Individuals
You are the one throwing the party, and the replies come from everywhere.
Invitations with a reply link, the date settled with a poll, costs split and people seated: it all sits inside the party, not across five different conversations.
For anyone organising a birthday, a graduation, an anniversary or a dinner with friends.
A party gets organised across five conversations, and none of them knows what the others know
You post the date in a group, someone answers you privately, two tell you in person and one forgets.
The day before you still do not know whether it is twenty people or thirty, so you order by guesswork.
Then the money comes up: who paid for the place, who paid for the present, who has not paid yet.
Play the Event brings it all into one space: the party is where the guests, the date, the costs and the tables live.
Four things you stop asking around for
Invitations and replies, in one list
The problem People reply wherever it suits them, and the running total lives in your head.
What you do You send the invitation with a reply link: whoever gets it says yes or no from there.
The result You read how many people are coming instead of working it out again.
The date that works for most people
The problem You suggest a Saturday, three cannot make it, and the round of messages starts again.
What you do You put two or three dates in a poll and let the guests vote.
The result The date is decided once, with the votes in front of you.
Costs split without an argument
The problem One person pays for the place, another for the cake, and in the end nobody knows who owes what.
What you do You record the expenses inside the party and split the costs among the people taking part.
The result The figures are there for whoever has to pay, not only for whoever wrote them down.
Who sits next to whom
The problem You work the tables out on the morning itself, on a sheet of paper you then lose.
What you do You build the seating plan and put each person at their table.
The result You get to the party with a plan, not with a rough idea.
Made for the person who ends up organising everyone else's party
Birthday
You invite exactly who you want, the guests vote on the date, you order for the right number and split the costs.
Graduation
The ceremony sets the day: you propose a time, collect the replies and book for the real number.
Anniversary
A list of relatives and friends, people seated at their tables and one single place for the money.
The people who help you
At a party someone always lends a hand: one person picks up the cake, one brings the chairs, one collects the money for the present. Inside the party every thing to do carries a name next to it and a date.
Party -> Guests: invitations, replies, date poll · To do: every thing with a name and a date · Money: expenses and cost splitting · Tables: seating plan
Today a party is run from a single account: the others receive the invitation and reply, they do not log in to change the arrangements. If two of you need to organise the same party, write to info@playtheevent.com: the interviews with organisers decide what we build next.
What we do not do
We do not sell venues, we do not book places and we do not order the cake: here you organise the party, the rest you choose yourself.
Your party, in one place.
Begin with the next one: the invitations, the date and the costs are where you start.
Everything Play the Event does for parties, weddings and birthdays
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