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What is a reverse raffle?: In a reverse raffle, tickets are drawn out of the eligible pool until the last remaining ticket wins the main prize. An event can also award prizes at announced draw positions. Publish your particular prize and attendance rules before selling tickets.
How can I use RRaffle?: Use RRaffle to prepare ticket records, display the public board, and control the drawing. Depending on your plan, you can add automatic pulls, announcements, sponsor spotlights, and online raffle ticket sales. It is designed to connect preparation with the live reverse raffle event.
Is RRaffle suitable for our fundraiser?: RRaffle gives organizers tools for ticketing, check-in, sponsor displays, and the draw. It can support a reverse raffle run by a community group, school, club, or other event organizer. Choose the features your event needs and confirm your organization can run the event under the rules that apply to it.
Can we run a raffle with 100, 200, 300, or more tickets?: Set the ticket count and starting number for a numbered raffle, or use a custom ticket-code pool where appropriate. Preview the public board on the screen guests will use: the ticket count, layout, screen size, and viewing distance affect how easy it is to read. Online raffle ticket products currently require a numbered pool.
How do we set up a live or virtual reverse raffle?: For an in-person event, show the public board on a projector or TV and keep the operator's controls on a separate screen. Rehearse with the emcee and test the venue internet connection. For a virtual event, arrange your own video meeting or livestream and test how you will share the board with viewers. RRaffle provides the raffle workflow and public board.
Can we award prizes before the last ticket?: Yes. Raffle settings can mark the first pull as a winner and award a winner every specified number of pulls. The Works also supports a list of specific winning pull positions. Set the prize pattern before drawing and announce the same rules to ticket holders.
Can unsold or auction tickets join the raffle later?: Plan how you will handle unsold tickets and late sales before the event. A fixed audited pool does not allow new ticket admissions after preparation. If you need late or auction-ticket admissions in an audited drawing, enable audited pool changes before preparation and record each admission through the audited controls with its source reference.
How do ticket buy-backs work?: Where your event rules and settings allow them, a buy-back returns an eligible drawn ticket to the pool. Audited buy-backs require pool changes to be enabled before preparation, configured checkpoint positions, and a fixed amount. A fixed audited pool disables buy-backs. Decide eligibility, including whether milestone winners can buy back in, before the drawing.
How can we verify an audited drawing?: The audited workflow commits the initial ticket pool and secret-seed commitment before activation, records drawing events, and retains selection proofs. Its exports provide evidence for a reviewer to reproduce the result. When recorded pool changes are enabled, the event log also captures those eligibility transitions. Read the audit methodology and see demonstration reports. RRaffle does not claim NIST certification or an independent audit opinion.
How does online ticket purchasing work?: The Works plan includes online raffle ticket sales after payment-account setup. Supporters choose available sale items, enter their contact information, review the order, and continue to payment. The review shows item prices, applicable transfer and processing fees, and the total before checkout. After purchase, follow the instructions to complete raffle ticket-holder details.
How do RRaffle's plans work?: Basic, Professional, and The Works are annual plans with different drawing, audience, and sales features. Compare the current prices and included features on the plans page before choosing the setup for your event.