Digital Christmas card: how to send your Christmas greetings this year

A digital Christmas card is a festive greeting you send by SMS or email instead of by post. You create it online, write your message, attach a picture – and it arrives in seconds, with no postage and no last posting deadline.

The greeting itself is written just like before: a Christmas message, a line about the past year, and a wish for the new one.

The most common Christmas greeting has three parts: the greeting itself, a line about the past year, and a wish for the new one. These work for everyone – family, neighbors, and people you only see in December.

1. 1

   Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Hope you have some peaceful days together.

2. 2

   A very Merry Christmas to you all. Thank you for the past year.

3. 3

   Merry Christmas! May it be peaceful, calm, and with far too much rib.

4. 4

   Wishing you a peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

5. 5

   Merry Christmas from us to you. We're thinking of you this holiday season.

6. 6

   A heartfelt Merry Christmas! Hope the new year brings you everything you wish for.

For those you’re close to, or those you wish you saw more often. These are the ones that are remembered.

1. 1

   Merry Christmas! It’s been a year full of so much, and I’m glad you’ve been part of it. Thank you.

2. 2

   Merry Christmas to you. I don’t say it often, but I really appreciate you. Now it’s Christmas, so it fits.

3. 3

   Merry Christmas! Hope we see each other more often next year than we did this year. That’s my New Year’s resolution.

4. 4

   Thinking of you at Christmas. Hope the days are good, and that you know you’re missed here.

5. 5

   Merry Christmas, dear you. Thanks for all the calls, trips and coffee cups over the past year.

1. 1

   God jul! Vi har spist opp all julekaka allerede, men tanken var god.

2. 2

   Happy Christmas from us – the house smells of roast pork, and no one can find the remote. Everything’s as it should be.

3. 3

   Merry Christmas! This year we skipped decorating gingerbread houses in favour of eating them. Highly recommended.

Keep it short and warm. Replace the placeholder text with the company name.

1. 1

   Merry Christmas and thanks for the collaboration over the past year. We look forward to continuing it.

2. 2

   Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

3. 3

   Thanks for a great year. Merry Christmas from all of us at [bedrift]!

4. 4

   Merry Christmas! Thanks for your trust and the lovely chats throughout the year.

Four benefits people actually notice

• No last posting deadline. You can send it on Christmas morning and it arrives on Christmas morning.
• No addresses to hunt down. A phone number or email is enough – and you already have both in your phone.
• You can attach more than just text. The family photo, a short video from the cabin, or the kids singing.
• You can write them well in advance. Write in November, schedule delivery for the date you want.

One thing to watch out for

Don’t send exactly the same text to everyone. It shows. Write one common main part if you must, but change the middle sentence per recipient – it takes twenty extra seconds and makes the difference between a greeting and a mass mailing.

For family abroad, friends in another part of the country, or colleagues you don’t meet in person, the combination of greeting and gift card is the only one that arrives on time without costing more in shipping than the gift.

If you’re unsure what they want, see gift for the person who has everything.