Party RSVP vs Paperless Post
Beautiful stationery. Until the Coins run out.
Paperless Post makes the most elegant digital invitations in the business — and charges for them per guest, in a currency called Coins, every time you hit send.
With Paperless Post
- 2–8 Coins per guest
- Every email collected first
- Formal stationery vibe
- Card only — no album or chat
With Party RSVP
- Free, no currency to buy
- One link, families add themselves
- Party themes and banners
- Album + chat on the invitation
Credit where due
For a wedding, a gala, or a dinner party where the envelope matters, Paperless Post is genuinely the class of the field — and it's the only big platform with a real kids-and-adults headcount option. It earned that.
Where Paperless Post gets in the way
Class-party math
Premium designs cost roughly 2–8 Coins per guest. Invite 25 classmates with a styled card and you're at real money — $40, $50 — and resending costs Coins again. Every party, forever.
The guest list comes first
Paperless Post wants every parent's email up front. But the whole problem with class parties is you don't have the emails — you have a group chat and a paper roster. There's no open link where families add themselves.
Dressed for the wrong party
The aesthetic is engraved-letterpress formal. Gorgeous for a rehearsal dinner; a strange fit for a trampoline park. And there's no album, no chat, no waitlist behind the pretty card.
Where Party RSVP pulls ahead
One link beats fifty addresses
Drop your link in the class chat and you're done. Families find their child — or add them — without you collecting a single email address.
Headcounts, finished
They pioneered the kids/adults toggle; we went further — per-child RSVPs, sibling counts, one email per family, and a waitlist when the venue caps out.
Festive is the point
Ten party themes, your own banner photo, confetti where confetti belongs — designed for cake, not calligraphy.
Save the Coins for the wedding.
Kids' parties are frequent, informal and email-list-free — the exact opposite of what per-guest pricing and closed lists are built for.
The checklist, side by side
| Feature | Party RSVP | Paperless Post |
|---|---|---|
| Free to use, no ads shown to guests | basic designs only | |
| Guests never create an account | ||
| RSVP by the child's name | ||
| Sibling + adult headcounts per family | kids/adults toggle | |
| One email per family, never duplicates | ||
| Capacity with automatic waitlist | capacity, no waitlist | |
| Automatic reminders to non-responders | ||
| Guest photo & video album | ||
| Party chat with a host badge | ||
| Open RSVP — guests add themselves | ||
| AI writes the invitation text | ||
| Host from any device |