The WooCommerce Lottery plugin is an extension for WooCommerce that allows you to run lotteries, competitions, and lucky draws on your WordPress website. It offers various features and customization options, making it easy for website owners to set up and manage lotteries. Here’s an overview of its features:
- Seamless Integration: The plugin integrates seamlessly with WooCommerce, adding a new product type called “lottery.”
- Number of Winners: You can define the number of lottery winners, which can be one or more.
- Guest Checkout: Users can log in at a later stage of the checkout process, which is particularly useful for guest checkout.
- Zero Ticket Price: The lottery ticket price can be set to zero, and it works with payment gateways like TeraWallet and Credit.
- Multiple Prizes: Winners can receive single or multiple prizes.
- Refund Option: There’s an option to refund tickets with a single click if the lottery fails.
- Finish Lottery: You can instantly finish a lottery if the maximum number of tickets is sold.
- Ticket Rollover: Option for extending the lottery end date with all previously sold tickets (ticket rollover for failed lotteries).
- Relist Lotteries: Manually relist lotteries with the option to delete previous lottery data after relisting.
- Extend Lottery End Date: Manually extend the lottery end date for failed lotteries while keeping lottery participants.
- Ticket Limits: Define the minimum and maximum number of tickets available. You can also set the maximum number of tickets per user and specify the number of winners.
- Start and End Time: Set a start and end time for each lottery.
- Entry Lists: Easily control how you want to display lotteries, either along with other items or on a separate page.
- Widgets: Various widgets for showing ending soon, future, latest, recently viewed, and random lotteries.
- Email Notifications: Customize email notifications for lottery wins, failures, finishes, no luck, and lottery extensions for customers.
- Lottery Icon: Lottery products are marked with an icon (label) on the thumbnail.
- Product Single Page Tab: The product single page includes a new tab called “Lottery History.”
- User Page: Users have a “My Lotteries” page where they can see active and won lotteries.
- Lottery Filtering: You can filter lotteries in the product list in the WordPress admin area.
- Shortcodes: Various shortcodes are available, including a shortcode to show a user’s lotteries when logged in.
- WPML Compatible: The plugin is compatible with WPML for translation.
- User-Submitted Lotteries: Enable users to create and submit their lotteries, and you can charge a fee using a multivendor plugin like Product Vendors or Dokan.
- Cronjobs: Cronjobs are required for scheduled tasks. If your host doesn’t support one-minute cronjobs, you can use a third-party cron service.
- Pick Ticket Numbers: You can manually pick ticket numbers, group them in tabs, randomly assign numbers, and modify question/answers for an additional fee.
- WooCommerce API: The plugin works with the WooCommerce API.
This plugin offers a comprehensive solution for running lotteries and competitions on your WordPress website and can be a valuable addition for online stores looking to boost engagement and sales through such promotions.