Step by step
How Presently works
This is what happens from the day you sign up to the day you buy a gift.
Add the people you buy for
Create an account and add each person you buy gifts for. For each one, choose how you know them, add the occasions you buy for, and pick a budget. If you leave the budget unset, Presently works one out from how you know the person and the occasion, and you can change it later.
Tell Presently about them
Add notes about what they like, what they already own and anything they have mentioned wanting. You can invite them to join Presently. If they accept, they can take the Gift Profile quiz and two optional quizzes about their tastes, sizes, allergies and things they would rather not receive, and they can keep a list of things they like. If they would rather not make an account, you can send them a link to a single question, such as what they would like this year, which they can answer without signing up. When their own answers and your notes disagree about their tastes, Presently goes with their answers.
Presently prepares their list
In the background, Presently builds a list of specific gifts for each person, ahead of their next occasion. It starts with things they asked for, then things related to those, then gifts that fit their taste profile. It leaves out things they already own, things already given to them and things they said they do not want. An AI model reviews that prepared list for fit and writes a short reason for each match. If you pick a different occasion, Presently builds that list when you open it. Presently also emails you three weeks, about 12 days and four days before the date.
Buy it from the store
The link on a match opens the store that sells it, usually Amazon or one of our partner stores, and you buy it there. When you come back, Presently asks whether you bought it, and if you did, it will not suggest that item for the person again. You can also dismiss a match and choose a reason, such as that they already have it. Presently earns a small commission on some purchases at no cost to you, which is how it stays free.
Add the first person you buy for
Setting up one person takes a few minutes. You can add everyone else later.
Request an invite