Evite has a rating of 1.2 stars from 69 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Evite most frequently mention customer service, email address, and guest list problems. Evite ranks 54th among Event Planning sites.
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I just used this site to send out invitations for a birthday party and it worked perfectly. So much better than just emailing all of my friends!
I used Evite to send invitations to our annual Christmas party. After the party, we decided to send a "Thank You" to our guests. At the END of the Evite thank you order, Evite said that the "individual purchase" would be $1.99. No big deal! What Evite failed to mention (intentionally of course) was that the cost was $1.99 PER RECIPIENT! $240 later I was surprised that Evite would stoop to such a low level scam.
I used Evite to send invitations to our annual Christmas party. After the party, we decided to send a "Thank You" to our guests. At the END of the Evite thank you order, Evite said that the "individual purchase" would be $1.99. No big deal! What Evite failed to mention (intentionally of course) was that the cost was $1.99 PER RECIPIENT! $240 later I was surprised that Evite would stoop to such a low level scam.
For the past three years I used Evite to send invitations for an annual Christmas party. Every year Evite would incorporate my guest list into this year's invitation. Until this year. Out of a guest list of approximately 140 different email addresses, Evite incorporated only about 20. The rest... simply gone. So I contacted Evite by email for assistance. Their response? None. Wow. At least respond. But, what would you expect from a free service that has gotten dozens of bad reviews online. My solution? Contact their advertisers. Hit them in the pocket. That's obviously all Evite staff cares about.
Evite has become glitchy and clunky with unexplained limits on function (ie) not being able to chat with all guests, a limit on the free invites that isn't clearly stated anywhere, and an inability to upgrade after the invite is sent... b/c that's when they tell you there's 12 person limit. Customer service is unreachable. I've used Evite for years and after this cluster f*ck of an invite will delete my account. I cannot recommend this company to anyone under any circumstances.
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evite
Pro's:
They have good templates, you can easily create and send inviations.
Easy contact import from a excel or csv file
Con's:
Most of the guests do not receive the invites. They must get blocked by spam filters.
There is no option to resend, other than deleting the contact and creating a new one.
No customer support phone number
They do not respond to written customer support.
Stay away, it starts out great but then turns into your worst nightmare.
Products used:
Evite
Have used for years -- they appear to have abandoned the site. Trouble ticket useless.
DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY!
I do not create accounts with random websites (in this example, Evite) to answer an invitation that sell your personal information and geolocation with no clear opt out option. FCC needs to be notified of Evite's practices. Shut them down.
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Will not use, blocked with carrier.
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None
I gave it 2 stars because the RSVPs seem to be working ok with the exception of the guest count feature. I should have read the reviews but I went ahead and paid $80 for up to 100 invites. What the don't tell you is that each of your guests will be solicited at the end of their RSVP to take advantage of several unrelated offers that you need to decline one at a time. Also - you can't see/edit the RSVP email invite or confirmation email and there is additional marketing for Amazon at the bottom of the confirmation email. So embarrassing, if I had known - I would not have signed up. There are other negatives, but who cares, I won't be back.
Products used:
Evite event registration sofftware
I used to use evite and it was great! Easy to use for myself and the guests. But the last time I used it for a graduation invite this past May it was awful! Im not sure what happened but its the WORST! Hard to navigate, not intuitive, hard to find simple tasks, hard to make updates. Its just much harder to use than it needs to be! I even PAID for the version to make sure I got all the features for our grad party and it had no impact. What happened to you Evite? I miss the old you!
I used Evite when they were free and user-friendly. We had a BBQ this past weekend and I decided to use Evite. What a mistake—not user friendly at all. It was difficult to add new guests, I wasn't able to download my guest list (had to copy and paste with all the other mess on the screen, and now they are trying to get me to buy TY you cards! No, thank you!
Navigate around the site to try and modify my invite was a pain, trying to find guests lists or send them messages would force my guests to create an account to view the messages. And why did the HOST (me) have to RSVP? The count for it is off because of that. I hate this site. I hate how the baby registry is missed because its all the way at the bottom, I hate that when I set up the fund part, it requires me to connect with Pledge account which force me to create another account. This site sucks and I would NEVER recc this site to any mother trying to plan their baby showers. Its stressful.
Easy way to send out invitations and keep track of the RSVPs. Cute designs.
EVite has a zombie mode, where even as the owner you can't stop the service from "reminding" people that they have been invited to an event you haven't touched in a year. We had to cancel / postpone an event last year, and couldn't figure out how to delete it... eVite's warnings about all the data damage that would cause were both alarming and concerning. So we pushed the date to the future. Unbeknownst to us, eVite then sent reminders... not to us, but to the 100+ people invited to the event. WTF? It would be great it eVite contacted the "planners and organizers" of a zombie event before sending out reminders to the entire guest list. NO, the event is not happening. All recent RSVPs have been "NO". But really, eVite... you think I set up an event a year ago and let it run on autopilot until your reminder alert happened? Get real...
Not sure if they have been hacked but the site does not respond well to command. I had to restart my invite 3 times. Leaves a sliver of a window to add guests. I was not able remove a unintended guest and it wouldn't let me add guests. It was puzzling why when before when I used it, no problem. Next thing I know it had sent it out to all in my address book, including the person we are throwing the surprise for.
Horrible platform to send evites. What use to be easy is no longer. It was time consuming, stressful and EVITE will no longer be on my friend list.
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experience leaded to a Cancelled evite event.
Products used:
evite ~ on line invitation
I used to love using Evite. Recently, I "save" and it shows an error message. It is so glitchy, it just accidentally sent the Evite to everyone (200+) in my Evite contact list. Aaugh! What happened to the wonderful Evite of the past? Short staffed, no QA or usability any more?
1/2 of my guests never received the evite- I have spend and waisted so much time trying to resend! Without having to pay again, which maybe is what the site expects you to do: resend as new- this is stealing from customers: i now read too many bad reviews (wish I had done reading before) if someone has time and energy to go after them i am in to sue.
They have no customer service because evite does not care —- why is this site still alive!
Tip for consumers:
Before using evite find another site to send electronic invitations .
Products used:
Evite.cm
They were going to put ads on my évites. I PAID for them not to; they put ads on my évites to everyone as if I was asking for gifts from Amazon and Target. They also changed the font i selected which screwed up the formatting after it went to 450 people.
Paid for 40 invites—will only let me send 22 then asks for more payment
Tried multiple times to change a phone number for a guest and it keeps saying this guest has already been invited
Tried to contact their support email—says they will respond in 1-2 days but have heard nothing
Products used:
Electronic invitations
Almost Perfect... - I love how I can upload contacts to send out invites. Now, if only Evite partnered up with Open Table!
Used to be an easy to use invitation app thou it had definite flaws. Now, horrible! Can no longer import a list of invitees. The directions for this are totally wrong and do not work. Also the number of guests is geared to singles not couples. You would think this would be able to be selected in order to keep your attendee counts accurate... but noooo, you can only select '2' people for a 'YES' attending. Couples that select 'MAYBE' or 'NO' the default is 1 guest and can not be changed. Ridiculous. I have attempted to contact Evite to help them solve these issues but... CRICKETS! Moving on to better managed applications.
Tip for consumers:
Find a different application.
Products used:
Evite online invitations
I've been using evite for years for personal events, etc. As I have younger kids and am hosting more birthday parties, etc., I find that the product is a complete ripoff. I often wondered why none of the other millennial parents use evite and now I know why.
I recently sent out an invitation for my 6-year-old's birthday party. As is often the case, two of the parents provided work email addresses in the school contact list at the beginning of the year and those emails no longer work. Therefore, the invitations were not received (as the system shows). But get this, there is no way to edit the email addresses. Instead, I had to manually delete the contacts and put them in all over again in order to put in the other parent's email address. The reason? Because evite wanted to charge me another $14.99 to add two more people to the invitation since I had reached my max with the original invitation. So basically, I paid for two contacts that had email addresses that no longer work, but evite makes you pay for them all over again and doesn't let you edit them.
I'll NEVER use this service again. It's outdated anyway. Only old people still use it. It's like the myspace of personal email.
I also find it interesting there is no customer support or ability to post any feedback on their site.
So I've used Evite in the past but wanted a better experience, so I paid for it (wanted a personal photo added). Now that I'm trying to update the photo - I see NO help topics related to changing or updating the photo, no chat and I'm literally frustrated because I'm just waiting for them to email me back after completing a fill-in form on the website. If I pay for something, I expect better service.
I've been a user of Evite for a decade. But a recent experience caused me to move to another service. Basically, Evite caused me to stare at large images of the evite card options along with advertising. It's not so much the ads, its more the tedious process of moving forward to see more options. I was seeing maybe six to a page. I want to scroll through the options, not click forward and see only a few at a time. I know what I am looking for and I want to quickly click through. Couldn't do that on Evite and just grew very fatigued very quickly. Like when I go to Shutterlfy or Tinyprints for holiday cards, I can scroll through many options. On Evite it is very different, I could barely see more than 4 to a page plus a big banner ad in the middle. Also the top of the Evite screen would lock to further reduce real estate.
Found another site which actually had some slick features, so it worked out.
Tip for consumers:
Try it out, if you like it, it's still a good service. But there are others out there.
NO PHONE HELP WHATSOEVER! If you like texting your life away with no actual help and being charged for it … Then this is the site for you. If you want a GREAT INVITATION APP go to GREENVELOPE.COM. An actual person answers the phone and helps you and without a fee involved! Super easy to set up an invite.
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Tried to set up an online invite. After hours (more than 4) of trying to get help I Quit and went to GreenVelope.com.
Takes your money without notice - no live person to ever talk to. No integrity. Go somewhere else.
Tip for consumers:
Do not sign up for any pre-paid service with this company. If you have any issues with your account or payment, there is no one you can talk to. There are no refunds - other sites allow you to cancel your account with pro-rated returns. There are too many other good e-invitation sites available to be stuck with this one.
Products used:
Evite Pro
Great way to contact friends for an event. Highly recommended!
Tried every which way from Sunday to join the zoom group, and was completely denied access —perhaps because I don't have an evite account? This for sure makes me NOT want to have one! So disappointed!
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