# Giveaway Appearance (/giveaways/appearance)



Everything a member looks at is set once, on the configuration page, and every giveaway you post after that uses it. There is no per giveaway styling, so a change here lines all of your giveaways up.

<Steps>
  <Step>
    ### Access the Web Dashboard [#access-the-web-dashboard]

    Open your Tickety [Dashboard](https://tickety.top/dashboard). Log in using your Discord Account.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ### Navigate to Configuration [#navigate-to-configuration]

    1. Once logged in, locate and click on the "Giveaways" section in the sidebar.

    2. Select "Configuration" from the options.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Giveaway Embed [#giveaway-embed]

* **Embed Color**: The colour bar down the side of the giveaway message. Defaults to `#2986cc`.
* **Embed Thumbnail** 👑: A small image in the top right corner. Accepts png, jpg, jpeg, webp and gif.
* **Embed Image** 👑: A large image across the bottom of the message. Same file types.

### Embed Footer [#embed-footer]

* **Text** 👑: The line at the very bottom of the giveaway message. Up to 2000 characters. Defaults to `Tickety | Tickety.top`.
* **Icon** 👑: A small image next to the footer text. Defaults to Tickety's avatar.

[Placeholders](/placeholders) work in the footer, which is the one place a giveaway message can carry live numbers:

| Placeholder                                  | Shows                                  |
| -------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `{guild.name}`                               | Your server name                       |
| `{statistics.giveaways.total}`               | How many giveaways your server has run |
| `{statistics.giveaways.totalParticipants}`   | Total entries across all of them       |
| `{statistics.giveaways.averageParticipants}` | Average entries per giveaway           |
| `{currentTime}`                              | The time the message was rendered      |

## Participate Button 👑 [#participate-button-]

The button members press to enter. You set its emoji, its label and its colour.

* Type `{count}` anywhere in the label to show the live number of participants. The default label is `Participate ({count})`.
* The label goes up to 80 characters.
* Colours are `Blurple`, `Gray`, `Green` and `Red`. The default is `Blurple` with a `🎉` emoji.
* Custom server emojis need premium. Unicode emojis work on any plan.

<Callout type="warn">
  Keep `{count}` in the label if you want members to see the entry count rise. A label without it shows no number at all.
</Callout>

Free servers always get a blurple `🎉 Participate (0)` button, counting up as members join, whatever is saved on this page.

## Giveaway Page [#giveaway-page]

Every giveaway also gets a page on tickety.top that anybody can open in a browser, with no Discord account needed. A running giveaway shows the prize, the winner count, the entry count, the host, a countdown or a goal progress bar, and a **Join in Discord** button. An ended giveaway shows the winners with their avatars, the total participants, when it ended, and a **View in Discord** button.

**Page Link** decides where members can open it from:

* **Link the Prize**: The prize heading on the giveaway message becomes a link. This is the default.
* **Link Button**: A separate **View Giveaway** button is added to the message instead.
* **Disabled**: The page is not linked anywhere, and the address stops working even for somebody who already has it.

<Callout type="info">
  The **Link Button** keeps working after the giveaway ends, because the page has an ended view with the winners on it. Only **Disabled** takes the page away.
</Callout>

Turning the page off does not affect **Web Captcha**. That link is separate and keeps working.

## FAQ Configuration [#faq-configuration]

A FAQ button on the giveaway message lets members browse and search your answers without leaving the channel. Useful for the questions every giveaway attracts: who can enter, when it ends, how the prize is delivered.

* **FAQ Panel**: The panel the button opens. Leave it empty and no FAQ button is added.
* **Sync Embed Color** 👑: Makes the FAQ answers use your giveaway embed colour instead of the panel's own colour.
* **FAQ Button**: The emoji, label and colour of the button. Defaults to a gray `❓ FAQ`.

On the FAQ button the emoji and the label are free to change. Only the colour needs premium, and custom server emojis need premium like everywhere else. See [FAQ buttons on other features](/tickets/faq-button-on-panel).

## What free servers get [#what-free-servers-get]

|                                            | Free | Premium |
| ------------------------------------------ | ---- | ------- |
| Embed colour                               | yes  | yes     |
| Embed thumbnail and image                  | no   | yes     |
| Embed footer text and icon                 | no   | yes     |
| Participate button emoji, label and colour | no   | yes     |
| FAQ button emoji and label                 | yes  | yes     |
| FAQ button colour                          | no   | yes     |
| Custom server emojis on buttons            | no   | yes     |
| Giveaway page link mode                    | yes  | yes     |

<Callout type="info" emoji="👑">
  This feature requires a [Premium Subscription](https://tickety.top/premium).
</Callout>