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

Instacart is launching Fizz, a new app that will let partygoers order and pay for their own snacks, drinks, and party supplies — all for a flat $5 delivery fee. With Fizz, hosts can create a cart that everyone can access through a link, allowing guests to add items and see what their friends are ordering for an event.

Fizz will let guests order things like chips, alcoholic beverages, soda, ice, paper plates, and a bunch more and have it all delivered at the same time. When guests click on a link to a Fizz cart, guests will land on the Fizz.com website unless they’ve already installed the app. “We’re not trying to force people to install an app,” Instacart chief product officer Daniel Danker tells The Verge. “We want it to be the easiest, fastest way to shop as a group.”

Users simply need to provide Fizz with a phone number to start ordering. Once everyone has finished adding items to their cart and paying, the host can check out and choose a time for delivery. Only the host will need to pay the $5 delivery fee, but Fizz will give each guest the option to tip the shopper. If the order includes alcohol, hosts will need to show their ID when the delivery driver arrives.

“It completely eliminates this funny step or ritual that people do today after a party, which is they split the bill,” Danker says. “It is something we think can be made so much better, and the way we’ve solved that problem is by making it so that you add what you want and you pay for what you added.”

Since Fizz is powered by Instacart, the app will leverage the delivery service’s existing network of shoppers to bring orders to parties. Unlike Instacart, guests won’t need to choose which store they want to order snacks and drinks from — the app will automatically choose the best location based on proximity to the address.

Fizz users also can’t order from multiple stores at once, which could make it more difficult to order snacks and alcoholic beverages from one location in some states. However, Danker tells The Verge that the ability to order from multiple stores is “coming very soon.”

When purchasing drinks, Fizz users also earn “snack bucks” to use toward future purchases of snack items. In addition to launching on the web, iOS, and Android, Fizz is also rolling out an integration in Partiful’s event-planning app, allowing users to automatically link a Fizz cart to their party.