Gift Exchange

Stop drawing names out of a hat for your Christmas or other occasion gift exchanges.Participants do not have to be together to conduct the drawing. Result can be automatically e-mailed to each participant. This provides privacy; the operator of the program does not see the name drawn for each person. E-mails may be sent using Outlook or directly using a POP/SMTP mail server. SSL (secure sockets layer) connections are supported to allow sending notifications using Gmail.Participants in the drawing may be chosen from the Outlook/Outlook Express address book. You may change the e-mail address for participants in Outlook. You will not have to update the e-mail addresses in Gift Exchange each time you perform a drawing. (Outlook is not required. The e-mail addresses may be manually entered).People tree allows exclusions of spouses or group members from drawing a name in the same group.Memory of previous drawing prevents people from drawing the same name as the previous drawing.Each participant may be designated as "Gives and receives a gift in shared exchange", "Gives and receives in shared exchange, also may give to receive only participant(s)", "Does not receive gift, may give to receive only participant(s)", or "Does not give gift, receive only. For example, child".The result can be printed for each participant without e-mail, or who want a printed copy immediately.Summary display shows the name drawn and gift given for each person for previous drawings.Your exchange information is maintained on your own computer so it is private. This is not a web service; there is no advertising or spyware. Various exchange files may be created and saved. For example, an exchange file can be used for your direct family. A separate file may be used for an exchange for your spouses family.Logging feature shows history of various activities and results such as e-mails sent successfully.Optional HTML links may be included in e-mails to send gift suggestions for any participants to the exchange organizer. The organizer may add any suggestions received to the list and send out e-mails again including the suggestions.

Whats new in this version:

Version 3.0:: e-mail notifications are now customizable