Giveaways

Turn the service on. On the dashboard Services page, switch the Giveaways card to Enable. Until then /giveaway create answers "The Giveaways service is not enabled here."

Run Setup. Open Giveaways, then Setup, and press Run Setup. It creates a #giveaways channel if the server has none (everyone can view and react, only the bot posts), picks a host role by name if one exists (giveaway host, mod, staff, admin and similar) and otherwise falls back to Manage Server, saves the defaults (button entry, 7-day dedup window, rerolls on, spectator page on), and posts and pins a "How giveaways work" message in a channel it created. Re-running it only fills in missing pieces.

Check the summary and the timezone. The Setup page then shows the Announcement channel, Host role (Manage Server when none is set), Entry method, Dedup window, Reroll, Spectator page, and Timezone. In the Timezone box pick a zone or Follow server timezone; the server timezone itself is set on the Bot settings page. Times on the giveaway pages and the date pickers use this zone.

Set the entry policy, if you want one. Further down the Setup page: Winner cooldown (days) keeps anyone who won here recently from entering another giveaway and out of its draw, Bypass roles skip a giveaway's account age, tenure, role and message requirements, and Default messages replace the built-in entry confirmed, entry denied, and winner DM texts. Press Save policy.

Decide how members enter. On the New Giveaway form the Entry method is Reaction only (classic), Button only, Both reaction and button, or Drop (first to click wins), with the Entry emoji next to it. The server default from Setup is pre-selected. A giveaway started with /giveaway create always uses a 🎉 reaction, or a drop when drop is set.

Create the giveaway. By command: in the channel where the post should appear, run /giveaway create with title, duration (30m, 2h, 1d), and either prize plus winners or tiers such as 1:1:RTX 4090|2:2:$50 card. You need Manage Server or the host role, and the reply is "✅ Giveaway #12 started. Spectator page: ...". On the dashboard: Giveaways, then + New Giveaway. Give it a title and channel, choose Duration or Pick dates (a Starts at in the future saves it as scheduled and it posts itself at that time), add prize tiers, pick the entry method and emoji, and open the optional sections for requirements, weighted entries, the dedup window, messages, referral entries, tasks, and winner confirmation. The bot posts a dashboard-created giveaway within about ten seconds.

Let members enter. They react with the emoji or press Enter. The button replies "🎉 You're entered!" (or the reason they were refused), a second press says "You're already entered. Good luck!", and Leave says "You've left the giveaway." Reaction entries are silent when accepted; a refusal arrives by DM starting "Giveaway entry rejected:", and removing the reaction withdraws the entry. The post's footer keeps a running count ("Giveaway #12 · 40 entries") and the Watch live link opens the public spectator page.

End, or cancel. The giveaway ends on its own at its end time; the bot checks about every 30 seconds. To end early, run /giveaway end with the giveaway number, or use End on the giveaway's dashboard page. Winners are drawn at random, weighted by bonus entries, skipping recent winners and anyone who has left the server. The post is replaced by a results message that pings the winners and each winner gets a DM. With too few eligible entrants the giveaway is cancelled instead and a "Not enough entries" notice is posted. To close a giveaway without a draw, run /giveaway cancel.

Reroll and block. If a winner never claims, run /giveaway reroll with the giveaway number, optionally count and rank, within 30 minutes of the draw; earlier winners are excluded. The same Reroll is on the giveaway's dashboard page. To keep someone out of every giveaway, run /giveaway blacklist add with a member or role and an optional staff-only reason, /giveaway blacklist remove to undo it, and /giveaway blacklist list to review. The same list is on the Setup page under Blocked from giveaways, where you can block by user ID or role and press Unblock. These need Manage Server.