SkyServers Order Raffle

Description

SkyServers Order Raffle lets a WooCommerce shop run a prize raffle among the customers who ordered during a given period. Every eligible order is one entry. When registrations close, the list is frozen, the prizes are drawn on a clean full-screen page that you can film live, and the winners are published on any page with a shortcode.

How it works

1. Create a raffle: set the period, the minimum order total, the eligible order statuses and the prizes, one per place, each with a name and an image from the media library.
2. Use “Refresh participants” at any time to preview the eligible orders and the number of unique customers.
3. When the period is over, use “Close registrations”. The list is frozen in the plugin’s own table, the settings are locked and the draw page is unlocked. If the period has not ended yet, you get a warning first.
4. Open the draw page and draw the prizes. Publish the results with the shortcode.
5. Email the winners from the raffle screen.

What it does

• One eligible WooCommerce order placed in the period is one entry. The participant is the billing email, guests included.
• Refunded, cancelled and failed orders are always excluded. You choose which other statuses count, and set a minimum order total (0 means any).
• One customer can win only one prize: after a win, all of that customer’s entries leave the urn.
• Close registrations to freeze the list. You can reopen registrations until the first prize is drawn.
• Draw page for administrators only (capability manage_woocommerce): prizes are drawn from the last place up to the first. The winner is chosen on the server with random_int() and saved before the animation starts, so a refresh resumes exactly where it stopped. The page is sent uncached.
• Public results with the [skyor_results id="X"] shortcode: a podium card per prize with the winner’s masked name (for example “Jane D.”) and the order number, an “in progress” text before the draw, partial results while the draw runs, the rules link and the draw date.
• Winner emails are sent manually, per winner or with “Notify all” for the winners not yet notified. Preview an email in a new tab, or use “Send a test email to me”. Emails and public texts use the site language.
• Claim instructions for the winner email are written once per raffle.
• CSV export of the frozen participant list and of the winners (UTF-8 with BOM, cells protected against spreadsheet formulas).
• Activity log per raffle: close, reopen, each draw, each notification, each export and duplication, with the user and the time.
• Duplicate a raffle from the list as a clean draft.
• Settings for all raffles on the raffle screen: excluded emails (for example a staff member who places phone orders) and a LiteSpeed Cache purge toggle.
• A Romanian translation is provided and is delivered as a language pack through translate.wordpress.org once the plugin is published; other languages can be added there.

Works with

• HPOS (high-performance order storage): orders are read through wc_get_orders().
• LiteSpeed Cache: the toggle is shown only when the plugin is active. The cache is purged when a draw completes or when registrations are reopened.
• Any theme: the results are a shortcode you can place on any page.

Privacy

The frozen list stores the billing name, email, order number and order total of each participant, for that raffle only. The public page shows only masked names and order numbers. The plugin makes no external requests and has no tracking.