How RSVP works, and what your guests see

The RSVP form is built around one observation: Filipino guests reply in the group chat, not on websites. So the form asks for as little as possible and works on an old phone over a slow connection.

What a guest actually does

1. Opens your link — usually from Messenger, Viber or a family group chat.
2. Scrolls to the RSVP section and types their name. No account, no email, no password.
3. Nupta finds them on your guest list, even if the spelling is off. How the matching works.
4. They answer: attending, not attending, or — if you have switched it on — maybe.
5. If they are attending, they can say how many are coming with them and pick a meal, when you have offered those options.
6. Anything else you have asked. You can add your own questions to the form — a shuttle seat, a song request, who is staying for the after-party — and their answers land on your guest list and in the CSV export, beside the reply. Free sites get one question; Premium gets five.

That is it. Under a minute on a phone.

What you see

Replies land on your guest list as they arrive, and your dashboard shows the running count.

On Premium you get an email the moment each reply arrives. On the free tier you get a daily digest instead — same information, once a day, so an evening of replies is one email rather than thirty.

Either way, the first reply you ever receive gets its own note, because it is the one people want to know about immediately.

Shared phones

One phone is not one guest. A tita fills in her own reply, hands the phone to her sister, and the sister needs the form back.

The form used to remember the first person and show everyone afterwards a "thank you" screen with no way back — so the second person gave up and messaged the couple instead, which is exactly the thing this is meant to replace. It no longer does that. After a reply is submitted the form can be handed on, and the next person starts fresh.

Duplicate replies are still caught, but on the guest rather than on the phone: each guest has one reply, and searching the same name again shows that they have already answered rather than taking a second one.

When plans change

A guest who said yes and now cannot come can change their own reply. The form will not let someone else change it for them, because anyone can type a name into it.

• On the phone they replied from, the RSVP section shows a Change my reply button. It opens the form with their answer already filled in.
• From their confirmation email, if they gave an email address, there is a Change my reply link that works on any phone.
• On a different phone, they search their name and tap Email me a link to change it. The link goes only to the email already on their reply. If they did not give one, the form tells them to message you.

On Premium you get an email the moment a reply changes, so a yes that becomes a no does not slip past you. Guests can change their reply until your RSVP deadline, the same as sending one.

You can change any reply yourself too: on your guest list, tap the guest's status and pick Attending, Maybe or Declined.

Turning "maybe" on

"Maybe" is off by default, because it makes your final headcount softer and caterers do not accept it. Switch it on when your guests genuinely need it — long-distance family who cannot commit yet — and remember that a maybe is not a seat.

Guests who never open the link

Some will not, and no website fixes that. Your guest list lets you record a reply yourself: tap the guest's status and pick their answer, so a reply that arrives by text message or over lunch still ends up in the same count as the rest.