Lists
A list is a collection of items the owner wants. GiftWrapt supports a few different shapes of list, and each one has slightly different rules about who can see it and what happens when items get claimed.
List Types
Section titled “List Types”There are five gift-giving list types in active use:
- Wishlist - the default. A general-purpose, evergreen list. Public or private.
- Birthday - tied to the owner’s birthday. Claims auto-reveal a configurable number of days after their birthday.
- Christmas - the annual Christmas list. Claims auto-reveal after Dec 25.
- Holiday - pinned to a specific occasion (Easter, Mother’s Day, Mexico’s Día de la Madre, an admin-defined one-off date, etc.) that an admin has added to the deployment’s curated set. Claims auto-reveal a configurable number of days after the holiday’s date. Public or private.
- Gift ideas - a private list of ideas for someone else. Anyone (except children) can create one, and it can optionally be pinned to a specific person. Never public.
Admins can disable Birthday, Christmas, and generic-holiday list types per deployment via the admin settings, so a small household running just wishlists doesn’t need to see the rest.
The “My Lists” page has a What do the list types mean? trigger that opens a modal explaining each enabled type at a glance: an overview, what emails it triggers, the auto-archive cadence, and what happens when you delete a claimed item. Disabled types on this deployment are filtered out so users only see what they can actually create.
Public vs Private
Section titled “Public vs Private”Wishlists, birthday lists, Christmas lists, and holiday lists can each be marked public or private.
- Public lists are visible to every signed-in user the owner hasn’t explicitly blocked. This is the default “share with my family” mode.
- Private lists are only visible to people the owner has explicitly granted access to (via list editors or guardian relationships).
- Gift-ideas lists are always private. There is no toggle to make one public, and they never surface in any “lists I can shop from” feed.
Collaboration
Section titled “Collaboration”Two ways to let someone else help manage a list:
- List editors - explicit per-list grants. A list editor can add, edit, and delete items just like the owner. Useful for joint Christmas lists, or for letting a partner manage a shared wishlist.
- Guardian access - guardians automatically have full edit access to every list their child or dependent owns. No per-list opt-in required.
When the owner creates a new public list, GiftWrapt auto-ticks “add my partner as an editor” by default. The owner can untick it before saving. Private lists never auto-add anyone.
If you change your partner later, GiftWrapt offers to fix existing list-editor grants for you: pre-checked lists to add the new partner to, pre-checked lists to remove the old partner from. Nothing is removed silently.
Archive vs Delete
Section titled “Archive vs Delete”When the owner deletes a list:
- If there are no claims on any item, the list is hard-deleted.
- If there are any claims, the list is force-archived instead. This preserves gift history for the people who already claimed. Archived lists disappear from the owner’s normal UI but remain queryable in received-gifts history.
Lists for Dependents
Section titled “Lists for Dependents”Lists can be created on behalf of a dependent - a non-user gift recipient like a baby or a pet. The guardian owns the list; the dependent is the subject. Recipient-identity UI (avatars, “whose list is this?” labels) renders the dependent rather than the guardian.
A guardian opening their dependent’s list sees the gifter view, not the recipient view. They’re shopping for the dependent, not receiving gifts from themselves.