chip in.or get it back.

nothing from us, there are no fees. each payment has an arc network fee of about a tenth of a cent, and pottle usually pays it for you.

when the deadline passes, everyone gets back exactly what they put in. it happens automatically, nobody has to ask, and nobody can keep it instead, not even the organiser.

the person who made the pot, the organiser. they're the one buying the gift or paying the bill, so every pot shows who it goes to before you chip in. if the goal isn't hit, nobody gets it and everyone is refunded.

the pot pays your pottle wallet. tap your balance, then cash out, pick your exchange and paste its deposit address. kraken, binance and kucoin take usdc on arc, the network pottle runs on, and pottle pays the fee. coinbase doesn't take usdc on arc yet but does on base, another network, so pottle moves it there through circle for a few cents. then sell it on the exchange and withdraw to your bank. sending straight to a bank account, without an exchange, is coming.

it's made for collecting before you buy: the gift, the trip, the table. if you've already paid, all or nothing works against you, because one friend who doesn't chip in means everyone is refunded. collect first, then book.

yes, and it counts toward the goal like anyone's. their share comes back to them with the rest when the pot pays out, so they've paid their part like everyone else. the organiser's circle has a ring, so you can see what they put in.

it's paid out automatically, usually within minutes. if something blocks the payout for 30 days after the deadline (for example the organiser's account gets frozen), everyone can take their money back.

no. they sign in with their email and get a wallet. they need usdc (or eurc for euro pots) on arc, which they can add inside pottle by card, apple pay or bank transfer where circle offers it.

often, yes. if you don't have usdc yet, tap add money: circle's onramp opens and offers what works where you live, like a card, apple pay, google pay or a bank transfer. circle checks your id and the usdc lands straight in your own wallet. it isn't offered in every country yet; where it isn't, withdraw usdc on arc from an exchange instead.

usdc and eurc are digital dollars and euros issued by circle: one usdc is always worth one dollar, one eurc one euro. arc is circle's blockchain for money. payments land in about half a second and fees are paid in usdc, so there's nothing else to buy first.

no. a pot can't be changed once it's made, not even by its organiser, which is what makes it safe to chip into. if something's wrong, make a new pot: the old one refunds everyone at its deadline.

your money doesn't. pots live in a public contract that keeps working without this website: anyone can pay out a pot that hit its goal, or refund one that missed, straight from the arc explorer.

your wallet is tied to your email. sign in with it on any device and it's all there. if you added face id sign-in, a recovery code lets you remove the lost passkey. if you lose the email itself, the wallet goes with it, so don't keep more in pottle than you need.

only people with its link see it on pottle. every pot link ends in a code that can't be guessed, so nobody finds your pot by counting through pot numbers. but the pot itself, its title, the names, the amounts and the wallets, is recorded on arc, which is public: anyone who reads the blockchain can see it there. so name a pot like you'd name a group chat, not like a diary.

nobody can take a pot early, not the organiser and not us: the money sits in a contract with no owner and no admin, and it can only go to the organiser once the goal is hit or back to whoever paid. the contract is open source and tested, but there's been no third-party audit yet, so during beta a pot on the live site holds at most $1,000 (or €1,000).