One ticket, a winner every single day
A calendar raffle sells one ticket that enters the holder into a drawing every day for a month. Small daily prizes, months of anticipation, and — the reason organizations love them — all the money arrives before the first draw.
Free for up to 100 entrants. No subscriptions.
How a calendar raffle works
Tickets go on sale weeks ahead. Every ticket entered is in every drawing, one per day for the whole month. Each day has a small prize attached, often donated by local businesses, with a bigger one on the last day.
Because tickets are sold up front, you know what you have raised before the calendar even starts. And because a ticket stays live for thirty days, buyers stay engaged with your organization for a month rather than an evening.
The administrative burden is what usually kills them: thirty draws, thirty winners, and a rule that nobody wins twice. Done on paper that means pulling stubs, setting winners aside, and hoping the list is right on day nineteen.
Three steps, start to finish
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Sell the month up front
Share a signup link or add buyers yourself. Every entrant is in every drawing — there is nothing to re-enter each day.
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Close entries before day one
Close the raffle when sales end. The pool is fixed for the whole month and the audit trail records the moment it was locked.
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Draw once a day, all month
Press draw each morning. Everyone who has already won is excluded automatically, so nobody wins twice and you are not maintaining a list.
Built for this shape of drawing
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Winners drop out on their own
Every draw excludes anyone who has already won this raffle. That rule is enforced in the draw itself, not in a spreadsheet someone has to remember to update on day nineteen.
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Every day is separately provable
Each draw derives its own seed from the commitment published when the raffle was created, and publishes its own hash. Day twenty-three can be verified on its own, months later.
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A full month for one flat fee
Free raffles get a single draw. The one-time $25 upgrade unlocks unlimited draws for that raffle, so thirty days of drawings cost $25 — not $25 a day, and never a subscription.
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The whole month on one record
Every draw stays listed against the raffle with its date, its winner and its proof — so the full calendar is one link, not thirty announcements.
Worth knowing
Rafflebase does not collect ticket money — you sell however you already do. A free raffle includes one draw, so a calendar raffle needs the one-time $25 upgrade, which also lifts the 100-entrant cap.
Common for these groups
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Fire & EMS
The annual drawing, run so the community can check it rather than assume.
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Sports clubs
Season-long booster drawings across a dozen teams, without a shoebox of cash.
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Scouts & youth groups
Troop and pack fundraising where the scouts do the selling and parents keep the record.
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Veterans posts
Weekly and annual drawings for posts that have run them on paper for decades.
Calendar raffle, specifically
- Can the same person win twice?
- Not by default — every draw automatically excludes anyone who has already won that raffle. This is enforced inside the draw transaction, so it holds even if two draws are triggered at once.
- Is a calendar raffle free to run?
- The free tier includes one draw per raffle, and a calendar raffle needs thirty. The one-time $25 upgrade unlocks unlimited draws and multiple winners per draw, and lifts the 100-entrant cap. That is $25 for the whole month, not per day.
- What if we forget to draw on a day?
- Nothing breaks. Draws are recorded when you run them, so you can catch up and draw twice in a day if you need to. Each draw is still independently verifiable and still excludes prior winners.
- Can we see the whole month afterwards?
- Every draw stays listed against the raffle with its timestamp, its winner and its proof. One public link covers the entire calendar rather than thirty separate announcements.
Run your calendar raffle
Add your entrants, draw, and share a result nobody has to argue about.