Text invitations
Text invitations, sent from your own phone
Your guests get a text from you: your name, your number, in the thread they already have with you. It’s just the invitation and their own link: they open it to see the date and the details, and answer right there. Nothing to download, nothing from a number they don’t know.
Rosa’s daughter · (480) 555-0123
Hi Sarah & Mike! You’ve got an invitation to Rosa’s 70th. Open it here: letsparty.rsvp/rosas-70th/7GkQ2…
An example, from a sample party.
Why from your number
- They know it’s you. A text from a friend or family member gets opened. A text from a number nobody recognizes can look like spam.
- Replies come to you. If someone answers in the thread, you see it, and one tap marks them on your guest list.
- One link each. Every guest’s link is their own, with their name on the invite, so nobody answers for the wrong household.
- Their answer saves itself. No tally in a notes app: who’s coming, how many, and anything you asked, all on one list.
How it works
Make the invite
Pick a design, add the date, the place and the details. Every guest gets their own copy with their name on the envelope.
Add your guests
Bring them in from your phone’s contacts, or add them one at a time. A whole household is one invite, so a family gets one text, not four.
Send from your phone
On an iPhone, one button texts everyone waiting, from your number, after asking first (a one-time setup). On any phone, the guest list opens Messages with each text already written, one tap each.
Guests tap their link
No app and no sign-in. They see the invite, say yes or no and how many are coming, and it saves on your guest list right away.
Questions
- Does texting cost anything?
- The texts go from your phone like any text you send, on your own phone plan. letsparty doesn’t send them for you or charge per text.
- Do guests need an app or an account?
- No. They tap the link in your text and answer in their browser. They can change their answer later from the same link.
- What if a guest just texts me back?
- The text doesn’t ask anything, so there’s nothing to answer in it: the date, the details and the RSVP are on the invite. If someone answers you anyway, one tap on your guest list marks them coming or not, and offers to text them their link back.
- Why doesn’t the text say the date?
- So guests open the invite. The text is just the invitation and its link; the date, the place, the details and the RSVP are all on the invite, where their answer saves itself.
- What about people who don’t text?
- Anyone with an email address can get the invite by email instead, or as well.
- Can the texts be in Spanish?
- Yes. A household set to Spanish gets its text, its invite and its emails in Spanish, and every guest can switch languages from the Aa button by their name on the invite.
- How do I remind people who haven’t answered?
- Two days before your RSVP date you get a list of who hasn’t answered, each with a reminder text already written. Anyone with an email address also gets a reminder email on its own.
Send your next invite from your phone
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