Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system for automatically managing payments across multiple orders placed by multiple users associated with an ordering group, each user associated with a payment method. The system includes: a venue computing device coupled to a communications network, the venue computing device being associated with a venue; and a database server coupled to the communications network. The database server is adapted to: store a user profile for each of said multiple users, each user profile storing at least one payment method for the respective user; and manage a list of multiple users associated with a shout, the database server including a scheduler adapted to sort the multiple users into an ordered list, based on an order in which the users joined the shout, said scheduler identifying in turn a current host responsible for a next order.