trying to sell a raffle..

[silverscout]

I am trying to sell raffles on a site and would like to know if zencart can do this?

Thank you

SS

[Ajeh]

You would need a database that assigns to the product a given ID so that each receives a separate ticket ...

This is not built into Zen Cart, but could be written to manage this ...

It would have to be written rather carefully to assure that duplicates do not occure based on Payment methods that might be delayed etc when assigning the ticket number ...

How the ticket numbers are assigned is really the most important feature to assure this safety ...

[silverscout]

This is my concern also, I was thinking of digital downloads for the transaction.

and I was thinking of is making the order # the ticket raffle #.

Can the Order # be customizable and changed to give a sequence? Because the Order # should not be the same no matter how many transactions.

[gjh42]

You're right, the order number should always be unique, so as long as a customer will only ever be ordering one ticket at a time it should work fine. You can specify when creating a "product" the maximum quantity allowed to be purchased in a transaction.

You don't *need* to use downloads - a completed sale will generate an e-mail to the customer, which can serve as their "ticket stub" as well as anything could.

You can start the order number sequence wherever you like, say at 1000001 or 12345 to get consistently sized ticket numbers. Then it should be a matter of modifying text and messages which is straightforward, and working out how to pick winners - that is up to you.

[PaulineNMU]

Does anyone know if this is something that could be done more easily with newer versions on Zencart? I'd like to set up online raffles for a charity, but they would want people to be able to purchase multiple tickets.. so order numbers wouldn't work.

[DanH]

Am curious on anyone that has done this so far. We are thinking of the same...interested if anyone wrote a module or has some good lessons learned to share. Thanks.