Punchbowl

In these days of social distancing, I still wanted to have an extra special 80th birthday party for my mom. I was happy to see there were so many suitable remote party invitation options which I could easily edit leading to the perfect invite. (Not too complicated for the seniors yet with color and animation to make it special.). It was so easy to personalize, add more people, send a reminder, etc. Our Zoom party was great and it all started with an "easy invitation."

Punchbowl is a great and affordable program with options for one off users as well as high end users. With so many applications out there I'm often concerned with support. Sometimes the pricing is sneaky and locks you into something you really didn't want. My experience with Punchbowl was great. Their support was quick and very helpful. I highly recommend their program and will be a regular user.

I had never organized or planned a party, and I came across Punchbowl in a Google search. From day one, Punchbowl walked me through compiling a guest list, creating an invitation, sending out, and giving me many options to follow up and maintain list once sent. I was able to resend invitations to those who mistakenly deleted. Punchbowl advised me when phone numbers bounced so that I could get correct and resend. Punchbowl kept an accurate alphabetical account of the responses and sent out a two day reminder. They did the work at a reasonable cost. Thanks, Punchbowl

They string you along with the promise of creating and sending free invites. Then, once you've spent time creating your invite, you literally cannot send it without signing up for a "free trial" which is 1 week. So unless your party is within a week- how is this useful as a free service?! Also, unless you purchase a premium membership, there are ads on your invite, which is why it didn't seem too good to be true. I mean, if I'm sending along ads with my kids' birthday invitations- shouldn't it just be free?

Our Christmas Eve celebrations are a special time of year for your family and friends, old and new! I send out invites and chose Punchbowl, which provided me lovely selections that were easy to customize for our celebration. I selected the perfect invite: simple but elegant! The invite and guest list was easy for our guests and for me to manage. As a pleasant surprise, I was able to send a customized "thank you" after our event, which I really appreciated! I highly recommend Punchbowl, and will certainly use them in the future!

I used Punchbowl to create a baby shower invitation and thought that by signing up my invitees would not get advertisements. They indicated the monthly fee and stated that you could cancel at any time. I cancelled my subscription within a month but my credit card was billed the full year subscription rate. I sent two emails asking to be reimbursed for 11 months and have not had a response. I will be telling my friends not to use this site.

I spent 30 minutes creating and organizing a FREE invitation here. But in order to send and manage I had to PURCHASE an annual membership. No way around it. Slimy, dishonest and exceptionally poor business practices. Never again.

They'll let you get through making your entire card before the final step, when it asks you make an account. You make an account, and then realize it didn't save your card. So annoyingly, you'll go back to remake your entire card, and then the final step this time will be to start their free trial or buy a subscription package. Great!
I know this is not an uncommon business practice but I've just had enough of it. Only two stars because the site was designed well.
Also, looks like two of the subscription packages don't even remove advertising. You get to pay up and still get to have ads on your card. Wow. And looks like this site requires you to make an account as well, lol. Never had needed to do something out of spite just in spite of something else. Time for tempmail again

Missed cancellation of the free trial period and was charged $80+ even though I cancelled, and although I don't use and can't afford. Going through a lot, including young child in wheelchair with broken foot and severe financial and personal issues. I asked if they would consider a refund, even partial -- they said no, that there was a 30 day window that closed. Nothing said there was a 30 day window when I could have requested refund when I cancelled immediately after the charge. I read it carefully.

No e-card is worth $80+, and no company that can see a customer only used them once and cancelled right after they were charged that $80+ but won't refund is worth giving your business to.