How the meals program actually works.

The mechanics are simple and stated in one line: $8 of every $20 subscription is routed monthly to the UN World Food Programme via ShareTheMeal at $0.80/meal, minimum 10 meals per subscription per month, with a public receipt.

The specific flow: when Stripe processes your $20 charge, we immediately record $8 in a separate ledger earmarked for that month's WFP transfer. This is not a promise or a probabilistic reservation — it's a specific number tied to your specific charge. Refunds unwind it; failed charges never enter it.

On the last calendar day of the month, we total the earmarked amount across every active subscription and initiate a single donation to ShareTheMeal. Their platform returns a confirmation with a reference number, usually within 30 minutes of the transfer clearing. That reference number is published on the Impact page's ledger and on that month's Impact Report the same day.

The math for meals: total donation amount divided by $0.80 (ShareTheMeal's published per-meal cost). If ShareTheMeal ever changes the per-meal cost, we recalculate against the new number in the same month. There's no "$0.80" enshrined in our contract with anyone — we peg to their live price.

Your personal ledger — the My Table screen inside the product — shows the specific number of meals your subscription funded that month, tied to the same reference number as the public ledger. Same source of truth, different granularity.