Ability to Run a Charitable Raffle | Voters

Ability to Run a Charitable Raffle

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Ari Krasner

Ability to run an end-to-end charitable raffle: sell tickets, pick a winner, etc.

July 21, 2020

Jeff Copeland

We enthusiastically support this feature request! We just used Givebutter for a raffle this weekend, and there were some shortcomings when using the existing "Event > Tickets" workaround. Specifically:

Separating the actual ticket sales from extra donations that are added when a buyer purchases tickets (I realize we could turn this feature off, but why would anyone NOT want to let raffle ticket buyers also add an extra donation?), and reflect this correctly on the live display.

For example, if a participant buys $50 worth of tickets and also tacks on a $25 donation, currently the live display shows the pot at $75, when it really should be $50 (reflecting only the actual ticket sales). Maybe develop a way to have the added donations assigned to a secondary (or "sub") campaign, and then make the live display more customizable so it can reflect either or both totals?

We found the online ticket sales to work great, but the process of selling tickets live in person for cash was inefficient. We used the Givebutter app on an iPad (because there is currently no way to process a cash ticket sale when logged in to your account online via laptop), but the checkout process was slow and clunky, and prone to data entry errors.
The GIvebutter system already assigns individual ticket numbers, so we just used random.org to select the winning ticket, but having to go "off platform" to generate a random ticket number, and then scroll through 2000+ tickets to select the winner is also slow and clunky. Being able to hit a button in the software that says "randomly select the winner" would be so much cleaner.

With raffles being such a common fundraising activity, there's a lot of room for improvement, and an opportunity here for GIvebutter to be the 'market leader in raffle ticketing solutions for charities'.

Having a true 'soup to nuts' raffle solution would be a major selling point for the software (and make your user's lives so much easier!).

I'd be happy to consult and/or test any beta features you are rolling out!

Thanks,

Elaine Makikalli

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Fund Development VP

Ability to create a separate raffle ticket type that generates a separate list of unique numbers, different from other tickets on the campaign. This way when using a RNG, all the numbers in the range will be raffle

Alta Schwartz

We recently used GiveButter for a raffle.  It was super clunky...would really love to improve this function so it works as well as the rest of GiveButter!
Also, it is important to be able to distinguish donations from raffle purchases as raffles are not tax-deductible (at least in our state). This is a big headache.
FYI, we were going to use Zeffy, but we really wanted to keep everything inside GiveButter. We do at least one big raffle per year so please help!

david eagleton

Door Prize - Free Ticket

This feature would have a QR code next to an item and allow someone to scan and enter their name for selection.

david eagleton

For in-person events I would like to see an option similar to auctions. The participant scans the QR code next to an item (bucket raffle prize) and select the number of tickets. At the end of scanning they purchase the number of tickets they used. Tickets may all be the same amount or vary by item.

FMFN Friends of the Medford Family Network

Yes, we'd love to be able to sell raffle tickets for particular prizes - like the auction, but with tickets. May have to use Zeffy to do this, but would prefer to stick with Give Butter

AmCan Arts Foundation

At least number the raffle tickets so each ticket type has a specific range of numbers. That would make selecting the winner easier.

Urban ArtWorks *

We would like to be able to sell raffle tickets within the platform but unfortunately cannot publicly sell tickets online in Washington State (it is considered to be online gambling). If there is a way for admins to manually add 'Buy Now' bids to a private auction item that could be a workaround.

Brian Spooner

I would like to be able to run a raffle end to end, but we would need to be able to print tickets for the drawing; not sure about other states, but in Ohio you must physically draw the winner.

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