Digital invitation for a master's graduation: real cost

Forty people in one group chat, and the same question three times: what time is the ceremony, and where do we send the money for dinner? Someone digs out a PDF from March. The ceremony now starts an hour earlier. Nobody wants to send the file round again. A digital invitation fixes exactly that: you build the page in the browser, publish it, and share one link. The price of a digital invitation for a master's graduation is 29.99 EUR, paid once, and you can have it ready today from the catalogue.

Here's what a printed run adds up to per guest, what the 29.99 EUR covers, and the parts people forget to count when they order cards for a graduating class.

How much does a digital invitation for a master's graduation cost?

Start with paper, because that's where the maths gets uncomfortable. Printers charge per card and per short run, so forty cards with envelopes usually costs more per guest than the phrase "just a few cards" suggests. Run short and you pay setup and shipping a second time. The design is often quoted separately, and moving the date or correcting the degree title can turn into a second invoice. The free template has a price too: a mark across the photo, one locked layout, and a file you download once and can never correct.

• Printers bill per card and per short run. Forty copies with envelopes is fine until the class grows to sixty.
• A separate design quote rarely includes changes. Every edit is a new conversation, sometimes a new invoice.
• Free templates come with a watermark, one fixed layout, and a file that stops being true the moment a detail changes.
• Envelopes, postage and hand delivery don't appear on the quote, but they land on your weekend anyway.

What the 29.99 EUR digital invitation actually includes

You get a web page that belongs to the event, not a PDF. It opens from a phone through a link, a QR code or a message, and nobody installs an app to see it. In the browser editor you set the label, the names, the date, the phrase and the place, add up to six of your own photos, choose the music, and pick the questions guests answer when they confirm. You can test the cover for free before paying anything; buying unlocks every scene of the invitation.

Confirmations arrive inside the invitation itself, in one ordered list, so you know how many seats to book without chasing anyone through WhatsApp. The form questions are yours to set. And the invitation content can be configured in Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and German, which matters when half the class flew in and your grandmother reads none of them.

A printed card tells people what was true the day you ordered it. A link tells them what's true now.

The link updates itself; the PDF doesn't

If the diploma ceremony moves an hour earlier, or the drinks move to another terrace, you edit the scene and the same link shows the new version. No resending, no "ignore the previous message". Same for the dress code, the map, or a photo you didn't have when you first sent it out: you swap it in the editor and guests see it the next time they open the page. People who save a PDF to their camera roll never look at it again. A link with the class photo and the song you argued about does get opened on the day.

How to decide in five minutes

Count your guests and divide. 29.99 EUR spread across the people you're actually inviting is the number to compare with the cost per printed card plus postage, not with the price of one card. If you're comparing digital invitations elsewhere, check the payment is one-off and that edits after sending are part of the deal. Then ask one question: will anything change after you send? A time, a venue, a photo still sitting on someone else's phone. If the answer is yes, paper has already committed you to a reprint. If an aunt wants something to hold, do both: a link for everyone, a handful of prints for the people who keep things.

Open the catalogue, pick a design and try the cover without paying. Publish your digital invitation for the graduation day for 29.99 EUR, with the date, the venue and the class photos in place, and send one link to everyone at once.