PayPal Is Live — and One in Ten Supporters Already Uses It
For as long as we have run a feedback inbox, one request has come back more often than any other: “Can my supporters pay with PayPal?”
As of June, they can. Every RaffleLink raffle checkout now offers PayPal alongside card, Apple Pay and Google Pay. There is nothing for you to switch on and nothing to configure — if your raffle is live, the PayPal button is already on it.
Two months in, the numbers
Since launch, PayPal has settled into a consistent share of ticket sales across the platform:
- One in ten online ticket orders now comes through PayPal
- Over $41,000 in tickets across 141 raffles in the first two months
- The share has held steady month over month — this is a habit, not a novelty spike
Put simply: for a typical raffle, roughly a tenth of your supporters would rather pay this way. Before June, some of them may simply have been abandoning the checkout instead.
Who’s choosing PayPal?
Organisers have told us for years that their older supporters trust PayPal — it has been handling online payments since before smartphones existed, and for many people it remains the only company they’ll give their card details to.
Our data backs them up. We don’t collect buyers’ ages, but email addresses offer a decent proxy — and supporters on legacy internet-provider addresses (bigpond, optusnet, iinet and their era) choose PayPal around 60% more often than gmail users. If part of your supporter base has been hesitating at the card form, this is the option they’ve been waiting for.
Why you rarely see PayPal on fundraising platforms
PayPal is not available through the card-payment infrastructure most Australian fundraising platforms are built on, so adding it is not a checkbox — it means building and maintaining a second, direct integration with PayPal itself. That is what we did: PayPal payments on RaffleLink run through our own native integration, purpose-built for raffle ticketing.
From your side, none of that machinery is visible. PayPal sales appear in your dashboard next to card sales, count toward your totals the same way, and are included in your payout exactly like every other ticket.
What to do with this
Nothing — that’s rather the point. But if you’ve had supporters say “I’ll buy some when I’m at the club, I don’t like putting my card in online”, it’s worth mentioning in your next promotion that PayPal is an option. For a slice of your supporter base, that one line removes the last reason not to buy tonight.
PayPal is available on every RaffleLink raffle, alongside card, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Learn more about running your raffle on RaffleLink.
