How do reminders to guests work?

Reminders are the part of hosting that is easy to forget. Nimanto schedules them for you when you publish, times them from the event's date in its own time zone, and moves them if the date moves.

The three automatic messages

• Nudge guests who haven't replied, 5 days before. To guests with no reply yet. Subject "Will you join us at <title>?", with a Reply now button to their reply form.
• Remind attendees the day before. To guests who said yes. Subject "See you tomorrow at <title>!", with the date and time, calendar links, the venue with directions, and your registry when you have one.
• Thank attendees the morning after. To guests who said yes, the morning after the event, with a link to the photo album. See the guest thank-you e-mail.

Each shows the guest where they stand, such as "Your RSVP: Attending", and comes from your name via Nimanto, so a reply reaches you.

Switch one on or off

1. 1Open the invitation from your dashboard and choose Guests & RSVPs.
2. 2Choose Message guests, then the Scheduled reminders tab.
3. 3Under Automatic messages, switch each one on or off. A switched-off choice is remembered, even on a draft, so it is not switched back on when you publish.

The switches are disabled until the event has a date. Switching one on shows when it will go, or explains why it cannot: "Set the event date first." or "The event is too close for this reminder."

Timing rules

• Reminders go only while the invitation is published. Unpublish it and they do not go.
• When you publish or change the date late, a nudge whose time has passed goes two days later, and the day-before reminder goes shortly after, as long as it is still the day before. "See you tomorrow" never arrives on the day itself.
• Every date change moves the reminders with it.

Send a message of your own

The New message tab sends an e-mail to everyone, to those attending, to those who have not replied, or to a group. Merge fields fill in each guest's name, the date, the venue and their personal link; Send later schedules it for a time you pick. A message can only be sent once the invitation is published.