Once all of your participants have accepted your invitation and joined your gift exchange, you are ready to assign secret santas. Get started by clicking into your gift exchange.
In the Manage Your Event section on the left hand side, scroll down to the Participants section. Before your assign secret santas, make sure that you have set up all of your exclusions. Exclusions allow you to prevent someone from drawing a specific person. This is particularly useful if you did a secret santa exchange last year and want to make sure everyone gets someone different this time around.
To set up exclusions:
- Click on the "Manage Participants & Exclusions" link
- Scroll to the person you want to set an exclusion from and click on the dropdown menu
- Select the excluded name from the dropdown menu
- Click Save at the bottom of window
To remove or delete a participant from your exchange, click on the Trash icon.
Once you have set up exclusions you can go ahead and assign secret santas for your exchange.
- Click on the "Assign Secret Santas Button"
- The system will automatically assign names for all of your participants, taking into consideration any exclusions that you have defined
- Your participants will then be able to login and see who they drew