One link, a door a day,
for everyone on the list
A digital advent calendar for a team of forty or a mailing list of four thousand: a code, a video, a booking, a number or a thank-you behind each door, opening one a day in December. Free, no account, and nothing about your people is stored anywhere.
One link, everyone’s own copy
The whole calendar is encoded into the link, so sending it to a team is one message in the channel they already use, and sending it to customers is one line in the newsletter. Each person who opens it gets their own copy in their own browser, which remembers which doors they have opened and nothing else. Nobody opens a door on anybody else’s behalf, and nobody is counted.
Six doors that work at work
All twenty-four ideasA code for the day
A discount code as a note, with the link to where it works. One code per door, valid for a day, is what makes people open the next one.
A minute from the founder
Recorded on a phone, uploaded to YouTube as unlisted, pasted in. It is the door people mention afterwards.
The year in one number
Orders shipped, tickets closed, cups of coffee. One number and a line of context.
An hour off, or an hour with
For the team, an hour off with the manager's name on it. For customers, a booking link for a free consultation.
The team, captioned honestly
A photo of the people, with their names. It turns a company into people, and it is the door that gets saved.
The party
The last door: where, when, bring someone. The calendar has been counting down to it all month.
For customers, or for the team
Customers
A code per door, each good for its day; a link to the product it applies to; a booking for the free hour; the founder on video on the 24th. The calendar goes out once, in the newsletter, and brings people back every morning.
The team
An hour off, the year in a number, the names of the people who carried it, the party at the end. Twelve doors from the 12th is enough; nobody needs a calendar that starts before the December rush does.
Clients
A thank-you a day from an agency or a firm to the people who paid it this year. Photos of the work, a note from whoever ran the account, the office playlist.
Nothing to procure
No account, no contract, no vendor holding staff data, no seat price. The makers that sell a business tier charge $199 to $1,299 a year for branding and analytics; this one does neither, and costs nothing.
Twelve doors, one afternoon.
Build it, preview it as the team will see it, copy the link, post it. The builder is free and needs no account.
Frequently asked questions
Can five hundred people open one link?
Yes. A calendar is a link, and every person who opens it gets their own copy in their own browser, with their own record of which doors they have opened. There is no central copy to overload and no list of who opened what, because nothing is sent back to a server.
Can we put our branding on it?
You choose the title, the message on the cover, a cover image and one of three themes. There is no logo upload and no custom colour beyond the themes; if a white-labelled calendar with your own domain is the requirement, that is what the paid tiers of other makers sell, and our comparison says which.
How the makers compareCan we see who opened which door?
No. The calendar never reports back, by design: there is no account, no server and no tracking, which is also why there is nothing to clear with a data protection officer before sending it to staff. If you need open rates, put the code or the booking behind a link you already measure.
Can it be password-protected?
No. The link is the key: anyone with it can open the calendar, and anyone without it cannot. Send it where the team already talks, and it is as private as that channel. Photos you upload ride inside the link rather than on a server.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Every kind of door, any length up to 31 days, as many calendars as you like, for a team of three or a mailing list of thousands. Advent Center's calendar maker is the free part of a site that reviews the calendars you buy.
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