The two of you are planning your wedding. One of you is carrying the entire third shift, every thread in hand: the guest list, the invitations, the email from the venue, the messages from the toastmaster, the spreadsheet with the table plan.
Your partner sits right next to you and can do little more than ask "how's it going?" and "can I help with anything?". It does not have to be this way. Planning is far more fun when you actually do it together.
You do not need to be getting married to throw a party with other people, either. The party committee at the office, the student association board, the cousins behind the family reunion.
Share the load and the full picture in Melda
In Melda, an event can have many owners. Each organizer signs in with their own account and has full control of everything. You all see the same RSVPs, the same guest list, the questions, the conversations, the emails, and the seating plan. In real time.
You invite a co-host by sending an invitation to their email address. If that email already has a Melda account, everything links up automatically when they accept. The email spells out plainly what it means: as a co-host, you can edit the event details, view registrations, and help with the planning. You assign tasks from the task list to co-hosts and set a due date, so everyone knows what is on whose plate and when it needs to be done.
Different roles, less risk
Not everyone should hold the same permissions. You choose what each person can do when you invite them to your event in event management:
- Owner — full control. Can edit everything, manage who else is an owner and what their roles are, and delete the event. That is the two of you.
- Admin — edits the event, manages the guests, and sends messages. Perfect for the toastmaster or the planner.
- Co-host — edits the basic details and manages the guests. Good for someone who should help without holding all of it.
- Viewer — sees the event and the guest list, but changes nothing. Exactly right for parents who want to follow along, or a supplier who just needs the head count and should not be able to change anything.
That last one matters more than it sounds. It is good to be able to let someone in without worrying they will change something by accident. A Viewer sees everything they need and nothing more.
For companies: let your team run things
Whether you manage a venue in the booking system, run a catering service, or offer another service on the Melda marketplace, you should not have to do everything from a single user account.
Your company is registered in Melda, and you invite colleagues in as users connected to your company with "Invite member". The invitation goes out by email, just like with events. There are two roles:
- Admin — looks after the team itself: invites people, changes roles, removes people, manages the company's settings, and gets to fiddle with every knob in Melda.
- Member — runs the business: edits the service listings, manages bookings, conversations, invoicing, and the day-to-day.
That way the team runs its services together: the venue, the catering, whatever it is. Nobody sits alone on all the power and responsibility, and nobody causes chaos just by going on holiday.
One user can belong to several companies, and you switch between them with a single click. Maybe you run two venues, or both a venue and a catering business. One head, many hats, one login. The staff who only work in the hall get access to the hall, while the bookkeeper who does the books for both can see the venue and the catering side alike.
Throwing a party is fun when everything flows
Melda makes party planning fun. Invite your partner, your colleagues, your event planner, or anyone else to join in. Create an event in Melda and share the load. It takes two minutes.
If you run a business and want your team in, take a look at the marketplace or drop us a line at melda@melda.is.
