Use a staging site or a low-risk test product to verify the full customer and operator journey. The RaffleWP launch checklist meta box blocks publication when the product cannot operate safely and shows warnings for important operator choices.
- Set the WordPress timezone, WooCommerce currency and product tax behaviour.
- Resolve checklist errors for closing date, ticket pool, entry method, quantity limits, bundle validity and instant-prize totals.
- Review checklist warnings for the terms URL and customer email configuration.
- Test manual selection and lucky dip, including minimum, maximum, customer and remaining-ticket limits.
- Complete successful, failed, delayed, abandoned and refunded test orders and inspect their ticket states.
- Test both classic checkout and the Checkout Block when your site may use either, including the conditional eligibility confirmation.
- Confirm ticket, winner, instant-win and site-credit emails arrive through your mail infrastructure.
- Review Labels, Design and Product Page settings on desktop and mobile.
- Review terms, eligibility, privacy wording, optional postal instructions and public winner presentation.
- Check the RaffleWP section in Tools → Site Health, scheduled events, backups and monitoring.
Default text and plugin validation are not legal advice. The operator remains responsible for competition rules, eligibility, taxes, consumer rights and lawful operation in every sales territory.