Instacart’s new app lets the whole party order snacks and drinks

Instacart is launching Fizz, a caller app that volition fto partygoers bid and wage for their ain snacks, drinks, and enactment supplies — each for a level $5 transportation fee. With Fizz, hosts tin make a cart that everyone tin entree done a link, allowing guests to adhd items and spot what their friends are ordering for an event.

Fizz volition fto guests bid things similar chips, alcoholic beverages, soda, ice, insubstantial plates, and a clump much and person it each delivered astatine the aforesaid time. When guests click connected a nexus to a Fizz cart, guests volition onshore connected the Fizz.com website unless they’ve already installed the app. “We’re not trying to unit radical to instal an app,” Instacart main merchandise serviceman Daniel Danker tells The Verge. “We privation it to beryllium the easiest, fastest mode to store arsenic a group.”

Users simply request to supply Fizz with a telephone fig to commencement ordering. Once everyone has finished adding items to their cart and paying, the big tin cheque retired and take a clip for delivery. Only the big volition request to wage the $5 transportation fee, but Fizz volition springiness each impermanent the enactment to extremity the shopper. If the bid includes alcohol, hosts volition request to amusement their ID erstwhile the transportation operator arrives.

“It wholly eliminates this comic measurement oregon ritual that radical bash contiguous aft a party, which is they divided the bill,” Danker says. “It is thing we deliberation tin beryllium made truthful overmuch better, and the mode we’ve solved that occupation is by making it truthful that you adhd what you privation and you wage for what you added.”

Since Fizz is powered by Instacart, the app volition leverage the transportation service’s existing web of shoppers to bring orders to parties. Unlike Instacart, guests won’t request to take which store they privation to bid snacks and drinks from — the app volition automatically take the champion determination based connected proximity to the address.

Fizz users besides can’t bid from aggregate stores astatine once, which could marque it much hard to bid snacks and alcoholic beverages from 1 determination successful immoderate states. However, Danker tells The Verge that the quality to bid from aggregate stores is “coming precise soon.”

When purchasing drinks, Fizz users besides gain “snack bucks” to usage toward aboriginal purchases of snack items. In summation to launching connected the web, iOS, and Android, Fizz is besides rolling retired an integration successful Partiful’s event-planning app, allowing users to automatically nexus a Fizz cart to their party.