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.
• 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.
• Other material changes to what people bought into.

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:

• The ticket price. Once your raffle is live, the price is fixed — not even with a notification. This is the single field to get right before you activate. (We flag this hard during raffle creation for exactly this reason.)

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 or prizes change the thing they bought a chance at, so they get told. And the price they paid can't be retroactively changed on them — so it's locked 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.