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Events and RSVPs

Add an event to a newsletter and each reader answers Going or Not going from the email. You see who is coming, how many guests they bring and how many places are left.

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Create an event

  1. Open Newsletters, then Events, then New event.
  2. Give it a title, the list it belongs to, the date and time with its time zone, and a location.
  3. Optionally set the number of places, how many guests one answer may bring, when answers close, and one question such as dietary needs.

Each person going and each of their guests takes one place. Answers close at the time you set, when the event starts, or when you press Close answers. You can never lower the places below the number already taken.

Add it to a newsletter

In the newsletter editor, insert the Event block and choose the event. The block offers the events of the newsletter's list. The email shows the title, the date and time in the event's time zone, the location, the places left and two buttons, Going and Not going.

Each reader's buttons are their own. Opening one shows the event with the answer chosen; the answer is saved only when the reader presses Save my answer, so a mail scanner that opens links never answers for anyone. On the same page the reader adds guests and a note, changes their answer later, and adds the event to their calendar.

Public page

Turn on Public page to share a link with people who are not on your list. They give their name and email, then confirm their answer from an email Shipmail sends from your newsletter address. An answer takes a place only once it is confirmed, and if the event filled up in the meantime the confirmation says so.

An address that has already answered is never changed from the public page: it gets an email with a link to see or change its answer instead. Answering on the public page does not add anyone to your list. The page shows the places left, never who is coming.

Answers

The event's page lists every answer with the name, email, guests, note, where it came from and when. Export them as CSV. Answers waiting for confirmation are marked and hold no place.

Cancelling an event closes answers and shows it as cancelled on its pages and in newsletters sent afterwards. Nobody is emailed about it, so tell your readers in a newsletter.

In the API

Events are managed in the dashboard. A newsletter created or updated through the API, the SDKs, the CLI or MCP can show one with an event block that names its event_id. An event of another list or organization shows nothing.