Your kid becomes an adult. You become a bar mitzvah planner. We've got you, Mom.
A bar or bat mitzvah is really two events wearing one date: a sacred service with honors and aliyot, and a party with a DJ, a candle lighting, and 120 people who all swear they RSVP'd. This is the only planning tool built for both halves.
Hebrew names printed correctly
Candle lighting, in order, every time
One weekend, every headcount right
The wedding apps don't know what a parsha is. The spreadsheet doesn't care. You've been on your own — until now.
Every "event tool" out there is a wedding tool with the labels changed. Nowhere for the Torah portion. Nothing about aliyot. No clue that Friday dinner and Saturday's party are different guest lists with different headcounts. So it all lives in a spreadsheet, a group chat, and your head at 2am.
The service, honored properly
Torah portion, rabbi and cantor, every honor and aliyah with the honoree's Hebrew name — printed correctly, right to left — in a program you'll be proud to hand out. Twins? Pick B'nai or B'not and the plan grows a second honoree, a second parsha, and a shared-or-split service. The mitzvah project rides along too, printed on the honors sheet.
Candle lighting, in order
Who's called up, in what order, Hebrew names beside the English — tracked once, printed onto the DJ's cue sheet, so nobody's grandmother gets skipped.
The party, run like a pro
Kids' tables, one weekend of RSVPs (Friday dinner ≠ Saturday party), seating, budget, vendors, and a minute-by-minute timeline that flexes when the hora runs long.
A real cockpit, not a checklist with ads.
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Tell it the basics
Date, synagogue, venue, the honoree's name in English and Hebrew. The plankit builds your whole checklist, from "book the venue" nine months out to "final count to the caterer" the week of.
Load your people
Guests with households, kids vs adults, meals and allergies. Everyone gets a personal RSVP link that works on any phone — no accounts, no app. You watch the counts move in real time.
Build the weekend
Friday dinner, the service, the luncheon, the party — each on the plan with its own time. Honors and candle lighting for the service, the run-of-show for the party.
Seat the room
Pick a family, click a table — or let auto-suggest lay the room out and then drag the tables where you want them. Kids' tables that actually work. When cousin Dave finally admits he's not coming, his seat frees itself.
Print the weekend
Run-of-show, day-of summary, seating list, vendor sheets — and the candle-lighting cue sheet for the DJ. On the day, you're the calm one holding the paper.
Fourteen names, in order, said right.
The candle lighting is where the night gets magic or gets awkward. PlanFlow tracks who's called up, in what order — with the montage and hora cued right behind it — and prints it straight onto the DJ's cue sheet, so it's never a surprise to the person holding the microphone.
2 · The Chicago cousins
3 · Aunt Dana & Uncle Rob
⋯
14 · Mom & Dad
What the weekend costs. And what the plan costs.
Families typically spend $10,000–$40,000 on a bar or bat mitzvah — big-city parties run far higher. Here's where the money goes, and where $149 sits in the picture.
It's the planner's toolkit without the planner's fee. Already have a party planner or synagogue coordinator? Hand them a secure link to exactly their part — never your password.
Cost ranges from published industry guides and cost surveys as of July 2026.
What you're using now vs. what this is.
| Spreadsheet + group chat | Wedding apps (free) | Mitzvah "organizers" (paid) | PlanFlow Mitzvah | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knows the service — parsha, honors, Hebrew names | ✗ | ✗ | lists, but no proper printing | ✓ printed right-to-left, correctly |
| The whole weekend — Friday dinner ≠ Saturday party | you, manually, at 2am | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ every event, every headcount |
| Candle-lighting order → DJ cue sheet | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ printed straight onto the DJ's cue sheet |
| Budget + vendors + contracts | three more tabs | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ with payment tracking & e-sign |
| Kosher / Shabbat aware | — | ✗ | — | ✓ built into the plankit |
| Timeline that flexes on the night | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ shift once — everything slides, pinned holds |
| Price | "free" + your sanity | free — you're the product | subscription-grade spreadsheets | $149 once · founder $119 |
Comparison covers free and paid alternatives, based on published pricing and product documentation as of July 2026.
Built by the guy who's run 30 years of mitzvah parties.
PlanFlow's founder has DJ'd and MC'd mitzvahs for three decades, running one of the top mitzvah entertainment companies in Minnesota. He's watched a thousand moms run this weekend from a binder and a prayer, and he's been handed the wrong candle-lighting order more times than he can count. He built the tool so it never happens again — for his own families first. Now yours.
"The candle lighting is where the night gets magic or gets awkward. Fourteen names, in order, said right. That sheet should never be a surprise to your DJ — and now it never is."— PlanFlow's founder
You, calm, holding the paper.
Run-of-Show
The whole weekend, minute by minute — service and party, with Hebrew where Hebrew belongs.
Seating list
For the venue's door table. Kids' tables clearly marked.
DJ & vendor packs
The candle order with Hebrew names, the hora cue, the must-play and do-not-play lists. The caterer gets meals & allergies — never the playlist.
Door check-in
Check guests in from your phone — so Friday's list isn't Saturday's chaos.
Ask your weekend anything. It drafts — you approve.
Names are scrubbed before anything leaves the Service, and every action is logged.
One kid. One weekend. One plan. $149.
Founder price $119 for the first 25 families — or through September 1, 2026, whichever comes first. 30-day money-back. No subscription, no ads, and your guest list is nobody's product. Yours through your event + 12 months after.
Mazel tov — now let's get you organized.
Start your Mitzvah plan — $119Founder pricing applied at checkout.
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What moms actually ask.
We're doing Friday dinner, Saturday service, a luncheon AND a party. Can it handle that?
That's exactly the shape it's built for. Each part of the weekend lives on the plan with its own date and time, and the guest list tracks who's coming — so every headcount stays right.
Will the Hebrew names print correctly?
Yes. Honors and aliyot store the Hebrew name alongside the English one, and the printed program renders it right-to-left, properly. It's the detail everyone else gets wrong.
We keep kosher / are Shabbat observant. Does the plankit understand?
Kosher catering and Shabbat observance are first-class settings — they show up where they matter, including on what your caterer sees.
Do my guests need to download anything?
Never. Each guest gets a personal link that opens in any browser — tap, RSVP, done. Grandparents included.
I already have a party planner / the synagogue has a coordinator.
Even better — you hand them a secure link to exactly their slice (timeline, seating, check-in — you choose), never your password.
What if it's not for me?
30-day money-back, no questions. And your plan leaves with you — print-ready PDFs and CSV reports, any time. It's yours.