Leaving a team
Give them something
human to take with them.
A new job, a move, the end of a contract. The farewell thread scrolls away by Monday and the e-card gets signed “Good luck!!” forty times. Sendoff collects what people would say if no one else were reading, and keeps it sealed until the last day.
Coming soon to the App Store.
Organizers start one in the iPhone app. Everyone else just needs the link.
Leaving a team
Jo Lindqvist
From the platform team
How it works
Four steps, one link.
Start it in the app
Who it is for, a photo if you like, and when it opens: on a date, or when you say. It takes a couple of minutes on iPhone.
Share one link
Send it wherever your group talks, or print the QR card for the break room or the inside of a real card.
Everyone adds privately
A note, photos, a voice note or a video, from any phone or computer. No account, no app.
They open it on the day
It stays sealed until then. They press and hold the seal, and the entries open one at a time.
What goes in
More than a signature.
A note
Written for one reader, not the room.
A voice note
Up to two minutes. The part people replay.
Photos and video
Up to six photos with each entry, or a minute of video.
Leaving a team
Written for one reader
On a shared board everyone reads everyone else, so people write for the room. In a Sendoff only the person leaving and the organizer read the entries. People who add cannot see each other’s unless they choose to, and what they write changes because of it.
Leaving a team
For teams that are not in one place
Remote and hybrid teams rarely get a leaving lunch. Post one link in the team channel; people add from a phone or laptop, across time zones, before the date you set.
Prompts
Something to start from.
Anyone stuck on where to start gets a few prompts, written for the occasion.
- What you’ll miss
- A story only you two know
- Something you never got to say
- What the next place is getting
Cost
Free to start.
Starting one and collecting up to 10 entries is free. When more people want in, the organizer pays once for that Sendoff: $8.99 for up to 100 entries, or $14.99 for no limit, every paid look and a song from Apple Music. Nobody who adds to it or opens it pays.
Running these for a whole company or school? Sendoff for teams covers every one for a year.
Questions
Before you start.
How quickly can we put one together?
Starting one takes a couple of minutes in the app. A few days is enough for most teams to add something. Set it to open on the last day, or open it yourself when the moment comes.
Does everyone need the app?
No. Only the organizer uses the iPhone app, to start it and share the link. Everyone else adds from the link or a QR code in any browser, with no account. The person it is for opens it on any phone or computer.
Who can read what people write?
Only the person it is for and the organizer. People who add cannot read each other’s entries unless they choose to share theirs with the others who added.
What does it cost?
Starting one and collecting up to 10 entries is free. Sendoff ($8.99) holds up to 100 entries and Sendoff Plus ($14.99) has no limit. The organizer pays once, in the app; nobody who adds to it or opens it pays.
Can they keep it?
Yes. After the day it stays theirs to come back to, and they can print it or save it as a PDF.
Everyone adds privately.
One person opens it, on the day.
Coming soon to the App Store.
Organizers start one in the iPhone app. Everyone else just needs the link.