How do I publish my invitation?

Until you publish, your invitation is a draft only you and your co-hosts can see. Publishing makes it live at its link and starts the sending. Here is what to check first and what happens next.

Before you publish

1. 1Preview it. Choose Preview in the Overview header, or scroll the phone on the Overview, and replay the envelope. A reply sent from the preview is only rehearsed. See preview as a guest.
2. 2Set the date. An invitation is never published without its date, so guests can save it to their calendar and get reminders. Publish on a dateless invitation says "Set the date of your event before publishing." and opens Update details.
3. 3Add your guests. Nobody is contacted until you publish, so build the list first if you want everyone e-mailed at once. See add a guest.
4. 4Check the price. The header shows "Premium · included" or what is due. A premium design is paid once, at this step, unless your plan includes it.

Publish

1. 1Open the invitation from your dashboard.
2. 2Choose Publish in the header or the To do list. On a premium design it reads Pay & publish and opens checkout first; see paying to publish.
3. 3Read the toast: "Published version 1 · invitations e-mailed to X of Y guests".

The owner and editors can publish; viewers cannot. Your plan allows a number of active invitations at a time; a premium design you pay for brings its own place. If the plan is full, Publish says so and offers to unpublish one or upgrade. See what happens at a limit.

What publishing does

• Saves the draft as version 1 and makes it the live one at your link. The link is made from the title at the first publish and never changes afterwards.
• E-mails every guest with an address who has never been e-mailed this invitation, with their personal link. Each guest is e-mailed this way once, even if you unpublish and publish again.
• Switches on the automatic reminders, unless you switched one off earlier.
• Draws the preview card that WhatsApp shows under your link.
• Sends you an e-mail saying the invitation is live, with the link and a WhatsApp share button.

Next, share the link: see the shared link and personal links.