Frequently asked questions

1) O-liste is independent of any shop or brand, giving you complete freedom of choice.
2) Money goes straight to your bank account, with no commission or intermediary. Spend it wherever and whenever you like.
3) O-liste is designed for services as well as monetary gifts. Create gifts in hours, such as babysitting, or in units, such as borrowed equipment or meals for the freezer.
4) Your list or website has no fixed expiry date. Reuse it for a wedding, another birth, a birthday, Christmas and more.

1) Add gifts to your list from the catalogue of ideas, or create your own.*
2) Share your list or website link with friends and family, for example https://o-liste.net/john-and-mary.
3) Friends and family contribute by transferring money directly to your bank account or, where you allow it, bringing you the gift themselves.
4) Spend the money you receive wherever and whenever you like.

Yes! O-liste is independent of brands and shops. You are not limited to a product catalogue, and you can also ask for services such as prepared meals, babysitting or help renovating a room.

Both for a list and for a site, you have the possibility of being indexed by O-liste and/or by the search engines.

Yes! Enter your bank details in your list settings. Givers receive them in their confirmation email and pay directly into your account. O-liste takes no commission and does not handle the money. Warning: if you authorize payments via PayPal, PayPal commission fees apply (0.25 € + 3.4%).

Strictly speaking, O-liste does not offer means of payment. The list owners choose to communicate their bank details and/or offer payments via PayPal. Money does not pass through the O-liste accounts! Of course hand delivery is acceptable.
Warning: if you authorize payments via PayPal, PayPal commission fees apply (0.25 € + 3.4%).

Yes, of course! You can see some examples, try a list or try a site for free and without obligation to purchase.
The only difference with an active list is that your list is limited to nine gifts and cannot be accessed by your friends and family.

An O-site is extremely easy to manage, O-liste handles all technical aspects. If you choose a site, you choose your options by clicking on buttons and you modify the texts as you wish.

It's more than just a blog! In addition to the photos, announcement, calendar etc. you have various tools accessible from the administration interface: management of announcements, thank you management, a carpooling tool exists also (practice for weddings) but it's up to you to see what you do with it!

Choose what suits you! A website can include a gift list, guestbook, calendar, carpooling, invitation management, custom emails and photo albums with comments. You can disable the tools you do not need.

Compare an example list with an example website.

With O-liste, nothing is compulsory and everything is possible!

Visit the search page and enter a name. Try a short name, such as Ben, as the list owners may not have entered their full names.

If they chose to keep their list out of search results, use the direct link they sent you, for example https://mary-and-ben.o-liste.net or https://o-liste.net/ben-and-mary.

O-liste provides a platform for gift lists managed by their owners. Payments go directly to the recipients, so O-liste does not process or track the transfer and cannot issue an invoice or proof of payment. You do receive an email confirming your contribution pledge.

You can correct your email address just after contributing. To change other details, contact the list owners, who can edit or cancel your contribution. You can also cancel using the link in your confirmation email.

Strictly speaking, O-liste does not offer means of payment. The list owners choose to communicate their bank details and/or offer payments via PayPal. Money does not pass through the O-liste accounts! Of course hand delivery is acceptable.

If, and only if, list owners propose to pay on their PayPal account, then yes you can pay on their account by credit card (it is not necessary to have a PayPal account to pay via PayPal).

Since its creation O-liste has set up a system allowing the owners of lists to request donations (for NGOs, associations ...) and since the beginning of 2016, when such a gift is created, it is no longer the bank account of (future) parents/married who is communicated, but the bank account of the chosen association. So you can easily get your tax deduction since you make the transfer directly to the account of the association (and the beneficiaries of the list are automatically informed that you made that choice).

Despite all our goodwill, a code error or a spelling error may subsist. Contact Us and we assure you a prompt and personalized response.

Yes! The only limit is your imagination. Add small or large gifts, services, money pots, or gifts in hours, days or units. Your O-liste is independent of shops, and monetary contributions go to your own account.

You can follow contributions in two ways:
1) Each time someone contributes, you receive a copy of the confirmation email with the gift, giver’s name and contribution amount.
2) Open the contribution history from your list or account to see all contributions. Here is what it looks like:

Gift history

You create your gift like the others, but with regards to the label "Associated account", you check "Other account" and you specify the banking information for this gift. So, when someone participate to your list, he received the banking information related to the association and you will be notified of its intention to make a transfer to a third party account (you will receive a copy of the email, and the participation is recorded and accessible in your history of participations).

When you create a gift, you can specify whether you only accept bank transfers (eg if you already bought the gift) or if you allow your relatives to deliver it personally. The available options (transfer to the bank account or personnal delivery) appear clearly when they participate in the gift.

If you find a technical problem or a typo, please contact us. We will give you a prompt, personal reply.

Yes, you can really put what you want, it's one of our particularities: the only limit is your imagination ! From small gifts, to huge gifts, but also services, money pots, gifts in hours, days, units... You put what you want because your O-liste is independent of any stores and marks.

Contact us and depending on the degree of interest and the working time required, we will give you a quotation or we will do the work for free.

O-liste lists are independent of any fixed catalogue. Partners can create a product catalogue that customers can use to add gifts to their own lists. Apply for a partnership using this form.

As a partner:
1) You appear on our partners page.
2) Each email includes a link to that page.
3) Visitors can find you on our map.
4) You feature in the news the month after your partnership is approved.
5) We can organise joint competitions and provide gift lists as prizes.
6) Customers can add your catalogue products to their lists with a click.
7) Partnership is free.