Set up a Secret Santa or gift exchange for a group — Bestboy draws names, keeps them secret, and lets everyone add gift ideas for the person they're buying for.
🎅 Running a Gift Draw (Secret Santa)
A Gift Draw is Bestboy's group Secret Santa / gift exchange feature — nobody needs an account to create one, join one, or draw a name.
Creating a draw
Go to Start a Gift Draw and give it a name (or pick an occasion chip like Secret Santa or Christmas).
Set an optional budget per person, and add everyone's name and email — Bestboy needs each person's email so they can find their own spot later.
With four or more participants, you can allow one group re-draw in case everyone wants a do-over.
Create the draw. You'll get a shareable link and a passcode — either one gets someone in.
Joining a draw
Click the link an organizer sent you, or go to Join a Gift Draw and enter the passcode.
Enter your email to find your spot. If you weren't added by the organizer, use Not listed? Add yourself instead.
Click Draw a name to reveal who you're buying for. Once revealed it stays the same — there's no way to redraw just for yourself.
While the draw is running
Add your own wish under Your own wish — whoever draws you will see it as a hint.
Once you've drawn your match, you'll see any hint they left for themselves, plus a gift idea suggestion you can edit and save to your People list to keep planning there (sign-in required to save).
If the organizer enabled it, anyone can trigger Redraw for everyone — a fresh draw for the whole group, once.
Organizing
Reopen the draw's link (or find it under Settings → Gift Draws if you saved it to your account) to:
Copy the shareable link and passcode again.
Send email invites to everyone who has an email on file.
Set exclusions so specific people can't draw each other (e.g. couples) — needs at least three participants.
Remove a participant before the draw happens.
Save the event to your account so it's easier to find later.
A draw's link and passcode aren't guessable and aren't search-indexed, so only people you've shared them with can find it.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a Bestboy account to create or join a Gift Draw?
No — anyone can create or join a Gift Draw without signing up. Saving it to your account afterward is optional, and just makes it easier to find later.
How does a participant find out who they're buying for?
They enter the email the organizer added them with (or add themselves if they weren't on the list), then click Draw a name to reveal their match.
Can the organizer see who's buying for whom?
No — the draw pairs everyone privately. The organizer can see who's revealed their match and who hasn't, but not the actual pairings.
What if the group wants a do-over?
If the organizer enabled re-draws when creating the event (needs at least four people), anyone can trigger one fresh draw for the whole group from their own draw screen — it can only be used once.