Run a giveaway

Start a giveaway with entry rules and bonus entries, save the rules as a preset, then end it and reroll the winners.

  • About 4 minutes
  • On the dashboard or in Discord
  • 5 steps

Before you start

  • Manage Server
  • A channel Element can post in

Start a giveaway on the dashboard

Open Giveaways for your server and click Start a giveaway.

Under Where and what, pick the Channel, write the Prize, and set how many Winners and when it ends: in a set time, or on a date.

elementbot.app/dashboard/…/giveaways/new

Where and what

#giveaways
Colour role
2
2 days

Start a giveaway with a command

Run /giveaway start in the channel with the time (like 2d), the number of winners and a title for the prize.

Want buttons instead of options? /giveaway create opens a panel where you add the rules before you start it.

giveaways

Commands matching /giveaway

  • /giveaway startStart a new giveaway.APP
  • /giveaway createCreate a new giveaway.APP
/giveaway starttime:2dwinners:2title:Colour role

Choose who can enter

Everyone gets 1 entry. Under Who can enter you can add:

  • Requirements members need, like a role or 50 messages after it starts,
  • ways to skip them, like a Server Booster role,
  • bonus entries for roles you want to reward,
  • roles that can't enter at all.

With /giveaway start, the same rules go in the r (requirements), b (skip), m (bonus entries) and bl (can't enter) options.

elementbot.app/dashboard/…/giveaways/new

Who can enter

Only this giveaway gets changes made here.

@Members
50 in #general
@Server Booster: 2

Save the rules as a preset

Running the same kind of giveaway every week? Save its rules on the Presets tab, and pick the preset when you start one. One preset can be the server default.

With commands, /giveaway preset create makes one and /giveaway preset view opens its menu. Use it with the preset option of /giveaway start.

elementbot.app/dashboard/…/giveaways?tab=presets
GiveawaysPresetsDesigns
  • weeklyLevel 5 needed, Server Booster skips it and adds 2 entries.Server default
  • eventsOnly the host can end it

Watch it run

Element posts the giveaway with an Enter button and a link to its page, where everyone can see the rules, their entries and their chance.

giveaways
ElementAPPToday at 17:30

🎁 Colour role

Hurry, ends in 2 days
Winners: 2

Hosted by @Rayyan

Present popping openEnterView giveaway
The default Confetti look. The Designs tab changes it.

End it and reroll

When the time runs out, Element draws the winners, posts them in a reply and sends them a DM. To end it early, use End now in its menu on the dashboard, or /giveaway end.

If a winner doesn't answer, Reroll draws someone new, for up to 90 days after the end. On the giveaway page, tick the winners to replace and replace them all at once. With commands: /giveaway reroll.

giveaways
ElementAPPToday at 17:30

🎉 We have our winners!

@Copper and @Silver won Colour role.

Picked from 38 entries. @Rayyan will be in touch about the prize!

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