davidfcarr

RSVPMaker is an event and email marketing tool. Use PayPal or Stripe to collect event payments. RSVPMaker handles scheduling, event marketing, and RSVP tracking. You can send email to small lists through your web server or take advantage of the integrations with Postmark and Mailchimp to scale up.
When implemented in combination with Postmark for reliable email delivery, RSVPMaker can function as an alternative to Mailchimp or MailPoet that allows you to format messages in the WordPress editor and easily incorporate events (for invitations) and blog posts or excerpts from posts (for email newsletters and promotions).
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Use RSVPMaker to: 
– Schedule and promote events of all sorts: conferences, classes, seminars, speaking events, parties and weddings are a few common uses. 
– Register attendees, prompting them to enter whatever information you need, including the names of guests. 
– Collect money using PayPal or Stripe. 
– Create webinars and other online events leveraging free resources like the YouTube Live service. 
– Create, format, and edit email newsletters within the WordPress block editor, rather than learning another content composer tool. Use dynamic blocks or shortcodes to incorporate dynamic content like lists of recent blog posts or upcoming events. 
– Power membership-oriented websites with tools for emailing all your members or just those who have or have not registered for a specific event. 
– Send email using your own web server, an SMTP plugin or the integrations with Mailchimp and Postmark. 
– Postmark integration has the advantage of supporting both broadcast / mailing list and transactional messages (like RSVP Confirmations).
<h3>Creating and Managing Events</h3>
RSVPMaker events are created and edited just like blog posts in the WordPress editor, with the addition of parameters like event date (so the items can be listed chronologically and displayed on a calendar grid).
Explore the editing experience with this <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https%3A%2F%2Fquickplayground.com%2Fwp-json%2Fquickplayground%2Fv1%2Fblueprint%2Frsvpmaker_editing%3Fx%3D1768757330%26user_id%3D1%252" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Playground demo</a> (created using the author’s Quick Playground plugin)
You can use RSVPMaker for event announcements, or turn on the Collect RSVPs function and set additional options for sending email notifications, customizing confirmation and reminder messages, and setting a price or prices if you will be requesting online payments via PayPal.
RSVP reports can be viewed on the administrator’s dashboard or downloaded as spreadsheets.
If you hold events on a recurring schedule, such as First Monday or Every Friday, you can define a template with the boilerplate details and quickly generate multiple entries that follow that schedule. Individual event posts can still be customized. For example, you might book a series of monthly events for the year and add the names of speakers or agenda details as you go along.
The RSVP Mailer tool allows you to use the familiar WordPress editor to format email newsletters and promotional messages, which can include embedded events and other dynamic content from your website. You use the same tools to format transactional messages such as confirmation and reminder messages.
<h3>Hosting and Support</h3>
RSVPMaker is a free plugin that doesn’t hold much back in terms of “premium” features.
The plugin author is available to consult on customizations, but most generally useful enhancements are folded back into the core plugin code. RSVPMaker also aims to be developer-friendly, allowing you to build event-centric applications on top of it.
Hosting and support of pre-configured websites is available through <a href="https://rsvpmaker.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">RSVPMaker.com</a>. RSVPMaker.com uses Siteground hosting behind the scenes and Postmark for reliable delivery of email newsletters and transactional messages.
<a href="mailto:david@rsvpmaker.com?subject=RSVPMaker Postmark customizations" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact the plugin author</a> for details about additional customizations for reselling Postmark services across WordPress multisite networks.
<a href="https://rsvpmaker.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">RSVPMaker.com</a> 
<a href="https://github.com/davidfcarr/rsvpmaker" rel="nofollow ugc">RSVPMaker on GitHub</a>
Free Extensions:
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/rsvpmaker-for-toastmasters" rel="ugc">RSVPMaker for Toastmasters</a> provides meeting management for public speaking and leadership development clubs that are part of Toastmasters International.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/rsvpmaker-volunteer-roles/" rel="ugc">RSVPMaker Volunteer Roles</a> Sign up people to fill specific roles at an event.
Translations (some may be out of date):
German: Markus König, Björn Wilkens
Dutch: Els van der Zalm
Spanish: Andrew Kurtis, <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebHostingHub</a>
Polish: Jarosław Żeliński
Norwegian: Thomas Nybø
Turkish: Göksel UÇAK
Thank you!
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<h3>Credits</h3>
<pre><code>RSVPMaker
Copyright (C) 2010-2023 David F. Carr

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

See the GNU General Public License at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.

RSVPMaker also includes code derived from the software development kits for PayPal, 
Stripe, MailChimp, and Postmark under the license of their creators.
</code></pre>

RSVPMaker

Event and email marketing. Register guests and collect payment by PayPal or Stripe. Send invitations and newsletters.

giffordcheung

This plugin allows you to add RSVP and guestlist functionality to your WordPress site. It tracks RSVPs for ceremony and banquet. Additionally, guests can leave custom messages for the planners. The guestlist is maintained with a Google Docs spreadsheet which is very easy to use.
It was originally designed to be a wedding guestlist that I made for a friend (congratulations to Mike & Di!).
Features Bulletlist:
<ul>
<li>Customizable RSVP page</li>
<li>Connects to Google Docs Spreadsheet for guestlist</li>
<li>Planners can write custom messages to guests</li>
<li>Guests can send custom message to planners</li>
<li>Email updates are sent to the planner</li>
<li>Wedding features: Records responses for Ceremony, Banquet, or Hotel Reservations</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known issue</h3>
Guest codes are not case sensitive.
<h3>Instructions</h3>
<ol>
<li>Using a Google account, create a new Spreadsheet at docs.google.com</li>
<li>The spreadsheet must have the following 7 headers: Guest Name, Code, Custom Message for Guest, Ceremony, Banquet, Message from Guest, Hotel</li>
<li>Fill in the guestlist with names, codes, and an optional custom message. Make sure the code is not guessable, for example: short numeric codes are probably a bad idea. A nosy guest might punch in random numbers and see guest information.</li>
<li>Download, unzip, upload, and activate your plugin. </li>
<li>In your WordPress site, go to “Settings->Google Docs RSVP” and follow the step-by-step instructions on the page, and fill in the other information (Google Docs title and sheet, etc.).</li>
<li>Create a new wordpress Page and put the text: gdrsvp-googledocsrsvp in the content box. The plugin will replace it with the RSVP code.</li>
<li>Now, guests can type in a code and fill out the reservation form, which will send an email to you and update the spreadsheet. Note: Once guests have filled out the form, their RSVP code is no longer usable.</li>
</ol>
Thank you! Good luck with your planning efforts. Remember to allow guests to contact you in other ways in case of digital emergencies.
We look forward to any comments. If there is a good response, we may incorporate your suggestions into the next version.
This code is released under GPLv3. If you create a new version of this plugin, let us know and we may link to it.
Thanks!

Google Docs RSVP, WordPress Plugin

This plugin allows you to add RSVP and guestlist functionality. Guests can leave custom messages for the planners. Uses Google Docs spreadsheets.

RSVPMaker vs Google Docs RSVP, WordPress Plugin