SimplyRaffle — Run Your Raffle Without the Chaos

How it works

Four steps. No training required.

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Set it up

Name your event, add your prizes, pick how people will enter. The wizard adapts to what you're running — a school basket raffle, a church annual, a corporate party, an open house. Drop in a participant list, or skip that entirely if you're going walk-up.

Get your people in

Hit “Email All” and every participant gets a personal Magic Link — no app, no password, no login help calls. In-person event? Post a QR at the door, or set a tablet on the table in Ticket Table Kiosk Mode and let visitors enter themselves. Either way, under a minute per person.

Everyone picks their prizes

Their Magic Link drops them right on the prize page — no login, no extra steps. They see every prize with photos and live entry counts, then spread their tickets across what they actually want to win. Takes under 60 seconds on any phone — at the venue, or from the couch later if you give them that option.

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Run the draw & share results

One click to draw winners. Put it on the big screen with animated reveals and grand-prize suspense — or run it quietly and email results to everyone. Either way, every draw is recorded, timestamped, and verifiable.

An important distinction

We're the drawing tool. Not the payment processor.

You already know how to collect ticket money. We just run the raffle.

✓ What we do

Run the raffle — entries, prizes, allocations
Verify every entrant's email
Draw the winner with a verifiable audit log
Generate the post-event report for your treasurer or state filing

✗ What we don't do

Collect ticket payments from your supporters
Hold or process the money your raffle raises
Take a percentage of your fundraiser
Ask your grandma to tip the software vendor at checkout

Givebutter, Zeffy, RallyUp are full payment platforms — they process every dollar your supporters give. That's why they can offer "free" service in exchange for donor tips. We don't touch the money. You collect ticket money however you already collect money — cash at the table, check in the offering plate, Stripe, Square, Venmo, your existing donation portal. We just run the drawing on top.

Magic Import bridges the gap

Collecting tickets through Stripe, Square, PayPal, Venmo, or your existing donation portal? Export the buyer list, drop the CSV on our import page — we auto-detect which columns are names, emails, and ticket counts, dedupe duplicates, and load your participants in seconds. No template to download. No required column order. No manual re-keying.

Ticket Table: self-serve kiosk

No participant list ahead of time? Set a tablet on a table and flip on Kiosk Mode. Visitors pick it up themselves, tap in their name and email, hit submit, and they're in — tablet auto-resets for the next person, no staffer needed. Perfect for open houses, gala check-ins, restaurant nights, weekend fundraisers — anywhere strangers walk past a table without a queue or a sign-in sheet.

AI writes the prize blurb

Don't stare at a blank “Prize description” field at midnight. Snap a photo of the prize, tap ✨ Generate from photo, and a 1-2 sentence description appears in two seconds — tone-matched to your audience (kids at the school fair sound different from gala donors). Use it as-is, tweak it, or override completely. Either way, you got past it.

Magic Setup Wizard

Don't click through twelve setup forms. Describe your event in plain English — the wizard asks a couple of clarifying questions and pre-fills your raffle: the right preset, your event name, draw time, and the language that matches your audience. 30 seconds vs 3 minutes of clicking. Skip it and go manual if you prefer — the standard setup is always one tap away.

Sound familiar?

If this goes wrong, it's on you.

And everyone is watching.

✗ The old way

😬Different people tracking tickets in different ways
🤷Participants asking questions you can't answer fast enough
🎪Last-minute confusion right before the draw starts
📲Forcing people to download an app they don't want — and losing half of them before they ever enter
🔒Everyone watching when the winner is picked — and wondering if it was fair

✓ The SimplyRaffle way

⚡Everything in one place — everyone sees the same numbers
🔗No passwords — participants click one link and they're in
🎯Every draw recorded and verifiable — no one can claim it was rigged
📱No double-counting. No guessing. No confusion.
📋Results can be exported and shared with anyone

Privacy & compliance

We collect less.
We delete fast. We never sell.

What we collect, when it's gone, and who else touches it. Specifics — not slogans.

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Children's privacy (COPPA)

Built for adult organizers. We don't knowingly collect data from kids under 13 — when school raffles involve young participants, the organizing adult handles parental consent. Anything we shouldn't have gets deleted on notice.

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Your data rights (CCPA & GDPR)

California and EU residents: full right to access, delete, or correct your data. We respond within 45 days. We never sell personal data, ever. DPA available if your school district or org needs one for GDPR.

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Encrypted in transit

HTTPS/TLS on every page and form. Card payments route directly to Stripe (PCI-DSS certified) — payment details never touch our servers, so they can't leak from us.

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Quick deletion

Inactive Community accounts auto-purge after a reminder grace period. Paid event data is kept for event date + 45 days, then deleted. Request earlier deletion any time.

See the full Trust & Compliance page →

Subprocessor list, retention specifics, COPPA/CCPA/GDPR posture, compliance-reviewer contact. Or skip ahead to the full legal text.

Who uses it

Anyone running a raffle.

Schools, churches, fire departments, businesses, gyms, scout troops — same product, same simple flow. Pick the page that sounds like you for examples.

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Fire depts

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Booster clubs

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Gyms & studios

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Churches

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Nonprofits

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Scouts & clubs

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Galas & events

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Anyone else

“Last year we did our Fun Run raffle the old-fashioned way. Tickets in a hat, a spreadsheet someone had to constantly update, parents stopping me at pickup asking which prize they selected. This year I set it up in SimplyRaffle in about twenty minutes, sent out the magic links, and ran the draw live in front of the whole school. For families, it couldn't have been easier. No accounts to create, no passwords. They just clicked the link and entered. It was so unbelievably easy.”

Dawn, PTG President

Pricing

One flat fee per event.
No hidden costs. No surprises.

No per-ticket fees. No percentage of your fundraiser. No donor-tipping prompts.

Community

$0 /year

Up to 30 participants • 1 raffle/year

Small annual drawing — a club, a scout troop, a one-shot test of the platform. Every feature included.

✨ 20 AI prize descriptions (limited)

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Card required to verify you're human — never charged.

Basic

$9 /event

Up to 100 participants

Realtor open house, office happy hour, sales-team incentive, small club drawing — anything under 100 people.

✓ 14-day money-back guarantee

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Common questions

No. Participants receive a personal link via email, or they scan a QR at the event. They click it and they're in — no account, no app, no password. Under 60 seconds on any phone.

Before each draw you can download the full entry list — a frozen snapshot of who's in the pool. After the draw, the system records the random seed, the timestamp, who initiated it, and which entries were selected. You can hand the audit log to your board, your treasurer, or your state commission. Nobody can claim it was rigged.

No. SimplyRaffle is the drawing tool — we run the raffle, verify entries, draw winners, generate the audit log. We don't process payments and we don't touch your supporters' money. You collect ticket money however you already collect money: cash at the table, check in the offering plate, Stripe, Square, Venmo, your existing donation portal. The only money that comes to us is your flat platform fee — paid by you, the organizer, once.

Givebutter, Zeffy, and RallyUp are full payment platforms — they process every dollar your supporters give. That's how they can offer "free" service: at checkout, every supporter buying a ticket gets a prompt asking them to add a ~15% tip to the software vendor. Half the time they do, because they think they're tipping you. That's the business model.

SimplyRaffle is a different category. We're the drawing tool, not the payment processor. We don't take your supporters' money, so we can't ask them for a tip. We charge a flat fee — paid by you, once — and that's it. Your supporters pay exactly the ticket price you posted.

State raffle licensing is your organization's responsibility — most states require nonprofits to register annually and file post-event reports. We ship a financial CSV that matches typical state-form fields. Alabama, Hawaii, and Utah prohibit paid-entry raffles entirely. Check your state's rules before selling tickets.

Yes. Every paid plan generates a PDF invoice with your organization's name, address, and tax fields. Available in your dashboard right after purchase.

An Annual Membership covers up to 13 events per year (think monthly plus a seasonal spare) for orgs running raffles regularly — schools, churches, fire departments, booster clubs, scout troops. Three tiers: Basic Annual $99 (100 ppl/event), Standard $299 (250 ppl), Pro $499 (500 ppl). One flat fee, paid once a year — not a subscription. Running more than 13 events a year (weekly real estate open houses, multi-location gym chains)? Get in touch and we'll scope a flat fee for your cadence.

Run your raffle without the chaos.

Four steps. No training required.

Set it up

Get your people in

Everyone picks their prizes

Run the draw & share results

We're the drawing tool. Not the payment processor.

If this goes wrong, it's on you.

We collect less.
We delete fast. We never sell.

Anyone running a raffle.

One flat fee per event.
No hidden costs. No surprises.

Common questions

Set it up in minutes.
Free to start.

Run your raffle without the chaos.

Four steps. No training required.

Set it up

Get your people in

Everyone picks their prizes

Run the draw & share results

We're the drawing tool. Not the payment processor.

If this goes wrong, it's on you.

We collect less.We delete fast. We never sell.

Anyone running a raffle.

One flat fee per event.No hidden costs. No surprises.

Common questions

Set it up in minutes.Free to start.

We collect less.
We delete fast. We never sell.

One flat fee per event.
No hidden costs. No surprises.

Set it up in minutes.
Free to start.