„Can I bring someone?" is one of the questions your guests ask most often. Your guest list already has room for it: you decide for each person who may bring a companion, and the rest happens by itself as soon as they reply.
Allowing a plus one
When you add or edit a guest, you will find the toggle „Plus One erlauben" (allow a plus one) with the note „Gast darf eine Begleitung mitbringen" (this guest may bring a companion). When it is switched on, this guest can enter a companion in the sign-up form on your page. You can flip the toggle at any time later. With a CSV import the column „Plus-1 erlaubt" (plus-one allowed) decides: if there is a „ja" (yes) in it, the toggle is on right away for that imported guest, otherwise it stays off.
What happens when someone names a companion
If a guest enters their companion by name, the app creates a separate entry from it. In your guest list this person is a full row right below their main guest, with their own group, their own status and their own menu. You can tell the two belong together by the fine vertical line between their circles and by the fact that there is no dividing line between them. The internal note also says „Begleitung von Vorname Nachname" (companion of first name last name). You can see it on the guest detail page too: on the main guest in the card „Begleitung" (companion), on the companion in the card „Angemeldet mit" (signed up with). These cards let you jump back and forth between the two.
The companion takes over the group and the reply status of the main guest. They have no email address and no invitation code of their own, so they cannot be invited separately. If the name is spelled wrong, you simply correct it through „Bearbeiten" (edit) as usual.
Good to know: If a name suddenly shows up in your list that you never entered yourself, it is almost always a companion from a sign-up. A reason to be happy, not worried.
Editing or deleting companions
Every companion has a three-dot menu of their own. That is true in your guest list and on the guest detail page in the card „Begleitung" (companion). With „Bearbeiten" (edit) you correct their details. With „Löschen" (delete) you remove only the companion, after a confirmation. The main guest stays in your list, and the number of people who accepted is adjusted.
If a companion does not have a name yet, you can add it through the same menu. You are also allowed to leave the name field empty. That companion still belongs to the main guest's sign-up and takes over their yes or no. The name you add afterwards shows up in the list, in the search and in the CSV export.
A companion you deleted does not come back as a nameless extra row afterwards. So if you only want to change the name, use „Bearbeiten" (edit).
Children
Children are not created as guests of their own. Your guests say in the sign-up form how many children are coming and may add their names. You can also enter, change or remove children yourself: open the guest through „Bearbeiten" (edit), pick the number under „Kinder" (children) and add the names if you like. To remove them, simply set the choice back to „Keine Kinder" (no children). This works in the guest list and on the guest detail page, for example after a phone call when the little ones are coming after all. Even quicker are the three dots right on a child's row: „Anzeigen" (view) jumps to the guest the child belongs to, „Bearbeiten" (edit) opens their dialog, and „Löschen" (delete) removes just that one child after a short confirmation. You will find the same three dots on the guest detail page, on the little cards of the companion and the children.
You can see children everywhere you need them: in your guest list every child sits as its own indented row below its household, with the label „Kind" (child). Children do not have a page of their own, they belong to the reply of their guest. On the guest detail page they are listed by name beside the companion, and on the page Rückmeldungen (replies) you find them as usual. If a guest did not give any names, you will see „Kind 1", „Kind 2" and so on.
A confirmed companion who was never given a name gets an indented row too, labelled „Begleitung" (companion). That way you can see at a glance how many people are really coming together.
Where children count and where they do not
In the tiles „Gesamt" (total) and „Zugesagt" (accepted) above your list, children are not part of the big number. Their count sits next to it as a small addition instead, for example „+ 3 Kinder" (plus 3 children).
In the number next to the menu item „Gäste" (guests) they are counted, from the first acceptance onwards. That number is about people, not about entries.
On your overview, the card „Gäste & RSVP" carries the line „Das sind 84 Personen, wenn du Kinder und Begleitungen mitzählst." (that is 84 people if you count children and plus ones) as soon as more people are coming than there are entries in your list.
Under Rückmeldungen (replies) they are part of the number of people on every answer.
The search above your guest list finds names of children and companions too, and then shows you the whole sign-up.
The CSV export brings every child and every confirmed companion along as its own row, so that you have everyone in one table for the catering and the seating plan.
Frequently asked questions
Can I group families into one household myself?
Linking them by hand is not possible. You can give all family members the same household name, then the search brings them up together. The connected block in the list comes from a companion in the sign-up form or from children, no matter whether your guests report them or you enter them yourself.
If I delete the main guest, what happens to the companion?
If the companion has a guest entry of their own, you decide while deleting whether they should go too or stay. If they stay, we keep them as a guest of their own from then on, with everything they have already answered. A companion without an entry of their own belongs to the main guest's sign-up just like the children and is removed along with them. A name you added yourself does not change that.
Can I add a companion myself?
You can add them as a regular guest, for example with the same household name. They will not get the connecting line to the main guest, though, that only comes from a sign-up.