Top reasons why you should use PurpleTrail to plan your event


What Makes PurpleTrail Truly Unique and Special

PurpleTrail is a brand new way to organize and manage parties, get-togethers, events and meetings. With its fresh perspective, PurpleTrail brings together some of the best features and experiences to help you easily manage your event.

Reliable Invites using Delivery Central


Using PurpleTrail's "Delivery Central" technology, you can send invitations, reminders, and personal notes across multiple mediums, namely email, print, SMS, voice and social networks like Facebook. Delivery Central provides centralized messaging and ensures secure and reliable delivery. Delivery Central also enables you to easily track your invitations: which ones got delivered securely, when did the guests open them, when did they last view the event page and what is their current RSVP response.

Presence Enabled Invitation Management


PurpleTrail is the first "presence enabled" invitation management service with group messaging at its core. If that sounds too geeky, think of it as a service that allows you to easily interact with the host and other guests in real-time for all the pre-event planning and excitement. You can see who is currently online and have a chat instantly, or leave messages for later. You and your guests can even create smaller groups in real-time to hold smaller, more private group conversations.

Easily build consensus for your event and decide on a place and time


PurpleTrail's unique consensus module helps you decide on place and time for your event. Say good-bye to the mess around group emails! Rich consensus building tools are part of all PurpleTrail events. As an organizer you have full control over what guests can vote on including allowing your guests to suggest new options themselves if existing options don't work for them.

Rich Desktop and Mobile applications


You don’t need to visit the website every time to keep track of your event. PurpleTrail is available for download on your desktop or your mobile phone. With the PurpleTrail desktop and mobile widgets, you can get event updates, and chat with online guests in real time. Both the desktop and mobile applications are available for download for both the host and the guests. PurpleTrail invitations, reminders and alerts are also available over SMS and using the mobile web browser (m.purpletrail.com).

With PurpleTrail, clip-art based designs are a thing of the past. You can personalize your invite the way you want it by choosing from hundreds of professionally designed, real photo-based designs.


With PurpleTrail, clip-art based themes are a thing of the past. You can personalize your event the way you want it by choosing from hundreds of professionally designed, real photo-based, themes. In less than two minutes you can make a great looking event page and invite people in style.

Advertisements have no place in your invite


Nothing is more annoying to a host than a WeightWatchers or a mortgage refinance advertisement right next to their thanksgiving invite. PurpleTrail lets you send the invites to your event just the way you like it – without those pesky ads. Both your invitation page and the invite emails are completely free of ads.


Additional features that make PurpleTrail Business the best in class event management service are:

Publish Events Promote Events Networking Manage Events

Publish your event

Get your event's site in less than 2 minutes and publish event details to make it easy for people to access the event.

Manage your event

A simple and clean interface to manage your event including sending invitations, tracking responses & communicating

Promote your event

Send out event emails, SMS, Voice and print invitations to your database or post to social networks like Facebook

Social network around your event

Event attendees and visitors to the event page can connect with each other instantly.

Easy updates on your Desktop widget

You don’t need to visit the website every time to keep track of your event. With the PurpleTrail desktop widget, you can get event updates and chat with online guests in real time.

Add interactivity to your events

Visitors to the event site can chat with event hosts, online attendees and other visitors to the site in real-time.

Recurring events & reminders

With PurpleTrail you can easily organize weekly or monthly events. Now you can quickly set your event to repeat periodically, saving you valuable time and the hassle of creating multiple invitations.

Receive invitation alerts on your mobile

Receive event invitations, reminders & alerts on your mobile or get full access to your events using mobile web.

Lots of other features

We realize that your events are important to you and we work hard to make them successful. From tracking your invitations delivery status to when someone opened them, to sending reminders and creating recurring events, PurpleTrail has the most comprehensive set of features to help you create and manage your event effectively.

Give PurpleTrail Professional a try! You will be glad that you did.


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