Ask guests single-choice, multiple-choice, or free-text questions. Collect answers right inside the RSVP, use one-click presets for meals, dietary needs, addresses and more, make a question required or attendee-only, view results, and show them live on a screen.
Polls let you ask your guests questions and collect their answers — meal choices, song requests, activity sign-ups, or anything else you need to plan. You will find everything under Guests → Questions & polls in your event dashboard.
Use RSVP questions for planning details and Live polls for audience participation. Open Guests → Answers for meal totals, dietary lists, and other planning summaries.
When you create a poll, you pick one of three types. Each one collects answers a little differently, so choose the one that fits the question you are asking.
Your guests pick one option from a list. This is the best fit for:
Your guests can select more than one option. Reach for this when an answer can be several things at once:
Your guests type their own answer in a text box. This is ideal for open-ended questions:
You don't have to choose between options and open text. Turn on Allow a free-text answer on a single- or multiple-choice poll, and guests get a text box alongside the options — perfect for "tick any allergies that apply, and add anything else we should know." Give the box its own short label so guests know what to type there.
Open Guests → Questions & polls, then click Add a question.
Enter a clear, short question. You can also add an optional description for context — for example, "Please choose your main course for the Saturday dinner." Your guests see the description right below the question.
Choose Single choice, Multiple choice, or Free-text.
For choice-based polls, add your options (you need at least two). For a free-text poll there are no options — your guests just type their answer. On a choice-based poll you can also turn on Allow a free-text answer to add an open box alongside the options.
Decide whether the poll appears in the RSVP flow, whether results are visible to guests, and whether it closes at a scheduled time. For an RSVP-flow question you can also make it required (a guest can't finish their RSVP without answering) and ask only if attending (the question is skipped for guests who decline). Then click Add question.
By default, your polls live on the Polls section of your event page, where guests can answer them any time. But you can also drop a poll right into the RSVP flow, so your guests answer it the moment they respond. This is the surest way to collect an answer from everyone — perfect for meal choices and dietary needs.
To include a poll in the RSVP flow, turn on Include in RSVP flow in the poll editor and save.
When it is on, the poll appears as a step inside the RSVP, right after a guest chooses their response. Because the RSVP gathers everything in one go, your questions are answered in the same save as the response and any plus-ones — there's no second journey to chase. You will see a banner at the top of the Polls page reminding you how many polls are part of the flow.
You don't have to build common questions from scratch. At the top of the Polls page, the Collect at RSVP shelf offers a row of one-click cards. Tap one and it spins up a poll that's already attached to your RSVP flow, with good default wording and the right answer shape and controls already set:
Preset results start private, so guests can answer without sharing their planning details with other guests. You can change this in the editor. Each card becomes an ordinary poll you can rename, reword, or fine-tune in the editor afterwards — the preset is just a head start. Adding the same card twice does nothing: a preset attaches to your event only once.
Two controls shape when and whether an RSVP-flow question is asked:
You'll find both in the poll editor whenever Include in RSVP flow is on. The presets above come with sensible defaults — logistics questions are already set to ask only if attending, for example — but you can change either at any time.
Each poll has a Results visible to guests toggle in the editor:
You always see full results in your dashboard, no matter how this toggle is set.
If you want a poll to stop accepting answers automatically, set a Scheduled close time in the editor. The poll closes itself at that moment — handy when you need to lock in final counts before a deadline (like sending meal orders to the caterer).
The close time uses your event's time zone, so it lines up with every other time shown for your event. Leave it empty if you would rather close the poll by hand.
On the Polls page, every poll shows a live summary at a glance:
To dig into individual answers, click View all responses on any poll (or View responses from the poll's menu). You will see who chose what, and you can filter choice polls by option to find everyone who picked a particular answer.
Want the room to watch the votes roll in? You can put any poll on a full-screen live results wall — ideal for a projector or TV at your event. The wall updates on its own as guests vote, so the bars grow in real time.
On the Polls page, click the menu (the three dots) on a poll and select Present live.
Switch on the presentation. You will get a unique link and a QR code that open the live results screen.
Choose Landscape or Portrait as the default orientation to match your screen. The wall has a flip button too, so you can change it on the day.
Copy the link or scan the QR code on the device connected to your projector or TV, and the results wall takes over the screen.
You can also turn on a "scan to vote" QR that sits in a corner of the wall, so anyone in the room can vote from their phone without a link. Add a short caption (like "Scan to vote") and choose which corner it lives in.
You can close a poll at any time to stop accepting new answers. This is useful when you want to lock in final counts, when the event has passed, or when you are running a time-limited vote.
To close a poll, open its menu and select Close question. A closed poll still shows its results — it just no longer accepts votes. You can reopen it whenever you like with Reopen question, and existing answers are kept. Reopening also clears any scheduled close, so the poll is genuinely open again.
You can change a poll's question, description, and options whenever you need to — even after guests have answered. Open its menu, choose Edit question, and press Save changes when you're done. Rendezvous handles edits gracefully so you're never stuck with a question you got slightly wrong.
To remove one for good, choose Delete question from the same menu. It asks you to confirm first, because the question and every answer to it go with it.
When you add a brand-new RSVP-flow question, or reword an existing one, guests who already RSVP'd can come back and answer it. A returning guest sees the RSVP again with their previous answers already filled in — "We've filled in your previous answers — update anything that's changed." — so adding a question after the fact doesn't mean re-asking everything.
Adding new options is always safe. Removing an option that already has answers, though, drops those answers — so the editor stops you before it happens. If a change would remove answered options, you'll see a warning like:
This removes 1 answered option — 3 guest answers will be dropped.
You can confirm if you really mean it (Drop 3 answers & save), or back out. The tip is built in: to keep the answers, rename the option instead of removing it — renaming re-labels the existing votes rather than discarding them.
Each RSVP-flow poll shows a coverage line on the Polls page — "Answered by 18 of 25 responders" (or "Answered by all 25 responders" once everyone's in). It's the at-a-glance answer to "did the people who already RSVP'd ever see this question?" — especially useful for a question you added late.
When you add a question after people have responded, the guests who RSVP'd earlier never saw it. One tap fixes that: from a poll's coverage line, "Ask the N who missed it" drafts a broadcast — already addressed to exactly the guests who responded before the question existed — and drops it in your Broadcasts as a draft for you to review and send.