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You should try out Lu.ma - it does all those things for free. I use it extensively for managing rsvps to both private and public events.

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I just signed up to try it out, but I don't see either of these features:

  - ability to set each invitee as an adult, a child or an infant
  - ability to group invitees into families, so that any adult in the family can edit the RSVP for any/all family members

1. Custom ticket types. 2. Group tickets I guess is the best version of this? As in you can add +1s to your ticket. Otherwise this is not something they provide.

Right, so AFAICT there's nothing free which provides the features for which I pay punchbowl.

What would be the use case for that? Do people really (want to) manage their RSVP in that much detail?

Otherwise, you have to choose: either you invite one adult from the household, but then the other may be unaware of the event details, or you invite both, but then you must rely on them to discover it to avoid a scenario where they both RSVP for themselves and a partner and a kid, and you end up double counting.

Invitee age group: - kids need less food than adults

- adults don't need nerf guns

- kids and adults have different drink preferences.

Ability to group invitees into families:

- whichever parent is 'in charge' of plans for that weekend can respond

- whichever parent realises there's a change of plans can edit one or more of the RSVPs

- often a family will accept/decline differently for different members, e.g. older sibling isn't interested, or one parent will run errands whilst the other is at the party

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