myLottery Support  /  Timely updates - January

myLottery Timely Tasks

January Annually

Before you run your first lottery

01

Review sales funnel messages timing

Why important?

Ensure marketing language is optimal and messages are accurate

Sales funnels are the perfect place to showcase your school! Promote videos and interviews, tours, information events—get families excited about your school.

Don't forget about your text messages—parents are more likely to read text over email.

Sales Funnel Guide
Set up auto-decline *optional
'Days to enroll' timeline

02

Complete a test application

Why important?

Ensure smooth workflow

We recommend running a test application before your first lottery date to ensure everything is working as expected.

Run a test

03

Review lottery dashboard

Why important?

Ensure spots not being held up by stale applications

Before running a lottery, review the Dashboard to 'zero out' the following categories (2 and 3 will hold up available spots):

Application Holds
Offer Pending v Offer Accepted
Review before next lottery
SIS records not found in lottery

04

Action Required

Enter school capacity #s

Why important?

Optimize the spots you offer during high enrollment season

Update school capacity numbers! Go to myLottery / Lottery tab / select the school year / add numbers under School Capacity. This should be the full capacity by grade level, not the number of openings. 

Schools don’t need to “count” spots every time a lottery is run; myLottery calculates this under Remaining Seats Available.

How to run a lottery


January

Before you run a lottery:

IMPORTANT - Before you run your first lottery, we suggest reviewing the following categories (items 2-4 will hold up available spots):

  1. Application Holds
  2. Offered-Pending
  3. Offered-Accepted
  4. Review Before Next Lottery Run

MyLottery Dashboard User Guides

Offered-Pending / Offered-Accepted from SY25 will hold up spots in your lottery for SY26. For example, if you have 12 students in SY25 who have pending offers, then you run a lottery for SY26, if the 12 students for SY25 end up enrolling the next day, there's potentially 12 fewer spots available. If you're under-enrolled and have spots regardless, then you'd be fine either way.  They'll eventually catch up with each other over the course of a couple of weeks.

After you run a lottery: