Does the lucky draw feature work without RSVPs?

No. The draw pool is built from confirmed RSVP guests, so RSVP must be enabled for your event. Enable RSVP in your event settings, collect and confirm guest responses, then add prizes in the Draw tab of your event dashboard.

Can a guest win more than one prize at the same event?

By default, each confirmed guest can only win once per event session. The system automatically excludes previous winners from subsequent draws. You can toggle 'Allow repeat winners' in the draw modal if your event structure permits multiple wins per guest.

What do guests see during a lucky draw?

When a draw is triggered from the host dashboard, guests see an animated spinning wheel in the Draw tab of their guest portal. After about three seconds, the wheel stops and reveals the winner's name and prize. Guests who are not in the Draw tab at that moment will see the result when they navigate to it.

Do guests need a separate app to see the lucky draw animation?

No. The Draw tab is part of the same mobile web guest portal guests already use to upload and view photos. It opens in the phone's browser — no app download or account creation required.

How does the host run the draw — is it on a separate device or the same dashboard?

The host runs the draw from their own device using the event dashboard (phone or laptop). Guests see the result simultaneously on their own phones. No AV projection or venue screen is required, though some hosts display the guest portal on a venue LED screen for additional impact.

Lucky draw wheel for events in Malaysia — run a live guest prize draw

What is a digital lucky draw wheel?

A digital lucky draw is an in-app prize-selection tool built into your event management platform. Instead of printing paper ticket stubs or buying a tombola drum, the host opens the event dashboard, selects a prize from their prize catalogue, and the system randomly picks one winner from the pool of confirmed RSVP guests. Guests at the event see an animated spinning wheel on their phone in the guest portal, followed by a winner reveal in real time.

This replaces three common pain points at Malaysian and Singaporean annual dinners and wedding receptions: buying and managing a physical draw drum, manually handling paper ticket stubs, and announcing winners without any shared visual moment for the room.

Why organisers switch from paper lucky draws

Paper lucky draws — card stubs, tombola drums, numbered tickets — have served annual dinners and corporate events in Malaysia for decades. Their limitations surface at scale:

A 500-person event means 500 ticket stubs to print, cut, fold, and collect before the event begins
Lost stubs lead to disputes about valid entries
Multiple-prize draws feel slow if the emcee has to draw each one manually from a drum
Photo evidence of the draw is difficult to capture and often blurry

A digital draw eliminates all of these. Your confirmed guest list is automatically the entry pool, the randomisation happens server-side for verifiable fairness, and the animated wheel on every guest's phone creates a shared visual moment without printing costs.

How it works — step by step

Host adds prizes to the prize catalogue in the event dashboard. Each prize has a name, optional description, and quantity.
Host runs the draw by clicking "Draw" next to a prize. The system randomly selects one confirmed RSVP guest.
Host previews the candidate — the guest's name appears, with the option to re-roll if needed (useful if the selected winner has already left the venue).
Host confirms the winner — the result is committed to the system and broadcast instantly.
Guests see the animated spinning wheel on their phone for about three seconds, then the winner's name and prize are revealed.

No extra hardware, no app download, no projector input required — each guest's own phone becomes the display device.

Who is eligible to win

Only guests who have submitted an RSVP and been confirmed by the host are eligible. Pending and declined RSVPs are excluded automatically. If RSVP is not enabled for the event, the lucky draw feature is not available — RSVP confirmation is the eligibility mechanism, which prevents anonymous entries.

Setting up prizes before your event

Open your event dashboard and navigate to the Draw tab. Click "Add Prize" and enter:

Prize name — "Premium Hamper", "Dinner for Two", or "RM 200 Touch & Go e-wallet credit"
Description (optional) — a short line shown to guests when they win
Quantity — for identical prizes where multiple winners will be drawn

Prizes can be reordered using the up/down arrows. Draw order in the catalogue is cosmetic; the randomisation is independent of display order.

Repeat winners

By default, the draw excludes guests who have already won any prize in the same event session. Toggle "Allow repeat winners" in the draw modal if your event structure allows one guest to win multiple prizes.

What guests see

Guests in the Draw tab of the guest portal see a spinning wheel graphic that rotates until the winner is revealed. Before any draw has happened, they see "Waiting for host to start the draw." After each draw, the latest winner appears at the top of a running list of past winners, visible to all attending guests.

Annual dinners and the lucky draw moment

At a Malaysian annual dinner (majlis makan malam tahunan), the lucky draw segment is often the most anticipated part of the evening. A digital draw integrates naturally: the emcee announces the prize, the host taps their phone, and every guest's phone simultaneously shows the wheel spinning. The room dynamic — everyone watching their own screen waiting for the same reveal — amplifies engagement more effectively than a single venue projector feed.

Next step

If your event has confirmed RSVPs, add at least one prize to the Draw tab and run a test draw on a second device before the event begins. Confirm that the animated reveal appears correctly in the guest portal so you can brief your emcee on what guests will see.

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