How reunion organizers use PayIt2 to pull off the hardest part of any reunion
Class reunions, family reunions, military unit reunions, sorority and fraternity reunions. For nearly two decades, the people who get stuck with "figure out how to collect the money" have ended up on PayIt2. Here's how they do it.
Whatever kind of reunion you're running, PayIt2 handles it
Every reunion looks a little different. Class reunions are built around milestone years and classmate tickets. Family reunions revolve around multi-generational weekends. Military unit reunions span decades. Here's how each kind typically uses PayIt2, so you can see where yours fits.
Class reunions
20th · 30th · 40th · 50th Milestone years drive the biggest turnoutsAttendees pay for a ticket, t-shirts, and optional contributions to memorial or scholarship funds. High school reunions typically raise between five and twenty thousand dollars per event.
Family reunions
Multi-generational Often organized by a family treasurerContributions cover venue, food, photography, t-shirts, and often a shared family album or project. Family reunions on PayIt2 have raised five figures across a single weekend.
Military unit reunions
Multi-year tenure common Same committees return reunion after reunionUnit reunions on PayIt2 often last for years on the platform, with the same committee running Rendezvous II, III, and beyond. Built for organizers who need continuity across multiple reunion cycles.
Fraternity, sorority, and affinity reunions
Built for complex events Multi-day, multi-ticket, multi-add-onChapter reunions, dental school reunions, MBA class reunions, journalism school alumni gatherings. Handle tiered pricing, add-ons, and sponsor levels from a single campaign so every ask lives in one place.
Organizers come back. Year after year. Cycle after cycle.
The most common reunion story on PayIt2 is not a single viral reunion. It's a committee that ran the 40th, got through it, and five years later reopened the campaign for the 45th. Same committee. Same platform. If you're running your first reunion on PayIt2, you're joining organizers who have been doing this here for over a decade.
ZZ '79-'87 Air Crew Reunion
"Looking forward to getting the Shogun gang together for a great Colorado Springs Reunion." 248 people registered, organized by squadron affiliation (12 TFS, 15 TRS, 44 TFS, 67 TFS), for a three-day weekend of dining, tours, golf, and train rides. The largest single reunion we've ever seen on the platform.
Ho'o Lōkahi: Radford High School '68-'71
Ho'o Lōkahi means "to bring together unity as one." The Radford HS classes of 1968, 1969, 1970, and 1971 did exactly that, organizing a week-long event series across six venues in Honolulu and Aiea: Blue Tropix, Ruby Tuesday, the Star of Honolulu, Pearl at Kalauao, Kaka'ako Waterfront Park, and Radford High School itself. The committee handled dinners, dances, luau, and optional add-ons from a single campaign.
326TH MED BN & Eagle Dustoff Rendezvous Reunions
"101 of us gathered after over 25 years at Fort Campbell, for our 1st ever BN level Reunion" in 2018. The Rendezvous committee came back in 2022 to "reach all that were not at the 2018 Reunion" with a Challenge Tower climb, fun run, rappelling, and cookout. Rendezvous III followed in 2025. Seven years. Same committee. Same platform.
2025 Dallas Family Reunion
"This is a get together of Nigerian friends locally and from Nigeria and is open only to friends in good standing. We look forward to some fun and loving spiritual encouragement." A recent example of how family and affinity reunions on PayIt2 handle international attendees, registration deadlines, and multi-generational gatherings.
GNN Class of 1976 — 40th Reunion
"Dig out your bell bottoms and take a trip down memory lane." Forty years after graduation, the class of 1976 came back together for a cocktail hour, open bar, buffet reception, and DJ "playing our favorite tunes from back in the day." A textbook example of the milestone-year pattern.
Graham Family Tribute & Washington Post Newsroom Alumni Reunion
"A tribute to the Graham family for 80 years of world-class journalism, and a chance to catch up with old friends and colleagues who were lucky enough to work in the best newsroom in America." Held in the Washington Post Auditorium, open to all former and current Post newsroom employees. Affinity reunions like this one show PayIt2 handles professional alumni gatherings just as cleanly as class or family reunions.
The features reunion organizers lean on most
Reunion campaigns use PayIt2 differently from a single-purpose fundraiser. Organizers typically need multiple price points, optional add-ons, memorial contributions, and a way to track who paid and who didn't.
- Multiple options under one campaign. The bigger reunions use Options to handle tickets, t-shirts, Friday night dinner, Saturday brunch, scholarship contributions, and sponsor levels, all from a single campaign page.
- Variable ticket amounts. Early-bird pricing, standard, late registration, plus-one surcharge, kids free. Set once, handled automatically.
- Add-ons and merchandise. T-shirts, hats, photo books, memorial wall contributions. Attendees pick what they want, platform does the math.
- Attendee tracking. Who paid, who did not, running totals for the committee. No more chasing down $60 from people scattered across 20 states.
- Bank-deposit simplicity. Funds route to a single committee bank account. Treasurer gets clean reporting for the post-reunion reconciliation.
- Stripe-backed payment processing. Professional checkout experience that attendees in their 50s, 60s, and 70s actually trust to use.
Eighteen years is a long time. Platforms that last are rare.
PayIt2 has operated continuously through multiple payment processor transitions: PayPal in the early years, WePay in the 2010s, and now Stripe. Some reunion organizers have campaigns on record that span all three. That continuity matters when a reunion committee is trusting you with $20,000 of attendee money.
The reunion business is, above all, a trust business. A class reunion treasurer is raising money from their former classmates. A family reunion organizer is raising money from their own relatives. When those organizers choose a platform, they are not interested in the newest or most-hyped option. They want the one that will still exist when they come back in five years to run the next reunion. PayIt2 has been that platform since 2007.
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