Beautiful designs. Ad-free Invites. Reliable delivery. Extensive event control. Super easy to use!
PurpleTrail – Is it ready for the challenge?
PurpleTrail is an online event management and planning service that helps you organize events – big and small. Evite has become synonymous with online invitations. It is a ten year old service that “sucks”, according to Wired and Time magazine! It has been accused of everything from spamming users with unwanted emails to being ad-choked and slow, not to mention the lack of improvements and new features. However, it is still used by 5 million people everyday in the United States alone. Read more on Wired and Time Magazine says evite sucks
Why online invitation management?
If you have ever hosted a party or an event with more than a few people in the guest list, you already know the answer to this question. Since most of our communication today has moved online, a tool designed to handle various event related work flows, from RSVP responses to guest reminders, has become a necessity.
PurpleTrail makes sending invitations,reminders and collecting responses easy and efficient. It also allows sharing of ideas and photos ,thus not to mention the cost savings of using such a tool. Read more on How to Invite
What’s special about PurpleTrail?
It is a ‘brand new’ way to organize and manage parties, get-togethers, events and meetings. It brings together some of the best features and experiences to help you easily manage your event. (link to how to get rsvp responses article)
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Create the perfect party invitation:
With PurpleTrail, clip-art based themes are a thing of the past. You can personalize your event the way you want it by choosing from hundreds of professionally designed, real photo-based, themes or rich animated designs. You can also upload your own pictures and create personalized designs for your events. In less than five minutes you can make a great looking event page and invite people in style.
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Reliable Invites using Delivery Central:
Using PurpleTrail’s ‘Delivery Central’ technology, you can now send invitations, reminders, and personal notes across multiple mediums, namely email, SMS, or social networks like Facebook. Delivery Central provides centralized messaging and ensures secure and reliable delivery of invitations. It offers a comprehensive set of event management and invitation tracking options that puts you squarely in the driving seat of your event. Delivery Central also enables you to easily track your invitations; which ones got delivered securely, when did the guests open them, when did they last view the event page, what is their current RSVP response, etc.
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Presence and Real Time Messaging Enabled :
PurpleTrail is the first ‘presence enabled’ invitation management service with Group messaging at it’s core. If that sounds geeky, think of it as a service that allows you to easily interact with the host and other guests in real-time for all the pre-event planning and excitement. You can see who is currently online and have a chat instantly or leave messages for later.
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Ad-free events:
PurpleTrail lets you send the invites to your event just the way you like it – without those pesky ads from weight-watchers, mortgage refinance etc.
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Mobile:
PurpleTrail is available for access using your mobile phone. You can keep track of RSVP updates, send messages, create and manage invitations and chat in real time with online guests. PurpleTrail invitations, reminders and alerts are also available over SMS and over mobile web browser.
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Easily manage contacts:
PurpleTrail makes it really easy for you to pick your contacts and send out your party invitations. You can do a one-time import of your address books from different communities like Yahoo!, Windows Live Messenger, Google and AIM. You can even upload your mobile phonebook using the PurpleTrail mobile application.
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Security and privacy:
All this comes with a strong commitment to your privacy and security. All of your passwords are encrypted and sent over a secured communication channel. You control your public profile and choose to show, hide or block events to anyone
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All event details on one page:
Every event in PurpleTrail gets a customized event page. From inviting guests to tracking who is coming and who is not, to sending reminders – your event page brings it all together.
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Share event photos from one place:
Using PurpleTrail, you and your guests can easily share photos and videos with everyone else without the hassles of email attachments.
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Receive Invitation Alert on your Mobile:
Receive event invitations, reminders and alerts on your mobile over text messages, or get full access to your events using your mobile device.
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Build Consensus for Time and Place:
PurpleTrail’s unique consensus module helps you to decide on place and time for your event. With PurpleTrail, say good-bye to the mess around group emails! Rich consensus building tools are part of all PurpleTrail events. As an organizer you have full control in deciding over what choices your guests can give suggestions or vote in helping you decide time and place.
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Post event experience – thank you notes, sharing & socialization:
PurpleTrail offers a complete post event experience. All event members can easily connect with other guests they met, send thank you cards and much more.
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Lots of other features like recurring events & reminders:
With PurpleTrail you can easily organize weekly or monthly events. Now you can easily set your event to repeat periodically, saving you valuable time and the hassle of creating multiple invitations.
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Easy updates on your Desktop widget:
You dont need to visit the website every time to keep track of your event. With PurpleTrail desktop widget you can get event updates and chat with online guests in real time.
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Red Carpet events:
We at PurpleTrail have built a world class online invitations service. The best in class interface makes sending and managing your event invitations easy. However, a good many of you need some extra customization for your very special event. This could include a custom design, sending and managing guest responses on your behalf and other custom requests. “Red Carpet Events” is your very own concierge service. We take care of the entire invitation process for you. For more details visit What are red Carpet events
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PurpleTrail for better tomorrow:
While we work hard towards our business goals, we never lose sight of our social goals. At PurpleTrail we are committed to leveraging our social, economic and human assets to make our world a better place. Every employee contributes 10% of his/her work time helping non-profit organizations with their event management (parties, fundraisers etc.) efforts.To see some of the sample events created using PurpleTrail visit Free Online Invitations gallery.
Some of the other features that make PurpleTrail the best in class Event management service are:
Partnership Program
We believe that there is immense value in combining complementary services together. To that end, we have built PurpleTrail from the ground-up with partnerships in mind, not to mention that we are always interested in making new friends. Some of the key partner benefits are:
- One stop event software solution with a very strong events and social interaction focused roadmap
- Extensive investments in understanding the market, research and engineering
- Flexible solutions & offerings for small institutions to big corporations
- Easily integrate with other systems using a rich API-set
- Dedicated team of engineers and product managers working on various aspects of the service
- Focused, proven management team with significant communication and community experience
About MangoSpring®
MangoSpring is a leading provider of group-centric communication and community software. Founded in 2007, MangoSpring is focused on building applications for groups of people – from helping them effectively communicate, to organizing, sharing and collaborating in new and better ways than ever before. MangoSpring product lines, PurpleTrail Events and MangoSpring Groups, are powered by the MangoSpring group communication and management platform – OpenMIG®.
MangoSpring’s worldwide headquarters is in Seattle, Washington and it’s EMEA headquarters is in Pune, India. For more information, visit the MangoSpring website at mangospring.com.
About PurpleTrail Events
PurpleTrail is an online event management and planning service that helps you organize events – big and small. As events are all about groups of people, PurpleTrail takes full advantage of MangoSpring’s group communication and management platform, OpenMIG®, to provide focused solution to home, professional and business segments. For more information, visit PurpleTrail Events at purpletrail.com.
For more information, visit http://purpletrail.com from your PC or http://m.purpletrail.com from your mobile phone.
