Interactive Email for Alumni Reunions & Giving

A reunion invite works best when it does more than announce a date — it should remind alumni what the place looked like, make RSVPing effortless, and give anyone moved to give back an easy way to do it, all without leaving the email.

Subject

Class of 2015: reunion details inside

A reunion invite works best when it does more than announce a date — it should remind alumni what the place looked like, make RSVPing effortless, and give anyone moved to give back an easy way to do it, all without leaving the email.

Alumni relations emails compete with decades of accumulated inbox fatigue. A photo, a one-tap RSVP, and a frictionless giving ask earn more attention than a plain text announcement ever will.

Bring back the memory before the ask

A Carousel block shows a swipeable set of campus or past-reunion photos in supporting inboxes, with a static stacked fallback for any inbox that can't show the swipe interaction — so the nostalgia lands everywhere, even if the interaction itself doesn't.

Make attending effortless

An RSVP block takes a one-tap Yes/No with an optional guest count and a capacity cap, waitlisting automatically once the venue's limit is reached — no separate signup page for something that should take one tap.

A giving ask that doesn't feel like a separate email

A Product block takes a donation directly through your own connected Stripe account — set one or more suggested amounts and checkout happens without leaving MailInApp's own flow, though Stripe itself processes the actual payment.

Send the right reunion to the right class

An audience filter narrows the send to alumni matching a field like graduating class or program, so each cohort gets an invite with their own reunion year and details pulled from the same shared contact list — no separate list to maintain per class.

Getting started

Add a Carousel of campus or reunion photos, an RSVP with a capacity if the venue has one, and a Product block for a giving campaign. Segment by graduating class using an audience filter so every cohort gets its own reunion year.

A typical build-and-send sequence

  1. 1

    Build the invite

    Add a Carousel of campus or past-reunion photos, a Venue and Add to calendar for the event itself, and an RSVP with a capacity if the venue has one.

  2. 2

    Add a giving ask, if it fits

    Drop in a Product block with one or more suggested donation amounts for a giving campaign tied to the reunion.

  3. 3

    Segment by class year or program

    An audience filter narrows the send to a specific graduating class or program, so each cohort gets an invite relevant to their own reunion year.

  4. 4

    Track RSVPs and gifts together

    The Responses dashboard shows confirmed and waitlisted RSVPs alongside donation totals as they come in, with no separate tool to check.

Frequently asked questions

Can I send a different reunion invite to each graduating class?

Yes — an audience filter narrows the send to alumni matching a field like graduating class or program, so each cohort's invite can carry its own reunion year and details from the same contact list.

Does MailInApp process the donation, or just link out to a separate site?

The Product block takes the donation directly through your own connected Stripe account — checkout happens without leaving MailInApp's own flow, though the payment itself is processed by Stripe, not MailInApp.

Can I show a set of campus or past-reunion photos without making the email huge?

Yes — the Carousel block shows a swipeable set of photos in supporting inboxes, and falls back to a plain stacked list of the same images anywhere that swipe interaction isn't supported, so the email stays reasonably sized either way.

Can I cap attendance if the reunion venue has a hard limit?

Yes — the RSVP block takes an optional capacity, and once confirmed RSVPs (plus guests, if allowed) would exceed it, further "yes" responses record as waitlisted instead, with your own custom waitlist message.

Can alumni RSVP and give in the same tap, or are they separate steps?

They're separate actions in the same email — RSVP records with one tap, and a donation goes through its own Buy-style checkout flow via the Product block, since a payment reasonably needs its own confirmation step.

Build this in the studio

Start on the free plan — every interactive block and the full fallback engine are included on every tier.