What people ask before they start.

Yes, and there are no advertisements. Volunteers never pay and never make an account. Organizers do not pay either — there is no card to enter and no trial that ends. It is not free to run, though: every plan costs real money in compute, and the reminder emails cost money to send. So after an event is over, the page asks once whether it was worth chipping in, and takes no for an answer. That is the whole business model, and nothing is hidden behind it. If it is saving you real work, signed-in organizers can contribute any time from the Contribute link in the navigation — there is no tier it unlocks and no feature behind it.

No. A volunteer opens the link you send them, sees what is still needed, and claims a slot with a name and an email address. No password, no app, no sign-up. The email address is only used to send them a reminder and a link to cancel if they change their mind.

No, on any plan, ever. The sign-up sheet a parent opens carries your organization's name and the list of what is needed, and nothing else. Advertising on a volunteer's page is the most common complaint about tools in this category, and refusing to do it is a deliberate choice rather than a feature we have not got to yet.

You describe the event in a sentence and it works out the quantities, then converts them into the packages a supermarket actually sells. Sixty pounds of potatoes becomes six ten-pound bags. A hundred and eleven plates becomes four packs of thirty. The package sizes are read from real supermarket shelves rather than guessed, and the arithmetic is done on the server rather than left to the model, because models get units right and division wrong. Every number is editable, and anything it is unsure of is marked as a guess.

A one-off event is a single date — a staff lunch, a teacher appreciation breakfast, a fall festival. A schedule is a season of dates that each need somebody: nine soccer games each needing a snack parent, or reading helpers every Tuesday for a term. A schedule gets one public link for the whole season rather than one link per date, and you can paste a coach's fixture list straight from an email and have the dates read back to you.

Yes. If eight bags of shredded cheese are needed, one volunteer can take three and the remaining five stay on the sheet for somebody else. Counts never drop below what people have already committed to, so an edit cannot quietly unseat a volunteer who already said yes.

Yes, automatically, on whichever schedule you choose — a week out, three days before, the day before, the morning of. Volunteers also get a thank-you afterwards and a one-tap cancellation link in every message, so a change of plan reopens the slot for somebody else instead of leaving you short on the day.

Events belong to the organization, not to whoever created them, so the next chair inherits the lot. Duplicating last year's event carries the corrected plan forward with nobody signed up to it yet — including the corrections you made afterwards about what ran out and what was too much.

Anyone holding the link, which is how a volunteer signs up without an account. The link contains a long random string, so it cannot be guessed, and sheets are blocked from search engines. Only members of your organization can see the planning side, the budget or the roster.

No. It was built with PTAs in mind and it fits them well, but the same shape works for booster clubs, church volunteer coordinators, sports team managers, classroom parents and anyone running a potluck, a workday or a meal train.