How creating a raffle works

Before the step-by-step, it's worth understanding two things: your raffle is a draft while you build it, and editing works differently once it's live.

Here's the whole thing end to end — from a blank raffle to activation:

Your raffle is a draft until you activate

The moment you start, your raffle is saved as a draft. You can leave and come back, edit any step, and rearrange things freely — none of it is visible to anyone until you choose to activate. There's no "lose your work" risk here (unlike creating your organisation, which is a single sitting).

The steps

You'll move through these, and you can jump back to any of them before activating:

1. Basics — name, URL, banner, description
2. Operating details — dates, draw time, location, states, and the early bird draw
3. Prizes — what people can win
4. Tickets — price, quantity, packs, your sales method (including the Ticket Booth toggle), and your draw method
5. Optional extras — sponsors, checkout questions, and the Other Raffle Settings switches: public listing, fee assistance, a phone number, an 18+ confirmation, the Community Board, and whether winners choose their prize
6. Compliance — a per-state check of what your raffle needs to run legally

Create mode vs edit mode

This is the part worth holding onto:

• While your raffle is a draft, you're in create mode — everything is editable.
• Once you activate, you move into edit (management) mode, reached from your raffle's dashboard. Here, editing is more careful: some fields you can still change freely, some require notifying the people who already hold tickets, and a few are locked entirely.

Ready? Start with Basics.