Bring your remote team together with the ultimate virtual holiday party
Delight everyone with an affordable, fun and easy way to celebrate the holidays when you can’t be together.
What is White Elephant?
It’s an entertaining gift-swapping game played by millions of people each year. Each participant brings a gift, is assigned a random number, and then one at a time each person either unwraps a new gift, or steals a gift from someone else. The game is finished when everyone has a gift. The simple formula results in a truly fun and memorable experience. Learn more about why White Elephant is perfect for your virtual office Christmas party.
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Easy to setup
With just a few clicks you can have your gift exchange up and running. Have a more complicated exchange to run? Our platform can handle that, too.
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Affordable
If budget is an issue we’ve got you covered with straight-forward pricing that comes in at a fraction of the cost of other virtual office holiday party ideas.
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Fun + Memorable
You can guarantee that everyone will be talking about this event long after the last gift has been exchanged. It’s engaging, entertaining and the perfect way to bring your group together at work.
Planning your virtual holiday party is simple.
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Set your date and time, select any custom rules for how you like to play White Elephant, and send out your invitations to your co-workers.
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Before the exchange starts, participants can easily submit a gift by linking to a product online from any major retailer; we’ll grab the name and photo automatically.
If you’d rather manage the gifts for all players yourself, we have an option for that too!
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Our platform works with any video conferencing tool that you’d want for your virtual office holiday party, such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet!
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We keep things simple with an end-of-game summary and multiple options for gift distribution, including a few that don’t require players to share their addresses.
Our intuitive platform takes you through the game, step-by-step
Join the thousands of companies that bring their teams together using White Elephant Online
Frequently Asked Questions
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We’ve built a platform to play online! Instead of buying a gift, wrapping it, and bringing it to the office party, you can now join a virtual event with all of your co-workers or friends. In the virtual event you submit a gift online before the big day, and then on the day of the event you all jump on a video call to unwrap gifts virtually. The system controls the order of play and allows players to swap and steal to their hearts content! At the end of the event we let everyone know who won their gift so you can coordinate delivery.
For companies planning an office holiday party, we offer options to manage your participants and their gifts yourself as the Game Admin.
For a complete rundown of how to play check out our White Elephant Rules.
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Yes! Our platform will work globally. The main consideration would be the shipping of the gifts. The actual purchasing and shipping of gifts happens outside our platform, on the original retailer website. As long as everyone submits from a retailer that ships internationally, then it will work fine. Amazon is usually a safe bet, but it does depend on your specific circumstances. For more thoughts and recommendations on this topic, check out our blog post about hosting an international exchange.
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When your gift swap is over, everyone will receive an email telling them who won their gift, which gift they won, and any action they need to take. The action required is determined by the Gift Distribution Option you select when setting up your game. The most popular option is "Player sends their own gift", which means each player will get their recipient's mailing address and/or email address to coordinate shipping on their own.
If your company is covering the cost of the gifts for your virtual office Christmas party, you can select "Game Organizer will ship & pay for gifts", and use our end-of-game summary report to make this easy. Learn more about all of our gift distribution options here.
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Yes! We’ve built tools to do just this. Players don’t even have to signup. You can create ‘Dummy Players’ that show in the game, and manage all the gifts. Your team can just join the video call when it’s time and have a blast!
Read more about the solution on our support site here.
