{"id":602,"date":"2026-05-10T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/why-reserve-a-wish-in-someone-elses-wishlist\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:03:34","slug":"why-reserve-a-wish-in-someone-elses-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/knowledge-base\/why-reserve-a-wish-in-someone-elses-wishlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why reserve a wish in someone else&#8217;s wishlist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming wishes on a wishlist solves a key problem: multiple people won&#8217;t give the same gift. It&#8217;s especially convenient when preparing for holidays, as multiple friends choose gifts independently. <\/p>\n<p>When you claim a friend&#8217;s wish, other users visiting that friend&#8217;s profile will see it&#8217;s already claimed. The friend receives a notification about the new reservation, but does not see the author of the reservation. They also do not know which gift was reserved. For added anonymity, the notification of a new wish reservation always comes to the user with a delay of several hours. This way, the surprise remains a surprise.    <\/p>\n<p>However, please note that if desired, the user can find out exactly which gifts are reserved in their wishlist \u2014 to do this, they can &#8220;cheat&#8221; and open a link to their profile from another account or through a browser in &#8220;incognito&#8221; mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming wishes on a wishlist solves a key problem: multiple people won&#8217;t give the same gift. It&#8217;s especially convenient when preparing for holidays, as multiple friends choose gifts independently. When you claim a friend&#8217;s wish, other users visiting that friend&#8217;s profile will see it&#8217;s already claimed. The friend receives a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[149],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-602","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-friends-wishlists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/602\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.ohmywishes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}