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Your team’s Secret Santa, sorted.

Draw names and share wishlists or gift hints.

Create a free Secret Santa

Up to 100 people · Free accounts needed to see matches

Built for the office exchange

  • Invite by link or email. Paste one invite link in your team chat, or add coworkers by email.
  • One match each. Each person sees only their own match.
  • A budget everyone sees. Set a spending guideline coworkers see when they join. It is a guideline; GiftList does not enforce it.
  • Gift hints for people without wishlists. Each coworker links a wishlist or answers the Mystery Q&A, so their Secret Santa has somewhere to start.
  • Exclusions when you need them. Keep apart people who already swap gifts. GiftList checks the draw still works before names are drawn.
  • Remote teammates included. Everyone joins online. Coworkers buy from any store and hand over or ship gifts however your team decides.

A Secret Santa that doubles
as an icebreaker.

Not everyone keeps a wishlist. With the Mystery Q&A, coworkers answer a few quick questions instead, so their Secret Santa gets real gift hints and learns something new about them.

  • Three short questions. Swap or skip any of them.
  • One points at a gift, and one is just for fun.
  • Your Secret Santa reads them before they shop.

Try this at the gift swap: before each unwrap, the Secret Santa reads out one fun answer and the team guesses whose it is.

  • Points at a gift

    A small luxury that makes your day better?

    Oat flat white, extra hot.

  • Points at a gift

    What do you always run out of?

    Good pens. Someone keeps taking them.

  • Points at a gift

    What’s something you can talk about for hours?

    Pottery. The mugs are… improving.

  • Points at a gift

    If you could permanently fix one small annoyance, what?

    Tangled charging cables.

  • Just for fun

    What’s your most useless talent?

    I can still do a double-under on a jump rope.

  • Just for fun

    What would your autobiography be titled?

    Reply All: A Memoir.

Who sees what.
One match each.

Each person sees only their own match. GiftList doesn’t promise the draw is hidden from you as the organizer, though: you run the exchange and manage everyone’s invitations. If that matters to your team, pick an organizer everyone trusts.

What coworkers see
Only their own match, with that person’s wishlist or Mystery Q&A answers. Unless you switch it off, Santa Mail lets them ask a question without revealing who they are.
What you see as the organizer
Who has joined and who still needs to, everyone’s invitations, and your own match if you’re taking part.
The reveal
Who drew you stays hidden until the exchange date.

What coworkers
need to do.

Three short steps, so nobody has to ask you how it works.

  1. Join from the invite.

    A free account lets each person see who they drew. Coworkers you add by email get their own invitation.

  2. Add a wishlist or answer the Mystery Q&A.

    Their Secret Santa gets real hints, even from someone who has never kept a wishlist.

  3. See your match after the draw.

    Each person sees only the coworker they drew, then shops from any store within the budget.

Can’t take part? Coworkers invited by email can decline from their invitation, no account needed, before names are drawn.

Watch how it works (2 min)

How to Run an Office Secret Santa Online (Up to 100 People)Length 1:49 · captionsWatch on YouTube

Drew a coworker?
Here's what to get them.

Gift ideas that suit most people at work, sorted by budget.

Most popular

Best under $25

Unique finds

Funny gifts

See all Secret Santa gift ideas

Office Secret Santa,
answered.

Planning one for family or friends? See Secret Santa for any group

Is GiftList’s office Secret Santa free?
Yes. GiftList is free, with up to 100 people in each exchange.
Do coworkers need an account to take part?
Yes, a free account to join and see who they drew. Coworkers you invite by email can decline from their invitation without an account, before names are drawn.
Can the organizer see who drew whom?
Everyone sees only their own match, and no screen lists the whole draw. GiftList doesn't promise the draw is hidden from the organizer, though: the organizer runs the exchange and manages everyone's invitations. If that matters to your team, pick an organizer everyone trusts. Who drew you stays hidden until the exchange date.
How many people can join an office Secret Santa?
At least three people are needed to draw names, and one exchange can hold up to 100. A bigger company can run one exchange per team.
Does GiftList enforce the gift budget?
No. The budget appears on the invitation as a guideline for everyone. GiftList does not process payments or limit what people spend.

Start your team’s
Secret Santa.

Invite coworkers, draw names, and let everyone shop from a wishlist or gift hints.

Create a free Secret Santa
Create a free Secret Santa