Ellacards is not a no subscription fee… Ellacards is not a no subscription fee service as advertised. I wish I would have scrolled down to the bottom of the pricing page after the pricing options per card before wasting my afternoon trying to design one card (my first and last time using Ellacards) to discover that prepaid credits are required, not the option to purchase a single card as listed. Ellacards has unique options with the ability to add photos, personalize messages from contributors (friends/family), and add music to their cards but I found it unfortunate that they don’t advertise their pricing credit/subscription fee honestly on their site. I should have known prior to creating the card before I used my time I can’t get back.

I would go less for a rating but that… I would go less for a rating but that is not an option. The "service" is a joke and not as advertised. I knew from the start that I would design my own card. I am so glad I did as the selection is mundane at best and uncreative. The site unfortunately does not provide a horizontal format nor informative instructions. My card supposedly was sent to the named collaborators, who I supposed to be those to sign the card, per the "details" for the order but 24 hours after it was supposedly sent none received it. Well, except for the bereaved, who was not to have received it until later in the week AFTER his colleagues had signed it. As others mentioned imagine my surprise when at the end there was a charge as NOWHERE was it mentioned. The charge was not significant and for the convenience it might have been worth it in this time of hybrid schedules had the "service" actually worked as advertised. I already have one email submitted with questions to which 24 hours later I have not gotten a response. I submitted another email a few minutes ago asking how I can be sure the collaborators don't receive the silly card now that the intended individual has already received it. I cannot recommend this "service" and would like to speak to those leaving 5-star reviews to see if they were written by the owners family.

Got billed twice after transaction apparently failed! Tried to finish but the website just kept hanging up and could not complete the transaction. Then two hours later, got notifications from PayPal…Ella Cards billed me twice??!! And I had already sent an e-card using a different company. Edit: Ella Cards responded promptly and issued refund.

Confusing - don't waste your time Don't waste your time here if you're an occasional "evite" type person. You get what you pay for. I'll confess, I went here seeking a less expensive alternative for a simple e-card for a 11 year old birthday party. All I wanted to do was use a photo my daughter created as the cover and sent it to 15 people. Evite wanted to charge me maybe $1.5-2/invite? So I tried this service (maybe owned by Evite, ironically). The interface is confusing. Notifications about responses to an event don't seem to occur. Want to share or co-host with a spouse or other person. Nope. Need a mobile experience - get ready for 5 years ago. Maybe if you send e-invites all the time and want rock bottom pricing and are ok learning a new system for managing all your invites, maybe you'd like this service. Maybe.

You have to spend $20 to buy $10.50 worth of cards. Here the deal: The cards came out great, although sending them for other people to sign was bit convoluted. Although the customer service responded super quickly. And the app let's you do a lot of different things and generally is easy to use. The reason I gave them one star is because they use very scam like pricing. So theoretically each card I made only cost $5.25, which is fine. It was worth it to me for that price. But the way they have you pay is so sketchy. The total for both of my cards came out to $10.50 but you have to buy 'credits' and they only sell them in $10 increments. So that means I had to spend $20 to pay $10.50. And now I have $9.50 credits that I will probably never use and they know that. They made it so that the 2 cards I purchased came out to exactly $10.50 because they knew that I would have to spend $20 to buy 2 increments of $10 credits. Very disgusting. So if I would have bought just one card I would have had to pay $10 to get the credits toactually get the card to send. If you ask me, this is super scam like. So I absolutely do not recommend this company. Shame on you guys.