Setting guest age category

Learn how to categorize guests as Adults, Children, or Infants to help with meal planning, seating arrangements, and venue capacity counts.

Age categories help you keep track of how many adults, children, and infants are coming. This is super useful for meal planning, seating arrangements, and figuring out logistics.

The three age categories

  • Adult - The default for new guests
  • Child - Kids who need their own seat and meal
  • Infant - Babies who likely share a seat with a parent

How to set it

  1. Go to Guests in your main navigation
  2. Click on the guest you want to update
  3. In the Details tab, find the Age dropdown
  4. Select Adult, Child, or Infant
  5. Click Save guest

Why it matters

Your dashboard stats break down guest counts by age category. This helps you:

  • Know how many adult meals to order vs. kids' meals
  • Figure out how many high chairs or booster seats you need
  • Plan your seating arrangements accordingly
  • Give accurate counts to your venue and caterer

Bulk updating age categories

If you need to update several guests at once (like marking all the little ones in a family as children), select them with the checkboxes, click Edit guests, and change the age for all of them together.

Tips

Set ages early. It's one of those things that's easy to forget but really helpful when you start working with vendors and venues.

Use the filter. You can filter your guest list by age category to see just your adults, children, or infants. Handy when you need to give a count to your caterer.

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