GetJoyBox data
What People Put on Gift Registries: Canadian Platform Data
What does a real gift registry look like? The tables below are aggregated from live GetJoyBox registries - the same platform data behind our Canadian wedding cost dataset. No survey panel, no estimates: these are the registries families actually built.
Last updated from live platform data: November 10, 2026. Free to cite with attribution to GetJoyBox (see below). Slices smaller than 10 registries or items are suppressed to protect individual users.
The platform at a glance
225
Registries created
1,685
Gifts listed
81
Gifts claimed by guests
$5,700+
In cash gifts recorded by guests (CAD)
Cash gifts, specifically
Guests have recorded over $5,700 CAD in cash gifts across 49 fund contributions, alongside roughly $6,300 CAD in purchased product gifts.
How the money moves today: cash gifts travel directly from guest to host by Interac e-Transfer - GetJoyBox never holds the funds and keeps 0%, so the amounts above are what guests recorded when they sent their gift, not payments we processed. Card payments through Stripe are in the works, with automated e-Transfer rails planned after that.
Registries by occasion
| Occasion | Registries | Median items | Top gift categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | 80 | - | Kitchen (32%) |
| Baby shower | 57 | 21 | Toys & Play (19%) · Clothing (15%) · Feeding (11%) · Sleep (9%) · General (9%) |
| Wedding | 49 | 4 | Other (21%) · Kitchen (19%) · Toys & Play (10%) · Contribute (9%) · Funds (8%) |
| Birthday | 27 | 4 | Clothing (22%) · Toys & Play (13%) · Building & STEM (9%) · Contribute (9%) · Other (7%) |
| Other | 12 | - | Toys & Play (53%) · Contribute (32%) |
What a registry is made of
| Product items vs cash funds | 93% products · 7% cash funds |
| Registries using group gifting | 11% |
| Median gift price (CAD-priced items) | $40 |
| Registries priced in CAD | 92% |
Methodology
Figures are computed daily from live GetJoyBox registries by an automated aggregation job. Counts cover every real registry on the platform (demo and showcase registries are excluded); no sampling and no extrapolation are applied.
Privacy: aggregates are de-identified at the source. No registry names, links, or individual gift choices are included, and any slice covering fewer than 10 registries or items is suppressed before publication rather than published with a small sample.
Cash-gift figures are guest-recorded: when a guest sends an e-Transfer contribution they record the amount on the registry, and those records are what we total. GetJoyBox does not process or hold gift money, so these are recorded sends, not settled payments.
GetJoyBox is a Canada-first platform (92% of registries are priced in CAD), so these figures primarily reflect Canadian gifting behaviour; the platform is open worldwide and non-CAD registries are included in the totals.
Using this data
Journalists and researchers are welcome to cite this dataset with attribution to GetJoyBox and a link to this page (CC BY 4.0). For custom cuts - a specific occasion, province-level wedding costs, or year-over-year comparisons - email hello@getjoybox.com and we'll run the numbers where the sample allows.
More GetJoyBox data: What a wedding costs in Canada, city by city
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