Everything You Need to Know About Secret Santa Raffle

Organising your Monito Monita draw online is as easy as adding everyone's name and email. Our tool does the random draw in seconds and sends each participant a private email with a personal access code to log into the app or website and discover who they get to gift, super simple lang!

Running your Monito Monita draw takes less than a minute, promise! Fill in your participants, hit the button, and the system instantly matches everyone and fires off the emails.

Yes, though it works a little differently on the web and in the app. Here is what to expect:

• In the app, you can correct a participant's name or email for free from your private area, at any time.
• On the web, that same edit requires the Resend pass.
• The matchings themselves never change to protect the surprise, but you can regenerate the whole draw as long as no one has opened their email yet.

The email includes a personalised message from the organiser and a personal 8-character access code. With that code, each participant logs into the app or website to discover who they are gifting and check the rest of the draw's details anytime they like.

Absolutely, you can create and manage as many draws as you like with the same email. Family, officemates, barkada, you name it, and manage them all from "My Draws" in your private area.

Nope, no registration needed to organise a Monito Monita draw. Your draw automatically ties to your email, and to get into your private area we just send you a 6-digit OTP code, no passwords to remember, ever.

You need at least 3 participants, and there is no maximum. Go ahead and run draws with hundreds of people; for big groups like your whole office, we recommend the CSV import to save time.

Yes, you can add a suggested budget when creating your draw. Just enter it in the form (e.g. ₱500), and it will show up in each participant's private area (app or website), so the whole barkada knows how much to spend.

Yes, you can add the date and venue of the gift exchange, though these are optional fields. We really recommend it, kasi participants will then be able to check this info in their private area on the app or website.

Yes po, you can personalise the invitation message on the last step of the form. Use it to add your own personal touch or share special instructions with your participants.

Yes, anyone can join as long as they have a unique email address. If someone does not have one, like the little ones or lolo and lola, use an alias (e.g. [email protected]) or quickly set up a free email account just for them.

As soon as the draw is generated, they get a private email with a personal access code, which they use to log into the app or website and discover their match. To double-check later, they can hop into their private area on the web or in the mobile app.

Missing invites are almost always just chilling in the Spam or Promotions folder. Tell them to check there first; still nothing? You can turn on the resend feature from the organiser area.

Yes, go to "My Draws", select the draw and tap the pencil icon next to the participant to update their email. This is free in the app; on the web it is part of the Resend pass. The new email will receive the assignment as soon as you confirm it.

Yes, resending an invite to one specific person comes with the Resend pass. It lets you shoot out individual invitations to whoever still needs one.

Not directly, kasi adding participants would mess with the existing matchings. Instead, regenerate the whole draw with your updated list before anyone opens their email, or simply start a separate draw for the latecomers.

Yes, use the "Exclusions" step to stop specific people from gifting each other. For each person, tell us who they should not gift, perfect for making sure couples, siblings or roommates do not end up matched together.

There is no limit at all on how many exclusions you can add. Add multiple exclusions per participant, as long as the draw is still mathematically possible.

Our system automatically catches impossible combinations and gives you a heads-up before generating the draw. If it happens, it tells you exactly which exclusion is causing the problem so you can tweak it.

Nope, exclusions only work in one direction unless you set them both ways. If you set that A cannot gift B, B could still end up gifting A; to block couples or family both ways, set up the exclusion separately for each person.

Yes, you can re-run the draw as long as nobody has opened their email yet, walang problema. Once someone has opened theirs, regeneration gets locked so we do not spoil the surprise.

Head over to Create draw from CSV and upload your file or paste the contents in. You will get a preview of the detected data before moving on to the actual draw.

We accept .csv, .xlsx and .xls files. The expected columns are Name, Email and Exclusions (optional), separated by semicolons or tabs.

Set exclusions in the CSV using each person's row position. Row 1 is position 1, row 2 is position 2, and so on; in the "Exclusions" column, list the position numbers of whoever they should not gift, separated by commas.

Wala pong limit on how many participants you can import. We have handled imports with hundreds of participants, no sweat, and really big lists get a paginated preview before confirming.

Yes, Google Sheets works perfectly with our import tool. Download your sheet as CSV or Excel via "File > Download", or just copy the cells and paste them right into the textarea on the import page.

Yes po, we have native Monito Monita apps for both iOS and Android. Grab the direct download links from our App section.

Yes, the website and app share the exact same account, so your draws stay in sync. Perfect when the organiser is on a laptop but everyone else prefers checking on their phone.

Yes, downloading the app and using the essentials are completely free. Premium extras such as ad-free draws, resends and viewing matchings are optional purchases.

Yes, you need an internet connection to sync your draws and check assignments. Once loaded, the draw info stays available for quick checks even if your connection briefly drops.

Yes, the app and website update in real time. Update an email or regenerate a draw on the web, and the change shows up in the app on refresh, and the other way around too.

Premium features help cover the cost of keeping the service fast for everyone, without ever charging you to join in. Running draws for thousands of barkadas at once, especially in December, genuinely costs money.

The VIP Pass removes advertising from a specific draw and its emails. It is applied per draw, so you only pay for the one that actually needs it.

Resending emails is available with the Resend pass. If someone deleted their invite or changed their email, it lets you fire it off again to their updated address.

"View Matchings" lets the organiser see who is gifting whom, think company events. For everyone's privacy we will not hand this out via support; it is unlocked separately with the View Matchings extra.

"Buy me a coffee" is a voluntary donation to support the project, and it does not unlock anything automatically. Premium extras such as resends or matchings are purchased separately in the "Extras" section.

Only each participant can ever see their own match. Not even the organiser or our support team can peek, unless the organiser specifically buys the "View Matchings" feature.

The whole site runs on HTTPS and your data is stored encrypted. We comply with GDPR: you have the right to access, correct or delete your data at any time.

No, never, we do not sell or share your personal data with third parties for commercial purposes. Your info is only ever used to make the draw work, such as sending emails and showing your assignment.

We keep your draws so you can reuse them next year and check assignments from the app anytime. If you would rather not have them stored, you can delete them manually from your private area whenever you like.

Yes po, you can delete your account and data instantly from your profile. Tap "Delete account" on the web or app; your data gets anonymised and your session closes right away, no waiting around.

You log in with a passwordless one-time code (OTP), so there is zero passwords to forget. Pop in your email, get a 6-digit code and you are straight in.

Yes, you can update the email linked to your account from your profile. We send a verification code to the new address before making the switch official.

Message us at [email protected] with the name of the draw, roughly when you created it, and the original email. We will verify it is really you and help you get back in.

Yes, log into your private area and tap "Reuse list" under "My Draws" to reuse last year's participants. Saves you from retyping every single name and email all over again.

Check the participant's email for typos and fix it with the pencil icon. No worries po; to resend the invitation you will need the Resend pass.

Almost always, the missing email is sitting in their SPAM or Junk folder. Ask them to check there before anything else.

If it is still not showing up, message us at [email protected]. Already bought a premium feature? Mention it in the subject line and we will bump you up in priority.

The platform works with all major browsers, including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge and Opera. On mobile, Safari on iOS and Chrome on Android both work perfectly.

Yes, you can organise your Secret Santa draw from anywhere in the world. The platform is available in several languages (including English, Spanish, German, Dutch and Polish) and emails are delivered to any provider.