Digital invitation cost for a Halloween werewolf dinner

It's 5:40 on a Tuesday. Someone leans over the desk divider: "So, are we doing Halloween this year?" Twelve people, one long table, and a restaurant that wants a number by Friday. What you're actually organising is a Halloween werewolf dinner with colleagues — and what you need is a digital invitation you can build and send tonight from the catalogue, for 29.99 EUR, paid once.

The awkward part isn't the design. It's the order of events. The restaurant quotes you before the invitation exists, and that quote is where the surprises hide. So here's the honest comparison: what the dinner costs on the restaurant side, and what a digital invitation costs on yours.

The restaurant bills you before the digital invitation exists

Before you pick a design, ask for the breakdown in writing: price per head, set menu, drinks included or separate, and whether the private room has a minimum spend. With twelve colleagues, two euros on the set menu is 24 euros that never make it onto the invitation page. Ask for the table's cut-off time, too. If they give you until 23:00 and you want to keep going, the cost of a second booking usually turns up after the link has already gone out.

• Price per head with bread, water and coffee included, confirmed in writing rather than over the phone.
• Deposit: the amount, whether it comes off the final bill or comes back, and how many days before the date you can cancel without losing it.
• Table cut-off time, and what a second booking costs if the night runs past it.
• Minimum spend on the private room for 8 to 12 people, and what happens if someone drops out the day before.

Deposit and the werewolf dinner menu: agree both before the toast

A deposit is usually a flat fee to hold the room. Ask where it goes. Then close the menu with two options maximum — one with meat, one without — and get a fixed price that includes bread, water and coffee. That fixed number is what stops the "this wasn't included" conversation in November, when nobody remembers what was agreed in a corridor.

Keep the restaurant's email next to the invitation text. If they move the time from 20:30 to 21:00, you edit the invitation and the link stays the same. Nobody has to receive a second message saying "ignore the last one".

Get the breakdown in writing before the link goes out. After that, every change is an edit, not a reprint.

How much does a digital invitation cost? 29.99 EUR, once

A digital invitation from Send The Joy costs 29.99 EUR per invitation. One payment, no subscription, no monthly fee, no charge per guest — whether you're eight at a long table or twenty. Compare it with paper: printing cards for the office means reprinting when the time changes, and reprinting means a second round of envelopes. Digital invitations aren't the expensive part of the night. The restaurant is. Your colleagues install nothing: they open the link in the phone browser on the bus home and answer from there.

Send the link at 8pm, when the menu is already locked

Send it in the evening, once the set menu and the hour are fixed. Short text: date, restaurant, the dress code (wolf-adjacent, no full fur), and one line about the mood. Confirmations land inside the invitation as an ordered list, because the RSVP questions are ones you write yourself — who's coming, whether they'll be late, whatever you actually need to know. You're not chasing twelve people through a group chat on the 31st.

A digital invitation with a creaking door, no scares on the bill

The atmosphere comes from chained scenes and up to six of your own photos: a carved pumpkin by the door, the restaurant frontage, the long table with candles. They frame themselves, and you can swap any photo later. Add music and a welcome line if you like. If your team works in German, the invitation content can be set in German, and the site runs in seven languages. Nothing gory, nothing that jumps out at anyone — mystery with a bit of humour, for colleagues who have to look each other in the eye at the coffee machine on Monday.

Close the menu, get the breakdown in writing, and send the link when everything is clear. Your invitation costs 29.99 EUR, is paid once, and stays editable after you send it — change the map or the dress code and everyone sees the new version.