The mental model

Almost everything in RaffleLink comes back to one relationship: your account and the organisation it belongs to. Get this and the rest of the product falls into place.

The three pieces

Your account 👤 Your personal login, tied to your email. It's you — not your club, charity, or business.

An organisation 🏢 The group that actually runs raffles and receives the money raised — your club, charity, school, or cause. Every raffle belongs to an organisation. Raffles don't exist on their own.

Your membership Your account joins an organisation with a role (Admin, Affiliate, or Reader). Your role decides what you can do inside it.

How they fit together

You (account)
   └── belong to one or more organisations
            └── each organisation hosts its raffles

A few things follow from this:

• You can belong to more than one organisation. Run raffles for your surf club and your kids' school from the same login — you'll just switch between them.
• The first person from a group creates the organisation. After that, everyone else joins by invitation rather than creating a second one. (See Joining or creating an organisation.)
• The organisation receives the proceeds, not you personally. Bank details and payouts belong to the org.

What about people who aren't part of the organisation?

You can run a raffle for an organisation even if you're not a member of it — for example, if you're an individual or a business fundraising on a charity's behalf. To do that, the organisation adds you as an affiliate.

An affiliate can create and run raffles for the org without being part of its core team. The organisation stays in control of its own presence and its money.

Next: Where to do what — the two web addresses you'll use.