Frequently asked questions

Surprizio is a free app for creating and sharing gift lists with the people close to you. You add what you'd like, you share a link with your friends and family, and they reserve the gifts they want to give you — without ever doubling up, and without you knowing what has been reserved, if that is what you want.

Yes, with no limit on lists or gifts, and no bank card required to create an account.

To create a list, yes. But if you have been invited to reserve a gift on someone else's list, no account is needed — you simply follow the link you were sent.

It's a permanent list, created automatically when you sign up, always available so you can add an idea without having to create a list first. Unlike your other lists, it can neither be deleted nor shared.

Yes. A catalog of gift ideas, sorted by theme, along with buying guides, is freely accessible from the menu. When you find an idea you like, you can add it straight to one of your lists.

No, it is open to everyone, no account or sign-in required. An account is only needed once you want to add an idea to one of your lists.

By default, no — that is the core principle of Surprizio. If you create a list for yourself, you never see which gifts have been reserved or by whom, so that the surprise lasts until the big day.

Yes. When you create your list, you choose whether to keep the surprise or to see the reservations — useful for a wedding list, for example, where there is no surprise to preserve.

In that case you naturally see the reservations, and you can even record one yourself on behalf of the person concerned — handy when a relative has no internet access and tells you over the phone what they would like to give.

The participants — the people you sent the link to: they see what has already been reserved, otherwise they could not avoid doubling up. The organizer you appoint sees them as well, which is precisely what allows them to help you. The only person who can be kept out of it is you, if you chose to keep the surprise.

Through a unique link that you share yourself (message, email, family group chat, and so on). Anyone who follows that link can view the list and reserve a gift.

Someone you appoint, by email address, to help you manage the list (adding gifts, changing its status). This is useful when several people are organizing an event together — both parents of a child, for instance.

Yes, you can regenerate your list's link at any time from its management page — the old link stops working immediately.

That is exactly what Surprizio is for: as soon as a gift is reserved by someone, it shows as unavailable to the other participants.

Yes. If a gift is wanted in several copies, each participant can reserve some of them until the available quantity runs out.

Yes, at any time and with no waiting period. If you do not have an account, this works from the same device and the same browser you used to reserve (through a technical cookie) — with an account, there is no such restriction.

No. Only the list's organizer, or its owner if they chose to see everything, can do that.

Yes, some gifts can be set up as a group gift: everyone puts in the amount they choose until the price of the gift is reached (or with no set target, if the final amount is not known yet).

No. The amounts shown are declared for information only, so that everyone can coordinate on who puts in what — the actual payment between participants always takes place outside the app.

Yes, every list has a discussion area reserved for participants — invisible to the owner of the list if they chose to keep the surprise.

No, and that is the whole point: not even they see any pairing, anywhere. It is not a promise but a property of the software — results are only shown on each participant’s own page, behind a link sent to them alone. The organizer can therefore take part in the draw like everybody else.

No, for neither. The organizer gets an email with a link that lets them find and manage their draw; each participant gets their own, which never expires and can be reopened when it is time to buy. Anyone can remove their address from the draw whenever they want, from that same page.

Yes. Creating a draw, inviting participants and finding out who you are giving to cost nothing, and no account is needed.

From 3 to 50 participants. With only two, each would draw the other: there would be nothing to find out.

With exclusions, available from 4 participants: you state who must not give to whom, in one direction or both. If an exclusion would make the draw impossible, it is refused and the site tells you why.

No. The group is locked, so that nobody gets a new recipient after possibly having already bought a gift. Only a mistyped email address can be corrected, and the old address is notified.

Yes, the app is designed to be used on a computer as well as on a phone.

Yes, a free extension for Chrome and Firefox lets you add a gift to one of your lists straight from an online shop's page, without copying anything: the name, price and image are picked up automatically. Installation links are available from “My lists”.

French, English and Italian for now, with more to come.

Your account is permanently deleted. Content you created on lists shared with other people (reservations, messages) is anonymised rather than deleted, so as not to disrupt the experience of the other participants. Your own lists are deleted along with everything they contain.