Digital invitation for a shop opening: what it costs

It's the Thursday before a shop opening. Someone on the team is scrolling a group chat, counting thumbs-up to work out how many trays to order on Friday, and nobody has written the number down. The colour of the card was never the problem. A digital invitation for a shop opening solves the counting: pick a design from the catalogue, edit the cover, publish the link and send it the same day. How much it costs is the short part of the conversation — €29.99, paid once.

Below is what you pay for, what a paper run quietly adds, and the one line that decides your catering numbers.

How much does a digital invitation for a shop opening cost

One price: €29.99 per invitation, one payment, no subscription. That covers every scene of the design — the cover with your shopfront, the scene with the address, the closing scene with the time of the toast — plus your own photos, the music and the confirmation questions. What changes between an opening for 40 guests and an opening for 120 is the catering, the welcome drinks and the staff on the floor. The invitation costs the same, and one link covers the morning opening and the evening drinks.

• Confirmed guests against the invited list: that's the number that moves catering and staff, not the design.
• Cost per invitation: €29.99, one payment, no subscription, every scene unlocked when you buy.
• Changes to the time, the address or the dress code after sending: no reprints, the link stays the same.
• Photos of the shop: up to 6 of your own, one marked as the cover, any of them swapped later.

Digital invitations at €29.99: one payment, no envelopes

There's no printing and no postage, so paper, envelopes, stamps and courier lines come off the spreadsheet entirely. You share a link, put a QR code on the counter, or send a message to the local press list and the neighbours on the street. Guests install nothing: they open the link on their phone, see the time and confirm from there.

The invisible cost is the chasing. Three afternoons of somebody copying names out of a chat thread is work nobody invoices. With the confirmations landing in one ordered list inside the invitation, on Thursday morning you know how many trays to order for Friday.

The number that decides your budget is the confirmed list, not the card.

Late changes, wrong maps and the cost of a reprint

Move the opening from 18:00 to 19:30 and paper means a reprint. Here you edit the scene and the same link shows the new time to everyone who has it. If the pin on the map is wrong, you correct the address and the guest sees the updated version — no second message, no new envelope. Up to 6 of your own photos, with the shopfront as the cover, replace the printed card with the window shot, and you can swap any of them after you've sent it.

When paper still makes sense

If the owner wants something signed for the window display, the sensible version is the link for everyone and a handful of printed copies for whoever will keep one. For a local journalist or a one-off supplier, the same link works as for the rest of the list, with no alternative version of the event to keep track of. Guests need a phone, a tablet or a computer with a connection — that's the whole requirement.

If you already have an opening date, try a design for free, edit the cover without paying and publish the link when it's ready. The invitation is €29.99, one payment, and the confirmations come back to the same page.