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How Luau works.
Step-by-step guides for hosts and guests. Every article shows the steps for the web app and Luau for iPhone — pick your platform at the top of any article.
Hosting an event
- Create an eventStart with Kai (type one sentence) or the classic form, and what you can and can't set at creation time.
- Edit your eventEdit mode is inline on the event page. What the ••• menu controls (guest list, capacity, plus-ones, PartyPass, sharing) and what it doesn't.
- The Next Steps cardsInvite Guests, Gift Registry, Make it a Group Effort, and Potluck. What each card does, when it shows, and where PartyPass and check-in actually live.
Mutuals, invites & Hangvites
- Mutuals, your real crew on LuauWhat a mutual is, how two people become mutuals, what the list shows, why you can't import contacts, and how connection strength works.
- Invite guestsEvery way to invite people, what Luau sends and when, why there's no contact import, and how Luau follows up for you until people RSVP.
- Hangvites, the same-day inviteWhat a Hangvite is, why it exists, how to send one from your iPhone, who gets it, and what "in or out" does.
Sign-ups (Group Effort)
- Make it a Group EffortTurn an event into a sign-up board of roles, shifts, supplies, and zones with the two-step wizard, then publish it.
- Manage sign-ups after publishingGet back into the wizard, change counts and shifts, remove a role or the whole board, and what happens to people who already signed up.
- See who signed up and export the rosterThe host-only roster by shift and item, printing it, exporting a CSV, and what it deliberately leaves out.
- Sign-up reminders and confirmationsExactly what Luau sends around a Group Effort, when, and on which channel, for guests and for hosts.
- Assign someone or share a needPut a specific person on a spot (or hold it for someone not on Luau yet), share the whole board, and send one exact ask to the right person.
For guests
- RSVPs, your guest list view, and your accountHow to RSVP and change it, plus-ones and the waitlist, series RSVPs, what guests see, signing in, your profile, notification settings, and deleting your account.
- How guests sign upWhat guests see on the board before and after RSVPing, how claiming works, what Going, Maybe, and Can't can do, and how to change or cancel a sign-up.
PartyPass & check-in
- PartyPass, tap to RSVPWhat PartyPass tags are, how to get and claim them, assigning them to an event, what a guest's tap does, the tap-to-RSVP lock and time limit, and reuse.
- Check-in and automatic attendanceCheck guests in with a PartyPass tap, a printed QR, or their location; what the app does automatically on iPhone; what hosts see; and the attendance recap.
Kai & your calendar
- Train Kai to be your social life assistantThe five-minute training conversation, what Kai asks, what it remembers, what it does with it afterwards, and how to change your answers.
- Connect your calendarWhat connecting Google Calendar does (events land on your calendar automatically), what Luau reads, and how Kai uses free time to suggest hanging out.
Reference
Still stuck?
Email support@luau.co with the event link and what you expected to happen. See the support page for sign-in and account questions.
Using ChatGPT, Claude, or another assistant? Give it luau.co/help/llms.txt — a plain-text index of these articles it can read instead of guessing at menus.