who we are and what we do

About Us

Empowering Generosity through Innovation
Our mission is to elevate the fundraising landscape for non-profits by combining innovation, engagement, and fun.
We offer a platform where members can support their organizations and enjoy the thrill of winning prizes.

Reboot your fundraising efforts with New Raffle—a modern online solution that targets a wide audience over a prolonged campaign period, resulting a boost in revenue.

The old-fashioned concept

Remember Tricky Tray—formerly known as the Chinese auction? It’s a classic fundraising raffle/auction event where:

  • Local, timely event: Takes place once, in local event hall
  • Item Display: Items are showcased on tables for all to review
  • Ticket Purchase: Attendees buy tickets to bid on their favorite items
  • Bidding: Participants place their tickets in a container beside the item they desire; more tickets mean a better chance of winning
  • Drawing: At the end of the auction, one ticket is manually drawn from each container, and the ticket holder wins the corresponding item

Taking it online

Elevate your fundraising with New Raffle.  We’ve taken the old Tricky Tray idea and made it a true modern online system!

  • Online prize gallery – Members browse prizes on their PC, phone, or tablet
  • Participants can join from anywhere in the country
  • Members buy tickets online. Option to purchase tickets in the office
  • Members “bid” by placing virtual tickets for prizes they wish to win
  • Contribution towards Project Costs enabled – Allows organizations to run an online campaign at no cost to the organization
  • Transparent & simple-to-understand random prize drawing system

New Raffle is a premium system with many smart features

Features List

  • Participants can join from anywhere in the country
  • Members buy tickets online, with an option to purchase tickets in the office with cash or check
  • Sweepstakes mode allows the “No Purchase Necessary” feature
  • Custom configured tiered ticket pricing
  • Contribution towards project costs: Members have the option to contribute funds to help cover the costs associated with the project
  • Transparent & simple to understand random prize drawing system
  • Member’s database can be used by the organization for future events and CRM system
  • Event’s duration, ticket’s cost, and many other features are controlled by the organization’s admin
  • Members, transactions, and prize data are available for download to Excel. Free Excel dashboard reporting is also included
  • Custom banners and logo, along with custom About Us, Terms, and FAQ pages

Premium Online System

All aspects of your raffle event are conducted online, allowing access to a wider audiance

Extended Event

No longer one day affair – Raffle can run for weeks, even months

Virtually Free

Our system has a feature that helps your organization cover all campaign costs, including our platform fees

Honest & simple drawing

Transparent & simple-to-understand random prize drawing system

The Benefits

New Raffle transforms the classic raffle auction into an online experience, adding great features and benefits

The two primary advantages of going digital:
1. Extended Event Duration: Auctions can run for weeks or months instead of a one-day event.
2. Nationwide Participation: Participants can join from anywhere in the country.

Both are designed to boost the amount of funds raised.

Many additional features and benefits are available, and we’d be happy to demonstrate them in a live demo. To contact us, please complete the Demo Request form.

Extended Reach

Extended Reach

As an online system, the organization is no longer confined to its local geographical area. With email outreach and social media tools, it can attract supporters from across the country. …

Sweepstakes Mode

Sweepstakes Mode

Allowing sweepstakes mode in an online raffle offers several benefits: Sweepstakes mode creates a more engaging, accessible, and legally flexible platform that can boost outreach and fundraising efforts.

Honest Drawing System

Honest Drawing System

In the old “tricky tray” raffle, a person must stick their hand in a jar to pick a winning ticket, leaving room for doubt and inconsistency. In contrast, our online …

Extended Duration

Extended Duration

By removing the constraint of a single-day event, an online raffle system opens up a much broader window for donors to contribute. The extended duration of your fundraising campaign translates …

New Raffle Advantage

Pricing

Introducing a refreshing approach to online fundraising that makes our service essentially free.
During the ticket purchase process, members are offered the opportunity to donate additional funds to help cover campaign costs voluntarily.

Most platforms that rely on this feature, sometimes called the “tip jar,” keep all the funds contributed.
With us, you pay the lower campaign fees or the total collected in the fund.

This approach effectively makes our service free for your organization.

Onboarding Fee

$0 $280
No Cost to the Organization

  • db Setup

  • Training

  • Payment Gateway Setup

  • email Setup

  • 100MB of storage space

Choose Plan

Event Activation Fee

$0 $1800
No Cost to the Organization

  • Price Gallery Setup

  • Banners Setup

  • Sweepstakes Activation

  • “Help Cover Project Cost” feature

  • Testing and Fine Tunning

Choose Plan

Transaction Fee

$0
No Cost to the Organization

  • Gateway provider processing fees

  • 2.9% per transaction

  • $0.30 per transaction

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Learn More About New Raffle

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Frequently Asked Questions. Click on any question below

No. The system features a Sweepstake mode, where members can be granted a certain number of free tokens upon request.

A: At Expert Data Systems (New Raffle parent company), integrity is at the heart of everything we do. We are a trusted partner dedicated to supporting nonprofit organizations, and we pride ourselves on transparency in all our processes. With 30 years of IT experience, we ensure that our systems are designed to be fair and unbiased.

We offer two modes for prize selection:

  1. Use our system's built-in random number generator.
  2. Use an external random number generator, like random.org, and plug the generated number into our software to identify the winner.

No. The system supports an unlimited number of users from anywhere in the country.

The organization sets it up. You can set up a tiered system, where the more tickets a member buys, the cheaper the per-ticket cost.

No, we do not. We have a simple, fixed-fee structure that we will review with you upfront.  The only fees that an organization may incur are those collected by the online payment gateway, such as PayPal.   With that said, we also support a feature that effectively makes the campaign free to the organization.

See the question about costs below.

The cost to use the platform consists of two parts: a one-time database setup fee and an event license fee. We will review these costs with you when we meet to discuss if this solution is right for your organization.

Note: The database setup is a one-time fee. Once paid, your organization can run as many events as you wish for as long as they desire!

We support a feature that makes the campaign free for the organization.  See below.

When buying tickets, members are offered the option to help cover campaign costs voluntarily. We call this the “HC3 fund.”
Unlike the typical "tip jar" model—where the system provider keeps all contributions—New Raffle ensures that your organization uses our system at no cost. Here’s how:
The HC3 fund is for your organization’s benefit. After paying our fees, the organization keeps every cent collected through HC3. If the funds collected in HC3 are less than our fee, we only take the lower amount.

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