3 ways to print cheap or free numbered raffle tickets for your fundraising event



image of raffle tickets on home printer

Here are three ways to print cheap or free numbered raffle tickets for your local fundraising event

















1. Use the online Raffle Ticket Creator service

Cost: about $20
Difficulty: super-easy

I wrote the instructions for options 2 and 3 below, which are free but pretty hard work. If you don't have too much time and / or really don't like fiddling around for hours on your computer, then try my online service which lets you design your ticket online and then download the finished document of numbered tickets ready to print at home.

Click here to try it: Raffle Ticket Creator










2. Use Word (and a bit of Excel)


Cost: free apart from the paper and ink
Difficulty: hard (2hours+)

Creating numbered raffle tickets in Word might might sound simple, but it gets quite tricky to persuade Word to put a different number on every ticket. You need to do a mail merge (which isn't that hard, you might have done that before) and then edit the mail merge code in the document to get Word to put a different number on every ticket (rather than a different number on every page, which is what you usually need in a mail merge).

Allow a good couple of hours of fiddling around to get your numbered raffle tickets this way!

Instructions for:
Word 2016 (Mac or Windows)
Word 2011 (for Mac)
Word 2007 (for Windows)


3. Use Publisher (and a bit of Excel)


Cost: free apart from the paper and ink
Difficulty: hard (2 hours+)

Creating numbered raffle tickets in Publisher is similar to doing it in Word. It is a bit harder, but you get a bit more flexibility about the layout of your tickets. As with Word, you need to run a mail merge to generate the ticket numbers, although you don't need to edit the merge fields like you do with Word. That makes it a bit easier, but on the other hand Publisher can be a little more cumbersome to work with than Word, so it is still not very straightforward.


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