Approve pending Partiful guests by their questionnaire answers

1. Open the event and click the circle that shows how many guests are attending to open the guest toolbar.
2. Click a Pending guest's name to see their RSVP and Guest Questionnaire answers.
3. Use the dropdown next to the name to mark the guest Approved, or leave them Pending for later.
4. On a ticketed event, tap the check mark next to the name in the Guest List instead; that approval charges the card Partiful put on hold.
5. The only shortcut is Bulk actions > Approve all pending guests, which lets in everyone. Screening by answers stays one name at a time, and on a ticketed event a request left too long loses its card hold.

Approve all pending guests to my launch party who answered the questionnaire with a company name, and list the rest for me.

1. 01

   Agree the rule in plain words

   You say who gets in: "a company name in the first answer" or "members of the run club". The agent turns that into a check per question and shows you two sample decisions before it touches anyone.

2. 02

   Read only the queue

   The agent pulls just the pending requests, not the whole guest list. Requests answered since the last run are new; ones you already held for review are not asked about twice.

3. 03

   Sort into three piles

   Clear matches go to approve. Clear misses are listed with the reason and stay Pending. Blank, joke or vague answers ("tbd", a single emoji) go to a pile for you, because approving is the step that lets a person in.

4. 04

   Respect the guest limit

   get_event shows the cap. The agent approves no more matches than the free spots and reports how many qualified guests are still waiting, instead of pushing the event past its limit.

5. 05

   Approve on your OK, never remove

   The approve pile goes through in one call after you confirm. The agent does not remove anyone; misses stay Pending until you decide, since the rule can be wrong too.

Launch party, Fri 24 Oct: 14 Pending requests.
Approved after your OK: 9 with a company name, for example Maya Chen (Northwind Labs).
For you to review: 3, answers "tbd", "secret" and blank.
No match: 2 without a company, left Pending.
Guest limit 80: 70 approved now, 10 spots free.

• Partiful ticketed events with Guest Approval place a hold on a Pending guest's card, and the hold expires after 7 days.
• Approving a Pending guest on a Partiful ticketed event charges the card, grants the tickets and tells the guest the tickets are confirmed.
• Turning on Guest Approval for a Partiful event that already sold tickets approves every existing buyer automatically.
• Partiful cannot run Guest Approval and Chip In on the same event; its help center suggests a Venmo, Cash App, PayPal or GoFundMe link in the custom link field instead.

approve_guests asks for your OK by default. To run it daily without you, switch confirmation off for that tool in your dashboard.

Sources: Partiful Help: How do I approve guests to "Get on the List"? · Partiful Help: How do I approve all of my Pending guests at once? · Partiful Help: How do I set up Guest Approval for a ticketed event? · Partiful Help: Can I collect payments while I have Guest Approval on?

curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/partiful/approve_guests \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"event_id":"evt_pL8wN2aD","guest_ids":["g_41aa","g_41ab"]}'

{
  "event_id": "evt_pL8wN2aD",
  "approved": 2,
  "still_pending": 1
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the tool is partiful_approve_guests. Example data.

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