Digital invitation price: birthday, gluten-free menu

You're booking a table for twelve and the restaurant asks for the allergy list. Your cousin has already messaged twice about the gluten-free menu. Before you answer her a third time, the practical move is a digital invitation that says it once, in the right scene, and keeps saying it. You can pick a design, write that line and send the link today from the catalogue: 29.99 EUR, paid once.

The price of a digital invitation for a birthday has little to do with the menu and a lot to do with what the invitation does. It holds the details, keeps them current and collects the replies in one place. Here's what sits inside the 29.99 EUR, and what to ask before you confirm.

What's included in the 29.99 EUR birthday digital invitation

One payment covers the whole invitation. No monthly fee waiting for you when the same birthday comes round next year. What you get is a page of its own with linked scenes (cover, dinner, last dance), not a PDF that gets forwarded badly and dies in someone's camera roll. Up to six of your own photos, the music and the RSVP questions are part of it, and guests open the link in a browser without installing anything.

• One payment of 29.99 EUR for the full invitation, with no subscription attached.
• A link that opens in any browser on a phone, tablet or laptop, with no app to install.
• Up to six of your own photos, music and RSVP questions you configure yourself.
• The same link tomorrow: edit the time, the venue or the menu line and it still works.

How much does a digital invitation cost next to paper and a custom design

Three budgets land on the table when someone asks for a price. Paper: design, printing, envelopes and stamps, and the gluten-free note usually ends up as a loose slip inside the envelope. Custom design: someone draws a card just for your birthday, and every change of time or restaurant opens a new round of revisions.

Digital invitations come with a different shape: 29.99 EUR for the whole thing, scenes included, no shipping, no reprint, and the same link stays live. That's the comparison worth making. Not one card against one link, but what each of them does after it leaves your hands.

The gluten-free menu belongs on the invitation, not in a WhatsApp thread from three weeks ago.

Where the gluten-free menu note goes on a birthday digital invitation

The dinner scene has a text field, and that's where the exact sentence goes: gluten-free menu for anyone who asks, next to the serving time and the address of the place. You configure the RSVP questions yourself, but the fine detail of the menu gets settled by talking to the restaurant, because the invitation doesn't sort or filter menus for you. If the restaurant changes ovens or suppliers, you edit that line and whoever opens the link that morning reads the new version.

Changing the venue or the time doesn't add a euro

Edit after sending and the link stays the same. The aunt who opens it in the afternoon sees the corrected time without anyone messaging her again. Move the birthday from the garden to the living room and there's no reprint and no second round of envelopes: you change the place field and that's it. The character counter on each field stops a long notice from swallowing the rest of the text in the preview.

Before you pay, read what's inside the price. A digital invitation from Send The Joy costs 29.99 EUR once and stays with you for the whole birthday. Try the design for free, write the gluten-free menu line into the dinner scene, and publish when you're sure.