The Invite · free with every package
Every party gets its
own website.
A countdown, the address, a map, and one-tap RSVPs that land in your inbox. Your guests don’t download anything or make an account. On the day, their phones show the live leaderboard.
No ads. No trackers. No account. Not now and not later.
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Live about a minute after you book. The link never changes, so you can text it before you have decided anything else.
You're invited
Mateo
is turning 8
- When
- Saturday, October 3
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM - Where
- The Ferreira house128 Almond St, Ashland, OR
Can you come?
Send my RSVP
Saturday, October 3 · an example, not a real party
A real invitation, with an invented child in it
What a guest sees
One page, and it answers the four things they came for.
It is the page a parent reopens on the morning of the party while putting shoes on a child. Nothing on it is more than a thumb-reach away.
Whose party, and when
The name, the age, and a countdown in days. That countdown is why guests come back three to five times instead of once.
Where, with a map link
The address opens whichever map app is already on the phone. No embedded map, because an embedded map is a third party watching your guests.
A two-tap RSVP
Three big buttons, a name, and how many children. No account, no password, no app, no email address required.
The scores, on the day
From the moment the arcade starts, the page becomes a live scoreboard. Parents watch their own kid's round from your kitchen.
It has to load in under a second and a half on a mid-range Android on cellular, because that is literally the phone this runs on. That budget is why the page has no carousel, no video header and no font it did not already need.
The RSVP
Two taps, and you know how much cake to buy.
Every field is answered by the parent. Nothing on this page is ever asked of a child, and there is no step where anybody is invited to create an account.
1
You text one link
Straight into the class group chat. The preview that appears in the message is your child's name and your theme, not our logo.
2
They tap it
The invitation opens. Name, age, countdown, date, time, and the address with a map link. Nothing loads before it.
3
Three buttons
We'll be there · Maybe · Can't make it. That is the whole decision, and it is the first thing under the party details.
4
A name and a number
Who is replying, and how many children they are bringing. Allergies and a note to you are optional, labelled as being for the host only, and deleted after the party.
5
Done, plus a calendar entry
“You're in”, and one tap to put it in their calendar with your address already in it. Then one line — not a banner — asking whether their own child has a birthday coming up. Optional, from the parent, with the reason written next to it.
That last line is the only thing on the entire invitation that asks a guest for anything, it appears after they have replied and never before, and it is the reason this page can be free. We would rather tell you that than pretend it is not there.
The honest bit
Free, ad-free, permanently. Here is why that is safe to believe.
Roughly eighteen households open your invitation three to five times each. Every one of them contains a child within about eighteen months of the same age, in the same town, in the same income band, whose birthday is also coming. There is not a more valuable little audience in this business, and somebody would pay us for it.
We are never going to sell it, and the reason is not virtue. That invitation is how people find us. A parent at pickup asking “where did you get this?” is worth more to us than any banner, and a banner is the fastest way to stop them asking. Monetising the invitation would mean monetising the thing that does our marketing.
So the rule is simple and it is written into the product: we gate the games, never the invitation. The invitation site is not a tier and not a trial. It comes with every package we sell, including the $29 digital one, and there is no version of Bashcade where you pay us for an invitation.
What is never on that page
- Ads. Not a banner, not a sponsored line, not a partner offer.
- Third-party pixels, tags or analytics. Nobody else gets a request from your guests at all.
- Popups, interstitials, cookie walls, or an email gate in front of the address.
- An account. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to install.
- Anything at all collected from a child. Every field is answered by a parent.
- A second ask. One soft line after the RSVP is the whole of it.
The children’s privacy notice says all of this in the language a lawyer would use, and it says the same thing.
Party day
At three o’clock the countdown becomes a scoreboard.
The same link, unchanged, on the same page the guests have been checking for a fortnight. Top three per game, updating as the rounds finish, readable from the other side of the room on a phone propped against the fruit bowl.
- It works on any phone with no login, so parents share screenshots of it without thinking about it.
- There is a big-screen version for a second TV or a laptop on the kitchen counter.
- The scores keep working with the internet off — the arcade does not need us to run.
- You can switch the whole scoreboard off in your account if a child having a bad round would ruin the afternoon.
Live scores · Button Masher
- 1Ada312
- 2Theo298
- 3Mateo277
An example, not a real party
Themed to match
The link you text the class looks like the party.
A theme pack reskins the arcade and the invitation together, so the page your guests open is the same dinosaur as the cake, the plates and the TV in the corner.
You're invited
Mateo
is turning 8
- When
- Saturday, October 3
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM - Where
- The Ferreira house128 Almond St, Ashland, OR
Can you come?
Send my RSVP
Saturday, October 3 · an example, not a real party
You're invited
Mateo
is turning 8
- When
- Saturday, October 3
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM - Where
- The Ferreira house128 Almond St, Ashland, OR
Can you come?
Send my RSVP
Saturday, October 3 · an example, not a real party
On paper, too
A flyer with the same face, and a code that opens the invitation.
Some classes still hand out paper, some grandparents do not use group chats, and a card in a party bag is how the invitation reaches the family that never saw the text. Every design prints as an A5 or a US Letter sheet with a QR straight to your invitation site.
- Print your own, free. Your browser’s own print dialog saves it as a PDF, and the sheet is laid out for it.
- Or $19 for twenty printed cards in the box, on proper stock, in the same design.
- The code goes to the invitation itself — the countdown, the address and the RSVP. Never an app store, and never a link that stops working.
What is on the sheet
- The party
- Name, age, date, time and address, in the theme's own colours and type.
- The code
- A QR to your invitation site, printed on white whatever the theme does, so every camera in the room reads it.
- Two papers
- A5 for a half-sheet you can run two-up, or US Letter for the paper already in the printer.
- An ink switch
- A version on white paper for anybody who has looked at the price of a colour cartridge.
The honest answers
Six things parents ask about the invitation.
Do my guests need an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no app and no email wall. They tap the link you texted them, read the party details and answer in two taps. We do not know who they are and we do not ask.
Is it really free?
Yes, and it is not a trial. The invitation site comes with every package we sell, including the digital one, and there is no version of Bashcade where you pay us for an invitation. What we charge for is the arcade.
Will there be ads on it?
Never. Roughly eighteen households open your invitation three to five times each — an audience somebody would happily pay us for. Selling it is the fastest way to stop parents asking where you got this, and that question is worth more to us than a banner.
Can I make it private?
The address is only ever on a page with an unguessable link, and that page is never indexed by search engines. If you want a second lock, set a password and guests are asked for it before anything loads.
What happens on the day of the party?
The countdown becomes a live scoreboard. Parents standing in your kitchen can watch the round their kid is playing on their own phone, and the link works on any phone with no login.
What do you do with the RSVPs?
We show them to you and nobody else. Guest names and allergy notes are kept for the party and deleted afterwards on a fixed clock, and nothing is ever asked of a child — every field is answered by a parent.
When’s the party?
Book a date and the invitation site is live about a minute later, ready to text. The arcade is what you are paying for; this part comes with it.