Recommend online secret Santa facilitator

November 18, 2014 6:08 PM

Drawing names from a hat just doesn't work for our far flung family anymore. Have you used a website or app to distribute secret Santa names. It should have some way to keep spouses from getting each others' names. It would be nice if you could post a wishlist at the same site.
posted by Kriesa to Computers & Internet (9 answers total)

Elfster is what they use for Secret Quonsar, and it's what my class is using for our school swap.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:13 PM on November 18, 2014

I have used Elfster, it works pretty well.
posted by jessamyn at 6:30 PM on November 18, 2014

I've used Elfster as well. They do have a wishlist function.
posted by MrBobinski at 6:50 PM on November 18, 2014

We've used both Elfster and Sneaky Santa in this manner. Both have wish list functions. I haven't been the one to arrange things, but I very slightly prefer Elfster.
posted by flying kumquat at 6:52 PM on November 18, 2014

I have been using secretsanta.com for this very thing for five or six years.
posted by msali at 7:31 PM on November 18, 2014

Best answer: My family uses drawnames.com which does both spousal exclusion and wishlists
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:51 PM on November 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Yes to drawnames.com for the reasons Eyebrows gave. We were going to use elfster but it required too much typing.
posted by MayNicholas at 4:31 AM on November 19, 2014

My family also uses drawnames.com
posted by emmling at 5:43 AM on November 19, 2014

Response by poster: We opted to use drawnames.com, and it worked well for us! Thanks, you guys.
posted by Kriesa at 11:36 AM on January 14, 2015