Start a competition business

From brand and email to an operator ready competition site.

Starting should not require a software project. You bring the brand. Beaver creates the operating environment, and checks what is missing before it lets you go live.

The software is the easy part to get right. The model you run is the part to get right first.

The path

Launch in the right order.

  1. Choose the model

    Free draw or prize competition. Legal advice if unsure.

  2. Brand and domain

    Your identity on the storefront.

  3. Set up the operator

    Self service signup and guided setup.

  4. Pass readiness

    Legal pages, controls, first competition.

  5. Launch and draw

    Verifiable draws, tracked fulfilment.

  • The legal distinction

    Get the structure right before you configure anything.

    A free draw needs a genuine free route. A prize competition needs a real skill test. Neither needs a lottery licence if properly structured, and either can become an unlawful lottery if not.

    UK prize draw compliance

  • Platform setup

    No new server per customer.

    Live

    Provisioning creates your storefront, legal pages, mail sender and an isolated runtime from the setup flow. Theming applies your colours, logo, font and corner style.

  • Free route and skill

    Both handled in the product.

    Live

    Postal and online free entry into the same pool, and a server validated skill question where you use one.

    Free entry routes

  • Payments

    Honest status.

    Built

    The full sandbox payment journey works. Production card processing is waiting on real merchant validation, and we will tell you exactly where that stands when you talk to us.

  • Your first draw

    Verifiable from day one.

    Live

    Committed entries, public randomness and a public verifier, so your first winner is as provable as your thousandth.

    How Beaver draws work

  • Fulfilment and controls

    The operation after launch.

    Live

    Track what is owed, age checks, dispatch and delivery evidence. Spend limits, breaks, exclusion and suppression run from the first sale.

Readiness gate

Finding out after launch is a rubbish onboarding strategy.

Beaver will not let a site go live while required setup is still missing. That is a feature, not an obstacle.

Launch demo

Show us the business you want to start.

We will show you the setup flow on the real product, and be straight about what is live today.