Event RSVP without an account: a private link for every guest
Updated September 15, 2026.
Banquette’s guest RSVP gives every guest of a private event their own private link, with no account and no password, where they answer yes or no, say how many seats they need, and leave one note for the kitchen that prints on the chef’s sheet.
It is the guest list end of private event software: one list, kept by the host and the office together, and every guest the house invites answers for themselves.
- Each guest RSVPs on a private link. No account, no password, no app.
- The guest sees the house, the event, the date and time, the venue, the seats held and the menu by course and dish.
- The guest answers yes or no, sets seats from 1 to 50, and leaves one note for the kitchen. They can change it up to the day of the event.
- The host sees that a guest left a note, never what it says. The printed kitchen sheet lists the note of every guest who has not declined.
- Not yet: per-guest meal choice, or seating named guests at tables.
- Included at Solo, $249 a month, and House, $499 a month.
How does a guest RSVP without an account?
The guest list starts on the host’s own page or in the office. The host pastes or types guests one per line — a name, an email if they have it, and seats if the line covers more than one — and the office sees the same list; see the host’s private page. The house then sends the invitations. The office emails each guest with an address on the list a link of their own, /rsvp/<token>, from a banquette.events address under the house’s name, and a reply to that email reaches the member of staff who sent it. If an email does not go out, the office is handed that guest’s link to share by hand.
The guest opens the link in any browser and answers. To change the answer, they open the same link again, up to the day of the event.
What does the guest see?
| On the RSVP page | What it shows |
|---|---|
| The house | The house’s name |
| The event | The event’s name, the date and the start time |
| The venue | Where the party is held |
| Seats | How many seats are held for this guest |
| The menu | Course labels and dish names; no prices, no descriptions |
If the party is called off, the page says so and asks nothing. The menu is the party’s own record, the same one the kitchen sheet prints, shown as it stands; how the kitchen approves a party’s menu is in the two-chef menu signatures.
What does the guest answer?
| Question | The answer |
|---|---|
| Coming? | Yes or no |
| Seats | From 1 to 50 |
| “Anything the kitchen should know” | One free-text note, saved when attending |
That is the whole form. A guest bringing a partner sets two seats; a shellfish allergy is written once, in the guest’s own words.
Who reads the dietary note?
| Who | What they see of the note |
|---|---|
| The guest | Their own note, and they can change it |
| The host | Only that the guest told the kitchen something |
| The house’s staff | The full text, from any staff seat |
| The kitchen sheet | Each note from a guest who has not declined, with the party’s menu |
The host sees who is attending, who has declined and who has yet to answer, but the server strips each note’s text before it reaches the host’s browser.
What reaches the kitchen?
The kitchen sheet for the date, printed from the house’s own book: each party’s menu, the count to cook to, and the dietary note of every guest who has not declined, with ruled lines for the chef’s pen. The count is the guaranteed count once the office has set one, otherwise the expected count, and the sheet says whether it is locked. Replies do not move it; the office sets the number. More in the BEO and the print-first kitchen sheets.
Does it work for a wedding RSVP with dietary restrictions?
For who is coming, how many seats, and what the kitchen must know, yes. The couple keeps the list on their own page, with no login. It will not take each guest’s entrée or seat guests by name. More in wedding venue software.
What doesn’t guest RSVP do?
- No per-guest meal choice. Guests read the party’s menu; they do not choose from it. The kitchen’s counts do not use per-guest pre-orders.
- No seating assignment. Tables are laid out from the guest count and print as a setup sheet, but no named guest is assigned to a table, and there are no place cards.
- No other questions. No custom questions and no structured allergy checklist.
- No answering for someone else. The host can add and remove guests but cannot reply on a guest’s behalf or send the invitations; the house sends them.
- No payments. Banquette processes no payments, from guests or from hosts.
How private is the RSVP link?
The database keeps only a SHA-256 digest of each link. A re-sent invitation retires the old link, and so does taking the guest off the list or changing their email address. A wrong, retired or expired link opens a plain 404 page. After the event day the link takes no more answers, and it expires 30 days after the event. The RSVP page sets no cookies. Dietary notes are not encrypted beyond the database’s defaults. More in Banquette’s privacy policy.
How do other event platforms handle guest RSVPs?
From the vendors’ own pages, checked September 15, 2026.
- Planning Pod has guests RSVP on the event webpage by typing their first and last name, which is matched against the attendee list, and they return the same way to change their answers; its help center describes no guest account. A venue can put one shared password on the whole event webpage. Only people already on the list can reply. Its RSVP forms can offer meal choices and custom text or multiple-choice questions, and support plus-ones and replies for a whole group — more than Banquette’s form asks. See Banquette and Planning Pod, compared.
- Tripleseat keeps guest lists and seating charts in Floorplans by Tripleseat, where clients build seating charts on the venue’s floor plan and export guest and catering information. See Banquette and Tripleseat, compared.
- Perfect Venue documents no attendee RSVP flow on its website or on help.perfectvenue.com. Its Enterprise-only Pre-Event Questionnaire asks the booking client for details such as the final guest count and dietary restrictions. See Banquette and Perfect Venue, compared.
- SevenRooms captures dietary and preference data from each reservation into the booker’s guest profile; its public pages do not describe RSVP pages for the attendees of a private event. See Banquette and SevenRooms, compared.
- At golf and country clubs, Jonas Club Software’s online event calendar lets members register themselves, other members and guests, with event questions such as meal choice and dietary restrictions. See golf club event management software.
Sources: Planning Pod, collecting RSVPs; Planning Pod, password protection; Planning Pod, the attendee list; Floorplans by Tripleseat, for planners; Perfect Venue, Pre-Event Questionnaire; SevenRooms, reservations; SevenRooms, events and experiences; Jonas Club Software, event management.
Questions about guest RSVPs
Does a guest need an account, a password or an app to RSVP?
No. Each guest gets a private link of their own. It opens in any browser, phone included, and the answer saves with no account, no password and no app.
Can guests tell the kitchen about allergies and dietary restrictions?
Yes, in one free-text note, “Anything the kitchen should know”, saved when the guest is attending. The printed kitchen sheet lists each note under the guest’s name with the party’s menu, for every guest who has not declined.
Can the host read what a guest wrote to the kitchen?
No. The host sees only that a guest told the kitchen something. The server removes the text before it reaches the host’s browser; staff at the house read it, and the kitchen sheet prints it.
Can guests choose their own entrée on the RSVP?
Not yet. Guests read the party’s menu by course and dish, but the form asks for no meal choice, and the kitchen’s counts do not use per-guest pre-orders.
Does the RSVP seat guests at tables?
No. Banquette lays out tables from the guest count and prints a setup sheet, but it does not assign named guests to tables or print place cards.
Does a decline lower the guest count?
No. Replies tell the host and the office who is coming, but the count the kitchen cooks to stays the office’s number: the guaranteed count once the office has set one, otherwise the expected count.
Who sends the invitations?
The house. The office emails each guest with an address on the list their own link, from a banquette.events address under the house’s name, and replies go to the staff member who sent it. If an email does not go out, the office is handed that guest’s link to share by hand. The host can add guests but cannot send invitations or answer for a guest.
A client portal with no login, where the host keeps the guest list.
The event order and the print-first sheet where each attending guest’s note lands.
The couple’s own page, per-guest RSVPs and the payment schedule, on one book.
Flat monthly, per property: Solo is $249 and House is $499.