How to Run a Charity Raffle If You Are an Individual
Find out how to run a giveaway for a charity group or nonprofit organization. Raffles are a great way to raise money for a cause. They do come with some legal requirements that the beneficiary organization is responsible for, though. Because of this, the organization you’re raising money for will need to be registered with our platform so they can o...
Why Am I Not Allowed to Create a Raffle Fundraiser?
In the U.S., raffles are subject to federal and state regulations. If you are unable to select “raffle” as your type of fundraiser, it is due to one of the following reasons: Your organization is in the US and is not a federally tax-exempt 501(c) organization. Your organization is a registered 501(c) organization but is located in one of the followi...
Charity Sweepstakes: What You Need to Know
Charity sweepstakes are a fun and effective way to raise money and awareness for your organization. However, before you get started, you'll need to be aware of the legal requirements for running a sweepstakes Experience. This article provides an overview of these requirements and recommendations that will streamline your Experience's approval proces...
Allow a Supporter to Create a Raffle or Sweepstakes for Your Organization
To further expand the outreach for your fundraiser, you might want to give an individual or business the ability to run a charity giveaway on your organization’s behalf. Learn how with the following guide. Raffles and sweepstakes (also known as giveaways) are excellent ways to raise money for a cause. Yet, they do come with some legal requirements....
Raffles and Sweepstakes: What’s the Difference?
Find out what makes raffles different from sweepstakes and which one best fits your fundraising needs! As you think about whether you would like to run a raffle or a sweepstakes experience, there are several important factors to consider. This article will share how raffles and sweepstakes differ and provide the information you need to decide which ...
Charity Raffles: What You Need to Know
Learn everything you need to know to run a Raffle on our platform. Raffles are a popular and exciting way to raise funds. This article will guide you through some tips and tricks to ensure your Raffle is as successful as possible. The links below will take you to other Knowledge Base articles with more detailed instructions. Legal Requirements Raffl...
Important Information to Know about Raffles before Creating Your Experience
Charity raffles are a popular and engaging way to raise money for your organization. Charity raffles fall under specific federal and state regulatory requirements that govern their use, however, so you’ll want to ensure that you can legally run a raffle before creating your experience. Note that raffles may be run by qualified organizations only. Ra...
Insights: See If You’re Eligible to Run a Raffle
Learn about IRS regulations for running raffles in the United States. Raffles are an excellent way to raise money for your cause, but you should be aware of any legal restrictions. In the United States, the IRS considers raffles to be a form of gambling. Other countries may also have restrictions, but this article specifically applies to organizatio...
Understand: Restrictions for Offering Firearms as Prizes
Offering a firearm as a prize violates Stripe's terms of service and PayPal's acceptable use policy . If Stripe or PayPal detects this violation, they can shut down your organization’s funding account in the middle of an Experience, which would prevent your organization from collecting funds. Your organization would need to either cancel the Experie...
Understand: Sweepstakes Free Entries
Learn why Sweepstakes must offer free entries and how this impacts your fundraising Experience. One of the most notable ways that Sweepstakes and Raffles differ is the requirement that Sweepstakes offer a free method of entry. This helps your Experience comply with anti-gambling laws and makes Sweepstakes a good alternative if your organization can...
How Does the Registration and Bonding Process Work?
Some states require a surety bond for your sweepstakes prizes and a registration of the sweepstakes with their gaming agency. This article will share information about the registration and bonding process. What states require registration and bonding? If the total prize value of all prizes is greater than $5,000, a surety bond and registration is re...
Why Does My Sweepstakes Need to Be Approved?
Sweepstakes must be approved to ensure that they are compliant with known regulations. This helps safeguard your organization from legal complications. This article will share details around the approval process and the items that are reviewed for approval. Please note that our platform is not qualified to offer legal advice, and organizations shoul...
What Are the Official Rules on a Sweepstakes?
Our platform provides built-in, legally compliant official rules for your sweepstakes. The rules are customized during the experience set up answering several questions about your experience. These questions include: Official end date and time Drawing date (at least three business days after the entry deadline) The approximate retail value of the ...
Insights: Use Entry Levels to Increase Donations
Boost Raffle and Sweepstakes earnings by using entry levels to encourage donations. Our platform helps you optimize donations to your Raffle or Sweepstakes by allowing you to set up entry levels, which encourage higher purchase amounts. This article covers the following strategies: Tiered pricing Merchandising Impact Levels Limited quantities Limite...
Understand: How Raffle and Sweepstakes Entry Numbers Are Assigned
Learn how our platform automatically generates digital entry numbers for each Raffle or Sweepstakes entry purchase. Whenever someone purchases Raffle or Sweepstakes entries*, our platform automatically assigns digital entry numbers to each entry so you can easily draw a winner. Understand: Drawing Raffle and Sweepstakes Winners These entry numbers...
Promoting Your Charity Sweepstakes
Learn about ways to promote and advertise your charity sweepstakes. When promoting your charity sweepstakes through print advertisement, television, radio, direct mail, or on the Internet, you’ll want to follow all legal requirements to ensure both you and your donors are protected. Many types of promotions require that you add abbreviated rules and...
Insights: Preparing for Your Raffle
Learn tips for ensuring your Raffle fundraiser is a success. Running a Raffle can be a fun and effective way to raise funds for your cause since it's easy for donors to participate. The guidelines below can assist you with planning out the details and raising as much money as possible. The links will take you to Knowledge Base articles with more det...
Understand: Why Free Pricing Raffles Have a Ten Entry Minimum
Use entry quantities to increase donations and eliminate platform fees. Some customers find it unclear why they can’t sell one Raffle entry at a time. Our system requires at least ten entries per purchase. The most important thing to note is that this requirement doesn’t reduce the funds you raise; it makes it easier to raise more funds. It also all...
Export Ticket Numbers for Your Raffle Drawing
Find out how to get a full list of all ticket numbers sold so that you can draw your winners. If you’re drawing your raffle winner manually (without using our platforms’s drawing system), you’ll likely need to get a list of all the ticket numbers that were sold. This will allow you to draw your winners in any way you see fit! Follow these simple ste...
How Do I Change My Ticket Pricing?
Learn how to change the pricing levels on your raffle or sweepstakes with these simple steps. Our platform offers many ways to customize your experience to suit your unique fundraising needs. For one, it’s easy to change your entry levels as long they haven’t been purchased yet. You can change the number of entries (chances to win) for each level, a...
How Do I Print My Ticket?
If you’ve purchased an online drawing entry, you won’t need to print your ticket. Learn more about digital entries and how they work. Our platform enables in-person and online ticket purchasing for raffle experiences. Purchasing entries to an online raffle is slightly different from purchasing a ticket in-person at an event, however. In person, a pa...
How Do I Find My Ticket Numbers?
Learn how to view the number of entries purchased and your ticket numbers on your confirmation receipt. When you purchase entries for a giveaway, you are automatically assigned digital entry numbers. You can view your entry numbers on your confirmation page after completing your transaction. They will also be sent to you in an email confirmation. Si...
How to Send a Receipt for Paper Tickets Sold
If you’re running a raffle experience, you may sell physical paper tickets in addition to the virtual tickets available online through your experience. These tickets can be sold in person and then manually entered into your online drawing to include participants from live events. Sometimes, donors who have purchased a physical entry may request a re...
How To Draw Winners
We offer a few different ways to draw your winners and end your raffle or sweepstakes: Automatically at the date and time you set in experience setup Draw when you want (by clicking a button in your account) Manually without using our platform The winner drawing is an exciting time of any experience, so we’ll walk you through these options and what ...
How-to: Add Raffle or Sweepstakes Tickets You’ve Sold Offline
Add physical ticket purchases to your Raffle or Sweepstakes entry records so donors can participate offline. If you’re selling Raffle or Sweepstakes entries offline in addition to the tickets being sold online, you’ll need to add these tickets to your entry records in our platform. This will ensure that all entries are included when you draw a winn...
How-to: Run a 50/50 Raffle
Run a Raffle where donors could win part of the proceeds instead of a traditional prize. 50/50 Raffles (also called split-the-pot or jackpot Raffles) are a great way to raise funds if you want to run a Raffle but don't have the time or resources to get prizes. With 50/50 Raffles, the money you raise becomes the prize: proceeds from entry purchases a...
How To Redraw Winners for Raffles or Sweepstakes
Learn how to draw alternate winners on your drawing fundraiser. When you’re running a raffle or sweepstakes experience, there may come a time when you have to redraw winners for one reason or another. You may have to redraw winners if the original winner: Is not qualified to win the prize based on eligibility requirements described in the Official...
How-to: Allow Donors to Purchase Raffle Entries for Any Prize Available
Set up your raffle so donors can enter to win any of the prizes your fundraiser offers. When you set up a Raffle, you can select the option to have donors purchase entries for any of the prizes listed on your Experience Page. In this scenario, donors don’t know what prize they’ll get if they win. You assign prizes to the winners after the Raffle end...
How-to: Create Raffle and Sweepstakes Entry Levels
Customize entry levels to increase their appeal and encourage donations. Our platform provides many customization options for your Raffle or Sweepstakes entry levels to attract donors and boost donations. Each entry level lets you choose the number of chances to win (entries) you'll offer at each price point. This screenshot shows our platform's de...
How to Limit the Total Number of Entries Sold on Your Raffle
Learn how to sell a limited number of tickets for your raffle fundraiser. Limiting the number of entries that you sell on your raffle is simple. This option is useful, for example, if you wanted to have a maximum of 3,000 total entries in your raffle drawing. In addition to limiting the total number of entries to win any prize, you can also set a ma...
Will This Platform Notify the Winner(s)?
Learn about the options available to notify winners on raffles and sweepstakes. When you run a raffle or sweepstakes through our platform, you can select your preference for winner notification. As you customize your fundraiser, you'll be given the option to: Automatically notify the winners by email on a specified date and time Manually notify winn...
How-to: Allow Donors to Purchase Raffle Entries for Specific Prizes
Set up your raffle so donors can enter to win only the prizes they’re interested in. When you set up a Raffle, you can select the option to have donors purchase entries for specific prizes. In this scenario, winners only receive a prize they want instead of receiving a random pick from the prize list. Enable This Feature Select Experiences from the ...
How to Get Free Entries for Sharing a Giveaway
Learn how to earn free entries by promoting a raffle or sweepstakes fundraiser. If sharing rewards is enabled on a raffle or sweepstakes fundraiser, supporters can earn free entries for sharing the fundraiser on social media. Supporters may also earn additional free entries when friends and family use their shared link to purchase entries into the g...
Does the Platform Notify the People Who Don’t Win?
Learn more about the options available for notifying non-winners on raffles, sweepstakes, and auctions below. When you run a raffle or sweepstakes through our platform, you can select your preference for non-winner notification. As you customize your fundraiser, you'll be given the option to Automatically notify non-winners by email on a specified d...
How-to: Disable Custom Entries for Raffles and Sweepstakes
Require donors to choose from entry levels that you create. By default, our platform's Raffles and Sweepstakes allow donors to buy any number of entries instead of selecting a preset entry level. For example, a donor could select the Click here link shown below to purchase 25 entries instead of 10, 30, 75, or 200: This offers donors maximum flexib...
Customize the Headline on the Entry Section of Your Raffle or Sweepstakes
Organizations creating raffles and sweepstakes have the option to customize the text that appears in the purchase entry section of their experience. Edit the text Click on Experiences in the left menu. If you have chosen a list view, click on the title of your experience. If you have selected a grid view, click on the experience image. Click Edit Ex...
Raffle Reports
When you run a raffle fundraiser, you will have access to several specific reports. These reports, located under the Raffle Management tab, include: Enter Physical Entries Manage Raffle Winners View Promoters View Earned Entry View Raffle Entries You can access these reports by clicking the options shown below in your management menu. In addition to...
Sweepstakes Reports
When you run a sweepstakes fundraiser, you will have access to several specific reports. These reports, located under the Sweepstakes Management tab, include: Enter Main-In Entries Manage Sweepstakes Winners View Promoters View Earned Entry View Sweepstakes Entries You can access these reports by clicking the options shown below. In addition to the ...
Understand: Why Free Pricing Raffles and Sweepstakes Offer Extra Entries for Tips
Offer bonus entries for tips to cover platform costs and boost donor engagement. You don’t pay a platform fee when you select our platform’s Free Pricing option. Instead, donors can leave a tip to support the platform. If your fundraising Experience includes a raffle or sweepstakes, donors receive extra entries in exchange for their tips. How Free ...
How Do I Display the Number of Entries Sold or Available?
You can add a counter to your raffle page that displays the number of entries sold. If you’ve set a limit on the total number of entries, you can also display an entries available counter. These counters are turned off by default, but enabling them is simple. You can also set custom terminology for the counters if you’d prefer to use terms other tha...
Understand: How Our Platform Draws Raffle and Sweepstakes Winners
Learn how your Raffle and Sweepstakes settings affect how our platform draws the winners. When you set up a Raffle or Sweepstakes, you can have our platform automatically draw the winners for you. Our platform uses a certified randomization algorithm to draw winners, which ensures fairness and promotes ethical fundraising practices. The way you set ...
Understand: Drawing Raffle and Sweepstakes Winners
Be assured that your donors will have fair odds of winning your prize(s). Learn about the various ways you can draw Raffle and Sweepstakes winners. Our platform offers several ways to draw your winners and end your Raffle or Sweepstakes so that you can choose the best drawing method for your organization. Before You Begin If you're running a Sweepst...