Preview and activate
See your raffle as a buyer would, then take it live.
You've built it — now check it and go live.
Preview first
Before activating, preview your raffle to see exactly what a ticket buyer will see: your banner, description, prizes, and the purchase flow. It's the best way to catch a typo or a missing image while it's still easy to fix.
Activate
When you're happy, activate the raffle. You'll confirm the go-live date, and your raffle becomes active — it goes public on its scheduled start date and starts selling tickets.
You'll need a verified email to activate
Activating (and submitting for review) requires a verified email address — it's the one place email verification is required. If you skipped it at signup, you'll see a prompt with a Resend email button on the builder. See Verifying your email.
The draw still won't happen on its own
Activating sets your raffle live; it doesn't draw anything. When the draw date arrives, you run the draw yourself — by design, so you can check everything over first. If you'd rather it ran without you, that's a separate, deliberate choice you make later on the Draw page: see Automatic draw.
What changes after you activate
Once live, you manage the raffle from its dashboard, and editing moves into a more careful mode — some fields stay editable, some notify ticket buyers, and the ticket price is locked. See How creating a raffle works for the summary, with the full breakdown in What you can change after activation.
