Build the raffle privately
Set the drawing date and location, write the posted rules, define ticket packages, rank prizes, and review the starter workflows before anything is public.
Product
Simply Raffles starts with the operational structure a responsible fundraiser needs, while leaving jurisdiction-specific legal decisions and payment activation in your hands.
Set the drawing date and location, write the posted rules, define ticket packages, rank prizes, and review the starter workflows before anything is public.
Configure a real checkout before treating online purchase requests as paid. Publish the purchase path and free alternate method of entry where entrants can find both.
Track ticket numbers, method, tender, amount received, supporting member, drawing eligibility, fundraising qualification, confirmations, and reversals on the entry record.
Use the eligible-entry view when drawing, link each ranked prize to its winning entry, and keep the recorded result available for notification, support, and audit questions.
Built for the awkward details
A raffle stays trustworthy when payment, eligibility, fundraising totals, and drawing results are related but never treated as the same fact.
Public purchase requests begin pending. A configured checkout or trusted staff update must qualify them before they count toward fundraising or the drawing.
The starter free-entry flow creates an entry with equal drawing standing while keeping it out of fundraising totals and paid-package reporting.
Authorized Team Users can record trusted offline activity without pretending a payment processor transaction exists.
Refunded, returned-check, duplicate, or otherwise invalid entries are reversed with a reason and removed from eligibility while the original record remains visible.
Operational reports answer how many qualified tickets were recorded, which packages moved, and which supporting members generated fundraising activity.
Entry confirmations wait for eligibility, and winner notices begin from the recorded prize result rather than from an untracked email list.
The short version
Raffles are top-level records. Prizes, ticket packages, and entries link back to the right raffle, so an annual campaign does not require a new software account or a new website.