About this plugin
WPHostee Competitions turns any WooCommerce store into a prize competition platform. Customers buy tickets like a normal product; you run a fair, provably random draw whenever a competition closes.
Built with three things in mind: no overselling, no unfair draws, and a full audit trail of everything that happens.
Core features (free)
- A dedicated Competition product type – sells and checks out exactly like any other WooCommerce product
- Race-condition-safe ticket allocation – two customers can never be issued the same ticket number, even buying the last few tickets at the exact same moment
- Sequential ticket numbering, formatted with configurable leading zeros
- A cryptographically random draw (never a predictable rand() ), with the exact eligible-entry list hashed and logged for later verification
- Built-in support for the skill-question requirement UK prize competitions need to stay legally distinct from a lottery
- Full admin toolkit: Dashboard, All Competitions, Entries, Ticket Reservations, Draws, and Winners (claim status, tracking number, notes, and a fully-audited Void & Redraw)
- Customer-facing “My Competitions” tab in My Account, plus countdown, progress-bar, and competition-facts shortcodes
- Run as many competitions at once as you like, all sequential-numbered – the free tier is genuinely usable on its own, not a crippled trial
- Compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)
WPHostee Competitions Pro
A separate, paid companion plugin unlocks: Random (Lucky Dip) ticket assignment and manual ticket selection, a Free Postal Entry route (including registering the postcards you receive straight into the competition and its draw), Ticket Bundles (discounted ticket packs such as 10 tickets for 10% off, shown as clickable cards on the competition page), per-customer/order/day entry limits, automatic extension of a competition that reaches its closing date short of its minimum tickets, Reports with CSV export, a full Audit Log viewer, a REST API, Elementor widgets, and a winner publicity/consent workflow with automatic emails.
Free works completely on its own without it – Pro is entirely optional.