Postmates brings mates together with new ordering feature

The on-demand delivery platform is rolling out group ordering.

Leveraging Postmates’ new group ordering feature, a group of people can each open the Postmates app or site from their own device and place an order together at the same time, sending each of their items into one cart. Everyone’s order is delivered by the same driver.

"As local commerce continues to come online we want to maintain the social, personable parts of the buying experience," said James Butts, senior VP, product & design. "With innovative products like Postmates Party—and now group ordering—we're creating an entirely new way for people to interact with each other."

To place a group order, the customer serving as "host" creates the order and shares the link with their friends. They are given the option to set a spending limit of any amount for the participants of the order. While people in the group are placing their orders, the host will be able to see their status, so they know when everyone's order is in and they can place the order.

The host can edit an order before finalizing. Once the order is placed by the host, notifications will be sent to all customers in the group. Standard pricing applies, with free delivery if the host has an unlimited subscription.