A guest confirmed they would attend my event. Can I just send them a Confirmation instead of an Invite?

Yes. Go to Emails and create an Invite as normal. Select the Contacts button to add your guest to the Invite. After adding the contact, click on the 'manage email options' link. This will display a list of all the contacts in the invite, along with checkbox options for 'Ignore' and 'Auto Confirm', as in the image below:

The Ignore checkbox prevents the contact from receiving emails. The Auto Confirm checkbox adds the contact as confirmed to the guest list and sends a confirmation email, unless the Ignore box is checked.

Using these checkboxes, you can specify whether a guest receives an invite and confirmation email, just a confirmation email, is ignored completely, or receives no emails but is added as confirmed to the guest list.

In the examples above,

1. Perry will be added to the guest list without an invite (Auto Confirm checked) but will receive a confirmation email ( Ignore unchecked)

2. Karla will not receive the invite and will not be added to the guest list (Ignore checked, Auto Confirm unchecked)

3. Kopnid was flagged in the Contacts database as 'Do Not Mail', so his Ignore checkbox was checked automatically and he cannot receive emails. By checking his Auto Confirm box he will be added as confirmed to the guest list.

4. Paul will also be added as confirmed to the guest list and will also not receive either an invite or a confirmation email (Ignore and Auto Confirm checked).