I’m so happy this helped Novak! I hope your giveaway is a great success.

Thank you for the clarification! That explains things perfectly!

There is no automatic way to verify that a user actually joined a Facebook group BUT we can point them to the link and hope for the best.

With that knowledge, I can simply manually verify that the winner of the raffle is actually in the Facebook group before awarding the raffle prize.

I appreciate you taking the time to clear this matter up. Much appreciated!

-Novak

Hi Novak,

Thanks for your comment.

In this example, WPForms used the “Visit on Facebook” RafflePress action and changed the action label, to “Join WPForms VIP Circle Facebook Group”.This screenshot shows where you can change the label: https://a.supportally.com/ShLjrT

To direct users to their Facebook Group instead of a page, they added their group URL to the Facebook Page URL box here: https://a.supportally.com/DyDwjj

As a result, anyone clicking the action is taken to their Facebook Group page.

Currently, there isn’t a way to verify that people joined the group, other than checking your group member requests on Facebook. In WPForm’s case, the majority of people who visited their group took the decision to join.

I hope this helped to answer your questions. If there’s anything else I can help you with, please ask!

Best regards,

Stacey

I’ve spoken at length with RafflePress tech support and aside from offering a clunky workaround, it would appear this article is no longer valid in 2021?

I would LOVE to be wrong about this but after about a dozen support emails with RafflePress, I’m still no closer to a solution.

How EXACTLY does one create an “action” to get someone to join a Facebook group and (more important) how do we verify that person actually joined the group? What’s to prevent someone from clicking the button and receiving a “ticket” but not actually doing the action?