How many tickets do you need to sell?
Set your target, your ticket price and anything the raffle has to pay for. The calculator works backwards to the number of tickets — and the number of people — you need. Nothing is sent anywhere; the maths runs in your browser.
Your raffle
What you want to clear after costs.
Prize, printing, licence fees. Leave at 0 if the prize was donated.
How many you expect a typical supporter to buy.
participants fits inside the free tier — you can run this raffle on Rafflebase without paying anything. participants is past the free cap of 100. The one-time $25 upgrade removes it.
Enter a goal and a ticket price above to see what you need to sell.
At other ticket prices
Pick the first row whose people count you could actually reach.
| Price | Tickets | People |
|---|---|---|
Pricing a raffle, specifically
- How do I decide what to charge per ticket?
- Work backwards from your supporters, not your goal. A price that needs 400 buyers from a mailing list of 200 people is the wrong price no matter how good the target looks. Try a few prices in the table above and pick the first one whose buyer count is a number you could actually reach — then check the prize is worth that much to them.
- Should I count the prize as a cost?
- Only if you are paying for it. A donated prize costs you nothing and should be left out. If you bought the prize, or you are covering printing, licensing or venue costs out of the proceeds, put the total in "costs to cover" so the calculator raises enough to clear them and still hit your goal.
- What counts as a participant on Rafflebase?
- A participant is a person, not a ticket. Someone who buys ten tickets is one participant with ten entries, and their odds are ten times better. That is why this calculator reports both numbers — the free tier is capped at 100 participants, and how many tickets each of them buys does not change that.
- Does a higher ticket price always raise more?
- No. Past a certain point a higher price just means fewer buyers, and fewer buyers means less money and a smaller crowd at the draw. Most small fundraisers do better selling more tickets cheaply than fewer expensively, because the people who buy are the people who show up.
- Is this calculator free?
- Yes, and it needs no account. Running the raffle itself is free too, for up to 100 participants — a one-time $25 per raffle removes the cap and adds CSV export, multiple winners, redraws, payment reminders and new signup alerts.
Now run the raffle
Share one signup link, sell your tickets, and draw a winner everyone can check.