Digital invitation price: retirement lunch at a restaurant

Someone at the table is doing the sums on a paper napkin: fourteen people, the set menu, a cake, and one printed card each. You can drop that last line. A digital invitation for a retirement lunch at a restaurant costs 29.99 EUR, you pay once, and you can build it and send the link from the catalogue this afternoon.

What you get is a web page for the lunch, not a file you attach to a message. The price is fixed at 29.99 EUR, nothing starts charging you after the dessert, and if the restaurant moves the table to 14:30 you change one field and keep the same link.

How much does a digital invitation cost for a retirement lunch?

One invitation, one payment: 29.99 EUR. There is no monthly fee that switches on once the lunch is over, and nothing to cancel afterwards. Before you pay, test mode lets you edit the cover for free and see how the label with the retiree's name reads. When you buy, every scene unlocks.

• 29.99 EUR per invitation, paid once. No subscription hanging over the retirement lunch.
• The price covers the event page, the personalisation in the browser editor and the confirmations inside the same invitation.
• It doesn't include paper, printing or postage, because there isn't any: the invitation is a link you share.
• Up to six of your own photos, music and the RSVP questions are part of the same invitation, not a separate purchase.

Digital invitations built from the restaurant booking

The editor asks for one detail per field: label, names, date, phrase and place. So the label can read "Retirement lunch for Carmen", the place field carries the restaurant exactly as it appears on the booking, and a character counter warns you before the restaurant name gets cut on the cover. You mark which of the six photos is the cover, and you can swap any of them later, when the picture from the last day at the office finally reaches you.

The site runs in seven languages — Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and German — and the invitation content can be set per language when part of the family lives abroad. Guests open the link in the browser on their phone. Nothing to install, nothing to download.

The invitation carries the same details you gave the restaurant: who, where, and what time.

The RSVP that doesn't get lost in forty messages

Confirmations arrive inside the invitation, in one ordered list. You open the link and see who is sitting at the table, without scrolling back through the group chat to count replies. The form questions are yours to set: ask for the exact name of the person coming with someone, or who is staying for coffee. Guests answer from their own browser, in the queue at the supermarket if that's when they remember.

What to have ready before you open the editor

Five minutes of gathering saves you a round of edits.

• The restaurant name and address exactly as they appear on the booking, ready to paste into the place field.
• The time guests should arrive and the time everyone sits down, if those aren't the same.
• Three or four photos of the person retiring, with one chosen for the cover.
• The line you're going to say in the toast, written out so nobody rebuilds it from memory.
• The list of people you want confirmed, so you know who to ask over coffee.

Pick a design, edit the cover in test mode, and check how the restaurant name sits on it before you spend anything. For 29.99 EUR you end up with one link holding the table, the time and the RSVP, ready to send on WhatsApp the same afternoon.