Turbo IT

Pick a template SaaS if you just want to test the idea of running raffles, the prize sizes are small, and you don't care that your platform looks like everyone else's. You'll outgrow it within a year if you're serious.

Pick a traditional agency if you've already raised meaningful capital, have a technical co-founder who can maintain the codebase, and want a fully bespoke build that won't be touched again for years.

Pick Turbo IT if you want a real raffle business — your own brand, full instant-win game suite, edge hosting, automated draws — without burning £30k+ upfront or being locked into someone else's roadmap.

Template SaaS (e.g. off-the-shelf raffle tools) ship one fixed product. You pick a theme, plug in your prizes, and go live in days. Fast to launch, but you can't add unusual game modes, you can't truly own the brand, and vendor lock-in means your customer data and code aren't portable.

Traditional agencies build you a bespoke competition site from scratch. £10k–£50k upfront, 6+ months to launch, then it's yours to host and maintain. You get full control, but every feature you want shipped later is another sprint, and the codebase rots without ongoing investment.

Turbo IT licences the same multi-tenant raffle platform we run Lucky Turbo on. £99/mo for the templated Launch tier, or a semi-custom Growth Partner build. Every product improvement we ship for our own raffle business rolls out to clients automatically. You get an agency-quality product without paying for an agency-quality build.