Bring in the files you already have

One place to drop any of them

Alista reads Excel and CSV files, Word documents, PDFs and photos of a printed page, and tells you whether it is looking at a guest list, a rooming list or an agenda. If it has guessed wrong, you say what it is. From Numbers or Pages, export to Excel or Word first.

Nothing saved until you say so

Before anything changes you see it line by line: who is new, what has changed, what is there already. Bring in the same file twice and nothing is added twice.

Guest lists and rooming lists

A guest list adds and updates people, and never removes anyone. A hotel’s rooming list sets that hotel’s nights to match it: who sleeps there, on which nights and in which room type, with guests matched by name when the hotel has no emails. Anyone on it who is not on your guest list yet can be added as you go.

An agenda, put into its days

Each line lands on the day of its date with its time, its type and its venue, found among your saved places or near the destination. A reception that belongs to the dinner arrives inside it, and whatever else a line says is kept as a note. A line that says “TBC” asks you for a likely time before it goes in.

Choices come with the list

A column of menu choices or room types becomes the options on the dinner or the hotel night, with each guest’s choice already given.