Hi! We're from headquarters and we're here to help!

We've put answers to several frequently asked questions below. If your questions aren't answered here, use the feedback form on the right and we'll get right back to you.

Why PLUQ?

• What's so unique about PLUQ?

• PLUQ is the easiest way to collaborate and make decisions with your friends. It's hard to pick dates and plan events over email and each additional person or couple you add to the process makes it that much harder.

  We join conversation with calenders, surveys, documents and links to web sites so that you can understand what's going on easily--without fishing through tons of email. PLUQ puts it all in one place.

• Can't I just do this with email?

• Email is great for some things, but planning isn't really one of them. Getting busy people to agree on a date is hard with email. Using PLUQ, everyone puts in their date preferences and we keep a running summary of the best dates. Once you've got everyone's input, just hit Decide and everyone gets notified about the selected date.

  If you get tons of email every day, it's great to be able to cut to the chase and see what the decision was instead of fishing through your email for scattered bits of information.

• What about a group or a forum or a blog?

• Groups, forums and blogs do some of what we do, but we think it's a lot more work. Each event you plan on PLUQ acts like a full fledged group site in those other solutions, but with much less overhead to get started.

  We've made starting a conversation as easy as sending an email. Try it and see!

Collaborating

• Where does PLUQ work best?

• We don't want to limit your thinking and creativity, but in general PLUQ is best for collaborative conversations with groups of people where email tends to bog down.

  The collaboration can be simple; pick a dinner party date, or choose a book club book. They can also be complex; pick a set of finishes for a kitchen remodel, select a set of travel destinations and choose hotels.

• How do I use PLUQ to pick a date for an event?

• It's easy. Just create a new event and include the Date Picker widget. Everyone you invited to the conversation can then highlight dates on the calendar that are the best for them. We automatically track the dates that works best for the group as the input is gathered.

  Once you've got everyone's input, just hit the Decide button and send an announcement to everyone.

• What are tags?

• Tags are labels you can use to help you find your events later. Only you see your tags. Examples of common tags would be things like personal, vacation, work, research, or travel.

  You can apply tags from within the event or you can use the advanced search tab to apply tags to multiple events at once.

• What does it mean to archive an event?

• Archiving is a feature that takes events out of the list that you see when you select the Events tab. The events still exist, but they won't come up in the list or in default searches.

  You can still find information you might want in archived events by using the Advanced Search tab. Advanced Search will also also let you restore archived events.

Email

• How does PLUQ integrate comments with email?

• We send comments out to everyone by default. In turn, responses to those emails will be logged as comments, then sent over email.

• What's in the daily digest?

• We'll send you a summary once a day of all the activity in your events. So when people pick dates, or answer survey questions, we'll tell you who did what to whom. If you choose not to receive comments over email, we'll include the comments in your digest also.

• How do I turn off email?

• Just go to the email section in settings and uncheck all the boxes.

Privacy

• Who can see my events?

• Events that you create are private and can only be seen by the people you invite into them. Public conversations can be seen by anyone who comes by PLUQ.

Support

• I think I found a bug — what should I do?

• That's not possible! Still, feel free to report any suspicious behavior to bugs@pluq.com or use the feedback form on the right side of this page or from within any event.

• I've got a great feature idea! Want to hear about it?

• Great — we'd love to hear about it! Use the feedback form on the right or use the feedback form from within any event or conversation.