For creators

Creators are the people who set up raffles. You pick the prize, the price, the cap, and the deadline. The chain handles everything after that.

The creator flow

Create. Sign one transaction. The prize lamports get escrowed into a vault PDA. Your raffle is live and discoverable.
Promote. Share the raffle link. Anyone with a wallet can buy in.
Settle. When the deadline hits and tickets are above the minimum, hit Settle. Three Switchboard transactions later, the winner is on-chain.
Walk away. The winner claims their prize. You receive your share of ticket revenue automatically (it ships in the same transaction the winner runs).

Prize escrow. You pay the prize amount upfront. It sits in the vault until claim or reclaim.
Rent. A few thousand lamports for the Raffle PDA and the Vault PDA. Refunded when accounts close.
Settle gas. A small transaction fee plus Switchboard's commit-reveal cost. Typically under 0.005 SOL on devnet.

Prize amount and description. Up to 200 characters of free-text description.
Ticket price. Any non-zero amount of SOL.
Max and min tickets. Min must be at least 2. Max must be at least min and no greater than 100,000.
End time. Between 1 hour and 30 days from now.
Nonce. A u64 you pick at create time. Changes the raffle's address. Pick anything; the form generates one for you.

Override the winner. Once settle_raffle runs, the winner is on-chain. You cannot un-settle.
Change parameters mid-raffle. Price, cap, deadline are immutable after create.
Drain the vault. Only claim_prize, refund_ticket, and reclaim_prize move money out, and they are gated on raffle state.

If you want to walk through the form one field at a time, read Create a raffle.