You're the one who plans the holiday party. Every. Single. Year.
The egg hunt, the Fourth of July BBQ, Friendsgiving, the office December party, New Year's Eve. One plankit plans one of them, properly: every part of the night with its own RSVPs, plus-ones counted, the budget clean enough for the boss, and a white elephant that runs on rules instead of shouting.
The awards block: ten-minute year-in-review, five awards, no slides
Plus-ones counted on every RSVP — "Engineering lead +1 confirmed"
$18,000 tracked: ballroom, buffet, hosted bar, the best-sweater prize
An egg hunt is not a BBQ. A costume contest is not Secret Santa. The plan bends to the party.
Name the holiday — any holiday: Diwali, Eid, Lunar New Year, Juneteenth, the office December party below — and shape the night as parts of the day, each with its own RSVPs, timeline, and jobs. The screenshots are one real party, mid-plan.
The gift exchange, run right
On the party below it's already real: a Gift Exchange act with its own RSVPs, the white elephant on the run-of-show with the 3-steal rule, and backup gifts + numbered tags on the budget. And the Secret Santa draw is live: tick who’s playing, tap Draw, and everyone gets a private assignment — nobody can draw themselves. Couple exclusions (don’t pair the Hendersons) aren’t in yet COUPLE EXCLUSIONS — COMING SOON.
Any holiday, shaped to fit
Hunt zones, grill rotations, contest stations — build them as parts of the day and timeline items with volunteers attached, the same way this party runs its cocktails, buffet, awards, and exchange. The toolkit doesn't care which holiday it is.
Potluck & BBQ signups
Slots by category — one ham, not four — on the dish-signup list today, assigned by you. The food plan also lives as real parts, notes, and budget lines, like the mulled-cider station below. Guests claiming their own slot from their link is on the way. CLAIM-A-SLOT BOARD — COMING SOON
Office mode, without the cringe
The December party your finance team can live with: a budget tracked planned-vs-paid to the line, plus-ones counted per RSVP, and the CEO's thirty-minute stage block timed on the run-of-show — no slides per award.
One real holiday party, in pictures.
These are unretouched screenshots from the real product. The Midwest Innovation December party is a sample plan we built end to end to show you exactly what it does — four acts, 120 covers, one ballroom. Click any of them to look closer.
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This is the white elephant exactly as the Midwest Innovation plan runs it — the rules on screen, the DJ emceeing straight out of the awards block, the backup gifts already budgeted for whoever "forgot." The run-of-show screenshot above shows it live.
Midwest Innovation — White Elephant
One party? The plankit. The whole calendar? Celebration.
A plankit plans one holiday party, start to finish — $99, founder $79. But if you're the host of record for Easter AND the Fourth AND Halloween AND December, four plankits is ~$400 a year — still just under a year of Celebration Lite ($39/mo, $429 billed yearly), so at four the plankits win on price. Past that the subscription pulls ahead, and Lite covers ten open events across all fifteen celebration plankits — every holiday on this page plus the birthdays, showers, and reunions you were also going to get handed. Serial hosts, that's your lane, and we'd rather tell you than upsell you one party at a time. Your archived plans carry over either way: next year's party starts 80% done from this year's. And if you're a country club or venue running member holidays as programming — Easter brunch through NYE, every year — the Celebration Track at $19/mo puts this plankit and its holiday presets on repeat, which is the lane they live in.
Five single-purpose apps vs. the group chat vs. one plankit.
| Single-purpose apps (invites + draws + signup sheets) | The group chat + a clipboard | PlanFlow Holidays | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it really is | Three or four free tools, none talking to each other, ads on most | Where the potluck gets double-booked and the contest is a shouting match | One plan per holiday — acts, RSVPs, run-of-show, budget, the door |
| Shaped to the holiday | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ parts of the day + timeline, any holiday |
| Gift exchange with rules | draw apps do the draw — alone | a shouting match | ✓ run-of-show rules + the digital draw, privately assigned · couple exclusions COMING SOON |
| Costume contest with voting | ✗ a photo thread at best | a clipboard and hurt feelings | entries & voting COMING SOON |
| The playlist, and the one song nobody wants | someone’s phone on shuffle | a shouted request | ✓ must-play, do-not-play, the songs that matter with their moment, and requests as you collect them — paste a list straight out of Spotify or drop a spreadsheet, it de-dupes, and it prints on the DJ's sheet |
| Potluck signup slots | signup-sheet apps do this — alone | first-come chaos | ✓ signup slots, notes + budget |
| Plus-ones & headcounts | ✗ | scattered texts | ✓ counted on every RSVP |
| Next year starts 80% done | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ your archive carries into next year's plankit |
| Price | free — with ads and four logins | free — plus the chaos | $99 per party · founder $79 · serial hosts: Celebration from $39/mo |
Comparison covers free and paid alternatives using published pricing and official documentation as of July 2026.
Ask the party anything. It drafts — you approve.
Names are scrubbed before anything leaves the Service, and every action is logged.
One party, planned like you mean it.
$99. Any holiday you pick.
Founder price $79 for the first 25 hosts — or through September 1, 2026, whichever comes first. 30-day money-back, yours through the event + 12 months after. Office December party works too — the budget trail and the plus-one counts are in the screenshots. Hosting six or more parties a year? Celebration Lite is the better deal — the math is right on this page.
Start your next holiday — $79Founder pricing applied at checkout · a scoped link for your co-host · guests never need an app
What hosts ask.
Is this one holiday or all of them?
One — a plankit plans one holiday party, and you pick which: any holiday, your call. Doing Easter AND Halloween AND December? Each is its own plankit — or, smarter past about six a year, a Celebration subscription covers your whole calendar (and the birthdays and showers too) starting at $39/mo. We put the math right on this page because we'd rather you buy the right thing.
How does the costume contest voting work?
Entries with photos, categories, judge or crowd voting — that module is coming soon, and founder plankits get it as it lands. Until then, contests run the way this page's white elephant does: as a timed act on the run-of-show with the rules written down and a prize on the budget.
Can it run an office holiday party?
Yes — that is literally the party in the screenshots. The budget is tracked planned-vs-paid to the line, plus-ones are counted per RSVP, and the CEO's stage block is timed to thirty minutes with no slides per award. HR keeps its dignity; the DJ keeps the schedule.
We celebrate holidays that aren't on your list.
There is no list to be on. Name the event, build its parts — Diwali, Eid, Lunar New Year, Passover (see the Mitzvah plankit's kosher tools too), a Juneteenth block party — the toolkit is the same: parts, RSVPs, run-of-show, budget, one link for every guest.
What happens to last year's plan?
It stays archived on your account — guest list, what worked, what you spent — readable and exportable through the event + 12 months after, same as every plankit. When you buy next year's plankit, it starts 80% done from the archive. On a Celebration subscription, duplicating into a new event is simply included.
Is $99 per holiday?
Yes — one plankit, one party, like every plankit we sell. That honesty is the business model. The moment per-party math stops making sense for you — about six parties a year, against $429 for a year of Celebration Lite — the subscription is the right buy, and this page says so in bold.