GiftManager Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

GiftManager hosting on xCloud gives your family a self-hosted wishlist manager for gift ideas, purchase tracking and Secret Santa on your own domain. Deploy GiftManager from the OneClick catalog and xCloud starts the pinned v2.8.0 image with no database, generates the session secret and mounts one volume for every list and avatar. Open the site right away to complete the admin setup page, because the first person to submit it becomes the administrator.

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What is GiftManager?

GiftManager is a self-hosted gift idea and wishlist manager for families and friends. Its README lists adding and editing gift ideas for yourself and others with descriptions, links and prices, marking gifts as bought to avoid duplicates, keeping track of what you have given, and a design built to keep surprises secret. The template README adds personal and shared lists, Secret Santa, link previews and optional email reminders. Self-hosted GiftManager is a wishlist you run yourself instead of listing gifts on a hosted site. It is licensed under MIT.

On xCloud, the template uses GiftManager v2.8.0, pinned by digest, as one container with no database. Users, ideas, settings and avatars are stored as JSON files on the giftmanager_data volume. There is no default account, email works only through Mailjet and some endpoints answer without sign-in by upstream design, so read the access notes before sharing the address.

From Sign-Up to a Live Family Wishlist In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting GiftManager normally means a container, persistent storage, a domain and a certificate before a single wishlist exists. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick GiftManager from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain — xCloud generates the session-signing secret for you.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official icbest/giftmanager image pinned by immutable digest, mount the persistent data volume, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Complete Admin Setup
Open your HTTPS URL right away — it redirects to the admin setup page. Create the administrator account (username, password, email, name, birthday); the page then locks. Sign in, add family members, and add the first gift ideas.

Everything GiftManager Does, On Your Own Server

GiftManager runs in full here — gift idea lists, purchase tracking, Secret Santa and an admin dashboard, on infrastructure you control.

Personal Gift Idea Lists
Each person keeps a list with descriptions, links and prices, sorted however they like.
Mark Gifts As Bought
Family members mark ideas as bought, preventing duplicates while the surprise stays secret from the list's owner.
Secret Santa Draws
Run Secret Santa draws, with separate families manageable on one install.
Admin Dashboard
Manage users from an admin dashboard, with optional OIDC sign-on for the whole family.
Mailjet Email Reminders
Optional email reminders through Mailjet, configured with your own API key and sender address.
Everything Survives A Restart
Users, ideas, settings and avatars live on the persistent data volume — QA verified this by restarting the container and reading back a created idea.

Everything You Need To Run Your Family Wishlists 24/7

Managed hosting for GiftManager, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

GiftManager v2.8.0 deployed instantly
Pinned, vendor-maintained image
Secret Santa and multi-family support
Mailjet email reminders
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With GiftManager

Keep a family wishlist
Each person keeps a list of gift ideas with descriptions, links and prices that relatives can browse before a birthday or holiday.
Avoid duplicate presents
A relative marks an idea as bought, so others see it is taken, while the list's owner is not spoiled.
Run a Secret Santa draw
A family or office group runs a Secret Santa among its members from the same site that holds their lists.
Keep gift data off hosted wishlist sites
A household that wants its wishlists on its own server keeps them in JSON files on a volume it controls and backs up.

GiftManager vs Alternatives

Giftster: Giftster is a hosted family wishlist service. GiftManager keeps lists on a server you run and has no database, though this page makes no feature-parity claim.
Amazon Wish Lists: Amazon Wish Lists live in an Amazon account. GiftManager stores ideas with descriptions, links and prices, and keeps the data on your own server.
Wishlist: Wishlist is a separate self-hosted wishlist app with its own OneClick page. Compare its accounts and sharing model with GiftManager's before choosing.
A shared spreadsheet: A spreadsheet needs no server. GiftManager adds bought marks that stay hidden from the list's owner and built-in Secret Santa draws.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for GiftManager hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

Several families managed on one install.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

GiftManager alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. GiftManager itself is free under the MIT licence.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Ready To Own Your Wishlists?

GiftManager on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the data. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is GiftManager free?

Yes. GiftManager is open source under the MIT licence, and the pinned v2.8.0 tag's licence file is linked here. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS under it, not for GiftManager, and there is no per-family fee. Optional Mailjet email is a separate third-party account.

Can you self-host GiftManager with Docker?

Yes, and this GiftManager Docker hosting template does it for you: the icbest/giftmanager image, pinned by digest, is a lone container on your own server with HTTPS in front of port 5000. It is not a GiftManager cloud account, so your lists stay on your server.

How much RAM does GiftManager need?

Minimum requirements for GiftManager are 256 MB of RAM, a single core and 2 GB of disk, because there is no database and data lives in JSON files. This page sells the 6 GB tier, which is far more than a family wishlist needs.

How do I sign in to GiftManager the first time?

There are no default accounts. Open the site right away and complete the admin setup page, because whoever submits that form first becomes the administrator. After that the setup page locks, and others need an account created by an admin or self-registration if you enable it.

Can family members register themselves on GiftManager?

Only if you enable it. After the first administrator exists, other people need an account created by an admin, or self-registration switched on in the admin settings. Decide this before you share the address, because the site has no network-level gate of its own.

Does GiftManager send email reminders?

Optionally, and only through Mailjet. Set the Mailjet key, secret and a sender email in the Environment editor and redeploy. SMTP is not supported upstream, so do not expect generic mail servers to work. Single sign-on through OIDC is also configured there.

Is every GiftManager page protected by login?

No. Gift lists and ideas require sign-in, but the login page, a link-preview endpoint that fetches a URL you supply, and a cleanup trigger that deletes old bought ideas answer without signing in, with no setting to disable them. Add Basic Authentication at your access layer if that matters.

Why are some GiftManager settings in the environment?

Because the app's post-setup settings page accepts values without signing in. The cleanup period, sender email and OIDC settings are therefore set in the environment and shown read-only in the app, so a stranger cannot shorten the cleanup period or redirect sign-on. Change them there and redeploy.

How do I back up GiftManager?

Back up the giftmanager_data volume, which holds users, ideas, settings and avatars as JSON files. Keep the generated session secret too, although losing it only signs people out. Copy the volume while the app is idle, and test a restore on a disposable install.

Backup and restore Docker apps

How do I upgrade GiftManager?

Nothing in the catalog upgrades a running v2.8.0 install for you, and you adopt a newer template version when ready. Back up the volume first and read the upstream release notes, since the data format is JSON files. Then sign in and check a list still opens.

Is GiftManager an alternative to Giftster?

Both keep family gift lists and avoid duplicate presents. Giftster is a hosted service named from general knowledge, while GiftManager runs on your server. This page makes no feature-parity claim, so compare Secret Santa and sharing features before moving your lists.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.