Short answer: open a free invitation maker such as RSVora, pick a design, type the event details, and share the link. Guests open it in a browser, tap yes or no, and you watch a live count of who is coming. It takes about a minute for a simple event, costs nothing at any guest count, and neither you nor your guests need to install anything.
Here is the whole thing, step by step.
1. Open the invitation maker
Go to RSVora and start a new event. You do not need an account to begin — you can design the invitation first and sign in only when you want to save it and send. Nothing is downloaded and nothing asks for a card.
2. Pick a design
Choose from the free catalogue or upload your own PNG, JPG or WebP. Two things worth knowing, because they are where other products charge:
- Every design is free. None is held back for a paid tier.
- Nothing is watermarked. Some free invitation makers put a small logo in the corner of free designs and charge to remove it. There is no mark to remove here.
If you would rather write your own wording onto the artwork, the design studio lets you type directly on the card, move the text, change the font and pick an opening effect for the envelope.
3. Add the event details
Fill in the essentials. The ones people forget most:
- The day of the week, not just the date. "Saturday, 12 September" rather than "9/12". Numeric dates get misread, and the weekday is a free error check.
- Whether food is a meal or snacks. "Cake and drinks at 3pm" and "dinner at 3pm" produce very different guests.
- Whether children are welcome. Parents will assume they are not if you do not say.
- An RSVP-by date. A deadline without a method is a wish; a method without a deadline gets ignored.
The address field autocompletes, so the venue is correct and a map and directions link appears inside the invitation for every guest.
4. Add your guests — or skip this entirely
You have two routes, and you can use both on the same event.
One public link. Skip the guest list and share a single link. Anyone who opens it can RSVP. This is the right answer for a group chat, a class WhatsApp, a team channel or a family thread, and it is how most invitations actually get sent now.
Private per-guest links. Type names, paste a list, or import from Google Contacts. Each guest gets their own unguessable link, so the dashboard can tell you exactly who replied and who has not.
5. Share it
Paste the link wherever your people already are — iMessage, WhatsApp, Messenger, email, a Slack channel. Or use the built-in text sending if you would rather RSVora deliver it.
Guests open the link and see the invitation, in their own browser language: the guest-facing page auto-translates into the language their device is set to. They tap yes or no, say how many adults and children are coming, and leave a note if they want to.
6. Watch the replies
The host dashboard gives you:
- Live yes / no / pending counts.
- Adults and children counted separately, which is the number you need for catering and seating.
- A sent and opened indicator per guest, so you can tell a non-reader from a non-replier.
- CSV export of the whole list.
- An automatic reminder on the RSVP-by date, so you are not the person chasing.
What this costs
Nothing, at any size. There is no paid tier, no per-guest price, no guest-count band, no subscription, no trial and no card on file. Your guests are shown no advertising and no gift guides.
That is unusual enough in this category to be worth stating plainly, because "free" elsewhere usually means ads on your guests' screen, a cap you will hit, or a watermark you have to buy off. There is a full breakdown in the best free Evite alternatives.
If you want to see it first
Browse invitations by occasion — birthdays, baby showers, weddings, graduations, holiday parties, dinners and about eighty more, each with matching designs — or just start one now and see how far you get in a minute.