Mailchimp and a Google form or....

[Lochroy]

I've been asked to help organise a thing (personal, voluntary, not work) which means I need to email invite a lot of people including individual details in the body of the email and manage the replies.

I've never set up either but I'm thinking of trying Mail Chimp for the email and a Google form for the replies.

Any better ideas? Are they easy enough to set up?

Mail chimp is easy to use. Not used Google forms tho.

Google forms is easy enough if you just want some straight forward replies.

Depends on the volume of emails you're sending out.

Mail chimp is easy but you have to pay after so many subscribers.

Thank you for the replies!

Google forms seems easy so I will use that for the responses.

Mailchimp seems a bit fancy for what I need. I only need to send one email per year, text only is fine, but I would really like to be able to mail merge specific info into it. I can't see how to do that as Mailchimp is so preoccupied with giving me marketing solutions to grow my customer base.

I think perhaps it's the wrong tool for what I need.

Mailchimp is easy and you can ignore all the marketing faff. The big advantage of it is that it will reach people's inboxes. If you mass email from a 'normal' email address, there's a lot more risk of filters thinking it's spam.

Mailchimp will also tell you who has opened it and who has clicked on any links (your google form), so you can monitor/chase if you need to.