Digital invitation for a corporate palace event

A corporate palace event gives you three things to get exactly right: what the evening is called, when the doors open and who is actually coming. Call it a cocktail when it is a gala dinner and you set the tone for the wrong night. Write 7 pm when the salon opens at 6.30 and half your list ends up standing in the entrance hall in coats. You can settle all three today: pick a digital invitation from the catalogue, write the wording and publish the link this afternoon.

What follows is the practical part: which words go first, what a guest sees when they open the link, how the replies land in one place, and what you change when the palace calls on Thursday with a different room.

The protocol starts with the label, not the door

The first field on the cover does most of the work. 'Gala dinner' and 'anniversary cocktail' promise different evenings, and that line is what your guest reads before the date. Then come the times: doors at 6.30 and dinner at 7.15 are two separate facts, and people plan around the first one they see. Dress code follows the same rule — write it, don't suggest it.

• The exact name of the occasion — gala dinner, cocktail reception, company anniversary — in the cover field.
• Two times: when the doors open and when the dinner starts.
• The venue with a map and the name of the room inside the palace, not only the street address.
• The dress code written literally, 'black tie' or 'dark suit', so nobody has to interpret it.

How to create digital invitations for a corporate palace event

Your guest doesn't open a block of data. They scroll through scenes chained together — the threshold, the long dinner, the last dance — and each scene carries its own text and photos. You can upload up to six of your own: the palace façade on the cover, the set table as a decorative photo. They frame themselves, and you can replace any of them later. You share one link, a QR code or a message, and the character counter stops the company name from breaking mid-word on a phone, which is where most of your list will read it.

If the palace moves the dinner to another room or pushes the time back, you edit that field and the link stays the same. Nobody gets a second message with a correction, and you don't reprint or resend anything. Same with the map, the dress code or the closing line: whoever opens the link sees the current version, not the one that arrived last week. If your guests don't all read the same language — a Zurich office and a Geneva office at one table — the invitation content can be set per language, and the site runs in seven.

Write the label, the two times and the dress code once. Whoever opens the link reads the current version, not last week's.

Replies and numbers: what you get and what you don't

Confirmations arrive inside the invitation, in one ordered list, so nobody chases replies on WhatsApp. You set the questions — name, company, attending — and that's it. No ticket scanning, no automatic capacity cap, no allergies or menus collected: catering stays where it always was. With that list you close the numbers with the palace and the supplier, because the invitation doesn't replace the maître's sheet, it fills it. It costs 29.99 EUR, one payment and no subscription, and you can try it free by editing the cover before you pay. Guests install nothing: the finance director opens the link on the train, confirms in seconds and appears on the list. Publish today and the protocol and the replies sit in the same place. If the committee wants paper, send the link to everyone and print a few copies for the archive.