Drawing a secret friend or hidden friend via WhatsApp makes life easier for participants. After all, it eliminates the need to have everyone gather to take the paper. And it avoids the chance for someone to draw themselves to give as gifts for Christmas, New Year, Easter or any other holiday.
Just invite your friends and family and let the tool do the work. AppGeek shows you how to draw a secret (or hidden) friend online via WhatsApp without downloading anything. In our walkthrough, we will use the services of the Amigo Secreto website, compatible with Android and iOS.
Step 1: Create the secret friend group
To have access to the sharing option through WhatsApp, you need to do the process of creating the group on your smartphone.
1. Open the browser of your choice and access the Secret Friend website. Then, go to Sign up here to create a user in the service;

2. Enter your personal details. Only those highlighted in yellow are mandatory. Accept the terms of use at I have read and agree to the terms of membership and confirm in Register;
- Check the checked boxes. In our test, there was a previously selected option related to receiving advertising emails, which we prefer to deselect.
- The app can ask if you want to connect to your Facebook account. We recommend that you skip this step, once the invitation will be made by WhatsApp and there is no need to integrate.
3. Access your email box and open the message sent by the Secret Friend with the title Registration Activation. Click on the link to confirm your registered address;
4. Then go to the button Log in or go back to the home page of the site and login;
5. Come now + Create group;

6. On the next screen, you will need to define some preferences to carry out the draw. When finished, go to Create new group. Below, we highlight in bold the mandatory options. The others are optional and should only be filled in if you want to give more details in the information about the draw.
- Group's name
- Type of Gifts
- Group type: inform yourself of work, friends, family, school / college or other option;
- Company: company name, if it is a secret corporate friend;
- Department: name of the department, if you are a secret corporate friend;
- Date of the draw: although it is not mandatory, the information is important, as it dictates the deadline for participating in the game. The data, however, only serves the level of information of the participants. The service does not carry out the draw automatically. it is necessary for the organizer to access the website on the day informed to carry out the draw;
- Gift value: set the price limit (At), minimum (Above) or the price range (Between / and) of the present;
- Confraternization: inform the place where the gifts will be delivered, the date and time;
- Observations: space to include extra information, messages, requests and what else you want about the draw and exchange of gifts.
Step 2: Invite participants
The group created, the message Group created successfully appears. Now, then, time to invite the participants to the game.
1. Comes Invite your friends;

2. As the idea to do by Whatsapp, tap Invitation by WhatsApp;
3. The messenger be opened. Touch the contacts you want to invite to the secret friend. After selecting all, go over the green arrow icon in the lower right corner to confirm the sending;
4. If later, you want to invite more people, just share the group link via WhatsApp.
The contact receives an access link to the secret friend's group to request entry. It must be approved by the administrator / creator of the group (you!). If you are not yet logged in to the Secret Friend, your guests will need to complete the registration process indicated in Step 1 (step 2).
Step 3: Manage participants
As we informed above, it is up to the moderator to accept the entry of people in the group. The process is simple, but it may not be the most intuitive. To do so, simply access the Secret Friend's website from your cell phone or PC, login and follow the steps below.
1. Na seo Current groups, comes Log in in which moderator;
2. V on the flap Participants and click Manage participants;

3. Indicate whether the person was refused or approved. If you want to add her as a group moderator, just check the box next to that option.
Step 4: Make the draw
After all the participants have been added, it is time to make the draw on the day and time informed in the creation of the group. To do this, once again, visit the Secret Friend website, login and access the group of which you are moderator.
Click on the tab Moderator and come Draw. Then click the button Hold draw now. It is essential that you are sure you want to do this, because afterwards, it is not possible to add new members for fun.

Participants will be informed about the raffle by e-mail, but they will also have access to information on the service's website.
Group Tools
More than a mere drawer, the Secret Friend also functions as a kind of social tool. Participants can send messages to the entire group, in addition to talking to the winner or anonymously. You can also send messages to other members without having to identify yourself.

To make it easier, users can also inform which gifts they want to win. In that case, just go on My Wish Listat the top of the site and click on Add a gift you didn't find in the window.
In the window that opens, inform the group on the Amigo Secreto platform (there are those in more than one). Then, communicate the category in which the gift fits and which gift you want to win.
If you want, provide the link to the online store where the person can buy the desired item and finish at Add. It is possible to include several options.
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Journalist graduated from UFRJ, she has been writing about technology for seven years. Carioca currently lives in Portugal, a country he adopted. In his free time, he enjoys going to the beach, reading, watching movies and doing serial marathons. Instagram is your favorite social network, but WhatsApp saves you from missing those who stayed in Brazil.