What is the preview card under my link?

Paste an invitation link into WhatsApp and a card appears under it before anyone taps. That card is not a screenshot: Nimanto draws it for each invitation, so it reads well whatever the design.

What the card shows

• On the left, your invitation's cover, drawn as a phone-shaped card on the invitation's own stage colour.
• On the right, the kind of event, such as "wedding invitation", then the title, the date written out in full, the venue and an Open invitation button, in Nimanto's own type so it stays readable.
• The Nimanto mark in a corner.

The text under the link reads the date and the venue, or your share message when the invitation has no date.

When it exists

Only a published invitation gets a card; a draft's link shows nothing. Each publish draws the card straight away, so the first share does not have to wait. If you or the design set a custom cover image, that image is used instead of the drawn card.

When it refreshes

• Publishing again draws a fresh card, and the link carries the new version so messaging apps fetch it instead of showing an old one.
• Changing the date or venue under Update details draws a fresh card without publishing again, because the card reads those from the event itself.

Apps keep their own copies of a card for a while, so a chat where the link was pasted earlier may show the old card until the link is sent again.

Where else it appears

The same card is the tappable picture in the invitation e-mail, the reminders, the "it's live" e-mail and the morning-after summary.

Check it

1. 1Publish the invitation.
2. 2Open the invitation from your dashboard and choose Share, then WhatsApp.
3. 3Pick a chat with yourself and look at the card under the link before sending.