Make Group Gifts Less Stressful This Holiday Season with GiftCrowd

By Eshed Doni, Founder & CEO — GiftCrowd 

Winter is fast approaching, which means it’s time to start planning your holiday shopping! Most likely, you’ve already started counting up the number of gifts you need to buy for friends, relatives, teachers, and coworkers — some of whom are barely even acquaintances. If the stress of gift-giving has you stressed to the max, you’re not alone. Finding ways to make group gifts easier is key to keeping your sanity.

According to research surveys, approximately 7 out of 10 people experience gifting stress due to a perceived “lack of time” or “lack of money.” If you find yourself among the majority of people who experience anxiety during this “most wonderful time of the year,” the good news is that an all-new online group gifting platform can help.

How GiftCrowd and group gifting remove stress from holiday shopping

Just in time for the holiday season, GiftCrowd is a digital dashboard designed to streamline the process of group gifting. It allows you to capitalize on the many benefits of group gifts and eliminate all of the traditional hassle. 

First and foremost, GiftCrowd takes the stress out of gift-giving by allowing people to join together, meaning you won’t get stuck buying presents all by yourself this holiday season. When finances are tight, group gifting allows you to offer the gifts your friends and family love at the prices you can afford by pooling together resources and purchasing presents you otherwise may not have been able to afford on your own.  

All  contributions are collected byGiftCrowd, and no one will feel awkward or less important since the platform collects and combines contributions while allowing the organizer to choose whether or not to disclose the amount that each participant contributed. This feature makes giving manageable for all budgets and prevents anyone from feeling marginalized.

Next, GiftCrowd takes overthinking out of the gift-giving equation by letting the recipient choose. Surprising a loved one can be a source of great enjoyment, but many gifts you need to purchase each year are for people you know little to nothing about.  

In these cases, the pressure to pick a suitable gift can cause immense doubt as you fret over how someone might react — and about what might happen if your idea falls flat — even after hours of researching, shopping, making purchases, and then second-guessing your decisions. When you feel gift-giving becoming a source of worry and anxiety, it’s time to step back and remember that it’s not about you. With GiftCrowd, you can avoid this unnecessary stress by letting the recipient pick out their own present.

When you allow recipients to choose the gifts, you no longer have to worry about their potential disappointment. GiftCrowd easily lets your friends, coworkers, and loved ones select presents from over 450 top brands and millions of gifts they truly enjoy.

How GiftCrowd makes holiday group giving easy

Despite the advantages of group gifting, no one wants the responsibility of wrangling participants into the group, rustling up contributions, and getting everyone to reach a consensus on a gift idea. Fortunately, the GiftCrowd platform handles all of this so no one has the awkward task of approaching contributors and collecting money. Instead, they can now receive invitations to join a gift and contribute toward it using their preferred means of payment.

To start, you simply need to sign up for free and create a group gift page on GiftCrowd’s platform, which will then prompt you to enter the list of people in your group and a deadline for contributions. GiftCrowd lets your friends and family in on the holiday spirit of giving by sharing the link for your group gift and explaining how to contribute, so everyone has a chance to participate and include a personalized greeting message.

What’s more, GiftCrowd even delivers the gift for you. Recipients will receive an email with their personalized greetings and gift amount, then choose how to redeem the amount they received into gifts of their choice from hundreds of leading brands. Another perk to GiftCrowd…it’s completely free for all, no charges to the orgnizer, contributor or recipient. 

You have enough on your plate during the last months of the year, and gift-giving shouldn’t be another source of holiday stress. Make your loved ones feel special and win back some of that holiday cheer by using GiftCrowd to give the gifts your friends and family truly want!