Digital invitation for your Christmas company lunch

On 20 November someone drops the message into the team chat: Christmas company lunch, keep the date free. Three people reply 'I think I'm in' and the other thirty-seven read it and move on. By the time you call the restaurant you're guessing between 22 and 30, and the deposit is due on a number you made up. A digital invitation puts that in order. You choose a design from the catalogue, fill in the date, the time and the exact name of the restaurant, and send it out today as a link.

It's a web page of its own, not a PDF and not an image. It opens in the browser of any phone, guests don't install anything, and the replies stay inside the invitation instead of dissolving into the chat.

The Christmas company lunch that dies in a 40-person group chat

The pattern repeats every December. The thread starts with enthusiasm, the date shifts twice by lunchtime, and someone reserves a table for a number nobody has checked. Then the restaurant asks for a deposit and a firm headcount, and you're scrolling through voice notes and memes to find the one person who said 'probably'.

• The date gets agreed in one thread and changed in another nobody re-reads.
• Half the team answers with an emoji, and nobody knows whether that counts as a yes.
• The restaurant wants a closed number and you're still guessing between 22 and 30.
• On the day, someone asks whether it was 2:00 or 2:30 pm, and the answer is buried under a photo of a dog.

A digital invitation hands you the list without chasing anyone

You drop one link into the same chat where the chaos started, or print the QR code and stick it in the kitchen. Whoever opens it taps confirm, and the answer appears in an ordered list inside the invitation. No screenshots, no counting messages, no spreadsheet rebuilt by hand at 11 pm. It works the same on an Android phone, on an iPhone and on the laptop in the office.

If the restaurant moves the booking from 2:00 to 2:30, you edit the invitation and the link stays exactly the same. Everyone who opens it sees the updated version, with the new time, the new map and the corrected note. Same if the venue changes or you need to fix the line on the cover. You can even swap the cover photo the night before, last year's team lunch for instance, and nothing has to be resent.

A link that updates itself is worth more than forty messages nobody scrolls back through.

How much do digital invitations for a company lunch cost?

29,99 EUR per invitation, one payment and no subscription, so the link works for the whole lunch-and-dinner season. Before paying you can try a design for free and edit the cover in test mode; buying unlocks every scene of the invitation. Up to six of your own photos, texts entered field by field (label, date, line, place) with a character counter, and content you can set in Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and German, which matters if half the table reads in another language. It's 100% digital, so no paper and no envelopes. If someone wants a copy to keep, print a handful and send the link to everyone else. Build it this week, before you call the restaurant with an invented number.