Keep your grand opening invitation on-brand. Add a real guest list.

Invite clients, neighbors, partners, or members and collect attendance for your new shop, studio, restaurant, office, venue, or location.

Create your grand opening invitation

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Keep the Canva design

Collect attendance in one place

Share practical event details

Grand opening invitation with online registration

What is a grand opening invitation with online RSVP?

A grand opening invitation with online RSVP turns the branded Canva design into one live launch page. The host can estimate attendance, collect guest or organization details, and share the address, opening times, parking, and launch schedule.

A grand opening is a specific hosted event, not a generic business-launch campaign. CreatEcards keeps the invitation and attendance flow together so the owner or coordinator can prepare the space without adopting a public ticketing platform.

Confirm attendance

Ask practical questions

Share event details

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How to add online registration to a Canva grand opening invitation

Keep the invitation approved in Canva, add the attendance, guest names, organization, accessibility details the event needs, then track every response in one place.

Create your grand opening invitation
Step 1: Make or open the grand opening invitation in Canva

Simple or Detailed RSVP

Collect the level of attendee detail your event needs

Use Simple RSVP for group totals plus one set of answers for the group. Use Detailed RSVP to name every attendee and collect answers for each person attending the grand opening.

  • Choose group totals or named attendees
  • Collect group-level or per-person answers

RSVP & responses setting

How responses will be collected

Simple RSVP
Detailed RSVP
External link
WhatsApp / text
Guests name each attendee, including plus-ones, and answer your questions per person.

What your guest sees

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Attendance

Guest name
Chloe Jones
Will you attend?
Yes · No
Add a plus-one?
+ Add another guest

RSVP & Responses Setting

How responses will be collected

Simple RSVP
Detailed RSVP
External link
WhatsApp / text
Guests name each attendee, including plus-ones, and answer your questions per person.

Custom questions

Ask questions once per group or for every named attendee

With Simple RSVP, collect one set of answers for the group. With Detailed RSVP, ask each named attendee about attendance, guest names, organization, accessibility or attendance at a secondary session or event.

  • Use text or multiple-choice questions
  • Choose group-level or per-person answers

Host setup

Add your questions

Meal choice · Multiple choice
Dietary details · Text
Song request · Text

Custom questions

Ask anything and collect the details you need

Add custom questions to your reply form
What song gets you dancing?Text
Take the shuttle?Choice
YesNo
Anything else we should know?Text
Up to 6 questions, text or multiple choice. Guests can skip optional ones.

What people see

A few quick questions

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Choose your meal
Any dietary details?
Request a song
Continue

One live invitation page

Keep your Canva design, response form, and event details together

Turn the approved Canva grand opening design into one mobile-friendly page for responses, address, map, parking, opening times, and later updates from the organizer.

  • Update practical details without replacing the shared link
  • Keep the same shared link as plans change

Event details

Tell your guests when, where and what to expect

Date & time
Location
Agenda
Links
FAQs
Gift registry
Everything you add here builds your live invitation page.

What your guest sees

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RSVP

Your invitation, details and response in one place

Event details

Tell your guests when, where and what to expect

Date & timeLocationAgendaLinksFAQsGift registryDescription
Event title
Ava & Rowan's Wedding
Everything you add here builds your live invitation page.

Response settings

Control how, what, and when attendees respond

Choose Simple or Detailed RSVP, decide which contact details to collect, set the response date, apply guest rules, and add capacity or a waitlist when the grand opening has a limit. Use capacity only when the venue, preview session, or hosted launch has a real limit.

  • Set the response method, contact fields, and deadline
  • Add capacity and a waitlist only when the event needs them

Host setup

Response settings

Reply method
Responder details
Reply-by date
Capacity and waitlist
Guest policy

What people see

The form follows your rules

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Only required fields
Clear availability
Right response path

Before the response date

A launch guest list the host can use

Attendance estimate

With a guest list and personal links, see who plans to visit the opening and who has not replied.

Relevant guest context

Collect guest names, organizations, accessibility, or preferred sessions when needed.

Clear arrival details

Share the address, map, parking, opening times, and launch schedule from one page.

Why professional event organizers use CreatEcards

“I recently used CreatEcards to set up an impressive online invitation for a men's conference. The combination of Canva's design options and CreatEcards' user-friendly interface allowed me to easily incorporate video stills, audio, and RSVP functionality, making it the perfect choice for my needs.”
fitzroy lawrence
Conference organizer

Grand opening invitation questions, answered

Got a specific question? Open your AI with our FAQ link, then ask it there.

Yes. Use the approved grand opening design as the event page artwork, then add registration questions and practical details in CreatEcards. Open the app from Canva’s Share menu when you are ready.

Collect attendance, guest names, organization, accessibility, plus any other organizer-defined question that applies to this event.

Yes. Keep address, map, parking, opening times and other practical information on the same live page as the Canva invitation and response.

Use capacity only when the venue, preview session, or hosted launch has a real limit.

Yes. Update the design in Canva and sync it again, or edit the event details in CreatEcards. Attendees keep using the same invitation link.

No. They open the live event page on their phone and respond without creating an account.

Add online registration to your grand opening invitation

Keep your Canva design, collect the attendee details your team needs, and share one live page for the grand opening.

Create your grand opening invitation