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 up your Raffle or Sweepstakes will influence how the algorithm draws your winners. Read on to learn more.
Let Donors Enter to Win a Specific Prize
If you’ve set up your experience so that donors can enter to win a specific prize, each prize will have a separate pool of entries. Each pool consists of all the entries purchased for that particular prize. For each prize, an entry number is randomly generated to determine the winner of that prize.
How-to: Allow Donors to Purchase Raffle Entries for Specific Prizes
Example: Alice purchases 10 entries for a
Let Donors Enter to Win Any Prize Available
When donors enter to win any prize, all entries purchased are put into one entry pool. For each prize, a random number generator will randomly select an entry number from the pool. The selected entry is then matched to a prize. This winning entry is then eliminated from the entry pool so that the specific entry is no longer eligible for any prize. This process will continue until all prizes have winners.
How-to: Allow Donors to Purchase Raffle Entries for Any Prize Available
Example: Alice purchases 10 entries to the drawing. Her entry numbers are W10-W19. Alice wins prize #1 with entry W15. This entry, W15, is eliminated from the entry pool and is no longer eligible to win any remaining prizes. But Alice still has 9 remaining entries (W10-W14, W16-W19) in the pool, and she is therefore still eligible to win any of the remaining prizes.
Why One Person Won More than One Prize
If donors are competing for a specific prize and there is more than one prize listed, then each prize has its own entry pool. A donor could potentially purchase entries for multiple prizes.
Donors usually purchase more than one entry when they enter a Raffle or Sweepstakes, like when a donor purchases 10 entries for $10. If a donor wins a Raffle or Sweepstakes drawing, only their winning entry is removed from the drawing pool. If you draw for another winner,
Prevent One Person From Winning More than One Prize
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- If you cannot contact a winner due to inaccurate contact information, a winner has not responded after a certain amount of time, or a winner is not eligible to win the prize, you can redraw the winner on the experience
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