What makes Purpletrail the best online invitation service?
PurpleTrail is a great way to organize and manage parties, get-togethers, events and meetings. With it's fresh perspective, PurpleTrail brings together some of the best features and experiences to help you easily manage your events. We've created a short video tour that will show you all the basics of PurpleTrail online invitations.


Thousands of Invitation Designs
You can create the perfect invitation for any event by using one of our professional designs, or create one of your own. All of our designs are fully customizable using the PurpleTrail design center. With the design center you can add text, your own images and thousands of design elements to make your invitation truly one of a kind and perfect for your event.
Ad Free Invitations
Unlike other services where you have to pay, all PurpleTrail invitations are ad free! There are no ads displayed to guests either in the email sent our on the event webpage. With PurpleTrail there will be no Weight Watchers ads next to your dinner invitations or alcohol ads on your daughter’s birthday party invitation!
Track Guest Responses
SYour invitation on PurpleTrail lets you track guest invitations and their responses. Not only can you see RSVP responses of Yes, Maybe or No, but you can also track when the web page was last visited by a particular guest. As guests RSVP Yes for your event, they can even tell you how many people will be attending and leave the names of those people so you can know exactly who will be at your event.



Full Address Book
With the Address Book on PurpleTrail, you can easily import your contacts from your current addressbook with other services. It can even detect duplicate entries remove them for you. Our address book even allows for easy organizing of contacts into groups, which makes sending your invitations simple and fast.
Build Consensus & Decide on Time/Place
PurpleTrail makes it easy to gather guest input and decide on a time and place for your event. Say good-bye to the mess of group email chains! As a host you can give your guests time and/or place options to vote on, and then finalize on the one that works best. Once you make the decision, you can easily send them a message that the event has been set and they can visit the webpage to RSVP.
Complete Invitation Control
After your invitation has been created, you can easily make changes to any part of the webpage. For example, you can change the time or place of your event, change the invitation design, or even hide the guest list. All your invitation settings are accessable on a manage invitation page visible only to the hosts of the event.

Fully Customizable Event Webpage
The webpage for you invitation is fully customizable. Choose from numerous modules and select those that fit your event needs. Some module options to choose from include a map of your event location, bring along list, ticketing and photos.
Sell Tickets
Need to sell tickets or collect money for your event? By adding ticketing to your invitation, you can easily collect money from guests as they visit the webpage to RSVP for your event.
Communicate with Guests
You can build excitement around your event by using the message board and adding event related photos and videos. As guests visit the event webpage they can leave public or private messages as well as see and share photos and videos. It is a great place to share with your guests both before and after the event.
Recurring Events
PurpleTrail makes it easy to create invitations for events that reoccur like meetings, clubs and classes. There are many options and you can specify when the invitations get sent out and make changes to the series of events at any time..
Post Your Invitation to Social Networks
Easily share your invitation with others by posting it to your favorite social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.