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No—you can reserve items on someone else's wish list without an account. But if you want to create your own wish lists, connect with friends, or manage your reservations more easily, you'll need one. See the next FAQ for the full benefits.
An account gives you full access to everything Giftwhale offers:
Create and share your own wish lists for any occasion
Connect with friends and family who also have accounts—you'll all be notified automatically when someone shares a wish list
Manage your reservations easily—change or cancel them by logging in, and the list owner will see your name rather than 'anonymous'
To create an account simply go to www.giftwhale.com and click 'Register'. The only information needed is your name, email and password.
Click the 'Forgot your password?' link below the sign-in form. We'll send a password reset link to your registered email address.
Go to Settings (when logged in) and you can update your personal details, including your profile picture.
Click 'Log out' in the top-right corner of the screen. On mobile devices, you may need to tap the menu icon first.
Deleting your account will remove all data associated with your account. This action is non-reversible.
To delete your account you need to do the following:
Go to your settings page
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Delete account button
Read the next page to ensure you're happy losing the data outlined on the page.
Click Delete account and all data.
Your data and account will now be removed, and you will be redirected to the homepage.
If you're not registered or logged in: Visit our find a friend page and you can search all the users on Giftwhale to find friends and family.
If you are logged in to Giftwhale: Visit your friends page where you can find friends and family, and easily request to be their friend.
No. Your friend won't receive a notification if you remove them. They simply won't be able to view the wish lists you've shared with your Giftwhale friends.
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Giftwhale is a wish list-sharing service that allows you to create wish lists and share them instantly with friends and family. You can use it to create and share wish lists for yourself or for others (e.g. children).
Giftwhale allows you to create a wish list for any occasion and add gifts from any online store or high street shop. More importantly, it is all completely free, designed to be a hassle-free, time-saving addition that hopefully works as well for you as it has for our family.
Giftwhale is completely free to use. Add as many wish lists and items as you like.
When you click a link on Giftwhale and visit a product page on an online store, the online store will sometimes pay Giftwhale a commission if that product is purchased within a certain time frame. This process is known as affiliate marketing and is the main source of Giftwhale's revenue.
You never pay anymore for a product by purchasing it through a link on Giftwhale.
Giftwhale never sells your information or any of the data created or stored by our users.
Products you see throughout Giftwhale are never promoted or highlighted in any way to encourage a purchase over another product, for example, that may not earn a commission.
We don't currently show any advertising to users and have no plans to introduce this.
Go to giftwhale.com using your preferred browser, from where you can either create an account or log in if you already have an account.
Giftwhale works in any browser on any device. Simply visit giftwhale.com and log in or create an account. The site adapts to your screen size automatically.
Yes. The point is to capture ideas when they appear. You can decide who they’re for later, whether or not that person is using Giftwhale yet.
You can cancel a reservation in a few different ways.
If you have a Giftwhale account, head over to your reservations page where you can see everything you've reserved. Click Change reservation and you can set the amount you want to reserve to 0 and click save to remove your reservation.
If you don't have a Giftwhale account and you reserved the item via your email address you can request a link to view or edit any of your reservations
Giftwhale doesn't handle payments—we only manage the wish list. You'll need to buy the gift yourself, either online or in a shop. If the item has a link, you can use it to go directly to the product page.
Giftwhale allows gift reservations so others can see what’s already taken. You can reserve an item with or without a Giftwhale account.
A wish list is a collection of desired items or experiences that a person hopes to acquire or achieve. It can include anything from material possessions like gadgets and clothing to intangible things such as travel destinations or personal goals. Wish lists are most often used as a tool for gift-giving occasions such as birthdays, weddings, baby showers and more.
Log in and click 'Create a wish list' on the home page, or go to your wish lists and click '+New wish list'. You'll be taken to the settings page where you can customise your list for any occasion. Your wish list stays private until you choose to share it.
To mark an item as reserved by you, just press the Reserve button on the item you want to get. If you've got an account, this is all you need to do. If you don't have an account you'll need to confirm the reservation via your email. Once confirmed the reservation will be displayed to everyone viewing the list that this item is no longer available.
Open the wish list you want to add to (from your Dashboard or wish lists page), then click the '+New Item' button.
Yes. Go to your wish lists page, select the list you want to add to, then click the '+New Item' button.
The easiest way is to paste a link. Enter the URL and click 'Fetch'—Giftwhale will automatically pull in the price, description, and image. You can edit any of this information afterwards.
If there's no link available (perhaps you spotted something in a shop), you can add the details and picture manually.
Once the event date for the wish list has passed the event moves into your previous wish list area and from here you can do any of the following actions:
Give the wish list a new date and it'll move back into your active wish lists.
Mark any of the items as received, and this will show you who got the item for you. You can duplicate received items and copy them onto a new wish list if desired.
Move any of the unreceived items onto another wish list.
To view any previous wish list, go to the wish list page and change the ‘Show’ option from ‘upcoming’ to ‘previous’. You can now see all your old wish lists and clicking on one will open it.
Yes. On Giftwhale, you can add experiences exactly like physical items. Include a link to the provider, specify the type of experience, and add any notes about timing or preferences. Gift-givers can then reserve the experience so others know it's covered.
Yes. Parents can create and manage children’s wish lists and share them with family.
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