Raffle tool terms

Last updated 21 October 2026. Questions: hello@forgoodssake.co.nz

What the tool is

For Goods Sake provides a free online tool that helps a club, school, charity or other group make printed raffle tickets, and, if you sign in, keep track of ticket books and sales and run a draw. You can make and download tickets without signing in. Then we don’t create a saved raffle: your browser keeps your draft, and we only process your details to make the preview and PDFs and keep short abuse-prevention logs, as our privacy policy explains.

Who is responsible

The group or person running the raffle (the “organiser”) is responsible for it: following the Gambling Act 2003 and the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) rules that apply, the prizes, how tickets are sold, the draw, paying out prizes, and what happens to the money. For Goods Sake doesn’t run raffles, sell tickets, hold raffle money or give out prizes. If you’re unsure whether your raffle is allowed, ask the DIA (0800 257 887, gambling@dia.govt.nz) before you print.

Rules for using the tool

These are the conditions for using the tool. They follow the DIA guidance as we understand it, but they don’t replace it.

• The tool is only for in-person raffles that fit Class 1 (prizes worth $500 or less in total, and the tickets printed worth $500 or less at the ticket price) or Class 2 (run by a non-commercial society, prizes up to $5,000 in total, and the tickets printed worth up to $25,000 at the ticket price). Raffles with more than $5,000 of prizes need a DIA licence (Class 3) and can’t be run with this tool.
• Prizes must be worth at least 20% of the value of all the tickets printed (the tool won’t print tickets otherwise). Don’t offer firearms, airguns, ammunition, explosives or fireworks, restricted weapons, alcohol, tobacco or vapes, taonga tūturu, commercial sexual services, or vouchers for any of these as prizes with this tool.
• Give every buyer a numbered paper ticket, face to face. This is our condition for using the tool. Separately, the law doesn’t allow Class 1 or 2 tickets to be sold remotely: you can advertise on social media, but don’t use this tool for a raffle sold online, in Facebook comments, by phone or by message.
• Don’t add tickets once a raffle is set up. If tickets sell out, you may run a new, separate raffle after this one is drawn, with its own prize, ticket numbers, draw and money. Don’t split one raffle into two running side by side, or combine prizes worth more than $5,000. Don’t use back-to-back raffles to get round the session limits (a society can run only one Class 1 session a day), and check with DIA before you start another.
• Money left after prizes and actual costs should go to the purpose printed on the tickets. Don’t pay anyone a commission for selling tickets.
• Hold the draw when and where the tickets say, include every sold ticket and no others, and publish the results as the tickets say.
• Give correct information, and check your tickets (print the test page) before you print the rest.

We may suspend a saved raffle that clearly breaks these rules.

What the checks do and don’t do

The tool checks some of the main limits as you go, such as prize and ticket totals, and puts the details the DIA guidance asks for on each ticket. Passing the checks doesn’t mean your raffle meets the law: the tool can’t know everything about your group, your prizes or how you run the raffle, and the rules can change. The “fairness code” lets people check that the secret revealed after the draw matches the code published before it, and reproduce the published result from the list of sold tickets. It doesn’t check the ticket sales themselves, whether that list is complete, or how the raffle was run.

Cost

The tool is free. If you choose to get your tickets printed by a print shop, that’s between you and the printer. For Goods Sake never takes a share of ticket sales.

Buyers’ and sellers’ details

If you sign in and record sales, you can store buyers’ and sellers’ names and contact details. You collect them for your raffle; we store them on your behalf and use them for nothing else (apart from any separate choice a buyer makes to hear from For Goods Sake). We email you a copy a week after the draw and delete them from the tool six months after the draw. Copies you download or receive by email are yours to keep safe and delete. Only collect what you need, and make sure people know your group is collecting their details and why. Our privacy policy has the full detail, including where the information is stored.