What you can change after activation

This is the question we hear more than any other: "My raffle's live — can I still change things?" The answer is yes, mostly — but changes fall into three buckets, and it's worth knowing which is which before you start.

The three buckets

✅ Change freely

These you can edit any time, and nothing happens beyond the change itself — no notifications, no locks:

• Your raffle description.
• Images — banner and prize photos.
• Sponsors. Worth knowing: sponsors don't just sit on your raffle page — tiered sponsors also appear in future purchase confirmation emails and ticket PDFs, so a mid-raffle change shows up for new buyers from then on. Emails already sent don't change.
• Most page presentation details.

These are the "tidy up a typo, swap a better photo" changes. Go ahead.

🔔 Change, but it notifies your ticket buyers

Some changes are significant enough that the people who already hold tickets need to know. You can still make them — but saving will send a notification email to your existing ticket buyers. These include:

• Ticket capacity (how many tickets exist).
• Adding more prizes, or changing prize values.
• Your start, end, and draw dates, the early bird draw date, and the draw location.

There's nothing wrong with making these changes — they're a normal part of running a raffle. Just know that hitting save tells your buyers, so it's worth batching them (more on that in Editing a live raffle).

🔒 Can't change at all

A short list, but an important one. Once your raffle is live, these are fixed — not even with a notification:

• The ticket price. The field to get right before you activate. (We flag this hard during raffle creation for exactly this reason.)
• Ticket packs — you can't add, edit, or remove them.
• The starting ticket number.
• The raffle's URL.
• Removing a selling state. Once the raffle is live, the state's chip loses its remove option and shows "Cannot remove: this state was active when the raffle launched". People may have bought under that state's rules. You can still add states, subject to each state's checks.

Why it works this way

It comes down to fairness to the people who've already bought in. Cosmetic changes don't affect their purchase, so they're free. Changes to capacity, prizes, or dates change the thing they bought a chance at, so they get told. And what they paid — and the numbering and address they bought under — can't be changed retroactively, so those lock the moment the raffle goes live.

State rules can add their own limits

On top of the buckets above, the state(s) your raffle runs in can impose their own restrictions once it's live. A few that come up:

• WA — you can't increase ticket capacity on a live raffle.
• VIC — the draw must happen within a set window after sales (currently 14 days), which constrains how far you can push the draw date.
• QLD / NSW — caps on cash prize values (and, in QLD, on alcohol prize values) limit what you can add.
• SA — including SA adds an odds disclosure to your public raffle page.

If you try a change a state's rules don't allow, RaffleLink will stop you and explain why. The full per-state detail lives in Compliance and permits.