How to Get a Free Group Leaving Card for an Office Farewell

A colleague's last day has a way of creeping up faster than anyone plans for, and the card is usually the thing everyone agrees needs sorting out and nobody quite gets round to starting.

Printing something out, carrying it desk to desk, and hoping it reaches the right people before Friday is a lot of effort for what should be a simple gesture — especially with half the team working from home on any given day.

GatheredCards lets you build a group leaving card online instead. One link, sent once, and every colleague can add their own message whenever they get a spare minute. A gift collection can sit alongside it if the team wants one — the card works perfectly well without it too.

What does an online leaving card actually involve?

Rather than one physical card doing the rounds, everyone opens the same link and adds their own page — a message, a photo, a GIF, whatever fits. It ends up as a proper multi-page keepsake rather than a few lines squeezed into a corner, and nobody has to be in the office, or even in the same country, to take part.

Putting a free leaving card together

Start with a design

Browse the leaving card designs and pick one — there's a fully free option in there if you'd rather not spend anything at all.

Write the first message before signing up

You can get the card looking right — your own message written, photos added — before creating an account. Signing up only comes in right at the point you're ready to send it out, not before.

Pass round one link

Drop the link wherever your team already talks, whether that's an email, a Slack channel, or a WhatsApp group.

Give people time, not reminders

Colleagues sign in on their own schedule and add their own message — no account needed on their end either. Nobody has to remember to bring the card back to your desk.

Set a delivery time and step away

Choose when it should land, and GatheredCards sends it automatically on the day. A PDF export is there too, if anyone wants a printed version for old times' sake.

Why the leaving card option is actually free

Building a card on GatheredCards has never required an account in the first place, and one of our leaving card designs is kept entirely free to use, with as many signers as your team needs, start to finish.

That's a deliberate contrast to card sites that expect a full account — sometimes including your address and date of birth — before you can even begin. Here, an account only comes into it once, right before sharing, and it takes moments.

A collection is there if you want it, not by default

Some leaving cards come with a group gift attached, plenty do not. If yours does, a gift card collection pot can sit inside the same card, letting people contribute whatever amount feels right, entirely separately from signing.

Nobody needs to set one up. The card by itself is the whole point, and the collection is only ever an add-on.

A quick way to sort a leaving card

Searching for a free leaving card, a group card for a colleague's last day, an office send-off card, or an online leaving card with a collection built in — this covers all of it in one place, without turning it into a project.

Start a free group leaving card on GatheredCards — build it first, sign up only when you're ready to send.