For hosts sending the invite themselves
The invitation goes out on WhatsApp, so the reply should follow it. Guests open the page your message links to, tap yes or no, and every answer lands on one list you can count.
When you text an invitation into a chat, WhatsApp can tell you one thing only: the message was sent. It cannot tell you who read it, who meant it, or who is quietly planning not to come. The reply has to live somewhere the message cannot reach, which is why an invitation on WhatsApp needs a page behind it.
The path is short. Your message opens an event page. The page carries a reply button. The button records an answer against a name. Nothing on that path asks the guest to compose a message, decide what wording is polite, or hope their reply is not buried under the voice notes that follow yours.
Chat replies feel free at the moment they arrive and cost dearly later:
A tapped reply is a completed record rather than a message to re-read:
Each answer appears on the guest list attached to a person, not lost in a thread. The list is the source of truth; the chat stays a chat.
You set how many guests may accompany each reply, so a yes carries its full party without quietly doubling the headcount.
If you offer meal choices, the guest picks one as they reply, and any allergy is written on the same entry the kitchen eventually reads.
Every event gets a single shareable address, and it travels as well as a photo or a voice note. Paste it into a group, send it privately, or put it in an SMS if some guests live off WhatsApp. However the message reaches people, the answers return to the same list, because the reply happens on the page rather than wherever the link was opened.
You can build the page yourself in the web app, or message Jitabi, our WhatsApp assistant, and describe the event as if texting a friend; it drafts the invitation for you. Add a password if the details are private, set a reply deadline the guests can see, and send the link when the draft is published.
How it works
Sign up free and build the page, or text Jitabi the date, place and occasion. Add the schedule, the directions and the reply question before you publish.
A draft stays invisible to guests until you publish, which is useful: you decide the exact moment the invitation becomes real, then copy the single address it lives at.
Send the link to the group or to each guest privately, with one warm line of your own. The page does the explaining; your message just opens the door.
Answers appear as rows with plus-ones and meals attached. When the deadline nears, the names still missing are one reminder away.
Questions
No. They open the link like any web address, see the invitation, and tap the reply button. There is no sign-up step between reading an invitation and answering it, which is precisely why reply rates survive contact with a group chat.
Then their answer lives in the chat and nowhere else. The list only counts replies made on the page, so most hosts smile, thank the guest, and point them to the link, which takes a tap and makes the answer count.
No. Delivery ticks prove a message arrived, and that is the end of what the chat can tell you. There are no open or click receipts on the invitation message. What you get is the reply list, which is the number you actually needed.
Yes, within the limit you set. Each reply can carry its party through the same button, and the guest list records the whole household together, so the headcount is honest before anyone asks at the door.
You can protect the page with a password and share it only with invited guests. Forwarded links then open a locked door rather than your venue details and schedule.
Get Started
Start free, build the invitation page once, and the next time you type details to follow, you send a link that answers itself.
