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Say hello to guests by name on your website

Choose Site at the top of the editor, then Guest features. Say hello by name greets each guest from their own link: change its words, or where it sits.

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Works on your phone

When a guest opens your website from their own link, it says hello to just them, like "Hello, Priya", with their initials beside it and their own RSVP button. It stays in view as they scroll. It's on from the start, and you can change the words, move it or switch it off.

Steps

  1. Open Website and choose Site at the top, then the Guest features tab. On a phone, Site is in the ⋮ menu at the top.

  2. Say hello by name is the first row. Its switch (1) turns the greeting on or off.

  3. Change the Words (2) if you like, up to 80 characters. Keep {names} in them: it becomes the guest's first name, or the whole household's first names when they typed the code from their invitation. Leave the box empty for ours, "Hello, {names}".

  4. Under Where it sits (3), choose Bottom of the screen or Top of the screen (just under your menu bar).

  5. That's it. It saves as you change it and works straight away, with nothing to republish.

Personal links skip the password

Has your website got a password? Guests with their own link go straight in, and everyone else still types it.

  1. In Site, open the Privacy tab. While Password Protection is on, Personal links skip the password (1) sits under your password.

  2. Want every guest to type the password, link or not? Switch it off. It saves as you change it.

Good to know

  • Only guests from their own link (or their invitation's code) are greeted. Anyone with your plain web address sees your website as it always is. See Send each guest their own link to your website.
  • Their RSVP buttons go to their own reply while the website knows them, whether the greeting is on or off. The greeting's own button says RSVP, or Your reply once they've replied, and it takes the place of your floating RSVP button on phones.
  • Not you? sits under the greeting, so someone using a link that was passed on can find their own name, use their own code, or just look around. Any of them makes that phone forget who it was. A smaller Are you a guest? bar then stays on your website on that phone, so they can choose Find your invitation at any time.
  • Names stay private. The greeting is added as the page opens, for that visitor only. Their names are never part of your published page.
  • A guest stays remembered on their phone or computer for 180 days. While Personal links skip the password is on, that lets them past your password too, even by your plain web address. Make a new link for them in Guests, Personal links (in the ⋯ on their row) and the old one stops working. Within a day, a phone it let in asks for the password again.
  • See it for yourself with See what they see on a guest's row in Personal links, or a whole household's view with Preview as… in the bar above your page, on a computer. See Preview your website before guests see it.
  • It works on your own domain too.

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