Sell paper tickets too
Run a hybrid raffle — sell paper tickets in person alongside your online tickets, in one combined draw.
Plenty of raffles sell tickets both ways — online, and on paper at an event or over the counter — and draw them all together. RaffleLink calls this a hybrid raffle: your online tickets and your paper tickets share one capacity and one fair draw.
You sell paper tickets the way you always have (a printed book, cash in a tin), and in RaffleLink you log how many you've sold as you go. When it's time to draw, both kinds of ticket are in the same barrel.
Two ways to sell in person
There are two different "in person" options, and they're not the same thing:
- Digital Tickets via Ticket Booth issues the same digital tickets as an online order, through an interface built for selling face to face. See Ticket Booth.
- Paper Tickets (this page) is for genuine printed tickets you hand over and track by count.
You can use either, both, or neither.
Turn on paper tickets
On the Tickets step, set Sales method to Online & In-Person. Two cards appear for how you'll sell in person — tick Paper Tickets. Its note explains the model: "Sell paper tickets in person and log the counts. Print numbered tickets from the Tickets page; we run a fair draw across both digital and paper."
There's also a How does the draw work with both digital and paper tickets? link right there if you want the detail before committing.
Once paper sales exist, you can't turn it back off
The moment you've logged a paper sale, the paper option locks on — you can't switch the raffle back to online-only with paper tickets already in the draw. Decide before you start selling.
Print your tickets
Print numbered tickets straight from RaffleLink so every stub has a unique number. On the Tickets page, choose Print Tickets, set the Number of tickets for this run (up to 600 at a time), and Download PDF. Numbering continues automatically from your last run, so there are never any overlaps — generate another batch whenever you need more.
Paper tickets carry a PA prefix (for example, PA0001), which keeps them distinct from your online ticket numbers. You set where they begin with the Paper Ticket Starting Number on the Tickets step — keep it clear of your online range (for example, start paper at 1001) so the two never overlap. The stub number is what you'll enter if a paper ticket wins.
Log paper sales as you go
The Tickets page has two tabs — Digital Tickets and Paper Tickets. On the Paper Tickets tab, choose Log Count to record a day's sales:
| Field | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Date | The day the sales happened (within your raffle's start and end dates). |
| Number Sold | How many paper tickets you sold that day. |
| Gross | What you took in dollars — your record, for reconciling later. |
| Notes (optional) | Anything worth remembering about that batch. |
Log as you go during the raffle and confirm the final tally before you draw. Paper sales are aggregate counts, not individual buyer records — you're telling RaffleLink "we sold this many," not entering a name for each one.
Paper proceeds are yours, and stay yours
Paper sales are money you collected directly, so — like cash sales at the Ticket Booth — they carry no platform fee and aren't part of your RaffleLink payout. They still show on your tax invoice as a Paper Ticket Sales line so your totals reconcile. See How the money works.
Keep an eye on capacity
Online and paper tickets share one ticket capacity, so the Tickets page tracks them together — you'll see Digital Sold, Paper Sold, and Paper Reserved counting toward your total. Reserved paper tickets are the printed ones not yet sold; they hold capacity until they sell, tracked automatically from your print runs (you can override the reserved figure if you're using your own tickets instead).
If a paper count would push you past your capacity, RaffleLink blocks it and tells you exactly how much room is left — for example, "This exceeds the raffle's ticket capacity of 500. Only 3 more ticket(s) can be allocated across all channels."
When the raffle is drawn, paper tickets are in the draw alongside the digital ones — see Run a hybrid draw.
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