What a digital invitation for an office opening costs

The lease is signed and the date is set. Someone opens a spreadsheet, adds a line called "opening invitations" and leaves it blank, because nobody knows what belongs there. A quick search returns printers, designers and a pile of quotes that are hard to compare. So here's the plain version: a digital invitation from Send The Joy costs €29.99, paid once, and it's a web page with your company name on the cover. Not a PDF, not an image.

Below is what that figure actually covers, what pushes an office opening bill up even when the invitation is cheap, and the question to ask before you pay anyone. You can pick a design, put your sign and your office address on the cover and publish the link today from the catalogue.

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

One price per invitation created, paid a single time. No monthly subscription, no renewal when the opening date moves, no charge per guest. The invitation stays one line in the budget from the first draft to the morning of the event. This is what sits inside that line:

• One payment per invitation. If the opening slips a week, you don't pay again.
• Every scene unlocked after purchase, up to 6 of your own photos, music and configurable RSVP questions. Nothing sold as an add-on.
• Free test mode: edit the cover with your company's sign and the office address before paying anything.
• Guests open the link in any browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Nothing to install.

Digital invitations vs paper: where the office opening money goes

Printing is the small part. The card, the envelopes and someone at reception handing them out is a job in itself. Then the brunch moves an hour later, or a meeting room gets renamed, and that batch of 120 cards is already wrong. Reprinting means paying for the whole run again, not just the corrected line. Add the afternoon a colleague spends chasing confirmations through WhatsApp instead of reading them off a list, and paper stops looking cheap.

Digital invitations behave differently, because the price is per invitation and not per guest: thirty people or three hundred, the same €29.99. You share one link in the team group, print a QR on the sign by the entrance or send it directly. No paper and no postage means the cost per unit and the cost of mailing each envelope to a different address simply don't exist. When you compare quotes, ask whether the price is per invitation or per head — the arithmetic changes completely once the list passes 80 people.

You pay €29.99 once. The reprints, the resending and the chasing that usually follow the printing don't follow this.

Change the room, the time or the map without resending anything

Editing after you publish doesn't create a new invitation. The link stays the same, so the QR already taped to the door still works. Move the opening to another floor, correct the address, fix the dress code or rewrite the line on the cover, and whoever opens the link sees the current version. Nobody prints a correction slip. Nobody needs a follow-up message explaining that the toast is now at six.

Try the design with your own sign on the cover before paying, and decide with the invitation in front of you instead of an estimate. Pick a design, publish the link with one button and read the confirmations in an ordered list inside the invitation — no scrolling through chat threads to work out who's coming.