Our professional advice:

We’ve seen many “budget lottery competition website” or “low cost raffle websites” advertised on Ebay, Gumtree and even Facebook marketplace for as little as £300 including a logo and hosting.

👿 BEWARE: you get what you pay for!

Web Works Glasgow are only interested in working with entrepreneurs and business owners who are serious about building a legitimate lottery competition business.
We won’t even try to compete in price at that level because we only deal with competition businesses who are the real deal.
The value of our service lies in the extra level of marketing advice and business support that we offer during the process, from recommendations on the best payment gateway platforms, to advice on how to avoid your ads being banned under US gambling laws.

There are several overheads to running a website for your business to be aware of. Because of frequency of hacking and DDOSS attacks in the competition industry, hosting for COmpetition websites is slightly higher than other types of sites.:

• Domain: this is your site address eg mybusiness.com. This should only cost around £20/yr for most domains
• SSL Certificate. This is needed to get the secure padlock icon in your browser bar. This should cost around £80/yr
• Hosting: this is where you store all the files and code that makes up your website. This will be a monthly cost which can vary from £60 per month depending on the scale and complexity of your website.

Also be aware that it’s not enough to simply launch your website and watch the money roll in! you’ll need to allow a budget for social media marketing to drive traffic to your website.

Our web design packages for lottery competition businesses typically include a number of services including:

• Design of brand identity and logo in a variety of formats
• Design and build of an E-Commerce website to sell tickets for prizes online
• Set up of social accounts and design of several templates for social media posts.
• Marketing support and business advice

Your package can be entirely customized to meet your budget

Typically, Web Works Glasgow can design your new online raffle website in a couple of weeks, but it depends on your branding and your requirements for the lottery functionality on your website.

The most time consuming part of any web design project is writing and gathering the content. To avoid delays make sure you have all your prizes ready to go.

Starting your own competition lottery business also requires a number of checks and legal requirements, especially to set up your payment gateway, We can advice you on how to do this, but it’s best done well ahead of time!

Your income comes from ticket sales, which customers buy in exchange for a chance to win real prizes.

Your prizes must be bought in advance (you can’t sell tickets for prizes that you don’t own yet.)
Your winners must be chosen completely at random, usually by a raffle machine, or online random number generator during a live draw on social media, for proof of authenticity.

The ticket prices will depend on the value of the prize, and the number of tickets on sale.
Large value prizes may be split into larger numbers of tickets to make tickets more affordable, or you may wish to decrease no. of tickets available to increase desirability, or increase your customers chances of winning.

Before you can start making money with competition websites , there are a few things you’ll need:
1. A legal business entity. This will be required for many of the business infrastructure elements such as payment gateways, insurance etc.
2. A payment gateway. This is how you take payments online for sales of lottery tickets. There are many different payment gateways, but many of the usual brand names dont process payments for competition businesses under gambling laws. We can advise the best paltforms for you to use.
3. A business bank account. Setting up your bank account for a competition business can also be hampered due to the nature of the business. Make sure you’re bank, isnurance and any other business infrastructure is happy with the nature of your business before proceeding.
4 Prizes. The competition business market is already quite saturated. You may wish to increase your chances for success by focussing on a smaller, mroe specific niche such as travel, gadgets, fashion, electronics or cars. You MUST provide evidence of how you legally purchased your prizes through the business, your payment gateway provider will insist upon this.

Web Works Glasgow provide training for your lottery prize website after completion.

You’ll be able to run and manage your lottery prizes, add new competitions and announce winners via the back end of your new E-Commerce website using a simple, easy to navigate user interface.

During the build our web designers and web developers in Glasgow are always at the other end of a phone whenever you need us.
During the process we will also keep you right in terms of general marketing strategy, and after launch if you want us to be involved with your businesses we’ll happily show you the ropes of how to promote your competition prize business and sell lottery tickets online and on social media through targeted marketing.