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// prize competitions

You bring the prizes. We build the whole business around them.

Not a theme with a ticket plugin. A sales site, checkout, customer accounts, live draws, affiliates, a proper back office and the compliance tools, all in one system you own.

IdeaTo a whole business, for TNF
1System: sales, backend and compliance
2FACustomer logins
~£4kA year in subscriptions avoided at TNF
// the hard part

Selling tickets is easy. Running it properly isn't.

// the bolt-on route

Plugins held together with hope.

A shop plugin for tickets, something else for draws, a spreadsheet for postal entries, and no clear way to handle spend limits, self-exclusion or deleting someone's data properly.

// with looply

One platform, built for it.

Listings, checkout, draws, winners, accounts, affiliates and the admin side, with the tools for free postal entry, skill questions, spend limits and GDPR built in from day one.

// what we'd build

The whole thing. Front to back.

This is what we built for TNF Competitions. Yours would be built around your brand and your prizes.

01Sales platform

  • Competition listings and pages
  • Basket and Stripe checkout
  • Draws, results and a winners page
  • How it works, help and contact pages

02Customer accounts

  • Sign-up with email verification and two-factor login
  • My tickets, my wins, wallet and credits
  • Membership, refer-a-friend and web push notifications

03Growth

  • Membership plans, free tickets and referrals
  • An affiliate portal with tracked links, commissions and payouts
  • Email campaigns, automations and unsubscribe handling

04Admin backend

  • Competitions with images and instant-win prizes
  • Skill questions and a live draw screen
  • Winners, orders, customers, memberships and affiliates
  • Messages, editable site pages and an audit log

05Compliance tools

  • A free postal entry route: entries logged, ticketed and drawn, with postal winners kept anonymous
  • Skill questions on entries, wrong answers marked not eligible
  • Editable legal pages
  • Spend limits and self-exclusion
  • GDPR account deletion that keeps what must be kept

06Security & speed

  • Rate limiting and Stripe payment checks
  • Encrypted winner delivery and payout details
  • Images resized and converted to WebP automatically

We build the tools for compliance. You stay responsible for your own legal position, so take advice on how your competitions are run.

// the proof

TNF Competitions. From an idea to a business.

TNF had the idea for a prize competitions business. We built everything else: the sales platform, the backend and the legal management, in one system. The subscription savings are small, about £4k a year. The real value is that it earns them revenue. It's the business itself.

// how it works

From idea to launch.

  1. Walk-through with Josh

    Your idea, your prizes and how you want it to run.

  2. Jenny plans it

    What you need, what's missing, and what already exists so you don't pay to reinvent it.

  3. We build it

    Sales site, backend and compliance tools in one system.

  4. Test & hand over

    Jenny tests everything and keeps you posted. Once it's paid for, you own it.

// questions

Competition platform questions, answered.

Can you build a prize competition website from scratch?

Yes. For TNF Competitions we built the whole business: the sales site, Stripe checkout, customer accounts, draws, affiliates, the admin backend and the compliance tools.

Does it support a free postal entry route?

Yes. Admins log postal entries, they get tickets and go into the draw, wrong answers are marked not eligible, and postal winners stay anonymous on the results page.

Can it do instant wins and live draws?

Yes. TNF's admin side includes competitions with instant-win prizes and a live draw screen.

Does it include responsible play tools?

Yes. We built spend limits and self-exclusion, alongside skill questions and editable legal pages. You stay responsible for your own legal position.

How do payments work?

Through Stripe checkout, with payment checks and rate limiting. Winner delivery and payout details are encrypted.

How much does a competition platform cost?

Business-in-a-box builds are quoted per build, because every idea is different. Tell us yours and we'll quote it.

// your turn

Got a competitions idea? Let's build it.

What kind of business are you?

Tap one. Four quick questions, under a minute.

What's giving you headaches?

Pick as many as you like. Be honest, we've heard worse.

Roughly what do you spend on software a month?

A rough guess is fine. It helps us see what we could cut.

Where shall we send the fix?

We'll get back to you. No spam, no sales script.

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// sent to hello@looply.uk

Sorted.
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