The platform · 06
Chasing, without nagging.
The month before is where the stress actually lives: the silent third of the list, and the awkward messages you would rather not send. We prepare them, on a schedule counted back from your reply deadline, to the guests who have not answered, and to the ones who answered but left something out — and to nobody else.
The schedule.
Two reminders, and the dates are not ours to invent — they count back from the reply deadline you set.
Fourteen days before
A polite first reminder, a fortnight out, to everyone who has not replied. Enough time for a guest to look at a calendar.
Two days before
A last one — close enough to act on, far enough to still be kind. It stays live through the deadline itself, because the day a reply is worth the most is not the day to go quiet.
Only where something is missing
Each reminder is drawn from the list as it stands that morning. It holds the guests who have not replied, and the ones who replied but left something required unanswered — a meal, a name, a plus-one — whose reminder names what is missing and opens at that step. A guest who has answered everything, declined, been removed or opted out is not on it. You can stop it for your event with one control.
Then silence
Past the deadline, nothing sends on its own. You see exactly who is still missing, and beside each name is a nudge you can send from your own phone.
Prepared, not fired.
Drafted in your event’s voice
The wording follows the invitation it comes after — the same names, the same tone — and it is shown to you as the guest will read it.
Set once, sent on time
The dates follow the reply deadline you set, and each reminder goes out on its own, on the day. You can pause them for your event at any time, and start them again when you are ready.
Email, text or WhatsApp
Whichever routes the guest has consented to. A text or a WhatsApp lands inside that number’s waking hours, wherever in the world it is.
It stops when they answer
A reply after the first reminder takes them off the second. Nobody is thanked and chased in the same week.
Easier to answer than to ignore.
Most late replies are not a no. They are a page nobody got round to opening, so every reminder offers a shorter way back.
One tap on WhatsApp
The reminder carries three buttons — Yes, No, Maybe. The tap is the answer, and it reaches your list without anyone opening a page. A Maybe is asked again later, not chased tomorrow.
One word by text
A guest answering for themselves can simply reply YES or NO to the text, and it is recorded. Anything more than a yes or a no goes to a person to read, never guessed at.
One reply for the household
When some of a family have answered and one has not, the reminder asks the person who replied to answer for the rest — by name, on the same page, in a moment.
A nudge from you
Beside everyone still to reply, your guest list has Nudge from your phone: a short note in your words with their own link, opened in your WhatsApp or Messages. It comes from you, which is why it gets answered — and the automatic reminder steps back for a few days so nobody hears twice.
What a deadline is,
once guests have been told it.
Without
The reply date on the card comes and goes. The list says 140 of 210. Somebody drafts a message to everyone — including the 140 — and the caterer is given a number with a shrug in it.
With Evorrah
A deadline printed on an invitation is a promise made to real guests, so it is never quietly moved: it moves only when your event date does, by the same number of days, and guests are told only when you approve the note. Past it, the plan does not slide forward to look tidy; it says plainly who is still missing, and the count the caterer gets is the count as it stands, with the held seats named.
Every morning, what changed.
Three new replies, and what they mean.
Each morning that brings replies brings a short note naming them — and only on mornings that do. Silence does not produce an email about silence.
The note says what is true and checkable: who is now coming, a dietary need the kitchen has not seen, a table that is now full. It does not invent a benchmark for how your list “should” be going.
In use.
The chase, scheduled, on four events — a sixtieth, a wedding, a corporate anniversary and a brit milah.
Rendered from the file each event ran as — its own guests, dates and color. Open any one to see it full size.
What it will not do.
Chasing is the part of hosting most people dread. It is done for you, and these are the rules it is done under.
- Remind a household that has already answered everything
- Send a reminder you have not read
- Move your reply deadline for you
- Send in the small hours — a text is held to that number’s waking hours
- Keep chasing after the deadline unless you ask
- Message a number that has opted out, for any reason
Two reminders, politely worded, to the right people, each one easy to answer. Then you see who is still missing, and a nudge from you is one tap away.
The rest of the platform
Three more services,
reading from the same event.
Seating & Tables
The seating plan builds itself from the replies, and re-resolves when someone declines.
Explore → 08Timeline & Deadlines
What is due next, always. Every milestone counted back from your date.
Explore → 09Arrival & Check-in
The door, on the night: each guest’s own code, a scanner that works with no signal, a live count.
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