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title: Items to Verify Before Publishing
description: "Before you open sales on your basket raffle, run this quick pre-launch checklist. It’s the same core list every raffle should run, plus a couple of basket-specific checks. ## The core go-live checklist 1. **Payment processor connected.** Confirm your processor…"
url: "https://chance2win.org/research-library/items-to-verify-before-publishing/"
updated: "2026-08-26"
category: Before You Launch
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# Items to Verify Before Publishing

Before you open sales on your basket raffle, run this quick pre-launch checklist. It’s the same core list every raffle should run, plus a couple of basket-specific checks.

## The core go-live checklist

1. **Payment processor connected.** Confirm your processor is fully set up and connected so you can actually accept money. Nothing else matters until this is done.
2. **Start and end dates are set.** Double-check your event’s start and end dates. The end date is also what unlocks your drawing.
3. **Ticket prices match your rules.** Make sure your ticket packages and pricing line up exactly with what your printed and posted rules say.
4. **Do a real live test order.** Have someone who will actually be entered in the raffle buy a ticket for real. This is the big one: it confirms the payment processor works end to end, the confirmation email looks right, and the checkout flows the way you want it to.

## Basket-specific checks

1. Confirm every basket that should be public is **Published** (no stray drafts showing), and that your categories and baskets are in the order you want.
2. On your test order, **allocate the tickets to a basket** and confirm the allocation shows up correctly in [Basket Orders](/#basket-orders) and [Prize Reports for Baskets](/#prize-reports-for-baskets).
3. Check that basket and category names render cleanly on the public page.

  **Pro tip.** One clean rehearsal beats ten fixes at launch. Buy a few tickets, allocate them across baskets, check out, and confirm the order shows up right in both Basket Orders and Reporting. If that loop is clean, you’re ready.

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