Managing your multiples

Ever since we launched Buy Our Honeymoon, you’ve had the opportunity to mark items on your list as either available for a single purchase, or as available for multiple guests to reserve.

But over the past few weeks, we’ve had a sudden and massive inundation of requests for a method to limit the number of times items available for multiple guests can be bought, and to show a countdown of the remaining availability of these items.

So, as of today, that’s exactly what you can do. If you choose to allow an item to be bought by multiple guests, you can now ask for a specific number of gifts of that item you’d like, up to 14.

Alternatively, if you choose “I’m happy to see how many I get”, the item will work in the same way that it used to: unlimited guests can buy the item for you, and you can adjust the item to mark it as unavailable at any time.

Any items with a specific number of gifts requested will show the number of gifts still available on your list. When a guest clicks to buy the gift, they’re able to choose the total value of their gift from a dropdown list.

As before, if a guest buys an item that’s available for unlimited gifts, it’ll be greyed out whenever they revisit the list themselves (to make it clear that they have indeed reserved the item), but will still be available for other guests to buy for you. And, as before, when a guests clicks to buy an item that’s available for unlimited gifts, or an item that you’ve added as a single item, they have the opportunity to adjust the gift value to whatever they’d like.

This means that items available for unlimited gifts are really useful for items such as spending money, since you can provide a modest gift value as a suggestion, and guests are able to adjust this as they see fit!

Although of course you’re free to list items however you wish, we recommend against filling your list with just a few items with large requests. This makes it harder for some guests to get into the spirit of a honeymoon gift list. It’s much better to give your guests a good variety of things to choose from, and to try to make each gift as unique and personal as possible.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to get in touch directly, or to add a comment to this blog entry.