NEW: We have developed an even better raffle for you. Visit Smarter Tombola to make your employees happy.
Who doesn’t love to win anything?! At many celebrations, companies hold a tombola to make their employees happy. So on Monday, we received a request from a customer to implement a virtual tombola as part of their Christmas party. And thanks to our agile mindset, we can present a solution two days later! You can find out what our app for SharePoint and Teams in Office365 can do, and how you can also hold a raffle in your company in this post.
Why would you hold a virtual raffle?
At the moment it is rather difficult and less advisable to hold a proper tombola with an assembled team. But we don’t have to give up on this fun! True to the motto #StayAtHomebola by the German music label Grand Hotel van Cleef, we see that the virtual variant is in no way inferior to the real one.
Also, a virtual raffle means much less effort for the operators 😉
Use of the app and the drawing process
The drawing process of the raffle is as follows:
- First, the participant can buy any number of tickets via our app and thus participate in the raffle.
- For each ticket purchased, a number is generated and entered in a SharePoint list. The user only sees his tickets, of course.
- The participant will then receive an e-mail with the numbers of his purchased tickets.
Finally, there are three options regarding the raffle:
- “Old-school” by printing the ticket numbers and manually drawing the winning tickets at the celebrations by a lucky angel (of course, this also works perfectly virtually via Teams).
- Fully automatic via Power Automate. We also use this for determining the winners in our Advent Calendar app. Participants will then be automatically notified by e-mail.
- Or we’re already thinking hard about developing a Microsoft Teams Meeting app that takes over this draw live during a meeting
And of course, it is absolutely no problem to integrate the raffle app into Teams:
If you are interested in our app, just write us a short email or leave us a few lines in our contact form. We will be happy to send you the package, as well as an installation guide, free of charge!
We would also be happy to get new ideas. For example, our customer implements the tombola in a way that the employee buys one or more tickets for an amount X and the company then doubles and donates this amount. We at Smarter Business Solutions will do this in such a way that every employee can purchase tickets for additional “activities”, e.g. a cool blog post like this one is worth five lots. Cleaning the coffee machine is worth one ticket. This means that we create a catalog of activities and the employee can then select tickets via our raffle app and thereby purchase them. If you have any more ideas – write to us!