Invitation Design & Holiday Templates

RSVPify offers holiday invitation designs in your own colors, fonts, and logo, sent as a real invitation. Google Forms gives you a header image, a theme color, and a font picker, and publishes no holiday or party templates at all.

Branded Event Website & Party Details

RSVPify gives your party its own event website with schedule, venue, dress code, and FAQ pages, plus a custom domain on higher plans. Google Forms is a single form on a docs.google.com URL, and even a Google Sites wrapper brands the site rather than the form.

Guest List Size & Cost at Scale

RSVPify tracks an invited list, so you always know your outstanding count against a catering guarantee. Google Forms is free with no published response cap, which is hard to argue with, but it has no guest list at all, only an append-only log of submissions.

RSVPs, Plus-Ones & Meal Selection

RSVPify records each guest as a person with their own meal choice, plus-one, and dietary notes. Google Forms produces one row per submission, so a party of four becomes one wide row of duplicated columns and the caterer count gets rebuilt by hand.

Custom Questions & Conditional Logic

RSVPify supports conditional questions that can also drive tags, segments, and follow-up emails. Google Forms is genuinely capable here, with twelve question types and section branching, though logic works only on multiple choice and dropdown answers.

Automated Reminders & Branded Email

RSVPify schedules reminders and chases only the guests who have not responded, from branded templates. Google Forms cannot send invitations or reminders at all, and because it does not know who was invited, there is nobody for it to chase.

Seating Charts & Table Assignments

RSVPify includes a seating chart with table assignments and meal counts by table that updates in real time. Google documents no seating, table, or floor plan feature anywhere, so the plan lives in a spreadsheet you maintain by hand.

Check-In & Arrivals at the Door

RSVPify includes QR code check-in, self check-in kiosks, walk-in registration, and live attendance tracking. Google Forms has no check-in, so the usual workaround is a second form at the door that produces a second list to reconcile.

Ticketing & Paid Holiday Events

RSVPify sells tickets, collects payments, and handles paid plus-ones as part of the RSVP itself. Google Forms has no payment question type, so money runs through a separate link that never reconciles with the responses.

Privacy, Security & Guest Data

RSVPify is SOC 2 certified with password-protected events, private guest lists, and SSO on Enterprise. Google Forms inherits Workspace security on a paid account, but a form built on a personal Gmail account has no admin oversight and leaves with the employee who built it.