1. Click Sign up at the top of any page.
2. Enter your email, first name, last name and a password, then click Create a new account. (Creating an account confirms you're over 13.)
3. Open the welcome email from DreamList and click the link to validate your email.

We start you off with a list called Private Wishlist that only you can see. Use it as a scratch pad, rename it, or make it your first real list.

It's the one email from us you really have to open. (We hope you'll open the others too.)

1. On your Dashboard, click + Add a new list.
2. Give it a Title and a Call to action / Description: the short story you'd like givers to read first.
3. Add an image and, if you like, a Background Image for the top of the list.
4. Choose Who can see this list: Public (anyone with the link) or Me Only.
5. Pick a sharing name. Your list's address becomes www.dreamlist.com/for/yourname.
6. Click Save List.

You can change any of this later with Edit List at the top of the list.

Your list's link, as it appears at the top of a public list. Click it there to copy it.

Gift Ideas and Gift Tags have a Shipping Address box. Savings Funds have Contribution Instructions: your PayPal or Venmo link, or where to mail a check.

Need a different one for a single item? Just change it in that item. Your other items keep theirs. If one list uses several addresses, check that the filled-in one is right.

On your own list, each item has three little icons in its bottom-left corner:

• Drag it to put the item in a new spot. Click it to move the item to another of your lists.
• Edit the item.
• Delete the item.

The Available and Reserved buttons switch between what's still wanted and what's been taken. Reserved items wear a little "reserved" ribbon.

Drag, drop, done. Tidier than the gift closet.

1. Open your list and click Edit List at the top.
2. Under Type of list, choose Joint or Organization.
3. In Invite List Administrators, type their email and click Send. Repeat for each person.
4. They get an email. They click the link and log in, or sign up, with that same email address.

Co-admins can add, edit and remove items, and the list's gifts show up in their own Thank You list too. Edit List shows who has joined (with a ) and who is still "invited".

Two grandmas, one list, zero duplicate sweaters.

Dashboard, Reservations tab, Items You have Reserved. It lists every gift reserved with your account's email on any DreamList, even the ones from before you had an account.

Each card shows how many you reserved or how much you pledged, the store options, a link back to the list, and the wisher's shipping address or contribution instructions when the wisher has them set to show. There's a search box, too.

Finally, proof that you're the favorite aunt.

1. Validate your email. The New Group button stays grey until you do.
2. On your Dashboard, under Family Groups & Gift Drives, click New Group.
3. Add a Title, a Call to action / Description, an image, a background image and a sharing name. Save.
4. Add lists. Pick any of these:
   • Your lists, from the Dashboard: click the … next to a list, then Add to Group, then the group.
   • Your lists, from the group page: click Edit, then + Add lists.
   • Someone else's list: on the group page, click Edit and paste their www.dreamlist.com/for/… link into Add a DreamList by link. Or, on the Dashboard, click the … next to the group, then Add a list by link.
5. In the same Edit window, drag lists by their icon to change the order. To take one out, click the … next to it, then Remove.

Groups are always public, and only the person who created a group can edit it.

One link for the whole family. No more "wait, which link was Timmy's?"

Cousin Mia, age 6

Mia loves unicorns, puzzles and anything purple.

Unicorn puzzle

100 pieces, please!

Get This Gift

Visit this list

A list inside a group page.

Our demo gift drive. This screenshot is from an earlier version, so buttons look a little different today.

1. Make one public list per family, person or age group. If a team is running the drive, open Edit List, choose Organization, and invite your helpers as co-admins (step 7).
2. Add a Gift Tag for each person. Title: who it's for ("Girl, age 8"). Note: gift ideas separated by commas.
3. Put your drop-off address in the Shipping Address box and choose After reservation, so only givers who reserve get it, by email. The address fills in on your next tags. Choose After reservation on each one, because every new item starts at On the wish.
4. Partner charities with their own wish lists? Add them as outside lists.
5. Make a group, add all the lists, and share your www.dreamlist.com/of/… link.
6. Watch your Thank You list and mark gifts received as they arrive. Fully reserved lists step off the group page by themselves.

An angel tree without the tree, the tape, or the tag that fell behind the radiator.

Running several groups (say, one per school, region or season) and want one home page for all of them, plus links to your outside donation pages? We'll build you an organization page at www.dreamlist.com/org/yourname.

Email org@dreamlist.com with:

• the links to your groups,
• your logo,
• any outside donation links you'd like on the page.

We usually set it up within a day, and it's free.

You don't have to retype a thing. Email import@dreamlist.com with:

• the link to your old registry or wish list, and
• the DreamList list you want the items in.

We move the items for you.

Want to keep the old one running too? Add it to your list as a Link External Wishlist item instead.

Moving day, without the boxes.