Lists and gifts
Making wish lists, what each field on a gift is for, and keeping several lists apart.
Making a list
Lists is where yours live. A list needs a name and nothing else; a description helps when a circle sees several of yours at once.
Most people end up with one per occasion — a birthday list and a Christmas list stay useful for longer than one list that mixes both.
Adding a gift
Only the name is required. The rest exists so the person buying doesn't have to guess or ask you and spoil it:
- Link — where to buy it. Any
http://orhttps://address; other kinds of link are refused, because a link your circle can't open is worse than none. You can add up to three places to buy the same thing. - Details — colour, model, edition. The things that make a gift right rather than nearly right.
- Size — clothes, shoes, a ring. Free text, so "UK 9" and "medium, but they run small" are both fine.
- Priority — from Someday to Top of the list. This is how you say what you'd genuinely love without having to rank everything out loud.
- Price range — a bracket rather than an exact figure, so someone can find something in their budget without an awkward conversation.
- How many — for the things you want more than one of. Your circle can't claim more than you asked for; see sharing and surprises.
You can edit or remove any of it later. Nothing you write here is visible to anyone until you share the list with a circle.
Who can see a list
Nobody, until you share it. A list you've made and not shared says Private — only you in the Sharing Center.
When you do share it, everyone in that circle sees the list and the gifts on it. Sharing is per circle, so a list can go to your family without going to your friends.
Lists for a child
A list can belong to a child you look after rather than to you. See family profiles — it's the same list with one difference: the site is explicit about whose name the circle is about to see.
Still stuck, or spotted something wrong? Get in touch — a real person reads it.