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 list with no occasion attached. Public or private. It isn’t a permanent stash, though: a wishlist follows the same reveal schedule as a birthday list, so its claims auto-reveal a configurable number of days after the owner’s birthday.
- 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.
Todo Lists
Section titled “Todo Lists”Alongside the gift-giving types there’s a sixth, non-gift type: the todo list. It’s off by default; an admin turns it on per deployment.
A todo list is deliberately not a gift list wearing a different hat. Its rows live in their own table and carry only what a task needs:
- Title, notes, and priority. No price, quantity, URL, image, or product scraping.
- Claim means done. Ticking a row records who ticked it and when. There’s no spoiler protection here, because there’s no surprise to protect: any viewer sees the claimer immediately, and any viewer can tick or un-tick a row, including the owner. Creating, editing, and deleting rows still needs edit access.
- Type-locked. A todo list can’t be converted into a gift list, a gift list can’t be converted into a todo list, and rows can’t be moved across that boundary in either direction.
- Out of scope for the gift machinery. Todo lists don’t appear in Suggestions or the recent feed, and they have no claims, add-ons, or reveal flow.
Turning List Types Off
Section titled “Turning List Types Off”Admins can disable the Birthday, Christmas, and generic-holiday types per deployment via the admin settings, so a small household running just wishlists doesn’t need to see the rest. The todo list is the same switch pointed the other way: it starts off, and an admin turns it on. Wishlists and gift-ideas lists are always available.
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.