No account
Fourteen people should not have to make fourteen accounts
Every guest gets a private link by email and scratches their card. No password, no app, no profile — and nothing kept about them beyond the address you typed in.
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What a sign-up costs you
A gift exchange has one organiser and fourteen participants, and the fourteen did not ask for any of this. Put a registration form in front of them and three never finish it — not out of principle, but because it arrived on a phone, on a Tuesday, between two other things.
Those three are not a rounding error. A draw is a closed cycle: if three people never open their card, three other people get nothing, and the whole exchange has a hole in it that only shows up on the day.
So the only thing asked of a guest here is to open an email and scratch. The account exists for exactly one person — you — because somebody has to be able to come back and see who has opened theirs.
What each person actually does
- 1
You add the names
First name, last name, email. That is the whole form, and you fill it in once for everybody.
- 2
They get a link
One email, one private link. It works immediately, on any phone, with nothing to install and nothing to choose.
- 3
They scratch
One name appears. If they lose the email, the same link still works — there is no password to have forgotten.
- 4
You sign in, once
And by email link rather than a password, because an organiser should not have to invent a fifteenth one to run a draw.
What is held, and what is not
- An address, a first name, a last name
- That is the whole record for a guest. No phone number, no date of birth, no address book, and nothing imported from anywhere else.
- Nobody sees who drew whom
- Matches are encrypted and never displayed — not to you, not in an export, not in a support screen. The service reads them once, to send a card.
- The event is deleted three months after it happens
- Guests, wishlists and matches go with it. An old gift exchange is not an archive worth keeping, and the safest data is the data no longer held.
- Nothing is sold, and nothing is sent that you did not start
- Your guests get the card and the reminders for your event. There is no newsletter, and their address is not used for anything else.
Common questions
Do my guests really not need an account?
No. They receive a link and use it. Nothing is created for them beyond the line you typed, and there is no password anywhere in their part of this.
Can it work without email addresses at all?
No, and it would be worse if it did. The address is what makes a card reach one person and only that person; a shared link would be a card anybody could open.
Somebody has no address of their own.
Use the address of whoever they live with and hand them the screen. The card is a link — it opens anywhere, and a grandparent scratching on someone else’s phone is the normal case.
Do I need an account?
Yes, and it is a link sent to your address rather than a password. You are the only person who has to come back to the site.
What happens to the addresses afterwards?
They are deleted with the event, three months after it takes place. The one exception is an address that bounced or asked not to be written to — that list is kept, because it is what stops us contacting them again.
Is there a paid version that adds accounts?
No. There is no paid version, and asking your guests for less is a design decision rather than a limitation to be lifted later.
Ask your guests for a scratch and nothing else
You add the names, they open a link. Three minutes at your end, ten seconds at theirs.
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