The platform · 08
What is due next, always.
An event is a set of dates that depend on each other: guests cannot answer an invitation they do not have, and you cannot seat a room whose numbers are still moving. The timeline holds those dates, counted back from yours, and tells you whose move it is.
Counted back from the day.
The ladder for a wedding or a big milestone, in days before the event. An everyday party runs a tighter one: approve at 49, mail at 35, replies by 14.
−180 · Save the dates
For the events people book flights for.
−70 · Approve your suite for print
The last day the design can change and still be printed and mailed with room to spare.
−56 · Mail the invitations
Eight weeks out: long enough for a household to plan, short enough to be remembered.
−28 · The reply deadline
Printed on the card, and therefore a promise. From the day guests are told it, it is a date that does not move.
Then the room.
−21 · Vendor timings
The caterer, the venue and the transport are told what they need, from the plan as it stands.
−7 · Seating final
The chart is settled against the replies, and the place cards go to print.
−3 · Guest list locked
The last day a change is a change rather than an exception. After it, what moves is handled by hand and by name.
Not every date is the same kind of date.
Some dates cannot move. Some are yours. Some are ours.
Your date, and a reply deadline guests have been told, are fixed: if one is missed it is reported as missed, and it is not slid forward to keep the plan looking tidy. A date you set yourself moves only with your say-so.
Our own internal dates move without troubling you. Advice is marked as advice — moving it costs risk, not correctness. And a date that follows another, as seating final follows the reply deadline, moves by itself when its parent does, so the plan cannot contradict itself.
Real tasks, not a poster.
Without
A timeline on a wall chart or in a template: dated advice nobody can complete, assign or be late on. The week something slips is the week nobody notices.
With Evorrah
Every milestone is a task with an owner — you, us, a guest — and a due date. What is due next is always the first thing you see. When a change presses two deadlines together, you are told the gap has shrunk before it closes.
As delivered.
The timeline on four delivered events — two weddings, a milestone birthday and a Christmas party.
Rendered from the file each event ran as — its own guests, dates and colour. Open any one to see it full size.
What it will not do.
A plan is only trustworthy if it refuses to flatter you. These are standing rules, not settings.
- Guess a date — an event with no date, or a plan it cannot read, shows an unknown rather than a plausible number
- Slide a deadline guests were told
- Tell you two different dates for the same step — the portal, the plan and the reminders read one ladder
- Hide a slipped milestone to keep the plan tidy
- Decide your date for you
Nothing on the timeline is invented. Every date is derived from yours, and says where it came from.
The rest of the platform
Three more services,
reading from the same event.
Arrival & Check-in
The door, on the night: each guest’s own code, a scanner that works with no signal, a live count.
Explore → 10Live Event-Day Support
Arrivals, timing, counts and every supplier’s part of the plan, coordinated in one place.
Explore → 11Guest Intelligence
The event recap, the guest album you moderate, and your people kept for next time.
Explore →