Planorama vs Weddingkart
Planorama vs Weddingkart for Indian wedding planners
Two tools built for the same job, with different strengths around the same core. Planorama brings vendors and a day-of run sheet; Weddingkart brings AI, mobile apps and official-only WhatsApp.
Quick Answer
How do Weddingkart and Planorama compare?
Both are built for Indian wedding planners and cover the same core ground - guest lists, multi-event RSVPs, travel and hotel room blocks. What differs is what each one adds around that. Planorama is distinctive for a vendor catalogue you can reuse across weddings, a day-of run sheet with vendor call times attached, and a web-based RSVP page where planners write their own questions; choose Planorama if vendor management is central to how you work. Weddingkart is distinctive for AI that reads uploaded tickets and IDs rather than just collecting them, a WhatsApp concierge bot that answers guest questions, a voice agent in six languages, gift-hamper handover tracking, invitations personalised with each guest's own name, and iOS and Android apps. On messaging, Planorama offers two sender options including a personal number linked by QR code for unlimited sending, while Weddingkart sends only on the official WhatsApp Business Platform as a Meta Business Solution Provider.
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Planorama vs Weddingkart, feature by feature
Planorama
Supported, but sits alongside a QR-linked personal-number sender that its own app warns can be banned.
Weddingkart
Official API only, as a Meta Business Solution Provider. No unofficial sending path exists.
Planorama
Drag-and-drop assignment with capacity, overlap and cross-hotel conflict checks, plus stay reports.
Weddingkart
Rooms, occupancy and check-in/check-out tracked per guest, with allocation in the host app. Both products cover this.
Planorama
Per-project and global vendor catalogue, categories, Active / Inactive / Blacklisted.
Weddingkart
No vendor module.
Planorama
Show Flow, with its own tasks and vendors attached.
Weddingkart
Nothing equivalent today.
Planorama
Guests upload tickets and ID files; a human still opens each one and types the details.
Weddingkart
Tickets and IDs are parsed automatically - flight and train details extracted, IRCTC timings normalised, ID fronts and backs paired, low-quality scans queued for review.
Planorama
No voice agent and no AI features anywhere in the product.
Weddingkart
Conversational voice agent in six languages, plus recorded voice broadcasts.
Planorama
No bot. Guest questions land in an inbox for a human to answer.
Weddingkart
Per-wedding knowledge base answers guest questions automatically, in English, Hindi and Hinglish.
Planorama
Web only. No iOS or Android app for planners or guests.
Weddingkart
iOS and Android apps for the host side, plus a guest web app.
Planorama
Collects guest documents and KYC, but no wedding-photo gathering.
Weddingkart
Guests send photos over WhatsApp; they land in the couple’s own Google Drive.
Planorama
No gift module.
Weddingkart
Track which hamper each guest or room is due, and record the handover - who received what, and when. Useful when a runner is delivering to a hundred rooms.
Planorama
Headers can resolve per guest (ticket, booking, KYC); no name rendered into artwork.
Weddingkart
The guest’s own name rendered into the invitation card or PDF, so each guest receives a copy addressed to them rather than a shared graphic.
Planorama
A personalised web link per guest, with RSVP, Travel and Stay tabs - room for more fields, but the guest has to open a page.
Weddingkart
One-tap buttons inside the WhatsApp chat, per ceremony, with a guest web app when longer forms are needed. Nothing to open, nothing to install.
Planorama
Custom questions scoped per tab, with per-question answer locks. No approval needed - it is a web form.
Weddingkart
You can write any template with any buttons you want, and Meta approves it as a utility template. Flexible, but a review step rather than an instant form builder.
Planorama
7 days, 100 guests, 100 messages, Travel and Stay included.
Weddingkart
Every feature is open on a free wedding with no restrictions - the only limit is that you can message 5 people at a time.
Planorama
Not public. The paid tier is quoted through a sales conversation.
Weddingkart
Published on our pricing page - read it and buy without talking to anyone.
| Feature | Planorama | WeddingkartRecommended |
|---|---|---|
| Official WhatsApp Business Platform | Partial Supported, but sits alongside a QR-linked personal-number sender that its own app warns can be banned. | Yes Official API only, as a Meta Business Solution Provider. No unofficial sending path exists. |
| Hotel room-block assignment | Yes Drag-and-drop assignment with capacity, overlap and cross-hotel conflict checks, plus stay reports. | Yes Rooms, occupancy and check-in/check-out tracked per guest, with allocation in the host app. Both products cover this. |
| Vendor management | Yes Per-project and global vendor catalogue, categories, Active / Inactive / Blacklisted. | No No vendor module. |
| Day-of run sheet | Yes Show Flow, with its own tasks and vendors attached. | No Nothing equivalent today. |
| Reading travel documents, not just collecting them | Partial Guests upload tickets and ID files; a human still opens each one and types the details. | Yes Tickets and IDs are parsed automatically - flight and train details extracted, IRCTC timings normalised, ID fronts and backs paired, low-quality scans queued for review. |
| Voice AI | No No voice agent and no AI features anywhere in the product. | Yes Conversational voice agent in six languages, plus recorded voice broadcasts. |
| WhatsApp concierge bot for guests | No No bot. Guest questions land in an inbox for a human to answer. | Yes Per-wedding knowledge base answers guest questions automatically, in English, Hindi and Hinglish. |
| Mobile apps | No Web only. No iOS or Android app for planners or guests. | Yes iOS and Android apps for the host side, plus a guest web app. |
| Guest photo collection | No Collects guest documents and KYC, but no wedding-photo gathering. | Yes Guests send photos over WhatsApp; they land in the couple’s own Google Drive. |
| Gift hamper tracking | No No gift module. | Yes Track which hamper each guest or room is due, and record the handover - who received what, and when. Useful when a runner is delivering to a hundred rooms. |
| Personalised invitation media | No Headers can resolve per guest (ticket, booking, KYC); no name rendered into artwork. | Yes The guest’s own name rendered into the invitation card or PDF, so each guest receives a copy addressed to them rather than a shared graphic. |
| How guests RSVP | Yes A personalised web link per guest, with RSVP, Travel and Stay tabs - room for more fields, but the guest has to open a page. | Yes One-tap buttons inside the WhatsApp chat, per ceremony, with a guest web app when longer forms are needed. Nothing to open, nothing to install. |
| Planner-authored RSVP questions | Yes Custom questions scoped per tab, with per-question answer locks. No approval needed - it is a web form. | Partial You can write any template with any buttons you want, and Meta approves it as a utility template. Flexible, but a review step rather than an instant form builder. |
| Trial before paying | Yes 7 days, 100 guests, 100 messages, Travel and Stay included. | Yes Every feature is open on a free wedding with no restrictions - the only limit is that you can message 5 people at a time. |
| Pricing transparency | Partial Not public. The paid tier is quoted through a sales conversation. | Yes Published on our pricing page - read it and buy without talking to anyone. |
Competitor features and pricing are as of 1 October 2026; check Planorama's own site for the latest. Weddingkart is not affiliated with Planorama.
What Planorama is distinctive for
A vendor catalogue
Planorama tracks vendors per wedding and in an account-level catalogue you can reuse across projects, with categories and Active / Inactive / Blacklisted status. If your vendor book lives in your head or a separate sheet today, that is a real convenience Weddingkart does not offer.
A web RSVP page with your own questions
Planorama gives each guest a personalised web link with RSVP, Travel and Stay tabs, and planners write their own questions on it with per-question answer locks - no approval needed, because it is a web page. Weddingkart takes the opposite approach: guests answer inside WhatsApp with one-tap buttons, and you can build any template with any buttons you like once Meta approves it as a utility template. A web form holds more fields; a WhatsApp reply asks less of the guest. Which suits you depends on how much you need to collect.
Two ways to send WhatsApp, and what each one gives you
Both products send over WhatsApp, and both support the official WhatsApp Business Platform. The difference is that Planorama offers a second option alongside it, and Weddingkart offers only the official one. Neither choice is hidden - Planorama documents both clearly inside its own app, which is worth crediting.
The official platform is the metered one. Meta bills per message delivered, the sender is a verified business number, and Meta will not block it for sending at volume. That is the rail Weddingkart runs on, as a Meta Business Solution Provider, and it is why our messages are priced as credits rather than offered as unlimited.
Planorama's second option, which it calls “Regular WhatsApp”, links a personal number by QR code and an eight-character pairing code. It sends freely with no templates and no approval, which is what makes unlimited messaging possible. Planorama sets out the trade-off plainly in its own interface, and we have quoted it below rather than paraphrasing.
If unlimited sending matters most to you, that option exists and Planorama is upfront about what it involves. If you would rather the number carrying your invitations be a verified business sender Meta protects, that is the single rail Weddingkart offers. Our prices are published rather than quoted, so you can compare them without booking a call - see Weddingkart pricing.
The two sender options, in Planorama's own words
Quoted from Planorama's public web app, 9 September 2026. They describe both options clearly, so we have used their wording rather than ours.
WhatsApp Business API — the rail Weddingkart uses
- ✓ “Meta-verified number — trusted sender status”
- ✓ “Meta does not block your number for sending bulk messages”
- → “Only approved template messages can be sent”
- → “Pricing is controlled by Meta's rate structure”
“Regular WhatsApp” — what unlimited runs on
- ✓ “Send any message freely — no template approval required”
- ✓ “No pre-approval process from Meta before sending”
- → “Bulk messaging can be flagged by Meta, leading to number bans”
- → “Less trust and security compared to a Meta-verified business account”
Weddingkart offers the first of these and not the second. Messages are priced as credits because Meta bills them, and in return the number your invitations go out from is a verified business sender.
Which should you choose?
Choose Weddingkart if…
- The number your invitations go out from is one you cannot afford to lose.
- You want tickets and IDs read automatically rather than opened and typed up by a coordinator.
- You need AI doing real work - a guest concierge on WhatsApp and a voice agent that calls guests who never reply.
- You are handing out gift hampers and want a record of who actually received one.
- You want each guest to get an invitation with their own name on it, not one shared graphic.
- Your team needs a phone app on the wedding day, not a browser tab.
- You want to see the price, and the track record, before you talk to a salesperson.
Planorama is the better fit if…
- You want a vendor catalogue - per wedding and reusable across weddings - inside the same tool as your guest list.
- You want a day-of run sheet with vendor call times attached.
- You would rather guests RSVP on a web page with several tabs of questions than in the WhatsApp chat itself.
- You want a spreadsheet-style guest grid with your own custom columns.
- Unlimited sending is the priority for you, and the trade-offs their app describes suit how you work.
Why WhatsApp is the wedge
Weddingkart is a Meta Business Solution Provider, so every message runs through the official WhatsApp Business Platform. Templates are cleared before you use them, delivery and read status come back per guest, and the sending number is a verified business account. That is the whole channel strategy - one rail, done properly.
Around it sits the part Planorama has no version of. Guests can ask questions and get answered by a concierge bot that knows the wedding. Guests who never reply get a voice call in their own language. Tickets and IDs they upload are read automatically rather than opened one by one. Invitations go out with each guest's own name rendered into the card.
If you want the mechanics behind any of this, we have written them up in how the WhatsApp Business API works and what WhatsApp messages actually cost.
Run your wedding on WhatsApp
30 free credits, every feature unlocked, no card needed. Standard is ₹14,999 per wedding (one-time, +18% GST) when you are ready.
Try Weddingkart freeFrequently asked questions
- How can Planorama offer unlimited WhatsApp messages?
- Planorama offers two sender types. Alongside proper WhatsApp Business API numbers, it offers a "Regular WhatsApp" sender that links a personal number by QR code, which sends without templates or per-message charges - and that is what makes unlimited possible. On the official platform Meta bills per delivered message, which is why Weddingkart prices messages as credits rather than offering unlimited. Both approaches are legitimate choices; they just buy different things.
- What is the practical difference between the two sender options?
- Planorama sets it out in its own app, which is worth crediting. A Meta-verified business number gets "trusted sender status" and Meta "does not block your number for sending bulk messages", but only approved templates can be sent and Meta sets the rates. The Regular WhatsApp option sends anything with no approval, and Planorama notes it carries "less trust and security" and that bulk sending "can be flagged by Meta". Weddingkart offers the verified route only, so templates are cleared in advance and the sending number is a business account Meta recognises.
- Does Weddingkart do hotel room blocks like Planorama?
- Yes. Weddingkart tracks rooms, occupancy and check-in and check-out against each guest, with allocation handled in the host app, so a planner can run a hotel block from the same place the guest list lives. Planorama has a drag-and-drop placement view with cross-hotel conflict checking. Both products cover this ground - it is not the deciding factor between them.
- What does Weddingkart do that Planorama has no version of?
- Quite a lot, and it is mostly AI and mobile. Weddingkart reads uploaded tickets and IDs automatically rather than collecting files for someone to type up, runs a WhatsApp concierge bot that answers guest questions from a per-wedding knowledge base, calls guests who never reply using a voice agent in six languages, collects guest photos straight into the couple's Google Drive, tracks gift-hamper handovers, personalises each invitation with the guest's own name, and ships iOS and Android apps. Planorama is web-only and does not include AI features.
- Which is cheaper, Planorama or Weddingkart?
- Planorama's pricing is not public - the paid tier is quoted through a sales conversation. Weddingkart publishes everything on its pricing page: ₹5,999 Basic and ₹14,999 Standard on our shared number, or ₹6,999 and ₹14,999 with unlimited messages if you bring your own WhatsApp number (plus a 5-wedding Season pack at ₹59,999 either way). Note also that Planorama's terms describe a 5% non-refundable fee deducted from each guest-side payment, which is worth checking if you plan to collect money from guests.
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