Why PurpleTrail has the best free online Invitations and event planning ideas

Top reasons why you should use PurpleTrail to plan your events

For the home segment, Evite has become synonymous with online invitations. However, according to Wired and Time magazine, it sucks!. It has been accused of everything from spamming users with unwanted emails to being ad-choked, outdated and slow. PurpleTrail is aimed at addressing the gaps in the online event planning and management space and is designed to be, just like the iPhone, a pleasure to use.

What Makes PurpleTrail Truly Unique and Special

PurpleTrail is a brand new way to organize and manage parties, get-togethers, events and meetings. With its fresh perspective, PurpleTrail brings together some of the best features and experiences to help you easily manage your event.

Reliable Invites using Delivery Central

Using PurpleTrail's "Delivery Central" technology, you can send invitations, reminders, and personal notes across multiple mediums, namely email, print, SMS, voice and social networks like Facebook. Delivery Central provides centralized messaging and ensures secure and reliable delivery. 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 and what is their current RSVP response.

Presence Enabled Invitation Management

PurpleTrail is the first "presence enabled" invitation management service with group messaging at its core. If that sounds too 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. You and your guests can even create smaller groups in real-time to hold smaller, more private group conversations.

Easily build consensus for your event and decide on a place and time

PurpleTrail's unique consensus module helps you decide on place and time for your event. 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 over what guests can vote on including allowing your guests to suggest new options themselves if existing options don't work for them.

Rich Desktop and Mobile applications

You don’t need to visit the website every time to keep track of your event. PurpleTrail is available for download on your desktop or your mobile phone. With the PurpleTrail desktop and mobile widgets, you can get event updates, and chat with online guests in real time. Both the desktop and mobile applications are available for download for both the host and the guests. PurpleTrail invitations, reminders and alerts are also available over SMS and using the mobile web browser (m.purpletrail.com).

With PurpleTrail, you can personalize your invite the way you want it by choosing from hundreds of professionally designed, real photo-based designs.

With PurpleTrail you can personalize your event the way you want it by choosing from hundreds of professionally designed, real photo-based, themes.

Advertisements have no place in your invite

Nothing is more annoying to a host than a WeightWatchers or a mortgage refinance advertisement right next to their thanksgiving invite. PurpleTrail lets you send the invites to your event just the way you like it – without those pesky ads. Both your invitation page and the invite emails are completely free of ads.

Some of the other features that make PurpleTrail Home the best in class event management service are:

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 in one place.

Easy address book import with duplicate detection

Using our SmartAddressbook technology, inviting your friends is a snap. You can easily import your address books from different communities like eVite, Yahoo!, MSN, Google and AIM. You can even upload contacts from your mobile phone using the PurpleTrail mobile application. To keep things clean and organized in your account, duplicates are automatically detected and removed.

Comprehensive invite management & status tracking

From tracking your invitations delivery status to when someone opened them, to sending reminders and creating recurring events, PurpleTrail has the most comprehensive set of features to help you create and manage your event effectively.

Always stay connected using your mobile phone

As an event organizer you can be in complete control of your event, even when on the go. Visit m.PurpleTrail.com on your mobile phone for full access to your events. You can also download a mobile application that gives you fast and easy access to your event from your phone.

Recurring events & reminders

With PurpleTrail you can easily organize weekly or monthly events. You can set your event to repeat periodically, saving you valuable time and the hassle of creating multiple invitations.

Share event photos from one place

Most digital cameras today take high resolution photos which are at least a few MBs in size. Sending them as attachments over email is a slow and laborious process. PurpleTrail allows you to upload your photos in original resolution so that all your event guests can view and download them from the event page in its original form and clarity.

Easy updates on your desktop widget

You don’t need to visit the PurpleTrail website every time to keep track of your event. With our desktop widget, you can chat with your guests and get all event updates in real time.

Rich post event experience including thank you notes

We believe that a party only begins with invitations and the better ones are remembered for a long, long time. Still the best ones are those that become traditions and lead to many more happy times! PurpleTrail offers a complete host of features that make your post event experience a pleasure. Your guests can connect with each other after the party is over, share pictures, send thank you cards and record their fond memories in many more such ways.

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. Your guest list is yours only! We do not give or sell email addresses to anyone.

Lots of other features

We realize that your events are important to you and we work hard to make them successful. From tracking your invitations delivery status to when someone opened them, to sending reminders and creating recurring events, PurpleTrail has the most comprehensive set of features to help you create and manage your event effectively.

Finally, we work hard to address your needs. You don't see a theme you like? No problem! Just send us an email and we will make a theme just for you. Don't see a feature you want? Again, just let us know and we will make it available as soon as possible. Have questions you need answered? No problem! Chat with one of us directly using our Talk to us, Live! widget. To borrow a famous quote, "We try harder because we are not #1".

Give PurpleTrail Home a try! You will be glad that you did.

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