For businesses, events & individuals
A workplace raffling for a colleague’s hospital, a restaurant’s pink night, a choir’s annual draw for a women’s shelter, a golf day, a rider in a charity challenge. More than 850+ raffles on RaffleLink have been run by someone outside the organisation the money was for. This page is why they run them here, what those raffles raise, and how the sign-off works.
The rules in every state are written for organisations, so a raffle for a cause has to run under the cause’s standing. Everything that makes that awkward, the letter, the permit, the bank account, the receipts, is handled in the product rather than left to you.
No chasing a letter on letterhead. You send the request, the organisation e-signs a Letter of Authority (or an admin approves in-app if they are already here), and the signed PDF sits on the raffle’s record. Most approvals come back the same day.
You need a cause that is one: a charity, school, club or community organisation that agrees to receive the money. Their standing covers the raffle, the state rules are checked against it while you set up, and if a permit is needed we can lodge it in their name.
Payouts land in the organisation’s own account. Buyers get tax invoices in the organisation’s name, and nothing has to pass through you unless the organisation chooses that when it signs.
Tap to Pay on your phone, a QR code for the tables, ticket packs, and your own helpers seated with a join code. Online, paper and in-person sales land in one signed draw, and the winners are told automatically.
The typical raffle for a cause raises $2,750 from 74 buyers in about four weeks, and the best quarter clear $5,450. The event raffle is the standout: sold to a room that has already turned up for the cause, it raises more than twice the typical result in a single night. The business-run raffle is the other one to copy, with a $20 ticket sold across the counter and to clients.
| Who ran it | Raffles | Median raised | Buyers | Typical ticket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A person or small group with a nominated cause | 456 | $2,500 | 75 | $5 |
| Event or corporate night (dinner, awards, golf day) | 36 | $6,400 | 114 | $5 |
| Business-run (shop, salon, staff and customers) | 15 | $4,000 | 77 | $20 |
| Challenge participant (ride, trek, shave, marathon) | 31 | $3,500 | 82 | $10 |
| Personal cause (surgery, treatment, in memory of) | 55 | $1,900 | 56 | $7 |
The prize decides the ticket, and the ticket decides the total: a holiday or an appliance justifies $10 to $20 a ticket and raises about three times what a hamper does. A business can source that prize from its own stock, suppliers or clients at little cost. Full tables, prizes and ticket prices in raffles run for a cause, by the numbers.
Three ways in, depending on where the cause stands, then six steps that most organisers get through in a few days.
Search the directory by name or ABN and send the request. An admin at the organisation approves it in-app, and the raffle pays into the bank account they already have on file.
Enter their details and a contact. They get an email, see who is asking and why, confirm the organisation’s ABN and address, add a bank account and e-sign. A signed PDF is kept on the record.
Upload the Letter of Authority the organisation gave you. It is checked against the request, clean letters approve on the spot, and anything unclear goes to our team.
It sits beside “I’m registering my organisation” and “I’m joining an organisation”, so a business or an individual doesn’t create an organisation it shouldn’t own.
Your name and email come from your account. Add a phone number and a line on your connection to the cause; the person signing sees both before they sign.
Prizes, tickets, dates and the page can all be set up straight away. The raffle goes on sale once the authority is approved.
Invite ticket sellers with a personal join code; their booth only reaches your raffle. Tap to Pay on a phone, paper tickets and the online page all feed one signed draw.
Payouts land in the organisation’s nominated account, less the 5.5% on card sales. Buyers get tax invoices in the organisation’s name, and winners are notified automatically.
Each authority covers one raffle that starts within 90 days. Running another next year is a fresh request, or the organisation can make you an affiliate with standing access.
The question every buyer, every treasurer and every regulator asks of a raffle run by an outsider is the same one: is this real, and will the money get there? The platform answers it before the first ticket sells.
A raffle is run under the beneficiary organisation’s standing, not yours. Permit thresholds and draw rules for all eight states are checked while you set up, and where a permit is needed we can lodge it in the organisation’s name.
Every authorised raffle has a signed letter behind it: who asked, who signed, in what role, on what date, and which bank account the proceeds go to. It is the document a regulator or a treasurer asks for, generated before a ticket sells.
By default the payout goes to the organisation’s own account. If it suits both sides for the proceeds to come to you first, the organisation consents to that when it signs, and the arrangement is printed on every tax invoice.
Raising for a named individual (a medical bill, a family after a fire) is permitted only in Queensland, under a special Category 3 licence. Everywhere else the beneficiary must be an organisation, so a personal campaign runs through a charity or foundation that has agreed to receive the money.
Check the permit position for each state · How compliance works on RaffleLink · Raffles for an individual in Queensland
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No setup fee, no subscription: 5.5% on card sales including GST, and cash sales are free. Sign up, choose “run a raffle to benefit an organisation”, and the request goes out in a few minutes.
Benchmarks as of September 2026.