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Free for Teams and Workplaces
Office Secret Santa Generator
Run the office exchange without chasing anyone down the hall. Share one link, let the team add themselves, then draw names when everyone is in. No accounts, no app, no personal phone numbers.
Works for remote and hybrid teamsNo need to collect email addresses yourselfFree at any headcount
Running It for a Team
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Share one link with the team
Post it in the team channel and everyone adds their own name and work address. Nobody has to send you their details, and you do not have to chase the people who never reply. If you would rather do it yourself, you can still paste the list straight out of a spreadsheet.
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Set the budget
One spending limit for the whole team, shown on every page. It is the question you would otherwise answer fifteen times.
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Keep it optional
Only add the people who opted in. Anyone organizing but not taking part can stay out of the hat completely.
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Draw when everyone is in
Close the link and draw names whenever you are ready, or set a date and let it close itself. Everyone gets their own link at their work address, free, and nobody has to hand over a personal number.
Made for the Awkward Parts of a Workplace Exchange
An office exchange has constraints a family one does not. These are the ones that come up every single year.
Four questions instead of a wishlist
Sweet or savory, coffee or tea, anything to avoid, and a shop they like. Three are a single tap. Colleagues who would never write out a list will answer that in twenty seconds, and whoever drew them reads it.
No personal contact details
A work email address is enough. Nobody has to give out a mobile number, and there is no account to create with a personal address.
Control over who gets in
Set how many people can join, a date the link closes on, and whether you approve each person before they are added. A link shared outside the team cannot quietly fill your exchange with strangers.
Pairs that should not match
Conflict rules let you keep two people apart, whether a manager and their report, a pair who matched last year, or whoever it needs to be.
Organizers who are not participating
An office manager or EA often runs the exchange without being in it. Mark yourself as not participating and you are kept out of the draw, the counts and the wishlists.
Nobody knows what to get a colleague
Wishlists help most at work, where people know each other least. A few ideas with photos beats a guess and a gift card.
Workplace Questions
Yes. An exchange can ask four short questions instead of asking for a list: sweet or savory, coffee or tea, anything to avoid, and a shop they would happily get something from. Three of them are one tap. The answers go to whoever drew that person, and a wishlist is still available to anybody who wants one.
No. Nobody needs an account, a password or an app installed. Each person gets a link and opens it, and that is the entire process. Anyone who wants an account can create one free, but it is never required.
Yes. Nothing about it assumes people share a room. Everyone draws from their own link whenever they get to it, in whatever timezone they are in, and wishlists are visible to the person who drew them wherever they are.
Across all the exchanges run on Secret Santa Hat the median spending limit is a little under thirty dollars. Whatever you choose, set it in the app so it shows on every page instead of living in one email nobody can find.
Yes, and for a team it is usually the easier way round. You add yourself, share one link in the team channel, and everyone else enters their own name and work address. You decide how many can join and when the link closes, and you draw names when you are ready.
You set a limit on how many people can join, so a link that travels cannot fill the exchange. You can close it at any moment, or replace it, which stops the old one working while leaving everyone already in with their own link intact. You can also turn on approval, so nobody is added until you say so.
Add or remove them and reset the draw. If a change leaves the draw broken, the organizer sees a banner explaining exactly what is wrong with a one-click reset, and nobody else is walked through a draw that cannot complete.