Digital invitation: what a Halloween afterwork really costs

Someone on the team is booking a table for twelve, and someone else has already asked the question that sinks the plan: who's actually coming? It's a Halloween afterwork with your office colleagues at a restaurant — one long table, a couple of carved pumpkins by the door, everyone home before the last train. You can build a digital invitation for it from the catalogue and send it before you leave the office today: one link, and the answers land in one place instead of scrolling away in the group chat.

The number is the part people argue about, so start there. Below is what €29.99 covers, how it splits across a real table, and how the same link survives every change the restaurant makes that week.

What your €29.99 digital invitation for Halloween includes

One price, closed: €29.99 per invitation, paid once, no monthly subscription and no charge per guest or per reply. What you get is a web page for your event — not a PDF, not a flat image dropped in a chat. It opens from a link, a QR code or a message, in any browser, and nobody installs an app. You can try a design in test mode for free: edit the cover, check the wording, see how it reads. Paying unlocks every scene of the invitation.

• €29.99 once per invitation — no subscription, no per-guest fee, nothing extra for confirmations.
• A page, not a file: it opens from a link, a QR code or a message, on any phone or laptop.
• Free test mode: edit the cover and read it back before you pay anything.
• Your own text, up to six of your own photos, music, and the RSVP questions you write yourself.

How much does a Halloween digital invitation cost per head?

Do the sum with the table you actually booked. Eight colleagues, under four euros each. Twelve, under two and a half. Sixteen, under two. It's the only line in the budget that doesn't get bigger when two more people join, and dinner is the bill everyone remembers paying, not this one.

Compare it with paper in an office. Printing, envelopes, a lap around the third floor, and one invitation that stays in a drawer next to the ketchup sachets. Then put the honest version in the group chat: “invitation is €29.99, we split it like the bill.” That sentence ends the argument about who pays what — and it lands better before the table is booked than after.

Split across ten people, €29.99 is three euros each — the only part of the night that never asks for a second payment.

Restaurant, time, dress code: digital invitations you edit after sending

The booking slides from 20:30 to 21:00 because two people get stuck in a meeting. You open the editor in your browser, change the time, and the link everyone already has shows 21:00. Same for the address, the map, the line about the dress code — “something orange, nothing scary” — and the name of the restaurant. Photos work the same way: up to six of your own, cropped into the frame by themselves, and you can swap any one of them later without touching the rest.

The RSVP list that closes the table on Thursday

Confirmations arrive in an ordered list inside the invitation, so you're not rescuing replies from sixty messages about parking. Set the questions yourself: who's coming, what name they want on the list, whether they head straight from the office. Guests open the link on their phone and answer in two taps, which matters when half the table doesn't know the other half yet.

None of this is about paper versus pixels. It's about a table that keeps moving and a guest list that keeps answering while you hold on to one link. Pick a design, edit the cover for free, and publish once the booking is confirmed — the funniest part of the night will be something a colleague says at the table, not the invitation.