Frequently asked questions

No. Only the person creating a poll signs in, and that is a magic link rather than a password. Everyone invited votes from a private link in their email — no signup, no app, no password reset at eleven at night. That one detail is the difference between a poll that gets nine replies and one that gets four.

Three to five. Two is usually a false binary that invites “neither, what about…”; six or more turns a fifteen-second reply into a research task and spreads the votes so thin that the winner looks arbitrary. If you genuinely have eight candidates, shortlist first and vote on the shortlist. More on writing options.

Yes, and for scheduling you should let them. Ticking every date that works asks which can you do rather than which do you prefer, so the winner is the widest overlap rather than whichever option one bloc felt most strongly about. See the comparison of voting methods for a worked example where this changes the result.

They are not counted as available for anything, and they do not block the decision. The poll closes on its deadline with the votes it has. Non-voters are still welcome to come to whatever the group picked — the point of the deadline is to stop one silence from holding up eight people.

Up to three, escalating in directness, and then they stop. Anyone who has voted or opted out is dropped from the reminder list immediately. Reminders that repeat themselves forever are what make organizing feel like nagging, so the sequence is deliberately finite. How to write a follow-up that works.

Every invitation carries a one-tap way out. Opting out removes that person from reminders straight away and tells everyone else to stop waiting on them. A fast no is far more useful to a group than a slow maybe, so declining is treated as a real answer rather than a failure.

No — groups persist. Add your people once and every poll after that is a two-step job: pick the group, send it. You can add participants to an open poll if you forgot someone, and their invitation goes out immediately. Or create without a guest list and share the public join link through text or group chat instead.

The winning option is announced to everyone who took part, and you can download a calendar file for it. If a poll reaches its deadline it closes automatically; you can also close one early once the answer is obvious. If the top options are tied, planit waits for the organizer to choose the winner before sending the announcement.

Results show the standings once you have voted, so people can see how the group is leaning without that information shaping their own answer beforehand. The organizer sees who has and has not responded, which is what makes a targeted reminder possible.

Nothing. There is no paid tier and no credit card. Hosting and email are paid for by the ads shown alongside the guides on this site — which is also why you will not see an ad on a voting screen or anywhere inside the app.

No. Advertising appears only on the published pages of this site — the guides, the FAQ, and the home page. The signed-in app, the invitation emails, and every voting and confirmation screen are ad-free.

They are used to send that poll’s invitation, its reminders, and its result. Nothing else. They are not sold, not shared with advertisers, and not added to any mailing list. See the privacy policy for specifics.

Each participant gets their own unguessable link, which is how voting works without an account. Treat it like a personal link: anyone you forward it to could vote as you. Voting pages are excluded from search engines.

You can delete a group from inside the app, which removes its saved participant list. To have an account, or your name and email as a participant, removed entirely, email privacy@planitnow.usfrom that address. Mail that has already been delivered obviously still sits in people’s inboxes. The privacy policy has the details.