Greenvelope and RSVPify approach the same job from opposite directions. Greenvelope is an invitation platform first: a designed card opens from an animated envelope, with RSVP tracking, custom questions, meal choices, a seating tool, and reminders included with a mailing at a one-time price set by guest count. RSVPify is a registration platform first: a form and event page built for conditional questions, linked secondary events, ticketing, and door check-in, sold as subscription plans with usage limits, with ticketing priced separately per ticket. Choose Greenvelope when the invitation itself and a low-friction reply matter most. Choose RSVPify when registration logic, ticket sales, or check-in operations drive the event. Both serve weddings and corporate events; the workflow decides, not the occasion.
Set Greenvelope vs RSVPify or RSVPify vs Greenvelope side by side and the questions are the same: who sees which questions, where the seating chart lives, what a ticketed event costs, and what guests must do to reply.
About this comparison: it is written and published by Greenvelope. Claims for both platforms were checked against each company's product pages and help documentation in late September 2026, with plan requirements stated beside the features they gate, and undocumented capabilities called out as such.
Greenvelope vs. RSVPify at a Glance
| Requirement |
Greenvelope |
RSVPify |
| Invitation design and presentation |
Designer card in an animated envelope; edit wording, fonts, preset colorways, and envelope options, or upload artwork |
Email invitation and event pages in your own colors, fonts, and logo |
| Custom RSVP questions |
Four formats (dropdown, radio, checkbox, write-in), included with every mailing |
Multiple formats; listed as unlimited on paid plans |
| Group-specific questions and conditional logic |
Questions set per mailing; groups get separate invitation mailings rather than in-form logic |
Tag-based visibility on business Professional; answer-based branching on Enterprise |
| Multiple-event workflows |
Sub-event checkbox question on one RSVP; separate invitations are separate mailings |
Linked secondary events with their own RSVPs, capped by plan |
| Seating charts |
Floor plan with table shapes and sizes; manual or automatic table assignment, included |
Tables or individual seats with meal data in view; exportable and printable, on paid plans |
| Meal selections and dietary answers |
Per-guest meal and dietary answers saved to guest records |
Per-guest menu selections synced to the guest list and seating chart |
| Guest-list and response exports |
Excel or CSV export of guest list, RSVPs, and answers at any time |
Guest and registration data exports to CSV |
| Ticketing and donations |
On Business accounts; 1% platform fee plus Stripe processing |
$0 per month; 1.95% plus $0.90 per ticket, processing separate, fees passable to buyers |
| Onsite check-in |
Companion iOS and Android app; ticket scanning on ticketed Business-account events |
From business Plus up: QR scanning, badge printing in beta, kiosk on higher tiers |
| Email, text, and shared-link delivery |
Native email and text in supported countries, plus shareable link and QR; paid accounts start with 500 texts |
Native email metered by monthly credits; link and QR sharing; texting via a Zapier integration |
| Guest account requirement |
None; personalized invitation link, or identifying details on a shared link |
None documented; optional event or invitee passwords control access |
| Pricing model |
One-time price per mailing by guest-list size, from $19 for up to 20 guests; optional annual memberships |
$0 plan up to 100 guests, then monthly or yearly plans with usage limits; separate ticketing pricing |
Invitation Design and What Guests Receive
The first difference a guest notices is what lands in their inbox. A Greenvelope invitation arrives as a designed card that opens from an animated envelope, with liner, stamp, and optional music, ahead of the event details and reply form. Hosts pick from a collection by independent artists or upload finished artwork as a JPG, PNG, or PDF, then adjust wording, fonts, preset colorways, and envelope options; artwork changes are handled by an optional design service.
RSVPify's presentation centers on the registration experience. Hosts build an email invitation and an event website in their own colors, fonts, and logo, and higher business plans reduce or remove RSVPify's branding. An event website with schedule, travel, and FAQ pages is genuinely useful for a logistics-heavy event, but it is a different artifact from an animated invitation: a place guests visit rather than correspondence guests open. Greenvelope attaches event details and links to the invitation itself rather than publishing a standalone site; hosts who want a full event website pair it with a separate site or use RSVPify's builder.
RSVP Forms, Conditional Logic, and Multiple Events
Can Greenvelope and RSVPify show different RSVP questions to different guest groups? Yes, but through different machinery, and the difference matters more than any other row.
Custom questions on the reply form
Greenvelope custom questions sit on the RSVP page, appearing after a guest answers yes or no, in four formats: dropdown, radio button, checkbox, and write-in, per Greenvelope's custom questions documentation. Every answer saves to that guest's record, the toolkit is included with every mailing, and Greenvelope labels these Survey Questions in the editor; the guide to adding custom questions to an online RSVP walks through each format. RSVPify also supports custom questions in multiple formats, listed as unlimited on its paid plans.
Who sees which question
Collecting information is not the same as controlling who is asked. Greenvelope sets custom questions at the mailing level, so the documented route for asking different groups different things is a separate invitation mailing per group from one tagged address book, each with its own questions and tracking; that is segmentation across sends, not conditional display inside one form. RSVPify builds that targeting into one form: on the business Professional plan, tag logic shows questions, or invite-only secondary events, only to invitees carrying the right tag; branching on a previous answer is listed on Enterprise. Neither is documented on RSVPify's personal plans, so a wedding host wanting tag-driven visibility is looking at business pricing.
Three concrete cases
Three requirements at one hypothetical event show where each line falls. First, every guest selects an entree: both handle this natively, Greenvelope with a per-guest meal question, RSVPify with menu selections tied to each named guest. Second, only VIP guests see a question about a private reception: Greenvelope's host sends the VIP list its own invitation mailing carrying that question; RSVPify's host tags those invitees and uses Professional-plan tag logic. Third, guests who request transportation see a follow-up asking for a pickup location: that is answer-dependent branching, listed on RSVPify's Enterprise plan; Greenvelope's closest routes are a pickup question shown to everyone or a targeted follow-up to the guests who said yes.
One form or several events
Asking about several activities in one reply differs from running several tracked events. Greenvelope's documented wedding-weekend pattern is a checkbox question listing the rehearsal dinner, ceremony, reception, or brunch; guests mark the parts they will attend, and the host pulls a headcount for any part from one guest list. When each activity needs its own invitation, timing, and tracking, each becomes its own invitation mailing from the same address book; an annual membership makes a season of mailings economical, but each is its own tracked send. RSVPify handles linked activities as secondary events inside one registration, each with its own RSVP, the count capped by plan; restricting one to selected invitees uses the tag logic above. Deadlines, reminders, and reply questions are covered in the complete guide to collecting RSVPs online.
Seating Charts, Meal Choices, and Exports
Do Greenvelope and RSVPify include seating charts connected to the RSVP guest list? Both do, natively.
Greenvelope's seating tool lives in the Track step next to the RSVP dashboard, per Greenvelope's seating chart documentation. The Floor Plan tab lays out tables with adjustable shapes and sizes; Assign Tables places guests manually, with filters like company or tag, or automatically with couples and families kept together; Assignments lists every table for review. Assignments are to tables rather than numbered seats, and the guest list exports with RSVPs and every answer to Excel or CSV at any time; name tags generate from the same list.
RSVPify's seating chart maker syncs with the guest list in real time, including plus-ones, groups, and meal preferences, and its documented range is wider: tables or individual numbered seats, open-seating sections, meal and dietary notes visible inside the chart, and a finished chart that exports and prints with seat numbers and guest details, per RSVPify's seating chart page. Separate charts cover different sessions, and RSVPify states the tool is included with its paid plans.
Either way the loop is the same: a guest replies and picks a meal, the answer lands on their record, seating happens against those records, and the caterer gets a handoff, whether an exported guest list with tables and meals or a printed chart. In one hypothetical case, a reply from the Alvarez household, one chicken and one vegetarian entree plus a nut allergy in a write-in answer, becomes two guest records the host seats together and hands the caterer with totals counted. For how six tools handle this loop, see the best online RSVP tools for meal choices.
Corporate Dinners, Ticketed Galas, and Onsite Operations
A corporate dinner
Most corporate dinners are not conferences: the list is known, nobody buys a ticket, and the job is a branded send, a firm headcount, and reminders that run themselves. Greenvelope covers that on a standard mailing, with company artwork or a designed template carrying the logo, per-guest delivery status on email and text sends, reminders that go only to guests who have not replied, and a documented capacity limit setting; the corporate event RSVP tracking guide walks the loop. Both platforms document Salesforce integrations: Greenvelope's Salesforce integration imports campaign contacts and syncs RSVPs back to campaign member statuses; RSVPify lists Salesforce and HubSpot as paid native integrations. RSVPify fits the same dinner when the organizer wants an intranet-embedded registration form (a Professional-plan feature) or tag-driven questions.
A ticketed nonprofit gala
A ticketed gala adds requirements: ticket tiers, donations at checkout, capacity control, and a fast door. Greenvelope sells tickets and items and collects donations on Business accounts, at a 1% platform fee plus Stripe processing on paid transactions, with no fee on $0 tickets and no fee to process refunds, per Greenvelope's ticketing and donations documentation. RSVPify prices ticketed events with no monthly subscription at 1.95% plus $0.90 per ticket or donation, card processing separate and fees passable to buyers. Greenvelope's percentage is lower; RSVPify's fee comes with published multi-tier ticketing, capacity tools, and unlimited registrations, so the arithmetic depends on ticket price and volume. Donations at registration are exactly that on both; neither is a fundraising CRM with recurring giving, auctions, or tax receipts.
At the door
Greenvelope's Onsite Check-In can be turned on for any event and pairs with a companion iOS and Android app, scans tickets for ticketed Business-account events, and keeps a live summary of attendance, tickets, and payments, with follow-up filters, per Greenvelope's check-in documentation. RSVPify's check-in suite runs from the business Plus plan up: QR scanning from any device, check-in credits by plan, badge printing in beta, and a kiosk on Enterprise and ticketed events. On-arrival badge printing is a different operation from advance name tags, and RSVPify is the one that documents it.
Sending Invitations and the Guest Experience
Both platforms send email natively. Greenvelope also sends by text where the recipient's number is in a supported country; paid accounts include an initial 500 text messages, with more available to purchase, per Greenvelope's messaging documentation; email and text sends carry per-guest delivery status. A mailing can also generate a shareable link and QR code; the shared link is a registration URL, not a personalized recipient card. RSVPify does not offer built-in text delivery: RSVPify's help center states it has no integrated SMS solution and points to its Zapier integration with SMS providers instead; hosts can also text the event URL manually. That works as a separate setup with its own account and costs. RSVPify meters email with monthly credits, one per recipient per campaign.
Both platforms schedule reminders. Greenvelope's RSVP reminders go only to contacts who have not yet responded; separate event reminders go to confirmed attendees. RSVPify sends automated event reminders and, on qualifying plans, custom reminders with audience segmentation. Delivery and open tracking differ by channel on both.
Neither platform requires a guest account. A Greenvelope guest taps a personalized invitation link associated with the invited guest or household and replies in the browser; through a shared link, guests enter identifying details, such as a name, and the response records under those details. RSVPify guests reply through the event page in a browser too; invite-only events check respondents against the host's invite list, and event or invitee passwords on qualifying plans control access; a password or lookup is an access control, not an account.
Pricing: Per Mailing vs. Per Month
The two models measure different things, so a single-number comparison misleads. Greenvelope charges per mailing: single mailings start at $19 for a guest list of up to 20 people, with pricing based on list size and no subscription required, and verified tiers include $99 for a mailing of up to 100 guests and $249 for up to 250, with every feature above included except Business-account ticketing. Optional annual memberships cover unlimited mailings for a year with a guest cap per mailing, for example $125 per year for mailings of up to 50 guests. The full tier table and memberships live in the guide to how much Greenvelope costs.
RSVPify charges by plan and time, and registrations, invited guests, email credits, and tickets are four different units. On RSVPify's current pricing, personal plans run from a $0 plan for events up to 100 guests to Gold for up to 300 guests and Platinum for up to 500, with yearly options at $72 and $108; monthly base prices vary by event type. Business plans run from Starter at $39 per month ($288 billed yearly, presented as $24 per month) through Plus at $125 and Professional at $409 per month, each capping monthly registrations, invited guests per event, and email credits, with tag logic on Professional and answer-based logic on Enterprise.
On Greenvelope, the total moves with the guest list, plus extras such as text blocks or Business-account payment fees. On RSVPify, it moves with the plan tier the needed features sit on and the billing period chosen, monthly or yearly. One worked example: a 100-guest wedding invitation mailing is $99 on Greenvelope, one time; the RSVPify total for the same wedding depends on the plan that covers the needed features and its event-type pricing rather than on guest count. Neither platform is simply cheaper; run your own event through both pricing pages, and keep transaction fees in the math for ticketed events.
Which Fits Your Event?
Three hypothetical events show where the decision gets made.
A 120-person wedding with plated meals, households, and table assignments needs per-guest meal answers, family grouping, and seating; both platforms provide all three. On Greenvelope the couple sends a designed suite from the wedding invitation collection, collects entree choices per guest with households on one envelope, assigns tables with linked contacts together, and pays once; a 120-guest list falls between the verified $99 tier for up to 100 guests and the $199 tier for up to 200, with tiers stepping every 20 guests. If the plan depends on numbered seats or a chart printed straight from the tool, RSVPify's seating goes further, on a paid plan.
A corporate dinner with employees, clients, and a VIP reception turns on audience-specific visibility. With segments known up front, Greenvelope handles it as three mailings from one address book, each with its own questions and tracking, priced once per mailing. For one registration flow that shows the reception question only to tagged VIPs, that is RSVPify tag logic on the Professional plan at $409 per month or $3,588 per year, easiest to justify for teams running events all year.
A ticketed nonprofit gala with donations and onsite check-in is decided by ticket operations. RSVPify's no-subscription ticketing, tier and capacity tools, unlimited registrations, and included check-in are built for exactly this. Greenvelope runs the same gala on a Business account at the lower 1% platform fee, with donations on the RSVP page, ticket scanning in the check-in app, and the invitation arriving as a designed envelope rather than a form, sent from the nonprofit invitation collection. A modest donor dinner with no ticket sales may need neither ticketing stack, just a tracked RSVP and a firm headcount.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the main difference between Greenvelope and RSVPify?
Greenvelope is invitation-first: a designed card delivered by email or text, with RSVP tracking, custom questions, meal choices, and a seating tool included at a one-time price per mailing set by guest count. RSVPify is registration-first: a form and event page with tag-based logic, linked secondary events, ticketing, and check-in, sold as monthly or yearly plans with usage limits plus separate per-ticket pricing.
Can Greenvelope and RSVPify show different RSVP questions to different guest groups?
Yes, through different machinery. On Greenvelope, custom questions are set per mailing, so hosts send each group its own invitation mailing with its own questions and tracking; that is segmentation, not in-form logic. RSVPify can show questions, or invite-only secondary events, based on an invitee's tag on its business Professional plan, and answer-based branching is listed on its Enterprise plan.
Do Greenvelope and RSVPify include built-in seating charts?
Both do. Greenvelope's seating tool sits beside the RSVP dashboard: build a floor plan with adjustable table shapes and sizes, then assign tables manually or automatically with linked contacts kept together. RSVPify's seating chart maker, included on its paid plans, assigns tables or individual seats, shows meal selections in the chart, and exports or prints the layout.
Can Greenvelope and RSVPify sell tickets and collect donations?
Both can. Greenvelope sells tickets and items and collects donations on Business accounts, with a 1% platform fee plus Stripe processing on paid transactions, no fee on $0 tickets, and no fee to process refunds. RSVPify offers ticketing with no monthly subscription at 1.95% plus $0.90 per ticket or donation, card processing separate, fees passable to buyers.
Do guests need an account to RSVP on Greenvelope or RSVPify?
No. Greenvelope guests reply from a personalized invitation link, or enter identifying details such as a name on a shared link, with no account, password, or app install required. RSVPify guests reply through the event page in a browser as well; an event password or invitee passcode on some plans is an access check, not an account.
Which pricing model fits a one-time event?
A one-time event usually maps most cleanly to a one-time price. Greenvelope charges per mailing by guest-list size, from $19 for a guest list of up to 20 people, with no subscription. On RSVPify, a small gathering can fit the $0 plan's 100-guest limit, while larger events use a monthly or yearly paid plan, so plan tier and billing period matter as much as guest count.
Choosing Between Them
Match the platform to the requirement that will decide your event. If that is answer-based branching, seat-level charting, or a ticketed door with badge printing and a kiosk, RSVPify's higher plans and ticketing arrangement are built for it. If it is a designed invitation guests remember, per-guest answers, table seating, and a firm headcount at a one-time price, start a Greenvelope mailing, preview the full guest experience, and send a real test to up to 10 people, no credit card required.