How to organize Secret Santa, from invitation to gift
In Secret Santa, everyone gives a gift to one other person and receives a gift themselves. Tembunar organizes your private group and secret draw online. You buy the presents yourself and exchange them at your gathering.
Secret Santa with family, friends or colleagues? Organize your group in your own Tembunar gifting village. Your organizer sets the date, meeting place and an optional budget. Share the invitation link. Guests can join without an account. With at least three people, the secret draw begins. Only you see who you are giving to. Collect your own gift ideas. Shared wishes can offer extra inspiration. Save product links and mark what you bought yourself. Meet in person to exchange your gifts. Start your Secret Santa group on Tembunar.
Secret recipient drawGuests without accountsPlan your budget and gatheringThree animated designs
Secret Santa guide
Your gift exchange, step by step.
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1. Create a Secret Santa group
The organizer creates the group and participates. Choose a shared name and a Christmas, Easter or general design. Set a meeting date and describe the location, optionally including a time. A minimum and/or maximum budget in one currency is optional; no currency conversion takes place.
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2. Invite participants by link
Copy the shared invitation link or send it via WhatsApp. Guests join with their name, without an account or email address. An optional password is set when creating the group, requested once on joining and cannot be changed later. Organizers can revoke the link.
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3. Prepare the group together
The organizer can appoint a co-organizer with the same management rights. Before the draw, members can leave and organizers can remove participants. Everyone receives a fixed avatar; the first 50 are different. Members can use a personal group name. Ask the organizer in the village predefined questions to learn your group rules.
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4. Make one secret draw
At least three participants are required. The organizer or co-organizer confirms the start and closes new entries. Everyone gives to exactly one other person and receives exactly one gift, never drawing themselves. Reciprocal assignments are possible. There is no redraw. The gifting mode becomes fixed. The organizer or co-organizer can still change the design, currency and budget; assignments remain unchanged. Even organizers see only their own recipient.
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5. Plan your gift privately
Reveal your recipient and collect your own ideas in your private gift notebook. Save product links, names, notes and applicable price notes, then manually mark purchases. In wishlist gifting, shared wishes can provide extra inspiration; your own gift ideas are always welcome. Sharing wishlist ideas requires an account, but participation does not. In surprise gifting, you think of the gifts yourselves.
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6. Meet, give and keep the village
Exchange gifts in person at your chosen location. The date and location can still be adjusted before the meeting is complete. From the next day, members can leave and organizers can archive the village. The animated village remains readable. Accounts with explicit consent, revocable at any time, can receive email reminders seven days and one day before the gathering.
Secret Santa
Organize online. Exchange gifts together.
Online Secret Santa supports your group from the first invitation to your gathering. Assignments stay secret while everyone shares a date, meeting place and budget. For Christmas, family get-togethers, friends or colleagues.
You buy and hand over gifts yourselves. Tembunar supports organization and private planning; it does not handle orders, shipping or online meetings. Accounts can receive email reminders with voluntary consent.
Example: only you see your assignment.
Your secret assignmentYou give a gift to Mia
Our gathering
24 December · By the Christmas tree
Our budget range
€5–30
Your private preparation
Note a gift idea · Save a product link · Mark your purchase
Fictional example village
Fictional example village
Our little gift society
Click the organizer on the throne to ask about the group rules.
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Fictional example villageClick the organizer on the throne to ask about the group rules.Secret Santa
What gift-givers want to know.
Is Secret Santa free?
Yes. Groups require no mandatory payment or subscription. You buy gifts yourself from a shop of your choice.
Does everyone need an account?
No. A name and, where applicable, the group password are enough to join. Sharing your own wishlist ideas requires an account and a wishlist.
How do we set the budget and meeting?
The organizer or co-organizer sets the date, location and optional budget in a chosen currency. Participants learn these details by asking the organizer in the village.
Who sees the draw?
Everyone sees only their own recipient. Organizers and co-organizers cannot retrieve all assignments. Groups and gift notebooks are private.
How many people can take part?
At least three, with no fixed upper limit. The first 50 avatars are different; repeats are possible afterwards. No one can join after the draw.
Is it only for Christmas?
No. Christmas, Easter and general designs support gift exchanges with friends, family or colleagues for other occasions too.
Your next surprise starts around the campfire.
Create your group, share the link and watch your village grow.
Create my Secret Santa groupYour group, names, wishes and secret assignments are never displayed publicly on these information pages.
