests claim what they are getting, so nobody arrives with the same thing twice.
The registry panel on day one. It ships switched off, so guests see nothing on their invitation until you press Turn the registry on.
Two guests, one present, the same second
Somebody has to lose that race, and how they are told is the difference between picking another present and refreshing the page five times.
Gift registry
1 of 4 still to be claimed. Say what you are getting and nobody buys it twice.
Margaret Doyle has already claimed this one. Pick another and nobody gets two.
Cast-iron casserole dish
$120 · Any colour but red, please
Where to buy itWool picnic blanket
Any budget
Copper pans, set of three
$240
A second too late. The banner names who won, the row it was on has already re-read itself, and the rest of the list is still tappable.
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Named, not generic. Having lost the write, the server goes back and reads who holds the present, so the answer is a name rather than “could not reserve”.
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The list refreshed itself. A failed claim re-fetches the registry, so what you are looking at is the list as it is now, not as it was when the page opened.
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The counter moved. Four presents, one still free. The count comes from the same rows the list is drawn from, so it cannot disagree with them.
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Settled in the database. The claim is a single conditional update that only matches an unreserved row. Two taps in the same second are serialised by Postgres and the second one matches nothing.
Or skip the presents entirely
The cash section is a first-class registry, not a fallback. Your own links, your own accounts, and nothing of ours in between.
Gift registry
Money instead
We are saving for the honeymoon — anything at all is very welcome.
Photos from the day will be collected here.
A registry with no wishlist at all. With no presents on it the counter line does not render, and the section is one card.
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Your accounts, your money. The buttons open the links you pasted. There is no payment code anywhere in this feature — Picsui never handles, holds or takes a cut of a cash gift.
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A label, or the site's own name. Leave the name blank and the button is labelled with the link's own hostname, so a link pasted in a hurry still says something.
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Only web addresses. A payment link that is not an http or https address is refused with a message, and the same link is re-checked on the way back out to the guest.
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Duplicates dropped. Paste the same PayPal link twice and it is stored once. That is a slip, not two ways to pay.
Who it is actually for
On the invitation, not on a separate site
The registry renders on each guest's own invitation page, under the RSVP, so it travels with the invitation you were already sending. There is no second link to remember and no registry site to sign up for, and it renders nothing at all when you have not set one up.
For couples who want money, not things
Plenty of couples want only the cash section, which is why it is not tucked behind the wishlist. Add the links, write the note, and skip the item list entirely — with no presents on it the counter line does not even render.
For guests buying together
One person reserves the present under a name that covers everybody paying towards it. Nothing in the flow requires the payer and the person on the guest list to be the same human.
For the relative who is not on the list
A guest can forward their invitation link to the aunt who is ordering on their behalf. She reserves under her own name, and nothing blocks her for not being on the guest list.
A present should never be blocked by an identity check
Every registry has to answer one question: who is allowed to claim this item, and how do we know it is them? The tempting answer is the guest list, and it is wrong. The person buying the toaster is frequently not on the list under that name, and the moment a registry insists otherwise it starts turning away money and goodwill. So a reservation here is a name the buyer types plus a secret only their browser holds: the name is what the next guest needs to see, and the secret is the only thing that can undo it. It is never emailed and never shown, which is exactly as durable as it sounds — which is why, when a guest asks, the panel lets you free the present yourself, and why the message they get says so: “This present is not held under your reservation any more. The host can free it up for you.”
What it deliberately does not do
Worth knowing before the invitations go out rather than after. If any of these is the reason you wanted a registry, buy the department store one instead.
No quantities
One present is claimed by one person. You cannot ask for six wine glasses and have six guests take one each — list them as six presents, or as one.
No group payments
There is no split-the-cost pot. Guests who club together settle it between themselves and reserve under one name that covers them all.
No pictures on the list
There is a picture link field and it is stored, but nothing draws it. Presents show as a title, a price, a note and a shop link on both sides.
No shop import
Nothing pulls a wishlist in from Amazon or a department store. You paste the links yourself, and they are yours rather than an affiliate's.
No shipping addresses
The registry never collects where to send anything. Guests use the shop link and give the address themselves.
No purchased state, no thank-you tracker
A present is claimed or it is free. There is no separate “bought” tick and nothing tracks which thank-you notes you have written.
Questions couples ask
Why is a reservation held by name instead of by the guest on the list?
Because the person buying the present is often not on the guest list under that name. A grandmother orders through a nephew, four colleagues split one gift, a partner buys in both their names. Tying a reservation to a guest-list identity would block exactly those people, and a wedding present should never be blocked by an identity check. The name is what the next guest needs to see; a secret their browser keeps, not an identity, is what proves the reservation is theirs to undo.
What stops two guests reserving the same present at the same moment?
The claim is a conditional update inside the database rather than a check followed by a write: it only matches a row that is still unreserved. Postgres serialises the two attempts and the second matches nothing. The server then reads back who holds the present, so the loser is told by name — “Margaret Doyle has already claimed this one. Pick another and nobody gets two.” — and the list refreshes itself to show it taken.
Do reserved presents disappear from the list?
No, and that is deliberate. A reserved item stays visible, greyed, marked with the name it is held under. A registry that hides what has gone is a registry where two people buy the same toaster, each having seen a list with no toaster on it.
Can a guest change their mind after reserving something?
Yes, from the browser they claimed on. Reserving writes a secret into that browser's own storage and a “Change my mind” button appears under their claim; pressing it releases the present. The secret is never emailed, never displayed and never sent to the couple, so on a different phone — or after clearing site data — that button is simply absent and the guest sees the same grey pill everyone else does. Asking the couple is then the way back: they free the present from the panel.
Do guests need an account, an app or a password?
None of the three. The link in their invitation is the only credential the registry checks, and it never asks for an email address to claim a present. A link that is malformed and a link whose invitation has been deleted get the identical answer, so a stray link never confirms whether a guest list exists.
Can we ask for money instead of presents?
Yes. The cash section is not tucked behind the wishlist, because plenty of couples want only that. Add up to 8 links to whatever you already use — PayPal, Venmo, Pix, Bizum, a honeymoon fund — with a note of up to 500 characters saying what the money is going towards. A registry made only of those links is a complete registry: with no presents on it, guests see one card and no list.
Does Picsui take a percentage of cash gifts?
No. The cash section is a set of links to your own accounts, and there is no payment code in the feature at all. The money goes from your guest to you by whatever service the link points at, and Picsui never handles it, holds it or takes a cut of it. A payment link that is not an http or https web address is refused with a message rather than saved, and every link is re-checked on the way back out to the guest.
Where do guests find the registry?
On their own invitation page, under the RSVP, which means the registry needs a guest list with invitations sent out first. There is no separate registry website and no second link to remember, and the section renders nothing when a host has not set one up, so an invitation to a simple party stays a simple page.
Where is the registry in the dashboard?
Open the event, then the Plan tab, then Gifts — the nav describes it as “A wishlist nobody doubles up on”. The switch, the three counters, the presents and the cash links are all on that one panel.
Are we told when somebody claims a present?
No. There is no email, no push notification and no badge — the registry panel is the only place a claim shows, under the name it was claimed with, and the Claimed counter at the top is how most couples notice. If that matters to you, it is worth knowing before the day rather than after it.
How big can a registry be?
Up to 200 presents — the 201st is refused with “A registry holds up to 200 presents. Remove one to add another.” — and up to 8 cash links. A present title runs to 200 characters, a note on a present or on the cash section to 500, a payment link's name to 40, and the name a guest reserves under to 120.
What currency do prices show in?
US dollars, always. You can type a price in whatever shape you like — “£49.99”, “1,299”, “49,99” — and it will be read correctly, but it is displayed in USD with US formatting to every guest, because there is no currency setting anywhere in the feature. A present with no price at all reads “No price” to you and “Any budget” to your guests.
What happens to our registry if the Event Pass lapses?
Nothing you have collected disappears, and your guests are not cut off. Only editing stops: the lock reads “This is included with the Event Pass. Everything you have already added stays exactly where it is — upgrade to keep editing it.” You keep reading the whole registry and every reservation on it, and the guest half keeps working — guests can still claim and release presents, because their side checks only their invitation link.
What does the registry deliberately not do?
No quantities on an item, no group contributions or split payments, no separate “purchased” state beyond claimed, no importing a list from a shop, no shipping addresses collected, no thank-you tracking, and no picture drawn on a present even though there is a field to store one. If a department-store registry's full apparatus is what you need, this is not it.
What does the gift registry cost?
The registry is part of the Event Pass, $39 once for the event with no subscription and no listing fees. The same pass covers the photo gallery, the guestbook, the live slideshow and the full-resolution download.
Put the registry where guests are already looking
It lives on the invitation page each guest already has, so there is nothing extra to send and nothing extra to explain. Prices show in US dollars to every guest, however you type them in, because there is no currency setting — if that is a problem for your registry, say so to Support@Picsui.com and a person will answer.