Christmas time is always a time to celebrate. A Christmas tree, some garlands, a crackling fireplace and a nice glass of mulled wine or a cup of chocolate... to get in the mood.
With family, friends or colleagues,organization of a Secret Santa is always a good time for everyone. It's an opportunity to share and celebrate before moving on to the new year!
Principles of a Secret Santa
If you have never participated in a Secret Santa, don't worry, its principle is very simple and friendly.
In a given group of individuals (friends, family, colleagues), each person will secretly offer a gift to another person in the group. Each participant will draw the name of another individual to whom they want to offer a gift... and thus each participant will receive a gift, without knowing who their "secret Santa" is.
Must therefore organize a raffle gifts in advance of the event, ensuring that no one draws their own name.
And that's why it's often much easier to organize a Secret Santa using a free website like SecretSanta.fr. Indeed, such a site will do a lot of the work for you and in particular ensure an optimized draw!
Organize a Secret Santa very easily
I introduced you some time ago 5 free sites to organize a Secret Santa, but I hadn't mentioned the site SecretSanta.fr which is nevertheless a very good alternative!
SecretSanta.fr is therefore a site without any advertising and 100% free whose one and only vocation is to help you organize Secret Santa!
Its goal is really to simplify your life! Three steps will be enough to organize a secret Christmas with your friends.
Step 1: Participants
To start, you will have to inform the participants of the draw ! For each (including the organizer) you must provide a name or a pseudo and an email.
In case of a big secret santa, it is even possible to import a CSV file with three columns: name, email and exclusions.
Step 2: Create exclusions (if necessary)
Once the participants are informed, you can manage exclusions to prevent, for example, one of them from offering a gift to someone that he cannot stand.
To do this, simply specify for each participant the names to whom they should not give gifts. This system is really practical and allows you to manage most situations!
Step 3: Write an email that will be sent to everyone
The last step is to write an email that will be sent to all participants. You can specify the title of your email as well as its content.
The developer has provided two tags that you can integrate into the body of the email to specify the name of the person who will receive the email ({SANTA}) and the one to whom he will have to give a gift ({TARGET}).
In the mail, it is important to specify the rules of the game by recalling for example a minimum/maximum amount for the gift, by specifying the date or even the place of the presentation of the gifts.
Once everything is ready, all you have to do is press the “Start Random” button to create your event!
Each participant will then receive an email with all the necessary information. In this email, the participant will also have a link allowing them to correspond with their Secret Santa.
For their part, the organizer will receive a second email with a link to check that everyone has received their email and possibly change the email addresses in the event of a problem.
