Punchbowl

The app makes it so easy; I planned an office baby shower for 30 people. Punchbowl made it manageable.

We have a 157 member list. It gets "most", but not all of them. Sometimes it says members are Unsubscribed when they're not. Sometimes it says it went to certain people and it didn't. Punchbowl Support says we did it, but don't see it that way.

So, it's easy to use, looks great, is a good value, and "pretty good" at getting the message distributed.

I don't remember how I found Punchbowl in the first place, but boy am I glad I did! It's super easy to use, you can control whether your invitation can be shared or not, it automatically sends out a reminder,… you basically have a personal assistant, I love it!

Great invitation choices; easy to customize, very user-friendly site. I was very pleased with how well the entire processed worked, from designing, to sending, to replies, and reminders. Recommend highly, will use again.

My wife and I have a party every year for our anniversary. The date is 26 December and just after Christmas, it is a great occasion for a celebration with friends. It has somehow become a tradition in our circle and everybody is looking forward to our celebration. Usually I take care of preparation and everything. However last year I had a really busy workflow, my wife did the same. However, we didn;t want to disappoint our friends, and also we wanted to keep it going, so we decided to ask for help from these guys. Their platform made the hardest part of the preparation go as smoothly as possible. Punchbowl delivers! Thanks!

The advertisement is a bait and switch. Says it's a 7-day free trial, they charged my account $48. I requested a refund, as it stated, no questions asks. Conveniently, they cannot find my transaction. They want me to send them a screenshot of my account. Who does that? With all of the scams and hackers, that's not going to happen. I will be contacting my bank.

I thoroughly read the Help Q and As to find out how to block a sender. It says underneath the invitation it should say, "Don't want invitations from this host? Remove yourself." And that you can click on it. This does NOT exist so I can't remove myself!

Punchbowl advertises you can send free ecards with no membership but that is completely false. After you've gone through all of the steps of choosing and creating your card, entering the recipient and your contact info THEN a pop-up appears "your card can't be sent without signing up" (after they get your info of course). This is deceiving and misleading customers so they can just get your information. Their statement on their own site says "Personalize and send beautiful invitations and greeting cards for FREE with Punchbowl®." NOTHING at all about needing a trial or subscription. Be honest and let customers know up front where it can easily be seen that they must sign up before wasting our time. I get enough junk mail and spam texts already. I know customer's contact information are sold to marketing companies without the customer's permission. Your competitors display their subscription notice yet Punchbowl hides it. That is wrong.

Punch bowl advertises as free, but they do not tell you that you need to pay a subscription. If you do the free trial, you can cancel, but you can't manage the invite that you just sent out. Which is the whole purpose of an Evite. So disappointed in the lack of transparency of the website and it taking advantage of users.

There's nothing special about this bar. They don't have a full bar as you would imagine. The food is basic and you pay the same amount if you were in a restaurant for the same money. Save your cash & go to the Northend

Two years after I cancelled my subscription, they randomly charged me nearlt $60 and not in the month that would have been my renewal month. I emailed to get this corrected and they have said they will refund the money, but they also said in their response they have cancelled my subscription. Ya can't cancel something that doesn't exist. Wish I had never tried this company out. What a pain.

Started with basic membership then had to upgrade to platinum since I exceeded # of guest invites to send out. With platinum membership it still did not allow me to remove ads, could not print a paper copy of guest list after invites were texted out, alot of guests did not receive 1st invite so I had to text and ask everyone and then resend again, set reminder to 7 days before event and no one received a text reminder including myself (added self as a guest to keep track), changed again to 6 days reminder and still nothing! Emailed punchbowl and they replied to me that I can send announcements to guests! Instead of just admitting their service is horrible and doesn't send out reminders as they have listed as an option!

They say you can cancel your membership within 7 days and you won't be charged. So I went ahead with sending my daughter's birthday invite. When I tried to cancel, it said I would no longer be able to manage the rsvp's. So I'm forced to keep the subscription until her party, which means paying for an entire year's membership. What a scam. I will never use Punchbowl again and I hope this review is a warning to everyone else.

I'm not really sure why anyone would love this. I did the free trial and got charged (because I forgot, so that's my fault) $60 annual fee. I decided it would be fine since it had invitations and I could use it for other things. I cannot send out invitations without upgrading for EVEN MORE MONEY. What a joke. It's already digital, meaning it has no real material cost. $60 should be more than enough for what they're offering. I can't stand it. I would not recommend it to anyone.

It's honestly not hard. When I sell something, I don't say, "Here's something free" and then, when a customer tries to take it, basically hold them up to extort them for money. Well, Punchbowl has no such moral qualms about treating its customers terribly. They advertise - through THE ENTIRE process - that you can make and send free invites. That's what I searched for in the search engine! Then, AFTER you've put time and work into them, Punchbowl dangles your head in a toilet and rifles you for all your spare change. Despicable. If they believed in their business, they would say, up front, that they charge for their service.

In no real-world situation would this be allowed: can you imagine a restaurant pulling this stunt? A car wash? A movie theater? Nope, there would be immediate backlash.

Despicable.

This app has a wide variety of beautiful cards and invitations. The app is user friendly and easy to manage all of your invitations, guest replies and follow up thank you cards. The app also automatically sends reminders to guests two days before the actual event which was so nice and worry free for me. I also really liked the features that allow you to customize certain settings which gives you control even though the app has everything under control so you can relax. The app also always two way contact with your guests where you or your guest can write messages back and fourth if needed or desired. Overall I love this app and look forward to continuing to use it for all upcoming events.

You think that you will get a valuable service for free. What you actually get is lured into investing time and energy creating something of importance to you (an invitation to an event) which you find out, at the end, cannot be sent unless you allow tacky ads to be included in the card. The alternative? Pay Punchbowl $85 dollars -- an extortion fee, lest you loose the work you have done and have to start over with another provider. They could explain up front the terms of the agreement and let people decide for themselves if they want the product for the price. That is what an honest company would do.