How the Bottom Drawer works

A gift list at The Bottom Drawer is as easy as this:

1. Create as many gift list items as you want – you choose the description, value and quantity available for each item
2. Your guests choose which item(s) they want to contribute towards from your list
3. The Bottom Drawer securely receives your guests payments
4. The total of your guests payments are transferred to your own bank for you to spend as you wish

So you can setup a list to get ANYTHING from ANYWHERE! You might want some items from John Lewis or another department store, but you can also use it to help pay for your dream honeymoon, or a garden makeover or new bathroom or even a new car! You can also include charity contributions or just have a bit of everything on the one list!

Just as a dinner service might be split into gifts of each plate and saucer, your honeymoon could be paid for by your guests contributing towards each nights accommodation, each 100 miles of flight to the resort and each romantic meal! Or you could have a new garden patio split into gifts of each bit of paving and each man hour to lay it! 

Other benefits of using The Bottom Drawer’s gift list service include: 

• Stylish Gift List Notification cards to send out with your invites to let your guests know how to access your list
• The ability to add welcome photos, a welcome message and individual gift photos to your list (view example list) 
• Email notification whenever a guest makes a contribution to your list
• Log-in to your list at any time to see details of who has contributed what. 
• Your guests can leave a personal message for you and you can access these at any time. 
• You can view full details of all gifts after your list has closed to make it easy to send thank-you notes. 
• Your guests can phone us 7 days a week, including evenings, to find out what is on your list and buy or reserve items if they don't have internet access.
• Fantastic flexibility - YOU decide when to open your list and when to close it. So if you are collecting for your perfect honeymoon or other high value items, you can open it several months in advance so your friends and family can use it for their Christmas and Birthday presents to you as well!
• Secure encryption for your guests making online payments. 
• Ability for your guests to reserve items and pay by cheque. 
• We feature McAfee Secure internet protection on our site to prevent unauthorised access to your list details. 
• We have been running gift lists for many years and securely handle millions of pounds of gift list funds for our couples each year. 
• No charges to your guests for using our service (unless a credit card is used - no charges for debit cards or cheques). 
• The best value flexible gift list service in the UK – if you do have to pay (see below for how to use our service for FREE) we just charge a low flat rate admin fee of £89 inc VAT rather than a percentage of the funds you raise on your list.
• No up front fees - sign up to see how we work without paying a penny!
• And even better, you could use our service for FREE! Just use your gift list funds to buy from certain stores and we will refund/waive the admin fee (click here for more information). If you're using all or part of your list to get contributions towards your honeymoon then our service is also free if you book your honeymoon with www.TopDrawerHolidays.co.uk!
• Exclusive photo makeover offer!

Read what other couples say about us on our customer testimonials page.

Find out more about how we compare to other gift list services here.

Read everything you need to know about gift list security and the safety of your funds here.

For more detailed questions and answers on using our service please see our list of Frequently Asked Questions.

To sign up for our gift list service please click here or follow the Register your details link in the menu above.