Digital invitation for your company family day

The committee has booked the yard, the bouncy castle is confirmed and someone's cousin is running the grill. Then the questions start in the chat: what time, which entrance, is there ice cream. For a company family day, a digital invitation answers all three on one screen, and you can pick a design and send the link today from the collection.

That's the point: a small web page with its own link, not a PDF that falls up the thread. Here's how to set one up without turning it into a second job.

A digital invitation that talks to the kids and to the committee

Two audiences open the same link. The children want to know if there's a pool, ice cream or a bouncy castle. The committee wants the date, the site and the exact time, with a map that opens on a phone. Both fit on one page: the fun detail in the first scene, the practical block right below it, no endless scrolling in between.

• Date, time and site written like a satnav entry: 'Unit 3, Saturday 11:00'.
• One detail aimed at the kids in the first scene: ice cream, pool or bouncy castle.
• A photo of last year's team and another of the yard where the food gets served.
• RSVP fields: name, how many are coming, and one free comment box.

The RSVP that doesn't get lost in the group chat

Sixty people typing 'I'm in' and 'me too' isn't a list, it's a thread. Confirmations sent through the invitation arrive in one ordered list inside the same page, and you set the questions yourself. Menus and allergies need a separate channel: the RSVP form is for counting heads, not for collecting medical details.

Because the replies land in the invitation, you stop chasing people one by one. No screenshots to sort through, no counting names at 11pm before the catering order goes in.

One link with the ice cream, the address and the list of who's coming. That's the whole family day explained.

How to create a company family day invitation that holds both tones

Start in test mode: you edit the cover for free, and buying unlocks every scene. That's how you check whether the headline works for a seven-year-old without sounding silly in front of the leadership team. You can add up to 6 of your own photos, they frame themselves, and you choose which one is the cover and swap any of them later. Add music and the RSVP questions, then publish with one button. It opens in any browser: a grandparent on a phone, the intern on a laptop, nothing to install.

Changing the time, and what this invitation doesn't do

A family day moves: rain in the yard, lunch brought forward, a different site. Edit the invitation and the link stays the same. Anyone who opens it that afternoon sees the updated time, place, map or dress code, with no reprint and no second message for whoever saved it.

These digital invitations print and send nothing on paper. If the committee wants something to hold, the sensible mix is the link for everyone plus a few printed copies for whoever will keep one. There are no automatic reminders to people who haven't replied, so if someone's missing you send a message by hand. And every guest needs a phone, tablet or computer with a connection; anyone without one will end up looking at a colleague's screen.

Pick a design, try it free and publish the link before someone asks the time in the group chat again. With one link, the family day explains itself.