Fairgather · Invitation Works Specimen No. 1 MMXXVI · First edition
CanonThe showing
PicaThe standfirst
Fairgather is invitation-first event management for schools, churches, nonprofits and teams. Beautiful pages your guests answer in two taps, private guest lists that stay yours, and one flat price for everything — no meters, no upgrade ambushes, no ads in front of your community.
NonpareilThe fine setting
Free tier · no card · guests never need an account · export everything, always
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Plate IFolio 03
Plate IShowings
A foundry shows a face at size, in context, with its name set beneath a rule. These are the surfaces Fairgather actually sets — the guest's card in two themes, and the pass that gets them through the door. Guests open a card, not a questionnaire, and reply in two taps.
Grace Community invites you
The Harvest Table
Saturday, October 3, 2026
at six o'clock in the evening
Fellowship Hall · 118 Ridge Road
Northfield SchoolRSVP by Sep 20
Back‑to‑School
Night
Dana Alvarez
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Plate IIThe case
A compositor's case holds every sort in its own compartment, and you can see at a glance what is in the tray. Here is everything the product does — not a teaser list with the good parts behind a plan.
Sort I · Event pages
Guests open a card — your name at the top, your colours, a date set in serif type — and reply in two taps. Themes for formal and modern occasions, always mobile-first, never an ad in sight.
Sort II · RSVP forms
Unlimited custom questions with conditional logic — the dietary question appears only for guests staying for dinner. Meal choices per attendee, party sizes, plus-ones. The logic is enforced on the server too, so the data stays clean.
Sort III · Guest lists
Drop in a CSV from anywhere — Excel, Google Sheets, or an RSVPify export — and households, tags, and plus-one allowances come through intact. Unlimited tags, instant filters, live statuses.
Sort IV · Waitlists
When your event fills, new yeses queue in strict first-come order. The moment a seat frees — a smaller party, a cancellation, a raised capacity — the next party that fits is promoted automatically and told the good news by email.
Sort V · Privacy
Turn on guest-list matching and guests must find their invitation by name or email before they can reply — a forwarded link is useless. Add an event password for another layer. Event pages are never indexed by search engines, and your guest list is never sold, shared, or used for ads.
Sort VI · Email
Send invitations and reminders to everyone, to non-responders only, or to a tag — now or scheduled. Every guest gets a personal link straight to their invitation. No monthly email credits, and an honest send journal instead of vanity metrics.
Sort VII · Embeds
One iframe tag drops the full reply flow — conditional questions, meals, waitlist and all — into your existing site. Included on every plan, including free — while other platforms reserve embedding for their paid tiers.
Sort VIII · Responses
Live seat counts, waitlist and response rate, meal tallies ready to forward, and every answer in one table. Export everything to CSV in one click, any time — your data is yours.
Sort IX · Check-in
Open the door scanner in any browser; no app to install, no per-event fee. Scan each guest's QR pass, or fuzzy-search the roster by name when a phone battery dies. Arrivals post to a live log that syncs across every device at once, walk-ins take one tap, and a scanner-only door role lets volunteers check guests in without ever seeing an email or phone number. Elsewhere, check-in is a paid add-on that meters how many guests you can scan.
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Plate IIITrial setting
No foundry sells a face on description alone; it pulls a proof. Below is the guest's reply, working — accept and the party and meal questions appear; say yes to dinner and the dietary question appears with it. This is the conditional logic, not a picture of it.
The composing room
From invitation to headcount in an afternoon.
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Title, time, place — then make it yours with themes, your colours, and your questions. A live preview shows exactly what guests will see.
2
Import any spreadsheet or add guests by hand. Send branded email invitations where every guest gets a personal one-tap link — or share the page and QR code anywhere.
3
Live counts, meal tallies, automatic waitlists, reminders for the quiet ones, and a one-click export when the caterer calls.
Set without a meeting
There is no demo call between you and this. Open an account at the counter, build the event, and send it. If you would rather see the finished article first, the live demo event takes a real reply from you right now.
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Plate IVIn service
i
Back-to-school nights, galas, reunions, admissions events — import the family directory once, tag by class year, and watch the headcount build itself.
ii
Holiday services, suppers, retreats, celebrations of life. Warm invitations your whole congregation can answer without creating an account.
iii
Donor dinners and fundraisers where the guest list is the whole point. Track VIPs with tags, cap the room, and let the waitlist handle the rush.
iv
Offsites, launches, holiday parties. Collect meal choices and headcounts without a spreadsheet — and without procurement paperwork.
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Plate VRates
Founding-partner rates for early-access organizations — locked in for as long as you stay. Every plan includes every feature; the only difference is how much you gather. No usage meters on any plan. No per-guest fees. No ads, ever.
Rate A
$0forever
For your first gathering — or your fiftieth small one.
No card. Opens immediately.
Rate B · Founding
$29/month
For organizations that gather all year.
Every account starts on Free. Pro is a switch inside the dashboard, not a sales call.
Rate C
$79one time
One big occasion, no subscription guilt.
Buy the single event once your date is set.
Founding rates are locked in for early-access organizations for as long as they stay subscribed. Final public pricing arrives at launch.
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Plate VIComparative
A comparative showing sets one passage in two faces so the difference is a matter of record rather than opinion. The essentials other platforms meter, gate, or reserve for enterprise contracts are simply included here — for a 30-guest supper or a 2,000-seat gala.
| Line | Fairgather | RSVPify |
|---|---|---|
| Embed the RSVP form on your site | Included, every plan | Paid plans only |
| On-site check-in & door scanning | Unmetered QR scanner, every plan | Plus plan — $125/mo add-on |
| Ads shown to your guests | Never | On all plans below Enterprise |
| Invitation & reminder emails | Unlimited | Metered credits, 100–5,000/mo |
| Guest tags & segments | Unlimited | Metered: 5–50 below Enterprise |
| Waitlist | Automatic, first-come promotion | Manual clone-the-event workaround |
| Conditional form logic | Included, answer-based | Professional plan — $409/mo |
| Export your data | Always, one click | Included |
| Guest-list matching | Included | Included |
Competitor details from rsvpify.com published plans and help documentation, July 2026. List prices; annual discounts available.
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Plate VIIThe cut
Almost nobody arrives at an event page from a search engine. They arrive because a volunteer pasted a link into a group text or a staff channel. So the link itself has to carry the invitation. Here is the card that unfurls, and the punch it is cut from.
Grace Community invites youFairgather
The Harvest Table
Saturday, October 3, 2026 · 6:00 PM · Fellowship Hall
Reply in two taps · no account needed
Where it lands
A group text, Tuesday evening
The Harvest Table — Grace Community
Saturday, October 3, 2026 · 6:00 PM · Fellowship Hall. Reply in two taps.
fairgather.com/e/WAjxIT99gwOV
The punch, at four bodies
One mark, cut so it survives being set at 16 px in a browser tab. The site ships no favicon today; this is the proposal, shown the way a foundry proves a punch — the same glyph at every body it must hold up at.
16 px
32 px
64 px
180 px · home screen
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Plate VIIIEndnotes
Set as the book's endnotes — every one open on the page. Nothing here is folded away behind a disclosure triangle, because a committee reads a printout.
There are no usage meters in Fairgather — no email credits, no tag limits, no check-in credits, no per-registration fees. The catch other platforms rely on is the upgrade ambush; our model is a simple flat price. Standard abuse protection (like sign-up rate limits) is the only ceiling.
Yes. Export your guest list from RSVPify and upload the CSV — names, emails, parties, tags, and plus-one allowances import in one step. Most lists take under a minute.
You do, unambiguously. Export everything to CSV any time. We never sell guest data, never show ads to your guests, and never use your lists to train anything.
Never. Guests open their link — from an email, a QR code, or your website — and reply in two taps. No downloads, no passwords, no account creation.
Event URLs are unguessable and never indexed by search engines. Turn on guest-list matching and only people on your list can reply; add an event password for another layer. Per-guest links from invitation emails go straight to a matched invitation.
The rates on plate V are our founding-partner rates, locked in for early-access organizations for as long as they stay subscribed. Final public pricing arrives at launch.
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Plate IXAt the counter
No enquiry form, no essay, no waiting to be let in. One live event, 150 guests, every feature, $0 — the free tier opens the moment you verify your email.
Sign up
Account opened
Verification sent to . Confirm it and the dashboard opens at dash.fairgather.com — no approval step, no sales call.
The first hour, itemised
The prices on plate V are the whole schedule. Free needs no card; Pro and Single event are bought inside the dashboard once your date is set — not through a form that asks you to describe your organization first.
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