A whole raffle business, hosted — no WordPress to wrangle

Sign up and your branded storefront goes live on its own secure subdomain — HTTPS included. Run provably-fair draws and instant wins from a dashboard built for raffles, not a generic shop backend. Your entrants can still independently verify every result.

• Launches on yourname.verifieddraws.uk with HTTPS the moment you sign up
• Purpose-built raffle dashboard — Competitions, Instant Wins, Draws, Customers, Payments
• Every win links out to an independent Verified Draws verification page
• Graduate to your own custom domain when you're ready — SSL handled for you

A clean, purpose-built stack instead of a WordPress site you have to fight to make fast.

• By default WordPress loads every active plugin on each request, and a typical WooCommerce store runs roughly 15-20+ plugins — each adding JavaScript and CSS that can drag Core Web Vitals (WooCommerce's cart-fragments AJAX is a widely documented example, firing on every page).
• WordPress speed IS fixable with engineering — DebugBear documents full-page caching cutting server response time from ~1.6s to ~104ms and object caching cutting database queries by ~86%. RaffleForge gives you that performance by default, without the caching-and-plugin-tuning tax.
• Page speed drives sales: Google's data found 53% of mobile visits are abandoned when a page takes longer than 3 seconds to load. A faster storefront means fewer entrants lost before they buy a ticket.
• We don't claim WordPress is bad at SEO — server-rendered WordPress can be a strong search choice. RaffleForge's edge is clean semantic markup and high performance by default, with no plugin-bloat regressions to engineer away.

WooCommerce's admin is a general e-commerce backend with no native raffle objects — ticket selling, winner tracking and instant wins are all bolted on by separate plugins. RaffleForge ships them as first-class primitives.

• One purpose-built operator admin: Competitions, Instant Wins, provably-fair Draws, Customers, Store Credits, Orders, Payments, Branding, Media and Team
• Every surface is wired to your own tenant's data through true database-per-tenant isolation — what you see is your real competitions, draws, customers and sell-through
• Each operator runs on its own isolated database, not a shared table scoped by a tenantId column — there's no shared row store for a forgotten filter to leak across
• A 14-day revenue and tickets trend view shows sales momentum from each competition's real revenue and ticket totals

Trust is engineered into the product, which directly answers the “this is rigged” objection that kills raffle sales.

• Every draw is committed to a public drand randomness-beacon round — run by the League of Entropy — before it runs, so winners can never be cherry-picked
• Every prize win, main-draw and instant, links out to an independent, Verified-Draws-hosted verification page anyone can check
• An append-only, tamper-evident audit log records privileged actions — provisioning, draws, impersonation, settings changes and money movements — with no code path to edit or delete an entry
• Competitions can't be published until a valid UK skill question is set, and the rule is enforced server-side, not just hidden in the UI
• Verified Draws fairness is free and stays with you even if you ever leave RaffleForge — it's the shared layer, never the thing you're choosing between

A fair, like-for-like look. Fairness isn't on this table — it's free on both paths. This is purely about hosting, performance and the dashboard.

No servers, no WordPress hosting, no plugins to install and patch.

1. 1

   Sign up

   Your branded storefront is auto-provisioned on its own secure subdomain (yourname.verifieddraws.uk) with HTTPS included.

2. 2

   Build your competition

   Set tickets, prizes, instant wins and the required UK skill question in the dashboard, then publish.

3. 3

   Run the draw

   Each draw is committed to a future public drand round before it runs, and posts the winner with an independent verify link.

4. 4

   Graduate to a custom domain

   When you're ready, SSL is issued and handled for you through the Verified Draws platform team.

We'd rather be honest than win the wrong customer.

• Already running a healthy WooCommerce store with established SEO, content, customers and a WordPress-literate team? There's usually no reason to replatform.
• Replatforming an established store carries real, documented SEO and traffic risk — many poorly-executed ecommerce migrations lose 20-60% of organic traffic in the first 90 days, with recovery taking months.
• In that case, keep your stack and simply add the free Verified Draws WordPress plugin: push a finished competition in one button, draw the winner live, and give everyone an independent verify link.
• RaffleForge hosting is for new or greenfield operators who want a hosted, raffle-specific stack without standing up WordPress/WooCommerce at all.