You’ve got the raffle website, you’ve got the supporters. Now get the extra donations without even asking when you activate Rafflebox Donations.   

Rafflebox Donations is an additional giving feature for 50/50 raffles and prize raffles. Eligible raffle programs (more on that below) can give their raffle ticket buyers an option to add a direct donation to their order, too.

Who's eligible to take donations during raffle ticket checkout?

First, let's make sure you're eligible to turn on the donations feature.

The feature is available for:

✅ CRA-registered charities with the ability to issue tax receipts.

✅ 50/50 raffles and prize raffles.

Nonprofits like SPCAs are fundraising more with Donations

SPCAs, hospital foundations, firefighters' 50/50s and other charitable organizations can add donations to their raffle checkout and watch their "average revenue per raffle" grow.

Take the Nova Scotia SPCA 50/50 for example, who's passively raising an extra $1,000 a month just by adding the option to donate.

Or the Saskatoon SPCA, who raised over $4,100 in addition to their half of the 50/50 jackpot with the feature. 

Low risk, high return when you add donations to your raffle

Rafflebox's online donations option doesn't replace your current online donation tool — you'll still take donations and run other fundraisers as usual.

Donations are extra opportunities to capture support when your organization and its fundraising goals are already on a ticket buyer's mind.

Plus, donations are separate from your 50/50 jackpot (if that's what kind of raffle you're running), so there's no splitting these funds with a winner.

Donations are added to a transaction, just like an extra "product" in an online shopping cart. The platform/payment processing fee comes off the transaction, but the remainder of the donation goes straight to your organization.

Digging into donor insights in your Dashboard

Beyond raising more funds, taking donations during raffle checkout helps generate more data on your supporters, their motivations, and other donation trends (here's a guide to pulling data from your Dashboard to save for later).

With Donations reports, raffle admins can answer questions like:

• How much, on average, do people donate on top of a ticket purchase?

• What's the most popular amount to donate on top of a ticket purchase?

• How often people donate to recurring raffles?

Plus, you can engage and grow donors by:

• Adding donors via Rafflebox to an overall donor list.

• Sending out tax receipts* for eligible donors.

*Generating charitable tax receipts for a donation must always be completed by the charitable organization that receives the donation (but this donations report makes it easier.) 

Give your ticket buyers more options (but no pressure) 

Growing revenue from one single raffle: it's like music to our ears (and the music is that sound your phone makes when a purchase goes through.)

To learn more about Rafflebox Donations and add it to your current raffle program, get in touch with your Account Manager or fill out the form on this page to book a call.