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Personalize your raffle with colors, images, prize descriptions, and customizable ticket bundles.
Manage your raffle effortlessly with e-tickets, in-person sales, and participant reports.
Keep 100% of the money for your mission with zero fees—we even cover credit card costs.
Customize the experience with multiple ticket bundles, prize descriptions, logos, colors, and images.
Share your form online with your supporters. They can use their favorite payment method to buy tickets.
Each ticket has a unique number and shows the buyer’s info. Tickets are automatically emailed to the participants.
Monitor participants, tickets, and more. When sales close, you can draw a winner from the list.
You will receive the entirety of your funds in your weekly payout. We never charged a cent to nonprofits, and we never will.
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Yes, and it stays free at any size. Sell a $10 raffle ticket and $10 reaches your account, whether you sell fifty of them or five thousand, because there's no platform fee, no per-ticket fee and no card fee coming out of it. Zeffy is funded by an optional contribution supporters can add at checkout, so your raffle keeps the whole pot either way.
One cost isn't ours to waive: many states and provinces charge for a raffle license, and that fee goes to your gaming authority. For example, Pennsylvania's is $25 a month or $125 a year.
Yes, and it's the same setup as any raffle with one addition: give the form a sales target, and supporters see a thermometer of the pot filling up, which is most of what makes a 50/50 work. Zeffy tracks what's raised, and you identify the winner by their ticket number from your dashboard. Paying the winner their half is something you arrange with them directly, outside Zeffy. Check your local raffle rules before you run one, since a 50/50 sits under the same gaming regulations as any other raffle and some places treat the split differently. Our 50/50 raffle guide covers pricing and promotion.
That's your call. You set the refund policy in your raffle terms, and Zeffy gives you two separate controls: refund the payment, in full or in part, and cancel the tickets. Cancelling voids the QR codes on those e-tickets and puts them back on sale if you'd capped how many were available. Some regulators have their own requirements here, so it's worth checking your local rules before you publish your terms.
Zeffy does both, and both run off the same raffle form. What changes is what your state allows, and the limits take different shapes: California doesn't permit raffle tickets to be sold online at all, and Pennsylvania only allows cash, check or money order for raffle tickets, so cards are out whether you sell online or at the table. Check your own state's rules before you set either one up. Our raffle laws guide has a state-by-state table.
Taking payments at the event with the free Tap to Pay app runs through the same raffle form, so those tickets get numbered, emailed and added to the same participant list as your online sales, with nothing for you to reconcile afterwards.
Pre-printed paper stubs work differently: you keep those on a second raffle form with e-ticket creation turned off, or you ask support to start your online numbering above your printed range so no two tickets can share a number. Either way every ticket ends up with its own number, which is what matters when you draw.
Check first whether raffles and online ticket sales are permitted where you are, because that varies by state and province and it changes what you can run. Once you know, set up a free raffle form, set your ticket price and any bundles, connect your bank account and share the link. From there Zeffy numbers every ticket sequentially as it sells, emails each buyer their ticket automatically, and builds your participant list as you go. You can cap how many tickets go out, either overall or per ticket type. When you close sales you export that list and draw your winner, and the next question covers how, including the free tool you can use to do it. Our raffle walkthrough covers pricing and promotion.
"Before with our raffles we had to collect the money through PayPal and then email the ticket numbers to the individuals. Now that's all done by Zeffy and with no fees."
Barbara B., Executive Director (G2)
Raffle law varies by state and province, and some places don't permit online ticket sales or online draws at all, so check where you stand before you set anything up. Our raffle laws guide has a state-by-state table, including a column for whether online ticket sales are allowed.
If an online draw is permitted where you are, there's a free Zeffy tool for it. Every ticket is numbered as it sells, so you export a list with one row per ticket showing the buyer and their number, paste it into the raffle generator and draw by name or by ticket number, with each entry counted separately so someone who bought five tickets gets five chances. If an online draw isn't permitted where you are, you use that same exported list and draw the way your authority requires.
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