How to organise a weekend away with friends (and split the costs fairly)
Who's coming when, nights, meals and a fair way to split costs when people arrive at different times. A practical guide to planning a group weekend away.
\"0% fee\" online kitty: who really pays?
\"Free\", \"0% commission\": many online kitties advertise it. Yet moving money by card is never free, and someone ends up paying. Here is where the cost often sits, and how to check it before you start collecting.
Group gift: the kitty is only the means, not the gift
For a birthday, a retirement, a wedding or a new baby, a kitty gets set up in no time. But the person you're celebrating won't remember a bank transfer: they'll remember the gift, and the words that came with it. Here's how to put the gift back at the centre.
How to manage club and association sign-ups without a spreadsheet
Annual dinner, day trip, tournament, gala, tour or training camp: many clubs still run sign-ups with a spreadsheet, a WhatsApp group and manual reminders. Here is where that setup breaks down, when it is still fine, and a simple way to replace it.
Fundraising for your association: how to choose the right tool
An outing to pay for, a team trip, new equipment, a leaving gift for a volunteer or a charity event: associations regularly need to collect money. Here are the options, with their strengths and limits, so you can choose with your eyes open.
Association polls: how to consult your members simply
A date to set for the next outing, a project to put to members, feedback to gather after the annual party: associations are always asking their members. Here is how to choose the right tool, and how to go from poll to organisation without retyping everything.
How to ask guests to pay for their meal (without making it awkward)
Wedding, birthday or celebration: how to word a request for guests to contribute, set adult and child prices, track payments and send polite reminders.
Tricount alternative: what to use when you are the organiser
Tricount or Filomy? Splitting expenses among friends vs collecting paid sign-ups at set prices: how to choose, and when to use both together.
How to plan a family reunion, step by step
Date, venue, sign-ups per household, adult and child meals, T-shirts, payments, caterer numbers and memories: every step to plan a great family reunion.
Keeping your family memories: the guide to losing nothing.
Scattered photos, messages lost in WhatsApp, stories that vanish with the people who held them. How to gather your family's memory before it drifts apart.
Digital legacy: what becomes of our family memories?
Our memories live in accounts that close and drives that wipe. How to turn a scattered cloud into a real legacy passed on to future generations.
Telling your life story: what if we finally took the time?
A lifetime's stories often go untold for lack of a framework. Guided questions, contributions from the whole family, the voices of elders — how to capture a life story simply.
Wedding planners: centralise each couple's guest book, group fund and invitations.
A dedicated mini site per wedding, a QR code on the invitations, unlimited contributors. How Filomy Pro transforms the way wedding planners work.
Officiants: a dedicated memory space for every ceremony.
Christenings, communions, secular ceremonies — how to create a mini site for every celebration and bring together invitations, guest book and memories.
Private event organisers: RSVP, guest book and group fund on one page.
Birthdays, galas, leaving parties: one mini site per event with invitations, a digital guest book and a built-in group fund. All for €39.90/month.
Small businesses: strengthen team cohesion with Filomy Pro.
Birthday wall, offsite memories, send-off group funds — how small businesses keep their internal culture alive with one simple tool.
Photographers, coaches, creatives: deliver your work on a space that reflects your brand.
A professional mini site to deliver galleries and keepsakes to your clients, build loyalty and earn referrals. How freelancers use Filomy Pro.
Clubs and associations: bring your members together around events and memories.
Match schedule, travel group funds, season photos: how a club of 80 members centralises its community life on a dedicated mini site.
A group fund for a birthday: free, no fees, no hassle.
Organise a birthday group fund without Leetchi taking 2.9% on every payment. Wero, bank transfer, cash, cheques — every payment method accepted, 0% fees.
Free wedding group fund: honeymoon, dream trip, home projects — no fees.
On an €800 wedding gift, Leetchi takes €23. Filomy: €0. How to organise a wedding group fund for free with every payment method.
Retirement group fund among colleagues: organise it without chaos, without fees.
Pierre retires on Friday. 15 colleagues, €30 each. Nobody wants to run it. How to organise a retirement group fund quickly and with no platform fees.
A group fund for a new baby: a collective gift with no fees.
The baby's on the way. Everyone wants to chip in. How to organise a free new-baby group fund, with every payment method, built into a memory space.
How to never forget a birthday again — the free solution.
The 11.59 pm message. The usual excuse. How to set up automatic reminders 7 days and 1 day before with a personalised AI message — free and effortless.
The best free birthday app — 2026 comparison.
Google Calendar, iOS contacts, paid third-party apps: a comparison of ways to never forget a birthday. Which app actually sends a message on the day?
An original leaving gift for a colleague: the idea everyone remembers.
An Fnac gift voucher is fine. A memory space where every colleague leaves a message, a photo, a story — that's unforgettable. The complete guide.
An original birthday card online: photo, audio, video, QR code.
A text at 11.59 pm is easy. A digital card with a personal photo, an audio message and a printable QR code — that's memorable. And free.
An original birthday message: moving beyond the generic 'Happy birthday'.
Why generic birthday messages fall flat, and how to write (or generate) a truly personal one. Filomy's AI tailors the message to the relationship.
An original birthday gift: what really matters.
A candle, a notebook, a box of teas. Lovely, forgotten in 3 weeks. Gifts of experience and shared memory last far longer.
Planning a surprise birthday: invitations, group fund, keepsake — the guide.
The perfect surprise birthday is planned in secret. Discreet invitations with RSVP tracking, a collective gift group fund, a memory space to hand over on the day.
Sharing your family photos without a social network or an algorithm.
The noisy family WhatsApp group, iCloud the grandparents can't figure out, Instagram too public. How to share your family photos privately, simply.
Sharing your photos with grandparents without an app.
They're not on Instagram. They forget their iCloud password. How to easily send photos to grandparents by email, without them creating an account.
A guest book for a graduation — thesis defence, exams, university.
5 years of work. The family drove 4 hours. Everyone leaves without a trace. The digital graduation guest book changes that.
Guest book for communion and christening — messages from the whole family.
The paper notebook goes round for 2 hours. The last two pages are a scribble. The digital guest book for communion or christening, no account, with photo and audio.
A collective new-baby gift: organise it without a chaotic WhatsApp group.
The baby's arrived. Everyone wants to chip in. How to organise an original collective new-baby gift: a memory space + a built-in group fund, zero fees.
Free online group fund: 0% fees for a birthday, wedding or send-off.
Leetchi takes 2.9% on every payment. Filomy: 0%. A full comparison of group fund platforms in France — real fees, payment methods, what you actually receive.
How to organise a memorable event with Filomy — the right tools in the right order.
Guest book, RSVP, fee-free group fund, time capsule: a practical guide to combining the tools for your occasion (wedding, retirement, birthday, graduation…).
Keeping family close day to day — without a WhatsApp group that blows up.
Family wall, seniors' wall, birthday reminders: how scattered families keep a real connection, without a social network and without fighting the algorithms.
A birth wall: gathering the baby's photos without a WhatsApp group.
Five WhatsApp groups, three phones, hundreds of scattered photos. A family wall brings it all together in one place — shareable with the whole family via a single link.
Online RSVP: knowing who's really coming without ten reminders.
The lost text, the WhatsApp message seen but not answered, the scattered confirmations — organising an event shouldn't have looked like this. How an online RSVP solves it.
A time capsule: the gift idea you don't open today.
For Sophie's 40th, her friends created a capsule to open in ten years. A gift that grows more valuable over time — as what's inside drifts further from the present.
A time capsule for children: what we write to them today, they'll open tomorrow.
The most ordinary everyday details become the most precious over time. What they eat, the way they run, their fear of thunder — these things vanish if you don't capture them.
Staying close to ageing parents: what photos do that phone calls can't.
600 kilometres apart, we call twice a week. And yet the everyday — the small moments that make up a life — doesn't really come through in words. What photos give.
A photo wall for seniors: what if your elderly parent no longer had to dig through albums.
There was a time when families stopped printing photos without finding a replacement. Seniors are left with family lives unfolding entirely out of their reach.
Digital event invitations: no more lost paper, no more missing replies.
Planning a birthday meal for 30 people. Checking who's coming. Handling dietary needs. And the night before, digging out texts scattered across five different chats.
First steps, first word, first day of school: how we forget what we thought we'd keep.
My son is 9. Last week I couldn't remember his first word. I was sure I'd never forget it. How parents forget more than they think.
Give them the book of their life — the family biography guided by AI.
A grandmother who never tells her stories. A grandfather whose stories are slipping away. Here's how families capture these memories before it's too late — chapter by chapter.
The shared birthday wall — why it changes everything.
63% of French people forget at least one important birthday a year. It's not about memory — it's about infrastructure. What a shared wall changes.
How to write your grandparents' biography (without it feeling like homework).
The questions we don't dare ask. The stories we never hear. And then one day it's too late. A guide to capturing these lives, chapter by chapter.
An 80th birthday gift: the idea worth more than any envelope.
A flower, a cheque, a decorative object. What if, for an 80th birthday, you gave something you can reopen in 30 years? What older people really want.
Digital wedding guest book: replacing the blank notebook with something alive.
A blank notebook, a pen that skids — and 80 illegible signatures. Here's how couples now collect photos, videos and voice messages from all their guests.
300 photos, 50 voices, 1 book — the guest book of tomorrow.
Camille shared a link with her 150 guests three weeks before the wedding. Her 84-year-old grandmother recorded six minutes from her kitchen. Her best friend sent a video from Tokyo.
Retirement send-off: the collective gift idea that doesn't end up in a drawer.
A card signed in 3 minutes, a glass of champagne, and it's over. Why retirement send-offs deserve better — and how to organise a memorable surprise in under a week.
40th, 50th, 60th birthday: the collective gift idea worth more than any envelope.
For a milestone birthday, we always mean to do something memorable. Then we buy an envelope. Here's how to truly transform the evening — without organising an event.
What we regret most is what we never said.
My father turned 70 in March. I sent him a text. Not out of indifference — for lack of a format. What I should have organised instead.
Digital guest book vs paper guest book: what one does that the other can't.
Paper has a texture. Digital has videos and voices. An honest comparison — not to convince you, but to help you choose with open eyes.
Collective gift: goodbye chaotic WhatsApp group, hello dedicated page.
45 messages, 3 reminders, one person who forgets to pay. Organising a collective gift shouldn't look like this. Here's how it works with a dedicated tool.
Sophie's guest book — and why send-offs deserve better.
Sophie is leaving after 8 years. 34 colleagues, an envelope signed in 3 minutes, a glass of champagne. Two weeks later, nobody really remembers what was said.
Team guest book: celebrating send-offs, work anniversaries and wins.
A departure after 10 years, a manager's birthday, a successful launch — at work, the big moments pass too quickly. How to capture them without it feeling heavy or corporate.
A new baby: a digital birth book for the whole family.
Photos across 5 different groups, congratulations scattered everywhere. A memory space dedicated to a baby's birth, shared with the whole family — how it changes everything.
Moving abroad: a memory page to keep ties alive when you leave.
You leave, people wish you luck, and then silence sets in. How to create something that holds the warmth of the goodbyes — and that you can reopen on the other side of the world.
Digital postcard: sending a real gesture straight from your phone.
Not a text, not a standard email. A card with a photo, a written message and optional audio. How personalised digital cards change the way we show affection.
Personal mini site: your online profile, shareable in one scan.
QR code, NFC, vCard: how your mini site becomes your best ambassador. For freelancers, associations and events.
A QR code for your event: collect photos and messages from your guests.
Wedding, birthday, send-off, conference — a QR code on the table, and your guests contribute in real time from their phones. No app, no sign-up.
A collaborative memory album: gather what everyone lived together.
After the event, the photos are on 12 different phones. How to create a memory album where everyone close contributes texts, photos, audio and videos — no account required.
A private family app: share without a social network, without an algorithm.
A WhatsApp group too noisy, Google Photos too complex, Instagram not right. A comparison of ways to share family photos and memories in 2026.
A travel group fund among friends: organise it without chaos or platform fees.
A shared budget for a group trip: everyone wants to pay their own way. How to organise a free travel group fund, with real-time payment tracking.
A time capsule for your wedding: a message to open in 10 years.
On the wedding day, everyone's there. In 10 years, lives will have changed. How to create a wedding time capsule — a letter to yourself, to your partner, to your guests.
A free personalised greetings card: photo, audio, video — online.
The generic greetings card sent to 50 contacts. There's an alternative: a card with your photo, your voice, your words. Free to create, printable as a single copy via Canva.
Digital birthday invitation: real-time RSVP, zero paper.
20 invitation cards, €3 each, handed out one by one. There's a free alternative: a digital invitation with RSVP tracking, CSV export and guest book integration.
A memory book for your grandparents: their stories, forever.
Your grandfather is 82. You know his stories only in fragments. One day, they'll be gone. How to create a collaborative memory book with the whole family.
A collective keepsake: gather what everyone experienced after an event.
The event is over. The photos are on 15 phones. The WhatsApp messages will disappear. How to create a permanent collective keepsake before it's too late.
An original retirement keepsake: beyond the gift voucher and the potted plant.
The gift voucher. The potted plant. The retirement classics. At 65, what you remember is the people — not the objects. How to give a keepsake that matters.
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