Digital invitation cost: a Halloween dog garden party

It's the Thursday before Halloween. Three pumpkins on the step, a dog with firm opinions about the devil horns, and a group chat asking what time Saturday actually starts. You can pick a design from the catalogue, fill in the details and send the link today, before the shop runs out of those little tea-light candles.

So here is the honest arithmetic of a digital invitation for a Halloween party for pets in a garden: one payment of €29.99, no printing, no envelopes, no stamps. This is what that covers, and what it leaves out.

What a digital invitation for a Halloween dog party costs

€29.99 is the entire price. Not a first instalment, not a monthly subscription, not a fee to publish. You pay once and the invitation stays online while the link goes round the neighbourhood chat for three weeks. Before paying, you can open a design and edit the front page in try-out mode; buying it unlocks every scene. The invitation runs as a chain of scenes, and each one takes your own text and photos. Every field has a character counter, so the dog's full show name fits on the cover instead of spilling onto a second line.

• One payment of €29.99 per invitation: no subscription and no charge on the day you publish.
• Free try-out on the cover; the rest of the scenes unlock when you buy.
• A web page with its own link, opened in any browser, with no app for guests to install.
• Room for up to 6 photos of the dog, with the one you choose set as the cover.

Digital invitations vs paper for a garden full of dogs

To compare fairly, ask the print shop for a quote on cards with dressed-up dogs on them, then add the special paper, the envelopes and the stamps separately. None of that is inside the €29.99. Paper also fixes the quantity before you know who is coming. A link behaves exactly the same whether you send it to 12 houses or 30.

The printed card ends up in the drawer next to last year's costume, and the envelope is the thing you can't find on Saturday morning. The link gets edited if the howling contest moves to seven, and everyone sees the new version without a single follow-up message. The site runs in seven languages and you can set the invitation content per language, so the aunt in Berlin reads it in German and your neighbours read it in English.

One link, one payment, and nobody knocks on the wrong door at the wrong hour.

Send it on Saturday afternoon and edit it from the patio

You publish with a button, copy the link and paste it into the street group. Guests open it in whatever browser they already have. You can also send a QR or a direct message, which is how the neighbour on the third floor who never joined the group finds out. Confirmations arrive inside the invitation itself, in one ordered list, and you write the questions: is your dog coming, what's the dog's name, what is the dog wearing. Add music if your dog tolerates it.

If the evening gets dark earlier and the start moves to six, you change the hour in Joy Studio and the link stays the same. Nobody keeps the old version in their camera roll. Same for the patio map, the dress code or the line on the cover. So: choose a design, edit the cover for free, put the dog's name and the time in, and send it. €29.99, once, live before the last candle goes out.