All of us have some occasions need to be shared with family or friends like weddings or a birthdays occasions , some times its a series moments like business meetings or conferences . which all needs an easy communication way to deliver actions for others … an easy clear invitation !
As usual , surfing the Internet looking for the treasures .. I’ve found a stylish cool web 2.0 service, which is Pingg.com.
In some ways , Pingg prove that web 2.0 is not a pretty big fast websites only … Its a huge dynamic web event application delivered for the end - user with pleasure ! because its introduce a big wonderful group of tools to make life easy for us.
Pingg … Deliver your moments in the exact time !
If we want to define pingg.com , its a mixed application between a events software and web tools inside a browser Internet page, introduce a first class service to create and manage invitations & events, allows you to send your invitations and events to your contacts in specific time. pingg is a fantastic service with easy, modern and stylish look of web 2.0 web applications .
Easy direct interface for users
One of the most wonderful things in pingg that it has easy to use interface , newbie users may not find any type of complexity while using this website, pingg has easy to user interface with clear steps to setup and manage an event .
Advanced Event Creator
While using Pingg event create page , you will find many features and options with an easy steps, pingg has 7 steps to do the task :
Invite Design:
Choose your design template for your invitation , Pingg introduce three types of design options : first one called pingg designer which gives you the ability to choose a professional ready made invitation design , you can browse the templates by categories or themes and preview to see what is better for you.
Also Pingg offers an Extra options ( will 10$ fee ) gives the ability to search inside photos and create a custom invitations. ( see Pingg help for more details ) .
The third option let you choose your own photo to put it inside the invitation , if you have a photo or something you can upload it to pingg and edit it by using Pingg Custom Layout, which gives some tools like cropping and moving photo inside the invite sheet you want to create . ( Pingg only support JPEG or PDF format for photos )
Event Details
After selecting your invitation theme, you will have an important option which is event details.
Event details has some attributes or fields like date and time for your invitation , you can also choose to make a deadline date for the invitation. Also you need to put your time zone to tell the server what time exactly you want to send the invitation in your country time, you can also put a location and address of invitation place you want people go to , even you can add a map for people to make things clear ( Pingg use Google maps ) .Also you can put who will host this occasion and message for guests to describe the invitation for them.
Guest List
Another nice feature of pingg , for any invitation , you have to have a guest list for the occasion , pingg introduce a high level guest list option which gives you the ability to put your guest manually , also you can import a contact list from your email such as ( Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Gmail ) or even your own domain email ! .
While Pingg offers the import feature above, its provides you with a contact list in your account, you can add - edit contacts , import or export the contacts .
SurroundSend (TM)
After you finish the design and the content, its time to send the invitation for the guests, with SurroundSend feature , you have four ways to send the invitation for people who invited, number one which is Email and its free to use, 2- by SMS which will cost you 1.5 $ per 20 message , or printed invitations which will cost a 1.5 per card with postage, and finally export the invitation to a web page free of charge.
Collect Funds From the Guests
What if you want to make an occasion for orphans or poor children or any occasion for helping an issue, and you are planning to collect fund from the guests to help the cause, Pingg introduce a smart option enables you to put a credit card or PayPal donation available on the web page which contains the invitation. Beside that, you can add photos or YouTube Videos inside the web page ! .
RSVP options
with RSVP options you give the guests some instructions if there an availably of forward the invitation or bring other guest with them and how many they can , can the guests view other guests contacts or not, and tell people if this invite public or not .
Gift Registry
With gift registry option , you can embed your Amazon wish list inside the invitation to make guest purchase a specific gifts for the occasion ( children occasion ) , other vendors will available soon for this option.