GuestlistOnline vs Partiful

The invitation product is: unlimited events, up to 1,000 guests invited through Partiful per event, 10 text blasts per event, and no ads. Two things cost money. Some invitation designs are paid, and Partiful does not publish their price. And if you sell tickets, Partiful takes a per-ticket service fee it also does not publish, it says the fee depends on event size and ticket price, shows it during setup, and lets you absorb it or pass it to the buyer. Its own worked example is a $112 ticket that pays out $100. Free tickets are free.

No. Partiful ticketing launched in June 2026 for US hosts only, and the platform is used in more than 100 countries without it. If you are outside the US, you can still send Partiful invitations, but the money has to happen somewhere else. GuestlistOnline sells tickets through your own Stripe Connect account, euros, dollars or pounds, iDEAL included, at 5% + 0.25 per ticket in the ticket currency with payment processing already in that rate, and nothing at all on free events.

Partiful does not publish an offline check-in mode. QR scanning runs in the Partiful mobile app on ticketed events, and manual check-in runs in the browser, both of which assume a connection. GuestlistOnline check-in is a PWA that installs from the browser on iOS and Android with no app store: it caches the guest list before the event, scans and validates locally while offline, and syncs every scan back when the signal returns. If your venue is a basement, a warehouse or a field, that is the difference between a queue and a door that keeps moving.

Yes. Export the guest list from Partiful as a CSV, it includes check-in status and the answers to your RSVP questionnaire, and import it into GuestlistOnline, mapping the columns you want to keep. Names, email addresses, RSVP status and answers come across. What does not come across is the Partiful-specific layer: the text-blast history, the comment wall, your mutuals and the Explore listing, and the ticket QR codes, which GuestlistOnline reissues.

It depends on the wedding. Partiful is built around a text-message RSVP loop that guests answer in seconds, which suits a young crowd and an informal day. For a seated dinner it starts to strain: there is no dietary field, so allergies live in a free-text questionnaire answer; the interface is English only, which is awkward for family abroad; and guests have to verify a phone number by SMS to RSVP at all. GuestlistOnline has a dietary field on the guest list, plus-ones with names, guest pages in seven languages, a gift fund, and QR check-in if you run a reception with a door.