Stop chasing RSVPs.

Connect a Google Sheet with names and phone numbers, write your invitation, and Avently sends each guest a personally addressed WhatsApp message. Their replies are written back into the sheet as they arrive.

A group poll gets a quick show of hands from whoever sees it. It doesn’t remind the people who scroll past, and it can’t ask each person about dietary needs. Avently messages each guest by name, lets you nudge anyone who hasn’t answered, asks your follow-up questions, and writes every reply into your guest list.

No. Guests answer inside the WhatsApp chat. They tap Yes or Can’t make it, then answer your follow-up questions with buttons or a list menu, and a guest who types “yep” instead is counted too. Most WhatsApp RSVP tools send each guest a link to a web form instead.

Messages arrive addressed to one person by name, one guest at a time, and everything after their first reply is in the wording you wrote. The first message goes out on a template Meta approved in advance, so its wording and its button labels are the same for every event; from their reply onwards the conversation is yours. Most guests answer as though you had texted them yourself.

No. Avently runs the WhatsApp side. You write the invitation and connect your guest sheet.

Yes, on paid events and the Unlimited plan. Your door volunteers open a private link on their phones, see who is still to come and who has arrived, tap each guest in and count walk-ins; every arrival time lands in a “checked in” column of your guest sheet. An event that went out on your free invitations can add it for $19 CAD. Seating charts, no: keep a table column in your sheet and the door list shows it.

Not with invitations. WhatsApp does not deliver event invitations to US phone numbers, so Avently skips every US number on your sheet and shows you which ones it skipped before you pay. US territories — Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam — are treated the same way. Member verification, team outreach and panel confirmations do reach US numbers. The invitation limit is a WhatsApp restriction, not a choice we made, and we will say so here the moment it lifts.

Price is set by how many invitations you send, not by how many guests attend. The first 25 invitations each month are free. There is no subscription unless you choose the monthly Unlimited plan.

Yes. Avently uses your guest list only to send the invitations you approve and record the replies, and never sells it. To deliver the messages, guest names, phone numbers and replies pass through the services named in our Privacy Policy, such as Twilio and WhatsApp, which store and process it in the United States and possibly other countries.