Saying thank you: every Swiss template collection
A thank-you for a gift may ramble. A thank-you at a graveside may not. We counted our own collections, and the gap is measurably wider than most guides admit. Every collection sits in one place here, together with the analysis showing how much room each occasion can carry.
The ConvivaPlus Thank-You Index
The ConvivaPlus Thank-You Index measures every collection for volume, situational breadth, register and text length, making visible how much room an occasion can carry.
No authority and no standard reference measures Swiss thank-you occasions by length and register. So we did it on our own corpus: every row below is computed from the actual template texts rather than estimated, and it recomputes as soon as a collection grows.
| Collection | Templates | Situations | Registers | Median length | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invitation | 122 | 17 | 4 | 33 w. | 9–50 w. |
| Job rejection | 103 | 20 | 4 | 39 w. | 18–61 w. |
| Birthday | 103 | 18 | 4 | 29 w. | 9–58 w. |
| Gift | 105 | 18 | 4 | 39 w. | 12–66 w. |
| Wedding | 103 | 18 | 4 | 36 w. | 9–55 w. |
| Bereavement | 107 | 20 | 3 | 29 w. | 9–43 w. |
Method: words per template text, counted across every template in the collection. Median rather than mean, so a single long text cannot skew the row. Registers = the tones selectable in the picker.
The verdict of the analysis: Bereavement is the tightest collection in the whole corpus. Not one text there exceeds 43 words, and it offers only 3 registers instead of four, because a light one simply must not exist. Gift carries half as much again, at 66 words. Use the same text for both and you will be wrong in one of the two cases.
Computed from every template text in this collection. Not an estimate, not a figure borrowed from elsewhere.
Every collection at a glance
Nine collections cover the Swiss thank-you terrain, from invitations through weddings and birthdays to bereavement, job rejections and job offers.
Sorted by size. Six collections are fully reworked and available in four languages; three are older holdings that still hold their terrain.
Over 120 ready-made thank-you texts for every invitation, warm, formal, humorous or short for WhatsApp. Pick the occasion and tone, copy instantly. Free, in a Swiss tone.
Open collection →Thanks for help, backing and support, private or business.
Open collection →Over 100 thank-you texts after a bereavement: for sympathy, the funeral service, flowers, donations, nursing staff and the minister. Plain, personal or formal, in the Swiss tone, with a timing guide.
Open collection →Over 100 ready-made thank-you texts for any gift, warm, formal, humorous or short for WhatsApp. Choose occasion and tone, copy instantly. Free, in a Swiss tone, with etiquette rules.
Open collection →Over 100 ready-made wedding thank-you texts: for gifts, money gifts, travel, witnesses, parents and helpers. Warm, formal or short. Copy instantly, free, in a Swiss tone.
Open collection →103 Swiss thank-you letters after a job rejection: 20 situations, four tonalities, the thank-you compass and the sentence that saves your file.
Open collection →Over 100 ready-made thank-you texts for birthday wishes, warm, formal, humorous or short for WhatsApp. For family, friends, colleagues, belated or as a group reply. Copy instantly, free, in a Swiss tone.
Open collection →The general collection for occasions that fit none of the specialised sets.
Open collection →The mirror of the rejection: the thank-you when the answer is yes.
Open collection →Frequently asked questions
The occasion sets the length, not good intentions
Other guides say «keep it short» and never say what short means. We counted our own 643 template texts instead of estimating. The result: Bereavement has a hard ceiling of 43 words and only three registers, Gift runs to 66 words and offers four. That is not taste, it is the measured gap between an occasion that can carry room and one that cannot. To be straight about it: the index measures our own corpus, not Swiss letter culture as a whole. It says how our templates are built, and they are built per occasion.
Freshness note: The figures recompute on every page view. If a collection grows, its row moves with it.
- ◆The bereavement set is the only one without a light register. Every other collection offers four tones; bereavement has three. That was not a decision made afterwards: for a condolence thank-you there is no «humorous» to fill.
- ◆The shortest text in the whole corpus is 9 words, and that in 4 collections at once. There is evidently a floor below which a thank-you stops landing as one, and it sits at the same place across every occasion.
- ◆Job rejection has the highest minimum. Its shortest text needs 18 words, 2 times that of the shortest collections. The reason is in the occasion: a thank-you after a rejection has to carry the sentence about keeping your file on record, and that does not compress into nine words.
- ◆111 distinct situations across 643 texts means roughly six variants per situation. That is the point where a collection stops being a list: for every situation there are enough variants that two people will not send the same text.
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