Diwali is on 20 Oct 2026. The store opens in five working days — the deadline is dispatch, not setup.
See the runway →One hamper for everyone is the easiest thing to organise and the least likely to be kept. We turn one budget into a store where each person picks what they actually want.
Some love it, most re-gift it, and your team spends three weeks chasing addresses.
All inside your ₹2,500 cap. They pick and confirm their own address; finance sees one number.
Most companies run both at Diwali, on different budgets — as one engagement, one point of contact.
One per-person budget, one branded store. Employees pick from what you approved and enter their own address.
For clients and partners, presentation beats choice. You approve one gift per tier; we collect addresses by gift link and deliver it branded.
Start from the number, not the product. These are the tiers Indian companies run most often at Diwali.
The workhorse tier for large programs where everyone still gets a real choice.
Where eco-conscious programs land — kits that feel considered rather than worthy.
Where the gift stops reading as a formality and starts reading as chosen.
Client and CXO Diwali gifting usually sits at ₹5,000–₹10,000 — see direct gifting tiers.
A worked ₹1,700 tier. Four choices, all in budget, so everyone picks something they want and finance sees one number.
The traditional choice, presented properly and easy to ship at volume.
₹1,200For teams running an eco-conscious program, with branding on the outer kit.
₹1,500A home-forward option that reads more premium than its tier suggests.
₹1,650The safe crowd-pleaser, and the usual fallback for last-minute additions.
₹1,350Names and prices are representative. Your live edit is curated against your budget and brand rules, and you approve it before anyone sees it.
Nobody remembers a gift that arrived after the festival. The store is ready in a week; the rest of the runway is branding and dispatch.
Budget, headcount and audience agreed. The program is configured and branded.
Vendors approached with your volume, samples checked, shortlist to you.
You see the store exactly as an employee will, before it opens.
Live inside five working days. The link goes out, selections come in, reminders chase the rest.
Branded, packed and dispatched to individual doorsteps, timed to land ahead of the festival week.
Left it late? Opening the store is the fast part — five working days, even now. A late start costs you on the other side of go-live: branding needs lead time, and sweets come off the table first on shelf life. When the window has truly closed, gift cards deliver same-day.
Festival gifting has failure modes the rest of the year doesn't. Decide these at kickoff, not once the gifts are moving.
Mithai and fresh gourmet carry a hard dispatch cut-off well before the rest of the catalogue. Decide at kickoff — adding them once sourcing is underway usually isn't possible.
Vegetarian, Jain, no-onion-garlic, allergies and alcohol-free are all normal in one office. Food-only catalogues quietly exclude people.
The fortnight before Diwali is the busiest shipping window in the Indian calendar. Dispatching into that queue is the most common reason gifts land late.
Welcome in some programs, wrong in others. Opt-in per program, never on by default for a mixed workforce.
New joiners and the person nobody listed always appear in the final week. A small buffer of a safe in-stock option is the fix.
Eco programs work when the kit is useful — plantable stationery, desk plants, recycled materials — and fall flat when only the packaging is green.
Once a store exists, the next festival is a new program inside it, not a rebuild — new budget, new edit, same rules and list.
Running more than one festival a year is where an always-on store pays for itself — see how that works.
The festival-specific ones. General questions are answered on the How it works page.
The store itself opens in five working days, so the real deadline is dispatch, not setup. Roughly two weeks before the festival week still leaves room for branding and pan-India delivery; inside a week, gift cards and digital vouchers are the honest answer — we will tell you that rather than promise a delivery date we cannot hit.
Both, in the same store. Sweets and fresh gourmet carry an earlier dispatch cut-off because of shelf life, so they are offered alongside non-food options. For client gifting we lean non-food, since dietary rules are usually unknown.
The ₹1,500 tier is where most eco programs land — plantable stationery, desk plants, recycled and natural materials, with branding on the outer kit. The test we apply is whether the item is genuinely useful, not whether the box is brown.
Yes, and most companies do. Employees run as a choice store and clients as a direct campaign, on separate budgets and separate reports, but with one point of contact and one festival timeline.
Late additions are normal at Diwali. A small buffer of a safe, in-stock option is kept available so anyone added at the end still receives something on time, rather than being quietly dropped from the list.
Tell us the headcount and per-person budget. You'll get a festival edit built for that number, a preview of what your people would see, and a delivery date that lands before the festival week.
Prefer email? Write to go@sampley.in with your headcount and per-person budget.