Drop Budget (Shareable Drops Allocation)

Where to see your balance

Your current Shareable Drops balance is displayed in several places:

• The right-hand panel on the Home Feed (desktop/tablet) — shows your balance with a countdown of how many days until the drops expire.
• The top of the Create Post modal — "X drops to give", with how many days until they renew.
• The drop balance tooltip on the Give button in the post composer — tap and hold to see your remaining balance.
• The Give Drops popup in the post composer — displays your remaining balance and the expiry countdown in plain text.

The panel also shows three companion stats:

How the budget cycle works

Your administrator sets the drop budget defaults for the whole team. The key parameters are:

Spending your drops

You spend shareable drops in two ways:

1. Inline in the post composer — tap the give button in the post text bar, choose 1–5 drops to attach, and they are embedded as drop emoji in your message text. The drops are deducted when the post is published.
2. Sending drops on an existing post — tap the drops/give action on a post card to open the Send a Drop flow for that post's author.
3. Sending a sticker — sending a Stipop sticker to someone's post also deducts from your shareable drops. See GIF and Sticker Integration.

Your available balance updates in real time after each send. If you attempt to send more drops than you have available, you will see an "Insufficient drops!" message and the action will be blocked.

What happens when drops reach zero

Once your balance hits zero:

• The drop count shown in the composer tooltip displays 0.
• Attempting to add drops to a post shows the "Insufficient drops!" toast.
• You will receive a new allocation at the start of your next cycle.

Administrator budget settings

Admins can adjust drop budget defaults from the admin panel. Changes (such as increasing the cycle allocation or adjusting the drop-to-dollar ratio) apply from the next cycle. The admin panel includes a live Estimated Monthly Drop Cost calculator that updates as settings are changed.