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title: What a Basket Raffle Is
description: "**Read the Core guide first.** Almost everything about a basket raffle is identical to a standard one — onboarding, login, the Dashboard, the eight Site Setup sections, ticket packages, Reporting, Manual Orders, Team Management, Printing, Payment Processor, pricing, and the…"
url: "https://chance2win.org/research-library/what-a-basket-raffle-is/"
updated: "2026-08-26"
category: Start Here
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# What a Basket Raffle Is

**Read the Core guide first.** Almost everything about a basket raffle is identical to a standard one — onboarding, login, the Dashboard, the eight Site Setup sections, ticket packages, Reporting, Manual Orders, Team Management, Printing, Payment Processor, pricing, and the launch rules. This add-on only covers what changes when your prizes are **baskets**.

In a basket raffle, supporters buy tickets and then **allocate those tickets to the specific prize baskets they want to win**. Instead of one prize pool, you offer many baskets — usually grouped into categories — and each supporter decides where their tickets go.

Everything about *buying* tickets is the same as the Core guide. The new part is **prize baskets** and **how tickets get allocated** to them.

![Public event page showing prize baskets grouped into categories](https://chance2win.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BSK-Public-event-page-showing-prize-baskets-grouped-into-categories.png)
Public event page showing prize baskets grouped into categories

## The two new ideas

- **Baskets** — each basket is a prize (or bundle) a supporter can put tickets toward. Baskets live inside categories.
- **Allocation** — after buying, a supporter assigns every ticket to one or more baskets. No ticket gets left unassigned at checkout.

  **The mental model.** Standard raffle = buy tickets, one prize pool. Basket raffle = buy tickets, then *you choose which baskets to chase*. Master those two ideas and the rest of this guide is detail.

Questions on whether baskets fit your event? Call us — a real human answers. — The Chance2Win Team

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