Evant
An SMS platform for nonprofits, schools and event planners to handle RSVPs, attendance confirmations and community outreach through text messages instead of email.
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Description
If you've ever organized an event by email and watched half your invite list never open it, Evant is built around a simple observation: almost everyone reads a text message, almost no one reads a mass email. It gives your organization a dedicated 10-digit phone number so people can RSVP with a single word, get automatic reminders, and receive announcements they'll actually see — no app to download, no account to create.
Technically, Evant supports two-way bulk SMS and MMS with scheduled sends, keyword-triggered automations (texting a word starts a workflow), an integrated online RSVP page, text-to-donate for fundraising campaigns, voice calling alongside text, and CRM/analytics integrations. It's built for A2P-10DLC compliance out of the box and targets nonprofits, schools, universities, and religious communities like Hillel and Chabad chapters running recurring events. Pricing is a monthly base fee plus per-message costs that drop as volume increases, with unlimited contacts on every plan.
💬 Our review
The short version: Evant bets — correctly, based on its own cited 98% SMS read rate versus roughly 20% for email — that if you need people to actually show up, texting them beats emailing them, and builds an entire RSVP/reminder workflow around that one fact.
The keyword-trigger automation and dedicated 10-digit number are the practical core here: someone texts 'YES' to confirm, gets added to a list, and receives reminders automatically, which is a real reduction in manual follow-up for anyone who's chased RSVPs by hand. Unlimited contacts on every plan is a fairer deal than tools that gate contact volume behind higher tiers. The catches are real too: per-message costs ($0.008-$0.03 depending on plan and volume) mean a large event can get expensive fast, there's a one-time $40 registration fee after 60 days, and you're dependent on carrier SMS delivery rather than owning the channel. Worth it if you run recurring events for a community that skims email but reads texts — schools, congregations, alumni groups; skip it if your list is small enough that a free group chat app or a basic RSVP form already gets the job done.
💰 Pricing
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Occasional-Use : 20 $/mois (usage bimensuel) + 0,03 $/SMS. Starter : 27 $/mois (moins de 80 contacts) + 0,02 $/SMS. Established : 55 $/mois (80-500+ contacts) + 0,008 $/SMS. Custom : sur devis pour grandes organisations. Frais d'enregistrement de 40 $ après 60 jours.
Pros
Taux de lecture SMS de 98% contre environ 20% pour l'email
Automatisations par mot-clé (RSVP en un texto)
Contacts illimités sur tous les plans
Text-to-donate intégré pour les collectes de fonds
Conformité A2P-10DLC gérée nativement
Cons
Aucun plan gratuit, coût par message qui s'ajoute à l'abonnement
Frais d'enregistrement de 40 $ après 60 jours d'utilisation
Dépend de la livraison SMS/carrier, hors du contrôle de l'organisation
Pensé pour le marché US (numérotation, conformité)