Player experience
Competitions and instant wins
Ticket limits, progress bars, countdowns, featured pinning, tiered instant wins and a scratch-and-reveal mechanic with real payouts.
The competition platform built by people who actually run one.
Most raffle sites are a WordPress theme with four plugins holding hands. RaffleForge is purpose-built software: instant wins, wallets, affiliates, SMS and email campaigns, running the same engine as a live competition business that takes real orders every week.
- Proven in production
- Live since July 2026, taking card payments
- Provisioning
- New sites stood up in seconds, not weeks
- Built for the UK
- Skill question, free entry route, postal entries
01 The problem
Draw night is exactly when the plugin stack gives up.
The pattern is always the same. Traffic spikes in the last hour, the cache fights the basket, someone buys a ticket that was already sold, and the checkout throws an error that only appears on mobile Safari. Then you spend the next morning refunding people instead of announcing a winner.
We know because we run one. RaffleForge came out of building and operating a real competition site. Every feature here exists because an operator needed it at 9pm on a Sunday, not because it looked good on a roadmap.
02 The platform
Everything a competition business actually needs.
Not a ticketing widget. The marketing tools, the customer wallet and the affiliate programme sit in the same admin as the draws, because that is where the revenue is.
- Player experiencewhat the customer touches
- Growthwhat brings them back
- Trustwhat keeps you provable
Player experience
Wallets and site credit
Winnings land as site credit and come straight back through the checkout. Discount codes, free-entry route and per-person caps included.
Growth
Email and SMS campaigns
Contact lists, templates, send logs and per-message costs. Built in, not a Mailchimp tab you forget to open.
Growth
Abandoned baskets
Catches the customer who picked ten tickets and lost signal on the train. Most platforms simply do not have this.
Growth
Affiliates and referrals
Applications, tracked short links, per-affiliate dashboards and payout runs. Your best customers become your cheapest channel.
Trust
Analytics that live in the admin
Search Console and Analytics pulled into the same dashboard as revenue, entries and draws. No tab-hopping to answer a simple question.
03 Comparison
Where the other platforms stop.
Most UK competition platforms cover entries, payments and a winners page, then leave you to bolt on the rest. These are the features that decide whether a customer comes back for the next draw.
| Capability | RaffleForge | Typical platform |
|---|---|---|
| Instant wins and reveal mechanics | ||
| Wallet and site credit | Sometimes | |
| Affiliate programme with payouts | ||
| SMS campaigns with cost tracking | ||
| Abandoned basket recovery | ||
| Email campaigns and contact lists | Basic | |
| Analytics inside the admin | Basic | |
| Native iOS app | ||
| Runs a real competition business itself |
04 How it works
Live in weeks, not quarters.
The infrastructure is already built and automated. What takes time is your design, your prizes and your compliance pages, so that is where the effort goes.
01
We learn how you actually operate
Prize mix, draw cadence, how you handle postal entries, what your customers complain about. An hour, not a discovery phase.
02
Your site gets built and provisioned
Provisioning is automated. A new site, with its own isolated database, storage and admin, is stood up in seconds. The time goes into design and your content, not plumbing.
03
You launch, and we stay on the hook
Payments live, compliance pages in place, staff trained on the admin. When something needs changing you speak to whoever wrote it.
05 Pricing
Priced so the maths still works at volume.
A monthly fee plus a small per-order charge. No revenue share, no percentage of your prize pot, and you keep your customer list.
Launch
£79 /month
+ 12p per paid order
For operators starting out, or testing a new niche.
- Your own branded site and domain
- Unlimited competitions and instant wins
- Wallet, site credit and discount codes
- Winners page, draw records, skill question
- Email campaigns and abandoned baskets
Managed
£1,995 setup
then £129/month + 10p per paid order
We build it, migrate you, and run the platform for you.
- Everything in Launch
- Design and build handled by us
- Migration from WordPress with data intact
- Affiliate programme and SMS campaigns
- Native iOS app for your customers
- Direct line to the people who wrote the code
Scale
Custom
For established operators
Bespoke mechanics, dedicated infrastructure, your own game types.
- Everything in Managed
- Isolated database and infrastructure
- Custom instant-win games built to brief
- Priority roadmap input
06 Compliance
Built for prize competitions, not gambling.
Every competition carries a skill question and a genuine free entry route by default, with postal entries supported and your terms, privacy and cookie policies editable from the admin. We will point you at specialist legal advice for your own documents. We build the software, we do not pretend to be your solicitor.