RafflePress

RafflePress is a giveaway plugin for WordPress awarding bonus entries for follows, shares and signups, published with a pay-once model and no renewals.

Selling a perpetual licence rather than a subscription is the commercially distinctive choice, and it fits the WordPress market specifically.

WordPress site owners are accustomed to buying plugins outright. The ecosystem grew that way, and a site typically runs a dozen plugins bought at various times. Introducing a monthly subscription for one of them is resisted, not because the price is high but because it adds a recurring obligation to something the owner thinks of as a component rather than a service.

The trade for the buyer is real in both directions. A perpetual licence costs less over time and carries no risk of the giveaway stopping when a card expires. It also means updates and support are funded by new sales rather than by your renewal, so long-term maintenance depends on the vendor continuing to attract customers.

Running the giveaway inside your own site rather than on a hosted page is the other consequence of being a plugin. Entrants stay on your domain, the traffic is yours, and any search value accrues to your site rather than to a vendor's subdomain, which matters if the giveaway is promoted widely.

The corresponding limitation is that everything depends on your hosting. A giveaway that goes genuinely viral sends substantial traffic to a site that may be on shared hosting, and the campaign succeeding is precisely when it might fall over.

Pricing is published from $50 with $299 published above it, paid once with no renewals.