Both families use the same plan. It keeps track of the money, the guests, the seating and the menus, and it reminds you before a payment is due.
Make a Simcha is also where your payments get a reminder before they're due, your guests answer from their own link, and your seating gets planned on your hall's layout. Your menus turn into shopping lists, and the app shows who owes whom, so settling up is done for you. Your tasks and dates land on one calendar, your place cards and seating charts print in English and Hebrew, and every gift gets a thank-you. Both families work in the same plan, and each side's money stays private. Here are ten things it does for you.
Each side has its own budget, and each event can have one too. You see what's paid, what's coming and where you'll land.
Your side's budget is private to your side. Give an event like a Sheva Brachos its own budget out of the whole, and the event shows what it's expected to cost: what's paid, what's scheduled and what's still an estimate. If you're going over, you see it early and you know which event to look at.
Every deposit and balance has a date, and you get a reminder before it's due.
Add the vendor, the price and the payments. Each due date becomes a reminder in Tasks and on the calendar. Tick a payment when it's paid and it's recorded under Expenses. If an amount was wrong, press Edit on that payment and fix it.
Save your lists once and use them for every event. Each guest answers from their own link and tells you who's coming by name.
Add families one at a time, or paste a whole list. Send each guest a personal link by email, then watch the answers come in: who's invited, who's coming, who hasn't answered. You aren't chasing people in the group chat.
Drag people onto the tables of your hall's layout. When someone changes their answer, just move them.
Start from a hall layout and keep the men's and women's sides apart. Press Auto-seat to fill the tables by guest list and family, then adjust by hand. Families who only gave a number can be filled in later.
Write the menu course by course. If you're making it yourselves, press a button and get a shopping list.
With a caterer, the menu shows what's being served. If you're cooking yourselves, Build my list turns the dishes and the number of people into a list to buy, borrow or rent. The amounts are a starting point, so change what you need.
Print place cards, table cards, the seating map and the entrance list, in English and Hebrew. Copy your old guests, vendors and prices into a new simcha.
When the seating is settled, print it: place cards, table cards, the seating map and the alphabetical list for the entrance. You can also print guest lists, shopping lists, your task list, the thank-you list and address labels, in English or Hebrew. Planning another simcha? You can copy your old guests, vendors and prices from a past simcha into the new one, so you don't start from nothing. It copies what you had written down, and you can change anything in the new simcha.
The app adds up every shared cost and shows who owes whom, so nobody has to bring it up.
Shared costs are split by a percentage the two sides agree on, and you can change the split on any one expense. When one side pays the other, record it. If the amount or date was wrong, press Edit and the balance updates for both sides.
One list of every gift and everyone who helped pay, so nobody gets missed.
Write down each gift as it arrives, and add anyone who helped pay for something. Choose a card or an email for each one, then print the list or the address labels.
Payment dates, buy-by dates, return dates and RSVP deadlines turn into tasks on the calendar.
Every task has an owner and a due date. The calendar shows every event and reminder in one place, with the Hebrew date on each day. Leave notes on any item and send them to the other side when they should see them.
Each side sees the shared plan and its own private money, and never the other side's.
What's shared is shared, and what's private stays private. This is enforced in the database itself, not only on the screen. If the other side is paying for something, you see the vendor, but the price and the payments stay with them.
In English and Hebrew. The whole app works in both. For every kind of simcha. Weddings, bar and bas mitzvahs, brisim, shalom zachor, kiddush and yahrtzeit.
$100 per simcha, both sides included.
Everyone works in the same plan. What's shared is shared, what's private stays private, and the app keeps track of who owes whom.
Sees the shared plan and its own private expenses.
The events, the hall, the caterer, the guest count and every shared cost, split the way you agree.
Sees the shared plan and its own private expenses.
Each type starts with its own events and its own list of what to arrange.
A bar mitzvah starts with the kiddush in shul, the party for friends and the neighborhood party, plus tefillin, the bar mitzvah teacher and his suit. A bris starts with the mohel, the kibbudim and the seudah.
A full sample wedding, with every screen filled in. Click anything; nothing is saved.
Pick the type, add the names and the date, and pay once. You're planning in two minutes.
Send the other family a link by email so you can plan together. Each side invites its own people: parents, the couple, a planner. Private money stays private.
Both sides included
No. Each side sees the shared expenses and its own private ones, never the other side's. If a vendor is paid entirely by one side, the other side sees the vendor's name and phone number, not the price.
The person who sets up the simcha picks a default split, like half and half. You can change it for any expense or vendor. The app adds it all up and shows who owes whom.
No. Guests get a personal link by email. They answer, tell you who's coming, and never need an account.
Yes. Hebrew names, Hebrew dates and Hebrew place cards are built in, and the app can switch to Hebrew, right to left.
Everything stays available to look at, and your guest lists, seating layouts and people can start your next simcha. Editing closes six months after the last event.
Yes. Invite them to your side, and they see only the items they're handling.
The sample has two families, nine events, 140 guests and a seating plan. Click around as much as you like.
