Pierre retires on Friday. Thirty years of service, fifteen colleagues ready to chip in 30 € each — that is 450 € for a lovely gift. But who is going to handle it? Who will set up the account, manage the reminders, cash the transfers and keep the list up to date? In every open-plan office, this question goes unanswered until the last minute. Filomy removes exactly this problem.

The group gift for a retirement send-off is one of the most common rituals in the workplace — and one of the most time-consuming to organise. Between the colleagues who forget, those who pay in cash on the day, those who want to make a bank transfer and those who do not have Lydia, the organiser quickly finds themselves juggling a spreadsheet, texts and a shoebox for the notes. Filomy brings it all together on a single page, with no platform fees and no mandatory account for participants.

The organiser manages everything from a clear dashboard

Creating the group fund takes less than two minutes. You give the event a name (“Pierre's retirement send-off”), set a target amount if you wish, and Filomy instantly generates a unique link to share. That link can be sent to the team's Teams or Slack group, by email, or simply by text.

Each time a colleague hands you their contribution — by Wero, bank transfer, Lydia, cash or cheque — you confirm receipt with one click in your dashboard. The total appears in real time, and so does the list of confirmed participants. No more keeping a spreadsheet on the side or answering the question “how much are we at?” twenty times. Everyone can check the progress through the shared link, with no account to create and no sign-up.

Wero, transfer, cash, cheque: everyone pays the way they prefer

In a team of fifteen, you always have very different profiles. The younger recruits use Wero or Lydia every day and send their contribution in thirty seconds from their phone. The experienced managers prefer a bank transfer from their usual online banking — and have no desire to install a new app. The intern or the apprentice hands over a 20 € note in person by the coffee machine.

On other platforms, this diversity is a problem: the “offline” payments (cash, cheques) are not tracked and the organiser ends up managing two systems in parallel. Filomy is designed so that all these contributions coexist in the same dashboard. Every payment method is available, every confirmation is recorded, and the total is always right.

A guest book to go with the gift

Retirement is a page turning. Pierre will no longer meet his colleagues around the coffee every morning. The material gift matters — but the words matter just as much. On Filomy, the group fund is linked to a digital memory space: a collective guest book where each colleague can leave a photo, a team memory or a personal message to go with their contribution.

So Pierre receives a double gift. On one hand, a substantial envelope to fund his first projects as a retiree — a trip, equipment for his garden, tennis lessons. On the other, a digital album of the moments shared with the team: the photo from the last seminar, the message from the colleague away on maternity leave, the story of the impossible client they handled together. A memory that lasts long after the money has been spent.

For the organiser, this means no extra work at all: a single link to share, a single page that brings together the collection and the messages. Colleagues leave their contribution and their words at the same time, in two clicks.

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