Customers can invite family or friends to share carts for delivery or pickup orders.
Join a family cart
Got an email or text invite to join a family cart? Select Accept invite, log in to your Instacart account or create one, and start shopping.
Switch between a family cart and personal cart
- Select the View cart icon in the bottom middle of the screen.
- Select the 3 dots in the top right corner of the cart screen.
- Choose Switch to a family cart or Switch to a personal cart.
Make sure you’re in a family cart to view the items a family account member added. You can’t view each other's items from a personal cart.
You can each shop on your own if you prefer. Items in a personal cart don’t add to a family cart.
Check out with a family cart
All family account members can check out and place the order using their account payment method. However, cart members can't split the payment.
All account members get order updates and a notification when someone checks out. However, only the person who checked out the order can select replacements, edit the existing order, and chat with the shopper.
NOTE: If you delete your family account before completing a family cart order or switching to a personal cart, you lose all the items in your family cart.