Run a Successful Online Raffle
Create your online raffle page, sell tickets, and reach your fundraising goal with a fundraising platform built for nonprofits.
Take Your Organization’s Fundraising Raffle to the Next Level
Boost ticket sales and run a successful raffle with a platform that makes everything easy.
Promotion. Get the word out with social sharing and accept donations from mobile devices via text-to-give.
Viral sharing. Empower donors to become ambassadors for your cause! Create incentives for donors and prompt them to share your fundraiser on social media networks.
Tickets. Sell online raffle tickets and boost participation through in person ticket sales. Simply create custom printed raffle tickets using our easy-to-use templates!
Easy ticket purchases. Supporters visit your raffle site and pay to enter to win. The process is secure and seamless.
Prizes. Showcase your stellar raffle prizes with images and text.
View a sample fundraiser →
An Online Raffle Platform Packed with Powerful Features
Manage Your Raffle
Manage all aspects of your fundraising event—from raffle ticket sales and custom calls-to-action to listing prizes and drawing winners—from one place.
Flexible Drawing
Run a standard raffle, a 50/50 raffle, or a multi-prize online raffle. When your raffle ends, draw winners yourself or let our system draw them automatically.
Branded Content
Team Fundraising
Enable peer to peer fundraising and track progress as well as reward the top teams with prizes.
Hands-On Support
Our team is here to guide you every step of the way to create an online raffle and put our powerful software to work.
For Nonprofits
Our online raffle platform is built specifically for nonprofits. Learn how we tailor our raffle fundraising software to chapter-based nonprofits.
Pricing
How Much Does Running an Online Raffle Cost?
TIP PRICING
OR
7.5%
+
Stripe payment processing
2.2-2.9% + $0.30 per transaction
TIP PRICING
Our ingenious tipping system allows the generosity of donors to cover platform costs.
$0
- Completely optional
- Donors may leave a tip during checkout
- Complete access to all features ono the platform
- If donors don’t leave a tip, you still don’t have to pay the service fees
PERCENT PRICING
Set a fixed percent for your campaign and decide who will cover the fee.
7.5%
- Choose who pays the fee
- 7.5% of raffle ticket purchases
- Great for large organizations with set budgets
- If donors pay, there’s no cost to you!
Stripe will deduct 2.2% + 30¢ to process each credit card transaction (or 2.9% + 30¢ if not a nonprofit)
Frequently Asked Questions
Running your first online raffle?
Here are answers to the questions we hear most often about online raffle fundraising.
Is it legal to run an online raffle?
Federal regulations allow 501(c)(3) nonprofits to run raffles, but each state (and sometimes a city or county) has its own regulations.
Check your local raffle laws, and contact us for guidance if you want more information. We can’t give you legal advice, but we can provide orientation and general guidelines.
How do online raffles work?
Supporters buy digital raffle tickets through your online raffle page. Each ticket can carry multiple entries. When the raffle ends, Eventgroove’s verified randomization algorithm draws a winner — or you can draw winners yourself.
What's the difference between a raffle and a sweepstakes?
A raffle requires buying a ticket to enter, which legally classifies it as gambling and triggers state raffle laws. A sweepstakes is free to enter, which is why some charities run a nonprofit sweepstakes fundraiser when raffle rules are restrictive in their state. Compare both side-by-side in our raffle vs. sweepstakes guide for nonprofits.
How do I know the online raffle drawing is random?
When you create an online raffle with Eventgroove Fundraising, our system uses an impartial, verified randomization algorithm for choosing winners.
It’s the most unbiased way to draw raffle winners, and all entries and ticket sales (printed or virtual) are accounted for when the draw is done.
Our algorithm has also been tested and certified as random by a third-party testing facility.
What's the difference between a raffle entry and a raffle ticket?
Tickets are not the same as entries. You can sell multiple entries in a single ticket. At Eventgroove Fundraising, one entry means that you have one chance to win. So, one ticket can carry many chances to win for your donor.
For instance, a $10 ticket can carry 10 entries for your donor (or 10 chances to win). You decide on the entry value. We find that offering more entries per ticket has a positive impact on sales!
When you assign an entry value to your tickets, it also makes it possible to offer entries as an incentive for people to promote your raffle, at no extra cost or impact to your ticket price.
How much does it cost to run an online raffle?
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