Postmates adds group ordering feature
By Sara Shaw • September 6, 2019
Last week, Postmates unveiled Group Ordering, a new feature that allows individual members of the same group to choose their own items from their own devices and send them to a single shopping cart. Postmates isn’t the first third-party delivery service to offer such a feature: DoorDash released a group ordering feature for its app in 2017.
To use the feature, the group “host” creates an order and shares it with other group members, who choose items from their own devices. Hosts can set limits on how much group members are allowed to spend, and also set a tip amount ahead of time.