WooCommerce Lottery GPL v2.2.6 Latest Version

WooCommerce Lottery GPL Plugin Overview

The WooCommerce Lottery plugin adds lottery, competition, and lucky draw features to your WooCommerce store, providing an easy and powerful way to run online lotteries and competitions. This plugin allows website owners to create a lottery-based website in less than 30 minutes, integrating seamlessly with WooCommerce. It’s perfect for eCommerce sites looking to engage customers with fun, rewarding competitions.

Key Features of WooCommerce Lottery Plugin

1. Seamless Integration with WooCommerce

• New Product Type: Adds a new product type, “Lottery,” to your WooCommerce store.
• Integration with WooCommerce Hooks: Integrates smoothly into your WooCommerce store via hooks, ensuring compatibility with the latest WooCommerce versions.
• Elementor Support: From version 2.0, the plugin supports Elementor for easy page customization.
• Works with PHP8: Fully compatible with PHP8, ensuring performance and security.

2. Flexible Lottery Management

• Number of Winners: You can define whether there is one winner or multiple winners for each lottery.
• Ticket Price: The ticket price can be set to zero, and the plugin supports Woo Wallet and Credit payment gateways.
• Refund Options: If the lottery fails, you can refund tickets with a single click.
• Instant Lottery Finish: The lottery can be instantly finished once the maximum number of tickets is sold.
• Ticket Rollover: If a lottery fails, tickets can be rolled over to the next lottery.
• Manually Relist and Extend: You can relist a failed lottery and extend the end date, keeping the previously sold tickets.
• Ticket Limits: Set the minimum and maximum number of tickets available for a lottery, as well as the maximum number of tickets per user.
• Lottery Time Settings: You can define the start and end time for each lottery.

3. Lottery Display Options

• Custom Display: Choose whether to display lotteries alongside other products or on a separate page.
• Widgets: Widgets to display upcoming, ending soon, featured, and random lotteries, as well as user-specific widgets like “My Lotteries.”
• Lottery Icons: Each lottery product has a special icon on the thumbnail indicating its status (active, finished, paid, failed).
• Lottery History Tab: Each lottery product page includes a “Lottery History” tab for users to view previous winners and results.
• User Dashboard: Users have a “My Lotteries” page, where they can see active and past lotteries they’ve participated in (accessible via the shortcode [my_lotteries]).

4. Lottery Management for Admins

• Lottery Filtering: Admins can filter lottery products in the product list from the WordPress dashboard.
• Order Management: Admins can manually delete tickets by deleting the corresponding WooCommerce order.
• Email Notifications: Customizable email templates for notifications about lottery wins, failures, extensions, and more.
• Cron Jobs: The plugin requires cron jobs to function properly. If your host does not support 1-minute cron jobs, you can use a third-party cron service like EasyCron.

5. User-Generated Lotteries

• User-Submitted Lotteries: Users can create and submit their own lotteries, competitions, or lucky draws. As the site owner, you can charge a fee for these submissions via multivendor plugins like Product Vendors or Dokan.

6. Compatibility and Localization

• WPML Support: The plugin is compatible with WPML, allowing for multilingual websites.
• Translation Files: The plugin includes translation files for easy localization into different languages.

7. Shortcodes and Flexibility

• Shortcodes: The plugin includes multiple shortcodes to display lotteries and user-specific data, such as [my_lotteries] for showing the user’s active and past lotteries.
• Lottery from Any Product: You can create a lottery for any type of WooCommerce product, including simple, virtual, or downloadable products.

How It Works:

1. Setting Up a Lottery: You can create a lottery from any WooCommerce product, and configure the number of tickets, winners, and ticket price. You can also set the start and end time for the lottery.
2. User Participation: Customers can purchase tickets for a chance to win. They can view the lottery’s status and history on the product page.
3. Lottery Draw: Once the lottery ends, the plugin automatically selects winners based on your settings (e.g., one or multiple winners).
4. Winner Notification: Users are notified of their win via email, and you can customize the notification template.
5. Admin Control: Admins have full control over the lottery process, including the ability to extend deadlines, relist lotteries, and manually delete tickets if needed.

Benefits of Using WooCommerce Lottery Plugin

• Engage Customers: Running lotteries and competitions is a great way to engage your customers and keep them coming back for more.
• Increase Sales: Lotteries can drive additional purchases as customers buy more tickets to increase their chances of winning.
• Customizable and Flexible: The plugin offers a variety of customization options, including ticket limits, lottery duration, and email notifications.
• User-Generated Lotteries: Allowing users to create their own lotteries opens up new opportunities for revenue generation.
• Easy to Set Up: You can set up and launch a lottery in under 30 minutes, making it easy for store owners to get started.

Demo Access:

You can check out a live demo of the WooCommerce Lottery plugin on their demo page (ensure you are using the latest versions of WordPress and WooCommerce).

The WooCommerce Lottery plugin is ideal for store owners looking to introduce an exciting and rewarding feature to their WooCommerce store, whether for special promotions, product giveaways, or customer engagement campaigns.