How it works
A fundraiser where the sponsors pay for the product.
Your custom Townopoly board is built around the businesses and landmarks of your town. Selling those spaces to local businesses covers the entire print run, so every game you sell afterward is pure profit.
How the fundraising works
The game spaces and several game elements on your board are designed to be sold to local businesses. Banks, HVAC companies, real estate offices, electricians, plumbers, restaurants: each one buys a permanent spot on a game that sits in hundreds of local homes for years.
At our recommended ad rates, those sales generate enough revenue up front to cover the complete cost of your games. Once that is covered, every game you sell is 100% profit for your organization.
Businesses get a fun, unusual way to advertise locally at roughly 50 cents per household. Your group gets a product people line up to buy. Organizers regularly tell us they sold out within days.
Step by step
From first meeting to sold out.
Decide on a quantity and a batch date
Talk it over with your group: what ad price are you comfortable asking local businesses for? On a 500-game order the average space is $245; on 750 games it is $350. That answer sets your quantity. Then pick a batch date from our print schedule. Neither is locked in. It just keeps us both organized.
Sell the advertising spaces
A small, organized team of one to four people works best. In-person visits, email, and phone calls all work. Collect each advertiser's logo, phone number, address, and website as you go. With a small, organized team, selling every space should take no more than a month.
Send us the ads, we design the game
Upload the logos and photos to the Dropbox folder we share with you. Our designers organize everything into a polished board and box design at no extra cost, or you can design your own. Have ideas for the game name or box art? Tell us and we will make them happen.
Approve the proofs, we print and ship
You review digital proofs of the board, box, cards, and money. Once approved, we print, assemble, and shrink-wrap every game in the USA and ship the pallets to your door, or you pick them up locally.
Sell the games at 100% profit
Sell at festivals, school events, storefronts of your advertisers, and online to former residents. At $25 a game, a 500-game order returns $12,500 to your organization.
About twelve weeks from batch date to delivery
We print roughly six batches a year. Your ads are due on the batch date, the 50% deposit is invoiced about two weeks before that, and delivery follows about twelve weeks later. Upcoming dates are on the pricing page.
Who does what
Your group: chooses the quantity and date, sells the ad spaces, collects payment from advertisers, sends us the artwork, approves the proofs, and sells the finished games.
Opoly Games: provides the starter packet and sales materials, designs the board and box, prints and assembles every component, shrink-wraps each game, and ships the order. We answer the phone the whole way through.
Read our getting-started guide for the planning questions to settle before you sell your first ad.
Ready to turn your town into a game?
Get the starter packet, pricing sheet, and print dates. No obligation.