Difference between Evite and Punchbowl
Holding an event and in need of quality online invitations fast? Sites such as Evite and Punchbowl may be able to help. The latest and greatest of invitation websites, this new trend has a lot going for it, as this comparison between the two services reveals.
Profile
Evite is a social-planning website that offers a variety of online invitation creation, sending, and management services. Launched in 1998, Evite is funded totally by advertisements, and therefore offers its services for free. Acquired by InterActiveCorp in 2001, Evite was later acquired by Liberty Media in 2010.
Punchbowl is a company that offers a variety of services that make it easy for you to plan a party for start to finish. In addition to offering a range of invitations, Punchbowl also offers party favors, gift registries, photo and video sharing services, and even party ideas and more. The end goal of Punchbowl is to help you infuse each party with your own unique personal touch.
Benefits
Evite has a number of advantages over the competition, most notably with its feature that sends automatic reminders via e-mail, days before the event. Hosts will also be able to tell whether or not a guest has viewed the invitation. As for styles, Evite offers numerous options for changing settings, colors, layouts, and even renaming the guest categories, of which there are four. Finally, Evite also allows users to send updates to their guests when other guests RSVP, or when there is a change in the event details.
Punchbowl for its part offers a remarkably clean interface that makes sign up a straightforward process. Along with this is a he or she of features and user options, such as the ability to edit comments or details right from the page, without having to load new pages for each edit. You can also upload photos and change the color of the background, and even customize the message on the invitation emails before you send them out to your guests.
Drawbacks
We have to take off a few points from Evite for the interface, which is literally cluttered with ads. In fact, almost all the site’s pages feature ads for other Evite services. The interface is also a bit dated looking, and there are relatively few AJAX, JAVA, or Flash features that make other similar sites easier to navigate and easier on the eyes.
Punchbowl would be a worthy enough contender to Evite, where it not for the lack of several key features, such as the option to add background images or to ask guests how many people they plan to bring.
Similarities and Differences
Evite
- A social-planning website that offers a variety of online invitation services
- Allows you to send automatic reminders via e-mail, days before the event
- Cluttered with ads
Punchbowl
- A company that offers a variety of party planning services
- Has a remarkably clean interface
- Lacks several key features
