Announcements
Meeting moved, new opening hours, results are out. Send to everyone paired with you, or to selected people.
Grace Chapel Lekki
Service starts at 8am this Sunday
Joint service for both congregations. Parking opens at 7:15.
Send the gist.
Your people stay gisted.
GistSend puts your updates in Gisted, the inbox your members, customers and parents install and choose to pair with you. They don't get spam or forwarded lists, and your messages don't get lost in a busy WhatsApp group.
Free while we pilot with our first groups in Nigeria.
Sending as Lekki Gardens Estate
To
Everyone paired · 412 residents
Message
Water supply is off on Thursday from 9am to 2pm for pipe repairs. Please store water on Wednesday night.
Send
Gisted
Today
LGWater off on Thursday
9am to 2pm for pipe repairs. Please store water on Wednesday night.
SASecond-term levy is due
IRLong run this weekend?
The usual channels weren't built for this
You need a reliable way to tell your people something and know it landed. Here's how the usual options compare.
| Question | Bulk SMS | WhatsApp groups | GistSend + Gisted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per message | Paid per text, per person | Free | Low | Free inside Gisted |
| Does it get read? | Sits with OTPs and promo texts | Buried under chat, often muted | Often never opened | Its own inbox, sorted by sender |
| Do you know who saw it? | Delivery reports at best | Ticks, for small groups | Rough open rates | Replies and poll results per message |
| Can people answer back? | Not in any useful way | In one noisy thread | Replies go to one mailbox | Replies and polls, privately |
| Who's on the list? | Whoever's numbers you hold | Whoever was added | Whoever's emails you hold | Only people who paired with you |
From sign-up to your first message
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Set up in the dashboard
Sign in at business.staygisted.com, name your business and get an App ID, a short code like
LKG-7Q2Mthat is yours. -
Share your link or code
Put the pairing link in your WhatsApp group, on a flyer, at the gate or on your receipts. Pairing is how people opt in.
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People pair in Gisted
They install Gisted, sign in with a code sent to their phone or email, and tap to pair with you. They can unpair at any time.
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Send
Write once in the dashboard. It arrives as a notification and stays in their Gisted inbox under your name.
What you can send
Short, useful messages that people are glad to get.
Urgent alerts
Security notices and emergencies come through even when someone has muted you. Use them sparingly and they keep their weight.
Lekki Gardens Security Urgent
Gate B closed until further notice
Please use Gate A. Residents' cars only.
Polls and replies
Ask a question and see the answers counted in the dashboard. People can reply to you directly, without a hundred others in the thread.
Ikoyi Runners
Long run this weekend?
Saturday 6am 64%
Sunday 6am 36%
Dues and payments Via Finance
Reminders that link straight to a payment, so people can clear dues, levies and ajo in the same place they read about them.
St. Anne's PTA
Second-term levy: ₦15,000
Due 30 November. Paid straight to the PTA's bank account.
Pay now
Coming next: email and SMS fallback for people whose phones can't receive a push notification, so the most important messages still reach them.
Gisted
The app your people actually open
You send with GistSend, and your people read it in Gisted. To gist someone is to tell them what's happening, and to be gisted is to be in the know. Gisted is a calm inbox for the groups and businesses in someone's life, sorted by sender, with nothing in it they didn't ask for.
Along the bottom is the dock, where the groups people follow sit beside Gisted's mini-apps. Mini-apps are full tools that open inside Gisted, so nobody has to install anything else.
Meet Gisted
Finance
Collect dues without chasing anyone
Finance turns "please remember to pay" into a tap. Set up a levy, dues or an ajo once, and every member sees what they owe and pays it inside Gisted.
- Money goes straight to your group's own bank account
- See who has paid and who hasn't, without a spreadsheet
- One-off levies, recurring dues and ajo rotations
- One tap sends unpaid members a reminder with a link to pay
Contacts
Your people can reach each other too
Contacts lets people message the friends and family who already use Gisted, and call for help when it matters.
- SOS alerts their emergency contacts, even if those contacts have muted Gisted
- Message one person or a saved group, now or on a schedule
- Only people already in Gisted can be reached, so there's no spam
Built on consent
- No list uploads
- You can't import numbers or emails. Everyone you reach paired with you themselves.
- One tap to leave
- People can mute or unpair whenever they like. That's why the ones who stay pay attention.
- Not for marketing blasts
- GistSend is for updates people expect from you, not cold promotions.
- Money goes to you
- When Finance collects dues, it pays your group's bank account directly.
Sending from your own systems
If you already run software, such as a shop, a school portal or a booking system, send from it with one API call. Get a key in the dashboard. Messages go only to people paired with your app.
- Idempotency keys, so a retry never sends twice
- A delivery status for every message
- The same paired-only rule as the dashboard
curl -X POST https://api.staygisted.com/v1/messages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer gs_…" \
-H "Idempotency-Key: order-1234-shipped" \
-d '{
"to": "*",
"title": "Order shipped",
"body": "Your order #1234 is on its way",
"category": "order"
}'Your people are waiting to hear from you.
Set up your business in a few minutes. It's free during the pilot.