Upgrading your plan

How to upgrade from Free to Standard or Premium, when each upgrade makes sense, and what happens to your event when you do.

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How to upgrade

Open your event's plan

Go to the event you want to upgrade and open More → Event settings → Plan.

Look at your offer

Click Compare and change plan under your current plan to open the side-by-side comparison. At the bottom, every plan above yours has its own offer, showing exactly what you will pay:

The plan and its price
A line for what you already paid, if you paid for a lower plan — it names that plan, for example Standard. That amount is taken off, so you only pay the difference
Total (incl. VAT) — the amount Stripe will charge you

The button on the offer repeats the total: on a Premium offer it reads Upgrade to Premium for, followed by the amount. If a promotion is running, the offer shows the promotional price, the regular price crossed out and the date the offer ends.

Pay on Stripe

Click the button. You're taken to Stripe's secure checkout — enter your card details or tap Apple Pay / Google Pay and confirm. The total you pay there is the one on the offer.

Wait for the confirmation

Stripe sends you back to the page you bought from (the Plan page here). A notice at the top checks your payment and tells you where it stands: Checking your payment…, then Thanks — finishing up your purchase…, and finally Payment received — your purchase is active. This usually takes a few seconds. Your new plan and its features appear as soon as the notice says it is active.

If the notice says something else

Processing — we'll update this page when your bank confirms. Some payments, like bank transfers and direct debits, take a few days to clear. There is nothing for you to do: your plan switches on by itself once the bank confirms. Until then you can't start another payment of the same kind for this event.

The payment didn't go through, so nothing was charged. The checkout expired, or your bank turned down a payment that was meant to clear later. Start again from the Plan page.

Checkout cancelled — nothing was charged. You left Stripe's page without paying. Nothing happened to your event, and you can start again straight away, the same plan or another.

This is taking longer than usual. Your payment is safe. Refresh the page in a few minutes, or contact support if it still isn't active.

When to upgrade

Free to Standard

Upgrade when your guest list outgrows 25, or when you want the tools real planning needs: assign seating, scan guests in with QR check-in, see your full reports, and bring on co-planners. (Email broadcasts, the guest feed, importing a spreadsheet of guests and invitations by text are already yours on Free; text messages are prepaid.) Standard is per event, covers up to 100 guests and is the right home for most events.

Standard to Premium

Step up to Premium when you need:

A larger guest list — up to 200 guests, before any extensions

A custom domain — your event at party.yourdomain.com instead of a subdomain

Text broadcasts — one text to many guests at once, using your prepaid text messages

Scheduled broadcasts — line up invitation waves and reminders to send themselves

More co-planners — share management with up to 5 people (versus 2 on Standard)

More storage and priority support — 10 GB of media, and faster help when you need it

Premium is per event; an event already on Standard only pays the difference.

What happens when you upgrade

Your event page stays exactly as it is. Content, theme, and customizations are all preserved.

Your guest list is unchanged. Every guest, RSVP, and invitation status carries over.

New features unlock as soon as the payment is confirmed. Seating, the code editor, custom domain settings, and scheduled sends appear the moment the Plan page says your purchase is active.

Your subdomain stays active. Even if you add a custom domain on Premium, your-event.rendez.us keeps working too.

Also on the Plan page

Guest extension — add +100 guests without changing your plan. See Guest extensions.

Keep online — shows until when your page stays online. Before your first publish it says the date your page will stay online until once published (3 months after the event, unless you already have more time), and there's nothing to buy yet: you can extend it after publishing. The event owner can add another year for — a one-time payment, no subscription. Years stack, counted from the end of the free window after your event, and the card shows the date a year gives before you buy. An archived page comes back online when that date is still ahead. If the window closed so long ago that one more year would still end before today, the card offers no year: contact us and we'll sort it out. If we've already set your page to stay online for longer than another year would give, or with no end date, the card says so and offers nothing to buy — a date we set is never shortened, and a year you buy only ever moves it later. See Event lifecycle.

Payment History — every payment for the event, with what you bought, the amount and its status. A bank transfer or direct debit that is still clearing shows as Processing.

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How to upgrade

If the notice says something else

When to upgrade

Free to Standard

Standard to Premium

What happens when you upgrade

Also on the Plan page

Can I downgrade?

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