Digital invitation: what a Halloween rooftop costs

The rooftop is booked for Friday 31 October. Vampire dress code, fangs optional, and one hard detail: the street door of the building locks at 21:00, so anyone arriving at 21:05 stays outside with the pumpkins. Now you need thirty office colleagues to remember the date, find the address and turn up on time. A digital invitation handles exactly that: you choose a design in the catalogue, type the details, publish, and the link is in the group chat today.

The rest of this page is the money question. What the 29.99 EUR covers, what it leaves out, and what the free option really costs: the thread with thirty messages asking what time it was, the private round of "you coming?" the night before, the poster remade on a phone at eight in the evening because someone remembered the lift only takes eight people at a time.

How much does a digital invitation cost for a Halloween after-work?

29.99 EUR, once, for the invitation. Not a monthly plan that wakes up again next October, not a fee per guest, not an extra charge for the colleague who confirms at half past eleven at night. One page, one payment, everyone you send it to opens the same page.

• One payment of 29.99 EUR per invitation. No subscription, no price per head, nothing to renew when November arrives.
• You share a link, a QR code or a plain message. It opens in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a laptop, and nobody installs anything.
• Nothing is printed or posted, so the after-work budget does not vanish into thirty cards and a book of stamps.
• Confirmations arrive inside the invitation, in an ordered list, instead of thirty separate "yes" messages you have to count yourself.

The date, the rooftop and a door that locks at 21:00

You fill the invitation in the browser editor, Joy Studio, field by field: the small line at the top, the names, the date, the sentence underneath and the place. Each field has a character counter, so the rooftop address does not get chopped in the middle. You can add up to six of your own photos and choose which one is the cover. The 21:00 warning goes in the invitation text itself, not in a separate message that sinks under three memes and a photo of somebody's cat.

Then comes the usual mess. The porter changes the entry time. The rooftop moves down a floor because the one above is closed. Someone points out that plastic capes and candlelight are a bad combination. Edit the text or the map and the link stays the same — whoever opens it sees the current version, with no second round of messages and no reprinting. The site and the invitation text work in seven languages, which helps if half the team moved to Madrid from somewhere else.

Change the hour, the address or the dress code and the link keeps working. Everyone who opens it gets the current version.

Why digital invitations fit a rooftop with a 21:00 curfew

On the night, the confirmations sit in one list inside the invitation, so you can see who is coming before the door locks instead of scrolling for replies. The RSVP questions are yours to write: if you want to know who is heading over straight from the office still in a suit, or who is bringing someone, you ask once, in the form, and read the answers in the same place. Music, photos and the wording are all in the editor, with a preview that updates as you type. Pick a design, add the date, the rooftop address and the 21:00 note, and send the link to the group.