> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.exclusivo.one/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Reserved allocations

> Setting tokens aside for specific wallets — and what delivering them actually costs.

Reserve tokens for named wallets before your public sale — your team, partners,
people who held a previous collection.

## Setting one up

<Steps>
  <Step title="Add the wallets">
    The addresses, and how many each should get.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review">
    You'll see the full allocation, what it does to your available supply, and an
    estimate of what delivering it costs — before anything is committed.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Deliver">
    The tokens are minted straight to their recipients.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Reserved allocations work on EVM chains today. On Solana the wizard collects and
reviews the allocation, but delivery isn't wired up end to end yet.

## Read this before you promise anything

Delivery is the part people underestimate, and the cost doesn't scale the way
you'd guess.

<Warning>
  **Gas is per wallet, not per batch.** A hundred tokens to a hundred wallets
  costs roughly a hundred deliveries. A hundred tokens to one wallet is
  dramatically cheaper.

  **On Solana you also pay account rent for every item you deliver** — on top of
  transaction fees, and unlike Candy Machine rent, you don't get it back.
</Warning>

Batching doesn't rescue you. Even four items to four wallets won't fit in one
transaction — the size limit binds first. Batching saves round trips, not money.

### Work out three numbers first

1. **How many distinct wallets.** That's the one that drives the cost.
2. **Which chain.** The same drop on Ethereum and on Base differ by orders of magnitude.
3. **Rent, if you're on Solana.** Per item, paid by you, not coming back.

<Tip>
  For a large allocation, consider delivering to a few custody wallets and
  distributing from there — or making it claimable instead. A claim moves the gas
  cost to the person claiming.
</Tip>

## If you're running a claim instead

The model is different: **one claim is one mint spot**.

If the same wallet appears twice in a batch, that's two separate entitlements.
Collapsing them into one silently takes something away from someone.

## Reserved tokens come out of supply

They're part of your total, not extra. So if your public phase has a cap counted
against the same supply, it can sell out earlier than the headline number
suggests — and mint failures at that point are telling you the truth, not
malfunctioning.