When I try to invite a non Google+ member to a hangout it appears to send an email invite but the email never arrives. I have tried about 5 different emails that I have access to to test it out but no email invites arrive. I have also tried this on both regular hangouts and a hangout party but the same results every time.
I am on hangout party now and what I'm doing is
- Click Invite People
- Type in the invitee's email address
- Box pops up saying 'send email to name@domain.tld
- I click it ( if I click anywhere else it dissapears but seems to
have the same effect – which is that it puts a corresponding label
in the box) - I click the green invite button.
- It beeps and a blue "invitation posted" alert shows for a few
seconds
… but no invitation arrives at the target email address.
The process is similar on a regular hangout … again no email invitation at the target
Am I doing something wrong or is something broken?
NB. I know how to invite people manually to Google+ and I guess if they were already logged in members they'd get an onscreen notification but I don't want this ( unless I have no choice … which may be the case I know but it's still a different issue. )
Best Answer
It seems the issue might have been that the invitations were not being sent to Google accounts. However that changed (Jason Lederman November 19, 2015) :