Digital invitation for a charity dinner: what €29.99 buys

Fourteen tables, one committee and a group chat that won't go quiet. Someone asks what the invitation costs and gets four different answers: the printer quotes per card, the designer quotes per hour, the venue quotes per chair. The only number that survives that conversation is the price of a digital invitation for a charity dinner — €29.99, paid once. You can build one in your browser and send the link today from the catalogue.

Here's what that €29.99 covers, what it leaves out, and where a few sheets of paper still earn their place.

How much does a digital invitation for a charity dinner cost?

€29.99, once. No subscription, no monthly fee, no extra charge per guest you add. That price is the whole invitation rather than a cover page: cover, dinner, details and confirmation are all part of it. You edit and preview the cover free in trial mode, and the rest of the scenes open when you buy. Ask any supplier the same question — per table, per printed unit, per hour — and you'll see how hard the quotes are to line up.

• €29.99 as a one-off payment, not a monthly plan.
• The price unlocks every scene of the invitation, not just the first screen.
• The cover can be edited and previewed free before you pay anything.
• Adding tables or guests doesn't move the price.

Digital invitations for charity dinners: what €29.99 actually buys

You get a small website for the evening. Not a PDF, not an image: it opens in the phone browser from a link, a QR code or a message, and nobody installs an app. The when, the where, the dress code and the reason you're all there sit on the same page. The one requirement is a phone, tablet or computer with a connection.

The site runs in seven languages — Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and German — and the invitation text can be set per language, which helps when one table is visiting from abroad. Up to six of your own photos fit in, cover included, and they frame themselves. Swap the shot of the dining room or the project later and it updates on the same link, with nothing to reprint or resend.

A charity dinner isn't paid for by the invitation. It's paid for by the seats that get confirmed.

How confirmations land without chasing anyone

Replies arrive inside the invitation, in one ordered list, so you know how many covers to give the caterer without scrolling three chats. You set the questions on the confirmation form, so you can ask for each guest's full name instead of accepting a "plus one, probably". If you're weighing alternatives to paper invitations for charity dinners, this is the part that settles it.

Print a handful of copies for the committee member who keeps everything, and send the link to everyone else. That's your whole paper budget. Then do the maths per confirmed table instead of per card: start your design free in Send The Joy and publish it once the date is fixed.