Why nonprofits choose Sunday Squares
🏈 Built for season-long
One grid, a whole NFL slate. Sell 100 tickets once; every game plays the same numbers.
🚫 Never a cut of ticket sales
No rake, no percentage. A flat $500/year covers the software — fair draw, live scoring, alerts, printed tickets, compliance — and every ticket dollar stays with your raffle.
📗 Booklets your print shop can handle
Numbered ticket booklets as a ready-to-print PDF — a QR code on every ticket, twelve color schemes so two groups selling at one event can tell their piles apart, and a sheet count before you buy paper.
🙋 Every volunteer accounted for
Hand booklets out on consignment and see who's holding what, what's sold, and what each volunteer still owes the council — without chasing anyone for a number.
🎲 A fair draw anyone can check
Numbers are sealed before lock and drawn at random, so anyone can check the draw wasn't rigged.
📡 Automatic scoring & prizes
Live scores sync, winning tickets compute, patrons get an alert the moment they win — and winners pick a digital gift card from a menu you curate, delivered automatically.
📣 Everyone stays in the loop
Announce to your ticket holders, answer questions in a thread, and let a weekly recap go out on its own. Nobody has to ask you who won.
📋 Compliance built in
A registration tracker plus an auto-filled annual-report worksheet (e.g. California CT-NRP-1 / CT-NRP-2) on your Payments tab.
The part that usually lives on a spreadsheet
Twenty volunteers, a hundred booklets, and cash coming back in dribs and drabs — that's the hard part of a paper raffle, not the football. Sunday Squares runs the drive with you.
📕 Hand them out
Assign booklet ranges to each volunteer on consignment — no money up front. Held, sold, and returned are tracked per person, so you always know where the paper is.
✉️ They never log in
Volunteers get email as they go: what they're holding, how the drive is doing, a nudge to turn in what they've collected, and a note when a ticket they sold wins. No account, no app, no training.
🧾 Settle without chasing
What a volunteer owes is simply what they sold, minus what they've handed over — cash they collected for the council, never a commission. Mark it settled and the books tie out.
Volunteers are never paid to sell — the money they collect belongs to the cause from the moment it changes hands. That's a raffle-law requirement in most states, and it's how the whole tool is written.
How the money works
You sell paper raffle tickets in person and collect however you like at the sale — cash, check, Venmo, or a card reader. Sunday Squares just records who paid; the money never runs through the platform, so you stay the one in control of your funds.
🎫 Sell in person
Raffle law (e.g. California §320.5) requires paper tickets sold in person — so that's the model. Record each sale as you go.
💵 Collect any way
Take cash, check, Venmo, or a card reader at the point of sale. It's your ticket, your collection, your account.
📊 Reconciles cleanly
Every sale is tracked, so your treasurer report and annual charitable-raffle worksheet tie out to the penny.
🎟️
A registered charitable raffle — the model many have used for decades
Councils, parishes, booster clubs, and PTAs run their football squares as a charitable raffle: each ticket is a raffle ticket, and the football score draws the winning tickets. Sunday Squares speaks in raffle terms end-to-end and keeps you organized:
🎫 Tickets, not squares
Sell paper raffle tickets in person — the whole raffle reads in tickets, on screen and in print.
💛 For your cause
Ticket sales go to your beneficial or charitable purpose — prizes are donated or group-funded, not from ticket sales.
📋 Compliance built in
A registration tracker plus an auto-filled annual-report worksheet (e.g. California CT-NRP-1 / CT-NRP-2) on your Payments tab.
Raffle rules vary by state — many (like California) require in-person ticket sales and registration with the state before you begin. Confirm what applies to your organization; Sunday Squares helps you track it, not skip it. Not legal advice.
And the rest of the job
- Roster & payment tracking
- Who bought what, who's paid, and a CSV for your finance officer.
- Jobs for your team
- Treasurer, prize chair, scorekeeper — give people the access their job needs, and no more.
- Patrons help themselves
- A QR on every ticket. Patrons scan it to follow their numbers, see their tickets, and download their own receipt.
- Sponsor paperwork
- Your group's own W-9, state withholding form, and a numbered invoice and receipt — generated for you, in your name.
- A page to hand out
- A public page for your group, a printable flyer, and a sponsor kit for pitching local businesses.
- Next season in a click
- Clone this year's raffle — same pricing, prizes and grid — and re-invite last season's patrons.
Not sure what your state requires? We wrote up the rules for all 50 →
Simple pricing
Most groups · sponsored
Free for your group
Local businesses sponsor your prizes — you decide the budget, they give it directly to your group. Tiers start at $500 and stack, so a $2,000 prize pot can be 4 small sponsors or one $2,000 presenting sponsor. In return they get top billing on your raffle page and their logo in every patron email, all season. The flyer to pitch them is built in.
Self-funded
$500/year flat
Fund your own prizes and pay one annual software fee — the fair draw, live scoring, winner alerts, printed tickets, the treasurer report, and compliance tracking, all in. Roughly $5 a ticket on a single 100-ticket raffle.
Either way: never a percentage of ticket sales — every ticket dollar stays with your raffle.
Lining up a local business? Share our sponsor page →
Ready to run your raffle?
Create it in two minutes — instant, no application, no waiting.
Start your raffle →Need to pitch your council or board first? Download the 2-page brief (PDF) →
Rather talk it through first?
Tell us about your group and we'll walk you through setup — what to print, when to sell, and how the draw works. No pitch, and no obligation to run one.
Talk to us first →Pick your state on that page and it'll tell you what your state requires before you send anything. Or just email hello@sundaysquares.org.