Event invites and RSVP
Invite users or email addresses to an event and collect yes / no / maybe replies.
Kalendee lets you invite people to a single event and collect their response. Invitations work for both signed-in users on the instance and for people without an account, who respond through a link.
Invite attendees
You need write access to the event’s calendar.
- Open the event to edit it.
- Find the Attendees section (shown for events you can edit).
- Enter a username or email and select Invite.
What happens depends on what you entered:
- Username — the person must already have an account. They cannot already be invited, and you cannot invite yourself. They receive an in-app notification and, if the server sends mail to their verified address, an invite email.
- Email address — the address does not need an account. Kalendee records
the attendee with a one-time token and emails them an RSVP link of the form
/rsvp/<eventId>?token=<token>.
Attendees appear in the list with their current status and a Remove button. Removing an attendee deletes the invite; it does not remove any event.
An invitation is an RSVP record. It does not by itself share the calendar, so a user invitee can respond from the event once they can see it (for example, the calendar is shared with them or public).
RSVP statuses
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
invited | Invited, no response yet. |
yes | Attending. |
no | Not attending. |
maybe | Tentative. |
The owner is notified in-app whenever someone responds, and by email when the owner has an address. Attendee responses are visible to anyone who can see the event.
Respond to an invitation
Signed-in users
Anyone who can see an event may respond, not only the people explicitly invited. Open the event and use the Your response buttons: Yes, No, or Maybe. Their response is stored and shown as a badge.
Invitees by email
Open the link from the invitation email. The page shows the event title, when it is, and the calendar, with Yes / No / Maybe buttons. Email invitees do not need to sign in.
Open RSVP links
An event owner can turn an event into an open, link-based RSVP:
- In the event’s Attendees section, turn on Open RSVP.
- Copy the resulting link, which looks like
/rsvp/<eventId>.
Anyone with that link can respond. Anonymous visitors must enter a name; signed-in users respond under their account. An email is optional and lets a returning visitor update their existing response.
Anonymous access follows the same rules as public calendars: the event must be
on a public calendar. On a signed_in calendar, only signed-in visitors can
respond. A calendar that mirrors an external provider is read-only and cannot
enable Open RSVP.