Most raffle tickets are ordered once a year by somebody who has never had to think about any of this. Four questions cover it.

Numbering: state the range before the run

The stub and the ticket must carry the same number, and no number may appear twice anywhere in the run.

Ask for the start and end number to be written on the job and checked against. If you are running several events, insist on a separate range for each — overlapping ranges is how one prize gets claimed twice.

Perforation: strong enough to survive a bag, weak enough for one hand

A seller at a table has a float in one hand and a pen in the other. If the ticket needs two hands to remove, it gets torn in half.

Postal sheets are a different specification again: they have to survive machine folding first and tear cleanly by hand later, which is a different tie ratio entirely.

Stock: uncoated, almost always

Somebody has to write a name and a phone number on the stub, with whatever pen is on the table. A gloss laminate makes that impossible and it is discovered on the day.

Save coated stock for tickets that are handed out rather than filled in.

Required wording: lay it out first

A ticket that is sold usually has to carry the promoter, a registration or licence reference, the draw date and an age restriction. Confirm what yours needs with whoever licenses the draw.

Then have it laid out as fields before the design, not squeezed into the margin afterwards. That is the difference between legible and technically present.

What to send when you ask for a quote

Artwork, quantity, format, the number range you want, and the compliance wording. That is enough for a real quote and a proof the same day.